Woman paints lawn after Obama sign is stolen

AUSTIN (KXAN) -
After the Barack Obama sign was stolen from her front yard, Shannon Bennett painted a more permanent one with 12 cans of spray-paint and her front lawn as the canvas. "I just wanted to be able to say who I support, without being censored, which is how I felt when my sign was taken," said Bennett. She painted a large, red, white, and blue symbol in the front yard, using her old Obama sign as an inspiration.

"The signs cost money and it's coming into my front yard and taking away my freedom of expression," said Bennett. She said she has not received any complaints from neighbors and the makeshift sign has been in the yard for a week. In an election year, sometimes driveways and sidewalks become battle lines, but not in Bennett's Northwest Austin neighborhood.

"I looked out and I was surprised to see it one morning," said neighbor Elaine Goessling. "And I am a Republican, but I was really impressed with how pretty is it."

Bennett said the Obama signs have been stolen from the yards of her neighbors, as well. "They might think it's extreme, but I think it's extreme to come into my yard and take something that belongs to me, so I wanted to express myself."

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[JezzieLS]

Go Obama!!!!!!!!!!!

[cindiloohoo]

How quickly people have forgotten the Democrat socialist gulags of the 1990s!! Dissidents herded into camps, boiling bark & eating insects to keep from starving! The purges: political opponents & anyone who crossed the leaders vanished without a trace! Show trials: Who could forget the sight of Newt Gingrich sitting broken on the stand confessing his rightist tendencies, or Rush Limbaugh in tears, admitting that he was an enemy of the state! And it's happening AGAIN!

Idiot.

Obama/Biden 08

[Superfluential]

Absolutely genius. 

[godscuttingyoudown]

Obama's symbol is a rising sun over a blue sky with 3 rivers of blood flowing threw the land

and how is the grass supposed to photosynthesize with all that toxic crap are your sure your a liberal or when it suits you people

[SpiritsoftheWolf]

@kubush, go and blow dumbama, you already proven yourself stupid for replying, you know that's he was not a US born president, and in fact, we do not have a president in the U.S., he is still born from kenya, you are a pussy for believing he was a U.S. born , no proof of his real B.C. :P

[kubush]

@SpiritsoftheWolf Oh of course it is! *sarcasm* Why do you say its fake? Because some ignorant bozos on the internet told you its fake? LOL.

Oh and I love the comment-and-run tactic.

[kubush]

@SpiritsoftheWolf Oh? What's that? The facts didn't line up with the shit you spouted? Oops? Now you gotta run cuz you dont like arguing? Funny how that works.

[kubush]

@SpiritsoftheWolf You said that he taught those kids that song. That is a lie. And that same school also had a song for Bush when he was president! Oops, I guess Fox News forgot to report that.

Here is the link:

fightthesmears(dot)com/article­s/5/birthcertificate

Next time get your facts straight before you go spouting off stupid shit.