Billboard Links Obama to Jihad

Colo. car dealership wants this opinion heard

By the Associated Press

Posted Nov 20, 2009 8:42 PM CST

(AP) – A billboard showing President Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver car dealership that put it up. The sign shows a cartoonish Obama and bears the words "PRESIDENT or JIHAD?" Underneath Obama's image is the phrase, "... Read full story »

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