Thank God for the Minnesota State Fair. Who would have thought that the best reaction to the "birther movement" could have come from a seed artist?

I went to Minnesota exactly one time. The food was crappy, the land was flat and I only traveled to one of the state's famed ten thousand lakes and unfortunately did not have the opportunity to go ice fishing. I am, however, quite impressed with the state's rather independent stance on life and their willingness to elect unusual political figures (think about "the Body" and now Al Franken, aka Stuart Smalley) and now have decided that I have an even deeper appreciation for their strange sense of political art.

Recently, at the Minnesota State Fair, a local noted "crop artist" created a big "f-you!" to all the birther whack-jobs in his midst with this piece of art.

The birthers, who to me seem to be the epitome of nutjobs, reportedly have 300,000 signatures on a petition designed to look into the circumstances of Barack Obama's birth. OK, makes a lot of sense, I guess. I don't know who is funding the rumor mill on this one, but hopefully it will lose steam fast.

The artist was not the only one to use his art to make a  political message, and was perhaps "seeded" by the state's independent nature. The delightful pieces included a piece dedicated to everybody's favorite political pundits Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh as well as the always zany Congressman Michele Bachmann and another piece devoted solely to Michele Bachmann's "words of wisdom".

For more crop art, please check out the crop art on this blog. Basically, seed art seems to be the "seed" for the art kids make in elementary school using lentil beans, only the kind of art is much more sophisticated.