The Obama Joker poster

The Obama Joker poster: Is it about time too?
The Obama Joker poster that has started appearing in LA will no doubt cause some to keel over with an attack of the vapors.
What. you mean, Barack Obama? Portrayed as The Joker? With the word socialism underneath? Have these people no shame? Insulting our President so?
The same people having these panic attacks over the Obama Joker poster are likely to be those who were perfectly happy that the last President (a certain George Bush for those with short memories) was habitually portrayed as a chimpanzee if not simply an out and out moron.
The answer is of course, whether it's over that portrayal of Obama as The Joker to the right, George W as an inarticulate idiot earlier or Lyndon B Johnson as an elephant eared buffoon a few decades ago, is that America, quite rightly, has a very rough and tumble political scene. If you have the ego, the effrontery even, to claim that you know how to lead a country of free people then you've also got to have the ego to withstand the brickbats, rhetorical though they may be, that those free people are going to throw at you.
This is, at least to this reporter, as it should be: yes, the President is indeed the representative of the nation at times but most of it he's simply a politican: your and my servant, not our master.
Cartoonists, satirists and caricaturists have actually had something of a problem with Obama as a subject: sure, he has prominent ears and some have made use of that. But the most obvious point about him is that he is of a rather darker hue than most Americans, he's an African American. Yet, quite rightly, this is not considered a subject that should be a subject of satire or caricature: race, thankfully, is not a polite subject for humor any more, we've gone beyond that (clearly, we haven't everywhere, but it is out of public discourse, out of where it should not be).
My colleague reports that these posters are now spreading along the off ramps and underpasses in the Hollywood area and that there is some thought that this might be part of a nationally coordinated campaign. The American Thinker has some photos of Obama Joker posters in situ.
This might not be the most successful attack, if attack it is, upon Obama, might not take off as a nationally known caricature, but what it does show is that, finally, someone is thinking. Perhaps they're not thinking as you would like, perhaps you think this is disrespectful, but we do indeed have free speech here. And no politician has really made it until someone has devised a cartoon, a caricature, that really works, that sticks.
Maybe Obama as The Joker will be it, maybe it'll be the next or a later one that comes along but arrive it will: they always do, in the end.

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