In a play out of the anti-Bush, counterculture playbook, someone or some organization has transformed an image of President Obama into a parody of The Joker from last summer's The Dark Knight and plastered the poster around Los Angeles.
The poster appeared over the weekend at spots around the city before spurring an online controversy Monday.
Supporters of the president call the image — which brands Obama a "socialist" — ugly, mean-spirited and disrespectful to the office of the president. But those opposing White House policies (or just embracing freedom of expression) point out that the same folks backing Obama now had no problem with images depicting President Bush as a vampire a few years ago.
Right or left, political outrage is usually very selective. But this is a surprisingly hip strategy by Obama opponents when you consider how easily the "hope and change" mass media campaign crushed John McCain in 2008.
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