Outrage over billboard comparing Obama with 'The Dark Knight Rises' shooter

Washington, July 29 (ANI): An electronic billboard created by a libertarian group in Caldwell, Idaho, that compares President Barack Obama to movie theatre shooter James Holmes, has drawn sharp criticism from Americans nationwide.

According to CBS News, the billboard displayed side-by-side images of Holmes, the suspected shooter who killed 12 and wounded 58 others by firing weapons inside a packed midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises", and the president.

The billboard read of Holmes: "Kills 12 in a movie theater with assault rifle, everyone freaks out." Of Obama, it read: "Kills thousands with foreign policy, wins Nobel Peace Prize."

Outraged news reports in America called the billboard 'Repulsive,' 'disgusting,' and 'bypassing tasteless.'

Maurice Clements, a spokesman for the Ralph Smeed Foundation, the ultra-libertarian group that owns the billboard boasting the slogan, 'Making Statism Unpopular' - admitted to the Idaho Statesman that the provocative content is 'a technique of trying to make a point, and maybe it was poorly done'.Still, Clements stood by the billboard's message, which was that Americans are 'all outraged over that killing in Aurora, Colorado, but we are not outraged over the boys killed in Afghanistan."

"We're not saying that Obama is a lunatic," Clements added. (ANI)