A couple days ago President Barack Obama staged an appearance at a Florida pizza shop where he received a bear hug from the owner. That same owner now fears customers will stop buying his pizza due to his support of “You didn’t build that” Obama. The week before that now infamous bear hug, First Lady Michelle Obama asked supporters to skip pizza in favor of donating to the Obama campaign. Only in the Age of Obama can a political campaign do so much harm to one of the country’s most beloved of foods…
Scott Van Duzer, the 46 year old owner of Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant is now sharing fears that his business will be hurt due to the photo op that President Obama had inside his business that had Van Duzer lifting up the much smaller president off of the floor. Van Duzer has indicated his political support for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney, support that he now fears will cause some customers to not frequent his business.
“People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant.”
While Van Duzer appears to be a very nice gentleman, and certainly has done significant good within his community both as a business owner and participant in multiple local charities, he had to have known that his public display of affection for such a divisive president as Barack Obama would create controversy. It was Obama who recently angered millions of American business owners by mocking them for thinking they work hard and were smart – ultimately declaring that they were not responsible for their own success.
And then we must also look to Michelle Obama’s ongoing war on what Americans can and cannot eat. Just last week the First Lady asked supporters to not spend money on pizza – instead sending that money to her husband’s political campaign:
“You may have a tight budget, but you give what you can afford.
A woman recently told the campaign her family skipped a pizza dinner at their favorite place so that they could make a difference in this election.
That is the commitment that drives this campaign. ”
And it has been Michelle Obama and the Obama federal government that has taken an increasingly aggressive stance against pizza being served as part of school lunches. (Even though her husband apparently eats quite a bit of pizza on his own considerable down-time)
Perhaps Scott Van Duzer might wish to rethink his support of the Obama administration – an administration that is now so openly attempting to control even the most personal of individual choices regarding what we can eat and drink, or what businesses should succeed or fail. Given the anti-small business slant that has persisted within the Obama White House since taking power, the reason any intelligent minded small business would ever consider supporting such an administration does require the basic question of why?
The only reason given so far is that Van Duzer states Barack Obama is “passionate”. Ok then.
For the record, I am opposed to organized business boycotts – a method utilized often by the far left in this country. And as stated, Scott Van Duzer appears to be a man dedicated to making his community a better place. That is what small businesses so often do – that is why they are often referred to as the economic backbone of this country.
Pity Barack Obama and his administration have not viewed them the same way the past four years…
I believe that’s a pretty indicator of Obama’s popularity. This guy should have thought twice before pulling that stunt.
He is a lefty liberal. Well I hope his stance hurts him- right in the back pocket.
And guess what–its already begun to:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/10/scott-van-duzer-big-apple-pizza-yelp-bear-hug_n_1871329.html?utm_hp_ref=elections-2012
A comment:
“Well.. I’d eat there but after seeing the owner grab our leftist President I felt compelled to disrespect his establishment as much as the President disrespects our constitution. Shame on you Scott Van Duzer for thumbing your nose at all the small business owners this President has disrespected for the last four years. I guess you DIDN’T BUILD IT!”
He he
The charade of the pizza man bear hug and no SS coming to the jerk’s side was a clear inidcation of another sham, however if O’s numbers were so good why is the pizza moron pleading to stop the boycott??? HaHa…joke’s on you, pizza man!!
ITYS: Yes, two excellent observations.
Meant to say “pretty good indicator”
I believe people have the right to frequent whatever food establishments they wish, for whatever reason.
If Michelle Obama wants people to quit pizza and only a few local Republicans/Romney supporters follow her advice, what does that say about the Obama’s own supporters?
If B. Obama wants to eat pizza as often as he does, why limit school kids from eating it as well?
If a guy supports Obama simply because he’s passionate, that’s his own choice, too.
We want to protect our freedoms, not limit them.
If any shop owner supports that Communist, I’d never set foot anywhere near their shop again. And I’d make sure no friends/family went there either.
If Mr Pizza supports dirty Communists, he should fly over to North Korea and see how much business they allow him to conduct.
The only pizza he’ll be selling in North Korea is fake pizza made of cockroaches and sawdust.
“the only pizza he’ll be selling in North Korea is fake pizza made of cockroaches and sawdust”…
You forgot the kimchee on top to give it a little flavor…
We’re presently saddled with someone calling himself the President who is too busy to meet with his jobs council and too preoccupied to have intelligence briefings.
He plays golf, fundraises and attacks pizza.
“Think about this for a moment. The Muslim Brotherhood has taken over Egypt, we are fighting a war with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Iran is building nukes, Syria is in the middle of a civil war, Russia is moving in on our area of influence and for the last year and a half Barack Obama has gone to less than four out of every ten intelligence briefings. And we are supposed to feel secure in his leadership?”
“If he only attends 38% of his Intelligence briefings and 0% of his economic briefings, allow me to ask just what in the hell is he doing with his time? Folks this isn’t even leading from behind, this President is AWOL.”
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2012/09/why-doesnt-obama-attend-his-daily.html
Foreign policy is not often discussed on this site aside of Israel and the Middle-East, but it was announced yesterday that an Al-Qaeda cell was arrested in Merida, Mexico. The cell was composed of 2 Belizians and 1 US citizen, all of Mid-Eastern origin.
You could have knock me off with a feather when I read that. I know Merida very very well and I have NEVER seen a mid-easterner there. Chinese Tourists yes (!), Mennonite Farmers yes (!) but Mid-Easterners NEVER.
The fact that 2 were hodling Belizian passports (Belize is about 6/7 hour away) is showing a consistent and long term policy by Al-Qaeda to infiltrate South America as a portal to the US.
This underlines again the urgency to secure our borders and our customs on all fronts. Merida may seem to be in the middle of the jungle but it is very close to the US via the Port of Progresso 30 minutes away. And the port of Progresso has been known to be an increasing line of drug export by the cartels over the past 4 years. Put in this context, the presence of a Al-Queada cell in Merida is not so surprising after all and yet reinforcing the evidence of Al-Queda/Drug cartels cooperation.
Speaking of the Port of Progresso, in the past few days, has anyone seen the clip indicating that the DEA is finding it extremely difficult now to intercept drug shipments that are being brought inthe country by SUBMARINES?
Just remembered this little recent gem, too . . . President AWOL spent the first two years of his term with his wife and kids INSTEAD OF WORKING WITH THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS.
You couldn’t make this stuff up . . . and half the country supports him, STILL?
“President Barack Obama is partly blaming his family and children for his inability to lessen Washington’s partisanship and gridlock during his first term.
On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday show, Jessica Yellin said she interviewed Obama for a forthcoming documentary and asked him why he did not do more outreach to Republicans in the beginning of his term to bridge the divides Obama often rails against.
Yellin said Obama told her one of the reasons he did not was because he wanted to spend more time at home with his kids and family.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/02/Obama-Blames-Washington-Gridlock-Partisanship-On-Family-Daughters
Big surprise to this guy that some people would choose to take their business elsewhere. So obama has created a few jobs – generally in either government jobs or burger flipping dead end jobs – while the jobs lost due to Carter, Clinton, Barney Frank, Dodd, Fanny Mae, Freddie Mack tricks and shysters were mostly middle class jobs.
Maybe he can get with those two bikers looking on while Mr. Biden bounced their woman on his lap and nuzzled her neck. From their looks,in that news photo, I expect they could be one side of a wonderful dialogue with that ex biker pizza shop owner.
The guy has done things for charity and that is commendable. To let himself be drawn into Obama campaign Kubuki tricks is a decision he may now wonder about.
If Øbama REALLY cared, for all the campaign stops in Florida, for election night waiting-to-see-results, he’d order pizzas & pasta from Mr. Van Duzer; that MIGHT keep Mr. Van Duzer and his employees going, until folks forget about his very poor taste in candidates ……………………
NameBM, we were living in Monterrey when 9/11 occurred; during the next couple of weeks, I heard from Mexican citizens that al Qaeda was staging people in Monterrey, to get them into the U.S. for more slaughter. I eMailed the FBI the info I had heard, don’t know what came of it ………………..
Semper Fi’
DM
Diamond Mair,
As long as people like me are in Florida, Obama’s visits here are a colossal waste of time and money. We’re working overtime on educating people and dumping hordes of our own funds into preventing this tyrant from getting reelected. At this point, there’s not a rat’s chance in Hell that this criminal will get Florida, despite the fact that we’re a borderline state.
It just will not happen, despite Barry’s efforts to appeal to the Cuban-American population, via today’s Presidential memorandum, extending the trade ban with Cuba.
What did Van Duzer expect? Flowers and an I love you from us? He knew exactly what he was doing, and, whatever comes his way is all his own foolish doing.
There’s an awful lot of pizza competition in this state…this guy should have realized that. KARMA is one nasty b**ch…….
Maybe Van Duzer ought to offer a spicey dog meat pizza.
Organized boycotts for political purposes are bad for many reasons. But this guy is afraid of an unorganized and spontaneous boycott by his own neighbors and customers who now think he is an idiot. Obama is perceived as threatening in his policies and inattention to the economic calamities that most of the country is living under. Anyone who openly supports the source of that threat is a threat also. This guy put his own need to hero worship ahead of his customers and they are going to react to it. Who wants to buy a pizza from someone who wishes them harm?
And yet no where in the politico article is any proof of said boycott offered. What a crock of pizza pooh! I hope he showered and disinfected after his hug. Those Marxist cooties are nasty.
Yep, Barry really looks passionate in that picture above. I’d like to know what Mr. Pizza Huggy-Bear thinks Barry is passionate about. Whatever.
Now he knows what it means to take a risk in small business and in politics. He should have thought about that before he embraced Barry so openly for the photo-op. I certainly wouldn’t buy pizza from a man who votes for someone because they are passionate. And I’m sure he wouldn’t hire anyone to make the pizza at his place if they weren’t qualified, even if all they had was passion.
Like my momma always said, “You make your bed. You have to lie in it!”
Sucks to be him.
Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas.
Wonder if the President had a – uhhh – physical reaction to that hug?
The metaphor here is this guy is going to watch his business get squeezed just like Bari got squeezed… The lesson he’ll learn will not be so… so… uplifting…
I’d say, let the chips fall where they may.
It is well past time that leftist fools like this who are willfully blind to such a degree, who mindlessly slobber after this destroyer, and/or who leans in directions which are unquestionably anti-American, should begin receiving some accountability for a sweet change. He placed his bet, so let the chips fall where they may.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with a healthy boycott to steer our broken ship oin the right direction again. Boycotts are ethical and helpful if they are done for causes of good and not evil.
Funny thing: the press didn’t expose Pizza-dude’s tax records like they did Joe the Plumber’s. They didn’t go on a withc hunt to find something damaging to the shop owner – like they did to Joe the Plumber.
And we’re not supposed to consider a boycott, UM? Perhaps Pizza-dude should consider what Obama and his cronies did to attempt to ruin Joe the Plumber. Those of us who built our own small businesses need to stand together – and we should not be supporting the man who allowed/caused Joe the Plumber to be investigated and torn to pieces in the news-papparazzi and televersion (sp. intentional)
No, this is war. Collaborators should be treated as such. Under normal circumstances, we shouldn’t consider boycotts. This President is not normal.
THIS PRESIDENT IS NOT NORMAL.
Understatement.
Look, I don’t think you guys are looking at this the right way. First of all, I will absolutely buy this pizza. Look at their website menu.
Then look at the bear hugging video.
Now ask yourself, what self-respecting man, let alone POTUSA,would let himself be picked up like this??
Makes Barry look like the wimp he is.
I think Mr. Druzer is a lot brighter than you give him credit for.
You’re too nice, Bobbi.
I think the Obots who see the picture and hear the story are much more stupid than you give them credit for being. Self-respect? What does that mean to a lib’ral?
The whole thing was staged. No way does anyone get close enough to do this to a sitting POTUS without the Secret Service attacking them.
Yep. See how Barry is just luuuved?
Sorry Mr. Van Duzer but you dance with the devil and your profits go down–sorry, that’s just the facts of life!
Maybe we can get Obama to get a big hug from Larry Sinclair.
(LMAO @ VTX ^5) Mr. Van Duzer will really regret that move if Michelle tries to outlaw Pizza if Obama gets re-elected. I’m truly amazed that anyone would vote for them again. It makes me very afraid for Americans as a society if they can be so deceived over and over again. Sheeple……
I now know how the Germans, who were the most educated & cultured Europeans alive in 1933 were fooled into voting for Hitler. Give ‘em bread (pizza) & circuses (sports events/ America Has Talent, Kardashians, etc. ) & they will happily vote for THIS Executive Order Dictator & cheerfully vote themselves & their own children & grandchildren into serfdom/ enslavement/ poverty.
You made your bed, now lay in it, PizzaDude.
Everything about Obrownmao is staged. Look at the pic of him carrying those pizza boxes… they’re empty. Look at the way he’s holding 3 BOXES of pizza… one handed, with the other hand lightly balancing the boxes. They’re empty… just like Obrownmao.