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[bacasper]

Aren't Muslims obligated to kill anyone considered an apostate? I smell a false flag coming.

Israeli designs 'Who killed Barack Obama?' T-shirts

Israeli fashion designer shakes up New York with T-Shirts, hoodies bearing this controversial message. Shirts are a hit, but designer receives death threats

Yaniv Halily

NEW YORK - The American political system sees its fair share of mudslinging, accusation and incendiary statements�especially during a presidential election campaign. An Israeli fashion designer residing in New York has, however, managed to stir up heated controversy in the city even in the midst of a hotly contested presidential campaign.

The brouhaha began several weeks ago, when the American press began to examine the possibility that Senator Barack Obama might be a target for assassination should he win the Democratic Party�s nomination for the presidency. Obama is believed to have a real chance at becoming the first African-American US president, but many Americans are less than thrilled by this likely scenario.

Doron Braunshtein, an Israeli fashion designer and owner of the Apollo Braun fashion boutique in New York, decided to capitalize on this sensational Obama story by creating his own line of T-shirts bearing the logo �Who killed Obama?�

In creating this controversial clothing line, the designer had hoped to wed the political and fashion scenes, and comment on various societal phenomenon surrounding the heated election campaign. The �who shot Obama?� slogan is a throw back to popular 80�s TV show, Dallas, which featured the immortal line �who shot J.R.?�

What was supposed to be a limited clothing line for New York�s youth soon caught fire, however, and became a fashion phenomenon all throughout the United States. With success came fierce debate and public scrutiny, as millions of Americans saw the shirts as blatant incitement against Obama and as a call for his assassination.

The story received massive media coverage on TV, internet websites and in the US press. Photographers swooped on Braunshtein�s store hoping for a shot of the damning shirts and hoodies.

Since everyone truly has their 15 minutes of fame, suffice it to say that all the Obama shirts very quickly sold out. Braunshtein had to quickly produce fresh stocks of the coveted T-shirts, sported by youngsters all throughout New York.

Not all has been rosy for Braunshtein, however. Ironically, the shirts have lead to numerous death threats against the designer and a multitude of angry phone calls to his store and home. Braunshtein�s boutique window has also been spray painted and vandalized by people enraged by his clothing line. Conversely, many see these shirts as a defiant statement decrying American preoccupation with skin color as part of the presidential campaign, as well as the looming threats on Senator Obama�s life.

One owner of the Obama T-shirt, Amy Weinstein, stated that she had purchased the shirt in order to ��challenge those who are wholly preoccupied with Obama�s color, which has zero relevance to the election campaign, and to awaken the American public to this very ugly reality.�

[Ya-ta Boy]

That sounds really sick to me.

[Czarjorge]

Is Hillary Clinton Vice President?

[JMO]

[Ya-ta Boy]

Are the consequences of you getting a blow job the same as Obama getting shot?

Anyway, I wasn't only talking about t-shirts. The article said there was a lot in the media about the issue. I think that's just asking for trouble. I was alive in '68 when MLK and RFK were shot. Assassination is not a fashion statement.

[JMO]

[Ya-ta Boy]

You're entitled to your opinion.

My opinion is different: I see the t-shirt as monumentally tasteless and the people who wear them as exercising the poorest judgement possible.

[JMO]

[Tiger Beer]

That is a pretty cool t-shirt though, and does hit pretty hard on an artistic political level. Perfect for the politically-aware, which would definetely include those circles it was aimed for among New Yorkers.

Not so good for the non-political and generally unaware however across the nation.

[Ukon]

[bacasper]

Edward Luttwak of the DIA has said that Islamic terrorists will attempt to assassinate Obama.

I can see Mossad operatives doing the deed, or having it done, easily imputing it to the Islamic terrorists-of-the-month, and voila, we have our casus belli to go into Iran.

OTOH, it seems like Bush has decided he wants to go into Iran before the end of the year. Either way, it is just a matter of time.

[On the other hand]

I agree that the shirts aren't going to make someone go out and kill Obama.

However, if something bad did happen to Obama, you probably wouldn't want to be seen wearing one of those shirts in public immediately after the news was announced on TV. Especially not if you were in the vicinity of a cop and/or angry mob who did not share your appreciation of jaded irony.

[mises]

[djsmnc]

[mises]

If the Secret Service has been successful in keeping the most hated man on earth alive and well (less the pretzel incident) for the past 7.5 years, I'm sure they will be more than able to handle whatever wackos might want to take a shot at Obama. He will be safe.