Tuesday, May 27, 2008
News Obama sign got swastika at least once before
Posted by Ken Edelstein on Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Last weekend's vandalism of an Obama mural in Little Five Points wasn't the first time someone sprayed the Nazi symbol on a sign related to Barack Obama.
During last month's campaigning for the presidential primary in Pennsylvania, an elderly couple awoke to find a red swastika spray-painted on their Obama yard sign.
In case you're keeping score on where the people who draw swastikas are directing their attention: According to my best culling of headlines over the last year, that's two times Obama's been defaced with swastikas, zero for McCain, zero for Clinton.
One interesting point about the people in this story is their ethnic backgrounds. Whatever you think of him as a candidate, Obama does seem to be drawing support from the growing portion of Americans whose families don't fit neatly into "white," "black" or "Christian" categories.
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