Tea party float shows Obama with whip (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

Tea party float shows Obama with whip
By: Andy Barr

September 15, 2010 10:26 AM EDT

A local tea party parade float featuring a man in a Barack Obama mask whipping a fellow marcher is drawing national attention.

The float was sponsored by a group named “Remember Us…We the People” and was part of Saturday’s annual Naches Sportsmans’ Days parade in Yakima, Wash.

Sitting behind the man playing Obama were tea party activists holding signs reading “ObamaCare,” “AIG” and “Health Care Takeover.” The Yakima Herald-Republic first reported on the float.

A video of the float has gone viral on YouTube and is drawing the attention of liberal bloggers who are highlighting complaints from residents that the float was “over the top.”

Think Progress, a blog run by the liberal Center for American Progress, suggested that the float sent a racially motivated message with its headline.

“Tea party float depicts Obama whipping a white ‘future tax payer’ pulling a wagon,” read the headline, which picked up on some of the complaints of Yakima residents calling the float racist.

The Herald-Republic reported however that James Parks, president of the Yakima County NAACP chapter, did not find the float to be racist, only “sad.”

“A lot of people will see it in different ways. I don't see it as being racist,” he said.

The Naches Lions Club sponsored the Sportsmans’ Days event.

DISGUSTING VIDEO at LINK - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1GWqjRyrQ&feature=player_embedded

[flpoljunkie]

1. 'Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again' George W. Bush

Apparently, you can fool the American voters--over and over again. Thank you, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and the rest of the Republican 'Tax Cuts for the Rich' ilk for using the American people for your own greedy ends.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Residents in that town need to tell off any Lions member they meet .

If they get enough negative response they will have second thoughts next time on who participate.

Better yet, all Democratic officials should respond that they will not have any meeting that include Lions members.