Anti-Obama sign fuels debate

[MaineDem]

NEW GLOUCESTER — Robert Horr insists that his political sign is just intended to provoke debate about the presidential candidates' backgrounds and their qualifications to lead the military.

Paul Proudian, who stopped by to see it for himself this week, views the sign very differently: as a deceitful attempt to mischaracterize the Democratic candidate.

Proudian says the sign appeals to the worst in people's fears, with ethnic and religious overtones, and tries to show Republican John McCain as "more American" than Barack Obama.

Erected in Horr's driveway on Gloucester Hill Road and visible from busy Route 100, the 8-foot-by-12-foot sign features life-size representations of Obama, shown wearing a turban and the traditional dress of a Somali elder, and McCain, shown dressed in a military flight suit.

Alongside Obama's picture are the words "Never served in the military," and above it is his full name, Barack Hussein Obama.

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I'm so disgusted that this happens in Maine. Or anywhere for that matter.