Washington Post To Obama's Rescue

This picture is the buzz of the blogosphere over the last few days. It sums up conservative and libertarian fears with the new, big goverment trend that started with Bush and has reached its epitome with Barack Obama.

However, before anyone worries about this being effective, the Washington Post is here to "analyze" it and discredit it as racist and not as quality as the KWP-lite "hope" bull from the campaign.

The Joker's makeup in "Dark Knight" -- the latest film in a long franchise that dramatizes fear of the urban world -- emphasized the wounded nature of the villain, the sense that he was both a product and source of violence. Although Ledger was white, and the Joker is white, this equation of the wounded and the wounding mirrors basic racial typology in America. Urban blacks -- the thinking goes -- don't just live in dangerous neighborhoods, they carry that danger with them like a virus. Scientific studies, which demonstrate the social consequences of living in neighborhoods with high rates of crime, get processed and misinterpreted in the popular unconscious, underscoring the idea. Violence breeds violence.

It is an ugly idea, operating covertly in that gray area that is always supposed to be opened up to honest examination whenever America has one of its "we need to talk this through" episodes. But it lingers, unspoken but powerful, leaving all too many people with the sense that exposure to crime creates an ineluctable propensity to crime.

Superimpose that idea, through the Joker's makeup, onto Obama's face, and you have subtly coded, highly effective racial and political argument. Forget socialism, this poster is another attempt to accomplish an association between Obama and the unpredictable, seeming danger of urban life. It is another effort to establish what failed to jell in the debate about Obama's association with Chicago radical William Ayers and the controversy over the racially charged sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Or...and this is just an idea...it might be that we think Obama is a radical leftist. Just saying...

Source if you want to read more "news": http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/05/AR2009080503876.html