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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Crazy Crap Kentucky Burning? An Effigy of Obama is Found Hanging from a Tree

Posted by PJ Tobia on Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:42 PM

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Mini cross burning in Kentucky from summer of '06 They found an effigy of Obama hanging from a tree in Lexington, Kentucky this morning. It’s not the first of the campaign—that honor goes to a Sarah Palin doll in L.A.—but with Obama being black and Kentucky being Kentucky, this will have a special, terrible significance for Americans. I really like Kentucky. It’s pretty and I’ve found the people there to be friendly and sensible, with a realistic view of themselves. Louisville is one of my favorite towns in the South, mostly because of my friends who live there. The first time I visited Kentucky was to write these stories about a cross burning in Bowling Green, during the summer of 2006. Like many towns below the Mason-Dixon, a wave of immigrants had overwhelmed the place and not everyone was happy about it. But even during that visit, as fraught as it was with fear and whispers of xenophobia, I came to believe that the cross burning itself was probably nothing more than some neighborhood teenagers acting stupid. I never felt that most Kentuckians supported such behavior or held any ill will toward the immigrants in their midst. While I don’t know much about this hanging thing, I suspect that the perpetrators are similarly harmless. So for now I will choose to believe that the act is a misguided lashing out, a spasm of unthinking from small minds who know better but are capable of no more. Until I hear otherwise, this is what I will believe.

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I like Louisville, too. But Louisville is as much like the rest of Kentucky as Austin is like the rest of Texas, or as Charleston is like the rest of South Carolina.

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Posted by BoydBBiggs on October 29, 2008 at 4:06 PM

I guess those Californians who hung the Palin effigy are have similar unthinking small minds and know better.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/us-election/hanged-by-a-noose-palin-attacks-go-to-another-level/2008/10/28/1224955990851.html

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Posted by You think? on October 29, 2008 at 4:21 PM

Stay clear of Louisville if Obama loses. The blacks there have a history of rioting over just about anything! Other than that, Louisville Rocks!
Obama had devided this Country! He is the racist! How did this inept man get in this position? The liberals have been so kind to Bush. I am sure he wishes his only small attack had been a effigy hanging in a tree.

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Posted by Debbie on October 30, 2008 at 10:02 AM

I am embarrased to be living in Kentucky. I am not a kentuckian, and will be soooo happy when we can move somewhere else. there are a few folks in kentucky with their eyes open, but they never get interviewed!!!

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Posted by belle wylie on October 30, 2008 at 3:51 PM

"The blacks there have a history of rioting over just about anything!"
Classy.
"I am sure he wishes his only small attack had been a effigy hanging in a tree."
This doesn't even make sense.

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Posted by P.J. on October 30, 2008 at 4:12 PM

Actually I think the first Obama "hanging" was in Oregon.

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Posted by Keely on October 31, 2008 at 11:55 AM
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