(CNN) – If you are a friend of Don Unsworth, a Georgia businessman who recently passed away, don't send flowers to the family. Just vote against President Obama in 2012.
That was the message conveyed in Unsworth's obituary, according to CNN affiliate station WIS.
"In lieu of flowers the family respectfully asks that donations be sent to the American Cancer Society, or to the campaign of anybody who is running against President Barack Obama in 2012," said the obituary, which ran in the local newspaper.
Donna Barnes said Unsworth was "not really a big Obama fan," taking issue with the stimulus bill and high unemployment rate.
"We just felt like it was the best tribute we could give to him," said Barnes.
A similar plea appeared in the obituary pages of the Las Vegas Review-Journal in July, only the family of Charlotte McCourt asked readers not to vote for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
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Old white man in the South...hmm, I think we know why he didn't like Obama
Wow....even in death this man takes hatred and division to his grave!! Oh well.....say hello to your good friend Lucipher
Bigotry has no limitations, even with a dead man's family.
Let me guess, Don Unsworth was 98 years old and died of dementia.
Creepy. And totally lame way to represent yourself on the way out of this world. Either he was a sad old man, or his family are cretins, either way..... You gotta pity folks like that.
I am a native of Georgia who voted for President Obama. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to walk away from a group of my former school mates when they start railing against President Obama. Most of the time it was these are same men that told off color jokes but not before looking around to make sure no blacks were present then use N word. This request comes as no surprise to me. After all he is one uppity black man as one Georgia Congressman put it.
Wow.....elect a black man and this is what happens. I've never been so ashamed of Americans......this Georgia peach, who I'm sure marched with the KKK in his younger days, sat quietly back while Bush and Cheney flushed the future of this country down the toilet in Iraq and probably never said a negative thing against Bush.......funny thing is that most teabag racist don't even know who their puppetmasters are.....the Koch brothers who don't give a crap about any teabaggers...............sad time in this country.......very sad time.......All democrates must vote. We cannot allow the clowns to take over this country......
I have always been and would like to continue to be proud of the country in which I live. However, when I see newscasters flock to and idolize loudmouths like Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh, bow down the idiotic celebrity-seeking, uneducated, trailer trash Palin entourage, and the just plain stupid like the pompous Boehner, who has the personality of a dust ball, or the second round of Quayles (do we NEVER learn?), it makes me want to become a Norwegian citizen. I hope things change, but I believe that, in spite of our very able and very bright President, I believe that this country is much too fractured to ever function proudly again!.
Hate and racism abound in this country....I wonder if they buried him with his tea bags.
Good sentiment.
Nice. Racist and hateful even in death. Well done, Don! You lived an admirable life! SMDH
Right, because "anyone but Bush" worked out so well, didn't it?
I love it. This will be even more effective after he allows the continuation of the death tax. If Obama thinks he can tax us beyond the grave, we should be able to raise funds for his opponents, even from beyond the grave.
Worthy Candidate: (insert 'Carrot Top'...or ANY white person's name here).
Ah the Republicans.........once again playing "morality limbo" or how low can YOU go. No wait, I have something even more spiteful, more hateful than you............just give me a minute, it'll come to me.
No wonder he died wretched, because he lived a life of hate. How can someone be so bad unto death. Probably he vowed that he would not live to see Obama as president of US. What a shame to an obscure man whose name will soon fade into inglorous memory.
See how low Americans have descended and imagine how our reputation is fast eroding in the global arena.
I will do my part to honor this person by voting FOR President Obama in 2012!!!!!!! Absolutely!!!!!
Some people just can't seem to have the common decency to respect the POTUS or the established democracy of this country. All of a sudden after this president was elected some people have lost their minds and do foolish things like this.
{this is a restrained response to such an idiotic suggestion}
What a sad and pitiful life he must have lead if that is what him and his family wanted the last thought of anyone who knew or heard of him to remember. SAD!!!!
This is disgusting! The Republicans really have quite the "base" of mean-spirited people.
And ignorant, too: Anybody who falls for the Republicans and their tried-and-failed policies and their lies to get average Americans to vote against their own self-interest are pretty darn stupid.
Good for him !!!
Seems like the racists are a dying breed.
Wow what have we come to? Pleading for something like that in an obituary. How shallow.
Well I didn't think this was in very good taste. Oh well that is just me.
What a bunch of whitebread, chixenshyt busters. President Obama still gone win. Despite what you "people" think
Wow this has gotten really crazy. Folks taking issue with the stimulus bill but the private sector is not pumping jobs or money into the economy. CRAZY!!!!!! Folks taking politics to their grave.