The Year in Obama Insults
Insults against Obama ranged from racist to just plain rude.
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Texas College Republicans - Maybe it’s the arid temperature that’s led two presidents of the Texas chapter of College Republicans to malign President Obama. Most recently, Cassie Wright, a student at the University of Texas, tweeted “My president is black, he snorts a lot of crack. Holla. #2012 #Obama.” Just last month, her predecessor Lauren Pierce, also a UT student, tweeted that it might be “tempting” to shoot Obama. Could a third president be the charm or does this sort of thing happen in threes?(Photo: Courtesy Twitter)
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Marilyn Davenport - Orange County Republican National Committee member Marilyn Davenport learned that jokes can have serious consequences after sending an email message that depicts President Obama and his parents as a family of chimpanzees.(Photo: AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Rush Limbaugh - Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh in August compared President Obama to Kraft Foods’ new Triple Double Oreo that combines a layer of vanilla cream, a layer of chocolate cream and three chocolate wafers. Limbaugh said that soon the cookie would be called the Or-Bam-eo.(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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David Limbaugh - Boys will be boys. That was the title of an image sent around by David Limbaugh, Rush’s brother, juxtaposing a photo of Texas Gov. Rick Perry looking like a patriot next to a photo of President Obama smoking a cigarette and looking pimp-like in comparison.(Photo: David Limbaugh)
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Hutchinson, Kansas Tea Party Patriots - Tea Party Patriots in Hutchinson, Kansas, resurrected an old insult against the president that compares him to a skunk. That’s because the animal is half black and half white, a reference to the fact that Obama is bi-racial, and everything he does, they believe, stinks.(Photos: Julie Denesha/Getty Images; Courtesy of HutchNews.com)
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Newt Gingrich - Less than a week after officially entering the GOP presidential nominating race, former House speaker Newt Gingrich called President Obama the “most successful food stamp president” in the nation’s history.(Photo: John W. Adkisson/Getty Images)
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Donald Trump - During his off-and-on flirtation with the idea of running for president, mogul Donald Trump sunk to a new low by constantly questioning whether President Obama is a U.S. citizen, an issue that is red meat for Tea Party people and which led the White House to release the president’s birth certificate.(Photo: Getty Images)
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Doug Lamborn - In a July radio interview, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado) compared working with President Obama to negotiate a debt-ceiling bill with “touching a tar baby.”(Photo: House.gov)