Iowa - U.S. President Barack Obama compared to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin on a roadside billboard that was made by a branch of the Tea Party in Iowa.According to the Daily Telegraph, Northern Iowa Tea Party began installing the board last week in Mason City. The advertisement board containing photographs of Obama, the leader of Nazi Germany and communist leaders of Russia and spiked with the statement, "The radical leaders prey on people who are scared and naive."
Above photo of Obama, written "Democratic Socialism", above the photograph of Hitler written "National Socialism", while on top of Lenin's head inscribed with "Marxist socialism". The word "Change" - which is Obama's campaign slogan - is written on each photograph.
Northern Iowa Tea Party founder, Bob Johnson said the billboard shows the group's disapproval of Obama's support given to socialism.
"The purpose of this billboard is to draw attention to socialism. It seemed to be lost with the visual appearance," says Johnston. "The image that is placed over the messages to be delivered. The message is socialism," he said. Knowledge, billboards are no plans removed.
The emergence of a billboard is inevitably bring criticism from various parties, including some in the movement itself.
Shelby Blakely, Tea Party Patriots spokesman said the billboard is inappropriate. He added that the movement against such comparisons.
"It's just a waste of money, time, and resources and will not help the purpose of kuta," Shelby said Blakely. Instead of helping, the message it would make people think that the Tea Party is full of people right wing edges, and it's not true. "
Blakely also angry with the comparison of Obama and Hitler, who had invaded the neighboring countries of Germany and resulted in World War II and, according to him - is responsible for the deaths of "millions" of Jews.
"When you compare Obama to Hitler, then to me it is detrimental to the Jews who survived or died in the Holocaust, as well as for German citizens who lived under the Nazi regime," said Blakely.
Placards with such messages is always advisable in the event-mat Tea Party event after getting negative publicity. Pictures of the president who received the Hitler mustache is a plural landscape encountered during the movement to protest Obama's health care reform.
John White, coordinator of the state of Iowa Tea Party said such a sign can not be accepted. But, she told Radio Iowa that he believes everything Obama has done "very similar" to what Hitler had done.
"I worried that they get into trouble because of it, because basically (billboards) contains defamatory," White said. "I do not know if that's the message you want to convey. I'd rather see a billboard that read 'Remember in November, Use Your Voting Rights'."
Billboard is owned by Waitt Outdoor from Omaha, Nebraska. General manager of Waitt, Kent Beatty, said that the company had no problem with the messages conveyed in the ad board.
"We believe in freedom of speech," said Beatty. "But it's not representing our views."
The White House declined to comment related to the problem.
One of the people who welcomed the board's ad is Dean Genth, a Democrat activist who came from Mason City, a city of 30,000 people located on the southern border of Minnesota. Genth argue that the billboards showed the basic standpoint of the supporters of the Tea Party.
"I welcome and invite them to do things like that, because I think it will only be good for the Democrats around the state," Genth said.
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