Obama Joker Poster an Inaccurate Comparison

Obama Joker posters have begun to spring up in LA, as the Obama Joker poster is just the latest way to call Obama a socialist. Over the weekend, the Obama Joker poster was spotted in several areas of Los Angeles, and was brought to the Internet's attention by right-wing blogs. The Obama Joker poster is just a picture of Obama with Joker makeup on him, and the word "socialism" at the bottom. Aside from being something that could be done easily on Photoshop, the Obama Joker poster doesn't even accurately match up the two icons' beliefs.

The string of Obama Joker posters was first seen in Los Angeles, with a few even getting to Atlanta. The Obama Joker poster has the president wearing the same pasty white makeup and scarred smile made famous by Heath Ledger in last year's The Dark Knight.

As if it isn't enough to equate President Obama to a sadistic, murdering terrorist, a more typical charge of socialism is made in the bottom of the Obama Joker poster. Nothing more specific is spelled out, and no one as of yet has figured out where these posters come from or who made them.

If President Obama isn't called a socialist once every day, then it is a day on which his opponents must be busy taking a nap. The Obama Joker poster is a new tactic, however, albeit small time. But using the Joker to paint Obama as a socialist isn't really that accurate at all.

The Joker was many things, but he was hardly a socialist. In fact, the Joker is the polar opposite of a socialist, and anyone who watched The Dark Knight would know that. Socialism is the result of an all-powerful central government that runs every aspect of life -- but the Joker subscribes to anarchy, one of socialism's polar opposites.

If the Joker was a socialist, he would be destroying Gotham in the name of an all-powerful state. Instead, the self-described "agent of chaos" nearly brought down the state itself, and all of its most cherished institutions, so that nothing could bring order to Gotham.

The Obama Joker poster does very poorly in trying to paint Obama as a socialist by comparing him to an anarchist. On the other hand, if the poster was trying to say Obama was also a murdering, psychotic evil mastermind like the Joker, then that's another troubling matter altogether.

Sources

Newsbusters- "Obama Joker Poster Popping Up In Los Angeles" newsbusters.org/static/obama-joker-poster-popping-los-angeles.html

Khabrein.info- "Obama Joker Poster pasted across Los Angeles" www.khabrein.info/index.php

Bumpshack.com- "Barack Obama Joker Poster Photos" bumpshack.com/2009/08/03/barack-obama-joker-poster-photos/