Colorado Man May Lose Job Over "Mean" Obama Picture

If this were a "mean" picture of Jesus, this man's job would not be in danger.  

At least one Colorado Department of Transportation employee is being investigated for sending an inappropriate email featuring President Barack Obama and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

When we got our hands on the email Tuesday, we immediately contacted CDOT. They tell us at least one employee could be fired for this. "We're taking this very seriously," said Mindy Crane, Spokesperson for CDOT.

The title of the email is "Picture of the year" and the photo of Obama and Palin inside may be considered as racially charged and offensive. The one liner in the email says "It appears he has found his niche," referring to President Obama. The attachment is a photo-shopped picture of President Barack Obama shining the shoes of former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

The sender of the email is a 73 year-old CDOT supervisor. "It's certainly an inappropriate email to begin with, but its the fact too that it's being sent on state time and using state resources and for that we find that very unacceptable," Crane said. CDOT says its IT department is looking into how many employees may have forwarded the email.

According to voting records, the woman is a registered Democrat, although it's unknown if she voted for Obama.

So this being done on "state time" is the issue? Man, if you saw how many hits I get from Pennsylvania government servers. I reckon I should report those.