Why so Socialist? Obama Joker Pic Making the Rounds

Why so Socialist? Obama Joker Pic Making the Rounds

Disgruntled voters suckered by the moderate (even conservative) language during his campaign are now finally figuring out that Obama is pretty far left.

By jman1977 - Aug 04, 2009 03:08 PM EST
Filed Under: Batman
Source: AOL.com

This from AOL:

"You might not expect liberal Los Angeles, of all places, to be ground zero for anti-Obama sentiment, but that appears to be the case with a new, apparently grassroots campaign in the city. Posters have been spotted on utility poles and walls around town, depicting the president made up grotesquely as The Joker, the infamous Heath Ledger character in "The Dark Knight," with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick. The word "socialism" is printed in bold, dark letters under the image of his face.
Nobody has come forward yet to claim responsibility for the posters, which, of course, only adds to the mystery and fuels Internet speculation.

The poster has also gone viral online, crashing the Web site that first posted images of it and rising to the top of Google's "Today's Hot Trends" list.
Whoever is behind the posters has to be thrilled by the sudden media attention and especially the breast-beating overreaction by certain Democrats. Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson was especially melodramatic:

"Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," says Hutchinson. "It is mean-spirited and dangerous.

"We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama."
For some reason Hutchinson wasn't nearly so upset when President George W. Bush was depicted with devil horns.

A bigger question than who's responsible for the poster is what does The Joker have to do with socialism? Isn't he more of an anarchist?"

This is no political forum, but this is the first time in mainstream media that Heath ledger's portrayal of The Joker has been used, unfortunately it will have a very negative effect. Obama is mostly positive with his views and political agenda's, unfortunately for Obama the People view to much Government intervention in the private sector to be a bad thing.

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