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As results came in election night, some conservatives were warning that Barack Obama’s presidency would prove a disaster for America. The morning after, talk-radio hosts and bloggers echoed those concerns.

“To me, it feels like the devastation of 9/11 again. And I feel like I just want to say to everybody, ‘Welcome to the end of America as we know it.’”

— Republican Zoe Walker, interviewed by GPB News at Sen. Saxby Chambliss’ campaign party

“Some of you people really drank the Kool-Aid. This guy is just a shyster who was born in Kenya. I’m not going to partake in this affront to my sensibilities. I refuse. Kumbaya my ass.

— Election-night comment left by “gamefan” on PeachPundit.com

“If you look at Nazi Germany, how many Jews said, ‘Oh, c’mon he won’t do that?’”

— Radio host Glenn Beck, warning listeners about Obama’s agenda

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Last weekend’s vandalism of an Obama mural in Little Five Points wasn’t the first time someone sprayed the Nazi symbol on a sign related to Barack Obama.

During last month’s campaigning for the presidential primary in Pennsylvania, an elderly couple awoke to find a red swastika spray-painted on their Obama yard sign.

In case you’re keeping score on where the people who draw swastikas are directing their attention: According to my best culling of headlines over the last year, that’s two times Obama’s been defaced with swastikas, zero for McCain, zero for Clinton.

One interesting point about the people in this story is their ethnic backgrounds. Whatever you think of him as a candidate, Obama does seem to be drawing support from the growing portion of Americans whose families don’t fit neatly into “white,” “black” or “Christian” categories.

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Someone spray-painted a swastika and X’s last night over this graffiti portrait of Barack Obama in Little Five Points.

Camron Wiltshire and two other artists had been working last week on the piece at the corner of Colquitt and Euclid avenues. Sir2 painted another Obama portrait, and Michi had scripted out the old Sam Cooke lyric: “A long time coming but a change gonna come.”

Wiltshire, who happens to be a former CL Lust List winner, came by today to put the finishing touches on his portrait — and discovered the swastika. Sir2’s portrait also was defaced with a swastika.

“Nothing stops love,” Wiltshire said. “The person who did it is forgiven. And if he’d like to come talk to me, I am open to it. And I hope as a collective humanity can evolve and learn to love each other.”

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