Topic: Bush "joker" vs. Obama "joker"
boredinaz06's photo
Tue 08/18/09 03:19 PM
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/08/05/obama-as-the-socialist-joker-inflames-the-left/

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Tue 08/18/09 03:24 PM
the artist is identified; from Chicago......

I have heard the authorities are "going after" him......for what ..i do not know


Firas Alkhateed is a 20-year-old college student who doesn't particularly like Obama but is not exactly a flaming right-wing nut case

boredinaz06's photo
Tue 08/18/09 03:29 PM

the artist is identified; from Chicago......

I have heard the authorities are "going after" him......for what ..i do not know


Firas Alkhateed is a 20-year-old college student who doesn't particularly like Obama but is not exactly a flaming right-wing nut case


I know they are trying to prosecute the kid who was putting the posters up for littering or damaging property. Yet they are not going after the countless other offenders who put up posters on those same walls. But I hadn't heard they going after the artist, like the article in the link says Bush was attacked relentlessly and defamed daily and no one said anything from the left that its wrong to depict the president in such a way.....until now!

TristanBru's photo
Tue 08/18/09 03:29 PM
There are lots of people in chicago upset with our leaders right now>

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Tue 08/18/09 03:31 PM
realistically, I think the only people that "could' have a legitimate beef would be DC Comics for copy right infringement.......other than that....IDK

boredinaz06's photo
Tue 08/18/09 03:32 PM

There are lots of people in chicago upset with our leaders right now>


There's lot's of people all over the country pissed off at our leaders.

boredinaz06's photo
Tue 08/18/09 03:35 PM
Edited by boredinaz06 on Tue 08/18/09 04:33 PM

realistically, I think the only people that "could' have a legitimate beef would be DC Comics for copy right infringement.......other than that....IDK


Well we'll see if DC comics does anything. They didn't do anything when Vanity Fair had Bush on the cover as "The Joker".

tohyup's photo
Tue 08/18/09 03:38 PM
Sometimes when Obama talks I think he is G.W. Bush.....not a big difference on many issues .

tohyup's photo
Tue 08/18/09 03:38 PM
Edited by tohyup on Tue 08/18/09 03:39 PM
Sorry double post .

boredinaz06's photo
Tue 08/18/09 04:32 PM
Edited by boredinaz06 on Tue 08/18/09 04:34 PM
Yeah I hear ya on that.

willing2's photo
Tue 08/18/09 05:04 PM

Sometimes when Obama talks I think he is G.W. Bush.....not a big difference on many issues .

Right on the button!

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Tue 08/18/09 05:21 PM
It's an ignorant disrespectful thing to do period, on either side. Because people aren't complaining doesn't mean they condone it, it just means they have better things to do.

I was curious about it because I never saw it before until a poster here used it as their main photo and in fact don't remember ever seeing one of Bush. It's no secret that I had little respect for Bush, but he was our president and I would not do that.

Doing it to Obama certainly won't get those that support him to take that person seriously.

willing2's photo
Tue 08/18/09 05:26 PM
Every president I have witnessed has had characatures adverse pictures made of them.
This one thinks he is somehow special and will go after those who express freedoms.

Giocamo's photo
Tue 08/18/09 05:55 PM

Every president I have witnessed has had characatures adverse pictures made of them.
This one thinks he is somehow special and will go after those who express freedoms.


drinker


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Tue 08/18/09 05:58 PM

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Tue 08/18/09 05:59 PM

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Tue 08/18/09 06:01 PM

Quietman_2009's photo
Tue 08/18/09 06:01 PM
mehh it's all the same to me

cabot's photo
Tue 08/18/09 06:44 PM
It's a free country..I see this as a small issue compared to burning the flag, protesting funerals..etc. I love freedom of speech..many of the protests actually make me laugh. Like this pic of Obama. It is kinda funny, you have to admit. Bush was slammed daily..it comes with the job. Thick skin required.jmo