Thursday, August 06, 2009

Obama as the Joker Poster

is unacceptable. Let's face it as
Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson is calling the depiction, politically mean spirited and dangerous.
"Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," says Hutchinson, "it is mean-spirited and dangerous."
I mean, just look at what is being portrayed:







Oops, sorry, I mean this one





My bad, I mean this one:





Darn, this is hard, what with all of the outrage about Obama's poster. I mean, really, is this that bad?



3 comments:

MikeH said...

Ah, the old shoe is on the other foot syndrome. And it appears it's hard for some to swallow. Too bad. That's politics for you. No one said it would be kind, easy, or non-combative.

Anonymous said...

Lucky the artist didn’t use Heath Ledger’s character from Brokeback Mountain. You can just imagine the block letters under the poster.

Andy B. Hammond said...

Oops. I made a post almost identical to this one. Sorry Steve.