The Billboard

I see we have gotten a lot of traffic on our Blog over the weekend and yesterday.  Well, I guess KY3 should be proud of the controversy it stirred up Sunday night.  It seems a billboard that our company (my partner and I ) had installed over a month ago got to be on the news Sunday night.  The billboard was our question to the public in response to the many quasi-socialistic policies President Obama and his administration have instilled this past 18 or so months.  It was our reaction to the Insurance Company sending us a 30% increase due to the future that “ObamaCare” regulations were going to cause.  It was in reaction to financial reform that was just shy of governmental takeover of Wall Street.  It was installed in reaction to our perception of a total disregard for what the public desires and an Orwellian attack on our freedoms.  Most importantly it was a reaction from us to the anti-business, anti-capitalism attitude displayed by our president and his administration on a daily basis.  We do business every day with other small business people who have put it all on the line.  Who not only are trying to support their family, but also their employee’s families.  None of those people ever get bailed out.

Both our faith and lack of faith in some of the American public was tested Monday morning when the phones began ringing, yes, many for and many against.  First of all, I fail to understand why anyone would find it necessary to block their caller ID and call us to use filthy language to voice a perfectly acceptable objection to our sign.  I further fail to understand how our little sign on highway 65 in Missouri is racist or treasonous, or disgraceful.  It was a perfectly viable question…..  If you voted for Obama, are you embarrassed yet?  If you are not, then buy your own sign and tell us all how proud you are.

I voted for people in the past that I would freely announce that YES, I am embarrassed.  Clearly President Obama has not honored all his promises.  His own party has had members announce their embarrassment.  He has boldly directed congress to pass legislation that we believe was never envisioned by the founding fathers.

That being said, I am interested to know how some (Not all) of the people who called to oppose our sign have come to the mistaken realization that I at some time had unnatural affairs with my or someone else’s mother or why they think I have any homosexual tendencies.  And had either of these things been true, I thought the liberal left would have accepted those activities more freely.

The sign was never meant to be racist.  It is far from treasonous, in fact many have called it patriotic.  It is not disgraceful and was modeled after a few anti-Bush logos we have seen over the years.  We know the man is African-American.  We know that is a problem for some, but it never even gets a second thought in our mind.  His color is the absolute last thing about him that bothers us.  While a list that would go on for hours could be made, the question was never about color or race, it was about his politics.  We frankly think it is very racist to bring up the man’s race or genealogy and with hundreds of calls both for our sign and against our sign, ONLY the against brought up race.  We did have several callers mention the birth certificate thing.  You know, we don’t much care weather he was born in America or not, we just want the man to start acting more like an American.

For all of you who tried to call us this last few days, we tried to answer all your calls, even the ones where you felt it necessary to block the caller ID and then hang up after spewing your filthy monologues.  We missed a few calls since it is only the two of us.  We can afford a secretary, but can not afford the taxes and insurance we would now be forced to pay for.  Rather than pay for an employee, we rented the billboard for another month.

All joking aside. Thank you to the many folks who asked us if they could donate to the billboard fund.  No thank you.  We put this billboard up the first of August.  It took 30 days before anyone against it cared and called us. It was intended to be up until November 2nd and it will remain up until then.  It’s paid for until then and the election will be over then and perhaps we will step one small step closer to the path back to the America many of our citizens miss so much.