CLERMONT, Fla. -- A vocal and graphic Internet campaign attacking President Barack Obama just hit Central Florida and one of its first targets was a U.S. Post Office (see images). Several Lake County residents called WFTV when they spotted the 'Joker' posters on stop signs and saw workers scraping them off the post office in Clermont.

"He looks so mean, gruesome and evil and this is not something you want to portray your president. Very disrespectful," Clermont resident Charlene Forth told Eyewitness News.

The postmaster told Eyewitness News he was deeply offended by what he saw, as were many residents who drop off mail at that location. He said he was getting so many calls he had to come out and scrape them off himself.

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"I found that they were very well glued on and they're not easy to be taken off," Postmaster Willie Montgomery told Eyewitness News on Tuesday.

Montgomery said he was flooded with calls as soon as people saw the posters stuck to the drop box at his Clermont post office.

"I've been with the Postal Service for 30 years now," he said. "I've never seen anything this insensitive."

The crude depiction of President Obama shows him looking like a clown, or the Joker from the most recent Batman movie. But Clermont isn't the only town dealing with it.

The poster campaign is a national one, and known talk-radio and Internet personality Alex Jones is pushing people to post and videotape the signs in a stand against Obama.

"The establishment is trying to use his star appeal to sell the new world order, the carbon tax, the health care, the whole agenda," Jones argued in a video clip on his website.

Jones is not affiliated with any party and has been called a muckraker and conspiracy theorist. But right or wrong, it seems some people in Clermont are listening. For Montgomery, he says it's going too far.

"They've gone much too far. This is what I would call an extreme," he said.

"I would like to know the person making this payment so they get part of the punishment," Clermont resident Everton Deans said.

Montgomery says he has already contacted the Postal Inspector to look into it. He said defacing a Post Office is a federal offense.