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Fanning the Flames - The re-election of the nation's first African-American president did not extinguish the flames of racism. Indeed, some might say they were stoked. Here are 13 of the most incendiary anti-Obama words and actions of year. – Joyce Jones (Photo: REUTERS/Joshua Lott)

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Clowning Around - A rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair donned an Obama "mask" and challenged a bull to run him down.(Photo: AP Photo/Jameson Hsieh)

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Is That Any Way to Greet the President? - During an August trip to Florida to attend the Disabled American Veterans convention, protestors in Orlando greeted the president and First Lady Michelle Obama with signs that read, "Kenyan Go Home" and "Impeach Obama."(Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Bye Bye Black Sheep - While the president in August spoke about housing and the economy at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, Arizona, angry protestors were outside sing "Bye Bye Black Sheep."(Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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47 Percent? - At the Phoenix, Arizona, protest of Obama's speech on housing and the economy at Desert Vista High School, a man called him "47 percent Negro." Another protestor carried a sign that read, "Impeach the Half-White Muslim!" (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

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Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment - A group called Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment has put up billboards around Atlanta that feature eight rotating messages. One reads, “No. 1 Lie in America: If you like, you can keep it. Impeach Obama Now."   (Photo: Overpasses for America)

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Sticky Business - In October, someone began attaching anti-Obama messages to a portrait of the president that hangs in the Charles A. Halleck Federal Building in Lafayette, Indiana.(Photo: Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

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Where Fools Rush In - “Who do you think you are, asking me that? Don’t you know who I am? I am Moochelle My Belle Obama and you’re here to listen to me,” said Rush Limbaugh, mocking the first lady's response to a heckler at a DNC fundraiser. “You’re here to be dazzled by me. You’re here to be impressed by me. You’re here to wish you were me. And you dare to ask me–You either shut up or I’m outta here," he continued.  (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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Tweeting Gone Awry - In the days leading up to and following Inauguration Day, haters unleashed a torrent of racist and misogynist tweets against the first lady using language that cannot be printed here. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Out of Bounds - "Are the president's kids more important than yours?" the narrator in an NRA ad asks, breaking a cardinal rule of not using a president's children to make a political point. "Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are protected by armed guards at their school?" (Photo: Courtesy NRASTANDANDFIGHT.COM)

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Really? - The Secret Service called on David Marsters, a town official in Maine, after he posted a message on Facebook calling for violence against the president. "Shoot that [n***er]," he wrote, stating later that I should have said, ‘I hope the b*****d dies.’” (Photo: ABC News8)

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ObamaHate - The Winona County, Minnesota, Republican Party posted on Facebook an "Obamacare Dental Plan" poster featuring the first lady with a grill of gold teeth and a toothless president.(Photo: Winona County Republican Party via Facebook)

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Low Blow: - Right-wing author Dinesh D'Souza used Thanksgiving to attack both the president and slain teen Trayvon Martin. "I am thankful this week when I remember that America is big enough and great enough to survive Grown-Up Trayvon in the White House!" he tweeted on Nov. 26.(Photo: Dinesh D'Souza via Twitter)

Photo By Photo: Dinesh D'Souza via Twitter

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Ridiculous Tweeter-in-Chief - "If you ever had any doubts, Obama is the first Racist in Chief," tweeted conservative blogger Dan Riehl after the president delivered remarks about the George Zimmerman verdict. (Photo: Dan Riehl via Twitter)