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sinkingfeeling

(51,448 posts)
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:12 AM Aug 2013

The Story Behind the ‘Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment’ Movement

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/behind-overpasses-obama-impeachment-interview.html

If you find yourself driving on an American interstate this weekend, there’s a chance you’ll become acquainted with Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment, a loosely organized coalition of fed-up conservatives using homemade signs to show their support for removing the president from office. Overpasses began two months ago when 46-year-old Oklahoman James Neighbors created a Facebook page encouraging Obama detractors to hit the streets above the streets. And even though Republican congressmen say impeachment is an impossibility and Fox News’ Brit Hume called the idea “stupid,” the group’s ranks have already swelled to 43,000 members in 50 state-specific Facebook groups (and D.C. too!).

The issues driving the movement can be found on an overpasses.org page titled "Reasons to Impeach." It reads like a condensed version of a Hannity transcript, with complaints about boogey-man czars and the unconstitutionality of Obamacare and claims that “Obama, Eric Holder, and numerous other members of his administration” have engaged in “the overthrow of our constitutional form of government.” But if there’s one issue that stands out at these protests, Neighbors said, it’s “Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.”

But his fight to impeach President Obama won’t end until January 2017. “The whole reason behind this is the precedent he has set for the future of our country,” Neighbors said. “If we allow Obama to continue unpunished, every single president in the future can say, ‘You let him do it, why not me?’ The next president that walks through the White House will understand that we the people are watching, and we don't appreciate criminal behavior.”

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Wonder where Neighbors was at from 2001-2007?
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The Story Behind the ‘Overpasses for Obama’s Impeachment’ Movement (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Aug 2013 OP
Morans. Itchinjim Aug 2013 #1
Well, they do have good experience with living under bridges. Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2013 #2
Where were they when Patriot Act was going through PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #3
 

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)
3. Where were they when Patriot Act was going through
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 11:25 AM
Aug 2013

Where were they when an illegal war was waged, costing 100s of thousands dead.

Nowhere...

I only have this to say to them.

FUCK YOU RACISTS!!!!!!!

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