It was inevitable that the mainstream media was on a desperate hunt to find out who the evil-doer was who created that controversial poster of Pres. Obama as the ‘joker’ —the Batman character. If you haven’t seen it, you will when you open this link to learn about who this racist right wing crazy person was.
Well, he wasn’t a conservative crazy, only a Chicagoan from a Palestinian immigrant family who happens not to be wild about Obama.
When cryptic posters portraying President Obama as the Joker from “Batman” began popping up around Los Angeles and other cities, the question many asked was, Who is behind the image?
Was it an ultra-conservative grassroots group or a disgruntled street artist going against the grain?
Nope, it turns out, just a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.
Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe’s Photoshop software.
Read on at the Los Angeles Times to see how it was done.
Alkhateeb thinks Obama is better than Bush on foreign policy issues but not on domestic issues.
“After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ,” Alkhateeb said. “From my perspective, there wasn’t much substance to him.”
Although Alkhateeb claims he was making no political statement with the artwork, he’s plugged into the Washington debate. Though born in the United States, his Palestinian family closely follows Middle Eastern politics.
“I think he’s definitely doing better than Bush was,” Alkhateeb said of Obama. Alkhateeb’s views on foreign relations align with the Democrats, he said, while he prefers Republican ideals on domestic issues.
Alkhateeb’s assessment of Obama: “In terms of domestic policy, I don’t think he’s really doing much good for the country right now,” he said. “We don’t have to ‘hero worship’ the guy.”
The article tells us how efforts are being made to pull the image down, but I think the proverbial cat is out of the bag—I see innumerable ads for T-shirts and other memorabilia with the image. What’s the government going to do now, track down all the wearers and arrest them?