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1. misanthopicus:

Limiting things at the Joker affair – for years Los Angeles was pestered/ defaced by a deluge of political posters by one Robbie Conal (freway entrances, mail boxes, you name the places – check on the web for him), posters uniformly attacking W, Donald Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney.
The action was widely approved by the liberal media, described as anything between freedom of expression to progress inducing political activism and was fawninly covered by LA Times and LA Weekly (hasn’t Conal got a McArthur prize yet?)

Why are the same liberals now incensed by this Joker take on Soetoro?

Aug 5, 2009 - 11:39 pm 2. pjmanshardt:

The similarities also include the circumstances that brought each to power. As Alfred said “and in their desperation, they turned to a man they fully didn’t understand.”

And the election of Obama is a joke, a bad one on us.

Aug 6, 2009 - 12:05 am 3. klrtz1:

Great stuff, Frank! I especially liked the line “and only leaves the option of killing people on the table to help make ends meet in his health care plan.”

No wonder the Obama true believers hate you.

Aug 6, 2009 - 12:29 am 4. McCool:

Because he thought it was good sport.

Because some men aren’t looking for anything
logical, like money.

They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:36 am 5. Daniel:

Ouch

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:19 am 6. Pragmatist:

Obama is far far worse than the Joker who is just a cartoon character Obama on the other hand can and IS doing real damage to America and to her image abroad where the Obamanations naive and ill considered Foreign Policy decisions have made him and the USA a laughing stock.

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:27 am 7. Marlin:

That’s the President?? I thought that was Michael Jackson.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:00 am 8. Ed Wallis:

Another related, powerful graphic:

http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/08/barney-frank-is-also-the-joker/

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:33 am 9. Chuck Pelto:

TO: Frank J, et al.
RE: Heh

….some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like bipartisan support. They can’t be influenced by polls, reasoned with, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. — Frank J.

This is what I’ve been saying about this ‘Joker’ and his gang all the long.

Glad some others are beginning to pick-up on it.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[The Truth will out....but will enough people recognize it before it's too late?]

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:33 am 10. Conservative1:

2. pjmanshardt:

“The similarities also include the circumstances that brought each to power. As Alfred said “and in their desperation, they turned to a man they fully didn’t understand.”

And the election of Obama is a joke, a bad one on us.”

Home run on that one.

Everything burns….

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:35 am 11. eon:

If President Obama resembles any of the Batman’s rogues’ gallery at all closely, it would be either The Riddler or The Penguin.

The Riddler (Edward Negma) was a confidence trickster and thief who used mind games and deceptive words to fool people into doing things to their own supposed benefit- that in the end, only benefited him. After which he would be laughing- and sneering- at them behind their backs.

The Penguin (Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot III) was a more direct crook. He specialized in constructing complex,interlocking systems of influence and “mutual self-interest” that were nearly impossible for an outsider to understand, but in the end funneled money, and the power that went with it, back to him. His trademark trick was to rob not only the law-abiding, but his fellow crooks as well, and do it so cleverly that they never realized they’d been taken.

A keynote of both criminals’ modus operandis was that while they both preferred to avoid violence on grounds of personal risk, they would unhesitatingly employ violence when it was the best or most expedient option. In such a situation, neither one engaged in any “deviousness” -they both simply struck to kill.

The Joker was not a “mere” anarchist; he was a nihilist who, if he could have figured out how to kill the entire human race, would have done so without a second’s hesitation, even if he went with it. In this respect, he more closely resembles the terrorists of the last four decades, who no matter what “ideologies” they espouse, worship destruction for its own sake and neither know nor care what would replace the societies they wish to erase from the face of the Earth. To them, as with the
Clown Prince of Crime, death and destruction are their own rewards. While such entities constitute an existential threat, they are more easily dealt with by the authorities, whether they be named Gotham PD or the Department of Defense.

The far greater threat to a polity is a Riddler, or a Penguin- who uses its own mechanisms to empower themselves at the expense of all others, and revel in the belief of their own superiority over those others.

An enemy which seeks power by boring from within will always be more dangerous overall than one which attacks from without- even if the latter can more easily be tracked by following his trail of destruction.

(Truth in advertising; Among other things, I’m a longtime fan of The Batman, almost solely through the comics, specifically “Detective Comics”. If all you know about him and his adversaries is from TV and movie depictions, you have only a very slight conception of what “really goes on” in Gotham City. Which, BTW, was based on Boston, MA, not New York.)

clear ether

eon

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:51 am 12. Jena:

I would like to see Obama as the guy who ran the Matrix. He wants to hook us up to the government feeding tube while we sleep and he and his cronies live off our work.

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:17 am 13. Jack Okie:

Mr Fleming:

You are a bad man. Don’t ever change.

It is said “sarcasm is the wit of fools”, which must be why it works so well against them. My compliments, sir.

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:27 am 14. Kat in Indiana:

Nope, can’t be Michael-the nose isn’t being held on by a magnet.

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:28 am 15. Mike in KC, MO:

Somebody already made an awesome shirt out of this!

http://www.cafepress.com/Joker_Obama

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:39 am 16. Adina Kutnicki,Israel:

The rabid, loony, foaming at the mouth left is universal in their cries of racism to anyone who dares to criticize their hegemony. Their shrill wailing is of piece with their collectivist mentalities.

Take Israel for example – Whenever a Jewish patriot dares to point out the treacherous actions of a growing Arab fifth column in their midst, the leftists in charge of our institutions scream racism. When an Arab MK (member of Parliament no less!)colludes with Hizbullah, when an Arab MK attends a Fatah Convention and says that Arabs in Israel are part of the ‘Palestinian’ people,as well as part of the ‘resistance’, the leftists in power are mute.Criticizing the ‘other’ is verboten.

In other words, despite much evidence that the Jewish majority is becoming endangered by its often hostile Arab minority, they are still blind to the truth.See no evil, hear no evil, unless of course a patriot is involved.

They would rather we all die on the collective sword of multiculturalism, than be tainted with the (manufactured)epitaph of racism.

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:01 am 17. Middleman:

Still better than the likes of Palin and Huckabee.

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:23 am 18. Maggie:

Bravo. Well written. Probably being sent to the government sight for “fishy” information. I hope the gov responds.

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:27 am 19. ECW:

How’s this for a cool new Joker Poster. Not as good as the original, but very cool. The Obama logo and the new title “The Dark Night” Heh! The one on the right is the original movie poster. Click the one on the left for the “Why So Socialist” Obama Movie Poster. Pretty good.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41185782@N06/

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:34 am 20. Delia:

Dohbie Wan AmeriKKKa is not clever or evil enough to be the angst-ridden villain master-minding intricate plots to destroy those he believes have wronged him somehow. No, Dohbie is just a self-worshipping, bumbling, lazy-brained, spoon-fed Marxist trying to repeat ’same old-same old’ failed socialism/communism which is doing nothing new [or hopey/changey] under the sun.

The punch drunk ‘Joker’ in Dohbie lies within his mindless, vacant rhetoric and the pathetic reality that he actually thinks everyone will believe his smooth talkin’ B.S. simply because he repeated it, read it and said it which kinda makes him an outright @sshole IMHO.

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:47 am 21. AThinkingPerson:

Racism? *yawn*

Funny how when Bush was given the “Joker” treatment it was political expression.

Liberals should (for once) live up to their name. Why so close-minded to someone’s FREE SPEECH?

Aug 6, 2009 - 7:01 am 22. Frank J. Fleming:

Middleman:

Thank for your opinion, scooter. That was well worth the time it took to write. Next time, though, try something more to the point like:

“Me liberal! Me likee Democrats! Me no likee Republicans! Me go tell Republicans!”

Aug 6, 2009 - 7:14 am 23. Calvin Ball:

Hmm. Now I want to see the Joker’s birth certificate.

Aug 6, 2009 - 7:56 am 24. Middleman:

Frank,
I’m an independent. I’m not a fanboy of the Democrats, however the Republicans never seem to understand that the majority of Americans don’t like the anti-intellectual, brutish ways of the Christian conservative right.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:11 am 25. BD57:

The face that appears over the word “socialism” speaks to the product Obama is selling, not the salesman.

Barry is good-looking, smooth … and he can talk!!! [It's amazing how many libs think that's a big deal.]

In the end, though, what he’s selling is what you see on the poster.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:11 am 26. AF_Vet:

“Still better than the likes of Palin and Huckabee.”

Ooooo, we’re feeling the burn muddlebrain. What’s the next arrow in your quiver: “I know you are, but what am I?”

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:14 am 27. John Marshall:

Maybe Obama is not like the Joker. Who knows? But Sonia Sotomayor is, definitely. Could someone please post a photoshop of a Sotomayor Joker? Thanks.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:26 am 28. rbell:

Psychotic? No. Psychopathic? Yes. It make a difference, don’t you know. The Joker only blew up a fictitious city. The Obama-Tsar is blowing up a real country. The Joker was not a puppet. Obama is. He is the culmination of a shadow government created by I.F. Stone and his ilk many eons ago. It has been a work in process for more than 50 years. My economics professor at U Mass predicted this presidency. He was actually looking forwards to it.

The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions is a real place in Santa Barbra, or was. It was one of the many indoctrination centers and think tanks (think Communist that is) set up by the far left and funded by foreign nationals. . Many of our leftest journalists have been there. Look at Matt Damon. He is an example of a brain washed celebrity. They don’t happen by chance. They are sought out and cultivated. There is nothing more pliable than an empty headed actor…, except maybe an empty headed musician egotist. Bono anyone?

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:26 am 29. Frank J. Fleming:

Middleman:

Doesn’t being independent involve like thoughts and stuff? I mean, even you wouldn’t characterize your previous comment as anything other than infantile cry, right?

I’m just curious. I find trolls psychologically fascinating.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:27 am 30. Ussjimmycarter:

So Frank, we loyal IMAO readers must now come here to read you A List? What’s up with that? Aquaman called! They have him and he’s singing his guts out! You might get a knock on the door tonight! They just “want to ask you a few questions” and you should go along with them… I’ll be over later to comfort your wife!

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:32 am 31. John the Libertarian:

Both Joker and Obama burn huge piles of money.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:34 am 32. Lily:

I sense more than a little projection from Middleman.

Anti-intellectual, brutish, Christian conservatives? When was the last time a Christian conservative forced a bank to take a bail-out, or took over a car industry, or tried to ram a health care bill through congress that would take over 1/7th of the country, or insisted that the cap and trade bill was going to heal the planet no matter what the science says and damn the extra expense? And the intellectuals on the left don’t have TIME to read all those hard to understand bills, that would take time and lawyers.

Oh please.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:36 am 33. AF_Vet:

“that the majority of Americans don’t like the anti-intellectual, brutish ways of the Christian conservative right”

I love when people deign to speak for the “majority” of Americans–who by the way are Christian, and according to more and more polls, self-identify as Conservatives.

Pray tell, mr troll, what exactly about the “Christian right” is brutish and anti-intellectual?

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:37 am 34. Anonymous:

[The Truth will out....but will enough people recognize it before it's too late?] no, they did not. (yes, that’s “past tense”) It’s been too late for a good while now. Take a good hard look at the whole history of the DJIA and pick out the spot where it became impossible to avoid a senator for pres.
Any of the bunch was equally bad. The Hillarity was actually the lesser evil in the bunch, but not by much. Just thankful we don’t have all this same garbage going on AND blaming it on me because it was McClown doing it. At least this way some Reagan might still arrive. He won’t, but I can hope still because that traitor lost.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:45 am 35. Joey:

Frank, you’re missing the point. What he’s trying to say is Bush was the real Joker.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:47 am 36. SVINROD:

I can assure you that the guy in the poster is not Obama.

He has not got a bucket stuck on his head.

Way to go Frank!

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:55 am 37. Middleman:

29,
Yes, you’re correct. However when you are dealing with people who write off those with differing opinions as either commies or RINOs, what’s the point? Better to poke and prod at them like caged animals.

32,
Lily, if I’m not mistaken the bailouts began before Obama even was sworn in. i’m not here to defend all his policies, but I’m not going to step in line with the Chicken Little crowd either and run around a town hall screaming the sky is falling.

33,
Yes, most Americans are Christian, I don’t refute that, nor am I against it. My issue is mainly with the Evangelicals and Dominionists (yes, they exist), who themselves would deny most Americans are truly Christian (such as referring to Catholics like myself as idol worshippers), and who use populists libertarian rhetoric only as a means to an end in order to use government to impose their own moral code on the populace. They don’t believe in the Constitution, they believe in the bible and most of them couldn’t point to Iran on a map. That is my problem with them.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:04 am 38. Frank J. Fleming:

Middleman:

So you’re admitting you have nothing better to do in your life than be an internet troll?

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:14 am 39. Anonymous:

29. Frank J. Fleming:
Middleman:

Doesn’t being independent involve like thoughts and stuff? I mean, even you wouldn’t characterize your previous comment as anything other than infantile cry, right?

I’m just curious. I find trolls psychologically fascinating.

LOL.. Frank you are killin’ me here.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:17 am 40. AF_Vet:

—”who themselves would deny most Americans are truly Christian”

—”who use populists libertarian rhetoric only as a means to an end in order to use government to impose their own moral code on the populace”

—They don’t believe in the Constitution, they believe in the bible and most of them couldn’t point to Iran on a map”

How do ANY of those statements apply to Huck or Palin?

And by the way, you’re using a very broad (and inaccurate )brush to paint the “Christian Right.

Just like you, I’m a Catholic; but I consider myself part of the “Christian Right (I’m Christian and a conservative), and don’t believe in one iota of what you just acsribed to me and millions of others in this country.

Try to be fair and accurate in your criticism of others. Especially public figures. I can’t speak for Huck, as I’ve never really followed his career or statements; but as for Palin…your statements are totally wrongheaded and without merit.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:28 am 41. Pragmatist:

Oh how funny it is to see ‘libtards’ squealing now the boot is on the other foot. ‘Rent a Mob’ they cry of course when they did it it was ‘Pressure Groups’ ‘Disgusting Caricature’ they cry maybe even illegal but when they did it to Bush it was “Free Speech in action ‘ and ‘Artistic Expression’. What left wing ‘libtards’ have in common with Mohammedans is colossal egotistical HYPOCRISY. Which is not surprising seeing that Obambi is a Mohammedan narcissistic RACIST HYPOCRITE himself.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:29 am 42. Fantom:

poor middleman

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:33 am 43. Lily:

37. Middleman

Bailouts began before inauguration, yes. But the current administration added the extra nuance of forcing banks to take bailout money that would subject them to government intervention whether they wanted it or not and strong-armed them when they balked. That was the “brutish” behavior to which I was referring. That is also why I used the term “forced bailouts”.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:35 am 44. Harvard Yard Conservative:

As a white male, when I view that poster of a black man made up in ‘white-face’ like something out of a minstrel show, you cannot fathom the depths of shame, embarrassment, and rage I feel. The creator and the publishers of that poster cannot know or feel how much oppression I and my forebears have suffered living in this racist society.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:35 am 45. Middleman:

No, not at all. I’m not fitting everyone on here in the same box. I’ve had some honest debate on here that I’ve enjoyed. But I’ve also thrown bombs at people who don’t seem to accept anything but their own parroted opinions and I’ve enjoyed that too.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:40 am 46. Calvin Ball:

Try to be fair and accurate in your criticism of others

You’re new, aren’t you?

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:44 am 47. Frank J. Fleming:

Middleman:

Yeah, your first comment screamed: “Me smirt guy worth talking to!” What is the chance an internet troll has a rational basis for any of their political positions?

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:33 am 48. Scott:

Well done Mr. Flemming, you came up with a good one this time. I’ve criticized some of your previous attempts at satire which in my opinion were utter failure, but this one was pretty good. You mention Obama’s incompetence mockingly, I say thank God for small favors, because if he were actually competent in his attempts to achieve his goals he might already be implementing those camps Bill Ayers spoke of in his Weather Underground days. Yes, the previous statement is a bit over the top but I don’t underestimate him nor the rabid viciousness of the left. Look at how his “enemies” have been attacked, look at the lefts “peaceful” demonstrations; also the subjugation of other people’s (think Al Gore) rights and income it part & parcel of the Leftist philosophy.

#2 hit the nail on the head, but it was the conservative Democrats (oxymoron?), independents, “moderates”, and liberal Republicans who voted for a man they didn’t understand. The far left and conservatives knew what the deal was and voted accordingly.

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:36 am 49. Dohtimes:

Being a middle of the roader just means treating lies and facts with the same level of disinterest. It also makes one extremely uninteresting to debate as they hop around the word freedom when they try to make a stand.

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:50 am 50. allrise:

They took the new Obama “Joker” poster into AllRise.com community court. Join and share your opinion http://bit.ly/obama01

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:06 am 51. rbell:

Harvard Yard Conservative: I do believe you actually go to Harvard. You have such a high opinion of yourself. This has nothing to do with race. He is wearing the make-up of the Joker, not a minstrel player from the Jim Crow era. Nice try to redirect and stifle free speech. Please feel free to be offended. Let me know if there is anything we conservatives can do to help.

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:20 am 52. mhr:

It’s always open season on white faces when liberals get set to attack and they are generally in attack mode. Using a white face as a background for hitlerian references or to illustrate the sheer evil of the KKK does not elicit any cries of “foul!” by liberals. But any politically similar use of a non-white face will immediately enrage liberals enough to have them cry “racism”- again. It is real moral outrage or do liberals act this way cynically in an appeal for votes? In my book it is the latter- to keep “people of color” angry at the oppostion is the liberal aim. Without 90% of the black vote Democrats would never win an election.

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:22 am 53. Scott:

24. Middleman:

“Frank,
I’m an independent. I’m not a fanboy of the Democrats, however the Republicans never seem to understand that the majority of Americans don’t like the anti-intellectual, brutish ways of the Christian conservative right.
Aug 6, 2009 – 8:11 am”

And what exactly are those pray tell? Please enlighten us oh independent thinker!

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:32 am 54. jbaker:

How did we get so far into trollsville?

Even Sarah Palin got drubbed in this screed somehow.

You lefties need to get a life.

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:36 am 55. The Shadow:

Mr Fleming is going to have a hard time making a living as a political humorist. Usually you have to be investive and funny. His specialty is not humor it is racist attacks dressed up as humor. Stephen Colbert he is not. On second thought maybe the wingnuts will pay him. This is right up their alley

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:37 am 56. Anonymous:

Middleman wrote:

“Yes, most Americans are Christian, I don’t refute that, nor am I against it. My issue is mainly with the Evangelicals and Dominionists (yes, they exist), who themselves would deny most Americans are truly Christian (such as referring to Catholics like myself as idol worshipers), and who use populists libertarian rhetoric only as a means to an end in order to use government to impose their own moral code on the populace. They don’t believe in the Constitution, they believe in the bible and most of them couldn’t point to Iran on a map. That is my problem with them.”

You realize you’ve swallowed the propaganda hook, line, and sinker? The people you mention can’t hold it together long enough to accomplish much of anything in the public sector. I went to a Baptist school full of the folks you mention and as a person raised Methodist I can assure you it was not a fun experience. Hypocrisy abounded, a desire to dominate the student’s thinking was was prevalent. I spent many an hour in detention for asking questions like “So where do the Dinosaurs fit into this 3000 years?” and “What about carbon dating?”

The Liberals, Islamists, and socialists/communists WANT yo to think that all Christians are like that as it drives people out of the churches. This weakens the community and helps perpetrate the idea that America and its Christian leaders of the past are at fault for all the world’s ills. Not all ministers/preachers/pastors/priests and churches are good, but there are more good ones than bad ones. In addition to that the value to the community they have is immeasurable.

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:48 am 57. Joshua:

Obama reminds me more of Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter series than he ever did the Joker. Come to think of it, Umbridge’s short-lived iron-fist-in-velvet-glove regime at Hogwarts makes a fine metaphor for nanny-state socialism in general. Of course, she did get her comeuppance in the end…

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:53 am 58. Frank J. Fleming:

The Shadow:

I find it pretty interesting in learning more about trolls and why you do this. Could you tell us how old you are and what your occupation is?

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:55 am 59. Delia:

DohBama the Joker & Cronies need a serious smack-down from Homey D. Clown.

Cap-n-Trade? Homey don’t play dat!

Aug 6, 2009 - 12:21 pm 60. steveg:

I am not thrilled with republicans as a whole, but supporting the GOP is our only hope in remaining a free-market economy.

Good enough reason for me.

Aug 6, 2009 - 12:22 pm 61. ZSI:

Obama is an incompetent ideologue who thinks he is The American Idol.

How’s that for summing it up?

Aug 6, 2009 - 12:42 pm 62. Scott:

#56 is me, don’t know why it popped up Anonymous.

Aug 6, 2009 - 12:42 pm 63. Student:

I am trying to calculate facts in my mind.

1. Oregon Territory joined the union for the sole purpose of collecting depredations.

2. The federated states of the United States commissioned the massacre of the Indians for which depredations were due and payable.

3. The debt was never paid by the congress of the United States, and it exists, and is interest bearing and accumulating.

4. Oregon’s confederation mandates that if at anytime the state of fedederation goes into deficit spending, Oregon shall at that time cecede and reunite as a territory.

5. Oregon’s territorial constitution in Paragraph 2, states that it derives it’s authority from God Almighty.

6. Oregon’s territorial constitution was penned by a female. And females were given rights after blacks.

#1-6, although you may not like what you read, they are factual.

So is Congress racist by commission Oregon settlers to slaughter Indians?

Is Congress responsible by not paying a debt for services which it commissioned?

How can Oregon still be in the union, and how can it not be reunified if we believe in the articles of confederation and constitution?

Is Congress or political court appointees above God Almighty?

When the State Court rescinded the state constitution, did it have authority over a territorial constitution, when no territorial court existed to which to appeal the decision of the lower court (state court)?

Is it racist of Congress to commission soldiers to take the territories and assassinate the inhabitants and then not pay the soldiers for thier services and bullets?

Exactly, what on earth is racist?

What on earth is a legitimate debt when it is no longer politically expedient, never paid, never satisfied, and never forgiven?

Could a state court forgive a debt due a territory?

If you are born under a territorial constitution, should a state government (lower body of government) have the right to rescind your rights granted by “God Almighty,” who is the biggest and supreme big cheese?

I am not arguing morality or feelings or ethics here. Merely citing facts, and showing how truth is swept under the building and cemented over by political correctness and ensuing morality.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:12 pm 64. Middleman:

Scott,
i live in the Bible Belt. I don’t need liberals, commies, islamists, and other baddies hiding under the bed to tell me how a lot of evangelical types are because I hear the rhetoric straight from their own mouths. A lot of the rhetoric is utterly astonishing and anything American.
I know there are plenty of good clergy and the vast majority of church-goers are good people, but christian nationalists and religious people who combine politics with religious dogma (INCLUDING ISLAMISTS) are one of the biggest threat to this country in my opinion because those who do not follow their ways are either an enemy or a commodity for them to control or manipulate.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:29 pm 65. JohnR:

Great article. No surprise at the charges of racism though. ANY criticism of Obama will eventually lead to charges of racism from the Left. It’s their ultimate “red button” word that stops all debate, puts their opponent on the defensive, and cancels all earlier discussion. So…they use it whenever they’re losing. Thus the joke, what is a racist? It’s a Republican who is winning the argument.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:36 pm 66. The Globalizer:

Now that was funny. Bravo.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:39 pm 67. JohnR:

Logically, Obama has nothing to do with the Joker and the Joker has nothing to do with socialism. The poster is just a method of getting the viewer’s attention, and deriding Obama.

I remember a poster/cartoon of George H. Bush from years ago. It had him dressed up as Boy George with his hair in braids, coyly looking over his shoulder. From the waist down he was dressed only in panties, and his rump was stuck out provacatively. It was nothing more than an attempt to ridicule and degrade the man…thereby reducing his overall appeal and perhaps turning some voters against him.

It’s all part of Free Speech. I laughed out loud when I saw the Obama Joker poster…I love it!

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:40 pm 68. Peter:

great article, spot on. Obama needs to be demasked before it’s too late. If he and his gang aren’t stopped they will do irreparable harm to the US.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:41 pm 69. shimauam:

The Joker and barry hussein do have this thing in common. barry’s like a dog chasing a car; now that he has big government, he doesn’t know what to do with it. Eventually, we’re hoping he’ll piddle himself, tuck his tail and creep into the corner until the mess has been cleaned up.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:53 pm 70. Osprey1:

This is outrageous….several years back when Bush was depicted as the Joker, that, that was art and satire, but question the Chosen One and all of a sudden its Racist. Such absolute nonsense.

Fact of the matter is that people are finally starting to take a good hard look at this “Joker” and starting to realize how much trouble we are in as a nation with him at the helm. Of course my fellow Americans should have stopped being “Racist” when they were about to vote for him and they should have asked the same questions of him as they did of every other candidate that ever ran. But instead they were “Racist” and voted for Obama purely because he was an African American, not because he was qualified or because he represented there views on the direction of the nation.

Articles like this that now question those that criticize the President are disingenuous bunk and should be dismissed, in my opinion anyway.

so go ahead and report me to Flag@whitehouse.com, I’ll be in good company there I am sure, right next to all other good Americans that are repulsed by the destruction of our nation and our freedoms.

Aug 6, 2009 - 1:55 pm 71. JED:

“Over the next month there is going to be an avalanche of misinformation and scare tactics from those seeking to perpetuate the status quo. But we know the cost of doing nothing is too high. Health care costs will double over the next decade, millions more will become uninsured, and state and local governments will go bankrupt.
Thank you,
Barack Obama”
Here is a public White House correspondence. The irony, if it is not obvious enough, warns of scare tactics in the first sentence. The last sentence is a scarey warning.

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:06 pm 72. sub:

Eon, LMMFAO! Best letter I’ve read all day.

But in reality, I think it’s just a poster that “calls” Obama “A Joker.” Meaning, he’s a joke. The Heath Ledger version of the makeup is most current, most commonly known to people of varying ages. How any IDIOT on the left could pull racism out of this? Well, it’s impossible to follow the mind of a crazy person. In any event, Eon, you are my daily hero….

sub, nyc

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:13 pm 73. TheShadow:

Frank:

I am not sure why you should care about my age or occupation and what that has to do with either your column or my response.

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:16 pm 74. Aaron Byrnes:

Are the people who say this is racist confusing this with blackface which is racist in its origins?

This style of makeup is considered urban and is part of a dance movement called clown dancing or krumping. Yes including the white pancake makeup.

Here’s a link to MTV’s report on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ3NwD8qnDg

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:20 pm 75. Calvin Ball:

Logically, Obama has nothing to do with the Joker and the Joker has nothing to do with socialism.

Notice how he dodges the question of whether Obama has anything to do with socialism.

And as a matter of fact, the Joker does have a lot to do with socialism, with his insistence that things be arbitrary and capricious in order to be “fair”. That’s socialism, in a nutshell.

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:24 pm 76. The Shadow:

Frank – I visited your web site and what passes for humor there would not have made it into my high school literary magazine and we had only 175 kids in the whole school. It is heavy on insults, but nothing inventive or funny. Maybe insults are what turn you on

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:26 pm 77. S. White:

Where were your concerns when the same Joker images of George W. Bush appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in July 2008?

SW
Dallas, Texas

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:34 pm 78. Brutus:

The Joker’s mission is to prove that planning and forethought are useless, such as worrying about how to repay the money we spend on credit today. Nobody knows what the future will hold, even the immediate future, so its pointless to think about tomorrow.

The other guy is a comic book villain.

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:48 pm 79. PsyHawk:

To pull racism from this poster would be a huge reach!
Obama is as dangerous to this country as the Joker was to Gotham City!

Aug 6, 2009 - 2:51 pm 80. genghis:

This is silly. Let us be truthful. The Joker did not have big ears.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:02 pm 81. JCIll:

Middleman, just a note to let you know that conservatives are not all bible-thumpers, and many of us object to the stereotyping. I am a strong fiscal conservative, think that Obama might destroy the USA before he is thrown out in 2012, and am very, very afraid of the debt that we are dumping on our grandchildren. But guess what: I don’t go to church. I don’t own a gun. I don’t watch NASCAR, and I am also well-educated. To counteract your stereotyping, I guess I think that all liberals are unwashed, long-haired, pot-smoking hippies who live in their parents’ basement and spend all of their time as trolls on blogs.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:07 pm 82. deguello:

Personally,I think a fatigue cap,a beard,and a cigar stuck in his mouth would reveal Obama’s true persona,better than clown make up.This guy is Castro in blackface.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:13 pm 83. deguello:

#55 SHADOW OF A TROLL. Fleming’s piece is actually quite funny;the strategy of pronouncing anything satirizing this Teleprompter- reading ,affirmative action stalinist clown is SIMPLY not going to work.BTW,this is only the beginning!

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:25 pm 84. mike nimzo:

I’m a liberal. I voted for Obama. I mocked George Bush, and usually rightly so. The “socialist” part of the poster is stupid, but THIS POSTER IS NOT RACIST.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:26 pm 85. Dan A:

Barack Obama isn’t “the” Joker; he is “a” Joker. And at this point, I suspect that many who were “fooled” by his “hilarious” campaign promises and were so “tickled” with his rhetoric that they “gleefully” voted for him now realize that the “JOKE” is on them.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:30 pm 86. Delia:

80. genghis:

“Let us be truthful. The Joker did not have big ears.”

He-he-he. Actually, DohBama has regular sized ears that protrude out disproportionately.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:30 pm 87. Deguello:

#58 FRANK J FLEMING: RE#76 SHADOW “Only 175 students”? sounds like you are confusing a school with the high security psych ward in which you reside.Mr. Fleming, that would explain Shadows’ motivation.

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:44 pm 88. Chris:

The joker image – it means he’s a joke – just like it meant when they did it to Bush and Clinton. The word socialism underneath – socialism is being brought to you by this joker. How hard is that to understand? Apparently, too hard for some…

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:54 pm 89. Now and Then:

This is like a comic book convention. And you guys call liberals wimps and nerds? Remember that the next time you dress up like the Green Hornet.

“wood chuck to grey squirrel . . . wood chuck to grey squirrel”

Aug 6, 2009 - 3:57 pm 90. Frank J. Fleming:

TheShadow:

Somehow I knew you wouldn’t answer that. I’m 30 and my day job is a software engineer; nothing ground breaking. Anyway, my theory is that trolls really do have nothing better to do. I do write silly stuff, but it’s meant to be silly and I make money for it.

Aug 6, 2009 - 4:02 pm 91. Ron Victor:

Wow, that was an exceptional column. Very clever, but so much truth also. The problem with Obama as the joker, I fear the joke is going to be firmly on us. I don’t see a batman out there with the macho to stop him, except maybe the collective American patriots…http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/

Aug 6, 2009 - 4:23 pm 92. Max:

Okay, Frank, how about this: The poster is racist because it portrays Obama as a, ahem, “sp**k.”

I know that’s quite a stretch, but it may work for some people.

Aug 6, 2009 - 4:40 pm 93. Clayton E. Cramer:

My issue is mainly with the Evangelicals and Dominionists (yes, they exist), who themselves would deny most Americans are truly Christian (such as referring to Catholics like myself as idol worshippers), and who use populists libertarian rhetoric only as a means to an end in order to use government to impose their own moral code on the populace. They don’t believe in the Constitution, they believe in the bible and most of them couldn’t point to Iran on a map.

I’ve seen videos about those who support Christian Dominionism. But I’ve never met one. Ever. I suspect that they are about as common as neo-Nazis.

“Catholics as idol worshippers”: I know that there are some fanatics who think that way. But I can’t recall ever meeting one. I have met one person who opposed birth control–even for married couples–but she was Catholic.

I find that there are a lot of people that don’t understand the Constitution–but those are at least as common on the left as the right. At least ignorant evangelical respect the Constitution, even if they don’t understand it.

The claim about “can’t point to Iran on a map” is going to require some actual, you know, evidence? There is a saying that war is a way for God to teach Americans geography, but again, this crosses the whole political spectrum. Remember the Doonesbury cartoon just before Gulf War II, where Hussein asks a reporter, “Is it true that only 16% of Americans can find Iraq on a map?” “Yes, but they’re all Marines.”

Aug 6, 2009 - 4:57 pm 94. Anonymous:

Middleman, just a note to let you know that conservatives are not all bible-thumpers, and many of us object to the stereotyping. I am a strong fiscal conservative, think that Obama might destroy the USA before he is thrown out in 2012, and am very, very afraid of the debt that we are dumping on our grandchildren. But guess what: I don’t go to church. I don’t own a gun. I don’t watch NASCAR, and I am also well-educated.

I suspect that many “Bible-thumpers,” as Middleman characterizes them, would not be happy with my method of analyzing the Bible, and my objections to insistence on a 6000 year old Earth (bad geology AND bad theology). I don’t watch NASCAR, either. I don’t watch any sports. My M.A. is in History, and I have six books published. My wife teaches English at a university.

Middleman needs to get past his stereotyping.

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:02 pm 95. jason:

follow the URL above, http://libertyforallusa.com/lfa-videos:7336 to see an excellent video explaining the analogy of the Joker and our Government.

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:17 pm 96. roger rainey:

Funniest thing I read all day. Brilliant

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:25 pm 97. Frank:

The Joker wasn’t an Anarchist, he was an “Anomist”. He wasn’t into Anarchy, he was into “Anomie”. People need to learn the difference.

Aug 6, 2009 - 5:31 pm 98. cruashun:

poster demeaning to jokers everywhere

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:12 pm 99. stickety:

I agree with middleman. That crazy religious right is destroying the country.

I mean, look at television. Everywhere I turn I see nothing but sanitized, family-friendly programming. Nothing raunchy or controversial anywhere. Those sicko Christians have obviously taken over Hollywood.

Those evil Christians are always so intrusive. Hell, a guy can’t even get pornography in this country unless he wants to spend approximately 2.5 seconds waiting for a download.

The crushing influence of Christianity is truly evident when you look at marriage rates. Those judgemental bastards have placed such a stigma on co-habitation that everybody is forced to marry. Young people across the country feel pressured to settle down and marry. Abortion is illegal across the land, so these poor youths can’t even off their babies if they make a mistake.

Obviously, this country needs to loosen up and stop being so uptight. If we didn’t have so many Christians keeping us down, this country could really be cool.

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:20 pm 100. Xavier Cugat:

Where’s the Birth Certificate?

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:37 pm 101. ked5:

Someone over at AT made what I consider a very interesting (scary) observation about dear leader that demonstrates, he is indeed like the joker. The subject of hypnosis came up, and the difference between “formal induction”, and key words to produce an altered state. below I’ve included some of his insightful comments. also gives some very good understanding of why he is so dependent upon his teleprompter. I makes alot of sense, and goes way past the fact he *is* a bumbling idiot when off the cuff.
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A few words about hypnosis. I’ve studied hypnosis for almost 40 years and used it in numerous situations.

For the last 15 years, I have coached CEOs around the world and in every meeting I used altered states and hypnotic language. Really good hypnotists do most of the actual change work BEFORE the formal ‘trance’ ever begins, and many never use a formal induction. Hypnotic language is about setting presuppositions in place below the threshold of awareness. Thus, the will has nothing to push back against.

The scary thing is that Dems, and Obama in particular, have gone to school on hypnotic language.

Unfortunately, the real master of this is Obama. During the campaign a 60-page paper circulated among hypnosis people on the internet that studied several Obama speeches word-by-word showing his use of these hypnotic patterns. He is very good at what he does. By the way, part of his reason for using a teleprompter is that he and his staff can write out very specific language patterns ahead of time and deliver them smoothly and accurately. As he creates altered states with his language about fuzzy stuff like fairness, and unity, and hope, and change; he uses phrases like “Yes, we can!” as an anchor — a sort of post-hypnotic trigger to reignite those feelings whenever he wants.

Fortunately, as time passes and these altered states don’t match real experience, many will begin to awaken from their trance, much as you, Robin, have done.

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:54 pm 102. Ellen K:

Why is it that liberals, who seem so open to protests and lampooning conservative programs and conservative people are so adither over having conservatives act out in the same way? I have heard decent grassroots conservatives called nazis, rednecks and racists by leading liberal politicians. Would they have been so complacent if the protests were enacted by ACORN or Moveon.org? Yet because conservative DARE to express anything less that grateful joy for the advance of socialist programs we are vilified, we are lied about, we are dismissed as lesser humans. I don’t know if approval ratings have anything to do with this, but only in the last week have late night shows dared to skewer Obama. They have danced around making fun of Biden-a ready target as the “old white guy” of the group, but only with dropping ratings would anyone dare to make fun of Obama. I wonder if the DNC is monitoring their opening monologues as we sit here. This poster was not respectful, but neither were the countless depictions of President Bush as Hitler, a devil and other imagery. Sure, it’s their free speech rights to do these things, but that knife cuts both ways.

Aug 6, 2009 - 6:55 pm 103. Mike:

Why is this question even coming up?
Was it racist when Bush was portrayed as The Joker?
If not, then why is it racist with Obama? Because he just happens to be half-black?
Please.
Use your brain for Gods sake.

Aug 6, 2009 - 7:18 pm 104. island girl:

“For instance, the Joker blew up one hospital, but Obama’s government takeover of health care will destroy hospitals all over the country.”

– TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SAID !

Aug 6, 2009 - 7:42 pm 105. Don:

For God’s sake let it go. The racial problems of this country would decrease 10 -fold if idiotic news agencies would stop inventing them.

Obama is a joker…the makeup is exactly like that of Heath Ledger (a white guy)…if you see some relation to blackface minstral performers than the racism is in your heart…not ours.

Aug 6, 2009 - 7:43 pm 106. Pat J:

I’m a joker. I’m a smoker. I’m a midnight toker.

Aug 6, 2009 - 7:56 pm 107. FeralCat:

Anyone who says that poster of Obama as the Joker is racist is either a liar or a psychopath. There were plenty of posters with Bush as a subhuman chimpanzee, often with a swastika, and at least one with Bush as a far more demented looking Joker. Those who say that it is racist are just trying to elevate Barack Obama to the level of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and should remember that America is not North Korea.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:03 pm 108. Jason:

In this video the joker is a prophet; he foretells what the Government, not Obama, not Bush but the Government, is about to do to America.

http://libertyforallusa.com/lfa-videos:7336

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:07 pm 109. FeralCat:

Actually Barack Obama is far more like Jekyll and Hyde than he is like the Joker.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:10 pm 110. Claire:

Blowing up hospitals as the connection between Obama and the Joker? I think you might be on to something there! Too funny- thank you for the best laugh I’ve had in ages.

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:39 pm 111. Moogie:

I admit: I didn’t read all of the comments. That’s unusual for Moogie, but since I am now on my third glass of Chateau Ste. Michelle Gewurtztraminer, I thought it would be better to just get to the point.

Frank: I love sarcasm. And satire. Really. I’m not being sarcastic … this time.

Do you think there might actually be a connection between Heath Ledger as the Joker, rather than just The Joker himself?

Let’s see… Heath wasn’t born in Amerika. He talked funny, he took drugs, and he played a high schooler in “Ten Things I Hate About You” which was supposed to be in Seattle (even though it was filmed in Tacoma), and here’s the coincidence: Obama’s mum was raised on Mercer Island in Seattle.

And everyone knows 1. Obama’s mum was a communist (okay, so that’s not exactly the same as a socialist, but it’s where socialism usually ends up, right?); 2. Everyone knows most Seattlelites are socialists (even though they think they’re liberals); and 3. I don’t really have a number three.

Isn’t it the black face make-up that’s supposed to be racist? If the poster creator really wanted to show his/her racism, he/she would have used a picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker with Obama’s face superimposed over Heath’s with black face make-up over the top of that. Right?

Damn. My glass is empty. I am going to submit this without the use of the spellcheck feature on my google toolbar first. Thanks Frank for the satire. Keep ‘em comin’!

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:41 pm 112. cindy:

Great article!!!! I cant believe , I havent seen a Pelosi Joker picture yet, but then again she needs no makeup

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:42 pm 113. steveg:

#99..Stickety……Too Funny. Didn’t Andy and Aunt Bea drive you crazy because they were so uptight?

Aug 6, 2009 - 8:58 pm 114. D. C.:

Someone above touched on a point that I think most people here are overlooking — that the poster could be a visual pun instead of a way of comparing Obama’s essence to the essence of some fictional bad guy. The poster could be pointing out that Obama is a joke because he does not have the experience to be president, as we knew when electing him — so in that way the joke’s on us. The business about socialism is another joke because the evidence was also there for everyone to see: as a senator Obama had one of the most left-wing voting records in the senate, and he spent his youth as a left-wing agitator (excuse me, “community activist”). The evidence about his inexperience and his socialist views was always there, right in front of our faces like the poster, but a majority of the voters did not want to pay attention and now the joke’s on them…

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:13 pm 115. denverjohn:

OR –
“Why so capitalist?” and “Want to know where I got these czars?”

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:20 pm 116. Dee Dee Mao:

Websters defines racism as:

1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority or inferiority of a particular race.

A race-IST therefore could be subscribed as someone obsessed with race, EG: Your average Liberal, Progressive, or Marxist wanting to foment class war and racial strife.

I Personally oppose Barack Obama not because he is a Black, But becuase he is a Red.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:24 pm 117. Steven M:

I surprised I haven’t seen much mention of FireDogLaker Jane Hamsher’s blackface portrayal of Joe Lieberman in 2006.

Here’s the pic: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21896

And here’s some commentary from JustOneMinute: http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2006/08/beyond_the_pale.html

She had posted it in this article on Huffington Post but the picture mysteriously disappeared with no explanation soon after. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/on-the-ground-with-lamont_1_b_26316.html

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:30 pm 118. peter jackson:

It’s much simpler than all this. Throughout most of the world we wasted an entire century trying to make socialism work, and it ever brought about was serfdom and death.

In 2009, advocating socialism is insane.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:32 pm 119. youmaybeseated:

They can never seem to get the ears right.
Although that would require landscape format.

I still think the caption should be
“Why so Capitalist?”

or “It’s Simple…Kill the Rich Man”.
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I did read a comment on another site describing how the “Dark Knight” Joker liked to create crises which pitted citizens of Gotham against each other. Darned if that don’t sound familiar.

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:34 pm 120. allrise:

You can join the public trial of Trina Thompson VS. Monroe College at the AllRise community court – http://bit.ly/OY7y0

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:35 pm 121. Paul:

Racist? No, it would only be considered racist if it was Michael Steele’s image in white face over the word “FASCISM”.

(Rush would have a stroke.)

Didn’t the Joker want to kill old people and take away our freedom?

Aug 6, 2009 - 9:53 pm 122. Pragmatist:

The ‘Birth’ debate has not gone away and nor should it until FULL disclosure has been achieved.
Consider these two UNANSWERED points alone.

1) On the Obamanations COLB issued in 2007 his fathers RACE was recorded as AFRICAN. But the COLB is supposed to be a verified copy of the actual VAULT document and in 1961 his father would have been recorded as NEGRO which was the universal practice then. So either they changed it to make it more PC now or they did not remember what it should have been either way change or invention its WRONG and if that is wrong or CHANGED what else is.

2) Obambi had a Passport (Pakistan trip 1981) a Drivers License made applications to various Colleges and the Bar ALL of which required the production of a Birth Certificate and ALL of which were done long BEFORE the dodgy COLB issued in 2007.
So WHERE is this BC document that was used and WHY is it not now available?
Perhaps this is the REAL reason all his paper trail is hidden like a CRIMINAL because if he used his REAL Birth Certificate to obtain all these things then somewhere in the paperwork would be registered details from this Birth Certificate and this is what he is DESPERATE to hide.

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:01 pm 123. Pragmatist:

Think the PASSPORT is all he is hiding THINK AGAIN. Then ask yourself WHY or rather ask HIM.These are just SOME of the documents the Oh so TRANSPARENT OPEN GOVERNMENT Obamanation is HIDING.

As it stands, Obama is the only president in history whose birthplace is unknown to the public a fact that would be stated on the actual birth certificate. Interestingly, his family has mentioned two different hospitals in Hawaii as the place of birth.
Obamas refusal to release his birth certificate does mean that Obama remains one of Americas most mysterious and opaque presidents ever.
Obama, for example, has not released many other documents regarding his public and private life.
Many of these documents were sought by reporters, who easily acquiesced when Obama said he would not release them though most presidential candidates release them as a perfunctory matter.
Among the key documents that Obama continues to shield from the public:
Obama released just one brief document detailing his personal health. McCain, on the other hand, released what he said was his complete medical file, totaling more than 1,500 pages.
Obama refused to offer his official papers as a state legislator in Illinois. Nor did he produce correspondence, such as his schedules of appointments or letters from lobbyists, from his days in the Illinois state Senate.
Obama did not release his client list as an attorney or his billing records. He maintained that he performed only a few hours of legal work for a nonprofit organization with ties to Tony Rezko, the Chicago businessman convicted of fraud in June 2008 but did not release billing records that would prove this assertion.
Obama ignored requests for his records from Occidental College, where he studied for two years before transferring to Columbia University.
Obamas campaign refused to give Columbia, where he earned an undergraduate degree in political science, permission to release his transcripts. Former President George W. Bush and presidential contenders Al Gore and John Kerry all released their college transcripts.
Obama did not agree to the release of his application to the Illinois State Bar, which would have cleared up intermittent allegations that his application may have been inaccurate.
Obama did not release records from his time at Harvard Law School.
During the presidential campaign, McCains campaign released a full list of all online donors. Obamas campaign still has not released the names of those who donated at least one-third of the $750 million he raised.

Ironically, Obama accused the Bush White House of being “one of the most secretive administrations in our history,” and chided then-Sen. Hillary Clinton for not releasing her White House schedules.

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:01 pm 124. Pragmatist:

When Rep or conservatives protest it is ‘Mob Action” when the ‘libtards’ do it it is “Community Pressure Groups’ when they produce a poster of the Obamanation like the Joker it is ‘Blasphemous’ ‘Disgusting caricature’ and most probably illegal too when the ‘libtards’ did it to Bush CONTINUOUSLY for YEARS and YEARS its “free Speech in action’ or ‘artistic expression” . One characteristic the left wing moonbat ‘libtards’ share with Islam is HYPOCRISY writ large.
I see the Obamanation is rousing his Community Organisers now to support his Health SCAM but that is EXACTLY what he has accused the Tea Parties , Town Hall protest etc, of being organised by the Reps. How much HYPOCRISY can one NARCISSISTIC man have

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:02 pm 125. hinckley:

“Ignorance is bliss”….thus, all the blissful commentary here.

While the poster is marginally clever, it is not racist. The artist left it ambiguous enough to give the true racists an accusation they could vehemently shout down with a modicum of plausibility.

But, you idiots had W and you were happy! He screwed up the nation and it’s reputation and you were proud. He violated the Constitution and lied to your face and you said “God bless America!”. Then, McCain picked Palin (the biggest bubblehead EVER on a major stage) and you swooned when she uttered complete nonsense accented with a wink!!

God blessed America alright but, now we need him to SAVE US from you huckleberries!!!!

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:02 pm 126. Gekkobear:

Be careful. This dissent will get you on his enemies list… and your conservatism makes you look like a domestic terrorist.

Obama might treat you like a terrorist and … send you on a free trip to Bermuda.

Is that what you want to risk? Being sent off to Bermuda for fun and sun like a terrorist?

Well, its your own life… if you want to risk that, go ahead.

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:26 pm 127. Yuval Brandstetter MD:

And there is that other alternative, that Barack Hussein Obama is an Islamist, and his idea of the world is a Muslim one. There is Islamic banking under Sharia law, and Obama would like US banking to follow those practices (profit by interest is evil, therefore lend to the insolvent). Women should be veiled if their men so dictate. Respect is accorded to Muslim despots, whereas jewish leaders can be bullied. Health-care for all, inclusive of the 30% of Americans who are on the dole since the day they were born (I know, I was at the delivery suite when they were delivered at 28 weeks because mother was a 13 year old smoker and grandma was 28 year old who had never even considered matrimony) is part of the Muslim alms, rather than a product of thought process. But topping the list is the insatiable imperative to beat down on the Jewish State. Legions of American Dhimmis have descended on the country occupying as much space as conneticut, with the express purpose of bending the will of its leader to that of the Khaliff, BHO. Now if that is not Islamism, serving the Islamic world in its number one priority, the dissolution of the jewish State, then what is?
My only hope is that the american democracy is resilient enopugh to withstand this latest Jihadi assault this time right at the very top.

Aug 6, 2009 - 10:52 pm 128. JB:

Looking at this chart, Obama must be seen as a madman bent on destroying America:
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/

That or he is sane and knows exactly what he is doing.

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:12 pm 129. Jorge Quinonez Aznar:

The guy who said that “the only thing missing is a noose” is wrong. The noose was on the effigy of Sarah Palin at a “satirical” Halloween display.

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:30 pm 130. Rocco:

Very funny article, but why did you start talking about Bush in the last paragragh?

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:48 pm 131. AST:

You’re making too much out of this. Americans are all English majors or media critics. The reason that poster has so much impact is that it’s not from the political pros; it’s just funny and it says a lot of what we’re feeling. We’ve been seeing all these glam shots of The One, including those posters that became famous in and of themselves. Then there were all the panting, fawning and downright juvenile pieces written about him by reporters who were acting more like pre-teen girls than the objective, skeptical speakers of truth to power they’ve been posing as for generations.

These posters said it all, simply and most typically American, in a catchy bit of ridicule. It said, “We’re sick of all the hype, the Stalinist/Nazified artwork, the astroturfing, the trillion dollar spending bills no one has read or debated, the steamrolling of socialist bills through Congress.” Nothing racist about it. Nothing studied or philosophical. Just the same irritation that is showing up at Tea Parties and town hall meetings against the way we’re being treated like people who need a Community Organizer to tell us what we want or need.

Aug 6, 2009 - 11:54 pm 132. Rocco:

It is amazing to me how alike conservatives and liberals are. You both assume the worst of each other, call each other nasty names and seem to trully believe you know what is in your enemies heart. The problem in our country is that no one makes decisions on the facts but on party lines. We do need to make compromises or our goverment and country will become like the extremist and fanatics that run the nations we have found ourselves to be at war with. When Bush was in power all the conserative pondits said that while you may disagree with the president we should stand by him while we are at war or we would look weak to the rest of the world. Now we have a new leader, we are still in the same war, yet they slam the president left and right, mostly right.People seem to change their priciples with ease. And liberals are no better. I think we can do better.

Aug 7, 2009 - 12:50 am 133. Moptop:

“anti-intellectual, brutish ways of the Christian conservative right”

That’s right, it is better to destroy the economy and enslave us to our Chinese lenders that to let some kids pray in school in Oklahoma. That’s why we have the Left around, to keep things in perspective.

“Very funny article, but why did you start talking about Bush in the last paragragh?” – Rocco

Rocco,
Obama is everything you ever thought Bush was. His idea of “bipartisanship” is not to compromise with the other party, but to make them swoon before his physical beauty and wonderful voice. I know you are too something to understand that last point.

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:05 am 134. JoeB131:

Didn’t vote for Obama, but people like Frank Fleming and his racist blog always kind of disturb me. Spent some time reading IMAO last year, and if you want an example of everything that is wrong with the current GOP, that’s a good place to start.

The GOP is going into the dark night (No pun intended) because it has completely alienated minorities. McCain actually won a majority of the non-Hispanic white vote in 2008. If voting demographics were the same as they were in 1976, he’d have won, despite Bush, despite Palin, despite the economy. Blacks and Hispanics put Obama over the top.

Sadly, the GOP will completely miss the message. They will nominate Romney and lose by an even bigger margin.

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:31 am 135. Odysseus:

The Shadow’s standard comment: Blah, blah, blah, racist, blah, blah, racist wingnut, blah, racist Christian fundamentalist, blah, blah, blah string of ad hominem, blah, blah.

Repeat ad infinitum.

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:39 am 136. Nero Wolf:

Heh.

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:44 am 137. Harrison St.:

Of course it’s racist. All dissent is racist. Nevermind the facts that Obama is truly a joker in his legislative life, and seems to be more of a reality-show winner, than a president when he weighs in on local police matters. I’m reporting you and myself to flag@whitehouse.gov

I love Big Brother.

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:45 am 138. Kerry:

Of course there are “…real substantive comparisons between Obama and the Joker”. Both are
creations of fiction.

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:49 am 139. Kerry:

I think you left off the ” (sic.)” after the word cars. ” Want to know where I got these cars?” Didn’t you mean ‘Czars’?

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:52 am 140. Jim Treacher:

Another similarity: Obama’s secret origin is apocryphal too.

Aug 7, 2009 - 3:53 am 141. Alvin:

These posters are an insult to the joker. He was not as evil as Obama. Why are we picking on the joker?

Aug 7, 2009 - 4:46 am 142. vivo:

“The Joker was very careful in his planning, while the chaos from the Obama administration is explainable by pure incompetence.”

The Obama admin is incompetent. The Bush admin was incompetent.

:: All USA gov’ts are incompetent.

:: Voters are incompetent.

And we are the ‘greatest’ nation on Earth (???)

Something’s wrong with this image . . .

Aug 7, 2009 - 5:13 am 143. Peter the Bubblehead:

All this talk about Obama as the Joker gave me the urge to watch “The Dark Knight” last evening.

My favorite scene is still the Joker, dressed like a candystriper, calmly walking out of Gotham General Hospital as the building starts to blow up around him.

Aug 7, 2009 - 5:13 am 144. Aaron Byrnes:

“My favorite scene is still the Joker, dressed like a candystriper, calmly walking out of Gotham General Hospital as the building starts to blow up around him.”

So are you saying that Obama as The Joker is going to destroy the US healthcare system?

Aug 7, 2009 - 5:57 am 145. Middleman:

133/Moptop,
Don’t even start about Chinese lenders. Bush and Co sold us out to the Chinese. The free market and big business has been selling the Chinese very the nooses they are going to hang us with- just as Lenin predicted.

#93,
In the course of discussion where I live, Dallas, I’ve had at least a dozen people of various religious stripe (Church of Christ, Evangelical, Pentacostals, Baptist) tell me matter-of-factly that Catholics are not Christian because they are idol worshippers. These were not fringe people, but attended mainstream churches.
Respect the Constitution? The only respect they have for it is to use as a tool as a means to an end for the rapture and second coming, just like Jews and the State of Israel. What happens to the Consititution in the kingdom of Jesus? toilet paper perhaps?

Aug 7, 2009 - 6:52 am 146. Jim:

> “Now, you might be scratching your head and saying that the only people who would call this racist are brain-dead liberals who shriek “racism!” at every criticism about Obama…”

How many times I gotta tell you?

The opposite of “Marxist” is now “racist”.

Learn it!

Aug 7, 2009 - 8:09 am 147. AF_Vet:

I respect your viewpoint, middleman; and can appreciate the experieces that you’ve gone through as a fellow Cathlic–I have a couple of Catholic-bashers in my office I put up with, so I know exactly where you’re coming from with respect to Christians judging the Christian-ness of others.

But as I asked before with regard to your original accusation: how does any of this apply to Huck and Palin?

Especially Palin; I’ve followed her career pretty closely and have witnessed NONE of what you described in your original assertion.

Aug 7, 2009 - 8:11 am 148. Sebastian Shaw:

The Joker views life as a joke; therefore, he can easily kill anyone using the joke motif as his MO. However, I view the Obama Joker a little differently; it tells me Obama is a joke along with his Socialism.

Aug 7, 2009 - 8:27 am 149. Middleman:

AF_Vet,
It applies to Huckabee because he was formerly a Baptist Minister, and also many of the people I have had issues with support him. It applies to Palin because of the videos I’ve seen of her addressing Pentacostal audiences.

In addition, you as an AF Vet I would imagine are aware of the continuing cases of harassment of secular and semetic cadets at the Air Force Academy by evangelical cadets. This type of behavior has no business being in any federal institutions.

Aug 7, 2009 - 8:41 am 150. AF_Vet:

My apologies to all for helping this thread go off topic by engaging middleman.

Back on topic: the Joker Poster is absolutely brilliant.

Racist–how? I’ve seen nothing in the way of explanation that backs up that assertion that could not be deemed anything more than a desperate reach by Dems who for the first time in their political lives see themselves on the business end of righteous voter outrage.

In my opinion, this is the beginning of the end for Obama. The amount of open mockery he receives will be inversely proportional to his cool factor.

Cafepress.com will be getting a lot of my money this weekend!

Aug 7, 2009 - 8:44 am 151. AF_Vet:

“and also many of the people I have had issues with support him”

They support him, but what exactly has he done?

And what exactly has Palin said that fits your broadbrush?

Anti-intellectual and Brutish? How?

Not that I don’t believ you, it’s just that you’re wrong.

“continuing cases of harassment of secular and semetic cadets at the Air Force Academy by evangelical cadets”

Sorry, I was never a zoomie and have no interest what goes on in C. Springs. I was an AFROTC puke. If there was real harrassment going on, and it wasn’t dealt with by the Cadre, bad on them.

Again, you’re braod-brushing a tens of millions people.

Aug 7, 2009 - 8:58 am 152. joe:

Actually, the similarity between them is much more simple and direct.

Every word the Joker said throughout the movie “The Dark Knight” was a lie. So we remember, “No tax increase on the middle-class.” “Transparency in Government.” “If we pass the stimulus then joblessness will top at 8%.”

“Ha, ha, ho, ho, he, he, ha, ha, oh, oh, ha, ha, I’m going to make this pencil dissappear.”

Aug 7, 2009 - 9:15 am 153. Peter the Bubblehead:

144. Aaron Byrnes asked:
So are you saying that Obama as The Joker is going to destroy the US healthcare system?

Peter replies: I would NEVER say something like that, because if I did some ‘patriotic’ liberal might report me to flag@whitehouse.gov, and Lord knows (Can I say the word Lord on a political thread? Does that go against seperation of Church and State?) in the current economy I cannot afford to be audited by the IRS every year for as long as The Won is in power.

Aug 7, 2009 - 9:20 am 154. Chimera:

The real joke is on the Donkey-Punched-Democrats and the mental midget progressive-regressive libtarded trolls who frequent Pajamas Media for God-only-knows what except to be an annoying buzzing sound in the background of any discussion here.

Bush was no saint but O is less than zero and the poor winners here damned well know it.

Aug 7, 2009 - 9:21 am 155. The Shadow:

Frank – It is good you have a day job. I would hate to see anyone starve. I am 69 – Roman Catholic – active in my parish – volunteer once a week in an inner city program – married for 42 years – two children – two grandchildren – work in a medically related field.

Aug 7, 2009 - 9:23 am 156. Banned by Huffpo:

What an absurd comparison.

The Joker of Batman fame was an evil genius.

Our Dear Leader is just . . . a joke. Stupid, egotistical, yes. But about as far from genius as the east is from the west.

Now, if you want a comparison that fits . . . DohBama and Barney Fife.

Aug 7, 2009 - 9:26 am 157. Anonymous:

For those who misunderstood my comment at #44, I offer the following:

irony, a noun.

the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

satire, a noun.

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporaty politics and other topical issues.

Aug 7, 2009 - 10:07 am 158. Harvard Yard Conservative:

When reading my previous post at entry #44, bear in mind I was attempting to employ irony and satire.

Aug 7, 2009 - 10:18 am 159. Eric:

Before reading Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism, I would have ignorantly called Obama and the leadership of the Congressional Democrats “fascists”. After reading the book I can confidently call Obama and the Congressional Democrats leadership fascists.

So much of what Jonah documented regarding what Mussolini, Hitler, Wilson, FDR, and a whole bunch of other leading Progressives advocated and actually accomplished is right out of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid playbook. These people are dangerous to our liberties and must be defeated at every turn.

Aug 7, 2009 - 10:28 am 160. Andy Geisel:

Wow, the poster drew a “knee-jerk liberal condemnation.” What a surprise! Never mind that some of these same liberals are probably the part of the group that seemed to have no problem with those poster and other representations of President W as HITLER! Again, the hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds!

Aug 7, 2009 - 10:56 am 161. Middleman:

AF_Vet,
It may be painting them with a broad brush, and my feelings toward Huckabee and Palin may be relatively vague, but overall I am suspicious of people who are overtly religious that go into politics, particular people who practice in religious sects that seem to be wrapped up in end times prophecy.

I thought Bush was casually into the evangelical thing. I didn’t bother me too much, however there are now rumblings (I don’t know if they are true or not) that he told Jacques Chirac that they needed into invade Iraq to thwart the plans of Gog and Magog to bring Armaggedeon. If this is true, then it gives even more reason to keep people with such views well away from the White House.

Aug 7, 2009 - 11:51 am 162. Paul -Indiana:

#44. Yeah, me too!

Aug 7, 2009 - 11:51 am 163. The Shadow:

Eric:

I wonder if Mr. Goldberg would call Obama a fascist. Why son’t you ask him

Aug 7, 2009 - 12:06 pm 164. David Ross:

What ruins this post is the rabble-rousing swipe at the birth certificate – oh, so sorry, I meant for the goalposts to stand over HERE, with the LONG FORM birth certificate.

Obama knows what he’s doing, keeping this meme alive; he’s stoking Trooferism on the Right, to scare moderates over to his side.

Why does PJM tolerate this nonsense?

Aug 7, 2009 - 12:42 pm 165. MO:

# 24 wrote
Frank,
I’m an independent. I’m not a fanboy of the Democrats, however the Republicans never seem to understand that the majority of Americans don’t like the anti-intellectual, brutish ways of the Christian conservative right.

A Christian Conservative is anti-intellectual but a person who votes Democrat every time because of all the “Free” stuff is. I guess the framers of the Constitution werent very intellectual because most of them Identified themselves as Christian. Please stay on topic..Majority of Americans dont want Obama overhauling health care at this time.

Aug 7, 2009 - 12:51 pm 166. Trott Felipe:

Great, entertaining article.

LA Weekly Bloggers being crazy? No way…

Aug 7, 2009 - 1:13 pm 167. Middleman:

#165,
Many of the Constitutions framers were Dietists. Franklin was a one-time vegetarian and a member of the Hell-Fire Club. Sound pretty progressive to me, particularly for that period of time. Also don’t equate Christian and Christian Conservative. One is a horrible mutation of the other.

As I mentioned, I’m not hear to blindly defend Dems, I have may own problems with them. However at least with most Democrats, they’ll at least act as though they have some sort of knowledge and empathy for the world outside of theirs. Something that I thought was suppose to be a Christian trait.

I’m not too keen on Obama’s Health care plan and the rush job they are doing on it, but I know the status quo can’t remain and the old style Red scare tactics people are falling for would be comical if they weren’t so sad.
What’s even sadder is that most family bankruptcies in this country are due to medical costs for terminal illnesses of people WITH insurance. Instead of beating the freedom drum, I’d like to hear what alternative Republicans have to address those peoples needs.

Aug 7, 2009 - 1:52 pm 168. Roderick Reilly:

“”"”"Many of the Constitutions framers were Dietists. Franklin was a one-time vegetarian and a member of the Hell-Fire Club. “”"”"”

“Dietists?” “Vegetarian?” Oh, I get it, you’re being funny!

For a moment I thought you were referring to “Deism,” of which a few of the founders were said to be practitioners of. Prestty good play on words, though, especially with that “Vegetarian Franklin” bit!

Aug 7, 2009 - 2:40 pm 169. Heidi:

It shouldn’t say socialist on it, it SHOULD say JOKER..

Aug 7, 2009 - 4:01 pm 170. Towering Barbarian:

Actually, I would be more inclined to compare Mr. Obama to Harvey Dent AKA “Two-Face”. ^_~

Aug 7, 2009 - 4:09 pm 171. Anonymous:

#167 Middleman is a joke. Talking points of the far-left.

Aug 7, 2009 - 4:11 pm 172. steveg:

#167…Middleman…..I suppose you do not have a problem with the extremes of PETA, CODE PINK, ELF, ALF, ACORN, etc., but people like Andy, Barney and Aunt Bea scare the heck out of you?

Do you actually think you are fooling anyone?

Aug 7, 2009 - 4:34 pm 173. Anonymous:

Middleman., Quit lying about being an independent. What you are writing is typical left-wing garbage.

Aug 7, 2009 - 4:38 pm 174. Ms.Apprehension:

I love the poster. I love Fleming’s satire. Obama is really a nightmare parading as a joke. I’ve been in a state of heightened anxiety since he skated into the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. I knew then that he was being groomed for higher office. I’ve been racking my brain to figure out what cabal is behind him. He’s obviously their snake oil salesman. I’m not resorting to hoping and praying that whoever is behind him implodes. Please, God!!! End this nightmare soon!!!

Aug 7, 2009 - 5:33 pm 175. Ms.Apprehension:

Correction: “I’m now resorting to hoping and praying that whoever is behind him implodes.”

Aug 7, 2009 - 5:36 pm 176. Jon York:

Excellent, pure genius!

Capitalism is the answer.

Republicans are too lame anymore. We need Constitutional Conservatives wherever they can be found!!!

Aug 8, 2009 - 6:55 am 177. Odysseus:

“163. The Shadow:

Eric:

I wonder if Mr. Goldberg would call Obama a fascist. Why son’t you ask him (sic)”

There’s no need to ask, Eric.Goldberg has already written, more than once, that Obama and modern Democrats are not fascists. What he has said, however, is that they largely ignorant or dishonest – mostly ignorant – of the intellectual roots of modern American liberalism and progressivism.

Aug 8, 2009 - 7:17 am 178. Middleman:

My talking points will ALWAYS be on the far-left for some of you two-dimensional sheepies based on where you stand on the political spectrum. In the real world though, I’m very much a moderate.

Also Ben Franklin was indeed at one point of time a vegetarian and did indeed attend Hell Fire Club meetings. Look it up yourself. Pat Robertson would disapprove.

Aug 8, 2009 - 12:20 pm 179. COL. SEBASTIAN MORAN:

#24
MIDDLEMAN

And just where, pray tell, did you come up with the factoid that the “majority of Americans” don’t like the anti-intellectual brutish ways of the Christian conservative right ? Methinks you are suffering from a severe case of cranial rectitis-you may want to purchase a tractor to pull your head out.
77/88
S.M.

Aug 8, 2009 - 1:03 pm 180. C:

I’ll hand it to you hard nosed conservatives, you are much better at creatively bash the left than they are at bashing you. This shows some real intellect and thoughtfulness. Imagine what would happen if this mental energy was spent working with the left to find a middle of the road common sense solution to healthcare, welfare, education…. We would be in a much better place. I have read numerous complaints about how the left did nothing to work with Bush and here we are watching the same waste of energy. I guess that is politics. Throw out civil dialogue for slandering each others character in a bid for power. I see the same pathetic behavior at Huffington and it is just as sad to see there.

I have an idea. How about giving each other the benefit of the doubt and assume we all want the same thing, a stronger and better America. Then we might hear each other and get something done. Sure we may never see eye to eye on evey issue, I believe that if thinking people listen to each other, they will find a reasonable compromise on most issues. Then again, I might be a clues libtard with no concept of reality.

Aug 8, 2009 - 4:17 pm 181. Will:

Whatever,that man is very dangerous my friends !!

Aug 8, 2009 - 4:50 pm 182. One Shot Wonder:

“My talking points will ALWAYS be on the…”

That pretty much sums up the problem here, many other posters have points, you have ‘talking points’. ‘Nuff said.

Aug 8, 2009 - 5:01 pm 183. AF_Vet:

Middleman–
“Also Ben Franklin was indeed at one point of time a vegetarian and did indeed attend Hell Fire Club meetings. Look it up yourself”

Not to sound flip, but: who cares? Sounds like a good, solid Libertarian to me.

“Pat Robertson would disapprove.”

There’s that broad brush (that you yourself admit you use): assuming all Christians think the suns rises out of Robertson’s backside. Now I don’t care if I sound flip, but who gives the first crap if Pat Robertson would approve? My opinion: B-Frank was the MAN!

I, like many other free-thinkg members of the “Christian Right” do indeed think for ourselves and make up our own minds–independantly of what some minister thinks.

Aug 8, 2009 - 5:16 pm 184. David:

“Some men just want to watch the world burn” offers the best explanation I have found for why Obama and leftists in general want to convert America into some dystopian socialist nightmare.

Aug 8, 2009 - 7:01 pm 185. Brian:

Can we state what we like about Obama?
I’ll tell you what we love. 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 (or not get such as with ObamaCare) 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, in this case we have a joker. I am not saying McCain was a good Candidate 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.

Aug 8, 2009 - 8:39 pm 186. Towering Barbarian:

@C of #180,
The problem with being in the “middle of the road” is simple: It is only good for causing car wrecks and traffic fatalities for others as well as yourself all because you were unable to stay within a single lane of traffic. So much for the “middle of the road”. ^_~

More seriously? The problem of assuming the Left is as benign as you would have it lies that the past 8 years of their national behavior pattern and the past 70 years of their Illinois behavior pattern pretty much argues against it. If they wanted us to assume their good will they should have shown us some. Now it’s too late. Now they will just have to find out the hard way that 8 years of scorched earth tactics has left them nothing but ashes where the social fabric they now long for had previously been. So much for the Democrats.

Aug 8, 2009 - 11:19 pm 187. C:

To towering,

I remember the Limba days of the 90s. It seems to me that bad behavior is not exclusive to the dems. I don’t see how the GOP can claim to be the victims here.

Also in reference to your middle of the road joke, nice point and funny anology. Seriously, I’m suggesting we walk the middle of the road. I’m suggesting we build a new one and at some point someone has to decide to let bigone be bigones and move forward.

Aug 9, 2009 - 8:44 am 188. Moho:

Is Obama really like the Joker? Hilarious stuff. I can see you people have your priorities straight–the rest of the nation is worried about the economy, our two wars, etcetera…you’re wondering if Obama is really like the Joker. Hilarious.

Aug 9, 2009 - 12:30 pm 189. Moho:

Look out for Fleming’s epic work of non-fiction, “Who is Stronger?: A Political History of the Great Superhero Debates”

Aug 9, 2009 - 12:32 pm 190. Anonymous:

President Obama everything he’s done since becoming President has, in my opinion, been designed to hurt America.

Which is why, when we march on Washington, it probably could use one of the those hundred million dollar lear jets congress has just appropriated for themselves.

For when we march on Wash. DC, one person for each unborn that Barack has supported the butchery of this year alone will be represented.

President Obama may need to start thinking about the fastest way out of town.

In fact, all the creeps who are rocking this nation to its very foundations may need to think of securing a ticket out of town.

Because the pro-socialists who are trying to kill private enterprise are anathema to everything the American flag has always stood for.

Barack and her merry men have mad a mockery of “peace through strength,” vowing while bowing to our enemies that they’ll dismantle our missile defense shield, just when our children need it the most.

They’ve been sending hate mail to the Catholic church because the church hates the wanton butchery of the unborn.

They hate white males so much they affirmed a supreme court judge, Sonia Sotomayor who’s made hating white males a cottage industry.

Hate private insurance coverage so much that they’re trying to pass ObamaCare. That’ll ration the life right out of the elderly.

Hate white voters so much they refused to prosecute a slam dunk case of voter intimidation against the Black Panthers.

Hate police so much Barack’s knee jerk reaction was to call James Crowley stupid for arresting a hate mongering friend of Obama, Henry Gates.

Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday and soon Obama will regret driving this great nation down ruination highway.

Michelle, maybe you should give this message to your husband. Someday, soon, one of your cohorts in corruption will peer out the window and yell, kind of like Paul did on April 18, 1775, the British are coming, the British are coming.

Of course, in this case though, the subject of the sentence will be different.

“The Americans are coming. The Americans are coming.

As Jim Reeves said in his famous song, Michelle, maybe it’s time to tell him he’ll have to go.”

Barack, we can’t wait another three plus years for you to completely ransack the place. Respectfully, we request your resignation.

Aug 9, 2009 - 2:09 pm 191. Steve Sampson:

Frank, you left out the most obvious comparison. Obama, although he considers himself a black man, he campaigned as a white black man. Hence the make-up is appropriate.

Now that the election is over and he has washed away the white powder; he is content to let his Black Nationalist Marxism be visible to the world. Of course, like the kids who never wanted to stop believing in Santa Claus, there are many who resist seeing the obvious: however, the perspicuity of Obama’s entrenched racism becomes more obvious daily.

That is why I consider the poster image amusing, but dated: this is the Obama of ‘08 a totally different image is required for August ‘09. Rest assured there will be more razor sharp posters that depict the true nature of Fearless Reader, especially now that he is finally exposing his true nature.

The left assumes they have a monopoly on artistic talent within the US; it is humorous to observe how shocked and indignant they become when an artistic and satiric poster appears from the right, no matter that it is simple and humble in its creation. However, the Progressive mantra of following the party line without deviation tends to inhibit free thought, since others are always doing the thinking for its members. This tends to leave the individual weak in the brain pan and incapable of competing against those who are encouraged to be free thinking individuals who rely on initiative and self-reliance.

There will be many more original posters with satire that will cut like a razor, but remember, for satire to be effective it must reflect the truth. Contrary to the Progressive Marxist opinion of the poster being inaccurate and an evil portrayal, the poster didn’t cause the reaction because it was way off the mark. It created a disturbance because it was so close to the bull’s eye and besides it was hilarious.

Aug 9, 2009 - 3:05 pm 192. Anonymous:

Steve, is the right really any better at individual thought than the left? I see a a lot of group think when I read pjm. I see lemmings everywhere I look.

Aug 9, 2009 - 4:35 pm 193. Steve Sampson:

Anon, funny that you should use the phrase lemming: I believe I was the first to use the phrase as a term of derision, on another blog last winter, to describe the trance like state Obama elicited from his loyalists. Whether the chanting and fainting women were paid or merely schizoaffective is immaterial at this point. The fainting women have disappeared. The drama is over and the cold hard truth is being driven home by Obama himself in a much more effective manner than can be artificially created by a compliant and sympathetic press corps that has willing sacrificed journalistic integrity to become a fawning and state directed propaganda bureau.

If these mental weaklings and witless imbeciles are the left’s champions of creativity, it is truly sad indeed, for in a battle of wits they are unarmed. Just like the fly has no defense against the fly swatter, the leg tingling crew is humiliated at every turn. It is true they have the stage, yet they are losing their audience at an alarming rate. You see Anon, your creative people overestimated the level of gullibility among the masses, that backfired on them: they also underestimated the creative properties and intelligence of those on the right, that is proving to be devastating to Obama’s image.

Every time he makes an error, every time the teleprompter malfunctions, every time one of his programs backfires; we are on him like a pack of starving jackals, doing what we do best, eviscerating a fool. So mock these people if you must, but you should be up and running because these programs are working. Creativity, the internet, and these little machines we buy at Wal Mart are bringing down a president. A president that will be an impotent lame duck at the end of 2010.

Aug 9, 2009 - 9:53 pm 194. Pragmatist:

Moho every time I see you post I marvel at the unthinking unquestioning blind Obambi worshiping world your posts indicate that you seem to inhabit. Tell me can you walk and chew gum at the same time somehow I think not.

Aug 9, 2009 - 10:58 pm 195. ked5:

I saw one today in Redmond, WA, stapled to a telephone pole. Many liberals in the area.

Aug 10, 2009 - 10:35 pm 196. deguello:

#188 MOJO: Is Obama really like the joker? Not entirely.Although his policies are farcically virulent,he’s really a gotten-up, affirmative action Castro wannabe,complete with ready-made committes for the defense of the revolution(ACORN);death camp doctors,and euthanasia for elderly white citizens who disagree with him. The real jokers are clowns like you who voted for him thinking he would actually do some good for this country.That’s wh people like you are referred to as “useful idiots”.

Aug 11, 2009 - 7:31 am 197. deguello:

Watching this inept yet,virulent,marxoid boob field questions at a staged town hall,leads me to think of a new idea for an anti Obama poster:The Oholes face morphing into aAlfre E.Newman’s.

Aug 11, 2009 - 1:10 pm 198. deguello:

#89 NOW&THEN:Tell me:does your handle refer to the workings of your intellect?

Aug 11, 2009 - 1:15 pm 199. brittney:

I LOVE THE JOKER BOLG’S

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