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one_voice

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Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:22 PM Feb 2012

Go To Hell Barack: Yup, they really said it...or wrote it...

Ad In Clarendon Metro Station: ‘Go To Hell Barack’

A Democratic lawmaker is speaking out against an inflammatory ad in the Clarendon Metro station that tells President Obama to “go to hell.”

The lighted ad, located near the end of one of platforms, promotes a DVD documentary called “Sick and Sicker: When the Government Becomes Your Doctor,” which sharply criticizes President Obama’s health care reform law and compares it to publicly-funded health care in Canada.

“Barack Obama wants politicians and bureaucrats to control America’s entire medical system,” the ad reads. “Go to hell Barack.”

The Democratic blog Blue Virginia first reported the ad this morning. It’s been in place at the Clarendon Metro station since at least last week, based on a search of Twitter posts.

Now, local Virginia congressman Jim Moran (D) is calling for the “offensive advertisement” to be taken down.

“This advertisement is inappropriate, disrespectful of the President, and should be removed immediately,” Moran said in a letter to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. “The families with children and thousands of tourists who take Metro everyday should not be subjected to such garbage. I understand WMATA vets these advertisements before allowing them to go up, but it seems someone wasn’t doing their job when this ad was approved.”


http://www.arlnow.com/2012/02/29/ad-in-clarendon-metro-station-go-to-hell-barack/



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Go To Hell Barack: Yup, they really said it...or wrote it... (Original Post) one_voice Feb 2012 OP
That is a provacative sign. lonestarnot Feb 2012 #1
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