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    Steven Mikulan of the LA Weekly:

    The poster, which bears a very superficial resemblance to Shepard Fairey’s famous Obama Hope illustration, has been pasted on freeway supports and other public surfaces. It has a bit of everything to appeal to the drunk tank of California conservatism: Obama is in white face, his mouth (like Ledger’s Joker’s) has been grotesquely slit wide open and the word “Socialism” appears below his face. The only thing missing is a noose.

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    “The Joker white-face imposed on Obama’s visage has a sort of malicious, racist, Jim Crow quality to it.”



    It was ok to say everything under the sun about George W. Bush but this poster goes to far?
    Its racist to depict a black man as a villain but its ok to do it to a white man?

    So much for freedom of speech I guess the only speech that is free is liberal speech now.
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    Hmmm... that picture doesn't look racist, just ignorant. Obama is not a socialist.



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    The President happens to be black. The Joker (comic book character) wore white pancake clown makeup. Sorry that there just aren't enough historical or literary black clown evil masterminds to draw artistic inspiration from.

    There's real racism in the world, but you'll lose the ability to recognize it if everything is perceived as racist. This doesn't fit the criteria, even if the artist is a klan/nazi. It's just political.


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    The image is not racist. It's funny, yes, but racist, no. They are trying to portray Obama as a villian, they did it to Bush, Clinton and Bush Sr and probably countless presidents before them. I think just because Obama is black that people are saying it's racist. The same people however would be laughing if a photo of Bush was done in Joker paint.


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    Obama is a communist.


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    Quote Originally Posted by guyone
    Obama is a communist.
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    guyone's just a self-loathing fag who desperately tries to stay away from the temptations of HA. He's gone for months at a time, and then something breaks inside and he's back. Government never did anything for him (except provided him with a education, surrounded him with communication/transportation infrastructures, given him the protections of the law, the protections provided by fire departments, police departments, the military, made sure he has pure safe water to drink and even inspects the food he eats etc. etc.)and so he thinks paying his fare share of taxes is communism. Give him a break, he's a lonely idiot.


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    It's nice feeling loved. Even if they are homophobic.



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    Quote Originally Posted by guyone
    It's nice feeling loved. Even if they are homophobic.
    Not to worry , gumpone...the least that we could do is to provide shelter to you like you were some GOP elitist's bastard child that was left at HA's doorstep....just be grateful that the GOP failures that were once your compatriots didn't dump you at what's left of New Orleans(thanks to your boy shrubya), you gullible pilgrim.....of course we all felt your pain when your nutty butt-buddies WMC and TFan were tossed out like the rubbish they were into the socialist nightmare that America is today....now how about a glass of warm milk and the latest copy of American Spectator, fellow patriot?


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