Obama Joker Poster Goes Viral
ABC News' Devin Dwyer reports: The mystery of Batman’s “Joker” character has met American politics in a new poster that is surfacing on the streets of Los Angeles, Calif. On one L.A. highway overpass support, an unknown artist has pasted four images of President Obama with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick, similar to the appearance of The Dark Knight’s Joker, played by Heath Ledger. The word ‘socialism’ is spelled out in big black letters below Obama’s face. None of the usual street graffiti artist suspects has taken credit. The poster has gone viral online, crashing the website that first posted images of it and rising to the top of Google’s “Today’s Hot Trends” list. The original image is still visible here.

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Perfect!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: notanobamafan | August 3, 2009, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm
News flash to ABC News’ Devin Dwyer: this is a stupid story. Someone has made a poster of Obama in the character of The Joker. Ok. Clever. Trust me, noone will ever make a poster of you looking like Walter Cronkite. Journalism is dead.
Posted by: Amy | August 3, 2009, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
your right perfect!!!!
Posted by: betty berk | August 3, 2009, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
reason be, we have joked ….on the transparency
Posted by: betty berk | August 3, 2009, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
They had to do the character “The Joker” because there is not one called “THE LIAR”. :)
Posted by: ajax | August 3, 2009, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
Mission Accomplished, ABC News! you have delighted the Obama haters upon whom you are staking your future ratings. Sweet! Give ‘em more negative stories to keep ‘em happy and you too may be the next Fox News success story.
Posted by: Amy | August 3, 2009, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
yeh that’s cool – let’s demonize the POTUS, and any of his supporters as crazed “socialists” and/or as Ann Coulter refers to them as “treasonous”…
what is it with the right wing of the GOP, with this need to find an enemy to hate. Used to be the communists, and then after them it was Pres Clinton, now Barack Obama, Colin Powell, etc.
Is it really “patriotic” to turn on your own fellow citizens with such vitriol…does it really acheive anything?
What would the founding fathers think…,for that matter what would the honorable Ronald Reagan think of his party today?
The one that 42% of which believe the president is an illegal? …. we have bigger problems without this need for the far right to demonize and search for enemies?
Posted by: indithinker | August 3, 2009, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
The Insanity has even reached abc news. It is again a sad day for journalism and the abc brand. As for the poster…a reminder on how America still has a long way to go and grow
Posted by: dom | August 3, 2009, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
If by viral you mean it leaves one disoriented and vaguely nauseous, mission accomplished. The Joker is an anarchist (if one can abscribe any philosophy to him at all), which is the logical endpoint of a less-government stance, and the polar opposite of socialist. But congrats on giving clicks to the Weekly World News. Check’s in the mail.
Posted by: Yukon Sam | August 3, 2009, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
We need more “dumb news” to shine the light on Obamas’ stupidity! I like the pic!
And Im an Independent.
Posted by: Mphilly | August 3, 2009, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm
thank goodness they haven’t reformed
freedom of speech yet
Posted by: betty | August 3, 2009, 2:07 pm 2:07 pm
Stupid “Journalism”
Posted by: 33Greeper | August 3, 2009, 2:10 pm 2:10 pm
I can see the resemblence! RIP Heath Ledger but I doubt he could have pulled of the acting job that Obama has
Posted by: Jfred09 | August 3, 2009, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm
Depicting a black in white face recalls the old minsrel shows and is prety racist.
Depicting a living person in the guise of a dead person is usually offensive.
Posted by: GreggW | August 3, 2009, 2:17 pm 2:17 pm
Shows how perverse the GOP/haters/mad
will go to provide fuel for their base.
No, not the “artwork”
ABC news.
Posted by: grace | August 3, 2009, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
Seems fair game political speech. I think the whole attempt to label him a socialist is stupid and incoherent on many levels, but this was a clever and inoffensive way to get a point across.
Posted by: jhw539 | August 3, 2009, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
What a beautiful, appropriate comparison…
Posted by: Joe | August 3, 2009, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Hey Ajax, perhaps THAT can be the next Batman archnemesis Barack Obama in his role as “The Liar”. I don’t think we could find anyone better. He’s perfect. Why don’t they make a picture of Obama with red lips and entitle it “lipstick on a pig”. He’s already done it to another.
Posted by: Holycow | August 3, 2009, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
“a better class of criminal”
And to all the people labeling it as racist, this isn’t Obama in white face. It’s Obama in Joker face. Stop slandering.
Posted by: adam | August 3, 2009, 2:40 pm 2:40 pm
transparency..what is the problem Hillary and McCain
were willing to show their college transcripts, tax
records and prof of citizenship so where in the
problem
Posted by: betty | August 3, 2009, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
I love it….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: no1really knows | August 3, 2009, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
The truth hurts, doesn’t it, Liberals?
It’s going to be a long hot summer for you and your dictator buddy.
Posted by: One_American | August 3, 2009, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
Funny. Especially how the people that did these kind of things to Bush is now calling it hateful, media bias and more…
Posted by: Stephen | August 3, 2009, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
The Joker is a man of the people, he promises to give you whatever you want if you just vote for him. You want health care, CHARGE IT! You want new cars, CHARGE IT! You want green tech, CHARGE IT! Save the banks, CHARGE IT! Get out that big ol Fed Reserve credit card and CHARGE IT! Don’t worry the American taxpayer will pick up the tab. The credit card is red with a kool hammer and sickle on it from the Peoples Republic of China. Don’t worry they want to loan us the money to buy their crappy products for a huge interest rate. Then we’ll just print the money to pay them back! WHAT COULD GO WRONG! The Joker in Chief is laughing at you America. What diabolical plot will the Joker unleash on the middle class and small business next? STAY TUNED!!!!!
Posted by: joeyjojo456789 | August 3, 2009, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
And Silly Sara Palin that’s she got it bad with the media NOT!
Posted by: gl | August 3, 2009, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm
Who is Obama, really? Who were his childhood friends? College friends? Family friends? What classes did he take in college? What were his favorites?
Why does he wear a wedding ring in his college age photos?
Posted by: Batman | August 3, 2009, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
i think heath ledger might have been offended by the comparison if he was still around.the joke is on us unfortunately. cant wait for the t shirts to come out.
Posted by: catman | August 3, 2009, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
Wow. So the GOPers are so deathly afraid of socialism coming their way they’re going out of their minds to make a crazy, half-baked connection of The Joker to Obama….
Sore losers, sour grapes, and outright paranoia. Figures.
Posted by: Phil | August 3, 2009, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm
Gee…look at the folks crying about demonizing “the POTUS” and “negative stories to keep ‘em happy” when 12 months ago all you could read was the same sort demonizing, negative stories about the president.
I say turn about is fair play…if you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Posted by: TomB. | August 3, 2009, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
Simply put if the poster fits…….
Regardless of all opinions.
Truth is never kind, it is exact.
Posted by: ApplyCS | August 3, 2009, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
The racist party of HATE AT IT AGAIN!
Posted by: gl | August 3, 2009, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
You haters don’t love Obama like you should.
Posted by: ObamaIsLove | August 3, 2009, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Don’t you love that the original poster image is set left of center in the frame.
Posted by: M. Miller | August 3, 2009, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm
I love it. The mask is off.
Posted by: Michelle | August 3, 2009, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm
The racist party? Are you saying the Democrats are behind it?
Posted by: Michelle | August 3, 2009, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
When’s “genius” Obama by the way going to release his college grades?
Posted by: ConstantXI | August 3, 2009, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
Hey. That looks like me. I’ll sue you. Oh, wait…
Posted by: King of Pop | August 3, 2009, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
The difference is that the Joker did it for himself, and Obama is doing it for Soros
Posted by: ted | August 3, 2009, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm
OMG is SOOO true!!1!! HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW OUR DEAL LEADER WAS EVEN BORN?
Posted by: Crazy Wingnut | August 3, 2009, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
Gee how come W never got this kind of press?
Posted by: TRW | August 3, 2009, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm
WHY SO SOCIALIST?
Posted by: ILOVEOBAMA | August 3, 2009, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
Obama couldn’t care less about the poor.
If he did, he wouldn’t be destroying the very businesses that give jobs to the poor.
Obama laughably talked over the weekend about the need for encouraging innovation in American industry, yet everything he offers(from high taxes to increased regulation to takeovers of industries to threats of takeovers) does anything but encourage innovation.
Posted by: ConstantXI | August 3, 2009, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm
W was nowhere near this interesting.
Posted by: Michelle | August 3, 2009, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
But… What about Trig? Isn’t Palin getting divorced? Congress should investigate.
Posted by: AndiBoy | August 3, 2009, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm
BHO is not interesting just another lefty to the core
Posted by: TRW | August 3, 2009, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm
and I’m sure Obama inherited these posters from W… snark snark
Posted by: me | August 3, 2009, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm
so all it took was a stupid(ly) joker poster to get folks to pay attention that we elected a card carrying socialist as our president? pathetic
Posted by: me | August 3, 2009, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm
Where can we get the bumper stickers and “T” Shirts?
Posted by: Guest1.1 | August 3, 2009, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
Fits him to a T. He laughs and goes off to Manhatten on a “date.” He doesn’t want to BE president, he wants to fly around on Air Force One. He is the most unpresidential person ever to have the job. Thanks for nothing, 52%.
Posted by: The Devil | August 3, 2009, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm
This poster is not realistic. Obama’s lips are not red – they are blue. (He’s still puffing away in the White House)
Posted by: Snopes FactCheck | August 3, 2009, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
Why would you have this story and not show the poster? Is is too delicate for ABC, Obama water carrier. Stupid story does not even show the poster.
Posted by: The Devil | August 3, 2009, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Too bad the poster is true. We have been “joked” by the anointed one.
No one did their homework for years, why are none of his records open for inspection. No school records from grade school to Harvard, no records are availiable.
I wish I could get this poster. It is so true.
Posted by: platteman | August 3, 2009, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
Lizzie: What’s your point ?
Posted by: Mike in Carolina | August 3, 2009, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm
Just drink a beer and pretend it never happened. LOL
Posted by: wf04 | August 3, 2009, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
OH FOR GOD SAKES ITS FUNNY LAUGH NOW YOU MIGHT NOT BE LAUGHING LATER
Posted by: natale from mass. | August 3, 2009, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
The Clown-Prince of Chicago in his true form.
Posted by: Not an Obamabot | August 3, 2009, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
OMG! RACIST! RAAAACIST!!
Liberals are so stupid, they can only come up with 2 comebacks these days
1. “BUT…BUT BUSH!”
2. “RACISTS!”
It must be hard watching your conversation stoppers be overused to the point of irrelevance
Posted by: Sugarbuzz | August 3, 2009, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
“You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!”
Posted by: TOTUS | August 3, 2009, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm
ajax: We could have used your keen analysis and outspokeness when the WMD story was being used to send our troops into harm’s way. Your double standards about what POTUS you choose to call names shows that you’re nothing but a run-of-the mill bigot. ps- discounting what the right wing radio hacks tell you doesn’t make Obama a liar; neither does saying things you disagree with. When you call someone a liar and don’t point out what lie they told simply exposes you as a liar.
Posted by: Mike in Carolina | August 3, 2009, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
Son, you forgot that Obama has more troops in the ME now than when he started. And he says we shouldn’t be there.
Come up for cookies and milk.
Posted by: Mikes Mom | August 3, 2009, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
Perhaps ABC is contending with Fox News. If they’re trying to attract the insane and the social rejects, this is a great way of doing it! Keep it up ABC.
Posted by: FL-Sane | August 3, 2009, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm
You know that you’ve jumped the shark when the parodies begin – watch for more of this as BHO’s traveling road show hits more speed bumps.
Posted by: volnation | August 3, 2009, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
“The insane and the social rejects”
Sorry, you didn’t mention Bush or Racism in your reply, your missive is thus invalidated as an official liberal condescending remark
Please try again with just a touch more elitism this time
Posted by: Sugarbuzz | August 3, 2009, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
I thought it was a great likness, I am trying to get it for my cell phone main screen, so I can remind myself each time I open my phone, why I did not vote for him.
Posted by: Judy | August 3, 2009, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm
Typical move by our Christian GOP! Their such good hearted citizens.
Posted by: Joker1956 | August 3, 2009, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
This is really interesting. Someone has been creative enough to depict the President as something other than what he portends to be. I think it very clever.
As far as demonizing people, the left has mastered this and the President adheres to this as he channels Saul Alinsky. Rule 12 of Saul’s “Rules for Radicals” is particulalry compassionate – oh well, so much for the pretty face and words – the actions are reminiscent of the JOKER, cultivate chaos and destroy the America that created all of these over educated ingrates!
Posted by: John | August 3, 2009, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
I know you had issues when you were a kid. Please write from prison.
Posted by: Jokers Mom | August 3, 2009, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
Please! This isn’t a racial poster! It how people feel about being tricked and Obama is hiding behind a mask. Why are there still people that can’t see past the smoke and mirrors. Maybe you need to watch batman to get the message.
Posted by: USWorker | August 3, 2009, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
How do you know the person that did it is in the GOP and/or Christian?
Or are you one of these “sources” that liberal rags use these days that just make stuff up out of thin air hoping that some gullible idiot won’t notice the complete lack of facts behind the statement
Posted by: Sugarbuzz | August 3, 2009, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm
We have a president, you have … a poster. Enjoy your 24 hour news cycle before your fade back into your loserdom.
Truthfully, that poster would actually be pretty good political art … if we didn’t like in a democracy. You had your chance. You weren’t good enough. Suffer the consequences of losing.
Posted by: KdNicewanger | August 3, 2009, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm
KdNicewanger
sadly, the country will all suffer for the idiocy of 52%.
Posted by: The Devil | August 3, 2009, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
The poster is on its way up. Your President is on his way down. Before it’s all over, he’ll beat Bush for the title of worst president ever, you can bank on it.
That is, if any banks are even around after he gets through torching this country and the free market.
But thankfully you, in your typical liberal elitist arrogance, will still have your “Obama/Biden 08″ bumper sticker on your car so everyone sensible will know who to blame, and shun you accordingly.
Posted by: Sugarbuzz | August 3, 2009, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
OK I think the point of the art is that this guy is a joker or the joker-the laugh is on you and I…we got joked or poked or provoked or some kind of “okered”. I said some time ago that the very persons who lined up with passion to support this promoter of hope and change would quickly lose hope and discover that those he promised to help are the very ones who will find no help at all. The joker isn’t so funny is he?
Posted by: Mark Brant | August 3, 2009, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
Wow, lets not go into all the images of Bush photoshopped that popped up all over the country and the internet and at protests where he was burned in effigy. Now that’s its the”One” getting a taste of what the left did over the years, they’re whining, what is good for the goose is just as good for the gander.
Posted by: JennyC | August 3, 2009, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm
I voted for Obama and have had regret ever since. I wanted “Change” and have gotten nothing from Obama except “shuck n’ jive”.
It is a sad day for me and my family that we now have to watch Fox news to find out what is really happening in our country.
I know what killed Walter Kronkite, it was the death of news reporting. Where have all the good reporters gone. If we had reporting like this a few years ago the nation would never have known what Nixon had tried to accomplish.
If we had news reporting like this we never would have known about Iran taking American hostages or Carter’s blunders.
Please someone give us the days of hard edge reporting, investigative NEWS reporting – pay bonus’ to ask tough questions and find out what they’re hiding in this “health care” bill.
Posted by: David | August 3, 2009, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm
Haha, that’s pretty good, Obama is a Socialist and desires us to become a Socialist state. I would bet most think we are a Democracy, we are a a Representative Republic, and we are based on a Capitolistic Economy. Thanks to Capitalism we have gotten to where we are. Obama seeks to make everyone reliant upon the government for healthcare, finances and maybe even transportation, if we dont watch out we may start calling each other comrades…..
Posted by: Thearmenian | August 3, 2009, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm
Why so Stimulus?
Posted by: Holdfast | August 3, 2009, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm
WOW!!! Finely truth in advertising.
Posted by: 55flhhd | August 3, 2009, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm
Finally media coverage that is befitting of the joke that is our President.
Not a bit of sense when it comes to economics, not a bit of sense when it comes to foreign policy – other than to go on an apology tour, Obama is a JOKE!!!
Posted by: robclar | August 3, 2009, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm
The difference between demonizing Obama and demonizing Bush is that we didn’t start on Bush until AFTER he drove the country into the ground (and a bit during). Obama hasn’t even had the chance to show us what he can do yet, but the Republican hatred is already as strong as the hatred of Bush ever was- maybe stronger.
Posted by: E-Doyle | August 3, 2009, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
I find it funny that no one is allowed to criticize Obama, but Dems criticized the hell out of Bush every day he was in office….And even when he was out of office
It’s Obama’s economy now…Deal with it dems
Posted by: brian | August 3, 2009, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
Hey I hate to be that conscious white guy who seems racially sensitive. To be honest I have suspicions that the white make up of the joker look is really supposed to provoke those memories of vaudeville. Interesting that the artist showed a racial depiction of the president which would infer an image of a sellout -while using the word socialism – which is a sellout of capitialistic mind set. Amazing to see how shallow people are in not seeing the depth of the artist message or blatantly racist…
Posted by: Gabriel Eric Gayhart | August 3, 2009, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm
Posted by: Gabriel Eric Gayhart | Aug 3, 2009 5:57:01 PM
Hey Gabriel, Get a clue, the Joker’s main goal was CHAOS. I am a 50 y/o mom who saw Dark Knight with my son, and this is not about racism, it is about CHAOS. I would think a guy would get it.
Stop being a tool for the Obama machine.
Posted by: The Devil | August 3, 2009, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm
“…no one is allowed to criticize Obama, but… – brian
Excuse me, but what planet do you live on? Where in the world did you get such a crackpot idea? Why in the world in the face of nearly constant criticism and hate mail and crazy conspiracy theories would you be foolish enough to say such nonsense in public?
To be a good Republican you are required to criticize the President, to question his intelligence, character, loyalty and to repeat every zany theory rather you believe in them or not.
Republican Senators have refused to say catagorically that the whole birthers nonsense is nonsense because they are afraid of those that critize Obama. They are afraid of losing the voters that were beaten so soundly in the last election that all all they have left is their hatred, because those voters are all the Republicans have left.
No one is allowed to criticize Obama, Good God, that’s all you people do – whine, whine, whine!
Do you have eyes, but cannot read? Do you have ears, but do not hear? From every corner of the vineyard the sour grapes p*** and moan.
No one is allowed to criticize Obama – your very premise brands you as one lacking in knowledge or honesty or (more likely) any grasp of reality.
Posted by: OB-Wan222 | August 3, 2009, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
This has to be the worst insult committed on the Joker. How dare you stoop so low as to compare Barrack to this great icon?
Posted by: Austin | August 3, 2009, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
Why So Socialist?!?!?
Posted by: lilmac | August 3, 2009, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
who are any of US to judge this man??? see the US in the U.S. no longer exists! look at all of the people in the world that complain about how bad he is and that the economy suck, well, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CHANGE IT??? are you fighting for our country? are you buying American made products? what car do you drive? all im sayin is, we are the ones that let this country go. trying to get everything for free, cheaper, quicker. WE as a people need to fix this country. no one man can do it alone.
Posted by: dj k | August 3, 2009, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm
“What good fortune for
governments that the people
do not think.”
– Adolph Hitler
Acorn Red Shirt=Mussolini Black Shirt=Hitler Brown Shirt. All state sponsors of intimidation and indoctrination.
Posters right on.
Soros got a state visit in hamptons this weekend. An army of secret service.
Guess who runs the show. Wake up
Posted by: Carl | August 3, 2009, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
I don’t know of anything specific about the “Joker” character that resonates with anti-Obamists. I’m assuming that the reason this graphic is viscerally effective is the nasty contrast between the idea of a smiling face and the obvious danger and malice of the character. The hopey-changey-unicorn business forms a stark contrast, for lots of us, with very scary legislation being shoved down our throats by very scary congressmen who don’t read bills before the vote for them. And the word “socialism” needs no explanation.
Come on, 2010.
Posted by: Texan99 | August 3, 2009, 7:14 pm 7:14 pm
Liberals better get used to this kind of thing. How many “Bush as Hitler” posters were we subjected to over the last decade. So There can only be a guerrilla movement if it agrees with you? Sounds vaguely…fascist. Weird how that works.
Posted by: FuriousWang | August 3, 2009, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm
funny how vitriol was okay when it was Bush
Posted by: blank | August 3, 2009, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
1- he is a socialist. So what’s wrong with calling him one?
2- I would bet $100 that the people in this blog who are objecting to the Obama poster (which is the epitomy of first amendment-protected speech) are the very same people who thought that Bush & Cheney somehow caused New Orleans to flood.
Posted by: Scott | August 3, 2009, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm
A government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Wake up America – This guy is a Joker!
Posted by: Jetjok64 | August 3, 2009, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm
ohh pooor poor liberal whiners,
for 8 years you demonized Bush
its a perfect statement about this
clown obama that you circus freaks
wanted as king
Posted by: kevin | August 3, 2009, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm
Great, you don’t even show the poster in your story that your story is about, but instead provide a link and two other pictures. Just can’t bring yourself to show a bad picture of your idol and god. Absolutely unbelievable even for the sycophant main stream media.
Posted by: tom of the missouri | August 3, 2009, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
A year ago Vanity Fair Magazine published a very similar picture of President George Bush as “The Joker” I didn’t like it then, and don’t like the new Obama one now. But people need to recognize that politics is a two way street. I have to ask: Did any of the ones complaining here that this Joker image is disrespectful to POTUS say Boo about the exact same disrespect shown to the previous POTUS?
Posted by: Croation | August 3, 2009, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
Democrats would never attack a Republican in this manner.
/facetiousness OFF
Uh, yeah they would/have/will/and will again…
Posted by: Frank | August 3, 2009, 9:10 pm 9:10 pm
I guess that I never understood the saying “art imitating life” until , really, just now. Of course, being a constitutionalist, I am considered “slow” by most progressives.
Posted by: Regulator | August 3, 2009, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm
Amy, you’re a hypocrite! What about the millions of liberals who trashed George W Bush on a daily basis?
The left in this country set the bar to a new low, not realizing that it would come back to bite them.
You reap what you sow. Deal with it.
Posted by: JR | August 3, 2009, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm
Why are some of the previous posters jumping to the conclusion that the “GOP/haters/mad” and Republicans are responsible for the posters. No one has claimed responsibility yet. I suggest you take a second and re-examine your own preconceived notions and motives. There are more than two parties in this country. Besides, are we Republicans cool enough to think this up? I don’t know?
Posted by: Greg | August 3, 2009, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
why so socialist? I want to buy a t-shirt, this is just pure genius.
Posted by: why so socialist? | August 3, 2009, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
Obamaphiles are such hypocrites. They trashed Bushg every chance they got, but now when we criticise Obama, we are racist, hateful, right-wing, you name it.
Let’s face it. If the Obama lovers could get away with it, Fox would be off the air, Rush Limbaugh would be off the air, Bush would be in prison, and our long slide toward dictatorship would be well underway, because only the all loving and all knowing Obama can save us.
As****es.
Posted by: jethro corleone | August 3, 2009, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm
How’s that taste Shepard Fairey? I hope this guy plasters these things all over California.
Posted by: Josh | August 3, 2009, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm
“Journalism is dead.” because they reported about an anti-Obama poster. ok, when was journalism alive?
I see… only when they’re painting Obama as JFK, FDR, Lincoln, and Luther King.
Posted by: fecesEater | August 4, 2009, 12:09 am 12:09 am
“The left in this country set the bar to a new low…” – JR
No, Bush set the bar to a new low – hopefully one that will never happen again to this great country.
“Why are some of the previous posters jumping to the conclusion that the “GOP/haters/mad” and Republicans are responsible for the posters.” -Greg
Perhaps its because the GOP/etc. have been the ones that have applauded this nonsense. After all the Joker is very clear that he is a creature of anarcy, but the Cons are always accusing Obama of trying to be a dictator – not a consistant point of view. You can’t be a dictator and an anarchist at the same time. Maybe they missed the movie or just didn’t understand it.
“Besides, are we Republicans cool enough to think this up? I don’t know?” – Greg
Well, you’ve got me there. One thing the GOP hasn’t been accused of lately is having a clue.
“I want to buy a t-shirt, this is just pure genius.” – why so socialist?
See, I don’t think it was a GOP that thought of this – I think it was someone savvy enough to know how to suck dollars out of the GOP hate machine.
“If the Obama lovers could get away with it, Fox would be off the air, Rush Limbaugh would be off the air, Bush would be in prison, and our long slide toward dictatorship would be well underway…” – jethro corleone
You see, I don’t think that Faux and Lame-ball should be forced off the air, I just think that people should be smart enough to see through their charade of fairness and patriotism in search of a dollar. You try to start off with a valid point, but then you spin off into a never-never land of sheer fantasy. I believe in our rights as expressed in the Constitution, which is why Bush was such a failure, because he (and more so Chaney) obviously don’t believe that we should have rights.
“Al Queda couldn’t do this much damage in their wildest dreams. I don’t know what others have gotten out of his first 6 months, but to me Obama sure comes across as a madman bent on destroying America.” – JB
There you go again – giving aid and comfort to the enemy. “Al Queda” [sic] are cheering you on as you try to tear the country apart. Your paranoia is the bread they feast on. Your unreasoned hatred of the President and by extension the democracy that elected him makes them giggle with glee as they watch neighbor against neighbor, “real” Americans against real Americans, etc.
You lost an election and you’re angry about that – I get that. But you are being played by people that seek to make a buck off of your discontent. And in doing so, you convince our enemies that we are a people that can be easily divided.
Contribute to those that you believe in. Work for a candidate that you respect. Argue (within reason) with those whom you disagree. But don’t let our enemies think for one minute that we cannot live together as Americans in a peaceful working democracy.
Posted by: OB-Wan222 | August 4, 2009, 1:20 am 1:20 am
obama joker poster. how pathetic..
Posted by: mdeals | August 4, 2009, 1:43 am 1:43 am
this is why some people dont bother with politics
Posted by: nenenenenene | August 4, 2009, 4:27 am 4:27 am
Yep, Obama is a joker. This poster shows Obama in a disguise that someone can understand with his agenda clearly spelled out. Just to make sure that the country is all on the same page as to what Obama is up too.
Posted by: Loneviking | August 4, 2009, 4:28 am 4:28 am
Interesting, sounds like a grass roots protesting method.
Posted by: AmericaReclaimed | August 4, 2009, 4:35 am 4:35 am
Isn’t it interesting to see which media outlets are willing to trust their readers enought to show the poster in question, and which ones don’t and only show a regular picture of Obama and one of Keith Ledger in joker makeup? Now why would we trust any of the later media outlets to give us the full story on any topic?
Posted by: Tyrone | August 4, 2009, 7:13 am 7:13 am
Uh, didn’t Heath Ledger win an Oscar for that role? So, it would seem, Obama is on track to succeed…
Socialism–BOO!
Posted by: Emlyn | August 4, 2009, 8:17 am 8:17 am
Last year there was a Bush/Joker poster: google it. What’s all the fuss? The media is shocked that someone attacked their messiah? Boo-hoo, it’s been done before. Ever notice how all ghettos are *totally* controlled by Dems? Why is that?
Posted by: Detroiter | August 4, 2009, 9:05 am 9:05 am
I think it’s fantastic and excellent commentary, especially on the heels of the ridiculous “suds summit”.
Posted by: PatF | August 4, 2009, 9:14 am 9:14 am
About a hundred or more of us got together in san diego one dark knight and made up this poster. I have one on my “wall” on the left side of the “Hitler” poster of George Bush. Many people have had fun with the hugely popular Alfred E. Newman and Last Supper formats.
Posted by: lrac | August 4, 2009, 9:20 am 9:20 am
Awww, why so sad?
It was hilarious when Bush was photoshopped to be everything from a chimp to a moron wearing a dunce cap. This is just as funny, or maybe just as inappropriate. Either way, these things have a way of coming around…
Posted by: Syme | August 4, 2009, 9:58 am 9:58 am
I believe you all have misinterpreted the meaning of the poster. It is an Obama support poster!
Posted by: rharper | August 4, 2009, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Where can I buy some of those posters?
Posted by: rgoldberg25 | August 4, 2009, 10:01 am 10:01 am
When Vanity Fair did it to Bush, no outcry,no big deal, just a big hah-hah.
Now it looks like “Lipstick on a Socialist” to me. The republic is being destroyed and noone is stopping him.
Posted by: george | August 4, 2009, 10:05 am 10:05 am
Thank You ABC news for covering this. It seems that many of the “liberal” news outlets are ignoring (read censoring) this event.
Posted by: rr | August 4, 2009, 10:14 am 10:14 am
how can i get a copy of this poster
Posted by: patriot | August 4, 2009, 10:25 am 10:25 am
ahahahahahah!!!!!!!!
Posted by: car l | August 4, 2009, 10:30 am 10:30 am
They shouldn’t insult a great actor with a comparison like this!
Posted by: Jerry S | August 4, 2009, 10:36 am 10:36 am
Nope…no liberals made fun of Bush or made inappropriate comparisions…. Its all fair game. After all, Obama is a joke.
Posted by: BigRed | August 4, 2009, 10:40 am 10:40 am
u guys are just being a hater cause that what all american do just hate on people…………stupid
Posted by: crystal | August 4, 2009, 11:02 am 11:02 am
Fear and ignorance often brings out name calling and childish acts. Grow up America and where has real journalism new gone?
Posted by: sonja922 | August 4, 2009, 11:03 am 11:03 am
The caption should read
Organized
Socialism
Posted by: Lowell Johnson | August 4, 2009, 11:46 am 11:46 am
Some if you act like he is the first politician to say something that isn’t true. Also, it’s ashame that some so called “journalists” can’t find real news and have to report on this garbage which only adds fuel to the fire for people that don’t have the intelligence to talk about the real issues so they have to come up with this stupidity. Whatever makes a buck I guess.
Posted by: Kathy | August 4, 2009, 11:58 am 11:58 am
Also, Adam, wasn’t it hilary who had a problem showing her tax returns? maybe you should check that out.
Posted by: Kathy | August 4, 2009, 12:00 pm 12:00 pm
where was all of this outrage when the same exact poster with bush’s face was displayed.
for those of us who are neither republicans or democrats, i welcome both points of view (or both insults)…good job abc for presenting both!
Posted by: darby | August 4, 2009, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm
Obama has an impressive personality. But behavior does not make the law. It’s the thought process and the world view of the individual. From what he has done so far, he is a definite collectivist and not an individualist, which is the building block of the success of United States as a nation and an idea.
Posted by: lucky | August 4, 2009, 12:33 pm 12:33 pm
Why are the libs so upset?? If a cross in a glass of urine is art than the joker obama poster qualifies!!!
Posted by: Ray | August 4, 2009, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm
why does this have to be the work of a conservative or a republican? it could have been designed by a really angry and fed up democrat or an independent. apparently some have not learned from our current president to “never assume”. i myself am a graphic designer. i have seen artwork defaming bush. i didn’t like it nor did i agree with but it was somehow considered art in the end. whatever happened to freedom of speech? could this not be considered just that? as for journalism that has been dead for longer than any of us have known. the problem is that reporters today and in the past have spent and continue to spend their time passing their personal opinions on as fact. how do you think we got to where we are now?
Posted by: Stephanie | August 4, 2009, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
ABC news – get the courage and guts to post the actual poster on this website……..what are you afraid of???….start acting like an impartial jouranlistic media and stop worshipping this deciever..LOVE THE POSTER AND WHAT IT DEPICTS….REALITY!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Proud American | August 4, 2009, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm
Its funny seeing all the Obama supporters getting upset about this. They had no problem with all the disrespectful attacks against Bush, it was fine too bash the President and show your opposition to his policies then. Why shouldn’t the other side have the same rights they had?
Posted by: steve | August 4, 2009, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
so it is “racist” and “ignorant” to depict someone who is running our country as something that is generally considered “evil”. so what is a more inflammatory image in mainstream media, comparing someone to a fictional character or comparing someone to a historical figure who killed hundreds of thousands! and we are the hate/fear mongers.
Posted by: no longer proud | August 4, 2009, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
the truth is finally out
Posted by: vic | August 4, 2009, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
funny poster.. even more funny how the folks who voted for O are ticked off that the POTUS has been mocked. I didn’t hear anything like that when Bush was made to look like the Joker several years back. Oh well.
Posted by: tim | August 4, 2009, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm
ITS THE ECONOMY STUPID!
lets face it-everyone knows why this poster is going up-by the time the elections get here any cartoon character with a few bucks and is not a dem will be electable-the economy givith (to Bubba) and the economy taketh away (from the Joker)
Posted by: unome | August 4, 2009, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm
Awesome!!!
Posted by: kinase | August 4, 2009, 2:33 pm 2:33 pm
b-o-o h-o-o. Poor baby had someone exercise their feedom of speech against him…if it had been any other president libs would think it ok…what goes around comes around.
Posted by: tom | August 4, 2009, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Hey that was a good movie-don’t ruin it by making think of the creep Obama- all oBama bakers are stupid actually a great comparison- he is a “joke”- er
Rom Emanuel is the biggest creep of all-ever, period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: John McNeil | August 4, 2009, 2:36 pm 2:36 pm
you little whining libs get over it! Did you not do the same to bush? It is not about race, stop using the race card, thats all you got!!!Thats what makes this country great we can voice our opinions
Posted by: eve | August 4, 2009, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
Poor little liberals……boo hoo! Someone is exposing Obama like it is and you can’t handle it.
I didn’t hear you whining and crying at all the Bush and Palin ridicule (that is putting it nicely).
Typical liberal hypocrites! Get over yourself!
Posted by: rachel | August 4, 2009, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
For all those who are trying to play the race card….get real, it has nothing to do with race!
I suggest you re-watch batman and listen to the words out of the Jokers mouth…frightening similar!
What a great comparison!
Posted by: Kate | August 4, 2009, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm
OH! WAIT!
I know who who did the poster!
Bush Cheney did it!
Posted by: JIMMY | August 4, 2009, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm
the truth will set you free obama!!!!
Posted by: shannon | August 4, 2009, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
I guess all the Obama lovers forget thier hatred and mockery of President Bush hey if the shoe fits…
Posted by: Terry | August 4, 2009, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Bush as Hitler is okay, but Obama as the “joker” is not. I rather have Chavez or Castro ruling us. God, please send us a grown up to run our country.
Posted by: steve | August 4, 2009, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm
Truly sad to see the Joker misaligned like this!!!!
Posted by: NoJoke | August 4, 2009, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm
This poster fits so good. America is what? ARRAGANT?? What a great president, he really cares for our nation. He is a loose cannon. I hope we can fix what he leaves behind, if there is anything left.
Posted by: dramabama | August 4, 2009, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
Remember when ‘DISSENT IS PATRIOTISM’……apparently you CLOWNS only meant that Dissent was patriotism…..until you GAINED POWER……then it became ‘Hateful and dangerous’…….nice attempt at a couple tools for trying to invoke the race card…….’WHY SO SERIOUS?!’
Posted by: Mac | August 4, 2009, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
It’s funny, when it was W painted as the Joker it was all good. Now that the tables have been turned the other way around and it’s the Messiah being the target of the joke you Dems/Libs want to cry foul? Grow up. If you can throw a punch you had better be able to take one…
Posted by: Deaththekidd | August 4, 2009, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm
obama and his supporters have their opinions, YET others opinions are not valid and should be quashed. promises of transperancy, financial responsibility and the like from the are meaningless words. a joker may be any race, creed etc, and their ideas should be examined: no longer subject to being rammed through congress. tax cheats even run the economy and highlight another lie, tax increases on all (except those that don’t pay them)
Posted by: david | August 4, 2009, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
Let me get this straight. For 8 years it’s OK to write stories and make movies about assassinating President Bush, but make a poster of Obama that is unflattering and you’ve stepped over the line. Obama is dangerous for this country. Wise up!
Posted by: Jon | August 4, 2009, 8:40 pm 8:40 pm
What’s the big deal? I voted for Obama, and I know that this stuff goes with the Oval Office. All Presidents (remember Bush) are ridiculed from time to time. Obama’s grown up enough to absorb this stuff. No one should be offended by free speech–no matter how offensive it might appear.
Posted by: dgwall | August 4, 2009, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm
The people responsible for this should be tried for treason! The Sainted Obama does not deserve this vile mockery! anyone who questions the motives of our glourious leader should be rounded up and sent to Gitmo for re-education and self critism. A day will come when the true people of the world will say no more to the vileness of captialism and the racists policies of those who dispute the enlightened rule of the Democratic Party!
Posted by: Steve | August 4, 2009, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm
what happened to we the people
Posted by: agapito marcucci | August 4, 2009, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm
So – the image is such a big deal that NBC actually shows us a regular picture of The Chosen One (by the media and morons everywhere) and Heath Ledger – but not the picture the story is really about.
Good job with the news. Protect the Party and your Beloved Leader at all costs.
Posted by: OhReally | August 4, 2009, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm
I see these posters are for sale on ebay already, they are also being printed out from the online photo. This will not go away anytime soon with talk of his Health Care Reform, more and more people are starting to believe he is a Socialist.
Posted by: Maxwells | August 4, 2009, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
Hellooooooo GRACE.
Obama in the character of a fictional character is NOT even in the same league as calling W Hitler, much less any dissenting right-of-center a Nazi. Nazi was short for the german name for National Socialists Party. They believed in central government controlling industry. Sounds familiar? Like government telling CEO’s what they should earn, or what cars should be built(look into Wolkswagen).
Posted by: dave | August 5, 2009, 12:06 am 12:06 am
Seems funny that if a picture like this comes out it was done by the hate full racist Republicans.
I don’t believe they have found the artist, could very well be a disappointed Democrat, O no . . wait. . . they don’t do that type of stuff.
I believe Bush was characterized as a chimp here and there??
Posted by: Lewis | August 5, 2009, 1:17 am 1:17 am
I liked the picture. It was very fitting. I am an Independant and feel this guy sold us down the river.
Posted by: me | August 5, 2009, 2:15 am 2:15 am
I guess the libs cant handle a joke about the man that was suppose to bring hope and change. haha! Gee, I wonder how Obama likes being ridiculed like Palin was…and still is. Oh, and lets not forget that G.W. was also portrayed as a joker (picture on internet) and so was Hillary Clinton. So stop your whinning!
Posted by: me | August 5, 2009, 2:19 am 2:19 am
Don’t you people get it?
This is a side show.
millions of americans paying thousands of dollars a year for social security and medicare and medicaid, I mean year after year after year.
and it’s GONE! “general fund”. GONE!
They talked about lock boxes etc.
Might as well get a “lock box” and give my 4 year old a key and tell her where the box is at Christmas.
You can’t let these people take over
1/6th of what is left of our economy.
Might as well picture Obama as a skull with ears, for what he is doing to our economy and plans to do to our health care system and our seniors.
Posted by: peon | August 5, 2009, 2:22 am 2:22 am
free speech … while we have it
Posted by: peon | August 5, 2009, 2:24 am 2:24 am
Might as well put a skull with ears and a forked tongue on Obama.
Propped on a capital letter A.
Representing his approach to the economy, byparisonship, (I just noticed the typo but Paris seems so appropriate
be it Hilton or France or moderate democrats or independents).
The ears represent his willingness to listen.
The skull represents his willingness to HEAR, that his plans for our economy, his plans for health care
are opposed by many American citizens.
The forked tongue represents his willingness to say anything to get elected and dump anyone if it costs him politcal points.
The A is for arrogance… just watch them!
Posted by: peon | August 5, 2009, 3:16 am 3:16 am
Why wnen they did the same thing to bush no one was this upset. Is it ok to make fun of bush but not this guy.
Posted by: jr | August 5, 2009, 8:28 am 8:28 am
he’ll never make term 2
Posted by: agapito marcucci | August 5, 2009, 9:08 am 9:08 am
I love it – perfectly legitimate political discourse. Funny how the left is whining about this and not the hundreds of pictures of Bush as a vampire, a chimp, the joker, etc. Don’t you DARE criticize Obama!
Posted by: PatF | August 5, 2009, 10:30 am 10:30 am
You have to love the opening on this report from Devin Dwyer as he writes “The mystery of Batman’s “Joker” character has met American politics” as if this was a first time that this has ever been done before in American politics. The facts are that the Joker character has already met American politics back in 2008 as Bush posing as the Joker. It funny to see the Lib’s yelling FOUL as if it so terrible to mock their master. It seems ok for them to mock Bush when he was in office. So why is it different now, is it that they think the Freedom of Speech was writing for them only and not for all? One has to think that with all the yelling FOUL when mocking Obama
Posted by: Allen | August 5, 2009, 11:26 am 11:26 am
but really, folks, you have to admit, he is really our national joke.
Posted by: dappy13 | August 5, 2009, 11:41 am 11:41 am
Obama is finally coming under scrutiny for his deeply socialist policies. Too bad it’s happening now, and not before the election when it would have been useful to all of us. Now we’re stuck with Obama, at least until 2012.
Obama sold us beachfront property on Mars and had us all walking away smiling.
Posted by: Mike Garcia | August 5, 2009, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm
Stop making this a “racist” statement. He is not in white face… he is in clown face as in clown, joker. So stop throwing around your race card ABC.
Posted by: Marshalddog | August 5, 2009, 2:02 pm 2:02 pm
I think we should go back in time and destroy all the past political cartoons of all presidents.Kinda like book burning,that way society will be viewed as the new administration would like it to be viewed and naysayers will be put in their place.
Posted by: M | August 5, 2009, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm
i find it funny how the used to do it to GW, and no one cared. now they do it to Obama and all the sudden its “horrible”… get over yourselves, he’s just as big of a scumbag as any other politician and deserves it just like the rest
Posted by: desenuts | August 5, 2009, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm
It is racist…if you want it to be. We all know the drill, cry racism. There is no defense for the charge. I love it!!!!!!!
Posted by: forthechildren | August 5, 2009, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
As a WW2 vet and patriot, I can respect everybodies constitutional rights… But if someone walked up to me on the street and showed me a picture of MY president depicted as the joker, with a caption that said “socialist”, it would take every once of restraint to keep from putting my fist through his face!…This is regardless of weather or not I voted for him.
Posted by: Pat123 | August 6, 2009, 1:08 am 1:08 am
That poster is an excellent piece of artwork and a fantastic correlation to Obama. It’s absolutely newsworthy.
Posted by: KW718 | August 6, 2009, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Finally, someone is getting it right!!
Posted by: sally | August 6, 2009, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm
You don’t need to be a republican to see he is destroying our country with his socialist agenda. The poster is a fair expression of freedom of speech and it is something people need to start hearing.
Posted by: Nick | August 6, 2009, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm
I’m making a thousand copies now but I’m going to put the joker faces on Bill/Hilliary Clinton, GW Bush and Obama. Their puppets, their pushing the same agenda and anyone who checks the independent press could have shown you this has been in the works for decades. YOUR BEING PIMPED, THE MIDDLE CLASS IS ON THE BLOCK REGARDLESS OF YOU STUPID PARTY LEANINGS. I’m sad that people think there is a difference in the parties when none of them are reading the Bills. Sound money=sound economy please research the Federal Reserve……..pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
Posted by: FrankRizzo322 | August 6, 2009, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm
This looks like the work of L.A. area radical/racist Pia Varma, not doubt about it…
Posted by: Charles | August 6, 2009, 9:12 pm 9:12 pm
Of course I love my liberty, and that’s why I don’t want to see communists like you destroy it.
Posted by: Charles | August 6, 2009, 9:50 pm 9:50 pm
Its communist to mention nothing but raw data. Why don’t you re post that data? Will you be fired. Shame on you.
Posted by: FrankRizzo322 | August 6, 2009, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
Which facts are you referring to? You are saying we should let the economy collapse right?
Posted by: Charles | August 6, 2009, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
Why has this become such a national story? Where was this outrage when the President Bush was portrayed in Vanity Fair as the same character (sans the socialism tag). This is political speech either way and we should embrace peoples right to voice an opinion.
Posted by: Bret | August 7, 2009, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
I’m enjoying all the outrage comments (“demonize,” “GOP/haters,” and “stupid journalism”).
Where was your outrage when Vanity Fair printed George Bush as the joker? Who was doing the demonizing then? Who were the haters? Where were all the “stupid journalism” comments.
You libs are acting true to your hypocrit party’s form. Enjoy your unemployment and government-run health care.
Posted by: Dan | August 7, 2009, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm
Great way to call attention to the destruction of a nation. Let there be no misunderstanding – we are hurling headlong into Socialism, and it will destroy this country. Make fun of Sarah Palin all you want – she couldn’t have done this much damage in 200 days if she tried…
Posted by: George | August 7, 2009, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
I find that funny that every one is making that a race issue , when clearly it as nothing to do with that. i remember the bush jr in Joker poster as well, nothing new. As for fixing the country well Obama have finish the destroying of the republic for the banker.
I am black and i don’t support Obama, in fact i dont support the us gouvernement at all, the false left right paradigm is becoming old, please drop it.
Posted by: Gilles | August 7, 2009, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm
Obama in nine words; Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Posted by: David | August 7, 2009, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
ARE Americans practicing Communism?
Read the 10 Planks of The Communist Manifesto to discover the truth and learn how to know your enemy…
Karl Marx describes in his communist manifesto, the ten steps necessary to destroy a free enterprise system and replace it with a system of omnipotent government power, so as to effect a communist socialist state. Those ten steps are known as the Ten Planks of The Communist Manifesto… The following brief presents the original ten planks within the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx in 1848, along with the American adopted counterpart for each of the planks. From comparison it’s clear MOST Americans have by myths, fraud and deception under the color of law by their own politicians in both the Republican and Democratic and parties, been transformed into Communists.
Another thing to remember, Karl Marx in creating the Communist Manifesto designed these planks AS A TEST to determine whether a society has become communist or not. If they are all in effect and in force, then the people ARE practicing communists.
Communism, by any other name is still communism, and is VERY VERY destructive to the individual and to the society!!
The 10 PLANKS stated in the Communist Manifesto and some of their American counterparts are…
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Americans do these with actions such as the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management (Zoning laws are the first step to government property ownership)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Americans know this as misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State “income” taxes. We call it “paying your fair share”.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Americans call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Americans call it government seizures, tax liens, Public “law” 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of “terrorists” and those who speak out or write against the “government” (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process. Asset forfeiture laws are used by DEA, IRS, ATF etc…).
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Americans call it the Federal Reserve which is a privately-owned credit/debt system allowed by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) another privately-owned corporation. The Federal Reserve Banks issue Fiat Paper Money and practice economically destructive fractional reserve banking.
6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.
Americans call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver’s licenses and Department of Transportation regulations.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Americans call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture… Thus read “controlled or subsidized” rather than “owned”… This is easily seen in these as well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Americans call it Minimum Wage and slave labor like dealing with our Most Favored Nation trade partner; i.e. Communist China. We see it in practice via the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two “income” family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920′s, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
Americans call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public “law” 89-136. These provide for forced relocations and forced sterilization programs, like in China.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Americans are being taxed to support what we call ‘public’ schools, but are actually “government force-tax-funded schools ” Even private schools are government regulated. The purpose is to train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome Based “Education” . These are used so that all children can be indoctrinated and inculcated with the government propaganda, like “majority rules”, and “pay your fair share”. WHERE are the words “fair share” in the Constitution, Bill of Rights or the Internal Revenue Code (Title 26)?? NO WHERE is “fair share” even suggested !! The philosophical concept of “fair share” comes from the Communist maxim, “From each according to their ability, to each according to their need! This concept is pure socialism. … America was made the greatest society by its private initiative WORK ETHIC … Teaching ourselves and others how to “fish” to be self sufficient and produce plenty of EXTRA commodities to if so desired could be shared with others who might be “needy”… Americans have always voluntarily been the MOST generous and charitable society on the planet.
Do changing words, change the end result? … By using different words, is it all of a sudden OK to ignore or violate the provisions or intent of the Constitution of the united States of America?????
The people (politicians) who believe in the SOCIALISTIC and COMMUNISTIC concepts, especially those who pass more and more laws implementing these slavery ideas, are traitors to their oath of office and to the Constitution of the united States of America… KNOW YOUR ENEMY …Remove the enemy from within and from among us.
Posted by: joe no spam | August 8, 2009, 3:23 am 3:23 am
Finally, someone who created what those of us who didn’t vote for him already knew. He is a JOKE. All you had to do was read his senate records and “I don’t know, or I’m sorry I’m late’” repeatly would have told you what a joke he is to government. Thank you to the person who created it. I would put a picture of it on my car, but unfortunately I would be labeled “racist” for going against the messiah, by the “tolerant” and “well-educated”(lol) dems/liberals.
Posted by: Sara | August 8, 2009, 4:50 am 4:50 am
i like the poster, no one complained as the media blasted bush for 8 years and they started on nbc, cbs, msnbc within 3 months of his taking office
if the media hadn’t blasted bush so strongly, so quiockly, he might have done better although i didn’t like him his last 3 years in office, mayne that was because the democrats were in charge the last 3 years of his tenure
Posted by: bill | August 8, 2009, 9:26 am 9:26 am
wasn’t the joker a community organizer of crooks and thieves?
look at mr. obamanation’s line up. a whose who of scum, america haters, communists, marxists, tax cheats, liars…i won’t list the names because it would be too long.
the it’s perfect!!!
congratulations uh-mericans( not intended to offend true patriotic constitution loving Americans just the sheeple), you’ve got yourself a president a banana republic could be proud of. of course it’s not called banana republic politcs it’s chicago style politics.
pat yourselves on the back sheeple. enjoy your joker. but the joke is on you.
some of you will immediately brand me a racist and say i’m a white, obama hating republican. i’m not white and i’m not republican. but i do despise ANYONE who trashes our constitution.
Posted by: abe | August 8, 2009, 9:39 am 9:39 am
It is time people see him for what he really is. KUDOS! I am tired of the American people being blinded by “Mr. Hollywood” as I like to call him. Wake up America before it is too late and we have to have another revolution. He can sugar coat poop on a stick, and I bet most american would still eat it up! As for this pic being called racist….come on. Obama is both, and the joker is white anyway. It is called Political Satire, every president in history has something like this!
Posted by: Cheryl | August 8, 2009, 11:54 am 11:54 am
Yayyy! They’ve definitely got it right, that’s for sure.
Posted by: ashley | August 8, 2009, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
President Obama haters need to get a life. In a few years when everything is sweet, you will be capitalizing on what he did for you.
Posted by: lisa | August 8, 2009, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm
President Obama has posted his proof of citizenship (birth certificate), so where’s the problem?
Posted by: Linda | August 8, 2009, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
ajax give me a break open ur eyes your’r too blinded by obama’s celebrity status to see that he cant even run his administration like a president should i dont hate him as a person i just cant stand him as a lieing socialistic president that is trying to turn us into canada, and btw the pic wasnt ment to be racist if he was a white guy the pic would have been the same its depicting his personality
Posted by: Andrew | August 8, 2009, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Republicans have gone the way of the dodo bird….
Posted by: Bring_it_on | August 8, 2009, 2:19 pm 2:19 pm
What we love about Obama
Can we state what we like about Obama? We love his lies, it makes us feel like we have a president, for which president hasn’t lied, Obama is just been more good at it. We all love his Spending, this way we get stuff now and have our grandchildren pay for it when we’re dead, after all we’ll be dead, plus we don’t care about our children anyway since we love to have them murdered. What about racism, Racism is only good if it is against white, and what do you know, Obama has that going for him too, but if Obama was white we wouldn’t like him that much, but thank someone he’s Black. Another thing we love about Obama is his ability to redefine words such as transparency and Capitalism, it makes feel like we have Clinton in office.
The truth is we don’t got a good president, and we haven’t had a real good President for a while, but we need to start playing our cards for what they really are worth and not the color of the card, in this case a joker. I am not saying McCain was a good Canaidate either, but we had others we could have voted for in the primaries that would have been better. If you are on the side the loves Liars and thieves, then you will love the Joker Card, but if you want a genuinely good card you will go for the Ace.
Posted by: Brian | August 8, 2009, 2:51 pm 2:51 pm
I am still amazed by the stupidity of America.
What is so perplexing about all of the Obama supporters is, quite Simply this;
When you were all whining about Bush, calling names, putting up pictures of him and a chimpanzee as comparison, not one mention of racism was made.
Rather you were merely pursuing the first amendment rights of free speech and critisizing your president. And I did hear him being called a stupid white man by the blacks, not African American, be American or get out, not one mention of those blatantly racist remarks was called racism.
So strange is it not, how the left wingers use the racism card for their personal agenda. After all why elect someone on true fact when you can make people cower in shame over a name like racist.
ENOUGH AMERICA, screw black, white, tan, red and blue! Let’s be Americans first, all of this PCC, Politically Correct Crap, has crippled America much like the practice of Wal-Mart sending all manufacturing jobs for their cheap crap to China.
As to the Joker face? If Obama has no hidden socialist agenda;
Why so Serioooooooooouuuuusssss?
Posted by: Amazed Independant | August 8, 2009, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Sadly for some racism will always exist just covered up in some goofy comparison between our first Africa-American POTUS and the “joker”?? Someone has way too much time and too much hate.
Posted by: jimmy hendrix | August 8, 2009, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm
uh, who the hell cares? obama depicted as the joker? it’s neither offensive, nor funny, nor clever, nor racist. it’s simply immature — and possibly in bad taste — but not news-worthy.
this country has gotten so caught up in meaningless minutiae that it makes me want to move to a remote part of the world where I don’t have to deal with any of this sensationalist crap.
Posted by: sarah | August 8, 2009, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm
Honestly, who cares? But what i’m going to ask is…. what’s the point of this article if they don’t even SHOW the picture they’re writing about?
Posted by: james | August 8, 2009, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm
People don’t want transparency. They don’t even know how to process the information given them ; instead, they turn into misinformed;screaming banshees and they don’t even understand the information given to them. They obviously rely on Psycho Limbaugh and Crazy Coulter for their information. Do they know how rich they’re making THEM listening to their hot air?!!!! We dont need a war with other countries; we will be starting one within our own
because of our own intolerance of each other and of change (even when its for our own good)…too bad for us.
Posted by: FairyMom | August 8, 2009, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm
Yes, he is a big JOKE!
Posted by: melanie Bernbeck | August 8, 2009, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
Why can’t we joke about this president??Does color really change things?When he took the oath, he became open for all.He is no different then the rest of us! OR IS HE??????
Posted by: Fed U.P. | August 8, 2009, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm
It would seem that some of us are “perverse” and others totally without a sense of humor. I think I’d rather be perverse.
Posted by: Jan Windham | August 8, 2009, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm
What has happened to this country and its people? Party members once disagreed, but we had a vision of what the United States should be and we worked toward that vision together. I have never seen the pure hatred we have for one another now. If the pols aim was to divide and conquer the people, then I say “mission accomplished!”
Posted by: Teller | August 8, 2009, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
Oh, and no one made fun of Bush??? No Bush jokes? No “hatred” of Bush??? Apparently things don’t work both ways. But, there is freedom of speech — as long as it’s the p. correct speech!!!
Posted by: Carol | August 8, 2009, 6:57 pm 6:57 pm
After the way the left went after Palin this is minor league. To many people living in glass houses throwing rocks. This is on both sides of the spectrum!
Posted by: david stahl | August 8, 2009, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
If the mask fits, wear it! (forgive the pun)
Posted by: Dick | August 8, 2009, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm
I am a senior and I can remember when a person would be shunned if they disrespected the President of the United States, People have no class or morales any longer, just a bunch of low class, ignorant Glenn Beck/slimebaugh following whacko’s! People need to grow up and stop hating, ALL of us have to face our maker one day and as Desi once said: “you got some splainin to do”.
Posted by: Ms. Soprano | August 8, 2009, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
Where was the outrage when Vanity Fair did President Bush as the Joker. It is just more difficult for the left (masters of viciousness), when they get a taste of their own medicine, to come to terms with the fact the Joker likeness of Obama is more accurate, visually as well as philisophically. He is trying to destroy our Republic beyond repair.
Posted by: patriot | August 9, 2009, 1:21 am 1:21 am
I personally think it’s pretty fitting. He’s a liar and a terrorist, seeking to ruin our country from the inside out. Who needs a bomb when we have OBOMBER?
Posted by: ABH | August 9, 2009, 2:23 am 2:23 am
Oh how quickly we forget.
I seem to remember an image of Bush as the Joker in Vanity Fair (now there is unbiased journalism).
Right or wrong, where was the outrage then? Oops!I forgot; “Thou shalt not criticize the Messiah.”
Posted by: izzy | August 10, 2009, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
Why so serious? Ha ha ha!
Posted by: Justin Mckay | August 10, 2009, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Ms Soprano,
With all due respect as a senior, I am sure you have seen alot of the world.
The Office of the President certainly deserves respect. But at the same time that respect goes both ways.
The last two Presidents have us in wars we can not afford, when people in our own country are suffering. We Citizens are paying the bankers money which they are not helping to redistribute.
Congress has forgotten who they serve. They think they are our rules, yet they work for us.
The military is gearing up and training on US soil to curb insurrection. The Governors of the States are telling DC that their national guard units belong to them and not to DC, yet Washington believes otherwise.
George Bush called the Constitution a “Goddamned piece of paper”!
With all due respect the whole lot in DC has forgotten their civic duty and are now influenced by Wall street and special interest.
A recent Congressman just admitted he does not read the bills, yet he just passes them as his party asks him to do.
They deserve no respect, until they can act respectful.
Posted by: joe | August 12, 2009, 9:25 am 9:25 am
Liberals can dish it out , but they sure can’t take it. Remember Obama’s Sarah Palin’s lipstick on a pig comment? You Libs are flat out hypocrites.
Posted by: clearvoice | August 12, 2009, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
Great now I can run for president as Batman..
Posted by: Hack | August 14, 2009, 2:45 am 2:45 am
obama is about to become a dictator
Posted by: johnk | August 14, 2009, 3:59 am 3:59 am
This is a perfect example of the lie of right verses left. the Obama poster is a metaphor for the puppet facist face of the new world order..United we stand ,divided we fall.
Posted by: mikew noel | August 16, 2009, 12:53 am 12:53 am
well ya got to have a moment of levity sometimes. i think robin hood would be an accurate dipiction of obama too, just not nefarious enough.
Posted by: olivia | August 16, 2009, 8:56 am 8:56 am
We aren’t putting these posters up for racial reasons what-so-ever. this is political… he could just as easily be a green martian, and we’d still be doing it. This is our right to protest when our leaders, and our government are making moves we think people should be looking into, and be more aware of. Until people worldwide began putting up these images, the President seemed to have this fanatical fan support system, he was going to fix everything, he could do no wrong… but all politicians are capable of corruption. It’s important to remember, Obama, IS a politician. Also important to remember: Obama isn’t the devil himself, but the pretty packaging marketed to us by the worst of the worst, the most corrupt of corrupt, & most evil of evil to sell us so easily on their own plans so there’s no protest. Important for American’s to research all unelected, newly appointed Czars in the U.S. These people will be deciding your fates on so many issues. Also point to bring up, We have a social health care system in Europe… but what so many die-hard American social health care supporters need to research is the major drawbacks invovled… it isn’t free… not at all. We pay loads in taxes each pay period that equal, or surpass what most Americans pay to insurance companies for monthly co-pays or premiums (depending on whether your employer matches the payment), plus we pay co-pays between 10-50 euro each doctor visit, and another 10-50 euro for our meds… great not seeing a doctor bill later for sure… but not free, and completely mandatory that we must pay into it. (no longer a choice) you also have to factor in that the government will now control what type of health care you’ll receive. I went to my doctor with pneumonia (mild) last February, and he gave me one ibuprofen for my fever (you can’t get anything not homeopathic over-the-counter here) and told me to sleep it off. It would have been very nice during those two painful weeks to have had some anitbiotics. Then of course, there’s the taxing the “rich” issue, where regular small business owners get totally screwed, (like a family member of me who has a post-construction company in the U.S.) and he already only made for himself around $10-12 per hour worth of pay, paying all his employees and business expenses first…but with the economy what it is, and what he will be having to pay on his “Rich” tax next year, he will surely lose his business completely, and all 9 of his employees will lose their jobs with him. In Germany, we are well aware of what Socialism (Communism) looks like, and we have learned to see it coming from far away.
Graffiti-style, pictures are always made for politicians & leaders, it’s our way to make people walking by on the street, stop, and think, and not always believe what the media tells you, but to research the facts for yourself. People were making these protests in ancient Rome, and we’ll be making them until the world ends. I wish the point weren’t getting lost in the pathetic attempts to make it a race issue.
Posted by: BerlinTruth | August 16, 2009, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
I only have one question…when is the Michelle Joker going to be available? It feels like Christmas in July….
Posted by: Dave | August 17, 2009, 12:23 am 12:23 am
….I missed something…where was the part about Reagan in the story?…can everybody say………..”left-wing-loone”
Posted by: Dave | August 17, 2009, 12:27 am 12:27 am
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
is a liar —- too bad there are no good posters for that
so the JOKER is the next best thing….cause the people of America have been Con’d
WATCH “THE OBAMA DECEPTION” on google video to find out the truth. And lets pray a real 3rd party movement will be alive and well by the 2012 elections. Because both parties are bought and paid for by lobbyists and 99% of the politicans are all crooks. So to bring back America we need a real 3rd party movement.
Posted by: Duncan Macleod | August 17, 2009, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm
Perfect picture and title. Now he looks like Michael Jackson.
Posted by: tony | August 20, 2009, 1:33 am 1:33 am
lol lol lol
The guy who created the poster is a liberal. lol
A racist liberal,, I’d never would had guessed.
Posted by: mario | August 22, 2009, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
This has nothing to do with political ties. It’s about one man misleading an entire nation and taking it to it’s ruin.
Posted by: bobby32 | August 26, 2009, 12:13 pm 12:13 pm
I think anyone who labels the poster as rascist, IS a racist, trying to protect their own.
It is free speech, plain and simple. the poster symbolizes how many people view the President, whether you AGREE WITH THEM OR NOT!
Posted by: jmf | September 2, 2009, 10:26 pm 10:26 pm
and to the person that said that putting white face paint on a black man is racist…..you are a moron. the only reason the paint is white, is because the joker’s paint was white…..does anything white have a racial agenda? is a black santa claus racist because he wears a white beard? and on the reverse, is d.c. comics racist for putting a black mask on a white batman?
i just don’t understand why everything in this world has color, but people seem to isolate them and place blame.
Posted by: jmf | September 2, 2009, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm
Alex Jones started this Obama poster contest
9/11 was an inside job
Posted by: Ace Theguen | September 6, 2009, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
There is nothing racist about it whatsoever. However, the Joker is closer to Harvey dent really. A Two-Face campaign might have worked better.
Posted by: HARVEY DENT | October 29, 2009, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm
The more I read it, the more it impresses me. I don’t know how I ever worked without hilarious and funny things in our life, Life would be so much easier especially when there’s a jokes here and there. Being funny is nice because a lot of serious people are lacking with this kind of behavior that is why they are much look older. I would like to thank you for your outstanding blog post. Keep it up! Awesome!
Posted by: Hilarious Joker | November 9, 2009, 6:11 am 6:11 am