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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Firas Alkhateeb, the Palestinian-American amateur artist whose depiction of President Obama as The Joker from the film "The Dark Knight" has become a viral hit, wants people to know that he didn't intend his Photoshop creation to be taken as anything but a bit of technological whimsy. He did not add the word "Socialism" to the bottom of the posters that eventually appeared on city streets and across the Internet. If anything, Alkhateeb is surprised by the attention his creation has garnered. He told Chicago's WLS the following: "I would like President Obama to know that I didn't intend for ...
You might not expect liberal Los Angeles, of all places, to be ground zero for anti-Obama sentiment, but that appears to be the case with a new, apparently grassroots campaign in the city. Posters have been spotted on utility poles and walls around town, depicting the president made up grotesquely as The Joker, the infamous Heath Ledger character in "The Dark Knight," with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick. The word "socialism" is printed in bold, dark letters under the image of his face.Nobody has come forward yet to claim responsibility for the posters, which, of ...
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