Obama Effigy Found Hanging from University of Kentucky Tree

Obama effigys taken down in both cases by the time the sun rises by university officials doing their job.
Palin effigy hanging with pride ALL DAY – as the “No on 8″ West Hollywood crowd have the nerve to call traditional marriage supporters the “haters”

Anyone who has done such a thing is lower than low, whether R or D or KKK.

“as the “No on 8″ West Hollywood crowd have the nerve to call traditional marriage supporters the “haters”"
If you seek to take away someone’s rights you should be called a hater.

Both effigies (Obama’s and Palin’s) are disgusting reminders that when hate enters the election, everyone loses.

I think the difference is that the Palin Effigy was hung on private property, as part of some sick person’s Halloween decorations.
The Obama effigy was hung in a public place. And, I don’t think it was done as a sick Halloween joke.
The fact of the matter is that there is a long historical tradition of hanging black men. Usually, first with an effigy, and then later in reality. This is well-documented fact of US history.
There is no real historical precedent for hanging white women.
I’m not saying it’s right to do either… But one implies a threat… and the other is simply tasteless and mean.

ABC news is so Liberal Bias, I live in California and we have an effigy of Sarah Palin hanging as part of a Halloween display. But you don’t hear one peep about that.

Maybe they have the same excuse that the people who hung palin gave, um its hallowen you’re suppose to hang scary stuff? I dont agree with it just showing the hyprocisy. If only the crazies had put some pumpkins around him maybe it would have gotten to stay up cause its part of a hallowen display like the hanging of sara got to stay up.

Sheesh… I’ve been hanging Bush effigies in my living room for 8 years! I should have called the press! LOL

Blip there is no history of hanging white women? maybe not but there is certianly a history of violence against women so what’s the difference… husbands have had the right to beat their wives years ago. Violence is violence no matter who its against

Perhaps it’s these double standards on these issues that’s the true divider in this country?
ALL men are created equal, and in my opinion, the crime is the same, no matter who the victim is.
These effigies, need to STOP!!! It serves no purpose, but to show ones ignorance, and hate. Black , white, man woman. It needs to stop.

It is okay to hang a palin effigy because she is simply just a woman. She does not matter. In the same manner when obama kept assaulting Hillary Clinton with sexist comments, our society is fine with that type of treatment of women. Teenage Pregnancies are up for the first time in years. Do you think that perhaps it is not good for a young ladies self-esteem to see two women beaten to death by the press? Or, see all the sexual comments that are accepted by our society? This primary season was the last straw for me. I will not do business with anyone who supports anyone who conducts themselves in that manner. I am so done!!! So, it is always open season on women. Didn’t all of you know that by now?

Maj
Because Palin’s effigy is considered a halloween display and Obama’s is considered a hate crime (the only defense the person has for the Obama effigy is if he or she came out and said it is a halloween display and if its on private property)!

lillian
As long as you call it a halloween display you are free to hang whatever you’d like!

BOTH sides are wrong!!! I do not agree with either Palin or Obama’s effigy being hung. Its sick, wrong and shows what kind of society we live in.

Jack:
I couldn’t disagree with you more. I don’t believe that John McCain encourages hate from anyone. I think that people are waking up and that they want someone experienced and not someone who served 173 days as a senator at the helm with all the chaos that is taking place right now. I believe that we need people like McCain, Arnold from CA, Barletta from PA, and Chris Carney (d) from PA, etc., etc. to form a new party called the Unity party. I think the two political pools are so tainted that they only way to solve it is to completely scratch them and come up with a new party. The US Constitution states that if the people feel the government is ineffective that they have the right to change it. I think the time has come. But, I don’t people like Obama connected to Dodd and other has been politicians. I like someone like McCain who rattles his on party. We need more of that today in our country. The time has come. I think they are pretty much wasting their money and time at this point with TV ads. It is like watching a rerun over and over again. We got it. We know how they think and whether we will vote for them or not. Personally, I hope McCain wins. The polls have shown Obama dropping slowly and McCain moving up in the polls and I am elated!

Palin effigy was hanging at a persons HOUSE.(PRIVATE PROPERTY)
Obama effigy was hanging at a University.
(PUBLIC UNIVERSITY).

So one is a hate crime and the other is not .. PLEASE!! If you hated the past so much don’t think it’s OK to recreate it for another race .. and think that’s just fine and not big deal!

who cares if it is not the real person.
Otherwise, you’ve got a murder case and you need to bring the murder to justice.

Jake, this is a clear example of false equivalence. Kentucky is part of a region with a historical record of lynchings of black men who sought political or social rights. Hollywood does not have a historical record of lynching women. Untasteful representation of women yes–lynchings, no.

This is serious!
Gov. Palin, an elected official and possible VP of the United Stated. The Secret Service should act in a swift manner.
Obama, an illegal alien, should be deported. He is a citizen of Indonesia, refused to show his “original” birth certificate. He also has sealed his college records including his grades and thesis. Why? Was he a foreign exchange student? He has fought the eleven law suits regarding his lack of “natural born” citizenship, to be president.
Obama has never been investigated about his citizenship status, except by Howard Dean and the DNC. One of the lawsuits is now before the Supreme Court and many to follow.

An effigy is an effigy and a fundamental component of freedom of speech to display as such. I have *no* problem with either display (Obama or Palin) as long as its clear that the effigy is of a specific person.

It’s an embarrassment to effigies everywhere.

And the world laughs…what a nation of pathetic people. As with Rome, it seems like we’re approaching that end…and really, for the rest of the world, as with Rome, it may be for the best. There isn’t much left to offer other than racism, xenophobia, and prejudice.

Hey Steve Cuozzo…..about not watching Obama on TV tonight, I’d like to say just a few words……………………………..President-elect Barack Obama….bye,bye Repubs!

Once again the supporters of the O-man rise to the occasion and employ double-think tactics to shift the focus (and sympathy) from one persecuted group to another. It is truly mind-numbing (n.p.i.) how well these guys play the game.

ABC…All Barack Channel

This behavior is totally disgusting. What has become of us as Americans?! We should all share the shame.
I am a woman, I am a democrat, and I am APPALED, absolutely APPALED at the behavior of my fellow Americans. We all need to hold ourselves and our neighbours accountable during these highly emotional and turbulent times.

Lee: Hollywood does have a history of violence against women. How many women are killed there every year? How many are beaten up? How many go missing? Lana Clarkson and Bonnie Lee Bakely come to mind.
The Palin effigy is every bit as sickening as the Obama effigy. Furthermore, the guy in West Hollywood said that his Palin effigy was “art.”
I know we have free speech, but that was sick.

Oh the doom and gloom. This country was born in violence and has lived with struggle ever since. Loyalist/Patriot; Frontiersman/Cityman; Northerner/Southerner; etc. Today is not any different. Why would you expect it to be? The world isn’t going to end because we don’t all get along. That’s the way the world is. Do the English and the Scottish get along? Not really. That’s the nature of life. Stop predicting calamity. America will survive.

Why is it OK to hang Palin in effigy but not Obama. People who say this are racists. As is Obama. I guess Ms Obama will treat herself to caviar and lobster again today over this. All paid for by donors?

It’s all freaky. My gut feeling is; everything I have worked for, invested in, to include my precious social security”…Will be lost should Mr. Obama get elected.

I am so amazed at the Republican ignorance that I read here. One poster here claims there was “not a peep” in the media about the Palin effigy. LOL
How did this neocon find out about it if it wasn’t in the media? Every major network has covered the Palin effigy. In fact, they have given far more coverage to it than they did the racist fake mugging “victim” who was a PAID staffer in the McCain campaign.
Right wingers are VERY selective in their “outrage” at the media. They love FOX NEWS. FOX is the most biased news outlet in history. There has never been news as far to the left as FOX is to the right.
Oh, and in spite of what Limbaugh and Hannity are telling you, McCain is NOT gaining in the polls. While the popular vote is getting a little closer, the state polls that matter are getting wider in Obama’s favor.

Jake: Where’s the rest of the story? We want to know if Palin’s effigy was treated the same was Obama’s was. Anyone know the answer?

OxyCon- As bad as I had to say it being a Democrat, you are right. Those that hung the one of obama will more than likely wind up in court with a felon charge against them. The press would have it no other way. It is not right that either hung them but we all know that they can do are say what they want about Palin or McCain but don’t even bring up a thing negative about obama or your life is in ruins. Maybe I will be able to vote for Hillary in 2012 but this year it has to be McCain/Palin. If you are a Democrat then it is time you ask yourself what you want this country to look like in 4 years. Do you want it to remain a world superpower both finanically and military or do you want it to just be another 3rd world country. obama will take us to a 3rd world no questions about that. Take a close look at what he has had to say about taking money from those who work and giving it to those who don’t and don’t want to. This year in protest of the Democrat party I will be voting all Repblican not because I support all thier policies but because I want this country to remain a free and open country.

Although I disagree with it, the person who hung the Palin effigy at least had the guts to do it out in the open, from his own home.

This has gone too far. It was shameful when the Palin effigy was hung in Calif. and these Obama effigies are shameful also. People get a grip! When this story is picked up by foreign press, is this the image of America we want others to see? This is not who we are.

Yes, Tina, there are a number of fine universities in Kentucky. We are not the backwoods barefoot hillbillies you seem to think we are.
The people of this state and the Univ. of Kentucky are just as appalled by the hanging of anyone’s effigy as the rest of the country is. If caught, the people who did this will face the consequences.

Effigys are a cowards way out

gjkotw01, isn’t it also shameful that California is home to ugly misogyny? And hasn’t California, home to Hollywood, Always been that way? Yes it has.

Robert, the Department of Justice just spent $33K taking employees to Hawaii to teach them how to lobby the Federal Government – when it isn’t even legal for them to lobby for 1 year.
This election is about health care, the economy, restoring our country as real leaders and not just thugs, restoring some intelligence to our discourse, actually practicing what we preach in terms of terrorism, torture, and, yes, Christianity and all true religions – and it is about restoring our government agencies who have been filled with people who owe more allegiance to their party than to our country.
So, I don’t believe for a second you were ever a Democrat – and if you were, I suspect the reasons you are for McCain. Obama is the only solution to the problems we have.
Palin doesn’t have long enough to figure out what the heck is going on – she clearly has no idea of the world, science, and other matters critically important to the safety and future of our country.
So stop with the holier-than-thou stuff. That dog won’t hunt, thank God. Change is coming and you will look back 4 years from now and be glad your vote didn’t count.
Keep that stiff upper lip, Mom

Carolyn & Blip,
You made your points very well, kudos to you and a VERY small number of other people on here who seem to have some common sense. As a resident of Kentucky for over 20 years,(also known to others as Klantucky), I must say that although this is disturbing, I am not surprised this has happened here. The ignorance displayed on this site has only confirmed why things like this still happen.
There is a HUGE difference between public and private, please get that. Yeah, I’m sure the Palin effigy is just swinging with pride, right Robert B? Give me a break. Palin is not hanging because the media is biased against her– it’s still hanging because it’s on someone’s PERSONAL property, and as sad as that is, they have the right to keep it there. So tell you what, go take a trip to Cali, go bang on their door, and tell them to take the damn thing down, then you can stop whining about how bias everything is. You know you have the right to do that…right? And has anyone bothered to mention Mike Lunsford in Ohio, since Palin is just “a swingin in the wind”? He has an Obama effigy hanging from the tree in his front lawn, and guess what? It’s still hanging! Does that beat your double-standard???

I lived in Lexington and attended the University of Kentucky and have to say that at that time Lexington was a wonderful, progressive (liberal) city. We had excellent public parks in all the neighborhoods, many miles of roads with bike lanes, lots of small businesses, excellent public schools, very little crime and a wonderful sense of community.
However in the last ten years Lexington has changed dramatically due to the conservative movement there. Commercial development, big box business, and unchecked growth has destroyed much of the landscape, community and environment Lexingtonians used to value. Construction of mega churches and their “values” has taken over neighborhoods. Neighbors are divided by religion and politics and it just did not used to be that way. It seems that the sense of community, shared values, mutual respect and intellecutal pursuit has been abandoned and replaced by greed, mass consumerism, destruction of the environment and especially the catering to divisive religious groups in the area. I have been living in Northern Kentucky (extremely conservative) now for 10 years and I used to say that I would move back to Lexington in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, it seems that Lexington has been consumed and contaminated by the conservative movement as well. So please, do not judge all Kentuckians on this terrible incident. We are all not like these intolerant people. Do you remember when we all used to get along, cared about our fellow man and community and had “real” values, not the so-called “values” that the conversatives preach about?? Preaching and teaching hatred is just wrong! Well, that’s my two cents.

I am not sure why people do this. I was really mad when i saw Palin’s effigy hanging not this… It is sick.
United we stand
Stop the hate
O/B 08

When you hear “bigot” and “fear monger” and you feel like the attack is on you—this is a tactic to attack you just for being a Republican. It is no wonder that people don’y buy the “black” issues anymore. You know Democrats are with the party that supports the killing of babies that considers a baby a “burden.” They are in the party that makes references to Obama and Jesus in the same sentence. They are in the party that supports a candidate that said “typical white person” or stupid things like “I grew up around a healthy skepticism for organized religion and as a result so do I [have a healthy skepticism toward organized religion]” or who opposes things such as health savings accounts and school choice as he says they are like “social Darwinism.” All in favor of a government that will take care of everything for you. The Democrats are supporting a candidate who thinks a $3000 incentive to corporations will keep jobs in America—now that must be another Prank. Democrats listen, by the way, you must have heard your friendly candidate use the word fair. Just remember, I warned you when a politician says something is “fair” that is the clue he wants more money from you. Don’t throw you vote away get to know your candidate. Don’t fly on emotions—leave that for your wonderful Blogs. This race is not about race it is about freedom for all–freedom from Obama’s pursuit to complete social engineering and change the government. And he is starting with the constitution by making it into a “living document.” And he is planning changes and the Judicial would be changed to something altogether different..NOW THAT IS MORE SCARY THAN A STUFFED TOY BURNING IN EFFIGY! Does it not scare you that Obama has said that the “constitution is a flawed document…” And he was pointing out in the same breath that the judicial branch, the supreme court, was a “negative [agent].” He said essentially that he believed it should be able to do more than tell people what they can’t do. He more than allured to reparations! He wants to get rid of 401k’s, IRA’s and school choice. he calls these wonderful instruments “social Darwinism” So, lets continue with the truth for those of you who obviously don’t know your candidate: support the constitution: