Obama Palin Shoe Shining Email Could Get Colorado State Worker In Trouble

DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado state employee could be disciplined for sending an e-mail showing President Barack Obama shining the shoes of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

The 73-year-old Colorado Department of Transportation worker forwarded the e-mail to at least four co-workers and others on Dec. 22 using her state e-mail account. One of the recipients outside the agency complained.

The original sender of the e-mail, who isn't a state employee, wrote "It appears he (Obama) has found his niche."

CDOT spokeswoman Mindy Crane says the worker could face discipline ranging from a written reprimand to suspension. Employment rules require that she meet with personnel officials first and have a chance to respond in writing. That meeting is scheduled for next week.

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Comments

[Keith Kitelinger]

11:37 AM on 01/05/2010

I just received this picture in an e-mail from a co-worker via company e-mail. Oh, I work for the USDA. Should I or shouldn't I turn this person in????

Oh, the headline that was on it this time was "Voted Best Picture 2012".

[ResearchtheFacts]

01:43 PM on 01/04/2010

What amazes me is when people do these incredibly dumb things they do them using their work email accounts. As if jobs are easy to find out there.

[phylsboutique]

11:28 AM on 01/04/2010

WHAT'S HAPPENED TO COLORADO! This person sheds a bad light on the good people that, live in Colorado and supported President Obama! I certainly hope this person is dealt with for using their states time and computer to send this ridiculous picture! Don't they have better things to do???????????

[raggatt]

11:04 AM on 01/04/2010

Just proves that age does not = wisdom.

[sniper310]

10:52 AM on 01/04/2010

Amazing, the original black man (not Obama) probably making much more than minimum wage doing a job most people (a white women in the original photo) don't like doing. The last time I had my shoes shined at a hotel or airport, it cost $7.00 for five minutes of work, but of course there are kickbacks to the hotel and airport involved. There are plenty of black AND white shoeshiners being entrepeneurs. It is not racist, it is showing what a great many of Americans think the current POTUS's true calling is.

[HotheadPaisen]

04:11 PM on 01/04/2010

Sniper, please, snipe thyself.

[kiwiphile]

10:48 AM on 01/04/2010

If Palin was shown shining Obama's shoes, that would have truly been funny, but not to a racist.

[mapmaker515]

12:13 PM on 01/07/2010

It would neither have been funny or racist because it would be too unbelievable. Everyone knows she would have quit after one shoe.

[cjb122]

09:52 AM on 01/04/2010

Everyone needs to chill.

No harm done.

"Now Go Home and Get Your Freakin' Shinebox"

[HotheadPaisen]

04:12 PM on 01/04/2010

And we know how that guy turned out!
Classic line! WOnder how many people will get it...

[flossophy]

09:48 AM on 01/04/2010

Was the pre-photoshopped image r@cist?

Or is it only when you put Obama and Pa|in's heads in the photo.

[StillweRise]

10:28 AM on 01/04/2010

the whole "who me?" response of the defenders of this blatant racism know EXACTLY what this is.

own your failure

own your party's racism.

it is... what it is.... and you know it.

[flossophy]

11:04 AM on 01/04/2010

"The soft b|g0try of low expectations."

Which party owns that?

[Skye]

01:27 PM on 01/04/2010

he whole "who me?" response of the defenders of this blatant racism know EXACTLY what this is.

own your failure

own your party's racism.

it is... what it is.... and you know it.

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It's definitely racism and she should be fired. Just one thing of interest..... according to CDOT workers...she's a registered Democrat.

[cyoohoos]

03:49 PM on 01/04/2010

Was the photo of the White House lawn racist before they photoshopped it into a watermelon patch?

[hype-free]

09:44 AM on 01/04/2010

She should marry the mayor of Los Alamitos...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/white-house-watermelon-em_n_169933.html

[Whinger]

09:35 AM on 01/04/2010

Just a few more lessons and Sarah will be able to shine her own shoes!

[texritter]

09:22 AM on 01/04/2010

If the cartoon had been about Bush there would not have been a problem. It is satire and considering all the things that have happened in history I think it makes it even funnier. Almost as funny as him getting the nobel peace prize for doing nothing. I received this in a email and forwarded it and saved it too!

[Tennys Daughter]

01:24 PM on 01/04/2010

Texritter, your Christian values are showing.

[Vere15]

08:24 AM on 01/04/2010

Maybe they need to re-assign her to other related duties including the shining of shoes

[Aryg]

08:00 AM on 01/04/2010

Doesn't look a bit like obumer to me. Some people will nit pick at any thing.

[learntofly]

07:56 AM on 01/04/2010

Has this person been fired yet?

[Schoolgirl666]

06:31 AM on 01/04/2010

If he worked in the private sector, he would be fired and escorted out the door immediately.

[StillweRise]

10:29 AM on 01/04/2010

yep...

(oh.. and it's a she)