Obama Joker posters upset residents

Posters depicting President Barack Obama in makeup similar to the Joker from the most recent Batman movie have popped up across Lake County.

A U.S. Post Office in downtown Clermont had a couple of the posters glued to a collection box.

Clermont Postmaster Willie Montgomery said today that the posters were discovered yesterday. Customers complained about the pasted images, he said.

"Everybody that saw those posters found them to be very offensive," Montgomery said. "These are personal attacks on the president. We don't have to necessarily agree with the way they're running the country, but we have to respect the office. That's my position on it."

Montgomery said whoever put up the posters meant for them to stay. He had to scrape off the images, which were stuck on with some kind of adhesive.

"You had to destroy them to get it off," Montgomery said. "They were not intended to be removed. I've never seen anything like that."

He also contacted the Postal Inspector's office to investigate the case.

"Any time you deface federal property, it's a federal crime," he said.