Obama Cigarette Portrait To Be Replaced With Official Portrait At Nebraska's Adams County Courthouse

[RamboLiberal]

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) - The Adams County Courthouse meeting room will soon be getting an official portrait of President Barack Obama nearly 18 months after Obama was elected.

The portrait will hang in a spot that had held a framed black-and-white photo showing the president with a cigarette hanging from his mouth. That photo drew a complaint from a county official who found it disrespectful.

County Supervisor Eldon Orthmann, a Republican, told the Hastings Tribune that he had the smoking photo matted and framed at his own expense. Orthmann said he had hung it next to an official photo of Gov. Dave Heineman as a joke.

County Supervisor Lee Saathoff the board's lone Democrat said Monday that U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson's office is sending the county an official presidential portrait.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/26/obama-cigarette-portrait_n_552465.html

[Bluebear]

1. 'as a joke' - hahahah hah hahahaha

:eyes:

[eShirl]

2. Someone should send him a framed photo of GWB digging for boogers

since Orthmann has such a great sense of humor.

[Warpy]

3. Yeah, it's all over the net

so you think someone would have.

That or Stupid giving us the finger.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Thank you - I was trying to think of an unflattering potrait of W

That would've pissed off the RW'ers. Imagine the outrage if a Dem posted in a court house during his term as a "joke".

[Bobbieo]

7. Get the one where he is sticking out his tongue at the Olympics -

obviously drunk on his ass. I sent my copy to a teabagger and accidently deleted it.

[Incitatus]

6. Or the one of these

[Control-Z]

9. Indeed!

Enlarged, matted and framed.

[Name removed]

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[Froward69]

8. Found acouple from an old DU page

we should all keep em for instances like these.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1473269

[progressoid]

10. I've been to Hastings a couple times.

This doesn't surprise me.

[corkhead]

11. Cool pic I think....

[JoeyT]

12. That was kinda what I thought too.

If I looked half that cool when I smoked, I wouldn't be trying to quit. B-)

[devilgrrl]

14. Lamest photoshop job ever.

eom

[dorkulon]

15. Not lame enough, apparently, as it has fooled nearly everyone.

The OP article doesn't even mention the fact.

Not that it's that big a deal, since the guy does smoke, or did, or whatever. But for reference, im case anyone else is reading:

http://www.news.uiuc.edu/ii/04/0805/obama,barack_w.jpg.png

[csziggy]

21. Nice catch! n/t

[mitchum]

16. He looks like he's taking a break from a Miles Davis session

very cool

[devilgrrl]

13. Why do I get the impression that the assholes behind this miss telling AIDS jokes?

eom

[Bluebear]

17. Are you kidding? They probably still tell those 'jokes'

[Maru Kitteh]

19. I see you've been to Hastings.

Seriously. Hastings is a complete armpit. It's like flashing back to really really really really WHITE 1954.

[KonaKane]

18. "I'm just an entertainer! Ha ha!" - Rush Limbaugh

Heard this before....

[Hippo_Tron]

20. I don't know why we hang portraits of the President in government buildings anyway

But I'm hardly shocked this is happening in Nebraska.