Barack Obama Effigies

29Oct/080

Barack Obama effigies turned up Wednesday on the University of Kentucky campus and in a front yard in Indiana, as federal authorities said they weren't investigating a Sarah Palin hanging-from-a-noose Halloween display in California as a hate crime.

Kentucky school officials in Lexington were trying to determine who hung a mannequin lookalike of Obama from a tree on campus, school spokesman Carl Nathe told The Associated Press. Police took the effigy down immediately.

In Clarksville, Ind., Kirk Deddo strung an Obama doll up by a noose from a tree on his lawn and called it a Halloween decoration, saying it was the most frightening one he could find, WNDA-TV in Indiana reported.

Click here to see images of the Obama and Palin effigies.

Deddo said the effigy had nothing to do with race, and he put it up because he doesn't like Obama's stance toward the military.

"Electing Obama as president would be the scariest thing in the world," he told the station.

University of Kentucky President Lee Todd told the AP that he will apologize to the Obama family on the university's behalf because he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode."

The Kentucky incident marks the second time this week that an effigy of the Democratic presidential candidate has been discovered on a college campus.

George Fox University in Oregon announced that it would punish four students who admitted stringing up an Obama doll from a tree on school grounds.

News of the Obama effigies came as the FBI and police in Los Angeles said they aren't treating a Palin doll dangling from a noose in West Hollywood, Calif., as a hate crime because it was part of a Halloween display.

"I'm not defending this; I'm not criticizing it. It doesn't rise to the level of hate crime," L.A. County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore told The Los Angeles Times. "Now, if there was a crime against bad taste ..."

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So it begins, hanging a white woman, just bad taste, hanging a black man, HATE CRIME, BURN IN HELL YOU ASSHOLE, DEATH TO WHITE PEOPLE, RACIST BASTARD!!!!!!!!!
What the hell is going on in the country, I mean if he was not black nobody would give a crap, but because of his skin color, we are now racists. Everyday I start to hate this country. I mean really, nobody gave to craps when it was Bush / Kerry, but now that skin color is different, yet Barack does not want the color of his skin to be an issue, all of a sudden it is. Once again, the idiots of this country are bringing it down. Nobody gives a crap about skin color anymore, really nobody does. No wait all black people do because somehow us white folk are holding them back. Um yeah sure we are. Its not the fact that your lazy, and want the world handed to you right? No wait again, I am white so everything is mine. Nope sorry dude, I have a job, my partner has a job, we pay our bills, go to church, deal with life. Hell my truck last night died at the store, did I piss and moan, bitching at the government demanding they do something; nope I called the tow truck and said tow it home please.

Again what is this world coming to ?