ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. -- A South Carolina senator is fielding negative reactions after he posted a picture of Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden with a controversial comment on the state legislative Web site.

S.C. Sen. Kevin Bryant said he "wanted to make people think." But after the public reacted negatively to the image, Bryant said he will take it down.

The image shows bin Laden and Obama with the text: "the difference between Obama and Osama is just a little b.s."

Bryant said he was just trying to start a discussion and to make people think about Obama.

"I don't feel comfortable with this commitment with Israel. I don't feel comfortable with his commitment with the war on terror. And I feel like those things are worthy of discussion."

He said he didn't "compare the two."

The image with text was posted without any additional comment. When asked why he did it, Bryant said, "I think putting things on my blog to allow people to draw their own conclusions is a good thing."

WYFF took to the streets to ask people, both Democrats and Republicans, what they thought of the posting.

The comments ranged from "stupid" to "not a good idea."

Jeremy Mueller, of Anderson, said, "I'm a McCain supporter myself. I'm not going to vote for Obama. But I don't appreciate that."

Candidate for S.C. Senate Marshall Meadors said, "I think it is highly insensitive to the racial and cultural issues that we as a country -- we as a state -- have been trying so hard to overcome for the last several generations. I think it is a degree of ignorance as to what the important issues are."

Bryant said that he is going to remove the picture from the Web site, but he said that he still stands by his decision to post it in the first place.