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A pair of political action pals rallying to impeach President Barack Obama fought a protest of their own when they said an irate middle-aged man pushed them and ripped down their posters.
“I was scared. The guy was just violent and crazy,” said Margaret Greenspan of the tri-state LaRouche Political Action Committee. “I’m used to people who don’t like us, but people who attack us and rip our signs down are not usual. We set up and people try to scare us like that. We have the right to be here.”
Greenspan, who had set up a booth on the corner of 26th Avenue and 212th Street in front of The Bay Terrace shopping center with her partner Daniel Burke, said a white man in his 50s pulled his car over around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, August 29, leaped out and started screaming at them and tearing down their posters.
One enlarged photo in particular, Greenspan said, which depicted the president of the Free World sporting a Hitler-like mustache, seemed to send the man into a furious rage.
“He said, ‘How dare you put a mustache on Obama in front of a synagogue,’” said Greenspan, 61, of New Jersey, who pointed to the Benenson Family Chabad Community Center directly across the street.
But when Greenspan said she whipped out her phone to call the cops, the man fled, “taking off like a bat out of hell.”
“We were shouting at him to leave us alone. We told him he should be ashamed of himself,” said Burke, 26, of New Jersey.
Greenspan, who justified the sign by comparing Obama to “a killer like Hitler,” was told by cops she could not press charges because it was just harassment, with no physical injuries, and not an assault.
“We’re fighting to get Obama out before the election because he’s trying to start a war with Syria which would lead to a war with Russia and China. It would be a worldwide disaster,” she said.
Burke stressed the fight wasn’t directly against the president, but also of his Republican presidential opponent Mitt Romney.
“We need a new candidate,” he said. “These guys are complete nightmares. Romney and Paul Ryan are straight fascists.”
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Comparing Obama to Hitler shows the protesters know nothing about history.
Obama’s premise is that all people, regardless of race must work together. Hitlers government was based on the premise that racial hatred was essential to Germany’s survival. The two men could not be more different.
In Germany, Austria and Hungary today there is a revival of Nazism. This shows that people can be made to swallow even a super-stupid idea if you have a good advertising campaign.
Obama’s premise is that all people, regardless of race must work together… really? So you are saying that the republicans don’t want everyone to work together. Let me clue you in — BO’s premise is that he wants to take money from the people who are ambitious and get off their butts to make something of their lives and hand it to the people that don’t.
Typical all-around. The condition of the nation…..
What difference does it make? Queens towns since the 1980s are More corrupted then ever. There is no unity. Only for those who have!
Watch out USA you’re going down IF ALL are not included.
BOO your spelling leaves a lot to be desired, and you can’t seem to form a proper sentence.. And to add insult to injury, what the heck are you babbling about?? I merely asked why they did not protest in their home state of New Jersey!
If they are both from New Jersey, why aren’t they putting their booth up there? Why come to our neighborhood?