Awww....poor Steve can't take a joke. I'm sure if this was Sarah Palin you'd wet your pants in delight.

Always gotta pull the Race Card when the truth hurts. Why can't you act like a real journalist and just REPORT THE NEWS! We don't need to hear what you think about it--or to prove what a closed-minded person you must be for thinking that everyone except Fox News Extremists agree with you--an enlightened journalist. You are a disgrace to your profession--although you fit in perfectly in today's version of the media.

Where was your outrage when Bush was called Hitler, and drawn up to look like him?

If you want to be offended because a President is disrespected, than do it out of principle--not based on who you agree with.

Why so serious, Steven?

Had it been Bush's image in the poster, Stevie, you'd be chortling about how hilarious the poster would be.

A noose?? Don't you shrill, Obama-sucking Libs ever tire of picking that race scab? One day such shameless race-baiting will bring the charge of ethnic intimidation.

Libs can't take a joke.

Oh my gosh somebody doesn't like Obama! It must be a race thing.

Idiot!

The only thing missing is "THE NOOSE?" That is incredibly insulting, and very racist. The poster has nothing to do with the man's race! It has to only do with his politics.

This is Free Speech at its finest.
Your article is a skewed article, based on your opinions. That's not what a newspaper reporter is supposed to offer, unless it's an editorial. Which was this supposed to be?

The media truly died last year. Articles which show the ongoing ObamaLove of the supposed "unbiased" media prove this allegation to be more and more true every day.

I don't think it's a joke, I think it's how people feel. He's messing with the very fabric of our lives. People hated Bush. I think this is in bad taste, but it is leud, so there is a freedom of speech issue here. Obama is scary to many, this shows how scary they believe him to be.

Also, the other persons comment about Sarah Palin had NOTHING to do with RACE AT ALL! That was a left right thing. We are all Americans, and while racism still exists in this country, most people are really over it. (On both sides of the isle.) It's the media that feeds that frenzy.

Brian nailed it. Just because BHO is HALF-black, you're going to pull the race card? Pathetic.

The Joke and CK are also correct in the fact that you'd be reporting this smiling like the Joker himself had it been Bush or Palin.

Get over yourself.

Compared to some of the crap you leftists did with Bush's picture (Run Bush Hitler on google, for example) this picture is relatively tame.

Seems like you wimps don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot. And opposing this emopty-suited moron isn't racist, BTW... no matter how much you idiots want it to be.

Steve, we don't have to ask "Can't liberals take a joke?",we already know the answer.
Do bears sh#t in the woods?

Oh for crying out loud. The only thing missing is a noose? White face?? Its Joker makeup Einstein. This is going to be a long 3 1/2 years if everything said against Obama is declared racist. You guys seem to be the only group injecting race in everything. Sheesh Get over it.

I like it. It makes good Cellphone Wallpaper.

Simpletons on the left, like Steven Mikulan, have been trained to turn anything - regardless of evidence - into a race issue wherein Steven gets to stereotype all non-lefties as closet KKK. It is the cheapest form of granting one's self moral authority, and to demonize the other side as an indefensible caricature. As a reporter does he even know the race of the artist(s)? That's why this Joker thing is so wonderful. Using the left's street art propaganda techniques where conservatives are portrayed as evil grotesques, Nazis, etc, the right now shoves it back in the left's face. And Steven Mikulan reacts predictably. Pathetically.

Wow - The wingnuts are out in force today.

Has anyone actually seen this poster? I have been trying to find it and cannot seem to locate one anywhere. I have not found one driving around. I have not found any location posted on the web.

Virtually every article online goes back to the same source (Newsbusters/Tammy Bruce), but no real world evidence.

Could this be a graffiti hoax?

Why do you bring up race (noose)? Sounds like race baiting to me. People are legitimately afraid of what Obama is doing to our country. We don't want a socialistic country.

Stop playing the race card Garofalo, it's not going to work.

Can't take a joke?

I wish I could write about my blind bias and call my self a journalist.

The race card is only brought up when the intellectual fluids stop flowing and the feelings get hurt.
www.tinyurl.com/moy3ap

Robbie Conal can attack Republican leaders for decades, but when somebody puts up a poster of Obama, you go straight to the race card? Wow, "Steven Mikulan in politics", if the race card is really the only thing holding up this administration's house of cards, it's already teetering.

Steven, have you not seen the movie The Dark Knight, the picture is a copy of ledger's white faced joker.

you're just a silly silly little man

It appears that it hit the mark. Anything that would be slightly negative of the administration that has taken over the auto industry, instituted new controls over the banking industry , wants the medical industry, all in addition to its already successful government role in controlling the mortgage industry; must surely be racist.

Well too friggin bad. Maybe if the Statists on the Left hadn't thrown their putrid vile at Bush the last 8 years you might have a case.

But as I said... Too clucking bad!!

"WHY SSSSSSSSOOOOOOOO SSSSSSERIOUSSSSSS?"

Take a joke? Seriously, does anyone think that smug, pseudo-elitist, thin-skinned, former band-nerd, drama queens/reporters can take a joke without resorting to "The Card"?! As a wise lady once said..."As if!"

Regardless, do realize that "The Card" was the whole genius behind BHO in the first place. His race (half-race actually) was what kept him insulated from any serious introspection by the Media (Where are his documents and "scholarly" papers again?) or by the McCain campaign (e.g. 20 years of listening to Rev. Wright was dropped as an issue).

Now that he's finally beginning to be seen as an insufferable liar, who plans to go back on his adamant campaign promise of no tax increases for those who make under $250K, the gloves have come off...as the poll number sink.

Good riddance Barry, we care not to have even known you...

Something that criticizes President Obama has appeared. It's racist. That is instantly obvious if you look at ____, ____, or ____. Smart people understand this instantly and agree. Stupid, racist people do not. Are you, dear reader, smart or racist?

Great post, Mr Breitbart. Truer words have never been blogged.

The race-baiting Left used the “racist” card to get Obama elected (“If you don’t vote for Obama it must be because he’s black!”) and they continue to play that tired game here, as well as to bully his Radical Leftist policies through.

Many like myself felt that Obama getting elected would be the worst thing ever for the country –and so far we have been proven correct. But in the long run it might turn out to be the final nail in the Liberal Leftists’ coffin. So, in a very odd way that is sure to come at great expense, maybe Obama and his shrill minions have done us a favor.

why do we pay any attention to people like this guy?

Wow, the unhinged right-wing freaks are out in full force, aren't they? I can't think of a better example as to why everyone shouldn't have internet access. Wankers, all of them.

Can't liberals take a joke?

Yes, Cornelius, that makes perfect sense.

When one doesn't like the music in the air...just silence it rather than bring forth a salient counter-argument.

I stand in awe of your talents...wow!

Was Hitler your daddy?

This reminds me of the Atlantic photo shoot of McCain last summer.

This is a creepy visual, but not racist. Obama is a far leftist who promised to govern from the center. It's core first amendment political speech for someone to highlight that Obama's rhetoric on benign government power does not match the reality. Hence, the make-up that cannot even begin to hide the evil. The Joker adds to the message, as it shows that enough people fell for the joke (the promise to govern from the center) to get him elected.

Mr. Mikulan;

If you can't make your arguments in defense of the charge posited by the image -- that Obama is a socialist who has heretofore been disguised as a centrist -- without reverting to simply crying racism as a means of avoiding the salient point altogether, then perhaps you shouldn't be writing or commenting for a living.

Chris Cole

"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."
No matter how much logic you throw at some people they will still see race in everything.

Poorly done - green hair would help. And too neatt yousee...Ledger's joker alway carried wore a sloppy facepaint.

In the last admin Republicans spent like drunken sailors (as a consequence they lost their mantle as the "part of fiscal responsibility" mantle). So they play the "S" card.
[socialism]

Old Red Joe:

The left cannot take a joke
My favorite example:

Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: THAT'S NOT FUNNY!

grow up lefties, if we can have a Jesus Obama we can have a Joker Obama

No Steve, the only thing missing is you sitting on his lap taking his dictation.

I did not see The Dark Knight.

What does a noose have to do with Heath Ledger's Joker? Someone please help me out here.

I wonder, does this tactic of calling those you disagree with "racist" still work on anyone?

If I employ the logic Steven is using then when Rolling Stone had Obama on the cover with a Superman shirt on, that too must be racist. Superman is white kids!!

Well in one scene the joker did hang a batman impersonator after he painter Joker make up on him. However I don't think that is what the writer meant when he talked about the noose.

Mikulan, you're a complete idiot. Could you be a more predictable, knee-jerk, liberal, race reactionary? I think not.

Pathetic.

Mr. Mikulan:

I am curious to know what clever or cutting artistic expressions of resistance to Obama's person and agenda are acceptable to you and will not fall afoul of your own personal sensitivities and projected biases.

Please enlighten me with your response.

dear God libs are such pussies

Steve is a joke.

Ah yes, while lacking clear direction and substance, liberals excel in race-baiting. This article was certainly more entrenched in poor taste than the posters.

Honestly, I hadn't even thought of the "race" aspect of this until you mentioned it. Even after you've mentioned it, I still struggle to see what race has to do with this.

Heath Ledger was white, BTW. And, yet (gasp), he played the character in a white-painted face! The horror!

And, I'm sorry, where does the noose come in? I'm not following whatever you're using here in place of logic.

So, if somebody says that you can't take a joke, that sounds about like the right reaction to this sophistry.

Just because you see race in everything, don't presume you can project that flaw onto others.

I think I've figured it out. It's not a noose we're supposed to envision. Rather, we're supposed to remember that Heath Ledger died from a drug overdose....

....and, although Ledger was white and Australian, drug overdoses are most commonly associated by the racist right with black Americans....

...like Barack Obama. So that's what the suggestion is: that the president is a (wink, wink) dope fiend.

Things like this remind me of Bob Dylan's "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues" about paranoid reactionaries in the 50s and 60s seeing communists everywhere they looked.

Only now, it's not closet communists, but closet racists.

"... , according to rightwing sources."

So you didn't go out and see for yourself? Nobody on the Left noticed it?

"... predictably in the throes of political orgasm."

Speculation.

"... the drunk tank of California conservatism: " ... Fox News bobble-heads..."

Trying to make more points with your liberal Masters again?

"Obama is in white face,"

No - the Joker is in white face; the poster makes the excellect point that Obama and the Joker are eerily similar. The difference being that Obama wants to change the Law to make us all happy socialist worker bees.

"The only thing missing is a noose." That's completely idiotic.

There's only one non-biased sentence in the article:

"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."

But even that is false. The resemblance is far from superficial. It is much less than superficial. The only resemblance is that (a) in each, a man's head is featured, and (b) in each, a single word is underneath. Those two images have that in common with a million other similar images.

Wanted posters.

Right. And you were so indignant when the Bush/Hitler comparisons were made. NOT

I don't think there is anything racist to this poster.

That being said, it seems ridiculous to put the word "socialism" underneath an image of the Joker. What does the Joker have to do with socialism? He was an insane anarchist. Creeping statism does not fit with his persona. A more accurate image might be Obama photoshopped into a 60's era Chinese propaganda poster or something...

Well, this certainly illustrates the anger and rage felt by the Americans who voted for Freedom and Democracy and the many Americans who voted as protest against Bush. If you don't understand this represents fear, you should move to Russia, since Americans are not going to allow this Joker to continue. The congress will be voted out and Obama will be a one term president. He will go off into obscurity as Carter did. Conservatives and Liberals are not far apart on many issues, we just don't want to lose our nation. We are not Europe and that is what make America the greatest country in the world. Why do you want to go backwards?

S. Lerch: "Americans who voted for Freedom and Democracy"

I'm not sure such a thing was possible in 2008 -- other than, I suppose, some 3rd party vote.

Both major party candidates were awful in 2008, just as in 2004 and 2000. For some reason, we consistently end up having to make a Hobson's Choice for president -- the lesser of two evils.

That said, it's ridiculous to say this poster had any racial connotations. The only people who will see racial connotations in the poster are people who are willfully looking for them.

I think the real clown is the one who wrote the original article. What happened to reporters reporting. The author is clearly skewed with no goal other than stirring the ant pile. No wonder the Left wants to reestablish the fairness doctrine, they are in control of our government and still lose the ratings battles...hmm...I wonder why that is? Maybe they spew a message Americans don't want to hear and I am talking the majority of Americans. Majority used to rule in this country. Obama was elected as a protest and now Americans are waking up.....the media doesn't like it because they won't keep what influence they have. I will bet this Steven reporter is jealous of Rush. Too bad, your Liberal government will be voted out soon!!

Ya'll never had a problem with George Bush or Condaleeza Rice carricatures/doctored pictures. Hipocrites. Turnabout is fair play.

I think the real clown is the one who wrote the original article. What happened to reporters reporting. The author is clearly skewed with no goal other than stirring the ant pile. No wonder the Left wants to reestablish the fairness doctrine, they are in control of our government and still lose the ratings battles...hmm...I wonder why that is? Maybe they spew a message Americans don't want to hear and I am talking the majority of Americans. Majority used to rule in this country. Obama was elected as a protest and now Americans are waking up.....the media doesn't like it because they won't keep what influence they have. I will bet this Steven reporter is jealous of Rush. Too bad, your Liberal government will be voted out soon!!

B-b-b-but isn't mockery the left's favorite form of expression? I guess only when they're the ones doing the mocking. Very childlike...just like a leftist.

Let's face it folks, the paint is peeling quickly off the Obama house of cards. His crumbling house will truly be something to behold. Question is will you be inside the house or out? I don't think the magnificent United States will be inside the house thanks to the electorate finally waking up. If we can dodge Obamacare and Crap-n-tax this fall will be all Obama's and his (proven time and time again) bankrupt ideology.

Break out the popcorn for this one.

Hey Steve, it must be a full moon tonight my friend, ha ha.

I think your problem with this article was too timid. If your gonna bring race into it, do it 100% or else it's not worth doing at all. Bring up the Klan, bring up Hitler and the final solution. Then shine the spotlight back on the right wingers to include them all in this horrible paradigm you've just created.

That will create a huge amount of fighting, while you make a quick escape out the fire exit.

barack is black ?!?

Guess I'll be printing out stickers tonight! Then posting them all over campus tomorrow!

In my opinion, the poster of Obama as Joker is referencing the line by Michael Caine's character which goes:

"Some men aren't looking for anything logical. He can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

More specifically, Obama just wants to destroy the American way of life and rearrange it more to his liking which stems from his life-long indoctrination at the foot of an unbroken series of radical-Left mentors going back to his childhood. He is a world class con-man and got elected under false pretenses and expectations he was a reasonable moderate.

Oh, and Mikulan has race on the brain and it's inoperable.

What a useless putz you are. And a schmuck, too. Why don't you Red Left libtards leave this country if you hate it (and us) so much?

GET THE EFF OUT BEFORE I THROW YOU OUT.

You have got to be kidding me - "all that's missing is a noose?"

It was ok to put up posters of of Bush as Hitler for 8 years, but the Obamessiah is off limits?!?!

Clearly it shows Obama to be the Joker - that is, someone who is not what he appears to be at first. He claims to be a small-d democrat, but is really a socialist.

Get it?

Awwww, boo-hoo-hoo. Cry for me, why don't ya? Cry me a freakin' river, baby.

velcro head !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why isn't anyone talking about me? I won Florida in 2000.

I super, super, serial.

JC's criticism of this poster is the only one with which I have agreed thus far: the character of the Joker is not an ideologically apt comparison for Obama. As problematic as I believe Obama's agenda is, it has very little to do with the anarchic mayhem created by the Joker.

Obama more closely resembles the soft-despotism into which de Tocqueville feared America might decline over 150 years ago--but how does one capture that in an eye-catching and memorable political poster?

Wow. It takes a really racially bigoted mind to envision a noose there. I guarantee nobody trespassed that line of thought until Mr Mikulan crossed it. With the possible exception of a handful of Klanspeople and neo-Nazi's. One ought to consider the company one keeps you left-wing bigot!

This is blatantly racist. And I know racism when I speak it.

I mean when I see it.

You just can't make up an article like this. In light of all the Bush hating art celebrated in the pages of publications like yours, to see you take offense - and with such hyperbole - is truly, truly revealing.

I liked the Batman comic books. I don't understand a lot of words but the pictures are really, really cool.

Like my boss.

I googled it, and I jes' cain't find a similar article Mr. Mikulan wrote decrying the effigy of Sarah Palin hanging from a tree/noose in LA last year.

Must keep looking, I guess.

Why so serious? Remember this? http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/assets_c/2009/08/Obama-socialism%20Joker-thumb-200x292.jpg

Sorry I meant this: http://www.fight4truth.com/Bush%20Vampire.jpg

It's ironic that a liberal who associates with the Democrat plantation - the party of slavery and segregation and the KKK - is so lazy with accusations of racism.

I'm still looking for Mr. Mikulan's story about this Joker caricature of W., that appeared in Vanity Fair. Anyone? Anyone?

Bush has already been portrayed as the joker, the devil, Hitler, a vampire, etc...

Dr Rice was repeated attacked with racist charicatures.

Steven, I don't mind disagreement, but I do dislike double standards. Please show us where you made a similar complaint about the Bush or Rice illustrations.

Wonder what Steve's opinion was when Bush was depicted as the Joker?

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

When Steven Mikulan and his liberal sycophants caricatured Bush, Cheney, Rice et. al. as right wing nazis, fascists and bigots, well it wasn't really a caricature, it was a statement of fact in their world. If that's offensive to the average person, then you are characterized as an ignoramus, a whiner, uneducated, clinging to guns and racial resentments, impugning their patriotism because their dissent is the highest form of patriotism etc.

One stinking poster about our Dear Leader and Steven goes straight to the nuclear option...its all about race.

I should feel better about this because it actually speaks volumes about old Steven's intellect and depth as a reporter, but somehow i feel more anger that a clown like Steven has a platform to spew his stupidity.

I also fight the comments section very revealing here as well.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Interesting to know that Steven Mikulan is maybe the lone person not to see The Dark Knight.

Though it is nice to know that LA is still full of people like Steven Mikulan who have strange fetishes. In his case, sticking his head up his behind.

a noose? wow, there's an awful lot of race baiting going on in our new era of hope. you and your peeps are throwing the "racist" slur around an awful lot these days. is there any kind of political caricature applied to O that you wouldn't spin as racist? You drain the word of all its meaning and potency in your promiscuous use of it. grow up.

I think the images that superimposed Bush and Hitler were created by the administration's own policies. If you preach a Nationalist agenda it makes the rest of us think of someone who was very successful at using nationalism to whip the country into a fervor. The comparisons weren't based on any view that Bush was going to gas some Jews - again they came about because of the Nationalist agenda.

As far as pulling the race card, I can somewhat agree, but I think it is equally unfair to use the "socialist" card. If Obama wants to support an American car company with tax dollars he's a socialist. Where were those cries when the banks were bailed out under Bush? Sure he let some fail, but I suspect that was at the direction of lobbying by Goldman Sachs. I guess it's health care reform or the idea of a federal based system that would compete with the private companies? Even rampant capitalists think this idea could save American industry (who are forced to see their profits go more and more into supporting their workers more than they care for them).

Under Bush we had all sorts of no-bid contracting (anti-capitalist) and spending that would have made the country belong to foreign interests. But if Obama wants to do something responsible and pay for the wars the nationalists started then he's a socialist.

If we are going to live in this black and white world, pardon the pun, then I guess I choose the socialists. Their governments tend to stick around longer (see Europe) than the nationalists (see Germany, Italy, Japan). As far as this whole picture being a joke - it isn't. It's a scare tactic. And if the artist is clever enough then it is a black man in white face. I'm sure though that wasn't intended as the picture isn't good enough to be that well thought out. (I still fail to see the connection between socialism and The Joker. In fact a few lines at the end of that movie make me inclined to think he would have been a rampant capitalist...).

Fatboy, linking to highly racist content is prohibited at the LA Weekly. Steven, please delete that offensive post.

bsd,

Are you talking about this one (The Village Voice)where the evil honky Bush is praying on the blood of green women everywhere?
http://www.fight4truth.com/Bush%20Vampire.jpg

Obviously the writer can't bear the thought that someone, somewhere might be making fun of Obama in a "unapproved" manner.

I'm sure these Obama-butt-lickers will get around to telling us what we CAN make fun of Obama for right after the election of 2012.

Until then they will just keep on attempting to destroy anyone who dares make fun of Obama. Just ask Joe the Plumber (a citizen) how people who dare to question Obama are to be treated.

My oh my — why so touchy? So much bile spilled over such an insignificant, perfectly innocent, absolutely race-neutral Obama slur.

I'd like to suggest a compromise: if uppity left-of-center hotheads like Mr. Mikulan promise to stop rubbing our collective nose in our 400-year legacy of enslaving, lynching, disenfranchising and generally thinking badly of African-Americans, we can certainly promise to refrain from superimposing movie makeup on images of our at-least-temporarily elected leader that — coincidentally mind you — just happens to make him look like the victim of a grisly, Jim Crow-era lynching.

I agree with JC that since The Joker had nothing to do with socialism, I see only a few possibilities as to the point here. Maybe the point is actually being made that to paint Obama with socialism is just as nonsensical. Maybe the artist just picked the most high-profile clown of the decade. Or, maybe the point was just to get people talking. Either way, people slap a lot of stuff up on overpasses - this is just another that deserves nothing more than a shrug as one passes. The coverage is as bewildering as the message.

Is Steven Mikulan a racist?

Yes.........yes he is.

Knock, knock.

Who's There?

RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sure we can take a joke. Did you hear the one about Sarah Palin?

Noose??

That's typical. Cry about something that hurts your feewings, and then make sure to brand your opponents as racists.

Haven't seen the posters on your what, 5 mile commute to work? You will now.

Because only racists are opposed to socialism.

Mr. Mikulan:

Because you're the one projecting race where it doesn't belong and was not intended ("nooses", indeed), you're acting like a guilty crypto-racist trying to overcompensate for a bad conscience.

I'll bet you check for your wallet when you see an African-American man next to you on the sidewalk.

Mr. Mikulan - that poster is a thinly veiled lynching, eh?

What about this one?

I'm a joker, i'm a smoker, i'm a Miiid-niiight toker...

Liberals have nothing better to do than throw around lame-o accusations of racism. They certainly don't have any good arguments.

Oh yeah, did you see the Obaminator is TANKING in the polls. Dang racist pollsters!

The minute everybody saw Obama with white paint on his face, we all knew this was coming. And that's the point: it's brainwashing. When you have a proscribed reaction to a visual stimulus, you have been brainwashed.

Errata: why do Republicans accede to the statement 'Republicans spent like drunken sailors'? The only exorbitant spending accrued during 8 years of Bush and 5 years of Republican Congressional control was for two wars, both of which were voted for enthusiastically by both parties. Every time the left gets into power they spend and spend and spend on nonsense; spending for national defense is not the same, and it's time to stop letting them make this ridiculous point.

Seriously? That's the best you can do? "noose?"

Mikulan = troll

Seems to me "the only thing missing is intellectual consistency."

Remember when this same rag published a pix of Bush as Dracula!?

Hmmm, I remember a COVER of LA Weekly that had Bush with fangs, blood and a pentagram. The only thing missing was a swastika.

You facist.

"The only thing missing is a noose."

Batarangs are racist!

Yet LA Weekly happily had a Satanic Vampire G W Bush for a cover not to long ago...

I guess its only wrong if the otherside does it. What a bunch of hypocrites.

"Why So Socialist?"

p.s.

This poster isn't meant to be a joke.

*as POTUS laughs and laughs* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNu9xjUwPEk

Steven = OWNED

lmao @ weak ass pussy libs

Obama said that medicare ... which is our current form of government healthcare ... will be bankrupt in 8 years. So that's a reason to proceed with *more* costly national healthcare??

Get a grip, what is good for the goose...http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Steve-o...can I get some news with your whining?

Let's annoy Conservatives!:
http://www.filthyrichmond.com/2009/01/lets-annoy-conservatives.html

all this anger in the comments and i bet Steve hasn't even bothered reading any.

Fletch and Ima B. Lamer (since you both critique the prudence of this poster):

I am sure that you have both seen the earlier image of GWB as Joker publicized (to predictably favorable reaction) by Vanity Fair last fall. Is the sauce for the goose not sauce for the gander, after all? Is this case somehow different simply by dint of Obama's skin tone? If you think so, how does that not speak more about your perceptions of race than it does the ones whom you criticize?

The Joker resemblance = "Mayhem and villainy at the expense of freedom." Pretty accurate, I'd say.

Must be frustrating that "racist!!" is no longer an acceptable rebuttal to Obama's politics. Better start considering the issues instead... now THAT'S scary!!

all it nees is a noose? With that line, you have destroyed your own credibility. How is the Joker even REMOTEY a racist reference?

And did you whine like a little bitch over the hundreds of pictures of Bush as a chimp?

I can't wait to put this up in my windows at home. When can I get a bumper sticker?

The chickens are coming home to roost as someone said whose church I went to for 20 years but whose name escapes me. Liberals went into a frothing rant for 8 years taking every cheap shot at Bush they could and urged people to oppose the President in any way. But now that your guy is office and your not even getting half of the dose of your medicine you go beserk and scream a racism and say how disrespectful to the President. I'll got to say is you better thicken that skin because it's only going to get worse.

Are you kidding me? Of all things you turn this into a race issue. The white paint it indicative of the joker, that is it. Why is it that everything anti-Obama is because all of us who don't like his policies are racist. Did you know it's possible to disagree with someone on important issues even if you have no idea what race they are? You ignorant fool, grow up, start debating the merit of the issues and stop using finger pointing politics. Also think about what you are doing, just because I identify myself with the conservative group I bet in your mind I'm an ignorant white man. That's the same mentality behind the racism. I sincerely hope you and everyone that uses these tactics grows up.

Hey - I've got a copy of MoveOn.org's Bush/Hitler video if you want to run it for some "balance".

ObamaCare will probably kill as many people as Hitler did.

Please stop writing articles Steven and stick to posting on the boards like the rest of us amateurs.

whaaaahhha. Joke's, unfortunately on us.

People don't even know what socialism means anymore. Buying FAILING companies in order to protect that company's profits is not what true socialism is. America is in no way a socialist state. This is just capitalism sucking on the tit of your average American.

lol liberals.

Why do Republicans fault Obama for the bailout when Bush started it by giving away 750 BILLION without any accountability his last half year in office? Both parties relaxed banking regulations. Both parties did the bailout. Both parties are horrible at finance. If we had McCain in there, you can bet we'd still be bailing out the same companies who bribe congress today.

As for healthcare, Obama's plan scares me AND my health insurance company BlueCross scares me. Both plans give me an uncertain future of medical care at an uncertain price. Either way I go, I'm screwed. So again, I'm not seeing how one is horror and the other is sunshine.

Obama backs the Bush wiretapping so both are evil in that regard.

Obama hasn't ended the war that Bush/Cheney got us into. Obama hasn't gone after Cheney for his illegal torture. Again, both parties working the same way.

Where is the difference? Why are you people so up in arms over which evil party is in power? They're both evil.

This poster enrages you because it hits the mark and instead of attempting to support the policies that inspired it, you resort to race baiting.

Time to put on the big boy pants, Mikulan. Obama is not off limits to those of us who do not worship him.

@BRIAN--
"Free Speech at it's finest."

Really? Where were you when Shepard Fairey was being arrested for doing the same thing, only support of Obama? I'll wager you were chopping at the bit just waiting for the man to be punished for his art. Free Speech should apply to everyone, not just those who share your opinions but unlike you, have the balls to share it in the eyes of the public.

@EVERYONES SILLY ATTEMPTS TO SAY OBAMA AND THE JOKER ARE SIMILAR --
LMAO. Read the comics. Watch the movies. The Joker is in no way "eerily" similar to Obama or a socialist. The Joker promoted anarchy, he hated the idea that a central power could direct lives in whatever way they pleased. He is the POLAR OPPOSITE of a socialist. He was an agent of chaos, not control. There is no correlation between the two.

All of you criticizing the left for not taking a joke. They can truly take as joke... isn't Frankin in the senate now ?? That has to be the biggest liberal joke since.... Carter?

I think this calls for another beer summit.

Ha!
These comments are hilarious!! Talk about "too serious". Wow. foaming 'cons. It's great. I really hope America does go socialist. It would be worth it just to watch all you nut jobs have your head explode.

Ha ha. Looooooosers!

what what in the butt

Heh... more like ... "You can dish it out, but can't take it?"

(BTW, kinda sad that you feel the need to make EVERYTHING about "Fox News".)

Haha The right wing nut jobs are out and about people hide your kids. I would like to say that this has nothing to do with race, and more to do with view. Remember ppl this is the state were the birther movement started. America as it states will fall. Reform and regulations are need to stay afloat. health care needs the reform and banking and wall street need the regulation. And if you listen to Rush or fox or msnbc you are being played Read - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/business/media/01feud.html?_r=3&src=twt&twt=nytimes

Half black? that brings up images of the star trek episode where actors where made up to be black on one side and white on the other. Obama's completion is black, most likely judged black by those may be racist. This Obama is half white is a useless dodge by those who can't think of anything original.

Racist, yes, that's exactly what I thought the first time I saw this. In fact, I was going to invite Obama around back and ask him to bust up a chiffarobe.

Wow, stay classy, Republicans.

Apparently you nitwits still haven't figured out why you keep losing elections.

Big Hollywood:

"Obama as Joker: Selective Outrage From ‘LA Weekly’"

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/03/obama-as-joker-selective-outrage-from-la-weekly/

Finally, an honest portrait of Obama. Must more realistic than we get from the MSM. I hope these posters get displayed on every corner, from coast to coast - to remind the People what clown is running our country into the ground.

The uprising is only beginning. We will not be taken quietly where we do not want to go. God Bless America! If you love your liberty you will fight like he!! to keep it.

The president is a socialist joker. I get it.

Now show me the accomplishments of the GOP. Or Dubya. Or Cheney. Other than the unfettered expansion of the executive branch, and the launching of a war that illegally toppled a sovereign government that did not attack us, and which thereby created a training ground for terrorists for years.

Yeah, I thought so. This poster says more about the artist and the hard right, than it does about Obama. So keep 'em coming.

This is surely something different...

http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/86108/109136

...clearly, its a higher form of satire because Bush really did drink blood and thank god LAWeekly had the courage to show it!

However, portraying the First African American President in anything but a respectful or glorious manner is not just intolerable, but pathologically depraved.

* Bush is a vampire: Lighten up! Its just a political joke with years of tradition behind it. Besides, can't you see the EVIL when you look into his stupid cowboy eyes?

CHECK!

* Obama is the Joker. Racism, racism, racism! We need a discusion on race! We are a hopelessly racist nation! All those Rethuglicans are racist! Fox is racist! Talkshow hosts are racist! We need to educate people about race! Race, race, race!

CHECK!

* * *

It's gonna be a long four years for the Dems....

actually,

we need to CO-OPT THIS!!!

heath ledger's joker was cool... and not just in a juvenile sense. many people felt he was appealing because his message and sentiments were based on truly viable sentiments everyone feels.

the notion that everything is bullsh1t and everyone lies and puts a pretty face on ugly realities? wow... what a radical message.

again, let's co-opt this. they want to make him out to be a joker, then let's make him a trickster that speaks truth no matter how offensive.

"the only thing missing is a noose"?

You are a fool for trying to make this an issue of race.

What a sad attempt at a "poor obama" article.

all for freedom of the press, but someone needs to confiscate your computer.

As many have stated, bush was depicted as hitler... arguably the most evil man in recent history. yet no one crapped their pants and blew whistles on that, but because someone disrespects your precious sign of hope and change, you think it's racism. not to mention bringing fox into the picture and saying how much they are probably loving it.

don't try and act so dramatic. it makes you look like an idiot junior journalist trying to make a deep statement. FAIL

BTW, I don't think this 'art' is racist. It's just not very interesting.

So I won't play the 'race card'. But boy don't these right-wing posters like to play the 'sissy' card.

The president, whoever he is, is always subject to attack from the losing side. As a proud liberal, I am confident in the president and his policies, and I really don't care what the losing side has to say.

A typical liberal, "Ohhhh, my p-ssy hurts!"

Rich wrote: "Where were you when Shepard Fairey was being arrested for doing the same thing, only support of Obama?"

Shepard Fairey by his own admission has been arrested multiple times for his street art. His arrest in February of this year in Boston was on two charges of graffiti--not for his "support of Obama," as you put it (in fact, the art that prompted the arrest apparently featured neither Bush nor Obama, but instead Andre the Giant as the "Obey Giant").

Moreover, anyone plastering these Obama/Joker posters on structures not owned by them could face similar charges for defacing property. The right to free speech does not give one the right to damage public or private property regardless of where one falls on the political issues and figures of the day.

LOL! Leftard plays to type and plays race card simultaneously where NO implication or invocation of race is involved. LOL! Sorry, but that never, EVER gets old. Oh, and the eeeeevil Booooosh was portrayed as The Joker first. Don't remember that? LOL! again, as typical lefty displays stereotypical ignorance of history.

Thanks for the laughs!

Hey GOOPERS: A single poster does not a movement make. It must be real frustrating to have your party in utter shambles after the whupping you took last November.

funkendunkel said: "A typical liberal, 'Ohhhh, my p-ssy hurts!'"

How do you debate someone with a six-year-old's mentality? Are you claiming that the right doesn't have any women?

Hello I am is right neo con and I this obama is like the joker. You know since like obama is a anarchy-commie like the joker and he wheres make ups.

I get a kick out of theses under-educated idiots talking about socialism when our closest allies are socialist. Obama is not talking about going socialist, But he is going to reform and change the American way for the better. America needs to grow the fuck up already. We need to compete with the rest of the world before we are left behind. We need more doctors and scientist. Say what you want now, but the end of his first term People like the crazy birther right will see the large gains in America. God Bless America!!

Joel C, in your earlier post about the illegal war etc etc, were you talking about Iraq, or the Civil War? My history gets a little confusing sometimes.

Billy, you made me laugh with that south park reference. As for the content of the author's post, lame, but understandable considering who you probably surround yourself with.

I like Obama's dead eyes in this poster. It captures and really solidifies the cold and uncaring look he often has.

*New*? These have been out around LA since October of LAST YEAR, if not longer. Great job keeping current.

Anyway, the symbolism makes no sense. The Joker character in the Dark Knight is the opposite of Socialist, i.e. take from everyone and give to no one.

So why get worked up about it?

Anonymous Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 3:32PM was me.

Anyway, jin choung says: "again, let's co-opt this. they want to make him out to be a joker, then let's make him a trickster that speaks truth no matter how offensive."

Good luck selling that one.

BTW, you fail at understanding the Joker (so does the person who created this poster, but for different reasons).

Hey Right You Lost get over it, o wait I mean get used to it.... The right is a dead party.....

The endless hullabaloo over white racism is a socially acceptable method of expressing a racial/class hatred of non-elite whites. You can experience and display the most venomous bigotry, and feel all self-righteous about it, too. Nice work if you can get it.

A "noose?" Your obsession with race is surpassed only by your obsession with Sarah Palin.

If the US were to end socialism here we could say goodbye to Medicare and Medicaid, public education, worker's rights, child labor laws, and the two day weekend, Alaskans would go without their subsidy, the governemnt would get out of the transportation business, state colleges would close, and fire departments would put out a fire at your house only if you paid them. Most American's love socialism and benefit from it. When this fringe movement bandies about the term socialism, they are not being critical, they are just demonstrating a willful ignorance of how the country they claim to love actually works.

AS for artisitc merit, it is derivative in multiple respects without consistency -- it plays on Fairey but does not capture the spirit of Fairey's poster with its superfluous border and poor typeface and as movie poster it lacks a certain menacing tone. Compared to Hope or Bush's run as the Joker(http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html) it just falls flat. I'm sure with 7 1/2 years of practice someone will get it right.

I consider myself a liberal and I find the poster to be hilarious. I also agree with a lot of the conservatives in that mr. mikulan needs to leave his liberal bias at the door when publishing an article, which I'm sure is next to impossible for anyone who takes their political views very seriously. the only important question we need to ask is "what time's everyone showing up???"

The most ironic thing about the whole story is yet another liberal's inability to see their own hypocrisy.

Well done Mr. Mikulan, your mock outrage amuses me..yes, you are a clown that amuses me.

Joel C.:

"Hey GOOPERS: A single poster does not a movement make."

This is true, and the poster actually should leave conservatives unimpressed by its confused symbolism. Still, if it becomes iconic, it will be because of the ill-advised double standard and race-baiting used by the likes of Steven Mikulan and others in critiquing this poster that generated more hype for it than it deserved.

Nevertheless, despite the confusion it entails, the poster is the slightest bit refreshing by indicating that people are feeling more emboldened to have some fun at the expense of The One. Still, this is a rather mild form of mockery compared to the venom spewed by the mainstream Left at, say, Bush or Palin.

"It must be real frustrating to have your party in utter shambles after the whupping you took last November."

The whupping the GOP took last November is viewed by some conservatives as predictable and deserved to some extent. Fortunately, Obama and the Democrats have done much in a mere six months to help the GOP move from utter shambles into rebuilding. Keep it up, and see you in 2010.

But I thought it was cool to refer to the President as the Joker?

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

"The only thing missing is the noose"

Are you kidding? That's really the first thing that pops into the pinhead of yours?

Do you really go through life seeing racism in every nook and cranny?

Frankly the only thing I see missing is a little trickle of blood dripping out the corner of that smirk.

Yeah - I like this poster - like it a lot. And I'm guessing you're going to be seeing a lot more of it.

Well... I voted for and support Obama.

AND I thought the Joker was awesome in Dark Knight.

Also, Socialism isn't necessarily one of the bad "isms." Besides less than 1% of our economy is socialistic.

So, really, this poster just makes Obama cooler.

In conclusion... FAIL! ...LOL

Liberals are such hypocrites. What happened to "dissent is patriotic" and "speak truth to power"?

There used to be a time when "liberal" meant "tolerant". That's long past.

*scans comments*
Let me guess, linked by Drudge Report?

Not exactly the typical comments for an LA Weekly story.

Only ONE sentence out of a two paragraph article implies anything about race and a million idiots come out to make a big deal about it?

Jesus, get the sand out of your crevices.

This is the issue: You guys think this is funny because you think it hurts peoples' feelings and truly makes fun of Obama. The truth is that this poster reeks of some old, out of touch moron attempting to take a potshot with a youth oriented, near-meme 'shop. It's only funny because it's stupid and you guys make it all the more laughable by gloating about your 'honorable-mention' worthy attempt.

And really, socialism? You think this is socialism?! Go see the world you boxed-in drones.

Holy crap. I quit reading the comments at about half way down. If there was an original thought after that, forgive me but I couldn't take any more.

The "poster" makes no fucking sense.

WTF does the joker have to do with socialism?

You're all sick of the race card. We get it. How about we'll retire it if you stop defending every venomous, inflamitory falsehood you feel like spewing with "it's just a joke" or "it was meant as entertainment"

Didn't LA Weekly have Bush as Vampire on the cover a while back? What's the difference - I'm not seeing it. Ooooohhh. It's because it's Obama! OK, then.

Holy crap. I quit reading the comments at about half way down. If there was an original thought after that, forgive me but I couldn't take any more.

The "poster" makes no fucking sense.

WTF does the joker have to do with socialism?

You're all sick of the race card. We get it. How about we'll retire it if you stop defending every venomous, inflamitory falsehood you feel like spewing with "it's just a joke" or "it was meant as entertainment"

wow!
this site is a real troll magnet!

oh, btw there is such a thing as poor taste. In fact, there is such a thing as being so tasteless or offensive that only the most obtuse and socially inept tools find humor in that which offends society at large.

This particular expression is pretty pathetic. It caters to the small-minded who chafe under the criticism of their limited class and breeding.

Please tell me again the virtues of limited education and "country wisdom".

Socialist and Proud wrote:

"...it plays on Fairey but does not capture the spirit of Fairey's poster with its superfluous border and poor typeface and as movie poster it lacks a certain menacing tone."

The poster is derivative, but not of Fairey. Others have already traced this poster's origins back to the October 26, 2006 cover of Time Magazine that featured Obama as its cover story. Some fellow (going by the user name of khateeb88) in January 2009 then adapted that cover in his Flickr stream. The individual who then created the poster pretty clearly removed most of the verbiage from that iteration and added "socialism" at the bottom.

BTW, your understanding of what counts as socialism is excessively broad, but you ironically share that error with many who use the word "socialism" as an epithet rather than embrace it.

Well, the Birther movement is an inherently racist one, so this isn't all that surprising. A small fringe of America cannot accept that a black man is their president, so they hold out hope for an 11th-hour reprieve that can save the day and remove him from office. Obama in whiteface is just another sad broadside from the OrlyBrigade.

Steve, rereading what you wrote, even you must acknowledge how stupid your comments were. If you want anyone ever to take you seriously about anything again, just admit you suffered a lapse of dumb.

Maybe he looks like the Joker bacause he's a JOKE.

Well, the joke is on us and my wallet is starting to feel lighter.

I like it....political dissent with urban commando undertones. Viva La Resistance !!!!

AlZuben

Gee, wisdom dispensed from up on high by cultural betters.

Thanks.
( tipping scully cap like Irish bog cutter.)

Hey Steve the Race Card schtick is starting to get old. Why don't you report about how the "teabaggers" are all right-wing nut jobs because they dare dis-agree with the Messiah.

How Is Obama Like The Joker?

1. The Joker wanted to destroy the social structure of Gotham City. Obama wants to do it to America.

2. The Joker burned a huge pile of money to show "it's not about money... it's about sending a message.". Obama is burning through trillions showing he doesn't care about the money either.

3. The Joker killed his supporters when he was done with them. Obama throws them under the bus.

4. The Joker blew up a hospital. Obama will be blowing up the American health-system.

5. The Joker tried to do a "social experiment" having two ferries full of people destroy the other. Obama is doing a social experiment on America where we destroy ourselves.

6. The Joker didn't want to destroy Batman because Batman "completed him". Obama constantly invokes the Bush era as it completes him.

7. The Joker said "Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am? I'm a dog chasing cars. I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it." Obama is having the same problem running the Presidency.

and finally.....the Joker says "So, you think Batman's made Gotham a better place? Hmm? Look at me. LOOK AT ME! ". No comparison necessary.

LA Weakly, another piece of shit liberal rag.

Liberals are angry white guys that can't take a joke.

Poor liberal babies -- can't handle the fact The One is turning out to be a liar, cheat and miserable leader.

Keep pulling that race card, lefties. It seems to be really working out for you.

This is racist! The Joker was a guy from Chicago who burned a big pile of money for no reason! While Obama....

It was intended to portray Obama as a socialist joker with bad intentions. ...which of course he is. Not surprisingly, the humorless race-obsessed "progressives" at the Weekly had to twist the meaning.

That poster doesn't even make any sense. The Joker stands for Anarchy, and it seems to me that Socialism is pretty far down the opposite side of the political spectrum.

I am a supporter of Obama, but I find the noose reference in poor taste. This is a legit criticism of the president, who is always fair game in a free society. Obama is not above critique so let us not be overly biased here.

Also, for the record, this poster has been around LA for 3-4 months at least.

What I find hilarious is that the last time Republicans had unfettered control of the economy they ran the country into the Great Depression.

The party was so disgraced that they were out of power for forty plus years. But after forming a new coalition of Southern racists pissed off about the Democrats supporting civil rights, paranoid Communist-baiters, religious fundamentalists, and traditional corporate interests, Republicans achieved majority status.

And what did they do with the power? They stripped away all of the Depression era banking regulations that had kept us prosperous, fostered the first Savings and Loan scandals in the 80s and then took the whole economy down with them in 2008.

What I find funny is that rich people SHOULD have their own party that promotes their interests. That is what politics is all about. But Republican economics only benefit the top 1% with the real money.

The other 49% that comprise a Republican majority are jackasses who vote against their own economic self-interest because they are tricked into thinking the Democrats want to turn the country socialist, or want to take your guns, or want to promote atheism, etc. These social wedge issues are just there to fool you into voting with them log enough to fleece you YET AGAIN and you idiots fall for it.

Everyone on this site over 65 is happy to have their Medicare and their Social Security. Everyone on this site who has ever been out of work has gladly collected unemployment checks to keep the ship afloat until the next job was found.

The Republicans called all of that socialism too. Google "Republican opposition to Medicare."

Until very recently they were trying to kill off Social Security by tricking you into supporting privitization... which would do nothing but line their banker friend's pockets with more cash when all that money went into the Wall Street... but I don't hear anyone calling for that now that the stock market crashed - exposing the stupidity of the privatization scheme that was obvious all along to people who didn't have a stake in the commissions.

We are so busy wrapping the flag around ourselves that we refuse to admit that we have the worst health insurance system in the world. We have the best doctors, the best technology, the best facilities, etc. But our system is terrible. And the only people who are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to keep it the same are THE INSURANCE COMPANIES WHO ARE MAKING A FORTUNE KEEPING THIS AS THEY ARE.

They are the ones buying the ads on TV scaring you into thinking health insurance reform will lead to socialism.

And you dopes who swallow that will be the ones who fight reform the whole way. Because in every other industrialized country in the world people are being euthanized by healthcare bureaucrats.

ouchies this hurts ... better start pulling the race card. oh wait you already did.

What does the Joker have to do with socialism? He was an insane anarchist. Creeping statism does not fit with his persona.

Let's not get too caught up in details here. By that standard, there'd be the same level of conceptual disconnect in the Fairey-illustrated LA Weekly cover with Bush sporting vampire fangs and a pentagram on his shirt collar, right? I mean, Dracula was an undead individualist who'd sold his soul to the devil, and the pentagram is Satanist, right? Wasn't Bush supposed to be all for making America into a Christianist theocracy, or something?

Anyway, as far as Joker parallels go, maybe we could start with the insane vandalism that Obama and his cohorts are perpetrating on the economy.

Why so socialist?.....LOL

Please, Tarc--you are stretching Mr. Mikulan's already strained commentary about the putatively greater implications of a silly, symbolically incoherent poster to the breaking point.

As for you, AlZuben, I wonder whether you deem the "Bush as Joker" image published by Vanity Fair as also "tasteless, "offensive," "pathetic" and "cater[ing] to the small-minded who chafe under the criticism of their limited class and breeding."

Hang on folks. Approval rating from 63 down to 48 in two months. This is truly a one term President--another Jimmy Carter. He was elected by people that want something for nothing and liberals with guilt complexes. He continues to fan that flame with the Gates debacle. Obama is a SOCIALIST, pure and simple. He now wants to deal with the "Moderate Taliban" How childish can you get. That is like the moderate KKK. I was laughing so hard at his stupidity, I was holding my sides. Be assured, this is a Socialist Joker, just like the poster.

Once again, these liberals can't take a joke. When we conservatives issue brilliant, nuanced parody like this, we are not being "racist." We are taking a bold stand against the oppresiveness of the Political Correctness.

Most of us live underground, in basements and church steeples and outhouses so the left wing fuzz can't bust us and send us to the Berkeley Gitmo. We iisten to Sean Hannity on tiny transistor radios that the cops are always confiscating from us. Heh, heh, heh, one day we will rise up and teach these lefties a lesson. heh, heh, heh.

Calling Obama a socialist is a sure fire way to win over the American people to our side. Too bad our subtle message goes over the heads of the Liberal Mafia. Heh, heh, heh.

What about Obama as Two-Face isn't that more appropriate?

I LOVE the poster - original and to the point. My guess is that we'll be seeing these all over the place. They already have the stickers and shirts for sale: www.cafepress.com/PalsyClown

"The only thing missing is a noose."

WOW. HAHAHA How is this racist? Its glorious it is not racist! C'mon!

steven... You are an idiot.

The Department of Double Standards

http://americasfuture.org/conventionalfolly/2009/08/03/the-department-of-double-standards/

Unless you idiots who have been bashing the reporter here, maybe you should realize that this is a BLOG story, and he is entitled to his own opinion.

Lets just feed the troll. Obviously this guy isn't a journalist.

what's good for the goose, is good for the gander.

how is the president like the Joker?

they both want to F up an imperfect, but good thing.

hahaha i actually think this is pretty clever. This kinda makes up for that whole Palin thing.

Good thing this was never done to Bush... oh, wait.

Liberals like Steven see race in *everything*. Makes you wonder who the racist is. I thought nothing of race when I saw this.

""The only thing missing is "THE NOOSE?" ""

Can't think of everything but what a thoughtful suggestion.

the way i see it, you guys wouldn't be so defensive if you WEREN'T racist.

"The only thing missing is the noose"?!?

Too bad you liberal shills can't see past color.

You pathetic liberal drones claim any legitimate criticism of President Uh-uh-uh-bama is racially motivated. Soon even the most leftist of Americans are going to stop taking you clowns seriously.

What are you going to do when Obama's administration reveals itself to be the spectacular failure it's doomed to be? When America throws out this empty-headed empty suit in order to save the country, how do you think they are going to look back on the first...ahem...black President?

You are a total hypocrite! God, I hate the "elite media!"

in the film this references, it is the butler, alfred, who tells a tale of jewels and explains to batman, the joker may not be like most people who are into it for money. he may be one of those crazies who don't love money. socialism is for crazies. per hollywood.

I don't get it. I don't remember a noose in The Dark Knight.

wow.

a noose?

oh wait, this is from a "weekly", therefore, not journalism as if THAT even had a meaning anymore.

Noose? Isn't that a bit of a stretch?

Attention Steven Mikulan:

WHY SO STUPID?

The far left weirdo's like this author and Obama are doing more to hurt race relations in this country than I have seen in my lifetime.

This race card stuff the left pulls everytime they open their limp little mouths is sickening.

I think that Two-Face from the same movie would make a better poster. Maybe that will be the sequel?

Is this the same LA Weekly that featured a cover of Bush with dripping vampire fangs?

Grow up you liberal twits. I know you are used to stifling everything you are against by crying racism but that game is over as Obama rudely found up with his Suds Summit.

the only thing missing is a stupid purple shirt and leather jacket to make the image complete, you know Steve, like the get up you wore to the Spector trial?

now that would have made the costume complete - both ridiculous and tasteless.

I agree with the more left leaning posters. What does the Joker have to do with socialism? I think the LA Times should do a vampire cover like they did of Bush. Because Obama will soon be trying to suck us all dry. Oh wait, this Obama/Joker poster wasn't even done by anyone with influence? Much less the MSM? Steven Mikulan plays the race card yet again.

Good grief. All you people complaining about bias and reporting might want to stop for a second and consider the fact that this is a blog post and not a news article. jezziz cripes.

Our Constitution was set up to do only a few things. A common Defense of the Country, educate the public and provide for interstate commerce. (roads bridges Etc.) I have never drawn unemployment. I lost my job so I went in business for myself. We all have that right. I did not hang on the government "tit". and cry foul. I draw social security because I paid into it for 55 years. I had no choice. My own investments did much better so they did me no favors. The Government is not your Father. I am not against Government helping those who fall through the crack but I am totally opposed to a Nanny State, which we are clearly heading for. A Country where your freedoms will be greatly curtailed. There is no free lunch. If the Government gives you something, they want something in return. In this case, your soul. ( I feed you, I cloth you, I am responsible for your job, don't argue with me) Once the public learns they can vote themselves money from the public coffers, we are done. Why? Because someone has to pay and that will be free enterprise. We are on the way to killing the Goose that Laid the Golden egg. On November 2008, we made our choice and I fear we will rue this choice. This is Chicago's favorite favorite son. Now feast your eyes on Chicago and you will see what is coming. God help us !

I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked.

They can cry through their bloody little repuke mouths about my lack of a sense of humor, and I'll be laughing as I walk away.

The author of this article was pwned in the comments. wow.

We get it. Any caricature of Obama, not matter what it is, is racist.

come to grand lake in Oakland, CA owie mommie... i'll be wearing it on a t-shirt... I can't wait to meet you.

Hey Steve! Feeling the love yet? LOL!

I'd have your mom tell you to quit it, but her mouth is a little busy right now...

LA Weekly?? Isn't this the same magazine that ran a picture of the former president as a vampire?

Liberals, if they didn't have double standards they wouldn't have any.

"I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked.

They can cry through their bloody little repuke mouths about my lack of a sense of humor, and I'll be laughing as I walk away."

Now I have to buy the T-shirt. And owie, I dare you to punch me.

I DARE YOU.

"The only thing missing is a noose."

Really, buttboy? Why a noose? Did the joker have a noose in the movie? Did you have a noose in the GW Bush as Dracula image from 11-2004?

Or is the noose your pansy liberal idea of the ultimate demonization of anyone who declares themselves black?

Your hypocrisy is incalculable.

Now I have to buy the T-shirt.

They will make great gifts! LMFAO! I hope this becomes a fashion trend...

Majority on this blog wins.

It's art, it's free speech, get over it.

>>I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked.

Wow, you sound like a bad ass. But I think you meant slapped. You're a liberal. You're only a bad ass on the interweb.

I think I'll order two t-shirts with this lovely image just in case the first one is in the wash the day I run across you.

I don't get it, what does the Joker have to do with Socialism? The joker, especially in that particular movie, was a terrorist.

If "The Joker" had anything at all to do with "Socialism", you could say that it's not racist.

If the President is to be thought of as a Terrorist, then pose him as the Joker and write Terrorist.

Either the poster IS racist, because it's painting a black man white, just like whites used to paint themselves black. OR, it's comparing Obama to a terrorist?

We all had to sit back and get called Traitors while you guys f*d up the country for 8 years. Time for you to do the same.

OR, stop whining and get on with your pathetic lives.

Gotta get that in a t-shirt! I can already imagine all of the looks I'd get walking through Santa Monica!!! In fact, this is the kind of thing that would likely turn all those peace loving green pacifists into a violent rage. I love it.

WHY SO SOCIALIST??

I can't believe how racist this is against whites. Black face is anti-black, white-face is anti-white.... right?

Oh...good...God. I am TIRED of this. Here's some friendly advice to lefty bloggers - every time you scream "racist" at some 100% racially neutral attack on Obama, you're saying "I have absolutely no sense of objective value judgment."

What's more, you're displaying a complete and utter disrespect for the entire anti-racism movement, which is diluted and smeared by your shameless hijack of such an important and emotive issue. It really is about time you lefties grew up and showed that you're actually confident enough about the agenda of your Messiah to defend him in an adult fashion without playing the race card you've sadly come to substitute for political discourse. This blog entry is a monument to a disgusting and shameful era in American politics.

Apart from anything else it's like you've decided to airbrush from history the last 8 years of demonizing, smearing, insulting and disrespecting George Bush in the most offensive ways imaginable. Grow a pair, kids!

You want a real conservative "uprising," toss the social-right wingers from the Republican party and learn what political conservatism means. Reject nonsense like this. It's as much a movement as high-schoolers rooting for the guy who drew a mustache on the principal's picture.

I know, I know, your party screwed up its two-term chance to do something actually conservative and as a followup offered you two lackluster candidates, so you feel obligated to hate guy who beat them. So you come to believe he WANTS to destroy, even hates, America. So you cling to a thread of hope that he's not a citizen. So you end up no better than the your opposition screaming "Racist!" to your shrill cries of "Socialist!"

Why so serious?

The L.A. Weekly is one of those free, leftie rags right? The kind that people won't even pay a quarter for?

By the way, I've never seen a more transparent attempt to depict something as racist, which clearly isn't.

Get that race bait on that hook!

(Wait, I'm sorry, was that racist of me?)

@Dave, this poster is a variation of the Joker theme. This might shock you, but not everyone is a fanboy for Obama. This depiction of Obama is how scary many of us see him. The Joker was a force of destruction, wreaking havoc on Gotham City.

Obama is leading the way with his gang in congress wreaking havoc on America, on capitalism, on freedom, and anyone who dares to be independent and stand on their own two feet. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that if Obama gets his way with everything he wants, he will do more damage than the Joker could ever do!!

So, no racism here bud. Just a poster of one scary dude. Get over it.

Let's annoy Conservatives! :
http://www.filthyrichmond.com/2009/01/lets-annoy-conservatives.html

Brilliant poster. The deballed Repubes finally removed a page from the Dem playbook. As for little Stevie..stop acting like a faggot.

Though I don't agree with Steven's jump to comment with the race card I am having a problem understanding why the people who made this poster would make him as the joker. What it boils down to is that the poster is either a really poor attempt at making a political point which I think is lost in the joker reference, or it is playing the race card. If there's something I'm not considering please enlighten me. I doubt that whoever funded this practical joke spend the effort creating the poster in joker's image if it didn't have some sort of political meaning.

Hypocritical much? If you had any intellectual depth greater than a wading pool you'd realize it's not his race that's being criticized but his policies. Buncha high schoolers.

"I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked."

I'm not surprised. Typical liberal thug. Can't stand the thought of someone expressing an opposing opinion, and eager to resort to violence.

Thank You for this article! You are just feeding the fire that burns in the stomach of America!!! We (blacks and whites) are tired of the "race card"!! People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and now the so-called media are constantly stirring the waters. If racism were to end what would these people do for a living? They will never let it end!! So, stir your pot and add your own little spices. We will not eat!! We are FULL!!! We are backing away from your table and standing up!! People like you Steven are our best weapons, so carry own my small minded moron!! Great work!!

I am glad that everyone seems to be psychic and can predict the outcome of Obama and his policies, just 8 months into his 4 year term.All of you guys trip me out. Bush screwed us for 8 years straight and noone said a word. Now Obama has just started to make changes and OMG! he is the worst ever! Whatever! Get over it and grow up GOP, you lost. Being bitter wont change the outcome!

This what liberals say when you confront them.
Bush did, and racism..

That is all they have. YAWN

I think this is awesome!

Love it - and you, mikulan, you're such clown. I am absolutely sure that you and your open-minded buffoons at LA Weekly went ecstatic hundred of times when Robbie Connal placed his crap all over Los Angeles. "My! Militant art! We sure can! Berkeley in the sixties live!"

Eat it - by the way, what about the "Show the birth certificate!" sign on Santa Ana freway?

The LA WEEKLY has got to be crapping their pants right now. By the response to this blog, they've got to be wondering how there could be more than 10 people who know how to use a computer and actually don't agree with Obama.

And, let's not "pile-on" sad Steve. The poor guy works and lives in a bubble where his ideals, beliefs, and values are never challenged. Give the poor guy a break. He has thin skin, can't take a joke, and still thinks it's 1960. Some people just can't move on.

Sincerely, an evil racist that ain't never seen a computer, lives in my mama's RV, and watches NASCAR. ;)

I want to thank you for all of your efforts to get a national health care program done. I don't think that people would be completely against tax increases if you made the health care reform program less about numbers and more about ethos. In truth, it would be a bad idea if Americans did not have to pay for any health care they receive. It is also a bad idea if you try to sell us Reforms like we're accountants. If we use the 'A nation is judged by how it treats its least,' it would be easy to convince the American public that reforms are needed and costs are out of control. It would be noble to take those illnesses private insurance companies try to discredit and deny, the illnesses that are terminal and so costly that they ruin multiple generations of families. That is something we can understand. I do not have health insurance. I could probably use it, but the truth is , I could decide to sacrifice my income for that crutch. What would destroy me and members of my family more than a serious illness? If we are using moral imperative as our standard, I believe it is irresponsible and unlucky to provide any kind of unlimited health care. If we are seeking to remove the interfering middle men who provide the genius to allow American medicine to research and develop, while at the same time unable to suppress their greed at such high profits; we cannot become that middle man. Congress should have no permanent review of the health care industry. They are far too fragmented and prejudicial. Republicans and Democrats must work together now to identify the worst offending characteristics of American health care and ameliorate its unintended effects.

Gotta love these pissant little bed-wettin' libs! The Jug-Eared Douche is proving himself an intellectual fraud to the entire country, and you suckling piglets cry about a poster! Beautiful! As for the 'race' card, Mikulan's a douchebag, pure and simple.

I ordered 2 tee-shirts already, and can't wait to wear 'em.

>> If there's something I'm not considering please enlighten me.

I thought all you LA liberals actually went to the movies. Did none of you actually see The Dark Knight?

The central motivation of the Joker, as described by Alfred, was that he was a man who couldn't be reasoned with or bought or bullied. He just wanted to watch the world burn.

Anyone with more than a 6th grade understanding of economics would understand that is exactly what Obama wants. He doesn't want to reform anything, he wants to burn it down. Read your Alinsky. Barry has. Hillary too.

For those of you who are not educated about African American history, back in slavery days, black men and women were dressed up and their faces were painted white to provide entertainment for their white owners. MAybe this is why Steve says "Where's the noose?" All so quick tp criticize, saying you don't see the racial issue, its becuase you did not have an african american history class, or else you would immediately see the derogatory implications of the ad. I hate racism and i hate the Race card, but, if the shoe fits......

P.S. - I am a republican.

I love this poster it says it all, and btw Steve, did you complain when your rag did a picturial of Bush as a vampire.. hmmmm?
The hypocisy is palapable.

Mr. Mikulan,

I feel you're in the minority. This didn't help your reputation, bud.

"Only thing missing is a noose?"

But your Nov. 5-11 issue, I believe it was 2004, the L.A. Weekly had a moronic Bush-as-Dracula cover. http://tinyurl.com/lqd32c

Then we have Vanity Fair. They did the same thing to Bush. Check out Bush as the joker here. http://tinyurl.com/5mwhzs

You guys wonder why no one reads your paper? You think America is stupid? We see through your lies. It's ok to attack Bush, Palin or anyone in your way. But do the same thing to Obama and you are a racist..... Give me a break.

I suppose next you'll blame this all on Bush or Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh.

Steven, after you pull your pointy nose out of O's rectum you'll realize whoever came up with this hit a bullseye. This isn't going away anytime soon...

Haha, god bless the person who made these posters.

Glad to see the liberal get a taste of their own friggin medicine.

How can this be racist? Obama is half white and was brought up by his white mother. Not everthing is racist. It also goes both ways.
Racism.
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
I have seen many different ethic groups act in ways that fit the above definition.

Why so socialist ???

A lesson in history says: Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:35PM

Seeing how Obama's dad was from Kenya and his mom was from Kansas, your argument wouldn't really apply here. If you took a lesson in history you might know that. I don't think Obama's mom is related to Al Jolson. This is Obama clearly in the joker face, so get your racism off this poster. You libs can skewer this all you like but the Joker represents one thing only, CHAOS!

jeeeeeze, isn't the race card about worn out.

You gotta love libs. They're all for freedom of speech until someone commits the mortal sin of saying something they disagree with.

For those of you who are not educated about African American history, back in slavery days, black men and women were dressed up and their faces were painted white to provide entertainment for their white owners

So what?

I think Heath Ledger said it best.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha...Ha....Hee hee ha ha ho...Ha.. ha ha

This town needs a better class of criminal. And I'm going to give it to them.

liberalism is a brain disorder says:
I think Heath Ledger said it best.

And to paraphrase Nicholson. LA DAILY NEEDS AN ENEMA

I break my oreo cookie apart before I eat it. I'M A RACIST.

I only play the white keys on a piano. I'M A RACIST.

I didn't vote for Obama. I'M A RACIST.

I seperate my lights and darks when I do the wash. I'M A RACIST.

I brush my teeth every day to make sure they stay white. I'M A RACIST.

I only speak English. I'M A RACIST.

I don't think polar bears and black bears should live together. I'M A RACIST.

I start with vanilla when eating a bowl of Neopolitan ice cream. I'M A RACIST.

I work at the LA WEEKLY and think everything is racist. I'M AN IDIOT!

Fellow Anons were behind this bit of lulz

Actually the Joker imagery is creative and sends a powerful message--even if I don't agree with it.

The issue that I do find profoundly irritating, however, is portraying him as a socialist. This is flat wrong and factually incorrect.

If you disagree with a healthcare system subject to public oversight and regulation then have that discussion. Crying "socialism" is a blatant attempt to scare people and plays right into the hands of the huge corporations that really don't want this system to change.

After the debacle of the "deregulated" financial market I am truly stupefied as to why anyone *wouldn't* want a regulated healthcare system subject to the democratic oversight of the American citizenry. Last time I checked this still was a Democracy.

So, I'm fine with a Jesus Obama or a Joker Obama or even an Irish O'Bama. Just get the terms right. Socialism this isn't--democracy it is.

Steven,

You must feel like an idiot for blogging this.

Sincerely,
99% of the people who read your bullshit.

LA Weekly didn't seem to have a problem depicting Bush as a vampire.

Just get the terms right.Socialism this isn't--democracy it is.

Speaking of "getting the terms right" How about a Constitutional Republic?

Apparently black folks are all tree ornaments--at least Steven is inclined to believe it. This only proves (once more)
how dishonest and cowardly liberals can be. Somebody needs to beat this guy down for his racist article. And Steven--why so serious?

Steven, when will you be giving us tips on the proper way to make paper mache heads and making "proper" non-racist, non-homophobic, gender neutral protest signs like you liberals did for the last 8 friggin years so we don't offend you sensitive flowers?

Pay back is a very special kind of bitch. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Can't wait for the T-shirt!

A lesson in history wrote:

"All so quick tp criticize, saying you don't see the racial issue, its becuase you did not have an african american history class, or else you would immediately see the derogatory implications of the ad."

Or, you know, maybe even people who are neither ignorant of history nor morally obtuse saw the poster and thought only, "Somebody Photoshopped Obama to look like the Joker from The Dark Knight." Because, you know, somebody clearly Photoshopped Obama to look like the Joker from The Dark Knight.

The allegedly Freudian adage that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar is very fitting for this brouhaha.

lotsajargon says:
Actually the Joker imagery is creative and sends a powerful message--even if I don't agree with it.

BLAH BLAH BLAHlotsajargon says:
Actually the Joker imagery is creative and sends a powerful message--even if I don't agree with it.
The issue that I do find profoundly irritating, however, is portraying him as a socialist. This is flat wrong and factually incorrect.
So, I'm fine with a Jesus Obama or a Joker Obama or even an Irish O'Bama. Just get the terms right. Socialism this isn't--democracy it is.

Posted On: Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 5:51PM

I do deem to disagree. Do you want Michelle Obama, whose thesis was barely intelligible,
and was drummed out of the Illinois Bar, and also set up a system of patient dumping, to oversee a panel that determines our healthcare? I didn't vote for her, or for that matter the 42 CZAR that are answerable to noone. Thanks for nothing 52%, you were duped and we suffer. By the way, a country that has a majority of people that vote for a living and a minority that work for a living is doomed.

The problem is not Obama and the problem is not Bush. The problem is the "FEDERAL RESERVE". They are robbing you and your children.

Beyond the obvious hypocrisy when compared to the vile Bush bashing over the last 8 years, the larger point IMO is the writer is simply not too bright. He is also intellectually dishonest and juvenile. Simple as that...he is the typical liberal. These people are not smart.

Hello, this poster is actually a modified version of a Time magazine cover edit that's been around since December 25, 2008 when this image was taken and later put up in Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/khateeb88/3206380753/

All they did was block out the type and added the word socialism on the bottom.

Going Galt

Really surprised at the progressives and how they are getting their knickers all in a twist.

I mean really, depicting Bush as a murderous historical figure (Hitler) and you're upset about the current president being depicted as a fictional character.

Unreal.

Propaganda works for all sides and while Shepard stole his (as well as all his other works), this seems to be a true work of propaganda that actually might work.

Someone get this up in a high rez pdf so it can be downloaded and shared as wanted.

OBEY THIS....

>>The problem is not Obama and the problem is not Bush. The problem is the "FEDERAL RESERVE". They are robbing you and your children.

Holy Crap! A Ron Paulian! I thought all you assclowns took the mothership back to planet ^&%$#& after the last election.

Seriously, can't all liberals and conservatives agree on one thing, Ron Paul is batshit crazy.

I thought it looked like the TIME border ... haha

Racist-noun-1. Someone winning an argument with a leftist.

Good lord, Steven Mikulan is an idiot. A noose? WTF does this image have to do with racism?

The unmodified cover of Time that is the origin of the poster is the October 23, 2006 edition.

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20061023,00.html

Racist-noun-1. Someone winning an argument with a leftist.

Furthermore this Joker poster is an act of genius. And we conservative types hardly need election victories in order to "get it up"--unlike our liberal friends who keep alluding to last November whenever they feel threatened in any way. Why so serious, Steven?
Leftist wimps!

I am just waiting to this this jokers birth certificate . Along with the other documentation that he wont provide as of yet

Cut the crap. They painted Bush as the Joker in Vanity Fair. I'm sick of your Leftist Fascism. Obama IS a Joke!

Awww, how soon you hopey, dopey, changey dopes forget that dissent IS patriotic. Here's your dissent - 8 fuggin years of it:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&sa=1&q=bush+devil&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g2&start=0

Here's a quote from one of my fav writers:

"Unable to defend with any real facts, Obama’s decision to keep his entire life top secret, his minions have resorted to accusations of “racism” and “fascist right-wing extremism” in their effort to silence constitutionally conscious dissenters and the exploding demand for Obama to become the “transparent” president he promised to be.

“a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”

Although this describes the Obama administration to the letter, as well as O-bots, this is actually the definition of “fascism,” proving once again that leftist can’t even get their insults right."

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13344

Get over yourselves - your BS is wearing thin on all of us.

*looks out over thoroughly nuked race argument of Steven Mikulan*

Yup, that should just about do it.
Ok people. Move out!

"A noose." heh.
*shakes head*
Silly Steven Mikulan.
Bringing the race card to a reality-based fight. heh.

DaWG
A resident of America's Hat.©

I like it! And I voted for Obama too, this is going to be my new wallpaper. I love liberty and freedom of speech, just wish ALL people would stop complaining, it's just a Joke...r.

PS.

We're saving the noose for congess. You betcha!

Steven-

You starting to understand why lefty blogs never allow open comments? No? Let me help. The crap you clowns like to pedal only makes sense in an echo chamber and it allows you liberals to think the bullshit you spew to sound logical. It gives you the added bonus of saying "See, everyone agrees with us".

No, numbnuts, not everyone agrees with you. An increasingly small portion does. Sorry, the ACORN race baiters don't have computers. And when your absurd crap is exposed to sunlight it withers and dies just like it did in this thread.

Get used to the beat downs. You have another 3 1/2 years of them on the way.

Hey, all you liberal a-holes who voted for that pos, Obama, need to keep the bumper stickers on your cars.

oops -congess = congress. But, you knew that.

if obama looked like that nobody would be asking for his birth certificate. or at tea parties. and they'd be cheering him on as the stock market gained another 1.5% today and is undoing the damage his predecessor did.

if sarah palin was depicted in black face, she'd just quit. oh wait, she already did.

i love watching the right eat itself.

Steve, you suck. You Sir are a Racist of the worst kind. Go find a noose and do yourself a favor and end it. lol Idiot!!

Not that I am defending Obama and can't take a joke because I'm not. I like a good joke as much as the next man. I just don't get the connection between joker and obama. Joker believed in anarchy no law or rules. Obama even if the repubs say is "socialist" is nothing you can link to jokers values at all. In fact Socialism is the opposite of anarchy you momos. Makes no sense, not funny. Pretty stupid actually. FAIL.

Unless it's Bush that they're making jokes about, right?

http://www.laweekly.com/2004-10-21/columns/four-moore-years

Then, jokes "represent[s] another truth about ourselves, reminding us that heroes are human, that ideological idols are just that — fictional constructs usually played in the movies by a Jimmy Stewart or a Robert Redford but never seen in real life."

But Obama isn't a human, so making a joke about him is evil.

What unbelievable hypocrisy from the "Bush as vampire" people. And any criticism of The Won obviously has to be racist, right? You are such complete intellectual cowards to pull the race card at anything but unqualified love for your secular messiah. I just hope there is enough of this country to save after he is booted in '12.

Um.. G-O-N-G! Steve.. G-O-N-G!

Perfect example of people seeing what they want to see. ; )

It's a typical liberal shake-n-bake. A 12oz cut of victimology marinated in spicy hypocrite sauce.. then baked in high heat until the faked outrage, that has oozed out everywhere, is medium-well to well-done.

Busting Bush's dice = patriotism

Busting Obama's dice = racism and un-American

Keep up the phat work Wall-E!

STEVE MIKULAN.....DEUCHEBAG

SINCE WHEN DOES SOMEONE WITH A "JOURNALISM" DEGREE MERIT AN OPINION I DEEM WORTHY.....SECOND, THE RACE CARD PLAY IS OVER...ANYONE BORN AFTER 1960 AND NOT BLACK HAS SEEN THIS MOVIE AND KNOWS THE ENDING...I FEEL NO GUILT AND IN FACT BELIEVE THIS PRESIDENT IS THE APEX OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION....PASSED ALONG BECAUSE HE IS BLACK REGARDLESS OF HIS LACK OF EXPERIENCE AND MERIT....AND IS ALREADY COMING UP SHORT....HOLLER

LOL at you, Mr. Mikulan. You can dish it out, but you can't take it. Grow up, seriously.

Yeah, LA Weekly, a rag that no one reads, published a vampire-Bush photo on its cover, but that's only a joke - a publisher's little free speech.

When some a--hole prints a bunch of Joker-Obama posters, LA Weekly has a hissy fit and plays the race card. I did not vote for "The One" lord and master Obama, but it think the poster is stupid. However, I just want LA Weekly to know that its not fooling anyone in feigning outrage - it knows all about hypocracy.

Hey Steve am I doing this right?

Obama is Hitler!!!elevnty!! Bring the troops home!! Don't support Obama's racist war in Afghanistan!!!!!@

Now if only I could get some fat ugly women to dress in pink and dance around me when I say this crap it would be perfect.

After reading these comments I am honestly convinced we are so doomed. The only thing I wish is I could be preserved for a couple of hundred thousand years, until people actually make sense and aren't so f'ing stupid anymore. I will say this and I'm a not a lib nor conservative. There is something about Republicans and fake conservatives that makes my skin crawl. You are all a bunch of scum. I really believe you just refuse to evolve and choose to listen to brainwashing garbage like fox news, hannity, orielly. Ron Paul is one of the few politicians that isn't bought and sold to the oil companies or wall street, and you call him bat shit crazy?!? I can't deal with you inbred morons anymore. You will never wake up. Like sheep to the slaughter.

Lot of hate on this thread.

I expect most of you are not american.

Uh, Steven... did you even *know* about the LA Weekly cover of Bush-as-Vampire?

Did *we*, your readers, have to perform the journalism necessary to point this out to you?

James, the connection between Obama and Joker is that Joker liked to "watch the world burn." Obama is burning down the institutions that made this country great. Obama, unlike Joker, has a plan to replace it with a statist utopia. The analogy isn't perfect but the image is relevant, powerful. And not in any way racist.

I am NOT a conservative, but compared to the guerilla art demonization of Bush, this is nothing. It shows you, Steven, and people like you, to be extremely thin-skinned. This is an expression of outrage at Obama's perceived Socialist policies. Whether you agree or not, it's a political statement. I don't know HOW you get a racist statement out of this, but liberals/progressives are getting to be the "boy who cried race"—assigning every negative thing that is said about a person of color as racism is only going to dilute the importance of future cases of ACTUAL racism and bigotry. Shame on you for that; you aren't doing anyone any favors, including President Obama.

You guys at the LA Weekly are such hypocrites -- as so many here have pointed out.

This world has no hope says:

We tried to be nice and play by our rules and look what we got, a joker. Now we have to play by the rules you folks cooked up.
Libs crushed decorum.

Hey "world has know hope" mind giving us some examples? I think it is true that if this were palin, then everyone would laugh and good times would be had by the democrats, but its not. Don't people see that that Barock Obama shouldn't be looked upon as a god, he hasn't kept many of his promises so far. He's just another politician, only better a sugar coating than the other candidates.

Steven-

I suggest we have a summit to discuss this cancer in our society. You buy.

I'm drinking Busch.

Can Steven say "hypocrite"? Sure you can.

Remember all of the funny pictures of Bush as Hitler, Palin as a slut, Cheney as Darth Vader, etc?

Funny stuff, huh? You were outraged I assume?

"owie mommie says:

I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked.

They can cry through their bloody little repuke mouths about my lack of a sense of humor, and I'll be laughing as I walk away."

right up until the cops slap the handcuffs on, and you head downtown in the back of the black and white. while you're trying to find a fellow dirtbag to throw your bail, and learning all the wonder ways to pass the time in jail, i'll be filing suit in court to attach any and everything you own, as well as pressing charges with the DA.

so, by all means, go ahead and throw that punch at me. i can't wait. months later, when you're still crying in jail, i'll be selling your stuff on E-bay.

You have no intellectual consistency, LA Weekly, none at all.

Here's an example:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/03/obama-as-joker-selective-outrage-from-la-weekly/

Why would there be a noose on it? I don't remember a noose on Heath Ledger..

Or did I somehow miss the Bleeding Heart Liberal equality between a social satire and lynch mob?

Well, Steven Mikulan and I were sitting at the fashionable West Hollywood bistro "Nards" and discussing how stupid the American public really is outside of New York, Greenwich, Hollywood and Berkeley. Steve says to me "Hey Bill, remember how great it was when we depicted that monster Bush as a vampire on the cover of LA Weekley. Wasn't that the BEST?" I asked Steve "What's the LA Weekly?" Steve told me that it's glorified toilet paper that the folks in West Hollywood and Malibu put in their bird cages.

All of a sudden, Steve noticed a poster on a pole that showed Obama as "The Joker" and he went nuts. He said "Oh, my lord and master, what have they done to thy sacred image? We must seek out those perpetrators and kill them all and piss on their graves."

I told Steve that it was a little hypocritical of him to react that way because the LA Weekly portrayed Bush as a vampire on its cover - during a time of war - while American soldiers were in harm's way. Steve said "That's different. Obama is like Jesus Christ, and you just don't dis the Christ." He then said it must have been drawn by Sarah Palin with some help from Rush Limbaugh - because he "could just tell." Steve then threw his non-fat jamocha latte in the recycle bin and got into his pale-blue Prius and sped off at what must have been 35 - 40 mph to his home in Beverly Hills to cry. Poor Steve!! He needs a hug.

owie mommie says:
I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked.

You need to take care as to where. Don't do it in the state of Washington. This is a must-issue state for CWPs.

And, of course, you assume that anybody wearing such a shirt would be unable to defend themselves.

I assure you that the opposite is very much the case.

So be cool lest you become cooler.

This paper has no right to complain, for they did the same thing to Bush previously:

http://www.laweekly.com/2004-11-11/news/letters

And Vanity Fair did the Joker for Bush as well:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

So, quit yer whinging.

@ This World Has No Hope...

Believing in freedom, individual liberty, and free enterprise makes your skin crawl?

Saying no to big government makes your skin crawl?

Believing that Obama is not the magic answer to all of our problems makes your skin crawl?

I know all of those things sound nightmarish to you. It's amazing how such horrible ideals managed to create one of the greatest civilizations on the face of the Earth!

Find something worth getting all bent about. This is hardly it. Perspective my friend. Perspective.

What's wrong Stevie? Don't like the beating you are taking? I never saw you sippy cup drinkers complaining about the lack of polite discourse when you were savaging Republicans. Could it be your just a typical dishonest liberal who is starting to realize your chocolate messiah is running this country into financial ruin and you're trying to deflect?

Not gonna happen, sunshine. Your idiot along with the larger idiots in congress like stretch Pelosi and Reid "This war is lost, I never said that" Reid own this shit. And so do you.

Reap the whirlwind, dickhead.

Actually, this guy is scarier than I was in "Batman." Have you guys seen our Dear Leader on YouTube describing how his health plan actually contemplates eliminating private insurance? Some Joker!

forget the card, this is just stupid.

and it's a typical right-wing nutjob misrepresentation of fact. designed to get you idiots all up in arms about something of which you know way too little.

some facts:

at present, 2.1% of the US economy is socialized.

that's down 0.2% from Bush 43.

down 1.5% from Bonzo.

so where were the reagan socialist posters?

and what were the concerned citizens against socialism doing when bush was busy DESTROYING capitalism as we know it?

probably voting for 4 more years.

here's an thought. the reason any of this bailout or stimulus is happening is because you voted for bush.

so take responsibility for your vote.

just shut up. sit back. and give the guy a chance to fix your mistakes.

pc.

Wow this guy got trashed for this article, and rightfully so! "According to right-wing sources"....ARE YOU SERIOUS!? Do you even have an editor?! I sincerely hope the higher ups at LA weekly see the response this turd gets and fire him fast. People this dumb should be flipping burgers not pretending to be journalists. I'd like to suggest that the comments section here be taken into consideration by the publishers as a vote of no confidence in the reporting of this guy. FIRE THIS IDIOT AND ALL THE OTHER SPOONFED MORONS LIKE HIM. HONESTLY how did he even get this job?!
As for the poster, its done what it was intended to do, spark debate and likely coax the liberal asshat media to start a race thing like they predictably would. If this was a racist thing...wouldn't it say something else accross the bottom? Steven is really just proving his own ignorance by totally missing the point of the poster. You might as well have put a confused photo of yourself next to it and simply wrote for the article, "i don't get it"...rather that thinking you got it, telling everyone what you think it means, then being told you're an idiot and you missed the point. I'm not left, i'm not right, i'm not even an American, so i can sit back and see how stupid this all is with a neutral opinion, i'm just smart enough to see that SPLITTING INTO LEFT AND RIGHT IS RETARDED, ALWAYS HAS BEEN RETARDED, AND ALWAYS WILL BE RETARDED. HOW BOUT BEING AN INDIVIDUAL!? I bet the vast majority of the people here aren't left or right either, they are neutral...or in other words, think for themselves and draw their own conclussions. If you don't, really, you're just a sheep thinking what you're told to think based on a small set of ideals.

Ah, no, liberals can't take a joke...but that being said, I think this is a pretty accurate statement of the joke Obama has pulled on all the people - real or imagined - who voted for him. He tricked them into that "hope and change" thing and now he hopes they don't notice that he is changing our republic into a socialist country. Ha, ha. :-(

Hey pc

102% of the US population think 499% of your facts suck dog balls.

But please, when you really need to make a point, CAPITALIZE, because that makes your point irrefutable, like your statistics.

Moron.

I guess you quickly forgot about the rendition you published of President Bush as a vampire! You people are total hypocrites!!!

Sounds like the worm is turning on the left. Sounds like they don't like it either.
Oh... Fin... well..

Only thing missing is a noose? I remember the Joker with machine guns, exploding cell phones inside a body, explosives wired to boats, a cute trick with a pencil, hand grenades, knives, flammable liquids, razor blades, shot guns, sharp broken pool cues but not a noose. Is that in the directors cut?

first

LA Weekly seemed to think (actually) hateful representations of politicians (actually) featuring nooses were pretty funny a few months ago:

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

It's the same old double standard. When the subject was Booooooosh!, such posters we "funny", "creative", "art", "clever", and the artists method of "speaking trooooof! to Pow-ah!"...

For 8 years DISSENT! was the highest form of patriotism...

But now, if the subject is Obama, the same kind of posters are suddenly "creepy", "malicious", racist!, "With a Jim Crow Quality to it that prompts us to ask, as Stepehen Colbert puts it, 'vomit, come on up'."

And funny, how suddenly Dissent! is no longer the highest form of Patriotism...

No, as Joey B. said, "Paying higher taxes is Patriotic"

Joey B.; he's got a million of 'em...

Hey Steven.......Need to get away?

Hey Steve-

How's you liberal California economy based on global warming crap and ridiculous liberal principles doing these days? How's the manufacturing base? You starting to catch on or are you stuck on stupid?

Fucking liberals. Never in the history of man have their principles worked but they don't give a rat fart. As long as they feel good about themselves for saving the whales or living white guilt their god of self-flagllation is appeased.

You happy now morons that you elected a race baiting fiscal idiot? Do you have any idea what the ramifications of multiple trillion dollar debt is?

Congratulations. You win. You have ended America as it was.

Think I'm wrong? Wait a few months.

fucking idiots

dear MORON,

you have no idea whether my statistics are true or false.

you really don't.

and i doubt you care.

because you're, well, a whiner. and you'd rather whine than learn.

you'd rather get yourself all worked up about things you don't understand.

you'd rather waste time complaining about a meazily (and shrinking) 2.1% of the economy.

f'ing whiner.

get an idea of what you're whining about before you whine.

pc.

liberal never works?

and conservative does?

you must have a very short memory.

bush destroyed america.

take responsibility for your vote.

stay home next election.

Funny how most everyone who reads this thought that Sarah Palin hanging with a noose was funny, ingenious, brilliant - Turnabout is fair play and elections have consequences.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

Never before has a magazine so effectively self-pwned as with this article.

Sarah Palin ACTUALLY with a noose around neck == Good.

Barack Obama with a noose only mentally inserted by racist columnist == Bad.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

How embarrassing.

you people are embarassing.

Take the word out and that would make a cool poster. Thanks REPUBES you fail again!

Are you serious?! This is the same magazine that featured a cover picture of Bush as a vampire nazi. How is this even racist?! Obama is a JOKE and he is a SOCIALIST. There is not one ounce of anything remotely indicating race. Clowns typically have snow white face with extremly bright makeup. That's not "white face". The liberal media are full of hypocrites! Obama is not a holy figure. He is a politician and what was good for Bush is good for this jackass of a President. Apprenlty Los Angeles is not ready to move on with the rest of the country. The hype of this joke of an administration is over. He is damaging our country, destroying jobs, and taxing everything that isn't nailed down. The shocker is that in all his historical glory, he may go down in history as the WORST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME. For the first time in my life, I am HUMILIATED BY MY PRESIDENT.

"stay home next election"

Ya, thats democracy...god you're an idiot.

Did the person you're arguing with even say they voted for Bush??? Or are you just making more assumptions?

CONSERVATIVES ARE GETTING TROLLED! I can't believe how easily the conservafags are trolled these days. Maybe they really have stopped evolving. Or maybe they are getting too wrapped up in their books of stories (the bibeel)

Ok you fucking halfwit, defend you positions.

>>pc. says:
liberal never works?

No, it ever has and I challenge you to state one place it ever has. One,

>>and conservative does?

Yea, you might not have noticed, moron, but those were the principles this country was not only founded upon but thrived on for hundreds of years. What started us on this suicidal spiral of crash, see socialism under Roosevelt.

I know, it's a crushing blow.

>>you must have a very short memory.

Because I am talking about Roosevelt and you are talking Bush? Are you mentally handicapped?

>>bush destroyed america.

Go make a paper mache head. Do you honestly think anyone who has an operating brain believes this shit? Be specific, not pathetic. But I warn you, come without facts and I will beat you down again,

>take responsibility for your vote.

Speak Truth to Power!!!eleventy!

>>stay home next election.

You first. I at least proved I am a sentient being.

You, not so much

the poster strikes a nerve in the statist. the statist cannot afford dissent as their leaders are hamhandedly implementing their compassionate fascism. they know that the crisis pretense can't last forever, so they panic when their leader is prematurely ridiculed before he can complete the enactment of his true statist agenda. so they panic. the simple and effective image of the joker represents the sham, the hidden agenda, the chip on the shoulder, and the narcissistic ambition. so they panic. they call it racist, tasteless. it is neither. it is derisive, and an accurate caricature of Obama's character. it is half true, like all good derision is. so they panic.

A noose?

Are you stupid?

Anybody remember this?
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/08/1666622_807e825a19.jpg

I guess it's okay to demonize a sitting president if you disagree with him, but making one look foolish (a play on his failed policies, hence the "joker") is a horrible example of racist conservatives. Right Steve?

How is it that you have a job if you are that flummoxed by satire?

Predictable. A poster about Obama being a lying socialist is somehow turned into a racist picture. I'm not sure how to make this clear, but every time someone criticizes a black man or arrests a black man, it isn't automatically racism.

Posts like these remind me that even the most feeble-minded butt crumbs with Internet Explorer can have a blog.

If that's not testament to the greatness of our country, I don't know what is.

LOL @ american political fanatasism, you have become the reality tv show to the rest of the world, i love this fear of socialism. your president wants to give you a public healthcare system. a good for everyone deal, except mabey big pharmacy, and the super rich, and you have the right wing screaming "Socialism!!!" How Dramatic .. hilarious. good to see the debate never seems to rise above the standards the jerry springer show set for our view of america.

What a cowardly disclaimer in the form of a righteous journalism?!!! It shows that you are abusing your post as a journalist to preserve your pettyness and closed minded beliefs that prevent you from criticizing Obama.

Bush hitler is ok, obama as joker is not.

I don't get it.

I'm an avid Obama supporter and even I enjoy this poster. I'll let the right-wingers have a field day with this because they're clearly ignorant if they think Obama's policies socialism. Ha I could only wish.

>> big pharmacy, and the super rich,''

Yes!! I have been waiting all night for this bullshit.

Please tell us great unwashed how big pharmacy and the super rich are destroying America. Please be specific, cite things we earthlings call facts. Otherwise, we will just think you're just another in a long line of douchebag liberals who spout shit with no idea what the fuck they are talking about.

Otherwise we will just think you are a hyper-emotional douchebag like all other liberals.

Waiting.

Mr. Mikulin, you're a hypocrite. Your periodical had no problem portraying Bush as a satanic vampire.

pc,

Here are some facts for you as well

Health care was around 17% of GDP in 2008. If Obama's plan were passed without substantial amendments, it would effectively nationalize around 1/6th of our national economy as employers drop insurance coverage for a public option that has government preferences and subsidies that make it difficult if not impossible for private plans to compete (thus leading to de facto nationalization even if not mandatory nationalization).

Moreover, at the current and projected rate of governmental spending--which far outstrips spending during the Bush years--under the watch of Democrats firmly in control of the presidency and Congress, the federal government is already on target even without nationalizing health care to reach a historically record level of spending as a percentage of GDP.

Finally, this economic mess did indeed begin to unfold during the Bush administration--as well as during a Democratically controlled session of Congress. In addition, the economic roots of this crisis can be traced back as far as the Clinton era. Bush may share part of the blame for what happened, but there is plenty left to assign to both parties and his Democratic predecessor. Any claim to the contrary is willful partisan ignorance.

"Bush hitler is ok, obama as joker is not.

I don't get it."

Liberalism is a mental disorder so you can not possibly ever get it. They play by this twisted,set of rules with no morals, however, if they see the opponent play by their rules they cry RACIST. As someone else so succinctly put it, they cheapen the word. Obama cheapened the word. There is no more racism except in their sick twisted heads. Race card has been overplayed starting with OJ and Jackson. Race baiters are out of business.

What an asshole. I'm sure wittle Stevie was chortling in delight when the faux Sarah Palin was hung at a West Hollywood house last fall. I guarantee wittle Stevie had nothing to say about it - except, I'm sure: "Oh, bubble-headed conservatives can't take a joke". You're a pathetic excuse for a reporter and the reason so many people aren't taking most journalists seriously.

WALLACE wrote: "CONSERVATIVES ARE GETTING TROLLED!"

Oh, that's rich--who shat a cyberbrick and posted a blog entry about it when he saw this poster? Who, pray tell, is trolling whom?

He's not even half-black. He's made a fortune trading off the grievances, now OH SO OLD, of the black community, but he's actually White/Arab. Where's the youtube of Kanye West shouting: BARACK....OBAMA...HATES....WHITE PEOPLE! Can't somebody set that one up?

PC wrote "Health care was around 17% of GDP in 2008. If Obama's plan were passed without substantial amendments, it would effectively nationalize around 1/6th of our national economy as employers drop insurance coverage for a public option that has government preferences and subsidies that make it difficult if not impossible for private plans to compete (thus leading to de facto nationalization even if not mandatory nationalization)."

Government took over social security, and how is that working out. Hey, lets give them 1/6 of the economy see how they do.

Well Well. You made Bush up in a Vampire garb. That seemed to be OK. why all upset now!

I guess that the shoe's on the other foot!

Steve - get over yourself you unimportant bag of driveling snot.
Dude- I'm from Chicago. I knew who he was.Barack only had the title of Community Organizer.
I've got news: he wasn't and didn't.
Wonder why he didn't release his grades? I don't.
Realize why he won't release his LSAT scores? I don't.
Creeps like you put an unqualified guy into office, and now you're digging in your heals cause you know you effed up.
Congrats, schmuck.
As a comm org, Obama played on the predjudice and stereotypes that you're shouldering for him here - noose indeed - shows what you think when you think of black people - maybe Freud was right after all.
You're not a reporter, you're just a commentator. My five-year-old kid does a better job than you.
Consider yourself lucky because the rest of the business world wouldn't give you a job, actually, it's a blessing in a way that more people don't have to work with you and your puffed-up fake disdain and phony self-importance.
You're a white liberal twit and your kind has caused more slavery with your "Progressive" way for years - putting blacks onto welfare, causing the demise of their families perpetuating the cycle of poverty.
I know your kind, you don't fool me.
If this were the Civil War, you'd be Lee's Aide-de-Camp.
Jerk.

Ah, never heard of "parody?" Where's the change? You still have no sense of humor.

He's the post-racial president until you need to hide behind silly anachronistic charges of "lynching." Doing him in white face might offend your sense of the sunlight glinting off his bronzed splendor, but it's not a death threat.

Politics ain't bean bag. Bring a cup.

You all seem to forget that Bush WAS like a Vampire, whereas President Obama is not like the Joker.

As for the noose comment, I just know that any time a conservative sees a picture of Obama, he or she is thinking lynching.

Hope that clears it up.

WTF

Liberals mocked Bush for years - they can deal with their blessed "messiah" being mocked for the joke that he is.

I can't wait to go to the Office Depot and get stuff to make these posters with! This is too fun!

It still counts if I put them up in the Valley, right?

Most of the conservative vitriol in these comments is just as bad as the article.

But yes, as someone who usually falls very left of the center on most issues, I think this article is retarded. The "noose" comment is race-baiting. That said, I think most halfway-intelligent liberals don't play the race card. It's unfair to criticize the left for it's stupid members and ignore the intelligent ones but expect the left to ignore the Fred Phelps and other idiots in the right. Stupid people always have stupid opinions, no matter if they agree with yours or not.

Image is not offensive at all, except maybe with the fact that people calling Obama 'socialist' is pure sensationalism if they know what real socialism actually is and how much it differs from Obama's stance.

Check out Vanity Fair with Bush as the Joker.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

owie mommie says:

I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked.

They can cry through their bloody little repuke mouths about my lack of a sense of humor, and I'll be laughing as I walk away.

News flash for ya slick, you won't be walking anyplace, you will be lucky to simply have a limp and a persistent ringing in your ears- But my money is on your being vertical as you exit. I get to carry due to my profession, so you can bet I know how to use it.

So bring it on tough guy- let's see how brave you really are. What? No sense of humor??

I would rather be a Socialist Liberal than a Fascist Republican.

Race card? You are a moron.

Heath was white and they painted his face white for the joker role.

People like you continue to promote racism by these idiotic statements.

What is Obamas's approval with actual (not ACORN lowlifie) voters, 38%? This early? Those are Carter numbers.

Ha ha...Hoo ho. Ha ha... hee he..

ha

Is that racist?

Blow me.

yeah, socialism.
then you cut your finger off and have no insurance. you've spent your money some other way and now have no insurance. gonna stay without a finger?!

You all seem to forget that Bush WAS like a Vampire, whereas President Obama is not like the Joker.

As for the noose comment, I just know that any time a conservative sees a picture of Obama, he or she is thinking lynching.

The stance that Obama is not like the Joker is up for debate.

It sounds to me that anytime YOU see a picture of Obama YOU are thinking of lynching. It's your article, man. Stand behind the words you write. Quit blaming conservatives for your racism.

The only thing missing from that poster is the tag line:

"Why sssooo sssocialist?"

owie mommie says:

I come across somebody sporting this image, I'm punching them in the teeth, no questions asked.

They can cry through their bloody little repuke mouths about my lack of a sense of humor, and I'll be laughing as I walk away.

Time and place, shiteater.

Sorry for the double-post. This needed correcting:
(To the Admin: A preview option would be nice!)
"You all seem to forget that Bush WAS like a Vampire, whereas President Obama is not like the Joker.

As for the noose comment, I just know that any time a conservative sees a picture of Obama, he or she is thinking lynching."

RESPONSE:

The stance that Obama is not like the Joker is up for debate.

It sounds to me that anytime YOU see a picture of Obama YOU are thinking of lynching. It's your article, man. Stand behind the words you write. Quit blaming conservatives for your racism.

Steve C wrote: "That said, I think most halfway-intelligent liberals don't play the race card."

Well, there you have it, folks--a self-described liberal confirms what some of us already suspected about Obama given his handling of a certain local citizen-police dispute about 12 days ago.

"Can't liberals take a joke?"

No

Hah, Republicans doing what they do best, bitching about liberals bitching about conservatives. One columnist says something stupid and half the right-wing internet has to comment?

Who's flipping out again, and who trolled who? Well, my guess is Stevie is paid to get people to this website. Who paid all the Culture Warriors? I think I found another layer to the joke...why, so serious!

Lynchings aren't funny! It's outrageous somebody would publish photos of lynchings, or photos like this which are close to it. You don't mock political leaders, you shameful people. It's disgusting. If I caught some shiteater in the act of publishing a depiction of a lynching, mocking out a serious political leader like that, I'd punch them in the mouth, the racist bastard. Lynching isn't funny.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

Ps. Pwned.

BTW.. found the noose you were looking for.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

rofl the only thing making this racist is all the idiots who somehow think this could possibly be racist.

by the way, Obama is more of a joker(actor) than a president. Think hes doing a good job? stop watching mainstream media and actually look around and do research for your news.

stop the party bs and look around, they're both wolves in different costumes, guess who the sheep are.

Why so Stimulus?

Seriously, this caricature is quite accurate in depicting the clown that is destroying our country and pissing on our founding fathers.

Sign me up for 10,000 of them.

Steve,
Remember that warm, fuzzy, self-satisfied feeling you got when you saw Bush-as-Hitler posters? Well, I get that feeling every time I see a poster of your beloved Egobama, being made fun of. It is simply delicious! Thanks for posting this.

If the L.A. Weakly does not put this on the cover of this week's issue than they are left wing chodes! You guys have YET to publish anything slightly criticizing this guy. I know I've been WATCHING. You chowder heads put Bush on the cover in 2004 having fangs and blood coming off those fangs. Let's see if you give Obama the same treatment if you dare!

Where can I buy a few of these? I want to paste them up around my town.

Snicker wrote: "Well, my guess is Stevie is paid to get people to this website."

This is true, and I am sure that the impression rate for their online ads spiked through the roof today. I would not be surprised if this rag got more hits in today due to this blog entry than it typically averages in a month. The idea that this was intentional, though--as if Mr. Mikulan actually planned to draw traffic rather than just elicit clucking from the echo chamber that this blog appears to be on a more normal day--is likely imputing far more credit to him than is actually due.

LA Daily may get to use the stats from today to raise its ad rates next month--only to have the impressions plummet afterward as it settles back into its regular local media niche.

"I would rather be a Socialist Liberal than a Fascist Republican."

Too bad the path to Socialist Liberal involves enacting fascist policies.

"The idea that this was intentional, though...is likely imputing far more credit to him than is actually due."

Oh, I don't know. Most pundits on the left or right don't sell books based on well-reasoned arguments, they do so by inflaming passions. Maybe Stevie learned a thing or two, not just in the initial value of shock, but also in a predictability of it. How many of these jokers will come back the next time he says something, and the time after?

"Rich says:

"I would rather be a Socialist Liberal than a Fascist Republican."

Too bad the path to Socialist Liberal involves enacting fascist policies.

If I only had a golf-clap link... :D

Anonymous Monday, Aug. 3 2009 @ 9:09PM was me.

Sincerely,
Republican fascist racist misogynistic hypocritical Bible-thumping evil Bushitler Nazi warmongering murderous jingoistic unfeeling unthinking insensitive retarded stupid dumb idiotic Ditto-head FOX/FAUX-news-junkie Coulter/Limbaugh/Hannity/O'Reilly-loving guns-clingering mouth-breathing NASCAR fan Repube Republipuke GUPpy poor-exploiting class-envious capitalist trailer-trash silver-spoon redneck greedy lower-class rich white male liberty-hating whiny mean-spirited cruel torturing unilateralist cowboy

I'm sure I missed a few descriptors there that Steven Mikulan and his friends can round out.

Anyone wanna bet Steven was the first person to bring up the idea of a noose being added to the photos. Yes, he went there, even though there was no earthly reason to.

It's simply the knee-jerk, reflexive, thoughtless meme of the weaker members of the left: You criticize my guy, it's racism - so shut up so I don't have to address any real issues.

Steven likely would have been offended by anything short of a pic of Obama with a halo or a crown on his head.

>>"I would rather be a Socialist Liberal than a Fascist

Get ready for pay back you dumb fuck. Did you really thin those of us who worked our asses off to make something would just give it up to you lazy cunts because you have feelings?

Feel this.

Please point out the numerous articles I am sure Mr. Mikulan wrote condemning the cartoon of Condoleeza Rice as a parrot in black face, or the articles showing George W. Bush as Hitler, or a chimp.

You know the Dear Leader's Presidency is in trouble when His defenders can do nothing better than play the race card when their Messiah is ridiculed.

"As for the noose comment, I just know that any time a conservative sees a picture of Obama, he or she is thinking lynching. "

Faux journalist and psychic to boot!

For those of you wishing to copy the Obama-as-Joker poster, and make your own copies to put up, check page 2 of the comments here: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/03/obama-as-joker-selective-outrage-from-la-weekly/#idc-ctools

Re: "Get ready for pay back you dumb fuck. Did you really thin those of us who worked our asses off to make something would just give it up to you lazy cunts because you have feelings?..."

-------------------------------------------

You summed up the feelings of the silent majority in this country very nicely. Thank you.

And no we aren't thinking lyching Stevie boy. We are just thinking about the great nation that was America being destroyed by a half wit socialist community organizer and the 52% of the American electorate stupid enough to vote for him.

Snicker wrote: "How many of these jokers will come back the next time he says something, and the time after?"

I'm afraid that the law of diminishing returns will quickly become operative on this site for many of today's first (and only) time visitors--as fun as beating up this schmuck has been, I just don't see this site offering much incentive to justify the future effort of a mouse-click even when allowing for forthcoming blog entries that oh-so-edgily poke the right.

I still think that Mikulan got lucky in shining the spotlight on LA Daily today in the same way that a person causing a ten-car accident at the intersection near his house gets "lucky" in shining the spotlight on his otherwise unremarkable neighborhood. People stand around for a while to gawk at and talk about the accident, but nothing about the place makes them want to hang out for long.

Steve, why didn't you object to the Bush Vampire cover that you creeps ran? You lying hypocrite. LA Weakly can dish it out, but you sure can't take it. Whiners and liars, no place but da' LA Weakly.

Hey Brian; Are you saying that if they had put a noose on the poster you would consider that racist? Why? Are you saying only blacks are the only one's in history to ever be hung? I'm pretty sure every color, every race has had a few hanging in the past. The fact that you automatically equate certain images as being racist makes you a racists. Get over yourself man. And, yeah the noose would have been cool on the poster...as in hang the joker... no some stupid racist thing Brian is going on about. Hey what if they had put a bullet hole in his head? Would that be racist? What ways can you kill a black man in a poster and not have it be racist?

Ok, for the sake of everyone else, please stop writing these racially-infused articles. They are a bit immature. I concur with all of the other posters:
"can do nothing better than play the race card when their Messiah is ridiculed."
"A noose?? Don't you shrill, Obama-sucking Libs ever tire of picking that race scab?"
"The only thing missing is "THE NOOSE?" That is incredibly insulting, and very racist. The poster has nothing to do with the man's race!"
"Just because BHO is HALF-black, you're going to pull the race card? Pathetic."

I would have liked a Bush version of this just as much. I don't particularly approve of one poison over the other...

Ok, for the sake of everyone else, please stop writing these racially-infused articles. They are a bit immature. I concur with all of the other posters:
"can do nothing better than play the race card when their Messiah is ridiculed."
"A noose?? Don't you shrill, Obama-sucking Libs ever tire of picking that race scab?"
"The only thing missing is "THE NOOSE?" That is incredibly insulting, and very racist. The poster has nothing to do with the man's race!"
"Just because BHO is HALF-black, you're going to pull the race card? Pathetic."

I would have liked a Bush version of this just as much. I don't particularly approve of one poison over the other...

We surround you, little stevie.

Ronny, have you noticed that L.A. Weekly is a Scene and Style paper yet? I doubt they care if anyone takes their news and opinion too seriously. Piggybacking this poster got them noticed, and I think (being in entertainment) they know the value of that.

Actually, Dude23, if someone in an artistic representation drew or painted a noose around the neck or a bullet in the head of any sitting president, it could arguably be construed as an actionable threat against the president under USC 18:871.

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00000871----000-.html

That did not stop many on the left from indulging in assassination fantasies during the Bush era, though, and I don't recall many of their comrades taking them to task for it.

Snicker, getting noticed does not do much good even for a rag like this one if it does not have sticking power. I doubt that even "Scene and Style" papers want to be flashes in the pan--in fact, I would expect them to fear that fate more than your more traditional fate, especially in LA.

Steve...You suck!

The race card won't fly on this one.. the Joker POTUS is laughing at all those who swallowed his campaign promises & pledges to then place him in power, and again at those who continue to bite at his disingenuous bait lines (ie. he doesn't like big government, you can keep the healthcare & insurance you like, etc) while his other statements & actions contradict those deceptions.
Anyone who mistakes this poster artwork as racism is a complete moron devoid of rational thinking.
Rejection of Obama's statism through this artwork is quite creative.

Why so serious, Liberals?

stop the hate! sounds like 3rd grade name calling, only with political content.

was the country better before Obama started? hard to say.

why don't we all just get educated, go to work, go to the gym, invest in renewable energy and manufacturing and shut the f*ck up.

jillian/jeff wrote: "I would have liked a Bush version of this just as much."

You're in luck: as has been pointed out repeatedly in this thread, Vanity Fair served up a depiction of Bush as the Joker on July 29, 2008. The reaction from the Left to that work of art was, not surprisingly, the polar opposite of their reaction to The One being subjected to a similar treatment.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

How come conservative posters immediately assumed that the noose reference was a reference to racism?

defensive much?

nom says:

"shut the f*ck up."

You first.

What an idiot! This looks nothing like that communist propaganda style "DOPE" poster!

F@@cking Libs always see racist when you don't follow their lies and crap! Lighten up dipshit! Can we now put up pictures of chimps next to pictures of Obie like all the lib heads did for Bush?? Oh, now that would be "racist".
How about a little Hitler mustache like they did on Bush?? Or How about Hanging an Obama doll like they did for Bush and Palin.
Can't you take a JOKE??

It is just a head shot of the Idiot with a little extra paint, GET OVER IT and stop your whining and crying!

I LOVE the image! I am looking to get some posters to post all over LA!!
The PEOPLE need to see this EVERYWHERE!

You do know that Obie is only half Black, right??
This LIBeral cry "racist" thing is old!

Conservatives, libs—GET OVER IT! For 233 years we've been doing this, why does every little thing have to be so serious?

I'm a liberal Obama supporter, but rather than get offended (OMG, someone doesn't think Obama walks on water?!?) I found myself admiring the photshopping. I mean, look at it—they did pretty well!

nobody.

beatdown?

really?

that's a very generous, self-inflated assessment of what you provided.

without insults and typical right wingnut ad hominem attacks, you've succeeded in proving nothing.

nothing.

i'll say it again:

bush broke america. and the world.

and you helped with your ill-informed ballot.

conservatives just don't want to take responsibility for a failed belief system.

you had a majority from 96-06, yet you blame 06-09.

convenient, right?

your boys did whatever they wanted for 6 years!

and you blame it all on 7 months of obama.

so weak willed.

so weak minded.

stop blaming clinton.

stop ridiculing obama.

it's weak.

it's whiny.

and you're stupid if you think this country was founded on one schol of thought.

take responsibility for your vote.

or stay home.

you clearly have no idea what you're doing.

pc.

Fits his like a glove

Yo Steve, spit out Obama's cock and get a real job!

shut up about the race card here is a good quote
Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America.

I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America. Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them. I would have to be wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!" Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person. So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.

November 6, 2008

Yo Steve, Spit out Obama's C0CK and get a real job! Then add a second smile to your face, pretend to put a noose around your head, and cry racism. Then go Fu

This is the genius of Obama: He knows we are too nice for our own good (just like Al Queda). And so you pussywhipped liberals vote for a (somewhat) black man to assuage your conscience. But none of B.O.'s peeps were slaves, they came straight to us out of that shithole called Africa. ALL of my peeps DIED freeing the slaves, and I have never done anything bad to anybody on account of their color. So my conscience is clear. Sorry the rest of you can't pull your head out of your asses long enough to study a little history. Wake up fuckers.

Obama the best president ever!!!!1!

Anyone want a T-shirt? Come and get 'em. Don't want a T-shirt? Get a coffee mug.

Lawn signs and bumper stickers coming tomorrow :)

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Get fucked, you diaper wearing lefty crybabies. Just this January you had a picture of Sarah Palin ACTUALLY wearing a noose and you seemed just fine with it.

Here it is. http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

Project much?

Pussies.

Here is a high resolution version of the image
and history of its creation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/79583123@N00/3787214033/

For those of you who don't "get it".. one of the similarities between Batman's Joker and Obama as Joker is the Cloward-Piven strategy of manufactured crisis.

Republican activists at their finest, using big angry buzzwords just like their a.m. radio heroes! Which one of them is directing you here and feeding you the talking points so you can talk like big boys?

if you're wondering why there are so many conservatives on this avowedly leftist site complaining about openly leftists sentiment (suprise!), it's because brightbert (sp?) linked to it on Big Hollywood. This many crazy people DO NOT READ THE WEEKLY.
Having said that, i think calling the image racist is about as inaccurate as calling Obama's policies socialism (although i think that the use of that term w/ respect to Obama's policies has, in part, been determined by the man's race).

Love the poster! Obama is the worst. What a naive, arrogant twit.

Why so spurious?

http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002100.html

UH OH! SOMEBODY GOT THEM SOME PHOTOSHOP! LOOKOUT SHEP FAIREY!

...20 YEARS LATER, RIGHT WING DOPES FINALLY DISCOVER PHOTOSHOP!

Ha! The Narcissist in Chief will be shitting his diaper!

We get it, you morons. ANY and ALL criticism of this crooked chicago commie is racism. Of course!

You all seem to forget that Bush WAS like a Vampire, whereas President Obama is not like the Joker.

As for the noose comment, I just know that any time a conservative sees a picture of Obama, he or she is thinking lynching.

Hope that clears it up.

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ObamaJoker=Racism
MonkeyStatueOfBush=ComedyGold
CuriousGeorgeObama=Racism
DerisionOfBush/PalinChildren=FairGame
DerisionOfAmyChelseaSashaMalia=Racism

Did I miss anything, Steve?

man, i am neither liberal nor conservative. i did not vote for obama. in fact, i didn't vote at all.

every single one of you name calling retards deserves to die with this country, which is what is going to happen IF WE KEEP ARGUING OVER STUPID THINGS LIKE POSTERS. they ONLY GIVE AS MUCH MEANING AS YOU WANT THEM TO HAVE. GET OVER IT.

p.s. i think that the poster looks pretty cool. but then, i also think that a sarah palin effigy is pretty cool :)

All Your Obama belong to us.

Silly non-progressives. Don't you know that it's just not rational to hold the President in disdain? You throw words around like "socialism", when we all know what you are really talking about.

And please stop bringing this up:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/08/1666622_807e825a19.jpg

What's good for we, not thee. Do as we say, not as we do.

LA weekly, all that's missing's a noose?
Lighten up! Can we not poke fun at a black president like we do a white president? Get real.
Why so serious?

I'm neither conservative nor liberal - ha, in fact I'm not even an American, so maybe I can take a bit more of an objective approach here than all the other comments (btw, they were very amusing indeed, kudos guys!).

I find this poster to be really cool actually, it is a good piece of political commentary that plays on the fears that the right wing people have about Obama. It's not fair to say it's a racial slur or attack, it's simply a good depiction of what a retarded majority of Americans think Obama is turning America into.

Yes, thinking that Obama will turn America into the next communist country, is retarded - believe me, I live in China and it definitely takes a lot more to turn people into communists than a health plan and a stimulus package that is neither stimulating nor has a package.

It's so easy to play on fear, no matter what side you're on, it's the easiest thing to do. In all fairness, the conservatives play the "fear" card way more than the liberals. But I guess it has to be like that. That's why that one dude (who also was once you president) once said: "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself", he was trying to get the message through that people only understand fear and should therefore be milked for it.

So here's one for the righties - chill out, this is not a racial attack, everyone is a racist if small things like these are racist attacks. It's political free speech, go learn a new word today, one that will help not say "racist" next time.

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Anything to help that socialist bastard fail is alright by me....

Again ignorance is spreading throughout our country. People who do not even know what socialism is or consider the fact that this administration has been in control for a total of 7 months. It is all just a game. All these insults and comments regarding conservative and liberal are ludicrous. You guys bitch and moan about how the other party is destroying this country while the wealthiest of the US reap the benefits.

Understand the majority of the populace in this country is MIDDLE CLASS. There is no reason for bickering amongst each other. If you guys even give two shits about this country you should stop with this elementary name calling and work together. Screw social issues no one gives a damn. Education, Infrastructure, and Healthcare. We tackle those problems first. Cut the massive defense budget and appropriate more money to education and medical/health/science fields. Our infrastructure is crumbling in front of our very eyes and all of us are so distracted by all this shallow unimportant BS

:P Why so serious lads? Someone was bound to use Heath's face for something....

Missing a moose? You've been spending too much time thinking about Alaska, Steve.

Hey, remember the Shepard Fairey Bush as vampire LA Weekly cover? Now that was art, homies.

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting their labors under the pretense of taking care of them." Thomas Jefferson

Not socialism? Technically correct, but:

-Government ownership of the largest insurance company [AIG] as well as their debts. We don't even know the extent there yet.

-Government ownership of two of the "Big Three".

-Virtual government ownership of some of the largest banks, and their debts [again, we don't know how much yet].

-An attempted government takeover of the energy sector [cap & tax BS].

-An attempted takeover of 1/6 of the economy and then some [healthcare].

-A tax/spend/pork orgy.

I've missed some things but this illustrates most of our concern. The growth of the collective is close enough to socialism for many of us.

And yes, it started under Bush and we weren't happy then, but now it's growing exponentially, like the f'n blob, if I may use another comic book reference.

Where was your outrage when it was Bush being portrayed on your cover as a vampire? Or when the movies promoting a Bush assasination came out? Your outrage is hilarious.

And YoMama is spending the country into bankruptcy and they don't even have any idea what is going on around them

Does anyone in the US know the meaning of Socialism or Communism? Or does everyone just go by the myth that they Socialism = Communism = Evil?

Everyone in US is crying about the health care crisis, they want it to be like that of France/Canada, which is a socialist approach, but no one in US likes socialism/communism.

This is crazy! US school syllabus needs to be revised else a new generation of hypocrites will be born.

There's no racial aspect to this political satire, so why are you going there? It's the JOKER, see? In white face! With red lips! Like Heath Ledger. You had no trouble making that connection, right? So how does the Joker play into Obama's race? And why is it always the liberals, who are breaking their arms patting themselves on the back for being post-racial, who insist on cramming race into where it clearly has no place as an issue? Get Over It. Is Obama off limits as a target of satire because he's black? Ridiculous.

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Generally, no. No one here knows what socialism or communism are. I've spent long hours trying to explain it, but no one gets is.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07...
Funny how the left thought this was funny.
My God you can't make this stuff.

Cool! Where can you buy these?

Stop hyperventilating Steve and let the adults discuss race and satire and the difference between the two.

And intellectual consistency...We're going to discuss that also. Waaaaaay above your head, Stevie my boy.

As an African American I take more offense to your reference to the noose than the poster even evokes in me. It seems to me that this was just a comparison of Obama to a silly fictional criminal and that it had nothing to do with race. Don't really see the need in bringing it up....

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html
Sorry, maybe this joker worked.

Did Mikulan even read the American Thinker post he referred to as being 'in the throes of political orgasm'?

"It is starting. Open mockery of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly, middle-of-the-roader.

Via Tammy Bruce, Atlas Shrugged and Newsbusters (three terrific conservative sites) and Bedlam Magazine (an arts site) comes news of a poster spreading across Los Angeles, depicting Obama as a Heath Ledger Joker, and carrying the caption "Socialist."

Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters includes pictures of the actual posters in use:

There will more of this. Count on it. Obama's cool image is so 2008. It's a long way down from lowering the oceans to laughingstock."

That was it, the entire post.

This is an ogasm? Can you say hyperbole?

"LaHencheMann says:

...20 YEARS LATER, RIGHT WING DOPES FINALLY DISCOVER PHOTOSHOP! "

20 years later, YOU'RE STILL AN UNEMPLOYED MORON WITH NO FUTURE AND AN UTTER AND TOTAL FAILURE!

Typical knee-jerk liberal reactionary dribble. Nevermind Bush as Joker, Bush as Saturn Devouring his Children--nevermind the Bush assassination chic cottage industry these very same liberals incited. Don't dare criticise the great Obama, or whining losers like Mikulan will brand you a racist. Ugh.

I am a black woman and very sensitive to what I perceive as racial slurs. To me this is not racism ,but satire. I blog like crazy ,but when I saw this form of roasting, I just shrugged. The unfortunate thing is, that as I have cruised the blogosphere, people don't seem to know what a socialist is. Once a name is thrown to the pavement, it sticks even when the monicker doesn't even make sense

I guess LA Weekly doesn't remember this cover... (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2009/08/1666622_807e825a19.jpg)

Does it not even bother you that YOUR OWN fishwrap had a cover of Bush as a vampire? No outrage there, right?

OK, so maybe the Joker is a taboo subject. If Bush would have been portrayed as the Joker, THEN you would have been mad, right?

Well...no, not so much:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Hypocrisy: it's not just for breakfast anymore.

It’s not about humor, it’s about dissent. That’s what makes it important enough to attack so vociferously.

"Eli says:

Generally, no. No one here knows what socialism or communism are. I've spent long hours trying to explain it, but no one gets is."

that's because while you're sitting around in your bedroom in your mom's basement debating semantics and philosophical points, the rest of us are living in the real world and dealing with the implications of the current political structure. we don't have time for your drivel.

Am I sensing a trend here? 400+ posts and very few see your "noose" angle. Steven,could you just be a dishonest, fake offended, race baiting whiner?

What does a noose have to do with Batman? Um, nothing. On the other hand, http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

Sarah Palin in a noose was a-ok and quite amusing.

Really Steve? A noose? Go cry to your mommie already, you are writing for the same toilet paper rag that published Bush looking like a vampire with a demonic pentagram on his collar. Where was your outrage then?

Oh that's right, I'm sorry, I forgot that you have ZERO journalistic integrity, that you forgot to REPORT news and instead give worthless opinions to people who couldn't care less.

How small you and your paper have become.

Funny how Steve Mikulan the wonderful superior to us perfect left liberal mentioned a noose. No one else did. It's complcated, Doctor. Got it..no one is allowed to laugh at The Obamessiah. Liberal nuance. Well, the joker laughs at you, ya phony. Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com.

It's obviously not racist. Mikulan is just honoring his obligation to continue LAW's tradition of being low-blow knee-jerk liberals.

The poster is not even an attack on Obama personally. Contrary to what most of the media reports have stated, the caption is "Socialism", not "Socialist". It depicts Socialism as the sinister Joker, and only that Obama is the one presently behind the mask.

Actually the problem with the poster is that it got it exactly backwards. In reality, Obama is not wearing the mask of Socialism, Socialism is wearing the mask of Obama.

The entertaining thing the poster has brought out is the hypocrisy of liberals indignantly proclaiming that the office of President deserves more respect, after a) arguing that it was OK for Bill Clinton to get a blow job in the office, and b) their 8 years of vicious attacks on George Bush, which are well-referenced above.

THE FOLKS AT THE LA WEEKLY ARE A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITICAL TURDS.

you SUCK, go be a crappy journalist someplace else.

Here for the Dugg photo, not for your "talents". Your obviously kissing the echo-chambers ass just for the applause it makes. "that turns you on, doesn't it". Your assuming I don't support the Prez, I do.

I just hate fear mongers. There are better places to fish, just look around and I am sure you will find anothers shtick to represent.

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Actually, Stevie, you pompous little piss ant it's not whether you can take a joke, (We all know you commie libs can't), but how funny you libs are when you start whining about someone doing what you libs did to Bush for years.

You and your fellow anti-American libs are a pathetic joke. This includes your Messiah, King Hussein.

Great Pic. Getting T-shirts made. Political Activism is not just for the left any more.

I will hand you a box of Kleenex for your whiney tears! C'mon get a sense of humor man!

Here is the synopsis from The Dark Knight. Given the Obama poster is in reference to that movie would it not be prudent to also assume the noose comment is also referencing the same movie?

"When the mayor asks if Dent is ready to be the city's target the dead body of a Batman wanna-be hanging by a noose slams against the mayor's window dressed up in a Batman suit, with makeup on his face like the Joker's - complete with the sides of the mouth sliced into a grin - and with a Joker card pinned to him reading 'Will the real Batman please stand up?'"

But don't let that stop the Republicans screaming and shouting about racism. At the very least, given it's the Republicans who are by far the most racist group, it's not much to be proud of bringing into the limelight an article making a passive reference to this fact.

1) Republicans have a history of racism.
2) Someone makes reference to it.
3) Republicans jump up and down spouting on about racism.

Really slick.

I don't see this as racist... confusing yes, racist no.

The jokers character in that movie was an anarchist... about as far away on the spectrum of political ideologies as you can get from socialism.

It also simply says "socialism," like it's implied to be a bad thing, which in my opinion, is also stupid.

Also, the joker was cool... so, Obama is now double cool?

I would hang this up on my wall, but not as an insult haha.

Steve: All you had to do was Google image search for Bush Joker and you would got about a bazillion results. No nooses though.

Cripes, you really are a tool.

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Tony Hocken you are a brainwashed progressive brownshirt. White Democrats are the real racists. They want every minority on welfare and under state control. You never hear a Democrat who say they want the Black community to take care of themselves and get off the public teat do ya. No! They treat them like children who cannot take care of themselves.

Obama is president of the student government not the USA.

Vanity Fair did the same Joker Photoshop to Bush and there was no outrage. Here is the image from 2008:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Why the hand-wringing now????

Anthony Hocken,
Wouldnt he be dressed as BATMAN with the joker mask, rather than just the joker mask?

1) Democrats have a history of racism.
2) Someone makes reference to it.
3) Democrats go to the media and cry about how racist the Republicans are.

Really smooth.

Hell where do I get some so I can put them up???

I am more than willing to follow the same standards of "civil" discourse established by the left over the last 8 years. This means obama the frauds head on monkeys, demons, in hitler suits, eating small children and being executed including decapitaion. Not that I plan to kill obama the idiot. I do not. But given the standard set by liberals and progressives over the last 8 years, I sure can draw it.

Hmmm, this is where the right wing cowards hide from major sites. BLAR KENYA OBAMA SOCIALISM BLARGLE. Move to Alaska, Secede from the union, and STFU. In addition, burn...

I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC... wait, i didnt say DEMOCRACY.

This country has lost it's way, being lead by Democrats who belive life should be 'fair'. We reward laziness and call it welfare. We kill our unborn and call it choice. We abuse power and call it politics. We ridicule our forefathers' values and call it enlightenment.

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Why so serious?

Why are leftist so racist? Every time they think of black people, they mention nooses...

Sad really. Don't they know that its the 21st century. Move on from tradition. Racist democrats are so passe.

Why so serious, Stephanie?

Some men just like to see the world burn.

i think he looks awesome like that. if anything it makes me like him more.

You all may have misinterpreted the artists meaning. It s an Obama SUPPORT poster!

I was born and raised in a third world country with no government to speak off. Very low taxes and a capitalist system on top of that. And even after decades of that system the country is in complete disarray and going nowhere.
I say this to highlight how idiotic it is for people to keep harping for less government since most people in this country truly have never been to a country with "less government". Furthermore, the most successful countries,with the highest standard of living, are those that have very strong government not the other way around.

Name that country ReadBeforeYouSpeak because I think you're making shit up.

Name that country, ReadBeforeYouSpeak, because I think you're making shit up.

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There's nobody as snarky or smarmy as a leftist "journalist", which is to say, almost all of them.

Poor little sissy gay boys, don't mind sitting on your fat arses and tossing rocks at Bush, oh, it's so "patriotic" to protest, but when it comes to real Americans protesting the naked Marxist debacle this 'Joker' is 'leading' us towards, then, oh, boo hoo, it's not nice, it's not fair, it's mean....

You leftist scum are a complete pantload. Get a clue, get a life, and move to the DPRK with the rest of the Stalinist degenerates.

Yet another whiny pussy. Have you ever looked at the cover of your own publication dipshit?

I'm going to treat Obama no better than the Libs did to Bush. That's the standard isn't it? You wanted equality? You got it.

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NAME THAT COUNTRY, ReadBeforeYouSpeak, OR ARE YOU MAKING SHIT UP?

Seriously? After some of the caricatures published of President Bush, including by you guys, you're going to take issue with another "artist" creating a similarly unflattering image of a decidedly worse president?

Actually i think Obama is more like bush than the joker... Actually Obama is a lot like Bush

The agent of chaos runs America

You are nothing but a rabid hyhpocrite.

I agree that the Steven's opinions may be obscuring a more objective report of the situation. Of course, I am not familiar with this online publication, and, since this is a blog, maybe it is in fact an appropriate place for his opinion. This is suspicious to me--a poster meant to inspire fear. I wonder who put these up and who paid for it. It is certainly tasteless and stupid. Ooooh socialism.... spooooky.

I would think most young people in America, especially those who like Obama, are going to love this poster. Young people almost cultishly adored Heath Ledger's Joker. So, to make up the President as the Joker isn't a bad thing.

The election is over and I feel like America has taken a side. You either love Obama or you just flat out hate him.

wasn't the Joker more of an Anarchist then socialist? I don't remember him trying to re-distribute wealth, nor hoard it for himself... he just burned it all. Very inaccurate poster.

PS: I voted Obama and I still support him, and yeah, this is in somewhat bad taste but so were a lot of Bush-bashing posters. I just ignore this sort of crap because its found on both sides of the isle and serves no purpose whatsoever except to incite hate or anger instead of focusing on any real issues.

All this proves is that the creator of the poster either doesn't know what socialism is, but then again 99% of American's don't, or has never seen the Dark Knight.

Boo hoo hoo widdle Steven is all upset! Funny how when Bush was being compared to everything from a monkey to Hitler it was the Republicans that couldn't take a joke! One thing about The Left that has ALWAYS been consistent: they can dish it out but they can't take it!

Racist? Ridiculous.

Where can I buy some of these posters? I want to put some up in Texas. Let's get this going interstate.

What does socialism have to do with the Joker?

Dumb ass. Way to pull the race card.

Ass hats.

obama's such a whitey...

No offense intended to you because for all I know you might be a decent human being, but this post is absurd. If that was intentional then you certainly succeeded!

I think someone needs to revoke the race card, especially when it's used as a trump card out of turn, whether it's the joker or the ace of spades.

Hey Steve, you put up the posters, didn't you? ;o)

Obama: “Do I really look like a man with a plan, America? I don’t have a plan. The mob has plans, the cops have plans. you know what I am, Harvey? I’m a dog chasing cars. I wouldn’t know what to do with one if I caught one. I just DO things. I’m a wrench in the gears. I HATE plans. Yours, theirs, everyone’s. Republicans have plans, Democrats have plans. Schemers trying to control their worlds. I am not a schemer. I show schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are. So when I say that what happened to you and your girlfriend wasn’t personal, you know I’M telling the truth”
”It’s a schemer who put you where you are America. You were a schemer. You had plans. Look where it got you. I just did what I do best-I took your plan and turned it on itself. Look what I have done to this country with a few the help of my lapfog journalists and a of laws. Nobody panics when the expected people got killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plans are horrifying. --------- I AM AN AGENT OF CHAOS. And you know the thing about chaos, America. It’s fair.”

You sure didn't have a problem when a Palin caricature was hanged, you hypocrit.

You sure didn't have a problem when a Palin caricature was hanged, you hypocrite.

wait. i don't get it. was the joker a socialist? i don't remember him talking about universal healthcare..

As a deeply Conservative (not Retardlican - CONSERVATIVE) man, I personally LOVE when lib-Cong react like this.

It shows anyone with 2 working brain-cells (1) the inherent bias in the lap-dog media and (2) the lengths said auto-fellators will go to find racism in any argument.

I don't hate him because he's part-black, I hate him because he's ALL RED. His race has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Further, this man has led a life of privilege, and if his skin was a factor at all in his first 46 years it was only more grease for the skids until it swept him right into the white-house.

Better stand up sooner or later - you're going to wear out those knee-pads.

It's hysterical to me the way you morons react any time someone insults your kool-aid flavored lollipop!

DD

The only noose is the one that Obama has tied around the United States of America.

The masses are finally waking up--DESPITE the obama worship propaganda of the government media complex.

So.. This isn't news, or at least it wasn't reported as such. To me it is obvious that this is a statement about where the country is headed, and instead of the nice friendly looking propaganda posters we are all so accustomed to, this is fairly grotesque.

But did you write an interesting story about the debate on socialism? No, you got offended over some bullsh*t aspect that honestly, I think was not the intention AT ALL. Your job is not to have opinions FOR your readers. Report the facts, let people have their own ideas.

@toni: the noose he tied around the USA? oh please. how come it's fine to spend trillions of dollars we don't have on a war against a country that did nothing to us, but spending money on OUR OWN COUNTRY and OUR OWN PEOPLE gets you so up in arms?

if socialism means trying to better the lives of the people the president is sworn to protect, then i'm all for it.

Hahaha I love the comments. You were shot down in billowing flames Steven. And i totally agree with them. This isnt North Korea, we are allowed to publicly display any form of free speech we want to. Get over yourself.

Hillary Clinton famously yelled, “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, ‘WE ARE AMERICANS AND WE HAVE A RIGHT TO DEBATE AND DISAGREE WITH ANY ADMINISTRATION!’”

Suck it up libtards, it's your turn...

Wow, the Republitards are having a feeding frenzy! You guys really *do* hate black people, don't you?

lol steven is a douche!!

Right on, stick it to "the man"! I love how people like Stephen pull the race card out at will trying to stand up for his choice like one of the Joker's loyal clownies. If you don't pay attention to politics then butt out, go listen to the news radio and stop eating up all the media hype & telepromted and planned interviews... God Save America!

PS I love Black People, just not this rich socialist. WHO by the way is 1/2 white and 1/2 african... you can't call the man black rofl.

Wher can we buy these? Will they be available as tshirts?

Puhleeez. Vanity fair a year ago did the same treatment on President Bush. Libs can give out the punishment, they wither and cry when the criticism comes their way.

It's hilarious. Where can I buy one? Or ten?

Shepard Fairey has made millions ripping off socialist realism with his faux leftist BS, and someone else turns the tables. Boo freakin hoo.

So universal health care is a bad thing? Shouldn't this be a basic human right? As opposed to insurance companies skimming off the top with dedicated teams figuring out how not to honor the insurance policy? It works pretty well in Europe. I know the US only see dollar signs in every aspect of society but not everything has to revolve around funds. And there will always be companies offering a higher class of health care with lower waiting times. It's the basics at the very least which should be provided in a dignified modern society.

By the way. Isnt it about time you Republicans learned to argue without blurting out personal insults in a desperate attempt to prop up weak arguments.

And again, the Dark Knight movie which the poster refers to had a scene where someone had the Joker's face painted on him and was hung by a noose. About time you Republicans gave the benefit of the doubt and give room for interpretation rather than clutching at 7 words to prop up your propaganda.

Found the link for the shirts:
http://www.zazzle.com/obama+joker+funny+socialism+political+tshirts

They're $20!

Guess the're cheaper than "Universal Healthcare" Ha!

ya. heath ledger was probably a racist too for wearing white make up while depicting the joker. you're right. in fact.. all clowns should be held up to the light and judged thoroughly on their racial beliefs. i mean..all that white make up must mean staunch racism right?
dear god..get a different thing to whine about. i don't give a crap if he's black, white, buddhist, or even an american citizen...bottom line..the poster points out how much of a joke all of his promises turn into...and you're liberal brain can't take the sad reality that your superman is really just a clown....with WHITE make up on...oh no.

Here's an image that might be more to LA Weekly's Standards:

http://lonestartimes.com/2009/08/04/why-so-selective/

"The only thing missing is a noose."

Hah! Typical Jesse Jackson, South Side of Chicago, racism-under-every-rock, Trinity United Church, victicrat hogwash. From the same demented minds that thought Sarah Palin was inciting racist violence because she wore a WHITE outfit to a rally. You libs are pathetic. Grow up.

ya. heath ledger was probably a racist too for wearing white make up while depicting the joker. you're right. in fact.. all clowns should be held up to the light and judged thoroughly on their racial beliefs. i mean..all that white make up must mean staunch racism right?
dear god..get a different thing to whine about. i don't give a crap if he's black, white, buddhist, or even an american citizen...bottom line..the poster points out how much of a joke all of his promises turn into...and you're liberal brain can't take the sad reality that your superman is really just a clown....with WHITE make up on...oh no.

http://www.pissedonpolitics.com/bush_hitler.jpg

I found this bumper sticker of the image. not great, but can be clipped and make two bumper stickers...

http://www.zazzle.com/obama_as_the_new_joker_bumper_sticker-128190029645395908

steven milukan is a classic betamale. the proof is in his weak journalism and wording.

i think he is going to cry, his mother told him he was special and everybody loves him including his daddy of the week.

Nice gonna put this on a t shirt for sure.

**So universal health care is a bad thing? Shouldn't this be a basic human right? **

No, strange as it might seem to an indoctrinated lib like you, it's not a right. It's not a right if it obligates someone else to provide it for you. Are you saying that you have the "right" to make someone become a doctor?

Rights are those that are available to everyone with no obligation from another to provide it. That's why our glorious Founding Fathers left it at, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Anything the government gives you, it can take away. Rights given by a Creator are unalienable - they cannot be taken away - lawfully. That's why the left wants to subvert the Constitution. It's the only thing standing between the people and the whims of the majority. It's why you should be thinking as an individual, not a part of a group. Group think will enslave you - protecting the individual frees you.

"And again, the Dark Knight movie which the poster refers to had a scene where someone had the Joker's face painted on him and was hung by a noose."

This guy is going to connect a straightforward criticism of Obama as a villain because he favors the theft and slavery of Socialism to an isolated scene in Batman and say AHA, racism? What a stretch! The madness of liberals can never be overestimated.

How pathetically stupid.

I am of course referring to Stevie Milukan.

Mocking a white president is okay, but mocking a black president is racism?

Maybe you should look up the word 'Double Standard.'

all that's missing is a noose, that's right, it's racist and hateful.

what about when a national magazine did the exact same thing?

who called that racist, and hateful?

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Has anyone actually SEEN this poster with their own eyes? Where is it??? Thanks, Lynne

ooo look who can dish it out but you can't take it. You were among the ilk that promoted a poster of Bush as a monkee. That was funny right? So's this pillhead!!q

roflmao

this is funny

A noose? Why? The Joker, to my knowledge, never used a noose. Study up on your Batman mythos, mate.

I'm having a tough time making the connection between the Joker character of The Dark Knight and socialism. The Joker wasn't a socialist at all - he was a nihilist and the worst form of anarchist.

Wheres the joke! I love the poster it sure tells the truth about OBAMA. Obama is a big eared idiot!

Saved.....
Printing....

tonight I'll be posting them...

I did some digging and came across this interesting Flickr post: http://tinyurl.com/nswofj

And in case you're one of those rabid socialists who hates capitalism, my advice is to skip all the links to buy the merchandise and just make your own poster: http://tinyurl.com/lohcfk

I realize that there are many layers of subtlety going on here, but however far down you go, the Joker got played. ;)

Remember this, where was the outrage Libral

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Obama Lied/ The Economy Died

This looks like artwork to me. The government, NPR and the Endowment for the Arts should fund the brilliant artist who devined the concept. It is so true on so many different levels....

Wheres the joke! I love the poster it sure tells the truth about OBAMA. Obama is a big eared idiot!

What was the liberal response everytime something like this was done with former President Bush. I think conservitives should fight dirty, like the liberals do ,more often.

Stalin, Hitler, Obama(Joker?)
No joke, what are we waiting for? He needs to be impeached.

I did some digging and came across this interesting Flickr post: http://tinyurl.com/nswofj

And in case you're one of those rabid socialists who hates capitalism, my advice is to skip all the links to buy the merchandise and just make your own poster: http://tinyurl.com/lohcfk

I realize that there are many layers of subtlety going on here, but however far down you go, the Joker got played. ;)

+Sly

PS: Boycott Hollywood!

I think what upsets Steven the most is that he knows that this poster is brilliant, so brilliant in fact, that it will become iconic.

Why so intellectually inconsistent, Steven Mikulan? Maybe because you can dish it but not take it?

Of course the lefties are "outraged" they are the people of "false outrage".

Had this been Palin, or even her son Trig, Democrats would be orgasmic.

Someone wrote "Shepard Fairey has made millions ripping off socialist realism with his faux leftist BS, and someone else turns the tables. Boo freakin hoo" RIGHT ON!!!

And we had 8 yrs of idiotic democrats demonizing Pres Bush, in films, tv ,in posters & on tee shirts.

Ain't so funny when the shoe's on the other foot is it, Steve!

Hey Ronny:

Democrats: The original party of racists - aka Dixiecrats - white men who subjugated Black Americans while Republicans worked to ensure their freedom.

Democrats -The party that gave us the Viet Nam war; a womanizing drunk driving murderer named Ted Kennedy; and partial birth abortions aka the murder of an innocent child OUTSIDE the womb, because murdering the child INSIDE the womb just wasn't enough!

Democrats --- the party that loves Che Guevera: a woman hating enemy of freedom, a totalitarian who believed soldiers should be turned into heartless cold killing machines so that he could achieve his totalitarian objectives.

Democrats - The party that hates Christians but embraces Islamic Fundamentalists by claiming they are simply "misunderstood" Muslims.

Democrats - the party that believes in rewarding lazy dumb sad excuses for human beings by handing them the fruits of MY hard work . BY THE WAY - I m still waiting for Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Oprah Winfrey to share their personal wealth with the lazy Americans they expect ME to care for - wait----maybe they'll share their wealth with me so I won't have to work!! I will even promise to pay it forward... really I will!

Democrats-- the party that wants to reward illegals for breaking the law, while I secured my green card by following the law.

Democrats - the party that now wants to create a single payer socialist medical system that will allow the gov't to determine WHEN and HOW the elderly will die,how much Doctors will earn, how much medical care you should really receive, and will NOW be taxing NOT just the wealthy but also the MIDDLE CLASS.

Democrats - the party that embraces gov't intervention in private business through bail outs, and in private citizens lives through socialized health care and yet the DEMOCRATS have a "problem" with the gov't monitoring terrorists living in America who are plotting to kill Americans. That kind of gov't intervention "scares" Democrats.
But when its called "HealthCare Reform" - well then that kind of Gov't intervention is perfectly acceptable and downright American.

I have yet to find WHERE in the Constitution it says Gov't MUST provide FREE HEALTHCARE - and by free we mean TAXING ALL AMERICANS endlessly and monitoring EVERY aspect of their health and medical decisions.

However I have NO problems finding exactly where it states in the Constitution that protecting Americans from enemies, foreign and within is the duty of Gov't.

Ronny belongs to the party of hate filled, lying hypocritical self serving socialists disguised as "patriotic Americans" who were so stupid that they bought Obama's bogus message of Hope & Change... and free money!

JOKER "And now, folks, it's time for "Who do you trust!" Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money."

Democrats --- the party that elected the Joker.

i know art when i see it........and this is art. was the national endowment involved?

Not the most outrageous political characterization I've ever seen, but if it gets a Sensitive Man of the Hankie like Steven Mikulan riled up, then I have to believe the artist did something right.

btw, you can get the T-shirt here:
http://www.zazzle.com/joker+obama+gifts

Maybe the poster was inspired by this article:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24100318-5007146,00.html#

Read it and weep!

Welcome to the monkey house.
Six months in.
Get used to it.
This is Primate stuff.
It will evolve massively.
Get your med's....in 55 gallon drums.
Wildly available in and around Long Beach Harbor.
Check you in the summer of '10.

I'm getting tired of being accused of racism everytime I disagree with our President. Is it not enough that he has changed the future for the worst for my son? That's not enough reason to despise the man? I have to be racist not to love him? You sir are the race hater, I'm the socialist hater!

One of our greatest freedoms is that which guarantees us the right to question our elected officials, including the president. IMO, conservatives and liberals are quick to embrace the mockery of the opposing party but are just as quick to express the overused term "outrage" when their own candidate gets less than flattering attention. None of this is new to American politics; it has just reached the saturation point due to the modern proliferation of media sources.

The poster is just political commentary and does not appear to be racially motivated. Those who back President Obama need to recognize that not every criticism of the president is somehow a racial slur against African Americans. There will be no truly meaningful assessment of the Obama administration as long as both sides continually resort to hyperbole and histrionics for every criticism levied against whomever it is that they favor. Keep to the facts. One of the facts: the Obama administration is attempting to bully its agenda for a nationalized health care system through Congress by hiding its less popular provisions deep within a bill that numbers in the thousands of pages. With no open debate on the bill, the American public, its elected president is cheating all of the American public.

The joke doesn't make sense. The Joker was an Anarchist, not a socialist. A good photoshop job, but there's no joke here.

So....I'd love to see you try and rationalize how this is different from the "Bush as a Vampire" cover that LA Weekly ran in November 2004?

What's good for the goose............

Why so serious?

And why is there a noose missing? This is a satirical image about the chaos brought by the Joker in the Dark Knight movie. The Joker just created destruction and anarchy and he didn't even care about the money, in fact, he burned his share of the money they stole.

Obama has said he isn't concerned with making sure that tax revenues increase to pay for the programs he's pushing, his concern is "fairness" His policies are as insane as the Joker's criminal schemes.....

But I guess when you are prejudiced, all you can do is play the race card.... did you find the noose you were looking for yet?

Hahaha you nefarious little reporter. The poor libbies are hurt that someone poked fun at their leader. Let me get you a tissue, along with the trillion dollars, 239 billion which is unaccounted for, for you superb "healthcare" plan. You people need to get your head of of the clouds and eat some pavement. WAKE UP. Obama has taken capitalism away and is turning us into something else. This country is turning for the worse.

Boo-frickety hoo

As has been said on another blog, somebody oughta slap Obama's d**k out of your mouth

Yes, the first thing I'd say IS "can't take a joke?" What about the outrage over Bush the vampire, Bush the devil, Bush the cimpanze, or *gasp* Bush the Joker? I guess that's ok, right?

Way to whip out the race card!

I'm just glad it's giving the liberals heartburn and it's going viral - t-shirts and stickers are showing up everywhere! http://www.cafepress.com/PalsyClown Hooray capitalism!

Here's my comment:

http://randomactsofpatriotism.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-so-serious.html

wow, the right wing nut bags are freaking out big time. where in the article is any accusation of racism made? I just thank God every day that some one who actually CARES about this country is finally in the whitehouse.

AWESOME!!! Where can I buy one? I mean a God's honest original taken from some wall in LA? If you can get our hands on one... again, an original, I'll pay top dinero for my HOPELESS shrine. Contact me at jackhmrzit ...I'm at the Y.

its refrshing that art cuts both ways for a change

Um.... Patriot-Dude, the racism is the mention of whiteface coupled with the comment about the noose. The Joker character has nothing to do with a noose, so why is dear Stephen looking for one?

Geez, if you can't read between the cultural lines, don't read LA stuff....

@ onetruepatriot

if you dont understand that the noose reference is an obvious attempt to say anyone who likes the joker obama poster is a racist, then you are more stupid than most liberals...and thats pretty damn stupid.

I don't recall libs being upset when a couple from California literally hung a life size doll depicting Sarah Palin from their garage during the 08 campaign. They did actually use a noose. Where was the outcry??

If you want to truly end racism in America, why don't we start by not playing the race card on every Obama attack.
The fact is that all presidents face scrutiny, jokes, and criticism in the media. It is a long standing tradition that should be continued no matter what race the president is.
The truth is that comedians are scared to even mention Obama because the race card will be dealt. There are fewer jokes about Obama than any president I remember in my lifetime. I hear plenty of jokes about whites in his administration on late night television but don't dare attack Obama himself. I think that is a form of racism in itself.

So where was the outrage when Bush was depicted as the Joker in Vanity Fair (one of the less offensive caricatures the left used to ridicule him)? http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Honestly? I think it shows that conservatives have a little flexibility and taste.
I would much rather see this poster at rallies than the usual Obama/Hitler juxtapositions.

"All you people care about is freedom of expression. This city deserves a better class of journalist. And I'm going to give it to them."

"Hey Steeeeve......Let's put a SMILE on that FAACCEEE!!"

Brian says:

"The media truly died last year..."

LAST YEAR?! Sorry, but the media died a long time ago!! "BREAKING NEWS" has lost its importance and relevance.

Remeber everyone...it's only OK to make fun of Republicans. You'd think after 8 years of "Bush is a chimp" posters, Democrats would realize that each side is entitled to their own biased humor.

Taking a step back here...maybe I am missing something but what does the Joker have to do with Socialism? Sure, he blew up a hospital, but I don't think that had anything to do with his stance on healthcare. Wouldn't it make more sense dolling him up like, oh, I don't know, a socialist? =P

There are plenty of people who dislike Obama, some for legitimate reasons, some because they are idiots. But if you're going to crack jokes...shouldn't they be funny? This one's just stupid.

Obviously this guy doesn't read his own site. Just a short while ago, LA Daily posted this:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

This entire thing was worth slogging through, especially the hypocritical self-righteous moralizing by those on the Left, just to read the comment by Bill again. That was dadgum funny.

imagine if a talk show host made a pedophilic jokes about one of obamas daughters ? but, it was funny because it was Palins daughter. this poster is great !!! he's being revealed for what he is, a joke-r... 6 more months and this socialist, unoriginal, america hating, police bashing idiot will be toxic.

What I find striking in this article is the complete lack of any remote hint of racism on the part of the picture's creator contrasted with Mikulan's gratuitous injection of racism.

Wow! Is the Left THAT desperate for the Right to be racists?

No matter how much you want (er... need) us to be racists, eventually you're going to have to arrive at the conclusion that we're simply not. Maybe then you can move on to substantive arguments.

Is this all you got?

Were you outraged when Vanity Fair did the same thing to President Bush? Didn't think so.

A la Lady GaGa,

Can't read my, can't read my
No you can't read my joker face

A la Lady GaGa:

Can't read my, can't read my
No you can't read my Joker face

This has to be one of the best and most effective pieces of political expression I have ever seen. Whether you agree with its message or not you can't disagree with the feelings and reaction it is invoking on the on either side of the issues.

But don't blame me when Gotham goes to hell.. I voted for the Penguin.

"Racist"? You guys are pitiful and bankrupt of arguments..

Not long ago, the Left was writing wishful stories about Bush being assassinated and calling him "Hitler".

Where the hell were you people then?

Whenever you run out of arguments, or whenever satirists or commentators get a zinger on your guy, you go to the last refuge of people without ideas and yell "racist".

Stick to your escort ads. That's what you're good at.

-Robert Chandler

You're correct, had it been Bush or Pailin, steffe would have had a tingle go up his leg and then wet his pants, prematurely.

Don't get your turbin in a bunch Steve ("...infidel, i kill you...") and stop playing the race card. Remember, his color is only skin deep, his Marxism goes clear to the bone.

Don't blame me...I voted for The Penguin.

As a card-carrying member of the "drunk tank of California conservatism" all I can say is:

"You're an idiot!"

"Burp."

I am old enough to remember a poster of Spiro Agnew as a hippie. I never found it hateful, but it was really dam funny, and it even made it to the walls of congress back in the day. You can see it at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=61835.
I don't find the Obama/Joker to be hateful or funny. The Joker has never been connected to racism or socialism, so there is no point to the whole thing. I saw a poster the other day showing Obama as an African witch doctor. That was racist, and perhaps hateful. Fortunately that one has not made the national news.
This poster is simply a case of someone with Photoshop attempting to be cute and failing miserably. Still, it is free speech. Ignore it and get on with your life. This is the type of nonsense every public figure has to deal with, even your guy!

Can I get the one with the noose....puhleeese??

The obvious message here is:

Bush with fangs? OK.
Bush with a gun to his head? OK.

Obama in Joker makeup? NOT OK. Not only is it not ok, it must be made to sound as if there are racist underpinnings behind it, and implications that it is someone from the right responsible, instead of the myriad of folks on the left and middle who are every bit as disappointed by his dismal performance in office to date. Truly pitiful, Mr. Mikulan. I suppose the Tom Tomorrow political comic criticizing Obama is also 'outrageous', and possibly racist too. . .even though it's from an author hailing from the left side of the aisle.

Too bad liberals faegs can't take a joke. And Mikulan you have no room to talk after all the things you and this website said and printed about Bush. Do you think you can delete everything you've done from the net? Pathetic.

Why so serious indeed?

RACIST?!?! Are you retarded???? Who do you work for?????

Look, if it upsets you that much, post your address and we'll mail you a hanky. A nice pink one to go with your politics.

Methinks Steven, that you should get out more- or at least over to the nearest video rental store so you can spend a little time with the movie.

All right, how 'bout I give you the benefit of the doubt? Maybe with your superior intellect and advanced logic, you can explain to the class how depicting Obama as the Joker with the word "SOCIALISM" written underneath him is racist commentary from a right wing bigot. I look forward to hearing your reasoning.

My simple mind sees the artist making a political statement something along the lines of, "America's worst nightmare is real, and he's staring at you in the cold light of day: A president capable of tearing down everything our country was built upon, and is actually looking forward to doing it."

To quote the Joker: "I just DO things."

So Obama as the Joker is racist but Bush as the Joker in Vanity Fair was cool (read the comments at VF):

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Eat sh1t Mikulan.

Everyone wants to be black these days: The Ultimate Victim!

I am glad this poster angers people, because that is what it was meant to do!

Oh yeah, if you voted for Obama because he's black, then you are the nigger and he's a great salesman.

This sort of phony-baloney race card red herring is worthy of Professor Gates or Reverend Wright. Shoe meet other foot:

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/how-quickly-they-forget/

Those who like dishing it out, seldom like taking it! LOL

Hey wait a minute.

We all need to stop and thank Steven Mikulan on how he stood out, went against the grain, and blew the whistle on his own paper when they proudly displayed Bush as a blood thirsty satanic Vampire.

His display of bravery is rarely seen in journalists today thanks Steven.......

......oh wait never mind. Just same ol' lib double speak here. Your paper is still free full of plastic surgeon ads right? yeah, that't it go back to pretend land of "journalism."

Liberal hypocrisy at its finest. Bravo.

why not place your input where it counts.

take a VOTE ~

http://www.guiltometer.com

Where was your outrage when Vanity Fair published a similar likeness of President Bush?

Now THAT had a bit of everything to appeal to the drunk tank of California left wing loons, but you probably thought it was okay.

If Saul Alinsky was still around he would probably approve.

You have no credibility.

Socialist rump swab!

can't wait to print my own posters and start pasting.

think i'l add the hammer and sicle

I made the original photo
www.myspace.com/tehclaw

check out my album jokers .. i also did my friends too.. i only made the original photo as a joke or parody to the dark knight film....
someone took the photo and edited it and put socialism..

I see plenty of others have exposed this nonsensical tripe for what it really is and delivered a swift kick to the ass of this "journalist" fool. So my work here is already done! Well done commenters.

See http://cgi.ebay.com/Boss-Limbaugh-print-as-Joker_W0QQitemZ400065749623QQcmdZViewItemQQptZArt_Prints?hash=item5d25c6e277&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14#ht_500wt_969

Vanderleun,

You always write beautifully. "Be cool lest you become cooler." We have a winner! I don't think it's all the Obama followers buying up the handguns and getting c&c permits. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6, so don't tread on me.

Jokabama-Socialism speaks to me about the soul of The President and of the Dorian Gray effect of socialism on the soul of a nation. The image generates the same gut emotion I get about America's decline from constitutional republic to democracy. The parasites have decimated the host.

So ummm, was this a joke? Was the joker a socialist or was it because Obama is a joke? Cause I'll tell you what it is not funny just lame. You wondering why kids aren't razzel dazzeled by politics, you gotta get something to take them away form their rock em' sock em' robots.

What is Socialism?

http://shop.cafepress.com/obama-joker

Complain, whine, bitch, moan. I don't understand you Americans. I'd kill to live in a country like America.

AND.. How soon you libs forget, your BDS, you are HYPOCRITES..

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/how-quickly-they-forget/

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/04/how-quickly-they-forget/

Wow. Steve, you got fucked up on this one.

52 cards in the deck ... all race cards, the only one you guys at LA Weekly ever play. Hypochrites.

Mikulan reminds me of something Ram Das used to say - "I went to a peace rally and was surprised at how angry everyone was."

ur a fag dude!

The pain. The pain conservatives are feeling. I savor it like fine wine.

Dear science, could you please invent a way to capture and preserve pain, so I can bottle up some of the pain conservative movement is feeling for later consumption?

waaa...waaaa....waaaaa....
do you want some cheese to go with that whine?

Stevie boy ... have you and Dan Rather been smokin that silly weed again.

RandomJ ... outnumbered 700:1 ... this is fun for freedom loving conservatives. Vindication is sweet.

hahaha, steve you are an imbecile. people like you are what has destroyed California. what a joke hahahahahahahahaha

Is this another "teaching moment" for our Dear Leader.

Ahhh, I'm not sure what socialism has to do with The Joker. I don't remember The Joker wanting to spread socialism throughout Gotham. I believe it was anarchy, which is a few steps in the other direction, right?

Oh well, decent image, just not the best message.

Where was the outrage when Bush was depicted as the Joker? So because Obama is black, no one can say or do anything that is unsupportive of him or it's racist???? Something stinks in Denmark. I always wondered why if you were half black and half white like Obama you are automatically black? I think he is like a chameleon and uses whichever title and description suits his needs at the time. It has indeed been a sick joke on us.

Comment on this.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Steve,
Please post a link to your stories of the outrage you felt having people depict "Bush as Hitler". I'm certain they are there...right?

The safe money says the first thing out of the Left-wing sword-swallowers is, "You can't challenge or make fun of Obama! He is the Greatest Man In The World!"

P.S.
RandonJ = CompleteIdiot

They did the same joker poster on Bush. You were not wetting your pants about that or calling it racist. You have too much bias. Walking lock step with the communist party, will do that to you. You need to step down. We don't need biased idiotic writers spewing distorted inflammatory stories.

Where was your outrage when Bush was depicted as the Joker in Vanity Fair? Was it ok for the other guy to be the JOKER but not (OBVIOUSLY) your guy? Talking out the side of his mouth on taking and redistributing the wealth of the nation is at best socialism more like fascism when you control the banks,industry,and health care though. this from a life time registered Democrat and union member. LONE LIVE THE REPUBLIC.

"Liberal" moron: "Racist!"

"Conservative" morons: "imbecile, faeg, Socialist rump swab, douche, libtards, weak ass pussy libs, liberalism is a mental disorder..."

All a bunch of ignorant monkeys flinging poo. Our nation will end up sinking in a pile of crap because all of you think you're better them THEM when really you're all just full of sh-t.

Whats the BIG deal?

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Help me understand the issue here:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Steven Mikulan is nothing more than a hypocritical toadie for Barry. Get over it you hack. Not everyone likes your precious messiah and it is starting to show.

Obama is a communist not a socialist, but in the long run it turns out the same.

Ominous note to "liberals" (whatever does that mean anymore?) and progressives:

This is an article in the L.A. Weekly, and the comments are almost overwhelmingly anti-Obama and anti-Mikulan. It may still be too early to tell, but an undertow seems to be building against Obama and the Democrats. It remains to be seen if this will last, but it's NOT a good sign for you guys. 'Buyer's remorse' appears to be setting in among voters.

It's racist to not like Obama.

Hey, if you don't like the Joker thing, how about depicting Obama as Dracula? You are apparently not offended by that.

Don, I agree our political labels have to be the most inappropriate and overused words around today. But "An undertow?" No, this a conservative blog directed its readers here, this is not a response by the general public. Scarcely a handful of liberals have remotely agreed with Mikulan, so all this talk of what "liberals" think is just resounding nonsense in an echo chamber. Ironically, it's media-directed outrage for media-directed outrage. Makes a guy sick.

Just like Bush? Am I in bizzarro world? This is so wrong. Of course it was okay to encourage the villification and nudge ideas of assassination into people's minds during Bush, cuz he was a villain and should have been dropped like the joker.

But Obama is not evil. He is a hero, more like batman. People should not mock the only one fighting on their behalf. That was the entire point of the movie!!! Have some respect for real heroes, and don't be so impertinent and immature or your "free speech" will prevent any future heroes from ever taking up your cause.

I think it is kind simply dismiss this as the work of racists. Of course, it is, because it was probably done by some GOP front group, and republicans hate people of color, but that is only one symptom of these hooligans' deep-seated, animosity and selfishness. I am shocked by their lack of school spirit.

It is time to learn some respect and loyalty now that the country is worth our devotion again, and country first means country above all, including abuse of speech. Maybe a real hero would hunt down and take away these freedoms until people have evolved to the point where they can use them properly and with some decency.

Anthony Hocken says that Republicans have a history of being racist. Let's not forget all the Democrats, black and white, that voted for Obama because of his race. Let's not forget that Southern Democrats delayed the Civil Rights Act. Let's not forget that Republicans want to empower ALL races and classes to be productive members of society and not be dependent on the government for handouts.
Republicans use arguments to further their agenda. They don't always get it right and the country isn't always in the mood to listen, but we're never in the mood for fake accusations of racism for political gain.

Anthony Hocken says that Republicans have a history of being racist. Let's not forget all the Democrats, black and white, that voted for Obama because of his race. Let's not forget that Southern Democrats delayed the Civil Rights Act. Let's not forget that Republicans want to empower ALL races and classes to be productive members of society and not be dependent on the government for handouts.
Republicans use arguments to further their agenda. They don't always get it right and the country isn't always in the mood to listen, but we're never in the mood for fake accusations of racism for political gain.

"mobama says:

if obama looked like that nobody would be asking for his birth certificate. or at tea parties. and they'd be cheering him on as the stock market gained another 1.5% today and is undoing the damage his predecessor did.

Actually, you clueless liberal IDIOT, BOTH candidates had questions about their place of birth/citizenship and yet only ONE of them proved it and I'll give you a hint, it was the 100% white one, not the 50% black one.

PS: The all time stock market high was while BUSH was President and I'm pretty darn sure unemployment wasn't anywhere near 10% and rising during any of the 8 years he was in office. While you're learning to write a complete sentence in in your 5th year of 8th grade, maybe you can try a little recent history too. By the time you turn 25 and they finally throw you out of school you'll have a hint of a clue about wtf you're talking about.

Anyone who is seen wearing this new Obama/Joker apparel is simply the mark of an idiot.

What I love most, is that these people don't even realize that the joke is really on them.

Fair Dinkum!!! You pantywaist Demorat libpukes were absolutely bonkers with elation when Bush was depicted as an assclown like yourselves. May you gutless weasels who pander to the Kenyan usurper who illegally occupies The White House with his jaboon wife stew in your own putrid juices!

New Amerikan thinks the GOP is racist. Anytime you group a bunch of people, let alone almost half of the country together in one blanket statement you are being a bigot. And advocating taking away the right of freedom of speech against people you disagree with is downright UNAMERICAN. Maybe that is the new amerikan he is, hopefully that isn't the change people voted for. But it does help make the case that Obama and his supporters are acting like socialists that much stronger.

Hahaha! We've got a couple Birthers in the house, glad I didn't miss that! The crazy just got ratchetted up another notch. Are the trained ponies coming on next?

The truth is Steven is sexually aroused by criticism. He wrote this article knowing the overwhelming berating he would receive. He is probably stroking to each reply.

Bunch of hypocrites...

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Buy the poster http://www.zazzle.com/massconservatives

How funny, comment 666 comes from one of the moneychangers in the Conservative temple.

Liberals are such whiners.

is this racism too you friggin moron?

http://imgur.com/pTvVj.jpg

Hey guys,

I'm not sure if this has already been posted yet or not, but apparently this picture was done by a Chicago man named Firas Khateeb. You can see a link to his flickr account here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/khateeb88/

Now apparently someone took his art, made sime minor edits, and posted it all over the place, making it famous. What seems interesting is that when you see Firas' original work and read his reasons for making it, you realize that he is not a white conservative at all. Instead, he says that he made this art because he believes that Obama is not who he says he is and that he will be backing off his claims on change. In other words, the original intent of this art was depicting Obama as a politician who will say anything to get elected.

Wow, so racist right? And here we thought it had some demonic connotation to it. Surely, Firas must have been thinking about reverse blackface when he made this.

And for all those confused about how socialism applies to the joker: the evil white conservative who hijacked this art and added "socialism" to it, is not wrong at all. This "socialism" joker poster has nothing to do with the Joker being a socialist; of course he is an anarchist.

This poster has to do with OBAMA being a socialist who was disguised as a moderate centrist for his entire campaign, and he won. The joke is on us. The joker make-up is not fitting because of a common political ideology between the two. What makes the make-up fitting is that, like Firas Khateeb said, "I have a feeling he is not who he says he is." The dark knight make-up was simply a catchy way of expressing that; of course Obama isn't a homicidal clown!

Liberals, you need to stop interpreting art so literally.

Chris if you found the original first, then good job. You can look at the L.A. poster version and still see the red in the hair, where the person who modified it, for some reason he was unable to totally get the word TIME off the picture.

It really doesn't matter. This country is going to fail, and soon. It is a plan and there is nothing that is going to stop it. We will get a socialist health plan. We will have everything taken from us and redistributed to every non-deserving bastard that puts out his hand. From those that can to those that can't (or won't). We will lose our constitution. The people are not in charge of this country, Obama's boss is. I believe it is too late, I'm sorry to say. You're elected non-representative representatives will do what ever the hell they want, not what you want or what I want.
I'm just going to brace myself for the worst because it is coming. And we can thank sh!th heads like Steve here for not doing what they should be doing which is blowing the whistle on all of these corrupt politicians starting 50 years ago.

"You wanna know how I got these scars?" "I got screwed by my health insurance!"

-digg coment from "formerbaby"

Actually, I am not the first to find this. I just found it here: http://bedlammagazine.com/06news/mystery-obamajoker-poster-appears-la

This site was apparently one of the first to break this story so I'm surprised if nobody else has pointed this out yet...that the guy who originally made this art was *gasp* not thinking about race, or even socialism, when he made it.

Haha, this link is actually worse than Steven's!

This poster is an insult.....

to MY portrayal of The Joker.

Very truly yours,

Jack Nicholson

P.S. Heath Ledger was a talented kid, but, hey, I didn't need to die in order to win MY Oscars. Capisce?

"Steve C says:

The "noose" comment is race-baiting. That said, I think most halfway-intelligent liberals don't play the race card.

Well, Obama does so I guess you're saying he's not halfway intelligent....right? Are you sure you aren't a racist?

I don't think there's too many fully intelligent liberals, certainly none in the government, so it's kind of a hard comparison to make.

I'm the least conspiracy theory minded person in the world but considering the One has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to avoid showing a piece of paper to the world.....doesn't that seem odd...even to a halfway-intelligent person? Seems like the easiest conspiracy in history to put an end to...and yet...hmmm...why is that?

To to the truly clueless who claim "the GOP is racist" I realize that you're all uneducated welfare products but guess what, the head of the Republican Party is BLACK!
Oh sorry....Afrikan Amerikkkan or w/e they're called this week.

The Obama/joker posters, bumper stickers, shirts are avaialable at
http://www.zazzle.com/joker+obama+gifts

What's the difference between Obama and the Joker? One is an evil, grinning, psycho who wants to take all of your money and plunge the country into chaos....the other one is Batmans' arch enemy.

There was a long history of depicting the Irish as monkeys. Bush is part Irish just like Obama is part black. Yet it was funny to see Bush depicted as a chimp.

This picture doesn't even have any racist connotations and out comes the race card.

LMAO! New Amerikan wrote (quote): But Obama is not evil. He is a hero, more like Batman. People should not mock the one fighting on their behalf... It is time to learn respect and loyalty now that the country is worth our devotion again, including abuse of speech. Maybe a real hero would hunt down and take away these freedoms until people have evolved to the point where they can use them properly and with some decency.

Ohhhh...so THAT'S how it works in this abomination. Oops, I meant in Obama Nation. Free speech is allowed ONLY when you LEARN and EARN the right to praise Glorious Leader, otherwise you deserve to be (to quote you exactly) hunted down and have your rights taken away from you.

The truth is out!! Sarah Palin did it. We all know her fondness for putting lipstick on pigs. Maybe we can get her a grant for the National Endowment of the arts. Seriously, no matter how you feel, it is protected free speech. No more racist than Vanity Fair on Bush or tragic like American flag burning. I defend free speech for all.

Geez! You need to team up with Perez Hilton.

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I posted on my blog the LA Weekly cover of President George Bush made out like a bloodthirsty vampire with a pentagram on his lapel. Maybe LA Weekly should "comment" about that cover before asking "us" to comment on this poster.

.

Where were you when Bush was being depicted by Vanity Fair as the Joker? Oh right, NOWHERE! God you liberal hippies sicken me to the core! A lot of you need a swift kick in the nads and be told to GROW UP and that LIFE ISN'T FAIR so DEAL WITH IT! Oh and by the way WE LIVE IN A FREE COUNTRY where we can STILL express our views whether you like them or NOT. And there's NOTHING you can do about it, not even by changing or eradicating the 1st amendment. So SUCK IT UP!

Link to Obama-Joker poster,enjoy it.
http://winestooge.com/images/socialism.pdf

Just in case the Obama lovers don't know what Anonymous is speaking about here is the link http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

It is the same thing. Both republican & democartic media do it ALL the time to each other

What's missing is that, Heath Ledger's Joker was actually the hero of The Dark Knight movie. Sure he was crazy and blowing up shit ( which truly is all the rage, all over the world) Its interesting to me that in mass media when there is somewhat forward thinking analysis on the world culture a large, it is villianized and satired in all the standard ways. But I fancy this one. For people with out brains to see every dimension of this piece of art....I have to say, get your head out of the Mass Media's ass. For those of you who can, you probably aren't reading this anyway.

I'm a lib. I aint whining. I actually love this artwork. Absolutely love it! Obama should think about this for his halloween costume and smoothly make you stupid like he already does.

1. If you think this poster is racist: you're being a racist. Stop pulling the race card so often or people will begin to catch on to the distraction it creates .

2. If you think(or comment)some anti-republican psycho-babble b.s. just because someone doesn't like Obama: you're a brain-washed, low-brow fool . I'm not a conservative/republican and I hate W for what he did .

3. One thing I'll say about the majority of conservatives ; though there are a bunch of dumb rednecks out there . They don't act like a posse of uncivilized punks when douch-bags like W were bashed publicly .
Turnabout is fair-play . Good for the Connies; quit whining libs!

Awesome - in August LAWeekly says the only thing missing is a noose. Just last January, they celebrate Palin hanging (with noose!) in a moonbat yard display.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/shop/sarah-palin-mannequin-ebay-auc/

Completey PWNed by their own actions - priceless!

This poster has literally nothing to do with race. What kind of pathetic "journalism" is this? You only made it racial just to get more hits.

Gotta love it!

Democrats pretend that spewing hatred and venom is quite all right when they do it, but when Republicans get some payback, that's so unfair. Then Dems throw the race card into their hypocrisy for good measure.

"A lot of people are getting their noses out of joint about a poster popping up around Los Angeles comparing President Barack Obama to the Joker. Frankly, I don’t get it."One embraces terrorists and madmen, is dedicated to anarchy and the destruction of capitalist society, and sends the population fleeing in horror from his creations. The other is a fictional character played by the late Heath Ledger."

"They don't act like a posse of uncivilized punks when douch-bags like W were bashed publicly."

So, were they waiting for just this moment? Have you read this thread? They're the ONLY ones acting like "uncivilized punks." Let me repeat just a few highlights:

"imbecile, faeg, Socialist rump swab, douche, libtards, weak ass pussy libs, liberalism is a mental disorder..."

It's hard to give credit to anyone here. Steve put his foot in it, but 500 others dove in head first on his mark.

"The only thing missing is a noose."

The only thing missing from Steven Mikulan is a functioning brain. Now the whole country knows what an absolute fool he is. Way to go, Stevie!

The race-baiting tactic by the media has always been standard fare. This talented street artist hit a nerve. Call it the Obama mask or a true depiction of a madman, either way they got it right. There is nothing racial at all about the poster.

Wanna see a magic trick?

I'm gonna make your hard-earned money disappear.

Steve. You and the rest of the media are so invested in this guy you won't say a bad thing about him even if he takes a dump on your front lawn. Besides, it's hard to say anything bad about somebody when their balls are bouncing off your chin. I am loving this!!!

Get over it stupid, it's a cartoon.

OOOOObama has put America in so much debt in the last 8 months it equils every president from Washington to W Bush.
I for one am not looking forward to this once mighty nation going to socialism. All of you radicals can come to LAX and board Aeroflot to Mother Russia Comrade.

Obama has put America in so much debt in the last 8 months it equils every president from Washington to W Bush.
I for one am not looking forward to this once mighty nation going to socialism. All of you radicals can come to LAX and board Aeroflot to Mother Russia Comrade.

http://www.chair36.com/darkknight/

Check out this pic of Obama as Batman

Obama is the Dark Knight

Obama is on the good guys team

Awww let this childish state controlled wanna be journalist feeble minded fool make an ass of himself. and yes if this were GW Bush or Sarah Palin he would probably ejaculate on himself!!! He and the rest of his socialist marxist commie red friends will be gone soon enough,the fun part is all we have to do is watch them self destruct,and Wait for Sarah Palin clean up this God awful mess that they are leaving her,as for this hack la times writer he had better be updating his resume,people are sick of state media and newspapers are extinct,moot fine'

Why so serious?

It is really pathetic to see how the media, the left and racists react when the same kinds of things come back at them. They cannot cope with it, so they resort to name calling and stereotyping. Liberals can sure show a niggardly tolerance when they reap what they have sown.

TO ALL WHO DIDN'T VOTE FOR OBAMA. You are the minority now, get over it. It's sad to see people who would call themselves Americans trying so hard to get rid of a new president. That they would judge him without even giving him a chance. Have you no faith in America. If what you think will happen does, Obama will not be re-elected and the next president could simply erase the laws made by Obama. Basically, this proves that conservatives are mean spirited and can't handle losing. It was you who ruined your own party over the last 3+ years, and now you want to try and bring down the democrats. If the Republicans want to bring back their party, the need to part ways with these Ann Coulter's and Rush's. They don't really belive that America is a place for all types of people.

What a smokin-hot poster. A simple and great way to to send a message.

Some folks say the poster does not work on some levels. That's because they have not thought long enough, or are complicating the simplicity of it.

Joker was on an insanely irrational mission and would not stop.

That is Obama. The stimulus plan backfired, put us in debt, and all he can do is spend, spend, spend.

He is full of his own ideology and sees no reason to stop. And in his wake is damage - unprecedented debt.

His poll numbers are tanking, and no wonder why.

My name links to where I debate. And on this issue, any liberal is going to be toast in a debate.

Why so serious?? is it because the truth hurts? lol i tell ya what.....how about you report the real news as it happens and maybe just maybe your blind eye will open to the truths that this poster represents!!

Obama is not the antichrist but he IS the ant-American the people like you put into office to run our country!

He has lied to the public but, the public is awakening! all across the US more and more people are seeing the lies they are putting two an two together and they do not like what is happening to our country!

Go to the townhall meetings....if you can find one the Dems havn't hid and listen to the voice of the men and women who have said ENOUGH! 2 Trillion in dept is Obamas doing not Bush's. 2 trillion in dept for what??
NOTHING!! PURE PORK! no i think the Joker fits him well........very well indeed!!

You know a nerve is hit when liberals drag out the race card.

Whoever made and/or distributed the President Joker posters, I salute you!

The poster is great is at makes 3 points:

it's totally shocking as a mo-fo!
it names BHO as The Joker (which he is & U know it)
identifies him as the principle SOCIALIST which we don't want in America

Tough crap Libs; not everyone is a cool-aid drinker and many are fed-up with his tricks.

Do one with Rahm Emanuel too!

Saw some of these in Kirkland, WA yesterday. They made me laugh.

Keep fighting this JOKE OF A PRESIDENT and his SOCIALIST AGENDA!

Fun fact:
The author of the poster apparently does not have the sense of humor to actually grasp the opportunity presented by the "why so X" phrase.

It should have read "Why so Socialist", not "SOCIALISM".

A perfect joke opportunity is wasted.

Where was your article when a similar poster was made of George Bush? Or didn't your outrage surface then? Is it racist now and wasn't then? Inquiring minds want to know.

The comments are sweet. SWEET.

Sore losers, what a delightful symphony. Go pray on the Rand shine, boys. Maybe Obama will then just vanish.

Taking over banks, the car industry, the health care and insurance business isn't socialism.... oh, and Maxine Walthers threatening to take over oil companies isn't socialism either.

No, Obama's not socialist at all, it's just your imagination.

Nothing Obama can be described as can ever be considered racist mainly due to the fact that after Obama is done with America, even a majority of blacks will want to see him hang. I can't tell you the amount of black people who are losing their jobs or can't find one all because great leader and his goonie squad is busy assigning ZRARS and other KOMUNIST TOOLZ to take over various private sector industries.

No, but that isn't socialism, it isn't communism either, actually....

IT IS FACISM.

Obama is not the joker, the joker couldn't destroy that many people's lives if he tried.

Black people who voted for Obama simply based on race and idiot liberals who did the same, good luck during ARMAGEDDON 2012, hopefully humanity ceases to exist from one giant asteroid rather than the poverty the joker is imposing on the population.

The Mayans knew that the end of the world would be in 2012 probably because of voter rigging and the possibility of an Obama re-election. Actual unemployment figures are estimated at 14-16% and rising. Don't think so? Take a look around your country and take a look at the massive layoffs happening everywhere, in fact TAKE A LOOK AT SOCIALIST PARADISE CALIFORNIA for reference as the where the rest of America is headed thanks to Obama and the KOMIZARS.

socalist is not the word more like communist,or facist even.but crimminal is more accurate.oh and al gore stfu.

The graphic is unpleasant, ugly and utterly accurate. As they say on the internet, "Suck It."

This coming from LA Weekly who had Bush depicted as Dracula on the front cover? PS libtards, Vanity Fair drew Bush as the Joker long before this poster came out.

Just another left wing reporter. Not reporting but putting in his 2 cent which are worth nothing in the real world. I didn't vote for Bush and I didn't like a lot of his polices but he didn't scare me like Obama does. BTW I didn't vote for him either. I love my country and I don't want to see Obama "remake" it the way he thinks it should be.

How is this...

I created it, it has no form of racist meaning beyond what (apparently racist)people have in their heads. Was Heath Ledger's makeup racist? Get over yourself people...

Vanity Fair had an arrtist do the same thing to Bush....was that racist?

hypocrite

–noun
a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

Bush Joker
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

The Joker wasn't even socialist.

This is stupid.

I think it's great. I hope it catches on in every city and town. This creep Obama should know how a lot of people think of him and his mistake of an administration.

Just like to point out that as it's a blog, it's generally thought to be opinion-based anyway and therefore the writer is allowed to express his any way he likes. If this was printed as a news piece then I would agree that it is biased but as it isn't a news article only a blog post, he can say what he wants, how he wants. Same way the artist who created the unoriginal image is allowed to make a commentary on how he sees the world. I also think that knee-jerk reactions to these things are not helpful to overcoming racial inequality and it's gonna take time for everyone to get used to a non-white president. How about everyone calms down and sees that it is funny and it's not necessarily racially motivated. If Obama or anyone else associated with his tenure in office cannot make fun of themselves and understand that people on both sides of the fence need that outlet too then there is no hope for the American people or democracy.

Some would say that Obama is nothing like the Joker. That he is a community organizer and not an anarchist like the Joker that he is no-drama and very unlike the wild man persona of the Joker. Well, I would have to say that he is in fact very much an anarchist. No one has ever thrown so many projects, "reforms", czars, and programs at the American people before. This has caused much chaos that no one can even keep up with everything that is going on. Obama is not no-drama but is very much a wildman just with a sadistically calm tone. Just wait everyone, I am sure you will be witness to one of his off camera tantrums in the near future then you see just who you are dealing with. One similar trait that Obama has with the Joker is his anonymity. Yes, we know he is president, was a senator, a "community organizer" and all the other obvious surface information but what about the underlying info. Every time someone tries to find out a little more about him he hires lawyers where ever they are at to fight them in court. So far he is the most unknown president in history. Sounds odd to me. We don't even know the doctor that birthed him or hatched him.

It is called "Free Speech" and it has no meaning unless it is provocative.

It is a funny and aggressive shot at the President and his policies. Hats off to the creator.

I am so disappointed in all of you. Take race out of it. This is degrading and downright wrong. What a horrible depiction of our Commander in Chief. I am ashamed of anyone who sees this as even remotely entertaning. It breaks my heart to think that our country is so divided and jaded that this in anyway (no matter who the president is) Is considered appropriate or tolerable. What a shame

Frank is just another flak angling for a job in the Obummer White House.

How dare anyone question the Great One? Satire is not allowed when it's a liberal target! In fact, no dissension is allowed from conservative views!

The O/Joker poster is SPOT ON which explains the roar from liberal quarters to continue to excuse, obsfucate, and ignore the failings of our current and future worst President since Jimmy 'Attack of the Killer Rabbit' Carter.

Gee, Steven, ain't it a biyatch when the righties wanna play by the rules you guys do? All the stuff that depicted Bush in negative satire was "art" and not mean or dangerous. I'm old enough to remember a 1967 poster showing LBJ as a biker thug in a hippie rag that extolled the benefits of weed and had a review of "Alice's Restaurant" in it. I thought it was appropriate and funny then, and I think this one is appropriate and funny now. And you know what, you're right, you really can't take a joke.

Are you SRSLY saying it's teh raycist?

Here's the LBJ as Biker thug poster from the 60's, and look who was using it in the '68 election!

http://www.orbcity.com/polishhippy/images/DumpLBJ.jpg

Mentioning a, "noose", which is not present on the poster, is race-baiting by the LA weekly.

It was Okay when the LEFT Mocked Bush. It was okay when the LEFT trashed Sarah Palin and her family. What the LEFT has lost their sense of humor? No surprise the LEFT does not have any sense or humor.

Hello liberals! Welcome to the other side of free speech. Try not to cry so much.

This poster is not offensive. Its not racist. It barely even makes a statement, and the Photoshopping isn't even that great. Please, remove panties from crack.

Seriously, this coming from the group of people that had no problem sending me poorly printed stickers of Bush as Hitler and other such brazen Photoshopped statements?

You'll be hard pressed to find a politician who is perfect or does the right thing all the time, both sides need to stop acting like they've found the guy.

Sincerely,
the folks in the middle who are tired of this crap.

screw you, little stevie milkcan: finally a true american thwarts the evil empire by striking a blow against the most politically repressive administration outside communist china...and if the poster wasn't right on the money, it wouldn't hurt so bad.

Gee, another liberal exploiting race. A noose? C'mon, man. Not only is that incredibly insulting, it is profoundly ignorant of why conservatives don't like President Obama and of just conservatives in general. Was there another point to your blurb other than ad hominem race exploitation? How, exactly, is this racist? Because they painted his face white? And that couldn't have had anything to do with The Joker's face being painted white; no, that's just racism straight up.

I hope you eventually learn to write substantive critical analysis instead of racist temper tantrums.

I have to agree with Brittany. There is no one that is perfect! So stop trying to find flaws in everyone that takes the seat in office.

Freedom of speech is a very powerful thing, and this is what I think. The writer was being racist by the "the only thing missing was the noose" bit. But for the first hour of the comment page that is all people can talk about. I say look at the picture as a whole. You see Obama dressed up as the joker, he is not that bad. He is no where near as evil and senister as the joker really was in 'The Dark Knight'. Though there are things as he has done wrong, but that goes back to what I said before. PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES!!! That is what makes us human. And lastly take the word Socialism. I can agree with that with the choices that he has made while in office, but he us trying to do what he thinks is right. AMERICA voted, so trust what he thinks is right. And when the time comes, AMERICA will decide who she believes is right to decide where she goes from there.

Wouldn't the true racist aspect of this be to the memory of Heath Ledger?!!

Hmmm, let's see. Please complete the following.

It is "free speech protected by the United States constitution" for the July 2008 issue of Vanity Fair(http://imgur.com/pTvVj.jpg) to do a Heath Ledger/Joker caricature of George Bush.

But it is racist and hate-mongering to do a Heath Ledger/Joker caricature of Barack Obama because

This image is perfect. First of all, it perfectly captures the surd evil nature of a man who wanted to deny medical care to abortion-survivers and is now trying to cram down our collective throats a "health care" plan that funds abortions, severely cuts health care to the elderly and forces the elderly to be "counseled" every 5 years on their end-of-life and opt ions for speeding same. EVIL! UNCLEAN!!

There is a scene where The Joker tosses a bunch of money out to a crowd and the rabble scrambles to grab it. He is also, with his wild spending, bankrupting the country.
While We the People struggle to keep afloat, he and Michelle enjoy a Papa Doc Duvalier (an old Haitian dictator for you Obama voters who were never taught history) lifestyle.

Steve seems pretty anal on the subject. Do you suppose this will foment violent protests like the Danish cartoons of a couple of years ago? Lighten up...get a grip...it's pretty funny!

hahahaha. this is what is wrong with us as a country and more specifically our media. you have uneducated "nprofessional "journalist like stevie here reporting his opinion of the news to us. Stevie no one cares about you feelings on the obama poster and no one cares whether or not you are offended. you are paid and expected to report facts you arrogant jackass. i dont know when the media decided it was ok to give their opinion as part of the story. you dont see a cashier at the local wal mart commenting on the purchases of customers telling them what they are buying is crap do you???? no you dont because that is not their job you idiot. do your job and shut up. As many others have pointed out, sarah palin was destroyed in the media. she was in the public eye for a month before people like you started to make remarks about her and depicting her in a bad light. same for bush and cheney. Hero's to america like shawn penn calling bush a muderer and saying he was murdering the troops. where was your outcry then. no youd rather get up set over a poster claiming that our president is a socialist. sean penn can say whatever the hell he wants it doesnt up set me. but im not gonna come out and say he is over the line you ignorant jackass. as for the whole racial thing... its soo easy for you liberals isnt it now. some oppostion against obama and the first thing you do is cry racism. wow thats the right way to respond. lets put no thought into a defense no facts and no time and just blindly yell racism. I can see it now, you writing this article.... hey how bout i throw thwe noose line in there... its so witty and clever... then you ask yourself how does this poster relate to racism and you realize it doesnt at all, but you dont feel like making a reaL ARGUMENT SO YOU JUST GO WITH IT. it is remarkable how lazy our media has gotten.

Painting a tan-skinned Obama with white make-up is no different from painting a pink-skinned Bush with white make-up. It's not racial any more than the original comic character was racial. The point is that Obama's socialist policies are a joke.

So should we be outraged by every political cartoon done on every president? This was also done to George B and Hillary. Give me a break,Oh it must be a racist thing.

This is a rehash of a vanity fair article where bush was depicted as the joker. Are you suggesting obama should be treated differently because of the color of his skin?

Revelation: it is quite possible to disagree with one's policies and not be a racist, neo-con, war criminal, or terrorist. You, sir, are nothing but a lefty McCarthyist.

NO one cared when they did it to Bush, I agree though it would look better with a noose!!

Point is the man is a Joke. Point of the Poster is to point out what a joke he is! Where is the racism? A Fool is a fool no matter the color of his skin! And the fool who crys racism when the truth is revealed is a desparate man! Trying to divert the attention from the truth to some cultural hysteria!

Howw can anyone compare Obama to Bush??????????

I guess it is OK to ridicule a republican president and write books and make movies about his murder, and lie about him and demonize him. God forbid, to ridicule the current president who hates this country and every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie.

I did an archival search to see what Steve posted, his outrage when Vanity Fair published a picture by Drew Friedman of Bush as the Joker. No surprise, not a peep. I also searched to see where his outrage was over the pictures that were done of Hillary. The pictures of an innocent infant unable to defend himself made to look like a monster with a coat hanger. Sarah Palin's infant Trig.

Which tells me this article isn't based on principle or any type of respect for the highest office. It's based on being a Democrat and an Obama supporter. Yet, another reason to be thankful after the primaries that I am no longer a member of either party. So sick of the hypocrisy. The lies. The destruction of this country. The silly Psych 101 games. ~American First.

And I'm sure you were just livid when Death Of A President was released in 2006. Or how about Vanity Fair last October and their George W. Bush as the Joker portrait?
Is every bit of criticism aimed at this administration going to be race related? Grow up.

Ok Heath Ledgers character was not considered racial but an african american in that character is racist now? He couldn't of had white face because...i don't know...the Joker character has white face also? Naw to obvious. Couldn't of had his mouth slit because that was how the Joker character was done also in the movie? Naw to easy. Republicans and democrats are ridiculous. This poster is funny and one of the only good anti Obama things they've had, but when you try to spin it saying it racist that makes me shake my head that someone can be so either so ignorant or just a liar.

If Steven Mikulan has an ounce of credibility prior to this article it's certainly now gone.

Because Bush was given such a hard time, and ridiculously mocked,the left should not be overly outraged when they get some blowback.

Aside from the fact that the blowback is coming from the "moral" party, and those who claim to be closer to good values. Obviously Republicans, in seeing no problem, have decided that all is fair in love and war, and nobody (left or right) is taking a high road.

As to the the point of the piece, you might as well paint the entire European union in the same crazy socialist white face. Or Bush, who initiated the bank recapitalizations.

People conveniently want to overlook the crappy economy Obama inherited, and the near collapse of the financial system last October. You don't switch presidents and the day after inauguration have a magically delicious economy. Things take time.

The question should be, "Who is doing something" and who is sitting on their asses burning straw men. When was the last time you heard a Republican address how they would have kept the credit crunch (which affected even highly solvent profitable businesses last year) from destroying the financial structure of the world? When was the last time you heard a Republican say what they would be willing to DO about healthcare.

Nine times out of ten you hear the nonsense, which is why McCain managed to lose an election that was all but his. He talked about nonsense the entire time, while the financial system was up in flames.

I would have thought once we saw the White House website asking us to "snitch" on dissenters everyone (lib or conservative) would recognize this guy for who he is?

HotAir has an awesome comparison of a cover LA Weekly ran of W with fangs and blood dripping... oh the hypocrisy. Looks like Stevie has thin skin like his man Barry-

I've seen shirts picturing Sarah Palin's face with the one word caption "C#NT" beneath the picture. I've seen posters and shirts of George Bush reading with various captions reading "TERRORIST." Not to mention the Bush/Cheney mug shot posters. We have David Letterman telling jokes about Palin's underage daughter being impregnated by an adult.

Now we have an Obama poster that speaks the truth and the liberals are screaming like a spoiled child who just had their toy taken away buy a parent. This poster will receive more news stories than any Bush poster ever did.

Why am I not surprised?

Forget the smug hypocrisy of Mikulan in overlooking LA Weekly's own picture of Bush as the Prince of Darkness.

Could someone explain what train of thought arrives at the conclusion that comparing Obama to the Joker is equivalent to calling for his lynching?

1. Right-wingers compare Obama to the Joker.
2. The Joker isn't killed in "The Dark Knight," let alone hanged.
3. ?
4. Therefore it follows that right-wingers want to hang Obama.

I suppose we can safely assume that the good folks at the LA Weekly plotted to drive a stake through the heart of George Bush, Jr. using slightly more explicable logic.

If blacks aspire to be in public office same as whites, they better be ready to be ridiculed as whites are. I think the elites have miscalculated white guilt. Americans are sick of special treatment for non whites. No more stacking the deck so that non-whites have an undeserved advantage. Americans want equality and equality means there's only one color, American.

Oh goodie! Now I can refer to the NeoConRightwingExtremist Nutjobs as Nazi's!! I'm okay with this joke - if you only know how serious I am about the RNC Nazi party - Hooray!!

Wake up Middle-class Republicans - you've been drafted into the "SS" - stop it "now" before it gets serious.

In addition, I must add, I'm finding it kind of enlightening that the Conservatives of Bush can a) still defend him and act as though nothing was wrong for 8 years and b) the posters here are becoming somewhat - well, for lack of better word - "liberal" - who knew that Brian has a "sense of humor" (as he insists this is just good fun) or that Domack is racially sensitive to the African-American history, or that Art is such a feminist, that a dolt like Palin was unjustly ridiculed (despite her obvious lack of education and knowledge for the job she had and hoped to get) that he would vote for her (liberally), just to give the woman a chance! Bravo - if this poster brings the "liberal" out of these NeoCons, I say, BRAVO! You can all go back to Fix News now and find your next talking point.

This is a RNC Lobbyist site. Goodluck at the KKK rally everyon.

Oh my gosh somebody doesn't like Obama! It must be a race thing.

Idiot!

Its not so much the joker depiction but the socialism reference that hits the nail on the head. I thought we were a Democracy or did our Drave men and women who died protecting us from such, die in vain. Has our Constitution decome a mere out dated piece of toliet tissue for all the left wingers to whip with ever time they dump their agenda on this collapsing nation.

ONE MUST NOT CRITICIZE THE MESSIAH:

-BACK BREAKING USA DEBT
-BOW TO SAUDIS
-WILL NOT PRODUCE BIRTH CERTIFICATE
-HEALTH CARE FOR 12 MILLION CITIZENS OF ANOTHER COUNTRY AND RATIO HEALTH CARE FOR ELDERLY
-TAKE OVER PRIVATE INDUSTRY
-WASTEFUL SPENDING BILLED AS "STIMULUS"
-IN NAME OF "GULLIBLE WARMING" WE MUST HAVE CAP/TRADE HIGH TAXES

BUT ONE MAY NOT CRITICIZE OR HAVE CARTOONS RELATING TO THE MESSIAH...

The poster has now shown up in Hawaii... His home state. Catch it on YouTube.

Search: Obama Joker Poster Hawaii

Stop! The poster has now shown up in Hawaii... His home state. Catch it on YouTube.

Search: Obama Joker Poster Hawaii

You fucking racist. I only read this shit rag because it was linked along with the picture. Only thing missing is a noose? Go back to Alabama, you cunt.

Is it me or did i just enter one poo flinging frenzy of an echo chamber here?

I get it, Bush was caricatured during his administration, and some people soiled their skivvies as a result, now they see the time has arrived for their comeuppance and emphasize just how wrong the other guys are.

Add the empowerment of anonymity to the equation and behold, instant arrested development with posters brandishing their spiteful petulance with relative impunity.

Good job guys. You must really be proud of yourselves. Gold star for everyone.

I might be conservative but I didn't appoint a czar that believes a two(2) year old child could still be aborted (killed) if so willed by its mother, nor do I believe that a mongaloi child is less then a well trained miniature collie, nor do I believe that an old person who can't care for themselve should be destroyed with an ejection from Dr. Appointed Mangala. Now who is Nazi or SS. Hades enlarges itself daily.

Daffy Duck, where in gods name did you come up with so many big words? Do yu have a teleprompter? I believe you help write the so called heath care bill. No wonder nobody wants to read it. Do you carry those words in your pocket. Your not wise as far from it as some certan female latina appointed by your god.

After Obama ignores intelligence warnings and allows the largest single terrorist attack on American soil, then uses that as an excuse to lie us into a war against a country that had nothing to do with the attack, a war that's killed tens of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and devastated their country and put tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars into the pockets of Halliburton and KBR, then lets an American city be destroyed because he staffed agencies with incompetent cronies rather than competent professionals actually qualified for the job, then tortures prisoners of war even while lying about doing that, then cuts taxes for the wealthiest sector of the population while waging this completely unnecessary war, resulting in the financial sewer we're in now, and leaving all of this for President Obama to clean up because Bush and the Repubs in Congress couldn't be bothered to clean up their mess---

After Obama does all of that, then you can post all the Hitler posters of him you want. But he's been in office for a little over six months and you miserable bedwetters are whining about your world crashing down around you. I hope you're really miserable, you all deserve it.

OK. So somebody's words consist of that which is not neanderthal and something must surely be amiss, and I must be a target for a presumptuous barrage of disjointed talking-points in the form of a question.

At any rate, even if I do carry said words (I didn't think you were capable of metaphor) I ask, please for you to follow your own advice and carry some sense in yours as I don't speak gobbledygook and you are painfully lacking in substantive discourse.

And for the record.. what God of mine appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor?
There you go with the wild presumption again.

haha, is Daffy Duck a lib? they like to use big fancy words, so they can sleep better at night knowing they are far more intelligent than us right wing neanderthals.

silly libs can't take a joke. and obama is their favorite president since they can throw the race card all over the place. for real, you have made the connection yourselves that the makeup is mimicking the joker... that's why his face is white retards.
he is half white anyways... quit your race baiting, and get ready to bend over and take it when he is done messing up America.

I like Obama and I laughed. I'm more offended about what it implies about socialism.

Can't take a joke you say? Food for thought...

The fatal flaw in the poster is that Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker depicts him as a ruthless and arguably insane anarchist with absolutely no interest in any sort of collectivism whatsoever.
This considered, any parable or allusion to socialism of any sort when juxtaposed with the image of President Obama and the Joker is rendered, null, void, ill informed, poorly conceived, and lacking savvy in the DC Comics' cannon.

You see, it was one retard (I just had to play your game) that broke America 8 months ago and passed the buck along to our guy. The real joke is that once this mess was passed on to the next guy, the blame was instantly dumped in his lap.

Can't take a joke you say? Food for thought...

The fatal flaw in the poster is that Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker depicts him as a ruthless and arguably insane anarchist with absolutely no interest in any sort of collectivism whatsoever.
This considered, any parable or allusion to socialism of any sort when juxtaposed with the image of President Obama and the Joker is rendered, null, void, ill informed, poorly conceived, and lacking of savvy in the DC Comics' cannon.

You see, it was one retard (I just had to play your game) that broke America 8 months ago and passed the buck along to our guy. The real joke is that as soon as the next guy passed through the White House doors, the blame was instantly dumped in his lap by the idiot fundie fringe.

I am opposed to Obama's healthcare plan because it results in less dead Americans. Thank Allah for insurance company screw-ups!

Why are people making fun of Obama for? Do you really want another Bush in office? If the Republicans won we would all might as well live in a 3rd world country. Obama is doing a good job. We as Americans need to fucking suck it up and just live life how it is. We will have good and bad presidents. Nobody is perfect that is how God created us you stupid bitches.

Stop making fun of Obama he is a good president.

You guys made Bush a monster and put it on the front page. Get over it! This is as funny as a Mad Magazine cover, and way more creative than anything you guys have come up with in years. If Hillary had won, and they did this to her, would it be racism or anti-women? Just because the prez is black doesn't mean anytime someone pokes fun at him that they're racist. Get over it...

"You guys made Bush a monster and put it on the front page."

Sorry to break it to you, but selective memory aside, President Bush didn't require any outside consultation at all in that department.

I might also ask how this depiction is any more creative considering Bush was already portrayed as the same joker in Vanity Fair last July, which I, for the record, too thought was as bad as a metaphor as this one, as the Joker is neither a Socialist or a bumbling idiot that chokes on pretzels.

Doesn't anyone remember the street party scene where the Joker held a parade and was throwing money to the crowd? Everyone was happy, cheering the Joker and grabbing the money (sound like today's infatuation with Obama?) - until the Joker released the poison gas (the health care run by inept federal agencies, higher taxes, etc). This poster isn't about race, this is about the way this administration is spending America into what almost certainly will turn into runaway inflation. Those who spent like drunken sailors and never saved a penny will get handouts from the government, while those who scrimped and saved for their retirement will find their nest egg will barely pay for groceries. The only consolation will be that they'll then be eligible for the handouts. But wait, who will pay for all of these government programs which need to cover more and more people?... those with real money will probably just leave the country and the burden will once again fall mainly on the shoulders of the middle class (and we don't just mean the ones earning $150K+).

Now all we need is one of that witch named Nancy Pelosi.

My husband is always wearing that get up to distract me from his small penis.

I WANT A T SHIRT AND WINDOW STICKERS!

It kind of turns me on !

How come i don't get any makeup ? Obama gets everthing......i'm going to cry and spill some more classified secrets.

I have big boobs,PMS and a broom and Obama still gets more media attention.You had better go along with the Health Care Bill or i will stop using feminine spray.

Just because i hate Americans gives you no reason to do this ! I will sick my Chicago thugs on you.

You people from California think you have too many taxes ? I'm going to send you nuts to TAX HELL !

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If my picture scares you, than wait until i pull down my pants

who gave you access to the intardnets...
If you wanna talk stupid, you've better forums to state your qualms outside of the realm of anonmynity.

I'm sure, the warm disemboweled ton-ton beast torso of comfor that the internet provides is what you prefer.

Even so, making a difference through comment forums is as ineffective as masturbating before an electric fence. You might get your jollies, but nothing is accomplished by doing so.

Not saying, fundie f-tards. Just saying.
Good night So-Cal, from Seattle.
In time, you just might grow up, and leave your Cali-mom's teet and see the rest of the world. Nobody's holding their breath though.

What do you think of the new Obama poster? Well... the people took it to court, and you can be the judge http://bit.ly/obama01

What do you think of the new Obama poster? Well... the people took it to court, and you can be the judge http://bit.ly/obama01

daffy duck, a suitable name for one who has a cob up their crack because their liberal reprobate mind has been insulted by commmon sense. Get a little (CS) because from the demeaner of wording you use, your not getting anything at all. As far as the lefties who throw up the number of troops killed in Iraq, they voluntered for that as I did in Vietnam. They believe in America and hopefully want return to the cry of baby killer. Back to the sixties of radicals, thats what I'm seeing. Get your pin up calendar of Putin without his shirt and Obama and drival over it.

The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of other peoples' money. FND

wow, the only thing missing is a noose..i don't recall a noose in obama's original poster, i don't recall the joker ever wearing a noose. You took a political statement far beyond what it intended to say, like all liberals do these days. You MAKE it about race. the statement had nothing to do wiht race, and YOU made it into a racial discussion. you want to end racism? well tell you and your liberal buddies to stop finding it where there is none, and that'll be a huge step forward.

Why is obama a bad? He gets rich people to pay parts of my morgage.Isn't that good? I can buys more stuffs now. Get bigger TV!

This poster is cooler:

http://whysosocialist.blogspot.com

Keep cranking out all the bitching between Republicans and Liberals, I love it! Lol America!

This is awesome!!!

Vote Libertarian for freedom.

ricochet says:
TO ALL WHO DIDN'T VOTE FOR OBAMA. You are the minority now, get over it. It's sad to see people who would call themselves Americans trying so hard to get rid of a new president.

You mean like you and your fellow rabid libs did to Bush for 8 years?

Remember :
Bush stole the election...Bush was awol...Impeach Bush... Bushitler... etc.

Were you saddened by those americans as well?

In all likelihood, you were not.

The image is only an attempt to link Obama to the paranoid charges of dangerous extremism, wildly erratic behavior and criminality. I don't believe it is racist, only implying the unintelligible argument that our president is a loose cannon hell bent on destroying the country.

"Street art" has been hijacked by advertising nerds, and is just a gimmick to sell clients on phony street cred. Maybe this was Michael Steele's idea. Haha.

My hunch is that the image was just made by some young graphic designer trying to make a name for himself. He did a few little wheat pastes, took a few pictures, and now everyone's talking about this like it's some kind of movement. The image might even be satirical in nature, taking a shot at the foam-mouthed paranoia that currently dominates our political discourse. In this context I actually like the image very much. But then again, I always love the bad guys more.

LOL ! Im glad to see that people on the right are standing up now and the left cant stand it . This is freedom of speech as the aclu nuts would say in the case of Bush . So get over yourself and keep hope and change alive because thats all that will be left is hope . Hey someone needs to do a poster of McCain as 2 face , Palin as Catwoman , Hillary as poison ivy , Barney Franks as Penguin .

Firstly, this is a blog, correct? On a newspaper website to be sure, but readers of a blog are obliged to understand that the opinion of the author is likely to come through.

To the matter at hand--It is a grotesque image, and I thought so back when I saw Heath Ledger all made up as the Joker as well.

The underlying theme of this image and poster is that Obama is evil, out to get all of us, and up to some secret agenda--you know, to take over the world! Individuals unaccustomed to taking a (figuratively) global view of the world around them are going to be frightened by a man who sounds reasonable, treats others with respect rather than disdain, one who provides thoughtful, reasoned responses to questions (well, most of the time, with the Gates Arrest being a real exception in my book)--they are afraid because he's not of their party, he does not share their narrow viewpoints, and he might actually be on the right track, despite what the doomssayers insist.

I know a good ol' fratboy may be easier for these folks to relate to, but when the rubber meets the road, Obama offers a better choice for the nation--which completely shakes up their narrow world paradigm, scaring the heck out of them--and they are compelled to drum up that same fear in others.

And so, we see posters like this Joker one.

Wow, to be called a racist for speaking of true equity. I know many blacks and they are just as able as anyone else. Why diminish their accomplishments by though affirmative action? To keep racial division? It's the same rulers behind the puppets like W Bush, Obama, Clinton, etc. Wake up! So now there's a "black" figure head that you can not criticize or you're racist. Funny how the real agenda is always shoved up our a$$es. Go back to sleep in your world of racial division and inequity...

Are you people sure it's not just an elaborate troll to get the left and right to argue with each other and end up looking like idiots?

And bonus points to the writer of this article for making the racism association. 8/10.

If you even replied on this blog, kill yourself, now.

ps. goodbye cruel world.

"You ain't nothing but a hound dog Obama "

Obama deceives more people than me now.

Unfortionately it's the truth. President Obama is a socialist. Or would you like to call him a statist or mabe a marxist.

Bob

Obama is a new world order lackey. They (politicians) all wear Joker faces to me. From Bush the moronic shoot em up cowboy to Johnson the great war making liberal. Also the privately owned Fed charging us interest on our own money to the Wall street money changers. If the mask fits wear it.

Yes,

Obama is a socialist, and a communist, and a statist, and a marxist. I should also throw in that he is a totalitarian leader. You should also know that "the Messiah" is a nazi and a racist.

Further, he wants old people to die sooner than they should.

I know. He told me so.

Your pal,

Glenn

Glen Beck = new world order mouth piece. Bring the mask please. The new world order comes in all types from the liberal to the eno-con con man. As they burn both side to destroy the middle..

Seriously? You're that racist that you see racism in something this mundane? Man, you belong in California. You're too much of a whiny, over-sensitive, sissy little fag for any other state than the one your messiah claims to have been born in. Retard.

Steven Mikulan,

Why are we so quick to always pull the race card...Political satire has been a live for a long time...But now it has t stop because we have a black president? Please...

Desert Elephant, Californians sissies? I dare you to walk after dark in south central LA un-armed.
Glen Beck doesn't think for me. He's a mask wearer too.

"WHY SO STIMULUS?"

Oh Stevie - are you crying? I'm sorry, I'll take them down, please don't cry anymore. NOT.

Guess who has been writing fishy emails? --Riddler

Batman is fishy. Here, fishy, fishy, fishy! --Catwoman

I demand a bigger cut of the fishy fish! --Penguin

Riddler and Penguin are writing fishy emails. --Two-Face

Batman is writing fishy emails of the order siluriformes. --Egghead

Batman is writing fishy emails too. --Two-Face

This whole snitch plan is kind of fishy. --Black Mask

Seriously, you think this is racist AND it made it in to the news? I'd think a more fair representation would be that Obama, like the Joker, is a thief who steals money...much like he is doing to me, you, and our children. Perhaps Obama as Robin Hood would have been more accurate, but then again would the bow and arrow be too much like a spear to you?

Perhaps you should take an inner look at your feelings on race.

A noose? Seriously? What about this picture depicts that there should be a noose? Republicans, Independents and conservative Democrats are no longer able to have opinions if those opinions collide with our black president otherwise they are considered racist. They no longer have intelligence, law degrees, doctorates, morals or values. No, they simply must be racist. It's time that the tactic of playing the race card and making people feel politically incorrect comes to an end. If President Obama were white and we cried out in opposition, would you say it's because he is white? We are not making this a race issue and I cannot understand why the media continues to do so.

Your right the only thing missing is the noose. Obama would be holding it, ready to fasten around the neck of the American people.

Michelle is gonna be pissed at all of this lipstick of Sarah Palin on my face!!!

What happened to freedom of speech? As noted before no one made a big deal out of anti-bush posters. As far as him having a white face, the Joker had a painted white face. Its part of the costume. Not a racist remark. I wonder if the Joker was a Black man in the movie with a painted white face, would Obama having a painted white face even be an issue? I suspect not. I say let them have their freedom of speech.

This poster looks like the work of L.A. area radical/racist Pia Varma or someone in her group, no doubt about it...

I like the new poster we are starting to see the true colors of Obama I always said America elected angry black man to the white house.

Socialism is kind of a cool idea. I like this poster, and would like to subscribe to its newsletter.

HALF THE PEOPLE POSTING HERE THINK SOCIALISM = COMMUNISM = ANTI-MERICA

This is far from racial. The mention of the noose was completely uncalled for, as it is a demonstration of free speech, in that the creator of the poster thinks that Obama is doing a joke of a job as President, and that he is turning democratic America into socialistic America. I have to agree with Anonymous though, with people thinking that socialism = communism = anti-America. Socialism and communism are two completely different terms. Communism = everything government run. Socialism = everything run by private corporations. So, in theory, the United States IS a socialist country, as the only votes that matter are the ones made by lobbyists for major corporations.

What if the artist is Black Republican? Is this Racist?
America has more and more Black Republican, do you know?
Why didn't anyone accuse the Liberals who compared Bush to Hitler of being racist?
I think the White Liberals are not sincere with the Black folks, and I think they use the Black folks, so their race card is their weapons.

The facts more Black folks knew that the Liberals are racist.

The Joker: Characterized by lack of seriousness or sense.

Obama:

Socialism: A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole

A joke: An imitation, esp. of a ridiculous or unsatisfactory kind.

You: ??? you suffer from reverse racism.

what do we call this,

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

reverse racism?

why is it that if anyone opposes Obama in any way it is racism .....

from a bobble-head to a kool-aid drinker, quit your sniveling and take your medicine.

Good Question Marsh...
maybe because they have no substance to speak of

marsha-

the race card is used whenever there is no substance for real debate, it is like a slug who has no other defense

I think it's hilarious....his little lipstick on a pig comment is coming back to haunt him

I think it is hilarious....the little lipstick on a pig comment comes to mind

DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER

It's funny, but When Bush's image was used in such a way, it was to decry ACTUAL policies that he was enacting, ACTUAL liberties he was destroying, and most importantly ACTUAL people dying for lies. If this is all the 'conservatives' have left in their book, old tired mantras frankly have nothing to do with the facts, then I think we've won. Oh, and how about them car sales and better than expected employment figures.

zello,
how many have died in the last few months?
what was the unemployment rate before Obama?
what liberties were preserved under this admin?

nuff said

I think that both the liberals and democrats are destroying America from within. There are daily attacks by the media and mean spirited celebrities, politicians and unknowns. The issues should be the things that are discussed, not persons, personalities, religion, sex or race. America has more hatred now than ever. If we don't start to forgive and try to find common ground, then we will destroy ourselves. I wish President Obama would lead us by showing he can compromise and forgive like he promised us. It is very sad what is happening and we need to begin to heal by everyone making consolations.

So what, this is free speech, and not particularly effective free speech, since Obama looks nothing like the Joker, the Joker was hardly a socialist, and if you didn't see the movie, like me, the reference goes nowhere. It's even sloppy makeup, and surely Obama would have been fussily neat about it if he'd been the Joker. This is a cooked up issue that only plays because we're in the doldrums of summer.

Back in 2004 Bush was depicted as Dracula....Later was drawn to resemble Hitler. It is an outrage that Presidents must be drawn like this but it is a greater outrage to see the media cheer Bush being made fun of when Obama comes off as racial....It is amazing that the President who is supposed to close racial tensions, opens them with every new story ex: Police officer story and now this. Its good that everyone can voice their opinion and yes, EVEN FOX NEWS AND CONSERVATIVES

I seem to remember an LA Weekly magazine cover of Bush depicted as a blood thirsty vampire with and a pentagram (satanic) label on his collar: http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/prezfang.jpg

How many sorry ass liberal hypocrites does it take to run a magazine? I don't know how many it takes, but I know how many the LA Weekly has!

"Anonymous says:

Socialism is kind of a cool idea. I like this poster, and would like to subscribe to its newsletter.

HALF THE PEOPLE POSTING HERE THINK SOCIALISM = COMMUNISM = ANTI-MERICA"

Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics
Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany between 1933 and 1945, while it was led by Adolf Hitler and the National SOCIALIST German Worker's Party

you f'ing IDIOT

PS: I'd say it's more like 97%

The cons need to get their stories straight.

Is Mr. Obama a socialist (like the sign says) or an individualist anarchist (like The Joker is)?

Or is he a fascist (often used interchangably with socialist), or a communist?

He can't be all four. That wouldn't make any sense.

P.S. The Nazi's had "socialist" in its name, but they were "national socialist" which was more aligned with fascism.

And communism (the "socialist" in USSR) is very much different than "European socialism" as Obama is also accused of being. (So far I haven't heard any collectivist talk from Mr. Obama.)

Why can't he be all 4? There's no set "rules" for people like him (and you I assume) other than "Rules For Radicals" one of the many communist playbooks most of his ideas come from.
"Community Organizing" was pioneered in Chicago's old stockyards neighborhood by the soberly realistic, unabashedly radical Saul Alinsky (He wrote Obama and Hilary's favorite book)"Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Marxist who helped establish the dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary movements in the United States.
Funny how when people who actually work for a living are the ones doing the confronting, suddenly they don't like it, how ironic.
So, to make you happy Steve, we'll just call him a Marxist, that pretty much covers it.

Q: What's the difference between communism and socialism?
A: The spelling.

Mainstream media ignored tatics such as these when it was applied to President Bush. Now that it has happened to President Obama, they want the public to become outraged. PLEEEEEEEASE!! Either way it was free speech and the "posters" are allowed to engage in the creation and distribution. It is their personal opinion to do so without fear. What this situation does represent is the bias in todays media sector.

NO MO BAMA asks: "Why can't he be all 4?"

Because they're very different ideologies, in fact there are complete OPPOSITES among those terms. They do have meaning besides cheap political slurs, after all.

"There's no set "rules" for people like him..."

Really? The guy conformed his way through the educational and political system, something pretty much impossible for the raving lunatic guys like NO MO BAMA claim he is. I can understand not agreeing with his plans, but the man is at worst misguided. All this "HE'S TRYING TO KILL US ALL!!1!" rhetoric is getting so obtuse as to be scary.

Can’t you folks get it that the idea is to label Obama as a trickster? That’s what the joker makeup is meant to represent. Get the heck over the race things this isn’t about race - it’s about the false left vs right paradigm.

It only took 200 days for Obama to blow his credibility with those that supported him, I was proudly NOT one of those. And now that the self-annointed "messiah" is facing well-deserved criticism for his radical views and Chicago-thug-style arm-twisting, the libs want to shut down any and all opponents to their unread and pi$$ poorly planned fiscal and health care policies. And the libs ratchet up their whining, trying to discredit REAL people venting REAL anger at the absurdity of their politics. The liberal double standard is alive and well. They can't spew enough venom when it comes to Bush and the GOP, but boy are they ever thin skinned when it comes to them receiving similar treatment from the ever increasing number of genuinely angry citizen opponents to their charades. Funny how we didin't hear a peep out of them when Bush was mocked with the same Joker type poster. Ths libs in fact, started it.

The libs prove again that they can't take the heat they dish out at others, so it's high time they get out of the kitchen. Refusing to accept or beleive the real anger of many Americans is arrogance at its worst and is a sure-fire route to the unemployment lines. And at they rate they're losing support, they'll all be out looking for a job in 2012! It can't come too soon!!

Why do people insist on calling the agenda of Obama's handlers and controllers "socialist," when everything this _joker_ does only tightens the bonds (fascii) of the finance oligarchs and robber barons? Calling him a socialist when he's really implementing Fascism only gives those who identify with the Left ammunition to dismiss legitimate criticism as right-wing sour grapes, or as this sad excuse for a journalist (presstitude) did, imply racism.

Of course, this was going on under Clinton and Bush, but it's really accelerated since the banker bailout, and under this creature of Wall Street there will soon be no Main Street. And Wall Street, which financed the Bolsheviks and Hitler, has never been comfortable with competition.

Time to stop feeding the parasites. Withdraw money from the banks and stop funding their criminal activities.

My, my, we are quite touchy today, arent we?

Man, You Guys Need To get off Obama's Head. He only been in office for 9 months, and you guys expect him to fix everything that Bush messed up?

I'm tired of people crying about this health care plan that our president trying to cook up. At least he thinking about the citzens of American. It took bush a whole term in office just even think about his people. Let Obama have his shine, and maybe if yall get off his head you guys will see change.

Track555

If I were to defend Obamacare I would be Anonymous also. I'm starting to understand why homeland security is concerned about returning Vets. Can you imagine defending your country and coming home to find out Mr Obama and the joker are one in the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The sad part is not that you deliberately miss the point, but that there is indeed a joke; and it has been played upon the misguided (and maybe just a little bit foolish) American people.

Wow. The only thing missing is the noose? How is this picture AT ALL racist? Your comment is the epitome of spinning, the race card, and overall bullcrap.

Racist? How is the joker racist? If anything, it is a n insult to Heath Ledger. It is called Political satire. All presidents deal with it, and always have. Don't dish it out if you can't take it. Liberals, wake up before the country is ruined by this "joker" and we have to have another revolution. Maybe Americans are starting to see that Mr. Hollywood president is a great talker, just not a deliverer. Unless he is delivering to china! I t hink it is about time Americans start showing him for what he really is! KUDOS!!!

Racist? How is the joker racist? If anything, it is a n insult to Heath Ledger. It is called Political satire. All presidents deal with it, and always have. Don't dish it out if you can't take it. Liberals, wake up before the country is ruined by this "joker" and we have to have another revolution. Maybe Americans are starting to see that Mr. Hollywood president is a great talker, just not a deliverer. Unless he is delivering to china! I t hink it is about time Americans start showing him for what he really is! KUDOS!!!

I THINK THE ONLY BOBBLE HEADS ARE THE ONES THAT VOTED FOR HIM.

Why are you spinning this into a racial issue. Political satire has been around for as long as politics and this is only depicting Obama as what he portrays, a joker. Insinuating racism where it doesn't exist is worse than racism itself.

...the sad part is, when the Liberals were trashing Bush, it was "legitimate criticism and free speech" but when Conservatives disagree with "the annointed President" then it's "racism" or whatever. Evidently, free speech is only endowed to the Liberals when the Republicans hold high office. This is why Anne Coulter is so effective...she gives it back to the Democrats in the same shrill manner as they dish it out but she does it with logically well thought out facts instead of the knee jerk emotionalistic high horse that the Dems try to ride, all the time slicing the Dems to pieces like a Cuisinart. Sean Hannity and Rush Limbsugh cut through the same Dem BS with straight talk and facts that the Dems can't argue except for the "feel good" aspects. Bottom line is that the Liberals/Democratic Socialists can sure dish it out but can't take it. One more thing...they're all for telling us working stiffs to buy a prius and all this "green technology" while they fly to the rally in their Learjet back to their McMansions...puleeze. If they're so worried about income redistribution and doing the right thing, THEY should try living on 30K a year before taxes...

Qur First Amendment rights at work and the liberals want to instigate a probe. Sounds like 1933-style Facism to me.

Qur First Amendment rights at work and the liberals want to instigate a probe. Sounds like 1933-style Facism to me.

I love my President,

It is amazing how we tear our President down when the last President did nothing but get us killed and hated across the world. I am conservative, US Army Officer, and have served overseas more than I've lived in the US since 2002. I have free medical care because I am a soldier. Our system is paperless because we have to have access to every medical facility should we get blowed up somewhere only God knows. Not only is it economical but the system saves lives. But I guess it would be a bad idea for the rest of America. I am sick of Fox News and all these other people who never sacrificed a darn thing for this country or anyone outside of their family talk a bunch of trash about nothing. Our country has fallen apart due to poor leadership. Our country continues to fall apart do to sustained ignorance and self gains led by people like Bill and Rush. Both of those idiots cheated on their wives and one was arrested for illegal drug use/smuggling. Saddly enough, they are the face of my political party. Then you have other Re-duds out there cheating their constituents, having homosexual rendezvous, neglecting their families on fathers day, and benefiting from medical lobby money at the expense of Americans who cannot read past an 8th grade level. If President Obama had of been in the same boat, you guys would not hesitate to get a rope and find the nearest oak tree. Most of you idiots say people are playing the race card. Well you tell me one thing in President Obama's background that makes him a Joker, Socialist, lacking, or unqualified to be our President. I guess affirmative action did it for him…right? For you white people, how many black or Mexican friends do you have? For you people of color, when was the last time you visited a white person and had dinner at their home with your family? We are all racist. We are the only country that acts if the crap does not exist. If you think I am lying, check your MySpace page or face book or phone list and tell me just how many people you have on there that looks not like you, talks not like you, or even was not raised in the same "hood." The bottom line is no matter what this President does, he will be wrong. That is a shame because our children will suffer when we are dead and gone as we continue to fail to bypass our differences for the better good. Now I will let you idiots get back to your daily dose of nothing while I put in another 15 to 18 hour day trying to do my little part in this country that was destroyed at the expense of my unborn child's education based off some BS intelligence conjured up by the great WHITE HOPE GEORGE BUSH. F....U!

OMG yet another Obama defining moment. Get a life Steve, no one had a fit over the way they casted Nixon, the Kennedys, Carter and lets not forget some of the racey ones about Clinton. Either get a life and sense of humor or quit your job. Personally, I think Obama is getting too much attention. If the media and citizens would talk less about him he possibly would stop pulling these stunts. Since he is so ill mannered as to pat the Queen on the back and have his wife try to knuckle bump her, oh, and lets not forget the Ipod, we are recognizing in this picture his ability to be THE joke of the United States.

Obama, the Community Organizer and Lawyer, forced banks to give out sub-prime loans to people who could not afford them under the Community Reinvestment Act. Then Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were coerced into buying these bad loans.... the Banks failed and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac failed cauing a economic meltdown which caused the Lying Media to blame Pres Bush and got Obama elected using the same tactics that got Hilter elected and like Hitler , Obama took over companies and corporations to furhter his socialism and fascism ... just like the Joker misleading people to get his way.. The poster is just like Obama since Obama is just like Hitler and the Joker.

Typical "Progressive" reaction, "Racism! racism! Can't crticize The One, given unto us by God!".
George W was portrayed as everything from a vampire to a cannibal but heck, declared as the Left's public enemy #1, it's "OK" and "funny".
Now they demand civility with their Amateur-in-Chief.
All I can say to the budding Fascisti of the Left (because that's where Italian & German Fascists came from in the 20th century), Bravo to the subversive artist, and "Say NO to Socialism!"

Typical "Progressive" reaction, "Racism! racism! Can't criticize "The One, given unto us by God!".
George W was portrayed as everything from a vampire to a cannibal but heck, declared as the Left's public enemy #1, it's "OK", "legitimate free speech" and "funny".
Now they demand civility with their Amateur-in-Chief.
All I can say to the budding Fascisti of the Left (because that's where Italian & German Fascists came from in the 20th century), Bravo to the subversive artist, and "Say NO to Socialism!"

I have a riddle...I see socialist, communist,Nazi, Marxist, etc. Who cares? I live in America where all the above may live but it's still a democracy last time I checked. Isn't that how Bush, Obama and others were voted in? Even if they didn't win by popular vote is it still the law? They are president if you like it or not. They won and someone else lost. Use your freedom of speach and talk, talk, talk. Can you walk the walk? Try to take over and keep in mind what started the past wars on American soil. Even then they talked the talk and walked the walk but someone lost...
So right now THE JOKER RULES and is still on top of the deck....and Batman is a liberal backing him up!!! Can you figure it out what side the Penguin is on? WEEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHAHEH...

the only thing missing is a noose? if your saying this is race related its not. if any other man white black or orental had become presadent and had such socalist ideals the the same thing could be said about them... saying that this is at all related to his race or ethnisity is stupid...

I'm not a racist, I just don't like our current president and he happens to pass himself off as being black. But at the end of the day, the color of a man's skin isn't what will ruin the country, it is his actions that are doing that.

Love to see all of the hipocritical right -wingers on here.... Where was all the outrage when W (you people voted this idiot in 2x) was in office???? Torture - warantless wiretaps - signing the 1st bailout - taking the clinton surplus to a trillion dollar deficit - the Iraq war? MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! - every reason given to go in was unfounded so it became we're freeing them from Saddam? (who, by the way Reagan, Bush Sr, Cheney , and rumsfeld propped up and armed to kill the iranians? I don't get the apathy towards one, but outrage towards another?!?! Obama has been in office how long? - here's a typical right-wing conundrum: Obama's a socialist - he bailed out GM and Chrysler - Socialist!! Socialist!! But if he didn't and let them fail... he put all of these hard-working americans out of work !!! It's all crazy.....I will say Obama probably got elected because of how many people HATED bush - he tarnished the US image and ran this ship aground - Come on guys..... oh and if I hear one more person call him a Socialist, then give up your Social Security and medicare, or is socialism OK for THAT .....and saving GM at al, only if you work there.... :) ps, i'm not a dem

duh

Seems the only thinking about a noose is Steven Mikulan. Hmmm, maybe it was just a slip on his part.

"The only thing missing is a noose."
Oh my god I hope you're joking...

Has Obama escaped from Arkham again? Damn! well...Anyone know if Batman can take time away from Gotham and help out the rest of the country?

Why the Joker w/ Socialism? Joker isn't a socialist.

Racist????????? right so now no one can attack a black man because if they do it will be denounced as racist,so its ok for obama to do what ever he wants as it will be discredited as racist if anyone opposes him WOW absolutely friggin amazing i’m glad i’m not black because i would be seriously insulted by the intelligence of those calling this racist,or maybe i too should be offended because he is HALF WHITE,or maybe i should be offended because he looks like a white person hhm looks like a white person wouldn’t that mean he was being RACIST towards a white person duh

Racist????????? right so now no one can attack a black man because if they do it will be denounced as racist,so its ok for obama to do what ever he wants as it will be discredited as racist if anyone opposes him WOW absolutely friggin amazing i’m glad i’m not black because i would be seriously insulted by the intelligence of those calling this racist,or maybe i too should be offended because he is HALF WHITE,or maybe i should be offended because he looks like a white person hhm looks like a white person wouldn’t that mean he was being RACIST towards a white person duh

People are actually saying the words i'm not a racist just because i don't happen to like america jesus what the fuck is wrong with people,everyone is racist because it is ok to attack someone so long as they are white THAT IS FRICKIN RACIST YOU PSYCHOPATHS

Remember all you people who attacked bush are racist or can you not be racist if you are attacking a white person because that really would BE RACIST

Why did you just turn this into a race issue? Don't you assume if they intended a noose they would have included a noose?

*This* is the issue with a black president; any criticism MUST be because I'm racist.

If supporters really want the country to get past race as they claim they do, then they cannot protect the President from scrutiny because he is black. Claiming racism is accessable. It is easy. The really uncomforatble work is seeing the truth. Obama is an equal opportunity politician and deserves equal opportunity critiscm.

Here Git!!!

You all are forgetting - he is as much black as he is white. Don't pull the racist crap out. Admit it, this is a GREAT poster.

Here Git!!!!

This poster has NOTHING to do with racism.
Vanity Fair did almost the same poster instead they used President Bush. Nothing but laughter from people like Franken Beans of the left. Now any displeasure of the Obamination of the USA will be met with the race card.

So the piss Christ is good art (and reccieved a federal grant) but THIS is just disrespectful? Guess the Chosen One is superior even to God now...

"For Real" has it right - let's face it, Steve got his jollies shouting about racists, and most of you get your jollies shouting about liberals. Politics is easy and fun when you know who to hate and love doing it, but fixing this country is going to be neither easy nor fun. It means listening to other ideas because if either the Right OR the Left had everything right, we wouldn't have these problems.

WOW - how can you possibly take this piece of art as racist? "All that's missing is a noose..." Damn, reaching much?? His face is simulated to be painted white, because the Joker's was painted white - is it really that hard to grasp folks? Such obvious pulling of the race card.

The purpose is to equate him to a tyrant. Obviously.

In case ya didn't know..

Definition of tyrant:
1. a sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
2. any person in a position of authority who exercises power oppressively or despotically.

Much to your chagrin I'm sure, these posters are mostly distributed by new, young activists who don't belong to any political party, but who are quite simply afraid for what their future holds because of all of the "change" their country has gotten so far.

Obama holds the single lowest approval rating of any president ever recorded at this time in his term - 48%. That means he's losing democrat support. Why? Because this goes way beyond party lines. Don't be such an idiot that you follow some democrat or republican over a cliff. You lower only yourselves.

Bush = Obama

SEEK THE TRUTH. Google video: The Obama Deception. I dare you to sit through it to the end.

SEEK THE TRUTH. Google video: The Obama Deception. I dare you to sit through it to the end

Of course, you did not complain when Bush was portrayed as the joker. The idea that any criticism of Obama is racist is racist.

Well, whyd'ya think it's that way? Havn't you seen the movie? I think Obama must be Batman, but some kinda Joker is painting its face and showing his (i won't say dark) dirty side.
I think ya'll see that Joker in not a lot of time... I think we'll see him joking... and I hope it's not the way we saw him on Dark Knight... But, who knows?

(Cmon, why so serious?)

Watch the Obama Deception (Don't worry libs, it attacks Bush too)

go to Infowars.com for the truth and real news- not this race baiting bullcrap.

End the False Right-Left political Paradigm

This blog is f**king stupid.
Race baiting?
give me a break.
Obama and his staff ARE Jokers but nothing as impressive as the actual character. he stood for something, they stand for nothing more than getting elected.

Hey Steve: If you've got the stones, read this
http://flashbulletin.blogspot.com and then go home and put yourself out of your own misery.

i think that most people can see through this BS. HOW IS IT OK TO PUT POSTER OF BUSH AS SATAN. A MONKEY AND VAMPIRE, WHILE ONE CIRITCIZING OBAMA IS AUTOMATICALLY RACISM!!!!

THE LA WEEKLY CAN AND DOES HAVE GREAT WRITING/REPORTING BUT IT NEEDS TO STOP CATERING TO THE LEFT/RIGHT PARADIGM. THE NEW WORLD ORDER IS REAL WE ARE TURNING INTO 1985 AS EACH DAY GOES BY UNDER BARRACK. ITS THE SAME AS THE BUSH/CHENEY REGIME, BUT THE REAL POWER HOLDERS ARE THE GLOBAL BANKERS/ELITISTS/EGEUNICISTS, THIS IS NO GODDDAMN CONSPIRACY THEORY PEOPLE!!!!!

HOW DARE YOU STOMP ON OUR FIRST AMMENDMENT RIGHTS BY CLAIMING RACISM, COME UP WIITH SOMETHING NEW. IF THE POSTER SAID ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT RACE I COULD SEE A POINT BUT ITS SIMPLY A SYMBOL OF THE GROWING NUMBER OF PWOPLE WHO ARE FED UP WITH THE POLITICIANS WHO CLAIM TO BE OUR LEADERS BE THEY WHITE BLACK OR BROWN!!!! TO THE AUTHOR OF THIS BLOG AND THE LA WEEKLY I HOPE YOU GET A CLUE!!!!

A better caption for the obama/Joker poster would be "Why so Socialist?"

Bernie Madoff was on the cover of a newsmagazine in Joker makeup--was that anti-semitic?--or was it a comment on his evil actions? Many think socialism is evil and that it's Obama who is secretly carrying out a socialist agenda, leading the country in that direction--therefore, voila! His secret agenda is "outed" and he is 'painted' with it. That's racist?

The Obama Joker $1000 Video Contest entry from the San Francisco Bay Area crew of Joe and Kris:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmbOIF8AJ7E

Obama is a front man for a cartel of fascists, monopoly men, and determined eugenicists. This is not about black or white, left or right, it is about OUR FREEDOMS!

If we don't exercise them we will LOSE THEM!

We aren't putting these posters up for racial reasons what-so-ever. this is political... he could just as easily be a green martian, and we'd still be doing it. This is our right to protest when our leaders, and our government are making moves we think people should be looking into, and be more aware of. Until people worldwide began putting up these images, the President seemed to have this fanatical fan support system, he was going to fix everything, he could do no wrong... but all politicians are capable of corruption. It's important to remember, Obama, IS a politician. Also important to remember: Obama isn't the devil himself, but the pretty packaging marketed to us by the worst of the worst, the most corrupt of corrupt, & most evil of evil to sell us so easily on their own plans so there's no protest. Important for American's to research all unelected, newly appointed Czars in the U.S. These people will be deciding your fates on so many issues. Also point to bring up, We have a social health care system in Europe... but what so many die-hard American social health care supporters need to research is the major drawbacks invovled... it isn't free... not at all. We pay loads in taxes each pay period that equal, or surpass what most Americans pay to insurance companies for monthly co-pays or premiums (depending on whether your employer matches the payment), plus we pay co-pays between 10-50 euro each doctor visit, and another 10-50 euro for our meds... great not seeing a doctor bill later for sure... but not free, and completely mandatory that we must pay into it. (no longer a choice) you also have to factor in that the government will now control what type of health care you'll receive. I went to my doctor with pneumonia (mild) last February, and he gave me one ibuprofen for my fever (you can't get anything not homeopathic over-the-counter here) and told me to sleep it off. It would have been very nice during those two painful weeks to have had some anitbiotics. Then of course, there's the taxing the "rich" issue, where regular small business owners get totally screwed, (like a family member of me who has a post-construction company in the U.S.) and he already only made for himself around $10-12 per hour worth of pay, paying all his employees and business expenses first...but with the economy what it is, and what he will be having to pay on his "Rich" tax next year, he will surely lose his business completely, and all 9 of his employees will lose their jobs with him. In Germany, we are well aware of what Socialism (Communism) looks like, and we have learned to see it coming from far away.
Graffiti-style, pictures are always made for politicians & leaders, it's our way to make people walking by on the street, stop, and think, and not always believe what the media tells you, but to research the facts for yourself. People were making these protests in ancient Rome, and we'll be making them until the world ends. I wish the point weren't getting lost in the pathetic attempts to make it a race issue.
Check infowars.com for good info.start

Awww....poor Steve can't take a joke. I'm sure if this was Sarah Palin you'd be cumming in your pants in delight.

why did you people not care when bush was portrayed literally t he same way, as the joker. Ladies and gentlemen i give you hypocrisy in its finest hour http://iusbvision.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/bush-the-joker002.jpg

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This is America exercising our 1st Amendment Right at its finest!! Too bad the Obama train can't handle it and want to take away our freedoms of speech if we don't agree with everything the left tells us.. Fucking LIberals we will take this country back in another 3 1/2 years and put it back in its rightful place. Check out the912project.com join us march on washington September 12, 2009 let your voices be heard!!!

The establishment will always employ the divide and conquer strategy. If u disagree with what the president is doing, you must be from the other party. U disagree with Bush u r a liberal they say, u disagree with Obama u r a rightwinger. As I expected, now, if u disagree with Obama u r prolly a racist some say. Divide and conquer. What the media wont say, beings they are controlled by the CFR, is that it's American citizens disagreeing with the gov't, both Repub and democrats. The big bankers and corporations control almost all of our so called representatives. The president's have been puppets since Kennedy, and we know what happened to him. He was taking on the CIA, the Feds, Central Bank, and not going to war for the Military Industrial Complex. He wasn't allowed to represent the citizens. Google Ron Paul. G G.

hahahahahaha, good call stevie

Racism, huh? Glad you are proven wrong, but nice try to stir up some anger! IDIOT!

LOL! Lamer Liberals just LOVE eating crow!
:D

Sure is Republicans in here.

The reason I hate this poster is because first, it doesn't make sense.

Second: It doesn't make sense.

THE JOKER WAS AN ANARCHIST, NOT A SOCIALIST.

Whoever made this poster is a fucking idiot.

Sure is Republicans in here.

The reason I hate this poster is because first, it doesn't make sense.

Second: It doesn't make sense.

THE JOKER WAS AN ANARCHIST, NOT A SOCIALIST.

Whoever made this poster is a fucking idiot.

Sure is Republicans in here.

The reason I hate this poster is because first, it doesn't make sense.

Second: It doesn't make sense.

THE JOKER WAS AN ANARCHIST, NOT A SOCIALIST.

Whoever made this poster is a fucking idiot.

This is an amazing poster image. More truth in this one word poster than the whole of HR3200 or just about anything the government says.

Where did all these right wing nuts come from? Isn't this Los Angeles? I didn't realize that LA was such a bastion of right wing nuttery. I would have to agree with the previous poster. Joker=Anarchist. Socialism? You're waaaaay off.

This is so funny. When there was a picture of McCain transposed on Bush's face (and I consider Bush way more scary than Bush) I don't remember Steve Mikulan protesting.

Pot calling the kettle black as they say.

J

PUHLEEEZ...did you have to say, "only thing missing is a noose." Wow, that is going too far and is just like the lame wusses who wouldn't attack his Wright connection, trying to be a little to politically correct and scared to be honest. This is not about race, what a moronic comment. You think you would know better to put something this asinine in your article...but no, go ahead bring it down to race. PUHLEEZ, that's just sad!
I see NOTHING in this poster that would be a commentary on race...go sensationalize something else idiot!

The artist is a Dennis Kucinich supporter, and a Palestinian.

Way toooo funny....

Why does Steven Mikulan want a noose on him?

WTF

Despite most people thinking that liberals have a better sense of humor than conservatives, studies have shown that it is just the opposite (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=who-has-a-better-sense-of-humor--li-2008-11-04). That isn't the only study, mind you, but look toward the bottom. The reality is that liberals think themselves to be funnier, but if it is not a joke they'd make (or somethin along those lines), they can't take it.

They take things WAY too seriously. I mean, come on... Why so serious?!

This isn't the first time (and it won't be the last) that a parody has been made on a President. The person who created the image is an OBAMA supporter!
Get over it!
It's in good fun
http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Joker-T-shirt-Nobama-Large/dp/B002MBNEV2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&qid=1250864495&sr=1-1

Okay, as a 15 year old, I am in a complete
agreement with this poster. Yes, Obama IS a socialist. Of corse people say this is racist parody, but really, its truth on paper that Obama is making the U.S as much like Russia as he can. For all the Obama supporters out there, they had to open your eyes somehow.

What a hypocrite Stevie boy. You laughed at the pictures of Sarah Palin dressed up as a pig with lipstick, you laughed at The Bush pic with Bin Laden doing very dirty things to GW and pretty much laughed at anything and anyone that isn't a flaming queer liberal. If you want Socialism go to China. BTW America is the least racist of all countries of the world idiot!

I think conspiracy to create a race riot is a threat to our national security and should be dealt with in the harshest of manner. First off Obummer is proud to be a socialist which in essence is a kinder gentler way of saying COMMUNIST! As far a the Joker poster goes, the guy that created it was an Arab American not a righty whitey idiot. Liberals are living proof that brainwashing works.

http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/prezfang.jpg

SO its OK for this mag to publish the above linked photo of Bush as a Vampire - under the guise of 'freedom of expression through art" but the condemns the Obama Joker poster.

Freedom of expression through art for me but not for thee. Wow...LA Weekly wears its liberal bias and hypocrisy on its front cover for the world to see.

I bought three of those Obama Joker shirts.
I did not see anything racist about it. Liberals keep playing the racist card because that is all they have. They can not defend Obama on any postive actions he has done for America because there is NONE ! Libs are the only ones going around crying Race. Get over it ! My dislike for Obama has nothing to do with the color of his skin, it is about him taking away our freedom.

Based on Steven's choice of wardrobe, it appears his anger over the poster may stem from his own love of the Joker character, and perhaps the belief that as a Joker purist, the character should only be depicted in a certain style. Far stretch? Maybe. But so is the argument that the poster is racist. Oh Lord help me. Fucking politicians, no matter what side you're on, they're all Goddamn incompetents. And "journalist"? For fuck sake......the outlet these people are given should be used to report on slightly more important issues and not to express some illogical rant the author types out as he intermittently jerks off to Batman issue #243. Come on Steve, ditch the black jacket for a green vest. You need to choose either Neo or the Joker as your style reference. Can't do both.
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Update:
Materialist Analysis of the Obama Regime
PART 1: Abolishing Social Security and “Healthcare Overhaul”

Obama is Nothing But a Right-Wing Black Being Provided Contant
LEFT-COVER by Republicans and a Huge Capitalist Media Pump
As He Begins to Lose Credibility Among his Constituencies!

How and Why the Demagogue Obama Was Elected President! Since
Watergate the Outcomes of All Presidential Elections have been
Rigged in Advance By Agreement between the Candidates!

The U.S. capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires required that a Democrat win the presidency in 2008 because it could not achieve its reactionary objectives with Bush and the Republicans who had very little credibility because of those very reactionary objectives. Obama was elected in order to ram down our throats the very Fascist policies which Bush could not implement because Bush was opposed by all Democratic Party constituencies which form the bulk of the U.S. population, and because Bush was the most hated and despised “president” in all U.S. history, followed closely by Ronald Reagan. (Note that Bush was NEVER the president of the U.S. but only a usurper because the 2000 and 2004 “elections” were a continuing coup d’etat.) See below. The capitalist dictatorship calculates that because Obama campaigned as supposedly being “opposed to Bush” and that because he was able to get “elected” using such insultingly phony deceptive nebulous slogans such as “Change We Can Believe In” and “Yes We Can” and believes that Obama’s supporters are so stupid and so ignorant that they will not mind or not notice that his policies once in office are far worse than those of George Bush! Obama’s policies are in fact far to the right of Bush and leave Bush in the dust! Bush is a choirboy compared to Obama! Since taking office Obama has reversed virtually all of his “anti-Bush” campaign promises with the exception of a few minor conciliatory gestures to his Democratic constituencies. Obama’s role is to string people along while carrying out policies which are a continuation, exacerbation and acceleration of the “Bush” policies, which simply represent the one-way dynamic of capitalism. Prime examples include the tiny phony “stimulus” program which Obama knowingly and falsely claims will “take 2 years to work” and the baseless assertion (Big Lie) by the Obama Regime that “the ‘recession’ is over,” while the Economic Crisis deepens by the day with over 30 million unemployed and mortgage foreclosures accelerate with no end in sight. Over half of those polled now smell a rat meaning that they oppose Obama! That represents a quick comedown from his baseless post “election” popularity! In order to counter Obama’s increasing unpopularity the Obama Regimes uses the “media blitz” combined with the Big Lie to claim that his fraudulent tiny “stimulus program” contains “already-in-place programs that he says help spur innovation and transform the U.S. economy.” “Innovation?” What a bad joke on the U.S. Working Class!

Obama has continued all of the Bush Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and has continued the U.S./NATO military exercises right on the border of Georgia and the build-up of the Georgian military in preparation for further provocations and yet another possible invasion of South Ossetia/Russia. Obama has even directed its Georgian Proxy Saakashvilli to block and impound shipping to Abkhazia! (New York Times, September 10, 2009) Obama’s temporary abandoning of the so-called “missile shield” in Poland and the Czech Republic on September 17, 2009 was only done to try to get the Russian Federation into missile reduction agreements where the U.S. retains the strategic advantage and does not for one second mean that the U.S. has abandoned its goal of trying to force Russia into a Second Russian Surrender. (See below.) The U.S refusal to allow Russia into the World Trade Organization, Cold War restrictions on technology transfers and NATO advance demonstrates that this U.S. move is only a temporary tactic. In addition, Obama is conditioning the U.S. masses to accept the planned bombing of Iran by the U.S. Proxy, so-called “Israel,” despite the combined National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran had ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and the fact that Iran has NOT enriched ANY of its uranium to bomb-grade level and the report that Iran had even ended its enrichment program entirely in May 2009! (Associated Press, August 25, 2009) The Iran “nuclear threat” is another false Bush-type “Weapons of Mass Destruction” pretext which will be used this time to bomb Iran! The most recent fabrication of “computer file evidence” against Iran is being used to try to pressure the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) just exactly like Bush did to try to pressure Mohamed ElBaradei to support the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” Big Lie against Iraq! (New York Times, August 26, 2009) ElBaradei refused to go along with Bush and so far has equivocated on this most recent Bush/Obama rubbish. Obama, usually hides behind a solid wall of denial and has continued and actually accelerated virtually all the Bush programs and policies, many of which were rejected outright when first proposed by Bush including the “private accounts” attempt to eliminate Social Security beginning with an executive decree on September 5, 2009 mandating compulsory employer-sponsored “savings accounts” and the previous permanent termination of the yearly Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustments on April 22nd. See below.

Note: Part II will include additional analysis of the origins of the Economic Crisis, the details of the U.S. Swine Flu Biological Warfare Program, the Final Stage of Capitalism: Permanent War and State Terrorism, the fraudulent so-called Mideast Peace Process, U.S./Russian relations, the Bush/Obama Wars and the continued use of torture by the Obama Regime despite all denials. Part II will also include more material on Provocations and the escalating attack on all social programs and public education at the elementary school and college level.

From the advent of imperialism, which correlates approximately with the beginning of the twentieth century every U.S. presidential administration has been to the right of the one which preceded it, whether it has been Democratic or Republican. This is due to the one-way dynamic of capitalism-imperialism which leads inexorably to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization The only exceptions were the administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who designed the New Deal and the two New Dealers who followed him: Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. The New Deal came about only under the pressure of a million-strong Communist movement in the United States, which later disintegrated primarily because of the false and sabotaging leadership of Joseph Stalin, who was not actually a Communist, (See below) and because the U.S. government either crushed or took over the leadership of all “left” groups in the United States. Today the New Deal has been almost entirely demolished by the hardening U.S. capitalist dictatorship. Obama was elected in order to finish that demolition by first targeting Social Security, where within 100 days of taking office he immediately and permanently abolished the yearly Social Security Cost-Of-Living Allowance, while simultaneously giving away 4.7 $trillion in Bank Bailouts backed up by $23.7 trillion “if necessary” (Associated Press, July 20, 2009), the real purpose of which was actually to DIVERT money away from social spending. Thus began the process of terminating the primary function of Social Security: to keep older people alive! (Computer Search: “US Financial Market Bailout Tab Hits $4.7 Trillion.”) And the Obama Regime pretends to be so concerned about the Federal deficit. (See below.)

The Worldview

Today we live in a world of nation states. All nation states are dictatorships of one class over another class, either the capitalist class over the working class or vice versa. (These are the only historically destined classes.) There is no “democracy” at the present time, not even for the capitalists themselves. Capitalism has a dynamic or development sequence of its own which at this point is almost entirely ONE-WAY. This one-way dynamic, or dialectic is largely independent of the wills of the capitalists and politicians and leads to a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship finally to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization. Now, due to the beginning of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, that means the end of all life on Earth! (See Materialist Analysis of Biofuels and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect on the Internet.) Within the framework of the class dictatorship there can either be a hard or a soft dictatorship. The hard dictatorship of capitalism is known as Fascism, which has several historical variants. Today the United States is a military, bureaucratic police state, a form of hard capitalist dictatorship known as Rule by Decree (a form of Bonapartism), which is hardening and growing more naked by the day! Rule by Decree is a step short of Fascism. Actual Fascism requires the full and organized support of the petit-bourgeoisie (the middle class), the organization of armed gangs with specifically targeted scapegoats. The actions of U.S. leaders define them as Fascists, including Obama, because they continually work to support the constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship. Capitalism is fundamentally based on war, mass murder and crime to steal new resources and new markets in order to increase private profits and today is in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism. Politicians like Obama, and all capitalist politicians, rise to the top based on the extent which they express and further the one-way dynamic of capitalism. Communism is a stateless society, which has never been practiced and can never be practiced until capitalism is abolished worldwide beginning with a Socialist Revolution in its center—the United States.

The steps required to carry out a Socialist Revolution in the United States are briefly outlined at the end of this Part I Analysis. Remember that the United States is NOT our country! It is the country of the capitalist dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires. WE JUST LIVE HERE! That means we must give no support to the U.S. military except in the case of MUTINY, which is the ONLY way to disarm the capitalist dictatorship and which we must call for as a prerequisite first step toward a Socialist Revolution in the United States. See below. Remember that U.S. patriotism-chauvinism-jingoism means being willing to die for the capitalist warmongers and exploiters and super-exploiters. We should never be sucked into saying “we” or “our” in referring to United States policy or actions! That opportunistic choice of words deceives the speaker into thinking that his or her interests coincide with the interests of the capitalist dictatorship and is wrong in the first place because the United States is not “our country.” In addition, such an opportunistic choice of words immediately implicates the speaker in the crimes of U.S. capitalism-imperialism against the entire world and against its own citizens. We are having class warfare waged against us as the U.S. capitalist dictatorship escalates its economic, biological/military and propaganda warfare against its own domestic population and the entire world. The Working Class is NOT presently organized to fight back. Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States will make this OUR country!

Given the choice, 95% of New Yorkers and the overwhelming majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit. That system is Socialism and requires a Socialist Revolution in the United States, because capitalism cannot be turned into Socialism through “elections” or achieved through “election reform” such as “paper trails,” etc. or any other type of reform of capitalism. History proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Elections and “election reform” under capitalism are simply a ruse, the Primary Weapon of Capitalist Deception, designed to permit the capitalist ownership and structure of the state to remain intact and ensure a continuation of the hardening capitalist dictatorship. “Democracy” under capitalism is simply a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. That is why the capitalist class must be expropriated of all of its wealth, all of which has been stolen from the Working Class through various forms of exploitation, super-exploitation and other crimes. This is known as the expropriation of the expropriators, an example of the negation of the negation and is possible only through a Socialist Revolution. The Socialist Revolution will extend globally almost simultaneously once it begins in the United States.

The Socialist Revolution on the other hand does NOT involve a coup d’etat used extensively by the capitalists, but relies primarily on patient explanation and the avoidance of provocations. Patient explanation and winning over the masses to support a new economic-political-social system involves a genuine grass roots organization. The 1917 October Russian Revolution did not take place until the Bolsheviks, the smallest political party after the February Revolution, had grown to win the support of 70% of Working Class and 30% of the peasantry, which included the all-important army which was already in MUTINY. Mutiny Saves Lives! Provocations on the other hand are invariably orchestrated and led by the capitalists themselves to both discredit the Working Class and lead it to take steps prematurely before there is the overwhelming popular support which is required to take state power. Patient explanation is necessary in order to achieve the popular support and organization necessary to end the dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires and establish a new system where everyone can actually live like a millionaire. There is more than sufficient wealth in the United States to achieve this! Remember that all of the capitalists’ wealth was originally expropriated and stolen from the labor of the Working Class—through expropriation of Surplus Value. Only after class society is abolished through a Socialist Revolution can there be free speech and genuine democracy for the Working Class and everyone else. This analysis is intended as an aid to help progressive people consciously deprogram themselves from the capitalist brainwash which targets the masses every day from every direction and to provide a basis to help organize the Socialist Revolution in the United States. Socialism will abolish the basis of all wars and set the stage for solving the entire complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism. In the final analysis all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call. This analysis is part of that call.

The Explanation of the Big Lie Technique
And the Definition of Propaganda:

While following the moves of the Obama Regime and the media it is important to understand the Big Lie Technique. There are 2 parts to the Big Lie: 1.) The first part of the Big Lie is that the lie must be BIG, because most people only tell little lies and are entirely unprepared for a Big Lie. 2.) The second part of the Big Lie Technique is to repeat the lie over and over again from every media and “educational” source even including textbooks and movies until it is accepted as truth or accepted at least as partly true, when it is most invariably entirely false. In addition, lies may be lies of commission or lies of omission. They are equally unacceptable. The media is a privatized arm of the U.S. “intelligence agency,” a vast army of legions of professional liars and so-called “comedians” working in service to the capitalist dictatorship. The U.S. media is very similar to Blackwater, Dyncorp, Custer Battles and Triple Canopy, etc. the armed military contractors in Iraq, except that the media has always been privatized.

The Definition of Propaganda

The capitalist dictatorship has also given a falsely pejorative and automatically negative connotation to the word “propaganda” and uses the word to be synonymous with false information. But the word “propaganda” does NOT automatically mean false information and is defined by Merriam Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary is “the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or hurting an institution, a cause, or a person.” Propaganda is thus more accurately defined as persuasive ideas, information, or rumor, which may be either 100% true, or 100% false and everything in between. As always the reader must use his or her best judgment to decide whether information is true or false. Capitalist media is an example of propaganda so defined!

Despite the Fact that the “Election” of Obama Simply Represents a
Continuation of the Capitalist Dictatorship Obama’s “Election” has
One Very Important Potential Organizational Advantage!

While it is undeniable that the “election” of Obama simply represents a continuation and hardening of the capitalist dictatorship his “election” holds one potential organizational advantage IF THE MASSES REALIZE IT AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT: Obama’s “election” proves that the primary division which exists in the United States is NOT on the basis of race. The primary division that exists in the United States is the CLASS DIVISION! This is important because it provides an even stronger basis for Black and white Unity of the Working Class and its allies versus the capitalist dictatorship and its servants and bootlickers represented by the Obama Regime. If Hillary Clinton had won the Democratic primary she would also have won the “election” but that would have been a retrograde step. There would be the complaint that what we need is a “Black” president! So Obama’s election eliminates this extra step and has the potential to more rapidly raise the awareness of the masses enough to increase racial unity against the capitalist dictatorship. The enormous media hype, which was designed not only to pump up their Obama demagogue but also to intimidate those who see through it, is falling flat. Obama is rapidly losing his “popularity” and “political capital”! So don’t be intimidated! Obama is just a balloon, a con man and demagogue trying to string the masses along while setting them up as targets of economic warfare, biological warfare and propaganda warfare. As the prime example of trying to string the people along using the Big Lie Technique Obama and Bernanke announced on September 15, 2009: “The recession is over!” The “recession” is NOT over. There is no such thing as a “Jobless Recovery!” See below.

Racism Is An Integral Part of Capitalism and
Therefore Cannot Be Abolished under Capitalism!

Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States can abolish racism because racism is an integral part of capitalism and cannot be abolished within the framework of capitalism! The reason for this is contained in the definition of racism: Racism is defined as that systematized set of false beliefs in the racial inferiority of Blacks and other People of Color as a false pretext to justify the exploitation and super-exploitation of Blacks and other People of Color. Racism is thus simply a brainwash used to justify economic exploitation and super-exploitation, which began with slavery and exists now as wage slavery. Note that neither Obama nor any of the fake Black leaders, who have been left in place after the assassination of the real Black leaders in the 1960’s and 1970’s have provided this explanation and definition of Racism. This truth is also covered up by the fake “left.” Communists oppose exploitation and super-exploitation of U.S. born Workers employed in so-called “McJobs.” Communists also oppose super-exploitation of immigrants. Immigration is being used by the capitalists to drive down the wage scale of U.S. Workers and fragment the U.S. Working Class. The Big Lie is that immigrants presently perform low-paying jobs supposedly because “Americans don’t want to do that sort of work.” The reality is that Americans would gladly perform ANY work presently performed by Latin American immigrants, for example, if they received a salary of $40,000 to $50,000.00 a year to do it! Low skilled immigrants are brought into the United States precisely because their “illegal” status forces the to agree to be super-exploited because that is better than what existed in their home countries! Despite this glaring reality Immigration can be and must be supported by simultaneously calling for the union wage scale and equal status for all Immigrants as well as all U.S. born workers!

In order that no false illusions are raised by deceptive claims that capitalism can be reformed, equal focus must be placed simultaneously on the reality that such objectives of equality and freedom also cannot be achieved under capitalism, but only after a Socialist Revolution in the United States, after which the main economic motivation for mass immigration of workers will largely disappear, because the Socialist Revolution will take place worldwide and with it the end of exploitation and super-exploitation in all countries! All progressive white people and also Black people should be reminded never ever to use the word nigger! Use of that word reinforces racism whenever and wherever it is used. That is the reason the capitalist dictatorship pushes creeps like Chris Rock, whose every other word is “nigger,” in order to reinforce racism among the Black population his primary audience. Isn’t he funny! Hahaha! Very funny! Reject such “humor!” Capitalism offers a world with no future and no longer works and can not be reformed! The reversal of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court Decision reversing segregation was overturned on June 28, 2007 and indicated that organized support for Racism had increased—not decreased—in the hardening U.S. capitalist dictatorship. Obama said not a word when Brown v. Board of Education was reversed! No comment either from Hillary Clinton or the openly Fascist George Bush or McCain! In other words Obama provided passive support for that reversal with his silence! When he began his presidential campaign Obama even ridiculed the Civil Rights Movement, saying: “We have done that. We must go on!” Only when he started to receive enormous adverse comment because of his outrageous statements did he change his line and show up at a commemoration march in Selma. This demonstrates that Obama is a total opportunist even on the question of race. See below.

Obama is for all intents and purposes nothing but a (technically) Black Bush! “Technically Black” is a description used by the Black Panther Party to describe someone like Obama. Obama is “Black” like Kindasleezy Rice is “Black” or like Colin Powell is “Black” or like Clarence Thomas is “Black” or like “Black” news anchors and commentators are “Black.” That’s not Black! Black is Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Junior, preferably after he finally took a position against the Vietnam War in April 1967, and of course the Black Panther Party and especially its leaders, Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. Fred Hampton said: “The answer to white capitalism is NOT Black capitalism. The answer is Socialism!” The reason that we know for a fact that Obama never at any point had any intention of changing anything for the better is that politicians rise to the top based on their ability to express and further the one-way dynamic of capitalism, a dynamic which leads to Fascism, barbarism and finally the end of civilization. Now with the Runaway Greenhouse Effect having begun, that means the end of all life on Earth because capitalism intends to do nothing serious to combat Global Warming and treats that threat the very same way the capitalist dictatorship “reforms the economy” or “reforms healthcare,” meaning that they are just going through the motions despite Obama’s phony propaganda slogans claiming to represent nebulous “change”! Note that Obama propaganda never specifies what kind of “change” it is that we can believe in. “Yes we can” Obama trumpets! Do what? Those slogans were carefully designed to say nothing! Obama means a continued change for the worse! Obama understands that his role is to deceive the masses and he clearly enjoys that role! Obama’s role is to string people along and placate the masses with his supposedly “golden rhetoric,” while carrying out the dismantlement of as many social programs as possible, and trying to demolish what is left of the New Deal. Obama is actually not even a very good speaker either technically or in substance, primarily because he is selling poison and he knows it, not that he has any conscience, but the media pumps him up and tells us that he is “the great leader” and that is supposed to fill the gap! Despite the huge media campaigns heralding “change,” business on all levels will continue as usual except for a few possible superficial reforms.

The only “change” which can actually occur under Obama is the continued hardening of the capitalist dictatorship! Obama has been chosen for his ability to deceive the masses regarding that actual dynamic, development sequence and direction of capitalism. Obama is a slicker, a con man, a demagogue out to bamboozle the unsuspecting victims of capitalism: the Working Class and its allies primarily. Obama openly brags: “My job is to make the tough choices, to make the hard decisions!” (CNBC, September 15, 2009) Those are euphemisms for decisions taken against the best interest of the Working Class and the Poor. And Obama is correct; having to make “hard decisions” and “tough choices” means that capitalism can never again offer an improvement in standard of living but only a worsening! Under capitalism all news is bad news! Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope” was written initially to demonstrate to the capitalist dictatorship that he was best able to perpetuate false hope in capitalism-imperialism. Only after he became a candidate did public curiosity increase sales enough among the duped masses to make Obama himself a millionaire. “Hope in capitalism” is also what Jesse Jackson meant when he introduced his slogan: “Keep Hope Alive!” Much earlier Martin Luther King publicly reviled Jesse Jackson to his face with numerous witnesses as “nothing but an opportunist.” For anyone following the presidential campaign and “elections” it should have been obvious that McCain was only running as a foil to take a fall for the Democratic candidate, whoever it would be just like in TV wrestling. See below.

THE CAPITALISTS ARE WAGING ECONOMIC WAR AGAINST US!
The Obama Regime Has Immediately Taken Steps to Begin to Abolish
Social Security as a Means to Reduce the Population of Today’s Senior
Citizens and Eliminate Any Genuine Future Security for Young People!

The Obama Regime Decided to Introduce Bush Private Accounts in Two
Stages! 1.) On September 5, 2009 Obama Decreed by Executive Order that
Private Accounts are Now “Automatic” for Almost All Businesses in Order to
Put Pressure on Business 2.) To Demand Legislation or Another Executive
Order to Make Social Security OPTIONAL and Force Workers to Ultimately
“Choose” Between a 401K –Type Plan and Social Security!

Obama’s Executive Order Designed to Abolish Social Security and Overturn
The New Deal Supposedly Does Not Require a Vote by Congress! Congress
Demonstrates its Unanimous Passive Support with its Deafening Silence!

On September 19, 2009 Obama stated that he will continue the Economic Embargo against Cuba. The Embargo is simply a euphemism for ECONOMIC WARFARE which has been carried out against Cuba since 1960. The U.S. also wages economic warfare against many other countries and with the abolition of the Progressive Tax Structure and the termination of the New Deal social programs by Clinton and by Obama the U.S. capitalist dictatorship is waging economic war against its own domestic population! In his very first speech to a joint session of Congress on February 24, 2009 Obama demonstrated that his population reduction objectives coincided precisely with those of George Bush when he made clear his intention to implement the George Bush “tax-free universal savings accounts for all Americans.” “Private accounts” had been widely recognized and rejected under Bush as simply a clumsy and extremely costly $1 trillion scheme to end Social Security by DIVERTING money away from Social Security into the totally erratic stock market, where the capitalist dictatorship assumes hopefully that most of it would be lost, as 401K Plans and Pensions did in fact become worthless in the 2008 Stock Market Crash (see below), hopefully bringing Senior Citizens to crushing poverty and an earlier death and thus helping to reduce the so-called “population demographic.” This is a codeword for mass murder.

On September 5, 2009 Obama followed through on his threat to introduce Bush private accounts by using Rule by Decree just like Bush to introduce compulsory “automatic employer-sponsored private savings accounts...which does not require new legislation from Congress...(and) which “goes into effect immediately” making it difficult for employees to opt out by BRIBING workers with a $1,000 tax credit! (Blipped in the New York Times, September 6, 2009) Obama’s Private Accounts Decree was thus designed to simultaneously undermine and abolish Social Security by putting extreme pressure on businesses, which are ALSO forced to pay for Social Security, to demand that Social Security be made optional! Workers and employers both pay 6.2% of the workers’ earned income into the Social Security Trust Fund. Obama’s decree was combined with the false propaganda campaign “media blitz” pushing the so-called “healthcare Overhaul” to try to keep the masses confused and pump up support for the most oppressive policies in all U.S. history. This conspiracy/scheme to abolish Social Security by not allowing any Congressional vote was nevertheless supported by passive support from Congress with a UNANIMOUS DEAFENING SILENCE, where NOT ONE Congressman or ONE Senator said a single word opposing this conspiracy/scheme or exposing it and demanding a public discussion just like on the fraudulent “Healthcare Overhaul.” The New Deal required votes by Congress and so should its repeal! This is one more proof that capitalism cannot be “reformed” and that capitalism has a one-way dynamic of its own to Fascism, barbarism and finally the end of civilization. The only solution is not to be intimidated and carry out a Socialist Revolution in the United States. See below.

The 2008 Stock Market Crash Wiped Out Many Employer-
Sponsored 401K Plans and Many Stock-Based Pension Funds!

Obama and his Regime have such total contempt for our intelligence that they believe that we will forget the fact that the 2008 Stock Market Crash caused the value of employer-sponsored 401K Plans to be reduced by at least half with a significant percentage becoming TOTALLY WORTHLESS! PENSION FUNDS which had invested heavily in the stock market also had their stock holdings reduced by more than half and many were completely wiped out! The most recent 2008 Stock Market Crash only one year ago on September 30, 2008 caused a 777.65 point drop (7%) in the Dow Industrial Average and a loss of 40% in one year. The recent Bear Market Rally will also collapse sending the market down even further because consumer spending, which accounts for 70% of the U.S. economy can not be maintained because of the loss of private jobs combined with the Obama Regime’s refusal to create huge Federal jobs programs to put people back to work. A large-scale Federal Jobs Program is the ONLY WAY TO STIMULATE DEMAND, THE ENGINE OF THE ECONOMY! Unemployment totaling over 30 million has destroyed demand! The capitalist dictatorship does not mention that the Social Security obligation of the United States Government the result of the New Deal was NOT effected at all except by the loss of Social Security deductions due to the loss of millions of jobs. The Social Security Trust Fund has had an enormous SURPLUS for years and has been used as a slush fund to fund U.S. wars around the world. But the U.S. government also has another option to back up Social Security, which they refuse to use or even mention: reintroduction of a Progressive Tax Structure. See below.

On April 22, 2009 Obama Eliminated the Social Security Cost of
Living Adjustment (COLA), while Simultaneously Giving $4.7 Trillion
To the Banks! The False Report that Social Security Will Soon
Be Totally Insolvent by 2016 and Completely Depleted by 2037
Indicates that the COLA Elimination Will Be Permanent!

Obama’s first step was to begin the elimination of the FUNCTION of Social Security. On April 22, 2009 the Obama Regime eliminated the Social Security Adjustment COLA for 2010 and 2011, while simultaneously giving $4.7 trillion (!) to the banks, brokerages, insurance companies, hedge funds, groups, private equity groups and car companies. The elimination of the Social Security Cost-of-Living will become permanent in practice with the claim of “no more dollars” due to the $4.7 trillion Bank Bailout and Economic Crisis and “the high cost” of the Obama Health Insurance Plan ($1 trillion to $1.6 trillion over 10 years), for example, claims which have already been made to justify COLA elimination in the first place! In order to telegraph this future claim of “no more dollars” the elimination of the Social Security COLA was followed on May 13, 2009 with the announcement that the Social Security Trust Fund will be “insolvent” by 2016 and “totally depleted by 2037!” This contrived scenario, which was falsely declared with fanfare by the Congress to be “UNSUSTAINABLE” and supposedly requires “shared sacrifice through reduction of Social Security benefits,” was made possible by using the Social Security Trust Fund as a slush fund for other Federal spending including the funding of the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq and Pakistan.

The complete abolition of the progressive tax structure in the United States (see below) is simply an expression of the one-way dynamic of capitalism, and is what forced the capitalists to resort to the Social Security Trust Fund as a slush fund to pay for war. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office (Associated Press, August 12, 2008) 66% of U.S. companies paid no federal income taxes and 68% of foreign companies doing business in the United States paid zero corporate taxes between 1998 and 2005, while reporting $2.5 trillion in sales! This includes 1.2 million U.S. companies and 38,000 foreign companies. The ONLY taxes which remain today are regressive taxes meaning that they target the Working Class and Poor primarily. Examples of regressive taxes include: 1.) The sales tax, 2.) the value-added tax, 3.) the excise tax, which will target those with comprehensive health insurance as a “luxury tax” (!) in the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul,” 4.) a Flat Tax called for by assorted Fascists, 5.) Increases in the subway and bus fares and tolls and 6.) Increases in stamp prices and combined with the most recent outright cuts in services and delivery even in the U.S. Post Office and 7.) The system of fines, which the Bolsheviks abolished entirely in 1917, is even being ridiculously increased for every conceivable crime and administrative code violation and will be used to raise up to $52 billion targeting those who fail to comply with the government mandate to pay for the new health insurance, which is to increase by 10% even for all those who have insurance!!! See below!

The Tiny “$250 stimulus checks” Sent out to Social Security Recipients
Were Strictly a One-Time Event, a BRIBE Used to BUY THEIR SILENCE in
Response to the Obama Regime’s elimination of the Social Security COLA!

If BUSH had actually tried to eliminate the Social Security COLA, or actually issued an executive decree requiring private employers to automatically set up private accounts for all employees and bribed workers with a $1,000 tax credit to join an employer-sponsored private savings plan, or cut healthcare to the bone with maximum healthcare rationing and raised healthcare insurance costs by at least 10% for everyone and levied fines of $1,000 for individuals to $2,000 for families who did not buy healthcare insurance, all of which have been done by the Fascist Barack Obama—and within the period of his first 7 months in office—there would have been a HUGE PROTEST! But because Obama is a Democrat who took advantage of his early election support based on false promises which is now rapidly eroding, there has beenNO organized protest whatsoever except by the Republicans! The recent decrease in Obama’s popularity is due to the masses’ increasing awareness that Obama has betrayed all his pre-election promises and that Obama is no different than, and much, much worse than, the Fascist George Bush, his good buddy and the Fascist Reagan, who Obama never fails to praise as a “great president.” (!) The tiny “$250 stimulus checks” sent out to Social Security recipients were strictly a one-time event, a bribe used to BUY THE SILENCE of Social Security recipients in response to the Obama Regime’s elimination of the Social Security Cost of Living Allowance, which will be permanent, and in order to keep Senior Citizens CONFUSED while he takes further steps to abolish the function of Social Security and wage economic war on the masses from every conceivable angle while falsely talking about “the (jobless) economic recovery” and falsely claiming that HE Obama has “pulled the economy back from the brink.” Another Big Lie repeated in the media everywhere!

There is No Such Thing as a “Jobless Recovery!”

The economy is NOT “back from the brink,” the “Recession” is NOT over and THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “JOBLESS RECOVERY.” The capitalist dictatorship admits that over 30 million Americans are actually now unemployed if all categories are included and even more when those who fall into no official category are included. The stock market has experienced a Bear Market rally only through stock market manipulation achieved through: 1.) huge lay-offs of millions of workers which temporarily improve the bottom line of corporations by creating over-valued stock prices based on unsustainable “increased profits,” 2.) new high-frequency trading programs used by the large investment banks, hedge funds, private equity groups and insurance companies and 3.) A Big Lie propaganda campaign falsely claiming that the economy is “recovering” and “back from the brink,” which it is NOT! (See below and Part II, which will be posted next.) The Bear Market rally began to fall apart in late August 2009 “on speculation the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index’s 52% rally since March isn’t justified.” (Bloomberg, August 27, 2009). But once again “the financials” have been able to employ market manipulation to hold the market almost flat and not permit a large drop! Yet even on September 15, 2009 Bernanke continued the Big Lie brazenly stating: “The recession is probably over.” (Associated Press) At a certain point demand will decrease to such a degree, because of the tens of millions of unemployed which increase by over 550,000 every week (first-time unemployment applications), and millions of foreclosures, that the market will undergo another even more catastrophic collapse. The capitalist dictatorship states that the recovery will include continued unemployment and “persistent weakness in consumer spending which accounts for 70% of the U.S. economy” (New York Times, August 30, 2009) as part of “The New Normal.” In other words the “Great Recession” is supposedly over but its effects will be permanent! “The recession is over” is one more Big Lie! An unsustainable Big Lie! There is no such thing as a “Jobless Recovery”! It is significant that in China there is an economic recovery under way due to a strong stimulus program, where the government is not trying to reduce its population. About 30% of the previously unemployed Chinese workers are being put back to work, but that recovery may not continue if there is no U.S. recovery because “China needs the United States to buy its goods, and the United States needs China to continue to buy its debt.” (New York Times, September 18, 2009)

In addition to the immediate and permanent direct reduction in Social Security Benefits the capitalist dictatorship’s so-called “Social Security Overhaul,” which is scheduled to be implemented following the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul,” will in addition to including the Bush/Obama Private Accounts (see above), undoubtedly also include a big switcheroo from wage-based indexing which is used to calculate the original Social Security Benefit amount, to price-based aka inflation-based indexing, which will also help to permanently abolish the FUNCTION of Social Security. (See further below for an easy solution proposed by Representative Robert Wexler (D) of Florida to make Social Security solvent forever.) The capitalists still intend to retain Social Security for appearances but to use it NOT for its original purpose to keep older people alive, but primarily to maintain it as a slush fund to pay for various U.S. wars as it is already! Meanwhile as mentioned the progressive tax structure in the United States, which would eliminate ALL the financial problems associated with the funding of social programs, has been permanently abolished. See below. In its place we hear gobbledygook nonsense about “closing loopholes.”

The ONLY REASON that the Economic Crisis has NOT YET assumed the form of the Great Depression is because of reforms instituted under the New Deal which are still in place such as Unemployment Insurance, Social Security and the FDIC insuring banks deposits. Unemployment insurance also can be ended at any time and is under enormous pressure from the Republicans. The Obama Regime’s so-called Public-Private Investment Program, which is part of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money supposedly to be used by the Federal government to buy toxic assets in the toxic derivative market which includes securitized subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations, etc. (see below), is to be backed by the $700 billion bank bailout fund, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp! The FDIC!!! Whaaaat? So far the banks have not wanted to sell their toxic assets, but the FDIC is what backs the individual accounts in banks to $100,000, now supposedly increased to $250,000. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship is perfectly willing to sacrifice the FDIC reserves for the security of OUR bank accounts! After all, the FDIC was part of the New Deal, and is therefore fair game! This is deliberate economic warfare against the U.S. masses! Actually the government claims of insuring individual accounts by the FDIC are all fiction in the first place. See below. If there were actual bank runs as in the 1930s Great Depression there would be no money at all for most Americans! (See below.) There would be a total collapse of the U.S. standard of living and poverty greater than in the Great Depression! In late August 2009 market analysts Richard Bove and Meredith Whitney stated that they “expect 150 to 300 small bank failures in the next 12 months” and revealed that the large banks profit from failure of the small banks! Buying back toxic assets by the U.S. government is yet one more PHONY PRETEXT to divert money from social spending and demolish what remains of the New Deal!

This analysis was confirmed on August 11, 2009 when it was reported in the New York Times: 'The nation's banks continue to hold on their books billions of dollars in assets about whose proper valuation there is a dispute (?) and that are very difficult to sell. (Because ‘toxic assets’ are indeed entirely worthless!) As a result, many banks could find themselves short of capital if the economy suffered another downturn and their losses on troubled loans soared.” Based on the results of the so-called stress tests in April 2009 the report stated that 18 of the 19 biggest bank holding companies would probably have enough capital even if economic and financial conditions deteriorated more than they have already. The report warned that thousands of small and medium-size banks, which it defined as those with assets of $600 million to $100 billion, might find themselves short a total of $21 billion if the conditions matched its worst-case assumptions.” Deliberately allowing the economy to contract is designed to do the maximum damage to millions of people. (Parenthesis and emphasis added.)

The Real Reason for the Bank Bailouts:
Bank Bailouts Were Unnecessary and Unwanted and
Used as a Pretext to Divert Money From Social Spending!

The OBAMA BANK BAILOUTS were thus both 1.) unnecessary and 2.) unwanted by the banks and have had NO part in any falsely claimed “green shoots/jobless economic recovery” which has NOT occurred in the first place despite the capitalist dictatorship’s Big Lie propaganda campaign to the contrary! The reasons that the banks said that the so-called Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money was unnecessary is that the banks simply have simply written the TOXIC ASSETS off their books by scrapping mark-to-market accounting thus making the toxic assets supposedly NONTOXIC. (!?) For real!! The banks have even steadfastly refused to sell their toxic assets to the U.S. Treasury Department insisting that the prices offered were too low and that they would take “the long view” and wait. The bank bailouts were also unwanted because those banks which accepted TARP money had to agree to conform to any new financial regulations or laws. Demonstrating once more that he is simply the corrupt puppet of the banks and the capitalist dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires, Obama announced that he had allowed the 10 largest banks to escape future reforms and regulations simply by repaying only $68.3 billion, which represents only a quarter of the $239.4 billion Bank Bailout money they have received (!), and thereby exit the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)!

In addition, instead of DELAYING GOVERNMENT ACCEPTANCE of these piddling repayments until the supposedly “broad regulatory reform proposals were announced in another week” or however long it might have taken to be passed by Congress, Obama accepted the money early in order that those 10 largest banks would NOT have to submit to any serious banking regulation or oversight or salary caps! (New York Times, June 10-11, 2009). Those banks have been allowed to keep the remainder of the $239.4 billion, TARP money which is simply stolen, primarily from the working class, money which has been brazenly and deliberately diverted away from social programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the new “Healthcare Overhaul” and public education thus serving the same economic/political purpose as Supply-Side economics. And it should be noted that $4.7 trillion have been turned over to the banks NOT merely $billions! See below. As an indication that the large banks are fully in the loop and understand that the U.S. economy is to be deliberately permitted to contract in accordance with Globalism and in order to reduce a “redundant work force” and reduce the overall population, the banks are NOT EVEN LENDING TO SMALL BUSINESS or individuals using either the bank bailouts OR Obama “stimulus” money ($255 million) expressly directed to the Small Business Administration! (New York Times, August 13, 2009) GLOBALISM means capitalist competition on a worldwide basis to the bottom for workers with the lowest salaries! The masses, who have no genuine representation under capitalism, and who have been inoculated against Socialism—the only solution to the entire complex of problems which have been created by capitalism—are expected to simply nod their heads “OK” in passive brainwashed acceptance.

Open Fascists Take Over Town Hall Meetings and
Organize Marches Against “Big Government!”

The enemy of my enemy is my friend and the friend of my enemy is my enemy. This is an example of inductive reasoning, the reasoning of science. We should not forget that our greatest enemy is the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. The Town Hall protests against the Obama Healthcare Overhaul were taken over by the Republicans and other assorted Fascists with heavy media focus on shills planted in the audience. The open Fascists, such as Dick Armey and Freedom Works organized the September 12th “Tea party Demonstration” at the White House supposedly “opposed to big government” with most carrying placards and signs stating that they opposed “Obama Socialism,” “Communist-Fascism” and “government take-over of medicine,” slogans designed to provide Obama with Left Cover and to keep the masses confused (Because a confused person cannot act!). While providing Obama with LEFT COVER among his constituencies, the Town Hall Takeovers are of course designed to move the entire political process to the right. Note that for all intents and purposes the “Healthcare Overhaul” was written by the insurance companies: “The (healthcare) industry has been the leader in creating the proposals everyone is about to endorse” according to the CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans the industry trade group, Karen Ignagni. (New York Times, September 11, 2009) Obama Care has absolutely NOTHING to do with Socialized Medicine and is indeed an example of medical Fascism not Socialism!

Some of those attending the town hall meetings and the September 12, 2009 anti-big government Tea Party White House demonstration carried signs portraying Obama as another incarnation of Adolph Hitler. While Obama’s actions do indeed define him as a Fascist (see above) he is not yet a NAZI. The signs portraying Obama as Hitler indicate that while the Fascists have been able to co-opt and take over grass-roots opposition and have been able to falsely portray Obama as a “Socialist” many understand that Obama is actually a Fascist. Liberal Sen. Olympia Snow said that Obama was not a “Socialist” but “the opposite.” Snow knows that the opposite of a Socialist is a Fascist! The few signs given huge media coverage labeling Obama a “Communist-Fascist” are deliberately designed by the U.S. “intelligence community” to falsely conflate the 2 opposites of the political spectrum to keep people confused. The majority of those attending the Town Hall meetings and probably even a significant percentage of those attending the White House demonstration are nevertheless actually opposed to the private insurance/HMOs and would support a so-called Single-Payer Health Plan, which is a form of socialized medicine. Most people at the Town Hall Meetings attended because they opposed Obama’s sell-out of the Single Payer Plan.

Media-Hyped Racist Attacks on Obama Indicates that the U.S. Capitalist
Dictatorship Intends to Ram their Fascist Policies Down Out Throat and
Blame it on the (technically) Black Obama the Scapegoat in Order Divert
Focus Away from the Hardening Capitalist Dictatorship and to Reinforce
And Increase Racist Hatred and Division in the United States!

The false claim by Jimmy Carter and others that the September 12, 2009 White House Tea Party March was supposedly simply racist opposition to a (technically) Black president was a clear attempt to sabotage and discredit the overwhelming opposition to the substance of the Obama “Healthcare Overhaul,” and his other Fascist programs as simply being due to racism! But the Tea party March and Jimmy Carter’s false claim do telegraph the plan by the U.S. capitalist dictatorship to use claims of “racist opposition” 1.) to ram the “Healthcare Overhaul” down our throats and 2.) blame it on the (technically) Black Obama as a willing and eager scapegoat in order to divert focus away from the hardening capitalist dictatorship which is waging economic war of extermination against its own citizens and 3.) enormously increase racial hatred and division in the United States! Divide and Conquer is an important rule of capitalist statecraft! So far unfortunately the present correlation of class forces, where the capitalist dictatorship is still much stronger than the unorganized forces of the Working Class and its allies, permits the U.S. masses to be easily misled and manipulated against their own best interests.

Obama is Much More Dangerous and is Much Worse than Bush!

It should be noted that Clinton, also a Democrat, abolished the first part of Social Security—Welfare, something which Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush could NEVER have done that because they were so hated and despised by the Democratic constituencies which form the overwhelming majority of the U.S. population. In addition, Clinton deliberately turned control of the Congress over to the Republicans in the 1994 Midterm “elections” in order to make that possible. See Part II. For those with short memories Clinton also presided over the division and subjugation of Yugoslavia by the U.S. and NATO, bombed Belgrade in Serbia, deliberately bombed the Chinese Embassy there as a form of intimidation and bombed Iraq continuously almost every day of his entire administration! Obama is subsequently far more dangerous than George E. Bush ever was because the Democratic constituencies which voted for Obama do not yet understand or suspect what the capitalist dictatorship has planned and they do not understand the one-way dynamic of capitalism and mistakenly still think in terms of individuals, bad guys versus good guys—cops and robbers—rather than understanding that what happens is due to the natural one-way development of the economic-political system of capitalism!

The Real Purpose of the So-called “Obama Healthcare Overhaul” is to Abolish
Medicare and Medicaid in Practice by Cutting $400-$500 Billion of “Savings” from
Those Government Programs to “Help Pay” for the $900 Billion to $1.6 Trillion
Obama Healthcare Plan, while Turning Over All Healthcare to the Insurance
Companies and HMOs under the False Slogan of “Healthcare for All”! Do NOT Fall
For the Massive False Advertising Media Blitz! Healthcare Rationing Will be Mandatory
Mandatory for Everyone but the Super Rich and Means that the Insurance Companies—
NOT YOU AND YOUR DOCTOR—Make ALL FINAL Healthcare Decisions!

The Capitalist Dictatorship intends to Use the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul”
To Escalate Economic Warfare Against the Working Class and the Poor!
The Objective is to Reduce the Population by Increasing the Price of Healthcare
For ALL, while Simultaneously Denying and Rationing Healthcare for ALL
In Order to Bring a Greater Number of People to an Earlier Death!

Any “Public Option” Will be Limited to Only a Few and Will be Designed to Profit
From Human Illness and Disease Just Like the Private Insurance/HMO Parasites!

Re-introduction of a Progressive Tax Structure Would Easily Pay Entirely for
Single-Payer Government Run Health Care and Pay for Social Security Forever!
But the One-Way Dynamic of Capitalism Prevents This! Socialism is the Answer!

Don’t fall for the “Obama media blitz” falsely claiming that the 1.) “Healthcare Overhaul does not mean a government takeover of medicine” accompanied by the Big Lie: “the only people who make healthcare decisions will be you and your doctor!” The U.S. government is taking over all health care and giving it to the insurance companies and HMOs! The United States government, the insurance companies and HMOs make ALL final medical decisions by denying and rationing your medical care! You and your doctor do NOT make the final medical decisions regarding treatment! Only under the Veterans’ Administration, Medicare and Medicaid, all government programs did you and your doctor make medical decisions! The real purpose of the Obama “Overhaul” is to turn over all healthcare to the insurance companies and HMOs while ending the government programs of Medicare and Medicaid by cutting $400 billion to $500 billion in “savings” from those programs, which the capitalist dictatorship will undoubtedly later simply fold into so-called “Obama Care”.

The Obama Regime covers up this reality by saying that Obama Care will EXPAND Medicaid and “cover millions of more people but with greatly reduced coverage!” “With greatly reduced coverage?” That is NOT an expansion of Medicaid. “Greatly reduced Coverage” means denial of healthcare and healthcare rationing and means that you and your doctor no longer make the healthcare decisions. The insurance companies and HMOs will make the final decisions! That is an economic fact! That is what the reduction of Medicare and Medicaid will actually mean in practice! Complaints about Medicare and Medicaid will increase not decrease under the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul” and will be due to the so-called “savings” which are merely a euphemism for the Obama Regime’s CUTS and enormous increase in healthcare rationing and enormous increase in heathcare insurance for ALL! Demonstrating once again that he is not afraid to use the Big Lie right to the face of his victims, Obama stated at a town-hall type meeting organized by the treacherous AARP: “Nobody is talking about cutting Medicare benefits.” (New York Times, July 29, 2009)) Cutting Medicare Benefits is EXACTLY what the Obama Regime intends to do! Obama has frequently promised to “rein in spending on retirement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.” (New York Times, January 8, 2009). And that is what the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul” is all about. Being “deficit neutral” means cutting government healthcare programs with the private insurance companies supplying even more reduced coverage than the present system of parasite insurance companies and HMOs, where ALREADY for example 40% of health insurance claims in California are denied!

In another Big Lie the Obama Regime announced: “it would not try to cut the short-term deficits until the economy recovers enough that businesses and consumers resume their spending and investment.” (New York Times, August 26, 2009) But the economy is NOT going to recover and CAN NOT RECOVER unless the government institutes huge Federal Jobs Programs equivalent to 37% of GDP, which is the only possible way to sufficiently stimulate DEMAND, the engine of the economy. Instead the plan by the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires is to DELIBERATELY ALLOW THE ECONOMY TO CONTRACT according to the dynamic of Globalism! See below. After the Big Lie that HE Obama has “pulled the economy back from the brink” and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s announcement on September 15, 2009 that: “The Recession is very likely over” that is the signal that “cutting short-term deficits,” meaning cutting even more social spending will soon be on the agenda! On July 31, 2009 the government reported that the GDP was negative for the 4th successive quarter! Officially it takes 6 negative quarters of GDP growth to define a depression. But the capitalists will falsify the numbers as they already do routinely in order to never permit that truth to appear. The truth is that without large-scale Federal jobs programs the equivalent of New Deal/WWII spending to the level of 37% of GDP there will be NO recovery! Period! The economy will simply continue to contract. That’s NOT recovery! That’s a Big Lie targeting the still credulous U.S. masses. Only Socialism can supply the jobs that people need!

Meanwhile the false “Grandma Death Panels” issue is a deliberately designed but easily discredited distraction used to divert focus away from this central objective of eliminating Medicare and Medicaid in practice as part of the “Healthcare Overhaul” and turning everything over to the insurance companies and HMOs. The $400 billion to $500 billion cuts to Medicare/Medicaid will definitely cut end-of-life treatment for Seniors, who really will in many cases simply be sent home to die! The reason that Obama has delayed naming a new head for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is because the Obama Regime does NOT want ANY focus on Medicare and Medicaid or anyone speaking in support of those government programs, which Obama has now scheduled for huge cuts and eventual elimination. In fact the reason that Obama had filled only 43% of his top policy making positions by September 2009 (New York Times, August 24, 2009), which he could easily get confirmed by his Democratically controlled Congress, is that the Obama Regime wants to appear weak and unable to function and this would not be possible if those policy positions were filled and those new Democratic Party policy chiefs were out there speaking forcefully and building support for a genuine Public Option, for example!

In other words not all of these future policy chiefs can be brought into confidence on Obama’s reversal of his anti-Bush campaign promises. It should also be noted that whenever possible Obama tries to appoint Republicans rather than Democrats to key policy-making positions thus further undermining the will of the voters! On August 25th Obama reappointed the Bush criminal Ben Bernanke to send the message that it will be BUSINESS AS USUAL and that there will be no restoration of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act officially abolished by Clinton or restoration of banking regulation abolished under Reagan! See below.

During his campaign Obama promised that “everything is on the table” in reforming health care. As soon as he was elected Obama stated that “The Single-Payer Health Plan,” where the government, rather than the insurance companies/HMOs, directly pay the healthcare providers was “OFF THE TABLE.” Social Security, Medicare and the Veterans’ Administration are the most popular government programs, where the government makes NO actual medical decisions, and could EASILY be paid for by re-instituting a Progressive Tax Structure in the United States! See below.

Obama IMMEDIATELY Abandoned His Support for the Single-Payer Health
Plan which He only Used to Con Support from Democratic Constituencies
In Order to Get Elected and then Turn Everything over to the HMOs!
Those Who Already have Coverage are “Not Eligible” for any Public Plan
And are also “Not Eligible” for the So-called “Healthcare Exchanges”!

Obama quickly reversed his position and outright opposed support for Single-Payer because it is a fact that a government plan PAID FOR ENTIRELY BY THE GOVERNMENT would indeed compete with and COMPLETELY REPLACE the insurance companies and HMOs and REDUCE the cost of healthcare! Obama and the Democrats’ previous support for Single-Payer Socialized Medicine, which was supported by the overwhelming majority of the U.S. population, was done ONLY in order to SUCK PEOPLE IN and then twice employed the BAIT AND SWITCH, first by offering the Public Option to compete with the insurance companies. Then when it became clear that even the conservative so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats would not support ANY healthcare legislation which included “the Public Option,” the Obama Regime announced that the final so-called “Healthcare Overhaul” legislation will effectively turn over healthcare lock stock and barrel to the insurance companies and HMOs and that a Public Plan was “NOT essential” and “fading from the debate.” (New York Times, September 13, 2009) Pressure from the masses and some liberal Democratic Party leaders may force some sort of a “Public Plan.” But that public plan, according to CNN, September 1, 2009 may not be available for 2 years and also will also eventually be based on profit just like the private plans AND those who already have healthcare coverage will NOT even be eligible for the Public Plan.

Real Choice is Off Limits in All Versions of the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul!

Despite Obama’s talk of “healthcare exchanges,” actually switching from one insurance company to another would NOT be permitted for those who already have health insurance and is available ONLY to those who have NO health insurance and are forced to buy it out of their own pocket! In addition, universal coverage would cause the costs of healthcare will go up by at least 10% for all those already possessing health insurance. (New York Times, August 30, 2009) The rise in premiums will be partly due to the fee/fine being imposed on the health insurance industry supposedly to help pay for the $1 trillion “Healthcare Overhaul” but will simply be passed on to customer/victims as yet another regressive tax. Note that permitting people to switch from one healthcare plan to another has NO support in Congress (meaning the insurance companies and HMOs which the Congress actually represents) and is strongly opposed by Labor Unions, employers, hospitals and drug companies! (New York Times, 26, 2009) The reason that the Obama Regime has been deliberately as vague as possible about the actual facts of the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul” is to hide the information which appears in this materialist analysis, and to set the masses up for escalation of economic warfare directed against them! Obama’s line is to repeat the Big Lie that doing nothing is worse than whatever he offers! A so-called “Reconciliation Vote.” which is primarily used to deal with budget items that affect the deficit, requires only a simple majority vote and avoids a filibuster but cover only 5 years and would require further legislation.

The scenario is to pass such an onerous “Healthcare Overhaul” bill one way or another and let Obama take the blame early in his administration and use the media to try to continue to deflect that blame from Obama and the capitalist dictatorship. The media will continue to trumpet Obama’s Big Lie that “something is better than nothing!” Obviously making something worse is not better than nothing and the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul” is nothing but a means to accelerate economic warfare against the domestic U.S. population. It is obvious that we need a Socialist Revolution in the United States! Capitalism offers a world with no future where the Working Class HAS NO REPRESENTATION WHATSOEVER and the entire system is run by the millionaires and billionaires and their representatives, which includes ALL 535 members of Congress. NOT ONE MEMBER OF CONGRESS CALLS FOR A NEW ECONOMIC-POLITICAL-SOCIAL SYSTEM BASED ON HUMAN NEED AND POINTS OUT THAT CAPITALISM CANNOT BE TURNED INTO SOCIALISM AND REQUIRES A SOCIALIST REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES!

There is no reason whatsoever why healthcare should be permitted to exist as a BUSINESS in the first place where insurance companies “COMPETE” for PROFITS at the people’s expense while parasitizing off human illness and disease! Competition has no place whatsoever in healthcare! The capitalist dictatorship has brainwashed the masses to falsely believe that healthcare is just like a piece of bread that you can go out and “buy” and can even be taxed with an excise tax! Free healthcare should be a right and it is in a Socialist system in fully consolidated Workers’ States! Even in some capitalist systems! Although the insurance companies use the term “private” to try to make its largely Working Class victims think they are receiving “exclusive” or “special” healthcare coverage, the truth is that “special” is one more 1984 Orwellian Newspeak/Big Lie deception. “Private” insurance actually means big time PRIVATE PROFITS for the insurance companies and HMO billionaires! “Private” insurance means NO CHOICE for the its “customers” (victims) because insurance companies make their HUGE PROFITS primarily by limiting medical care and by denying and rejecting every conceivable treatment, test and surgery sometimes even for emergencies! Real choice is also off limits in all versions of the so-called “Healthcare Overhaul.” In order to cover up this fact Obama promises that the insurance companies will not be allowed to deny coverage based on previous medical history or a pre-existing condition. Because of the fact that the insurance company PROFITS will escalate ASTRONOMICALLY with 29 million new customers (suckers/victims) that will be no big deal for them! And HEALTHCARE RATIONING will also increase ASTRONOMICALLY!

Obama is strongly supported by the treacherous AARP, which supported the Bush Medicare Part D which was deliberately designed to set Medicare on the course to bankruptcy! And it HAS! See below. The Fascist “Families USA,” the American Medical Association, the Federation of American Hospitals, the sell-out SEIU labor union and the pharmaceutical industry (PhRMA) fund ad campaigns backing Obama Care! The ad campaigns deceptively promise “a cap on out-of-pocket costs, no annual or lifetime limits on coveragez’ and “focus on preventive care.” In other words there WILL BE out-of-pocket costs. And “preventive care” according to www.factsaboutreform.org, is mostly limited to “eliminating co-payments for tests like mammograms and colonoscopies,” which can be and will be more frequently DENIED. In other words HEALTHCARE RATIONING WILL SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE UNDER ANY VERSION OF THE OBAMA HEALTHCARE OVERHAUL! Obama simply uses the Big Lie technique to deny that healthcare rationing will increase for everyone except the rich.

Obama Cut a Secret George Bush-Type Deal With the Pharmaceutical Industry
That Prevents the U.S. Government from Negotiating for Lower Drug Prices

Obama made a dirty sell-out deal with the pharmaceutical industry (PhRMA) first revealed on June 20, 2009 the exact same sort of deal made by George Bush where in exchange for Obama’s promise 1.) not to permit the new Obama Healthcare Overhaul System to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs and 2.) not to permit additional rebates from drug manufacturers, the drug companies agreed to contribute $80 billion in “savings” over 10 years. The $80 billion in “savings” from the drug companies is NOTHING compared to the $300 billion annual profits of the drug companies, which TOTAL $2.4 TRILLION over the same 10 years! And that is why the drug companies are running a measly $150 million ad campaign pushing Obama Care! The $80 billion “savings” would apply ONLY to those Medicare patients with Bush Medicare Part D who fall into a gap in their drug coverage known as the “doughnut hole” and only applies for brand name drugs thus ruling out use of the much cheaper generic drugs! Just like Bush! The “doughnut hole” is the area that falls between the less than $2,700 and the more than $5,100, a gap which Medicare has refused to pay for seniors' prescription drugs. Anything in between, seniors are supposed to pay themselves but in practice many seniors are simply forced to completely stop taking their medications. That way they get sicker and die quicker! And as explained Medicare Part D also accomplished its purpose of putting Medicare on the edge of bankruptcy! What’s not to like?

Some Democrats such as Henry Waxman are now GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS of trying to recover a comparatively tiny amount in rebates from the drug companies of the $billions paid since 2003 for name brand drugs rather than generic equivalents. (New York Times, August 26, 2009) As explained in a 2003 New York Times Op-Ed, the PURPOSE of the 2003 Bush's Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, which cost $678 billion over 10 years and prevented the federal government from negotiating lower prices from drug companies, and was to help put Medicare on the road to bankruptcy, saving the final coup de grace for the next Democratic president. And here comes Obama to finish the job with Medicare “savings”/CUTS, fines and excise taxes to wage economic warfare against the Working Class and its allies! Note that the Medicare Trust fund will indeed supposedly be “exhausted” by 2017 right on schedule according to a Trustees report! (Healthcare Finance News, May 19, 2009) But there is a way to get rid of the insurance companies/HMOs and brand name drugs and pay for everything easily with no regressive taxes: Simply re-institute a Progressive Tax Structure in the United States. See below! But capitalism cannot be genuinely reformed or turned back into New Deal liberalism because of the one-way dynamic of capitalism. That is why we need a Socialist Revolution in the Unite States.

A “Public Plan” Will Also Offer NO Choice Whatsoever because
It Will ALSO Be Based Primarily On Profits NOT Patient Health!

Obama and the U.S. Congress are ALL merely puppets of the capitalist dictatorship, which includes the insurance companies and HMO’s. The controversy over the “Public Plan” is being used as a diversion from this glaring reality which leaves the private health insurance business completely intact and increases their business ASTRONOMICALLY! Because of the fact that a genuine Public Plan would indeed replace all private insurance plans because it would NOT be based on profit, “Chucky Boy” Schumer came up with a trick to deceive the masses for whom he has only total contempt. “Chucky Boy” Schumer wrote a “compromise public healthcare plan which would abide by the same rules and regulations as private plans” designed to start off with start-up government funding and initially to be 20% to 30% cheaper than the “private plans” but then eventually to change to be PROFITABLE AND EXPLOITIVE JUST LIKE THE PRIVATE PLANS.

That ignores the question that if the public plan and the private plans would really abide by the exact same rules, what would be the point of a public plan in the first place? The only answer is to deceive the increasingly skeptical but still credulous masses! Will the U.S. population agree to be so deceived? It does not seem to matter. Even such an amended Schumer plan where a so-called “Public Plan” would be temporarily only slightly less profitable and therefore only slightly cheaper (20% to 30%) than the private HMOs was rejected by the Republicans and rightwing Democrats, who simultaneously 1.) provide Obama with LEFT COVER with his own constituencies by hilariously labeling the Fascist Obama a “socialist” and 2.) move the entire political process to the right! In fact Obama is actually to the right of some Republicans on this issue who have pointed out that the “Healthcare Overhaul” will effectively eliminate Medicare. This helps keep the masses confused, which is an objective because a confused person cannot act. Alternative “nonprofit consumer-owned cooperatives” have even been offered as an alternative to a public plan. But healthcare cooperatives are a sham and are also run by the insurance companies! It should be noted that “Chucky Boy” Schumer was the author of the Fascist repressive Patriot Act (reportedly nearly half written by the time of the 911 U.S. Government-Facilitated Provocation by in-the-loop Chucky) and now fully supported by the Fascist Barack Obama on all the key points. Associated Press, September 15, 2009. See below.

The Democrats Proposal for a Tiny 1% Surcharge on Individual Incomes Making
Over $280,000 and on Couples Making Over $350,000 is a JOKE and Is No Substitute
For Reintroduction of a New Deal Type Progressive Tax Structure in the United States!

The answer is that supposedly trying to “reduce healthcare costs” is all a diversion! Obama and the entire Congress are all paid off by the insurance companies/HMO’s, banks, oil companies and military industrial complex. Any healthcare plan that emerges will be run by the parasite insurance companies and HMOs, just like the present state plans, which have also been disingenuously offered as an alternative to a public plan to try to keep people confused! As noted, a confused person cannot act and is more easily manipulated! As mentioned the Obama Regime’s healthcare plan will be paid for largely by “savings” (!) by cutting Medicare payments to hospitals and also by John Kerry’s idea to tax the healthcare benefits of those who already have high-priced and relatively non-rationed healthcare like everyone should have and would automatically have with Socialized Medicine. The Obama “Healthcare Overhaul” will impose a 35% excise tax on individuals with high-priced insurance plans from $8,000 to $9,800 and on families with plans costing from $21,000 to $25,000. But NEVER by seriously taxing the rich by re-introducing a Progressive Tax Structure in the United States! The request by the Democrats in the House for a TINY surcharge beginning only in 2011 (!) starting at 1% on individuals making over $280,000 and couples making over $350,000, with slight increases at incomes of over $400,000 and $800,000, or even a 1% surtax ONLY on those making over $1 million, is not even meant to pay for healthcare entirely and is strongly opposed in the Senate. Starting with the John Kennedy administration the progressive tax structure of the New Deal, which used to exist in the United States, has been completely eliminated. The House also represents the millionaires and billionaires and is simply going through the motions! See below.

It should be noted that even this tiny 1% surtax on the incomes of the capitalists themselves would raise $550 billion over 10 years! This is about a third of the $1.6 trillion needed for 10 years according to the Congressional Budget Office and over half needed for recent “scaled-down” versions of Obama Care costing less than $1 trillion over ten years. (The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated the cost of the original “Healthcare Overhaul” would be $1.6 trillion not $1 trillion!) But $550 billion is a small amount compared to the $4.7 trillion which has already been permanently turned over to the banks in the bank bailouts who were told that they had to accept the money whether they needed it or not! See below. As mentioned, the remainder of “the cost of healthcare” is to come from regressive taxes and “savings” primarily from Medicare/Medicaid. Obviously a 3% surtax rather than a 1% surtax would ENTIRELY pay for any “Healthcare overhaul” and would entirely pay for a Single-Payer Government run Healthcare Plan—Socialized Medicine. But capitalism can not be reformed and made better because of the one-way dynamic of capitalism described above! At some level the masses are beginning to understand that and is the reason that 95% of New Yorkers and presumably the majority of Americans when given the choice agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! That is a Communist response although few would presently describe themselves as Communist. But it does mean that the majority of Americans would be receptive to Socialism right now! The overwhelming majority of the American people want Socialized Medicine and when polled honestly they choose Socialism and recognize that capitalism has failed. The contradiction is that the U.S. Working Class is presently so deliberately misinformed, misled, deceived, divided, disorganized, demoralized, intimidated, infantalized and so brainwashed on every conceivable basis that they are prevented at the present time from engaging in any sort of organized effective action on the basis of their own class interest because of the present correlation of class forces, where the capitalists are still too strong. (See below.) But this will not last forever because capitalism is on the road to further economic collapse NOT “recovery.” See below.

Enormous Fines For Not Being Covered by the “Healthcare Overhaul” Are
Expected to Raise at least $52 Billion! Capitalism has Already DRAINED US DRY!

The capitalist dictatorship also intends to make the masses pay for Obama Care through the nose primarily through cuts in Medicare/Medicaid, regressive taxes and “mandates” which target individuals and small business, meaning that those who are uninsured must now either buy health insurance or be fined in order to further impoverish them! Any individual making more than $43,320 and any family making more than $88,200 must pay 10% of their income paying private HMOs for health insurance before receiving government subsidies! Individuals and families who fail to buy health insurance will be fined $500 to $750 and $1,000 to $3,800 respectively! These fines alone are expected to “raise (at least) $52 billion to cover the costs of the uninsured (!).” (New York Times, August 13, 2009) The Obama “Healthcare Overhaul” is thus to be paid for by regressive taxation as mentioned above with excise taxes and fines targeting primarily the Working Class—not the rich or the “middle class”—and “savings” (cuts in other Medicare, etc.) rather than seriously taxing the rich through legislating a New Progressive Tax Structure in the United States where the top tax rate would be over 90% like it was under the New Deal and up until the end of the Eisenhower administration during the period of greatest economic prosperity in the United States! In addition, ALL income should be taxed, not just the first $102,000.00 as is presently the case! (A millionaire or billionaire pays taxes ONLY on the first $102,000!) The top tax rate should be at least 90% on ALL income! The “Effective Top U.S. Federal Tax Rate” is now only 27.9%, while the Effective Tax Rate for the average taxpayer is 18.2%. (New York Times, August 28, 2009) THIS IS ALMOST A FLAT TAX! See below. The capitalist dictatorship has already DRAINED US DRY and is now literally moving in for the kill. This is no exaggeration! See below.

The despised beady-eyed scheming scoundrel Timothy Geithner and Big Liar Lawrence Summers, who was thrown out of Harvard (!), have also stated: “(Working Class) taxes might have to go up to pare budget deficits or to pay for the proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system.” (Associated Press, August 3, 2009). Note: The middle class is comprised of small business owners, doctors, lawyers and the direct servants of the capitalist dictatorship. Unless you are a capitalist or you belong to one of those groups you probably belong to the Working Class or the Poor. The capitalist dictatorship and its media always whenever possible uses the term “middle class” rather than “Working Class” to try to flatter workers that they do not belong to the lowly Working Class and also in order that members of the Working Class do not identify themselves as belonging to that historically destined class and begin to organize themselves based upon their class identity to begin to carry out a Socialist Revolution. On the other hand the Second Law of Dialectical and Historical Materialism, the Law of Unity of Opposites, permits a person to be both a capitalist and Communist simultaneously, as was Friedrich Engels and others during the 1917 Russian Revolution. These are very practical and real matters to the capitalist dictatorship and they should be for you and me as we work to break the morale of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship.

Obama Proposed a Bush-Privatization of the Veterans
Administration within 2 Months of Taking Office!

Because of the fact that the VETERANS ADMINSTRATION is socialized medicine it was initially partially de-funded by the Bush Regime and more than 20 VA hospitals were threatened with closure! Obama’s claimed “support” for the VA is a sham and a Big Lie starting with an immediate attempt announced on March 16, 2009 to begin to privatize the Veterans Administration less than one month of taking office! The Obama/Bush Regime attempted to authorize the Department of Veterans Affairs to force veterans to begin to partially pay for treating war-related injuries and other medical conditions, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, that are war-related using private insurance companies! The pretext was supposedly to “save” the VA about $530 million a year! The overhead of the Veterans Administration Hospitals is less than 5% and the overhead for Medicare is only 2%, while the overhead of the parasite HMO/private insurance plans is 30% or more, which forms the basis for their profits! There is NO money whatsoever “saved” by privatizing the Veterans Administration or Medicare. Just the opposite! Obama is a liar and he knows he’s a liar! The Obama regime is simply maneuvering to permit private health insurers to increase their parasitizing off the misery, illness and disease of the American people and bring people to an earlier death! Incidentally, Veterans are already charged a privatized co-payment for non-war acquired medical conditions in order to help out the HMO parasites!

Obama was immediately opposed on his privatization scheme by all veterans groups, which finally forced the new Veterans Affairs Secretary/Obama puppet Gen. Eric Shinseki to reverse his initial support for the Obama privatization plan! Previously the capitalists were able to deceive the masses domestically by throwing out a few crumbs and scraps, while the overwhelming bulk of their programs in the last several decades were deliberately designed to directly attack the lives and living standard of the majority of the American people. On June 24, 2009 after widespread criticism and increasing awareness among veterans that Obama was giving them the same treatment doled out under Bush the Congress passed legislation approving the budget for the Veteran’s Administration one year in advance to prevent the delays which had occurred for 19 of the last 22 years! Those delays combined with cutbacks were deliberately designed to cause cancellation or postponement of programs, not enough equipment, fewer doctors, longer waiting times and restricted access to healthcare for veterans causing rationing of healthcare in order to falsely discredit the Veterans Administration healthcare because it is SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!

Remember that the words “reform” and “overhaul” under capitalism are simply code words for attack on the Working Class. The capitalists have now decided to escalate their attacks on the masses and have switched their gears to EXTERMINATE a significant percentage workers made “redundant” under Globalism as well as a significant percentage of the general population both in the United States and worldwide. Globalism has rendered millions of workers redundant—no longer necessary under capitalism—and the present Economic Crisis/Second Great Depression has provided the ideal point for the U.S.-led World Capitalist Dictatorship to reduce their populations and the entire world population using Biological Warfare and Biofuels, which are merely yet another Conspiracy for Mass Murder achieving its objective by creation food shortages and mass starvation primarily in developing countries in Africa and Asia, where the populations are mostly People of Color! The TV ad focus on the use of algae by the oil companies Exxon and British Petroleum, which is extremely expensive to produce, is simply the propaganda stalking horse for the reality that Biofuels are derived primarily from crops which are being deliberately diverted from human and animal consumption to burn them to create mass starvation and food shortages and to produce fuel which produces at least 10% less energy than oil and according to CNBC “makes no economic sense whatsoever.” All members of congress understand this actual objective of Biofuels as population reduction and that is why they ALL support Biofuels to the hilt! All fuels sold in the U.S. ar now legally mandated to contain at least 10% of Biofuel! This is one more reason why we need a Socialist Revolution in the United States! (See: Materialist Analysis of Biofuels and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect by this writer.).

The Capitalists Have Completely Abolished
The Progressive Tax Structure of the New Deal!

The progressive tax structure was completely and totally abolished starting with John Kennedy who was far to the right of the New Dealer Dwight Eisenhower. (The Kennedys hated Roosevelt and the New Deal after FDR appointed Joe Kennedy as the U.S. Ambassador to the UK at the Court of St. James, a total insult to the Irishman Kennedy, who was then later withdrawn in humiliation because of his multiple statements in support of Adolph Hitler! FDR and the Great Britain DID support Hitler both through the covert economic aid provided by U.S. capitalists and diplomatically by refusing to sign any alliance with the USSR against the NAZIs, and helped build Hitler’s rise to power in order to send the NAZIs against the USSR, in a failed attempt to destroy the USSR militarily in WWII! But that was a state secret NOT for public consumption!)

JFK reduced the top tax rate from 91% under Eisenhower down to 70%! Under the Fascist Ronald Reagan the Kemp-Roth Tax-Cut of 1981 reduced the top rate from 70% to 50%! The Reagan the Tax Reform Act of 1986 led by Fascist-Democrat Bill “basketballs” Bradley lowered the top tax rate from 50% to 28%, an economic crime which he still brags about! (New York Times, August 30, 2009) The top tax rate was later increased slightly to 39.6% under Bill Clinton and then reduced to 35% under the Bush Regime! Obama has promised to “raise” the top tax rate back to an astronomical...39.6% in another 2 years! What a joke! The joke is on you and me! As mentioned, the “Effective Top U.S. Federal Tax Rate” is now only 27.9% and that will NOT change appreciably! Abolishing the progressive tax structure of the United States has permitted the capitalist dictatorship to completely rob every last penny so that there is NO money whatsoever to pay for anything, especially Social Security and other social programs, which are derisively referred to as “entitlements” as in “who do THEY think THEY are being ENTITLED to ANTHING—why don’t they (the Working Class, their allies and the Poor) “just pull themselves by their own bootstraps” like Herbert Hoover said? But today the capitalists have other fish to fry: population reduction in the United States and worldwide. The extermination of millions of people! See above.

Progressive Taxation is Good for the Economy!
Regressive Taxation is Bad for the Economy!
The Capitalist Dictatorship Keeps the Masses Totally Confused About Taxes!

There is never any explanation provided concerning the vast difference between progressive taxes, which normally tax the rich more than 90% of their income, versus regressive taxes which tax the poor and which are correctly opposed by the masses. By cleverly manipulating and omitting these simple, fundamental facts of taxation the capitalist dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires is able to keep the masses totally confused and opposed to “taxes” in general, and with their reduced understanding this means only regressive taxes, the only taxes which are imposed in this, the most reactionary period of end stage capitalism. Abolishing the progressive tax system and imposing only regressive taxes combined with the bank bailouts, supply-side economics and basic exploitation of labor through expropriation of surplus value mentioned above has allowed the capitalist dictatorship to steal virtually every last penny leaving nothing for social services or even infrastructure maintenance! This follows naturally from the one-way dynamic of capitalism, which is not based on human need but only on increasing private profits. This dialectical and historical analysis is the only explanation which fits the facts.

The Real Purpose of Bank Bailouts Was to Divert Money From
Social Spending—the Same Purpose as Supply-Side Economics!
The Only Way to Lift the Economy Out of Crisis is to
STIMULATE DEMAND—the Engine of the Economy through Huge
Federal Jobs Programs Just Like the New Deal and World War II!

Note that Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave no money whatsoever to the banks to lift the U.S. out of the Great Depression! Instead FDR created DEMAND by creating JOBS with huge New Deal Federal Jobs programs (e.g. the WPA, etc.) to replace the jobs lost in the private sector, and finally by the huge spending of WWII, which was the largest federal jobs program in all U.S. history! Creating Demand through enormous Federal Jobs Programs is equally important in the present Economic Crisis as it was during the Great Depression, despite the fact that origins of the 2 crises are somewhat different. (See Part II Analysis.) The reasons for this are twofold: 1.) The jobs which have been lost, more than 18-20 million actual jobs lost and more than 30 million unemployed if ALL categories are included, are from the PRIVATE SECTOR and there are NO more private employers! and 2.) Demand is what drives the economy! The $4.7 trillion Bank Bailouts of 2008-2009 are simply being used as the pretext to DIVERT money away from Social Programs just as Supply Side/Trickle Down/Reaganomics/Bush Tax Cut economics is also used to divert money from Social Spending and has NOTHING to do with stimulating the economy, as so eloquently explained by Ronald Reagan’s economic Czar, David Stockman in his book “The Triumph of Politics: Why The Reagan Revolution Failed!”

The Capitalists Know Very Well That Market
Forces Alone Cannot Restore the Economy Today!

Prior to the age of imperialism the capitalist economy was small and “market forces” were then enough to enable the economy to recover on its own. For example the “Panic of 1893” was a short Depression lasting only 3 years, which was initially caused by speculation in railroads. That Depression was characterized by high unemployment rates of 17% to 19%, coal miners’ strikes and railroad workers’ strikes and bank failures, which finally ended with confidence restored by the Klondike Gold Rush! That’s all it took! Ten years of growth were followed by the Depression of 1907, a financial crisis where the stock market fell to 50% of its previous value causing runs on banks and trust companies. The 1907 Depression was reversed through the intervention of the banker J.P. Morgan who pledged huge sums of money and asked the world famous speculator Jesse Livermore to stop shorting the market. Livermore had actually reversed his market direction prior to being asked by Morgan and had begun to buy (go long) on the stock market. (See “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefevre.) That’s all it took in those days. But from then on the capitalist economy became imperialist and much, much larger! Because of the question of scale the world capitalist economy can NEVER again just “recover on its own using so-called market forces”! Even the spending level of the New Deal, while it did serve the crucial purpose of putting people back to work, was not large enough to bring the U.S. out of the First Great Depression! That required the spending level of WWII.

Instead of Implementing Another New Deal
Obama Offers THE NO DEAL and THE BAD DEAL!
Emphasis on the Federal Deficit Is Being Used
To Set the Stage for Cuts in Social Programs!

The real reason that Obama started talking about cutting the deficit in half the day after his tiny deliberately-designed-to-fail $787 billion “stimulus plan” was signed into law was to set the stage and provide a false basis for huge $500 Billion cuts in Medicare/Medicaid and eliminating the Social Security Cost-of-Living Allowance and other social programs. Today, the spending level required to lift the capitalist economy out of the economic crisis is $5.2 trillion (37% of $14.2 Trillion—the 2008 GDP), which must be concentrated on large-scale federal jobs programs like the New Deal Works Progress Administration and other New Deal programs, but even larger than the level of the New Deal to reach the spending level of World War II, the spending level which raised the U.S. out of the Great Depression. The amount allotted in the Obama Stimulus Plan does not even begin to address the amount of spending actually needed to create jobs or even to repair the crumbling, decayed U.S. infrastructure, which is estimated to require $2.2 trillion by the American Society of Civil Engineers (New York Times, January 27, 2009) and could at least put many people back to work. The Obama Regime keeps talking about funding “shovel ready” construction projects but that is a bad joke on all of us. By September 2009 only one quarter of the tiny $787 billion “stimulus plan had even been spent confirming that the U.S. capitalist dictatorship is deliberately permitting the U.S. economy to contract in order to eliminate workers and reduce a large population made redundant by Globalism. Despite huge media hype to the contrary the Obama Regime is not seriously interested in infrastructure at all in reality and refuses to provide a Stimulus Plan large enough to work but the false media campaign which hides this is designed to make it appear that “things are happening.” People could also be put to work constructing Tidal Electric Power Plants. (See: Materialist Analysis of Biofuels and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect)

As mentioned, Obama has frequently promised to “rein in spending on retirement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.” (New York Times, January 8, 2009). On May 8, 2009 Obama even called for making 121 budget cuts to save a paltry $17 billion (Associated Press), budget cuts most of which are designed to target the Working Class and the Poor and to help to put them in the gutter. Then later in order to provide further false basis for these cuts in social programs the Obama Regime Office of Management and Budget raised its 10-year federal deficit estimate to $9 trillion stating that Obama is also “committed to addressing the shortfall in the Social Security system.” (New York Times, August 26, 2009) But Obama has already taken 2 steps to totally eliminate the function of Social Security and accelerate the economic war against the Working Class by introducing “automatic and compulsory employer-sponsored 401K-type savings accounts” by executive decree (see above) and eliminating the Social Security COLA for present retirees. See above.

The Obama Regime is Deliberately Using Mortgage Defaults
to Increase Homelessness and Reduce the Population! The Media
Admit that there will be 10 million Foreclosures in the Next 3 Years!

The Obama plan to “reduce mortgage foreclosures” is actually deliberately designed to INCREASE FORECLOSURES! It was openly admitted on the front page of the New York Times (July 30, 2009) that astronomical Late-Fee Profits DWARF the tiny $1000 to $4,000 “incentive” offered banks by the Obama Regime not to foreclose on customers! The Obama incentives help only 9% of “eligible homeowners” (New York Times, August 5, 2009). In addition, the massive loss of jobs makes even previously so-called creditworthy homeowners fall behind on mortgage payments and become homeless. Housing foreclosures escalate every day under Obama’s “PLAN” which is deliberately designed to help only a TINY percentage of borrowers in order to increase homelessness and bring people to an earlier death! Obama said nothing while the Democratically-controlled Senate, which is completely controlled by the big capitalists, BLOCKED CHANGING THE BANKRUPTCY LAW to permit reducing the amount that homeowners owed on a first mortgage, stating that homeowners must instead enter the government foreclosure relief program, controlled by the banks, whose participation is entirely voluntary (!) and which only permit much smaller reductions in mortgage payments. The banks, in turn, almost uniformly give homeowners bad deals or fail to negotiate in good faith with borrowers because the late fees they earn far exceed the paltry “enticements” offered by Obama. CNBC TV reported that there will be up to 10 million foreclosures in the next 3 years! (See also RealtyTrac, June 16, 2009)

Obama Should Decree a Complete Moratorium on Mortgage
Foreclosures and a Reversal of All Foreclosures Since he took Office!

The Phony Obama “Stimulus Plan” deliberately does not address this reality. The truth is that the Obama so-called “Stimulus Plan” is actually deliberately designed to INCREASE the number of homeless in the United States and thereby reduce the “population demographic” by bringing these people to an earlier death! Videos on the Evening News document that tent cities now exist in many U.S. cities inhabited by those who had their mortgages foreclosed upon, similar to the Hoovervilles during the Great Depression. A government decreed complete moratorium on mortgage foreclosures is obviously required and should have been announced the day Obama took office if he had been serious, which he never was! The Obama Regime could still announce a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures but it will NEVER DO SO because Obama represents the capitalist dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires not the Working Class and their allies, and because of the one-way dynamic of capitalism described above. False emphasis on the federal deficit rather than on creating a massive federal jobs program to stimulate demand demonstrates the sophisticated and extensive manipulation of public opinion which is involved. Obama offers the No Deal and the Bad Deal of capitalism. This is covert mass murder combined with maximum denial and is another demonstration of just how effective the Big Lie technique is when directed at an unorganized population which has been rendered “anti-Communist” but nevertheless now agrees that we need a new system based on human need not private profit. It should also be noted that the ONLY reason that housing purchases have increased slightly in the U.S. is because of the $8,000 Tax Credit for first-time home buyers! This hides the reality that the housing market is NOT BOTTOMING! How could it with 10 million more foreclosures predicted for the next 3 years! The real estate industry wants the Tax Credit extended and made permanent and increased to $15,000! (New York Times, September 16, 2009) What this all points to is that we need Socialism to solve the problems created by the Economic Crisis, not more capitalism! Under Socialism there will be no homelessness and all housing that requires it will be upgraded so that all living accommodations are excellent.

Cutting Government Spending to “Cut the Deficit” is
Historically Documented to Deepen Economic Crisis!
Only by Increasing Spending to the Level of Combined
New Deal/World War II Spending to 37% of GDP and
ALL on Federal Jobs Programs is it Possible Lift
The United States Out of the Economic Crisis!

False focus on the federal deficit is deliberately used to 1.) provide false support to cut Social Security Benefits by abolishing the Social Security COLA, introducing Bush Private Accounts by Executive Decree and cutting $500 billion from Medicare/Medicaid and to 2.) divert attention from what is actually required to end the Economic Crisis and will make that crisis much worse! The capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires believes that waging this economic warfare against its own domestic population is necessary in order to solve the political problem of the “population demographic” in order to help reduce the population in the U.S. in accordance with the demands of Globalism and the One-Way Dynamic of capitalism. The Obama Regime professes to be SO CONCERNED about the federal deficit increasing because of the “Healthcare Overhaul,” and so-called “entitlements,” Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. But it is also well known that cutting government spending while in an economic crisis will only deepen the crisis as when FDR mistakenly listened to the right wing and cut spending after the 1936 elections resulting in the “recession within the Depression” in 1937-1938. Cutting spending deepened the Japanese recession in the 1990’s. On the other hand, increasing spending sufficiently will lift a capitalist economy out of depression and entirely eliminate the federal deficit.

The combination of New Deal and especially World War II spending on Federal Jobs Programs, to the level of 37% of GDP, is the ONLY thing which lifted the U.S. out of the Great Depression and eliminated the huge federal deficit, which was much greater than the present federal deficit! This spending on Federal Jobs Programs STIMULATED DEMAND—THE ENGINE OF THE ECONOMY and in combination with the Progressive Tax Structure, strict banking regulation and the Glass-Steagall Act described above, permitted the greatest economic expansion in all U.S. history in the late 1940’s and 1950’s. This has been corroborated by history and PREVIOUS explanations of the capitalists’ own Nobel Prize winner economist Paul Krugman and many others. Paul Krugman has recently tried to place the focus and blame for the Economic Crisis on individuals such as Reagan and others rather than being due to the dynamic of capitalism about which he deliberately remains silent. Krugman does this to keep readers confused as to what precisely is actually required in order to lift the economy out of the Economic Crisis. Krugman has become a full-time cheerleader for Obama and hides the fact that Obama’s tiny “stimulus” is just going through the motions. Krugman now just calls for “more stimulus” but refrains from saying HOW MUCH MORE and how it should be spent. Krugman acknowledges that running a large deficit is normal during an Economic Crisis but hides the fact that the Obama Regime is putting so much focus on the deficit in order to provide a false pretext for cuts in government spending on social programs. Demonstrating that he is simply a tool of the capitalist dictatorship, Krugman SUPPORTS these cuts in social programs and false “savings” and no longer mentions that Federal spending to the level of New Deal/WWII spending, 37% of GDP, is what is required to both lift the economy out of the crisis and totally eliminate the federal deficit. Is it bad guy versus good guys or is it increasing spending to 37% of GDP, primarily centered on federal jobs programs? The answer is obvious!

The reality is that while people such as Reagan, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, William Clinton, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, Tim Geithner and many others, including all of those who are now pretending to try to “save the economy,” were indeed involved in creating the economic crisis, the economic crisis was CAUSED by the dynamic of capitalism itself. The real reason the capitalist dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires talks about cutting the federal deficit and the real reason that false propaganda articles are written about “the dangers of the federal deficit” is to set the masses up to accept the gradual abolition of the social programs and even to make the masses feel somehow obligated to give up benefits for the national good. For example, both Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid are falsely claimed to be “unsustainable” and supposedly HARMFUL to the capitalist economy. (!) But the absence of a Progressive Tax Structure in the United States is NOT considered harmful to the economy! Note that Bush deliberately set Medicare on the road to bankruptcy. Those programs are to be eventually abolished by folding them into the Obama “Healthcare Overhaul,” ending free healthcare under the phony banner of “healthcare for all.” Capitalism is fundamentally based on war, mass murder and crime to steal new resources and new markets to increase private profits, a system where those who rise to the top are those who best express and further that one-way direction of capitalism! This should be increasingly obvious, and first and foremost it includes Obama. See below!

Obama’s New so-called “Financial Overhaul” is a Total Fraud
Will Permit Banks to Continue BUSINESS AS USUAL!
All Trading in Derivatives Should be Banned NOT Regulated!

Under the new Obama “Financial Reform” the Federal Reserve would be given increased powers to supervise large financial institutions which are judged to be “to big to fail” because of the deleterious effect on the economy from such an economy in the absence of huge federal jobs programs, a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency will be created to oversee financial products from mortgages to credit cards and require companies to plainly state the terms of financial products while banning the most unfair practices. But that only addresses the problem from one end!!! These 2 points are already strongly opposed by the all-powerful banks who want their victims to enjoy not even the semblance of “protection.”

The Obama plan also requires: 1.) higher capital levels at financial institutions to avoid over-leveraging, 2.) creation of a new national bank regulator for all federally chartered banks (while eliminating the Office of Thrift Supervision which oversees savings institutions) 3.) greater disclosure by hedge funds as well as regulations of credit default swaps and over-the-counter derivatives that previously operated outside of government oversight and 4.) introduces the requirement that the originators of future securitized mortgage loans, credit default swaps, etc.—meaning toxic assets—retain 5% of them (Wow!) rather than simply selling them ALL off to suckers around the world, the bottom line is that it is business as usual! Under the Obama plan trading in derivatives is merely to be partially regulated where plain vanilla derivatives trade on an exchange while the big boys trade the genuine article, the customized derivatives privately with no oversight or regulation. All trading in derivatives should be permanently banned! But it will NEVER HAPPEN because of the one-way dynamic of capitalism. And new ever more exotic investment products are constantly being invented! See below,

Under Obama’s new so-called “Financial Reform” the banks and insurance companies will be allowed to continue to deal in derivatives such as CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS (CDS) and COLLATERALIZED DEBT OBLIGATIONS, MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITIES and STRUCTURED INVESTMENT VEHICLES! Credit Default Swaps, which have helped bring down the capitalist economic system, are derivatives invented in 1994 by JPMorgan to create a device that would supposedly protect banks if their loans defaulted, and free up the huge amounts of capital which they were required by law to keep in reserve in case any of those loans went bad. The buyer of the CDS makes several payments to the seller who receives a payoff if the loans: corporate debt or municipal bonds or subprime mortgage backed securities default. Credit default swaps transfer the risk of default of the illiquid subprime mortgages and other subprime products from the seller to the buyer so that even if the mortgage holders or holders of the subprime loan default on their mortgage payments and are turned out into the street, the holder of the credit default swap is guaranteed the full amount of the mortgage or other loan! But because of the increasing number of defaults the banks cannot pay these increasing amounts! The CDS in turn are used in speculation, hedging and arbitrage in transactions all over the capitalist world permeating virtually every existing financial institution.

The CDS market is $65 trillion in a total derivative market amounting to more than $680 trillion in funny money. But when the subprime credit crunch caused an overall deterioration in market liquidity the value of these derivatives and all derivatives decreased to virtually NOTHING! The truth is that the capitalist banking system today is worth virtually NOTHING! This is no way to restore genuine confidence and the capitalists admit: “The real obstacle is fear, which has made banks reluctant to lend and companies reluctant to invest in expansion.” (New York Times, January 10, 2009) So the Treasury chief, Tim Geithner devised the so called “stress tests,” the so-called Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, which was designed to assess the banks' ability to endure a further decline in the economy under a baseline scenario and “worst case scenario” and required the banks to project their credit losses and revenues for 2009 and 2010, including the level of reserves that they would need at the end of 2010 to cover expected losses in 2011. The result showed that the banks supposedly required an additional $75 billion bailout! (Associated Press, May 9, 2009) But on June 10, 2009 several of these same banks returned $68.3 billion in order to escape regulation and oversight! See above.

New Exotic Investments Emerging on Wall Street Prove That it is Business as Usual!
Securitized “Life Settlements” Are the Newest Pie in the Sky When You Die Bye and Bye!

Because the mortgage-backed security derivative business brought down the world economy the capitalists have been forced to devise a new but similar scheme: securitized “life settlements.” Life settlements are life insurance policies sold by ill an elderly people sell for cash. The banks buy the life settlements which can bring up to $400,000 for a $1 million policy which may vary depending on the person’s life expectancy. These policies are then securitized or repackaged just like subprime mortagages by packaging hundreds and thousands together into bonds, which are resold to investors LIKE BIG PENSION PLANS (Oy!!!), which then receive the payouts when people with the insurance die. The earlier the policyholder dies the bigger the return! People who live long make investors lose money! Hey! The Financials profit either way from huge fees for creating the bonds, reselling them and then trading them. But the process will cause insurers to raise premiums if they have to pay out more death claim than anticipated. In addition to life settlements investment banks and their ilk are repackaging their toxic assets into higher-rated ones called “re-remics (re-securitization of real estate mortgage investment conduits).”

This is big stuff with Morgan Stanley reporting $30 billion in residential re-remics were done in 2009! Hey! The only problem is that the scheme pits the insurance industry against the financials. Policyholders normally often allow their policies to lapse for many reasons which benefits the insurance companies who then do not have to make a payout. But if policies are repackaged into a security investors must keep paying the premiums causing the insurers to lose money because more policies remain in force causing more payouts by the insurers over time. This causes the insurers to raise life insurance premiums and can cause fewer people to take out life insurance which can further increase rates. The financials are undeterred and moving ahead to exploit the $26 TRILLION in outstanding U.S. life insurance policies, which provides an actual market for these crooks and ghouls of about $ 500 BILLION even if only a small percentage of people sell their policies! This is just a taste of the future and the “new normal” under Obama and demonstrates that nothing is going to be done that was done under the New Deal because the New Deal came about only under the pressure of a million strong Communist movement in the United States. (See huge front -page article in the New York Times, September 6, 2009)

While the capitalist media and phony “economists” keep talking about credit and bank loans the truth is that DEMAND is the engine of the economy, which can only be created by large-scale federal jobs programs. But Demand is NEVER EVER mentioned by the media or capitalist economists, because they must go along with the Capitalist Dictatorship’s plans as explained above to use the economic crisis as economic warfare against the masses to eliminate workers made “redundant” by Globalism and to set them up for actual extermination through Economic Warfare and Biowarfare using the so-called “Swine Flu,” which has been declared to be part of “The New Normal” and will, “according to experts” return in “waves over several years” to whittle down the population numbers. (See Obama Part II.) All of the actions by the capitalist dictatorship on the economy sound totally ridiculous except when you understand that the capitalists’ ulterior motive is to welcome the Economic Crisis and the economic contraction and use it as the driving force to deliberately generate a huge amount of unemployment and weaken the overall health of the masses by enforced homelessness, food shortages and government food hoarding in the U.S. as well as actual starvation in developing and poor countries in Africa and Asia. Biowarfare agents such as the “Swine Flu” are developed at Fort Detrick and the CDC and brought in to exterminate them “through natural ‘Malthusian’ causes.”

The Obama “Election Was Rigged Fundamentally
And by Direct Agreement With John McCain!

The “presidential election” was rigged by agreement between the presidential candidates as all presidential elections have been since the Watergate removal of Richard Nixon. See below. McCain deliberately sabotaged his own candidacy and took a fall so that the Democrats would take the White House. Please note: the purpose of the U.S. government’s focus on the clumsily rigged, fraudulent elections in Iran in June 2009 was: 1.) To falsely legitimize the U.S. presidential “elections” in comparison, which are rigged fundamentally but also rigged from every other conceivable angle in much more sophisticated ways (see below) and 2.) To discredit the Islamic Theocracy not only in Iran but also generally throughout Central Asia and other Moslem areas where Islamic Fundamentalists are trying to set up Islamic Theocracies! The United States itself installed the Islamic Theocracy in Iran after the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, in order to counterpose Islamic Fundamentalism to Marxism-Leninism and the national liberation movement in Iran, when it became apparent that the Peoples Fedayeen a Marxist group might take state power and then as a new Workers’ State side with the USSR. The U.S. especially did not want to lose the huge oil reserves of Iran! At that point the USSR was considered a far greater threat to world capitalism than Islamic Fundamentalism, which the capitalist dictatorship has always easily manipulated to its own advantage. (See below.) The U.S. supported the Green (colored) counter-revolution of Mir-Hossein Mousavi not because of any U.S. friendly policies of Mousavi (who targeted the U.S. when he was Prime Minister from 1981 to 1989, when he helped organize the 1983 truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon, for example). The U.S. supports the Iranian “opposition” only because Mousavi is NOT Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and in order to try to undermine the Islamic Theocracy, introduce chaos and set the stage for later regime change. Mousavi’s nuclear energy policies do not differ substantially from those of Ahmadinejad so the planned bombing of Iran nuclear facilities by the U.S. Proxy, so-called “Israel” has not been called off. (See Materialist Analysis of the Mideast by this writer)

U.S. Presidential Elections Were Rigged in Advance Even Prior to the
2000-2004 Coup D’Etat by the Bush Regime, which Fundamentally
Altered the U.S. Capitalist Dictatorship, Hardening its Dictatorship
With Aid and Full Cooperation of Democratic Party Leadership!

The “presidential elections” have been staged every 4 years with the outcome decided upon in advance by agreement between the candidates themselves ever since the removal of Nixon in Watergate. In this respect it has been similar to TV Wrestling. It is a fact of capitalist statecraft that policies, programs including wars may be carried out more easily under one party than another because of the difference in constituency support of the 2 parties. If certain policies and programs are carried out under the wrong party that can result in loss of constituency support for that party and work to undermine the illusion of “democracy” in what is actually a hardening capitalist dictatorship in the United States. In order to achieve the agreed upon election outcome the candidate who has agreed to take a fall invariably makes some deliberate “mistakes” of commission or omission, similar to shooting himself in the foot, which is focused on by the media to provide a basis to vote against that candidate. The media moves in hard to make the point and cover-up other information which otherwise might lead to a contrary result. There have been many variations on this theme since Watergate. This approach, which has now become vastly simplified with the introduction of computerized/touch-screen voting machines, has also required the use of “Third Party” candidates, which have been used to split the election so the chosen candidate is able to win. Up to the 2004 “election” this has been necessary to overcome the natural “advantage” of an incumbent president or party.

The candidates chosen for the staged presidential elections are in
full agreement with the principal that the interests of the capitalist
system supercede their own personal goals and aggrandizement.

This has been the case ever since Watergate, the bloodless removal of Nixon by the Nelson Rockefeller faction in 1974. (As a matter of record “Seconds in Command at the FBI” such as Mark Felt do not bring down governments!) The assassinations of the 1960’s had become much too messy and created unnecessary cover-up problems for the capitalist system, putting it on the defensive. This was in addition to the direct threat that Nelson Rockefeller felt from Richard Nixon, who had previously assassinated John Kennedy in 1963, Robert Kennedy in 1968 and also shot George Wallace out of the race in 1972, because if Wallace had been healthy and not a paraplegic due to the bullet directed by Richard Nixon he would have split the right-wing vote and the Democrats would have won. In addition, Nelson Rockefeller knew that Nixon had apparently assassinated former president Lyndon Johnson, who had been photographed after he left office and grew his hair long like a hippie and smoked marihuana and was considered a “bad role model.” In addition, Nixon who used Dealey Plaza “tramps”/later “Watergate Burglars” CIA assassins E. Howard Hunt and Frank Fiorini Sturgis to assassinate JFK in 1963 (confirmed by photo-overlay identification) apparently also may have had a hand along with then president Johnson and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover in the assassination of Adlai Stevenson, perennial presidential candidate and a well-known and highly respected leader in the Democratic Party in London on July 14, 1965 after stating that he was taking a position against the Vietnam War and would return to the United States and play a leading role in order to bring the war to an end. Stevenson was assassinated by the Nixon-directed CIA “wet section” apparently with a gun, which shoots a capsule of either shellfish toxin or VX liquid nerve gas (which penetrates right through normal clothing) either of which will kill a person within 2 minutes after touching the skin. (Stevenson supposedly suffered a “heart attack” while on a London street.) Rockefeller forced this gun to be brought out in the 1976 Rockefeller Hearings where its use was described in full, but not its targets. This fact is now fully covered up on the Internet.

Gore Won the 2000 Election but Permitted a Coup D’Etat!
Kerry Actually Won the 2004 Election in a Landslide!
Bush was Never the President of the United States!
The 2000 and 2004 Coup D’Etat Made Bush a Usurper!

Despite making every effort to lose 2000 Gore won the 2000 U.S. presidential election and also Florida but allowed Bush to take power through a coup d’etat! If Gore had simply said one word Bush could not have taken office. That word was “NO!” In 2004 Kerry actually won the “election” by upward of a million votes or more, perhaps much more, just as Gore won by at least 500,000 votes in 2000. Kerry was way ahead on the Exit Polls up until late afternoon on Election Day. Exit Polls are nearly always within one percentage point of actual U.S. election results. CBS, NBC and ABC did not carry out Exit Polls because the discrepancy of so many Exit Poll results having Kerry way ahead would be too glaring a contradiction with the planned election outcome, which the government intended to announce, namely a “Bush victory.” Instead Edison International and Mitofsky International alone carried out Exit Polls. In the Nov 5, 2004 New York Times and on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer also on Nov 5th, Warren Mitofsky, CEO of that company, stated that when he discovered that the results showing Kerry far ahead by millions of votes had gotten out on the Internet on Election Day, he cancelled the Exit Polls and thereafter reported “only the official election results,” which suddenly put Bush ahead by millions of votes! This Simply Does Not Compute! And contrary to the orchestrated campaign of lies to the contrary it most certainly had nothing to do with false claims such as “the median age of the surveyors, 34, which over-represented young voters, who tended to vote for Kerry.” (!) New York Times, January 20, 2005. The CEO of Diebold Walden O’Dell stated in a mailing that he would “do everything in his power to make sure that Bush was re-elected President.” (Of course, Bush is not president and never was president. He remains a usurper.) And Florida, which had been going to Kerry BIG by well over a million votes was, few hours later conceded to Bush.

The same for Ohio, and in the Ohio recount Kerry and the Democratic leadership, under pressure from their hapless duped constituents, agreed to demand a recount, but assured the Republicans in advance that “no matter what the outcome the Democratic Party did NOT intend to challenge the election outcome!” There were tens of millions, not millions, of new voters in the 2004 “elections.” The registrations and votes of a large percentage of them were simply thrown out, vaporized. The election process in both Ohio and Florida was controlled by the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party leadership cooperated fully just as they did in 2000 and 2004, in a consolidation of what has been and is in fact an ongoing Coup D’Etat. Ralph Nader’s role in splitting the opposition to Bush especially in Florida where in 2000, according to the New York Times, he reportedly drew 93,837 votes and helped assure a Bush “victory” was not as important in 2004 because his 2000 role was exposed under pressure primarily originating from Communist elements. In addition, two-thirds of the 2004 U.S. presidential “elections” were carried out on computerized touch-screen voting machines. This was where Bush was given his fictitious “3½ million vote lead.” If the Democratic Party was serious which it is not, it would demand a complete end to all electronic voting and allow only voting by paper ballot as in Canada and much of Europe, for example, where there is a much higher population density and it is realized that it is much easier to stuff an electronic/touch screen computerized voting machine than a paper ballot box, which the masses insist on! Not a “paper trail”—paper ballots! This was the objective, the reason computerized touch-screen voting machines were installed in the first place. With this weapon the throwing of presidential elections has now become a piece of cake. The vote-splitting assistance of a pumped up 3rd party candidate, used since Watergate to split the elections for one candidate or another, is hardly necessary anymore, except as a distraction or protest vote by those who are more easily duped. Because of this 2000-2004 coup d’etat Bush was never the “president” of the United States. He was a usurper at all times and should always be referred to as such. This means that everything which transpired during the Bush Regime was illegal on its face, including all legislation passed, all policies and all military invasions of other countries. Obama is continuing those illegal wars, etc.

The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. The state is nothing more than a machine for suppressing one class by another. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. Although the capitalist regime today is composed largely of Fascists we do not yet have Fascism in the United States. We have Rule By Decree, technically known as Bonapartism, in the form of a constantly hardening bureaucratic-military police state. What is most important to understand is that capitalism is a class dictatorship based on the fact that the capitalists own the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the military, the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community”), the educational system, where the state begins the brainwash of the youth who become the brainwashed adults and are instructed to pledge allegiance to the hardening capitalist dictatorship, which is falsely labeled “a democracy,” and to be ready to fanatically fight and die for the capitalists’ interests only—never their own interests! Finally, the capitalists own and operate the entire political process with their 2 parties which represent only capitalist interests. Even under a parliamentary system such as in France, Italy or England the capitalists run all of the parties including those that falsely claim to be “Communist.”

Once the Socialist Revolution has been consolidated, the capitalists have been expropriated and class society has been abolished worldwide, the primary function of the state as a class dictatorship to suppress one class by another disappears and the state as such begins to wither away, its bureaucratic apparatus smashed and the functions of the new government apparatus taken over by the very same workers and other employees, against whose transformation into bureaucrats preventative measures will be taken, namely 1.) Direct Election, 2.) Recall at any time and 3.) Payment no higher than the union wage scale. But before that process of the withering away of the state can be entirely completed the reality is that because the capitalists have created such a range of problems that immediately confront the very survival of the human race the Socialist States of the entire world will have to work together very closely to undo the damage which has been done, for example, the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which has now begun. Only a Socialist Revolution will permanently end the capitalist tyranny by an insignificant minority of millionaires and billionaires by expropriating all of the capitalists’ wealth and will actually make it possible for everyone to live like a millionaire with a future and with complete security. There is more than sufficient wealth to achieve this. Remember that all of the capitalists’ wealth was originally expropriated and stolen from the labor—the Surplus Value from the goods and services created and generated from the labor of the Working Class. See below.

After the Socialist Revolution all officials in the U.S. Socialist government, without exception, will be elected and subject to recall at any time and their salaries reduced to ordinary union worker’s wages, which along with the salaries of all workers will rise substantially enough to be quite sufficient to live like a millionaire in the Socialist system! That fact alone will demonstrate more clearly than anything else the permanent break from capitalist dictatorship to a genuine worker’s democracy, from the dictatorship of the oppressors to the democracy of the oppressed classes, from the state as a “special coercive force” for the suppression of the Working Class, the middle class and the Poor, by an insignificant minority, to the suppression of the oppressors by the general force of the majority, after which the state in the proper sense of the word begins to wither away as the functions of the state are taken over by the general population. See below. There will be an end to the present situation where elections are staged periodically to decide which mostly predetermined members of the capitalist class will repress and crush us through the “presidency” and congressional parliamentarism, which has reached the stage of Rule by Decree. After the capitalists have been completely expropriated and the Socialist Revolution has triumphed, a reconstituted Socialist Congress, which exclusively represents the interests of the Working Class will become the ruling body in the United States, a truly flexible Working-Class government. The final name for it would be decided at that time.

The Congress, which will be constituted with directly elected representatives of the masses, will be transformed from the present talking shop given over to phrasemongering and resolutions for the special purpose of fooling the credulous masses in televised committees, speeches and “debates,” where the real business of state is performed behind the scenes and is carried out by the general staffs in the White House, the National Security Agency, the Department of War (so-called “Defense”), and other departments of state, to a real working, not a parliamentary body, both executive and legislative at the same time. Remember that under capitalism all issues reduce to a single question: how best to preserve capitalism-imperialism! There is no other apparent agenda! What does that mean in actual practice? There is a contradiction! The dynamic of capitalism works at cross-purposes to the actual preservation of capitalism! The policies which are actually adopted at this stage of capitalism by the usurped executive, gerrymandered legislative and stacked judicial branches of the capitalist dictatorship do away with all previous checks and balances which, though minimal, had allowed capitalism to exist in balance up to the point of the Soviet surrender (see below). Removal of those checks and balances and the existence of the Soviet Union now allows the dialectic of capitalism to develop and be expressed in its hardest, most naked and unrestrained form.

Under Socialism the U.S. Constitution, which has been largely abolished in practice by the parasite capitalist dictatorship, will be completely rewritten to encompass the reality of the abolition of the capitalist state and its replacement with a Socialist Government and organization of society on the basis of a network of Workers’ Councils in every city, town and military garrison. Most of the Amendments to the present U.S. Constitution will be retained except those dealing with maintaining the capitalist state and its bureaucracy, which will be abolished totally, though many if not most of the personnel will help in the transition to a Socialist system. These measures, which involve the reorganization of the state and purely political reorganization of society, take on their full meaning and significance only in connection with the expropriation of the expropriators, i.e. with the transformation of capitalist private ownership of the means of production into true social ownership. With the achievement of the Socialist Revolution worldwide, which will occur virtually simultaneously with the Socialist Revolution in the United States, the basis for all wars will cease because there will be no more “center of world capitalism,” which formed the basis of justification for the hard dictatorship of the USSR and other Workers’ States hand because Socialism unlike capitalism is based fundamentally on human need, not war and mass murder.

There was No “Collapse” of the Soviet Union!
Gorbachev’s 1988 Soviet Surrender Was Based on
Lenin’s Strategy of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk!

The capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires constantly repeats the Big Lie every day that the Soviet Union “collapsed.” That is a very Big Lie! Gorbachev actually surrendered to the threat of a nuclear threat created by the United States. In carrying out his 1988 surrender to the threat of a nuclear war Gorbachev was following the Strategy of Brest Litovsk, where Lenin was forced to sign an ignominious peace agreement with the German Kaiser in order to gain time with the understanding that all the Russian land that the early Soviets were forced to give up would be later regained. That was the case and the Soviets later recovered all of the land which they had given up to the Germans. Gorbachev was completely correct in believing that the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race was nuclear war and that the situation at that time left no other choice at the time but to surrender. Gorbachev also knew and calculated that by the Soviet Union leaving the field in the so-called “Cold War” that the dynamic of capitalism would continue unchecked thus exacerbating and accelerating the contradictions of capitalism-imperialism and hopefully making these contradictions stand out in bold relief and bringing it closer to the final scrap heap of human history. The dynamic of capitalism has indeed been accelerated in spades! The result was the present Economic Crisis. But the U.S.-led Fascists are once again on the Russian doorstep. Gorbachev wanted to try to eliminate the nuclear threat. And he did so—but only for a time! Gorbachev did buy important time just like Lenin did. But was it enough time? Time will tell!! Gorbachev also wanted to integrate the former USSR into the world capitalist economy making it much less likely to be a nuclear target of world capitalism. And he did so but only up to the point of Bush’s abandoning the 1972 ABM Treaty, on June 13, 2002, in U.S. preparation to continue its so-called “missile defense” in the Czech Republic and Poland on the border of the Russian Federation, which combined with the NATO presence now on the border of Russia, is nothing more than an attempt to force a second Russian Surrender. (See below.) But the 1988 Soviet Surrender to the Threat of a Nuclear War also created many more contradictions.

Today, even the Russian Federation in a typically bizarre Stalinist opportunist fashion, sounding especially strange in light of the economic crisis, has now agreed to the U.S. fraudulent propaganda claim of “economic collapse of the USSR” in order to try to placate and guarantee peace with U.S.-led world imperialism, now that the Soviet Workers’ State has largely been dismantled. And even Russia Today TV, while still presenting the Russian response to world events, which correctly always seeks to avert confrontation, has taken the mildly polemical “In Context” by Peter Lavelle completely off the air as an obsequious gesture to placate the United States prior to any possible new arms agreements. Russia Today TV never loses an opportunity to repeat the Big Lie about the supposed “Soviet Collapse” in order to try to ingratiate Russia with the U.S. capitalist dictatorship. But now “Russia” finds how fast that “peace” has disappeared, with the U.S. breaking virtually all of the U.S.-Soviet Peace Treaties of the 1990’s starting with the cornerstone of the agreements with the Soviet Union, the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty of 1972, which Bush formally broke on June 13, 2002 thus forcing the Russian Federation to withdraw from Start II, which banned the use of MIRV warheads on ICBMs. The recent impounding of ships bound to Abkhazia by the U.S./Georgia (!) is to be mostly ignored and forgiven in anticipation of possible nuclear arms agreements, while the U.S./NATO plan to try to force a Second Russian Surrender continues on track. See below! Forcing a Second Russian Surrender is the present strategic centerpiece of U.S. “statecraft” with Russia in order to try to take over all the natural resources of Russia for U.S. capitalist exploitation.

NATO and U.S. ships now fill the Black Sea as a further provocation after the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia, which the U.S. indubitably is rearming. In addition the U.S. is directing their Ukraine puppet Viktor Yushchenko to push the provocation/demand that the Russian fleet abandon its main Sevastopol base in the Crimea inhabited by 70% Russians!! Lots of luck! The Russian Federation also have opened Russian airspace to all U.S. military flights involved with the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan and directed Kurmanbek Bakiyev, the president of Kyrgyzstan Manas, to reverse his “permanent” decision forcing the U.S. to leave the Manas airbase in 180 days in exchange for largely increased rent, only a pittance to the U.S. The U.S. is also building air bases in Georgia, just like they built Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, which it plans to use against Iran and other central Asian and Mideastern countries. In addition, the U.S. is trying to steal Russian oil by planned diversion of the Caspian pipeline away from Russia (the Nabucco Pipeline) but is not having much success because the South Stream Pipeline, designed by Putin himself, makes much more sense and has Turkish support! Public opinion in Europe does not support either the U.S. or NATO in such anti-Russian adventures, which are bound to fail no matter how many provocations are carried out and how many Big Lies are told.

The false claim of “economic collapse of the Soviet Union” was fabricated by the United States in order to try to demoralize the masses of the world, and the United States especially, against the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism. That solution is Socialism! Which can only be achieved through a Socialist Revolution in the United States, which itself can only be carried out peacefully by winning over popular support as occurred in the October Russian Revolution of 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Op-Ed column in the New York Times, August 20, 2008, was the typical Stalinist (Not Communist!) opportunist, anti-Communist response, which did not explain the clever U.S. strategy of provocation, primarily in order to create ethnic division in the Caucuses designed to last for generations and that Russia was forced to respond to these provocations.

Analysis of the 1988 Soviet Surrender
To the Threat of a Nuclear War

In his 1988 surrender to the United States Gorbachev, in his efforts to please the capitalists, carried out some rather heinous acts of murder of prominent Soviet statesmen, prominent Soviet representatives and assorted “stones in the shoe” of the capitalists. For example, Gorbachev undoubtedly had his own Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko murdered in July 1989 because it would be inconceivable that Gromyko could espouse the surrender terms that Gorbachev had agreed to and may have openly opposed them. Gromyko was thus seen as a potential troublemaker in the planned Soviet surrender. A living Gromyko would be more respected than a live Gorbachev. The U.S. and the USSR had also previously agreed to the murder of NAZI Rudolph Hess in preparation for the rather long-planned Soviet Surrender. (Remember even before he took power on March 12, 1985 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s December 1984’s highly publicized statement: “We can do business with Mr. Gorbachev!”) Hess was a totally frail 93 years old NAZI imprisoned in Spandau Prison in Germany and simply refused to die a natural death. Hess was a continuing symbol of the NAZIs and the need for a continuing Soviet presence in Eastern Europe and thus an obstacle to the planned Soviet surrender and the planned break-up and Soviet withdrawal from the countries which made up the Warsaw Treaty Organization. An extremely frail Hess, who needed help in tying his shoes by a male nurse, was murdered by the Americans with USSR agreement, by wrapping an electric cord around his neck and choking him to death. The media trumpeted “suicide, when he had never ever attempted “suicide” previously, despite media “Big Lie” claims to the contrary. And the prolific Hess left no suicide note and was moreover physically totally feeble and completely unable to choke himself to death according to testimony by relatives! See extensive coverage in the New York Times on and after August 17, 2008. In addition, Gorbachev also gave the order for the murder of Kim Philby in May 1988, a Soviet Agent who had led the Russian division of British Intelligence (!) for 19 years (!) from 1944 and had escaped to the USSR in 1963 just in the nick of time to prevent his capture. His existence was a total embarrasment to British “Intelligence.” In 1965 Kim Philby was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, one of the highest Soviet awards, and was made a General in the KGB. Philby was another “stone in the shoe” of the capitalists who had to be removed! With these people dead no one could ask THEIR opinions on the Gorbachev surrender. Because they were dead! Several others who had defected to the Soviet Union were also murdered to “clear the slate” for the coming Soviet Surrender.

Gorbachev’s own wife considered him to be a traitor and was estranged from him after Gorbachev carried out the final provocation(s) he used to discredit the Soviet leadership, many of whom were previously the respected and personal friends of both Gorbachevs, but who were not allied to him in his surrender to the United States and had to be eliminated. On August 4, 1991 with great fanfare the hugely unpopular Gorbachev took a vacation to the Crimea and behind the scenes encouraged the so-called “Gang of Eight,” some of whom accompanied him to the Crimea (!) to stage what was described later as a “coup,” but unknown to them Gorbachev cut all their lines of communication and chain of command. Gorbachev controlled the media completely, NOT the other way around as officially portrayed, thus setting this “Communist (Stalinist)” opposition up to be discredited and removed officially from all top government posts. Boris Yeltsin, an expert demagogue, was appointed beforehand by Gorbachev to move into the gap while Gorbachev was supposedly being “imprisoned in the Crimea.” Yeltsin was new and did not share Gorbachev’s mantle of unpopularity in the Soviet Union and the crowds were peppered with shills to scream his name, which the world capitalist media reported with glee. The media showed Yeltsin “heroically” denouncing the “coup” from the top of a tank. Gorbachev himself directed the so-called “Gang of Eight” to set up a plan of measures that supposedly could be taken in case a state of emergency!

Deputy USSR Defense Minister General Valentin Varennikov stated that Gorbachev himself had supported the coup and was behind all eight and had told the group: "Do what you think is needed, damn you!" to restore order and declare a state of emergency. Gorbachev knew these individuals opposed him and gave them the rope to hang themselves. The official name for the group was the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP), and was headed by Vice President Gennadii Yanayev. Others included KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov, Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, the USSR Internal Affairs Minister, Boris Pugo, Deputy Chief of the USSR Defense Council Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev, chairman of the USSR Peasant Union and Alexander Tizyakov, president of the Association of the State Enterprises and Conglomerates of Industry, Transport, and Communications. This group was almost immediately dismissed from their offices by Gorbachev after the coup began and Gorbachev returned to Moscow with some of those very members (!), who were then all arrested. Pugo and his wife supposedly “committed suicide” but the reported circumstances at the time indicate that it was murder. A highly publicized and staged attack on the Soviet Parliament, the so-called “White House,” which had to be put down militarily, was then carried out as yet another provocation to send the message of intimidation to the Communist Party members of Parliament and the masses (who hated Gorbachev and what was happening under his leadership), that the Soviet military supported the Gorbachev/Yeltsin leadership. Later Gorbachev resigned officially and the Soviet surrender was consolidated under Yeltsin who liquidated the USSR officially on December 8, 1991, when the USSR, Belarus and the Ukraine signed the Belovezh Agreement, dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing a Commonwealth of Independent States. Pretty quick work! No?

In his August 20, 2008 New York Times Op-Ed Gorbachev also lied through omission by omitting the obvious long-range U.S. objectives of the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia. Putin and Medvedev to their credit eventually exposed these objectives although only secondarily and without appropriate focus and emphasis! Russia has used others wherever possible such Alexandr Chachiya, for example. (See Materialist Analysis of the August 7, 2008 U.S./Georgian/Ukrainian Invasion of South Ossetia.) By honestly and precisely explaining these provocations Russia would be able to explain how the U.S. intends to manipulate public opinion. This way the public in all countries would be on guard not to allow itself to be manipulated by the country which lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq and which lies about everything including the most recent Bailout of Wall Street. This should be a no-brainer but Stalinist opportunism blocks the mind.

The key point regarding the USSR is that all workers’ gains which were achieved through the 1917 Russian Revolution and which existed in the Soviet Union right up until its surrender to the threat of a nuclear war in 1988 must be defended; these include full employment, no homelessness, free education to the highest level and free medical and dental. In New York City approximately 90% of the people this writer randomly approaches, most of whom are unknown to him, agree with the suggestion: ““We need a new system based on human need not private profit!” or “We need a Socialist Revolution in the United States!” These are straightforward Communist responses, although these people might not identify themselves as Communists because 1.) they have been brainwashed against the word and often do not even understand what it actually means and 2.) they fear reprisals from the government which they know opposes Socialism and does everything possible to try to intimidate the masses in this regard. It is undeniable however that unorganized support for Socialism already exists in U.S. cities today! With proper organization these obstacles can be overcome. The economic-political-social conditions under capitalism have already created the support for Socialist Revolution in the United States. The U.S. population is most certainly not “a little to the right of center” or “a little left of center” as falsely often claimed by capitalist politicians and capitalist media, as a way to try to pressure the masses, to both intimidate them and to try to convince them to take a position against their own best interests. It is most important to understand that the U.S. masses would be receptive to a Socialist Revolution right now if the barriers, which are systematically placed by the capitalist dictatorship to prevent it, can be removed. In the final analysis remember that all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call!

Capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War, Which is
Potentially the Most Ideal Pre-Revolutionary Situation Possible!

The Capitalists Rule Through a Combination of Force and Deception!
Therefore: 1.) The Capitalists Must be Deprived of the Ability to Send Bodies of Armed Men
Against the Masses and 2.) The Primary Capitalist Weapons of Deception Must be Explained
And Exposed in Order to Take the Steps to Defeat Them and 3.) A Nationwide Network
Of Workers’ and Community Councils Must be Organized as a
Dual Power Counterposed to the Capitalists’ Dictatorship!

THE CAPITALISTS MUST FIRST BE DISARMED! Mutiny in the armed forces is the absolute precondition for Socialist Revolution as well as ending the War in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc.. Mutiny saves lives! Mutiny Saves Lives! This must be repeated. And repeated! And repeated! The capitalists must first be deprived of the ability to send bodies of armed men against the masses before there can ever be genuine free speech where opposing viewpoints can be fully heard by the masses, for example on NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN television at prime time every night of the week. Speaking on a street corner even with a megaphone is not free speech! Mutiny is also the first step to abolishing the standing army while arming the vanguard of the Working Class. Because of the Mutiny of U.S. armed forces in Vietnam in 1975 the U.S. has taken precautions to prevent another mutiny! The capitalists have switched to an army of mercenary mass murderers, which includes regular low-paid GI marauders and cutthroats plus a group of 45,000 armed “private contractors,” paid 4 times the salary of the regular mercenary army. These are the special elite Fascist killers such as Blackwater USA (leader photographed by major media openly giving the Hitler salute!), Dyncorp International, Custer Battles, Aegis, Zapata, Triple Canopy, etc., which are directly analogous to the NAZI SS (Schutz Staffel), for the personal protection of the U.S. high military command and officer corps. These very highly paid heavily armed military contractors are not in Iraq in order “to protect diplomats” despite the fact that the U.S. has built the largest embassy in the entire world in Baghdad! The protection of diplomats has always been carried out by the regular military. And they are not there to hunt for Al-Qaeda! This highly paid organized group of psychopaths are In Iraq for one reason only—to protect the officer corps in event of mutiny! There were no super-highly paid military contractors in Vietnam! Only after the mutiny in Vietnam was such a security force deemed necessary for Iraq, which is another Vietnam! The overall number of private contractors in Iraq, which includes the 45,000 armed NAZI SS Blackwater USA, etc., numbers about 183,000 according to the Associated Press, September 19, 2007, more than the regular U.S. troops (150,000). In this situation the U.S. strategy of using very highly paid private contractors in order to buy their loyalty ultimately cannot prevent a mutiny, but it does complicate it. The regular army must defeat these NAZI-style SS private contractors militarily while turning their weapons on their officers and taking prisoner all those who do not support the mutiny, along with these NAZI-style SS forces. The regular army has much heavier weapons and more men under arms so this is certainly not an impossible task.

After the Mutiny in Iraq and in the U.S., which must include all National Guard units followed by the police forces, the masses will be able to begin to set up a government of Dual Power in the United States consisting of a nationwide network of Workers’, Soldiers and Community Councils which are directly counterposed to the capitalist dictatorship. The success of the Socialist Revolution in all other developed countries is guaranteed after capitalism is abolished in the United States, but if necessary, we will provide every assistance in any pockets of crazed resistance. The Socialist Revolution in the United States and the actual taking of state power will take place relatively bloodlessly, and can only take place relatively bloodlessly because the masses must support it. Only after Mutiny in the armed forces and after winning the support through patient explanation of at least 70% of the U.S. Working Class and their allies will it be possible to take state power, just as occurred in Russia in October 1917—where only about 220-240 people died in the actual taking of state power starting on October 25th and the days that followed. It was only afterward that millions died in the Revolutionary Civil War after the Imperialists first invaded the Soviet Union 4 months after the October Revolution and all those 14 invading imperialist armies on 19 different fronts mutineed forcing the capitalists to back the “White Army” organized by the former Czarists and the Provisional Government of Kerensky, the fake-left “Socialist Revolutionary,” against the victorious Red Army. When the Socialist Revolution takes place in the United States there will be no civil war and no more central support for capitalism-imperialism anywhere on Earth. A Socialist Revolution is not a coup d’etat and must be supported by the masses won over to the Socialist Revolution through patient explanation, which can only occur if genuine free speech, as described above, exists.

The capitalists campaign nonstop to try to instill fear in the masses against Socialism, and most people are genuinely concerned about what Socialism would look like after a Socialist Revolution in the United States and the abolition of capitalism-imperialism worldwide. A Socialist Revolution in the United States would not and could not end up like the Soviet Union because there would be no basis to continue a hard dictatorship after it had been consolidated. The Soviet Union and other Workers’ States have all been hard Working Class dictatorships, which was justified only in order to prevent both internal and external counter-revolutionary attempts to restore the capitalist dictatorship, a threat which existed due to the fact that the Workers’ States have existed in a world still threatened by capitalism. That threat would be eliminated permanently after the Socialist Revolution takes place here in the United States, the center of world capitalism-imperialism. (See further below for a more comprehensive analysis of the USSR.) The capitalists do not want such questions to even be discussed. The reality is that there are no downsides to Socialism! First of all, life on this planet would be able to survive! Almost all of the jobs will still be there too except some of the jobs involved in the military industrial complex, insurance companies, HMOs and credit card companies. Insurance, HMO’s and credit would be largely unnecessary under Socialism, which would supply all social services automatically! The capitalist military industrial complex would be terminated immediately after the Worldwide Socialist Revolution, while most of the jobs in that area would be transferred to projects more in line with human need not mass murder. Jobs in no longer necessary parasitic industries such as insurance, health management organizations (HMO’s), credit card companies and private real estate, would also be abolished along with the industries themselves. No more Donald Trumps! No more landlords! As part of the global economic-political-social system based on human need, with the exception of disability, there would be no unemployment permitted (of healthy normal people)—NOT the so-called “natural rate of unemployment” devised by capitalist economists such as Milton Friedman, or any version of it, which permits millions of people to be unemployed to benefit the capitalists! Most large corporations and businesses would not disappear. Far from it! The only difference will be is that all corporations will be owned and run entirely by the workers, but all executive and management positions will be based on periodic direct elections within the corporation or company and all those elected would be subject to immediate recall. No one will be paid more than the wage of a union worker, just as government officials, and with the end of the huge military budgets and the expropriation of the expropriators, the union wage will rise to be more than sufficient to live like a millionaire. That would be the starting point.

Dislocation for any reason during or after the Socialist Revolution will be minimal because the popular support required for its success will allow a smooth and rapid transition! In addition, as mentioned there will be no more exploitation and super-exploitation by landlords, although a much-reduced rent will be paid to the Socialist State. Landlordism will be terminated. Society will finally be placed on a basis of human need. All sections of the economy which derive their profits from parasitizing the masses would be permanently eliminated. There would be no more insurance company parasites and no more need to buy insurance of any kind and no one would ever again be in debt! Today the average college graduate often starts life in debt to the tune of around $100,000.00 and sometimes over twice as much after a graduate degree, an amount which often can never be repaid during the person’s lifetime! That practice would be ended! It should be noted that all European countries have free education to the highest level—but only because of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the existence of the Soviet Union until its surrender to the threat of a nuclear war. See below. (Today the capitalist European countries are trying to reverse and abolish all of the social programs all of which have owed their existence to the Soviet Union.) After a Socialist Revolution in the United States there would be no more “Credit Card Scores” and “Credit Card Reports” by parasite credit card companies because those companies would cease to exist. And no more parasite HMO’s! Medical and Scientific research would be expanded, fully funded and put to use of human need not mass murder primarily as under capitalism! There would be an end to all economic warfare which capitalism wages against the masses carried out to try to impoverish them economically and to demoralize them politically and to reduce their number by bringing them to an earlier death through applied Social Darwinism. There would an end to homelessness, and all housing would be made livable. There would be entirely free education to the highest level obtainable for each person. There would be free medical and free dental treatment for everyone. There would be an end to the AIDS pandemic, which is documented to be Biowarfare by the U.S. government and other cooperating governments. A safe recombinant AIDS vaccine, which would be close to 100% effective, would be promptly developed. (See further below in Analysis and Theses for exact description.) Humankind would have its best chance to reverse the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which the beginning of an exponential increase in atmospheric CO2 levels documents has already begun. (See above.) The capitalists wage a continuous Big Lie campaign, just like they do on every other issue to brainwash the masses against Socialism. Anti-Communism, which is imposed on the masses through the capitalist government, its puppet media, its puppet educational system and loyal fake “left opposition,” divide and conquer “single issue groups” and conspiracy groups, has as much basis in truth as the capitalists’ claim that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, as we will see below.

The Declaration of Independence:

No Founding Document of the United States Enshrines Capitalism as the Permanent Economic System! On the contrary, The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson is a actually a Transitional Document which authorizes a Socialist Revolution in the United States as the Only Prudent and Appropriate Response to the Level of Tyranny, Oppression and Threat to Human Civilization and Indeed All Life on Earth, which the United States Capitalist Class Dictatorship has Subjected the Entire World!

Some people think that a Socialist Revolution in the United States is some sort of foreign idea which would not work in the United States. That is absolute nonsense! In fact, the author of the Declaration of Independence provided the remedy, the solution, for today’s situation in this founding document of the United States. The underlined sections below document that today Thomas Jefferson would fully support a Socialist Revolution in the United States and that he would be declared a Communist. Which would be correct! Jefferson was the most politically intelligent and far-sighted of all of the so-called Founding Fathers of the United States. The capitalist system is not enshrined in ANY founding document of the United States! All that is necessary in the last sentence of the Declaration is to substitute the words—the capitalist system—in place of “the King of Great Britain,” and it applies to today. The Declaration of Independence clearly authorizes and calls for a Socialist Revolution in the United States today!

This document was written with careful foresight by one of the greatest intellectuals of the American bourgeois revolution and the world at that time. Most people have not read the Declaration of Independence since they have been children or have never read it. We are usually taught to learn only the first 2 lines and not to bother about the rest! The essence or gravamen of the Declaration of Independence makes up most of its text and appears below in the underlined sections. The fact that Jefferson wrote the document to apply not only to American revolutionary times but in fact expressly designed it to protect us from intolerable crimes of all future governments, in particular the destructive capitalist economic-political-social system in the present day, is covered up by the capitalist educational system, which clearly understands its true meaning and significance! (For example, if an attempt is made to enter a comment which contains the underlined sections below on certain Blog sites, the entry is rejected with programmed X-marks crossing out each word written by Thomas Jefferson!) And whenever the Declaration of Independence appears in writing as the backdrop for a political event for example, it is always in script and almost invariably on a dark background in order to make reading it impossible. In the beginning of organizing it is important to cite this founding document whenever calling for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. Obviously no pre-existing legal basis is actually required to carry out a Socialist Revolution! At this point however where there is no organized call for a Socialist Revolution and critical mass has not been reached it is a very important document in winning over the masses.

All of this naturally is covered up by U.S. government-operated phony “opposition” such as the “United Action Center,” ANSWER, United For Peace and Justice, Move-on, Workers World Party, the so-called “Revolutionary Party,” the Socialist Workers Party, Spartacist League, Workers League, Communist Party USA, the Progressive Labor Party etc., etc. Proper use of this document can greatly increase the acceptance of a revolutionary change in the form of the State and supports the present call right now for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. It is important to cite this founding document whenever calling for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. The founding fathers all signed this document, which states: “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of…the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…it is their right, it is their duty, to…throw off such Government…to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…and “to provide new Guards for their future security…” This obviously does not mean to hold new “elections.” It calls for laying a new foundation and principles, which in today’s context means to organize the state and society on a different basis of class ownership, which is the only means to achieve the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed…with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

The handwriting is on the wall! It is time to organize! It is your right and it is your duty!

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William H. Depperman, Coordinator
United Front Against Racism
And Capitalism-Imperialism
Union Square Park
New York, N.Y. 10003
September 22, 2009

Looks like people are reacting to this sooner than we thought. Take a look at this poster.

http://mccarthyismtoday.blogspot.com/

NEW! New Obama Joker. http://www.flickr.com/photos/41791045@N05/3907260543/

Wow steven, forget the noose?!?!?!? How in any way is this poster racist. this is simply a depiction of EXACTLY how obama has been runnin our country thus far. You journalist should really be fired if you even plan to vote in an election because all your political articles will be completely biased and absolutely RIDICULOUS, prime example here.

How could you even support such a man when you know he didnt win the election because of credentials, but he won because of a young college population that was sucked into the MTV commercials and the word change that EVERY president has used in the past anyways. And quite frankly because of his race, half of the african americans i ask, especially the younger group, can never give one good reason why they voted, and others simply respond, "because hes black." i just dont understand now and wont understand the coming 3 and a half years when it comes to what that man is trying to do to America as we know it.

To merge the image of the joker with obama's and then tack on "Socialism" makes absolutely no sense. You might as well put an apple on his head and say "Fascist".

Now what is going on here? You have a black man who's being depicted in white-face as if to say he's trying to fool us about who he is. Making it the joker with the black eyes and slit mouth just makes it even more offensive and disgusting.

The person who created this and the people who back it obviously have a fear of black people "acting white" and possibly having an influential say in what happens in this country's government.

If that isn't racism, I don't know what is.

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FUCK OBAMA

obama is just some stupid fuckin nigger that should be picking cotton in the fields like all the rest of them