Another thing about billboards . . . the advertising companies cannot control the message without violating the 1st Amendment. Since you can't avoid seeing a billboard on a route you drive on our publicly funded roadways, offensive or just plain ridiculous messages can't be avoided by you or your children if someone decides to purchase one. Once a billboard is in place, it is almost impossible to remove it.

Glad for you, mine isn't back to where it was before 2010. Neither was my mother's, which was a good part of what she depended on to live. I am sure you portfolio doesn't have any stock in companies that those nasty rich people started and then took public and made people rich like them.

...the asterisk that artist Sipress added over the billboard, with the accompanying note that this is an "actual sign, Knoxville, TN."

You know, so that the rest of the world doesn't think he made up the billboard as part of his cartoon. Folks, the billboard is REAL, that's the funniest part!

It is/was? near the Crete trucking terminal on the Roane/Loudon line. I've seen it many times and thought it was nothing extraordinary, assumed there were others like it.

I drove up I-81 in October and saw signs (mostly homemade) with similar sentiments all along the way through TN and VA.

Consider it three negative replies, please.

America is not a static concept.

The message was a lie. In the America I grew up with, unions were strong, the tax rate was 70% on the highest bracket, public schools were beloved and supported, and the middle class was doing rather well. None of these are goals of the Tea Party.

Let's also note that Obama received 34% in TN in 2008 and got 39% in 2012... A 14% improvement, despite being massively outspent.

The message simply said that you have a choice to keep the America that you know and grew up with...

An 80 year old, 40 year old and 20 year old have grown up in culturally and socially different times. Which time do you propose we revert back to?

And according to this Brietbart article, the initial $4,400 investment either should have or is about to run out. Will your group renew?

The message simply said that you have a choice to keep the America that you know and grew up with

I was born in 1952 and turned 18 in 1970.

Which America is it I'm supposed to keep - that of the 50s or the late 60s?

Not to mention they're both long gone.

I looked up the numbers for state results. In 2008 obama got 1,087, 437 votes in TN and had 41% of the vote. In 2012, obama got 953,043 votes and had 39% of the vote. The total number of voters lost by this tennessee democratic party was 134,394 votes. There were no gains anywhere. In knoxville, the person responsible for that loss completely ignored the party and the campaign. Its a little hard to think back to that person boasting about 700 phantom volunteers when she lost 11,000 voters, but whose counting.

This sign only reminds me of when the billboard with the giant W was bought after the 2004 election and erected on I 40 west at papermill. Someone hit that one with a red paintball gun.

Did I miss a flyer?