Sign season: Obama sign with red star now ‘socialist’ red meat

Barry Clegg wanted to irritate Republicans who had scheduled an offshoot event from their national convention a couple blocks from his house on Nicollet Island near downtown Minneapolis. So he ordered a large Obama banner to hang in his yard from an Iowa-based vendor he found online. Now the banner’s decidely unofficial red-star design (which the vendor, not Clegg, came up with) has taken on new meaning in the context of Republicans taunts that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama is a “socialist.”