Pastor Byrd says the sign is not meant to be racial or political but rather to make people think. "His name is so close to Osama I have a feeling he might be Islamic therefore he doesn't recognize Christ," Pastor Byrd said.

Obviously it has not been very successful in its intended role.

With the audacity to dream, he could be anything, we just don't know, and that is the problem.

"Barack attends Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago."

The only significance there is bad news, Wright?

"It is racial and hatred," Foster said."

How so, pray tell?

Maybe not brothers, but BHO has claimed relatives the world over. What was the chance that he is related to Geo Bush. That's enough to lose my vote

Does anyone else wonder how this Pastor Byrd came to head up a church--even a small one?

Or if he manages to dress himself, tie his own shoes, wipe his own ass??

It scares me when I hear about people this butt-stupid.

I don't even know where to begin. Some people are just really really really really dumb.

I think I know where this Pastor and congregation gets their information from....FOX NEWS the distorted truth and bigot network..if anyone out there has been watching they are doing the same thing as this Pastor...Everyone knows that the only ones we have to fear are Evangelical Christians this Cult is dangerous and outright Racist, they have gained to much power and must be destroyed and I mean as in eliminated. They have infiltrated our military and not to mention the White House. Look at their leader BUSH. Think about it, they cannot be to smart. We need CHANGE and not more of the SameMcaine or Hillary. Isn't it about time that we put someone else in the White House instead of the same 2 families who have run this country for 20years.....Bush, Sr Bill Cliton-Bush W total of 20YEARS 2 Families and look at where we are now....so if you can cast a vote think about your future and your families future and vote for something totally NEW don't be afraid I doubt it woud be wrose then what we have now...Lucifr

Need there be any further proof of how GW came to be elected in 2004?

Reading the headline, I thought this was snark and was ready to comment that I had already snarked the name thing yesterday. I guess that sometimes reality is stranger (or sadder) than snark.

Please stop creating threads that provide a wider platform for such obscure local yokels. It is not going to alter that christo fascist preacher's outlook, but by amplifying his hate speech, you are probably doing more harm than good.

Their sign isn't even about religious issues for of the three, Obama is the most comfortable discussing his Christian religious beliefs. Its really about the right-wing POLITICAL agenda of the pastor and his congregation.

Here's the email address of the head of the Church of God in South Carolina (there are emails on the website for individual congregations as well, but no email or phone is listed for Byrd's church in Jonesville, only a street address).

adminbishop@sccog.com

An excerpt from my email to him:

Using Pastor Byrd's logic, I might well speculate:

"Byrd... Bird.... hmm. Are they brothers?" I don't know for sure if Pastor
Byrd's body is or is not, in fact, covered with feathers, and whether or not
he lays eggs in a nest. I hop he isn't, but I just can't say for sure, because the words
are so gosh darn similar."

Aw thanks, you cracker morons, for making the South looks like it lives down to every one of the sneers it gets from liberals on both coasts.

*sigh*

Gee, you learn something new every day. I would've never known that rhyming sibling names was part of Muslim culture.