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    Default Caged Obama, Hillary on parade float causes stir in South Dakota

    The folks complaining is what makes this so great! The left doesn't like it when it's the right who uses freedom of speech to do unsavory political things. I see absolutely nothing racist, and that's typical BS from the left. Simply depicting Obama doesn't make it racist. If they say the toilet, I call further BS, as the only thing wrong with that is it should be more lefties with him. I've been saying for years that the toilet is what has been happening.

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    Caged Obama, Hillary on parade float causes stir in South Dakota

    Highmore’s 50th annual Settler’s Day is “just a wonderful time to get together and come back home,” Mayor Vikki Day said, but an interesting float at this year’s parade is giving some folks palpitations.

    “I had to think about it with the mask of Obama, coming out as racist,” Jeff Damer, creator of the controversial float, told KSFY. “I just wanted to put it out there, it was just my view that they should be charged, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”



    The float featured a trailer with two people inside a cage wearing Obama and Clinton masks, the word “Guantanamo” spray-painted on a sign above. Another man wearing a President Trump mask stood outside the cell next to a makeshift wall with the words “Build the Wall.”

    The trailer was ringed with numerous American flags, and featured Trump Make America Great Again flags flying from the rear gate.

    Day told the news site the city received a lot of calls and messages from people complaining about the float, but officials don’t regret allowing Damer to participate in the parade.

    “My stance, and the city’s stance is that every person has a right to the first amendment, to express his or her speech, and the expressions of it, we do not regulate that,” Day said.

    South Dakota blogger Kevin Woster told KSFY he was among those whose feelings were hurt from the float.

    “Well when I saw that, to me it was objectionable,” Woster said, adding that he’s since spoken to Damer about the display.

    “We’ve stayed in contact, and I think we got to talking pretty good, and I think we’re making some progress,” he said.

    Damer certainly isn’t the first local to lampoon liberal politicians during their hometown parade.

    Aurora, Indiana resident Frank Linkemeyer crafted a parade float in 2016 for the Aurora Farmers Fair that depicted Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in an electric chair with Donald Trump flipping the switch, WCPO reports.

    The float, pictures of which were shared online, was also adorned in Trump-Pence signs, a grim reaper, and an Easter Island-style statue of President Obama.

    “It’s all in fun,” Linkemeyer told the Indianapolis Star. “Laughter is the best medicine and this country needs more laughter – and the people that are offended by it, I’m sorry. Don’t come to the parade next time.”

    The Farmers Fair float followed a similarly “offensive” float in Amarillo, Texas by a group called Stars and Bars during the area’s Tri-State Parade in September 2016. That float featured Obama caged in a makeshift jail with Hillary Clinton, along with a man wearing a Make America Great Again flag as a cape and American flags streaming from the tow truck, KXXV reports.

    That float, accompanied by the Confederate Riders of America, drew the ire of “a lot of people in the black and Hispanic community,” as well as the NAACP for allegedly racist connotations, locals told the news site.

    A couple of months before, Don Christy drove a golf cart display at the 2016 Sheridan, Indiana Independence Day Parade that featured a stuffed “African lion” on the front and Obama on a toilet in the back, above the words “Royal Flush” and “Lying African.” The golf cart was lined with jail bars, with 73-year-old Christy wearing a prison jumpsuit and blond wig behind the wheel – presumably a reference to Hillary Clinton.

    Christy decorated the top of the cart with Trump campaign signs and American flags, but said the message he was trying to convey was less about politics and more about common sense.

    “I’m not a Democrat. I’m not a Republican,” he told the Star. “I’m a patriot.”

    Christy said his float was aimed at pushing back on a culture of political correctness, and he pointed out he has as much of a right to express his views and his critics have to complain about them.

    “It’s time to start changing our country back a little bit,” Christy said.

    “I have my right to say things,” he continued. “It’s that what the Fourth of July’s about? Freedom.

    “I apologize to anyone I offended, which would be a total liberal.”





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    Lol, the picture of Hillary and BO in jail is hilarious!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Russ View Post
    Lol, the picture of Hillary and BO in jail is hilarious!
    Don’t you mean Felonia von Pantsuit?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    Don’t you mean Felonia von Pantsuit?
    You're right, I did mean that.
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    A very good line, applicable to all - especially liberals who use public images all of the damn time:

    “It’s all in fun,” Linkemeyer told the Indianapolis Star. “Laughter is the best medicine and this country needs more laughter – and the people that are offended by it, I’m sorry. Don’t come to the parade next time.”
    I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?

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