Barack Obama - Santa Fe Art District | Flickr

tiguh (63 months ago | reply)

I'm fave'ing this photo...I love the art, but I like the message even more. :)

wouldpkr (63 months ago | reply)

Fuck Yeah

f o t o b e t t y (63 months ago | reply)

word.

Toyman's TOY ROOM [deleted] (63 months ago | reply)

The Truth will be seen, in the voters... remember America voted for BUSH too. Look what we got. So be careful with your vote here. See through the speech to the man...do we know him?

blackdiamondgraphix (63 months ago | reply)

i love it

Seetwist (63 months ago | reply)

the majority of people in this culture don't even utilize their ability to vote. How the hell do you expect them to make lasting changes?

More people have gone out to their primaries and caucuses this year than in the last few presidential elections. Every single state has seen a surge of people getting involved with politics this year. You can blame voter apathy on the bullshit that has happened over the last 8 years. When people become disenfranchised, they don't want to vote. Especially for a bunch of immature shit-slingers and vote-stealers.

Hey, does John McCain still have that illegitimate black baby?

FACT: More people voted for the next American Idol than they did in the 2004 elections.

No, more votes were CAST for American Idol... I'm tired of this comparison being made. It's incredibly intellectually dishonest. Since you could vote for American Idol contestants by text message and you could vote as many times as you wanted to, it's not really fair to compare the two. You don't even have to be a US citizen to vote for these bubblegum-pop singers. Completely different systems, completely different methods (not to mention a completely different age demographic). Do you see many 12 year old girls voting for President, or many 70 year old men voting for Jordin Sparks?

If all you had to do was pick up your phone and punch 68861 for Obama, 66862 for Clinton or 66863 for McCain, I guarantee you'd see an enormous turnout at the polls.

Research his voting record and you will see Globalist ideals, NOT american.

Not American according to...? Anything in particular you don't particularly like, or are you just parroting this idea that so many others are spewing? Can you list off a few of the votes that scare you so much? Here's the list, feel free to point them out: (http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php ?can_id=9490)

I'm honestly interested, because the whole thing reeks of being a partisan hit-job.

And what exactly do you dislike about regaining a positive world image amongst all these countries that hate us right now? You might not want to leave the States to travel around, but I certainly do, and not being universally despised is an important quality that I look for in a leader. Being able to properly enunciate is just a nice little bonus, but maybe I'm just sick of 7 years of "New-Q-Lar" and "The War on Terrrrrr."

Also research his connection to Zbigniew Brzezinski. (Progenitor of Al Quaeda, I mean, Al CIAda)

Since you seem to know so much about this connection, how about you help to enlighten the uninformed masses? It's not my job to research your claims for you. This guy has had a position of power since the Carter administration, why is he such a threat now? Is it simply because he worked in the Carter administration (an administration that preferred to talk things out rather than resort to partisan politics)? It seems that he is a vociferous opponent when it comes to foreign intervention (Serbia when Bill Clinton was in office, Iraq during the second Bush administration), and he's very much against the USA becoming isolated from the rest of the world....

Am I missing something here? Is there actually genuine concern about this guy having a position of power, or is this just more right-wing muck-raking and swift-boating? The "radicalized preacher" angle didn't work out, so now this is the new angle to go for?

Seetwist (63 months ago | reply)

FINALLY! Some fucking action!
I've been furious the past couple months over this Obama art crap and have been drilling dozens of people, mostly artists about it.
Believe it or not, this is only the SECOND legitimate response I've gotten.

Yeah, Flickr isn't really the place to engage in open and honest debate. I run into the same issues as you, people (on all sides of the political spectrum) don't like to explore opinions that don't coincide with their own. It's a shame that 99% of debates end up as screaming matches.

This conversation from earlier today is a prime example of the bullshit responses I've been receiving:
flickr.com/photos/elishacookjr/2306888851/

Thanks for linking that, I'm a fan of Billikid's work and didn't know he had a Flickr account.

However, what makes you place so much faith in OUR voting system? Hell, In "Orwell rolls over in his grave" you can see diebold programmers and engineers admitting faults in the system they were told to design so that they could be easily manipulated.

Oh, dont misunderstand me. I have little to no faith in our voting system, especially electronic voting. I'm happy that my state decided to use 100% paper ballots this November, but that only makes me feel a tiny bit better than I did when Diebold was running things.

Since you seem hip to the game, you probably are well aware of all the reported fraud during the primaries, even fraud against Obama. All I'm trying to say is that neither numbers are truley accurate.

Hey, no argument from me here.

But when you see the numbers for crap like american Idol and then see that not even a quarter of registered voters voted in the primaries, it shows you what people care about more.

Yeah, we're still pretty apathetic as a country when it comes to voting. However, we haven't had a brutal regime suppressing the female vote and rigging elections for decades like some of the recently "democratized" countries have. I'm sure if we were threatened with physical harm and death for 30+ years, we'd all be running to the polls as soon as we possibly could. But as it is, people are just annoyed with the obvious corruption within the system and most people feel like their votes don't matter anyway (if the Democratic nominee is decided by Super-delegates, I'm sure voter turnout will drop off severely). Personally, I prefer to vote in local and state elections because my vote actually DOES mean something. National elections are just a joke.

I think a better option would be to extend the voting period from 1 day to 1 week. Either that or the 1 day should be a holiday so that no one has an excuse for not showing up.

I've always thought that elections should be held on a weekend, that way people aren't rushing to get from work to the voting booth. But that's just common sense, and elected officials and government workers are notoriously short on that.

"It's not my job to research your claims for you."
That's got to be one of the most outrageous remarks I've ever read.
If you really mean that then you might as well believe everything everyone tells you or nothing at all and be a complete ignoramus.

I stand by my statement. If you have something to prove to me, if you have a claim that needs backing up, it is YOUR responsibility to bring those facts to the table. I do plenty of research on my own, but saying "Google Zbigniew Brzezinski" - which brings up 548,000 results - is pointless. If I do that, I get a wikipedia article, both left-wing and right-wing sites that are biased in one way or another, and news articles that give little information. If you have some sort of special and important information about this guy, and you're trying to educate the uninformed, it is YOUR JOB to do so. Having someone search for their own results will do nothing. If they're a fan of this guy, I can guarantee that they'll overlook the bad stuff and focus on the good (and vice versa). Besides, if you are as informed about Mr. Brzezinski's business as you claim you are, you should have no problems quickly citing your sources.

If I say "The moon landing was faked", it is my responsibility to back that claim up. The same thing applies in this situation. Sharing information should be done freely and as often as possible. I can't join a debate team and tell the other side "It's true, look it up", I need to cite sources as often as possible.

Whether I detail my claims for you or not it's still your responsibility to question and confirm them (or ignore them). I mean seriously, How do you make it through life without finding things out on your own or teaching yourself something?

I make it a point to research as much as possible, whether it hurts my candidate or not. I'm not a blind supporter of anyone. If Jesus returned last Sunday, I'd make him show me the holes in his palms before I listened to anything he had to say. But as I said before, if you have some sort of special information that (obviously) not many people know about, it is YOUR responsibility to back up these claims and make a believer out of me. After you do so, it is my duty to either respond to these claims with facts that prove otherwise, or to rescind and admit that your facts stand up to scrutiny. Unlike politicians, I am completely capable of admitting that I am wrong.

Debate isn't about winning, it's about changing minds.

As for the Brzezinski connection it is up to the readers to research this man and come up with their own conclusions.

I did, and I couldn't find anything that was horribly wrong with the guy. Yes, he has done some things that I don't agree with politically, but I have yet to meet a candidate that I agree with 100%. You made it sound like you're privy to some secret revelations that the public doesn't know about. If so, please post them. Again, I am not afraid of information that might make Barack look bad. I'd rather know as much as possible about someone before I vote for them.

I would gladly lay it all out for them here but it would too easily be ignored or pushed aside after reading and that would be the end of it.

Sorry, but I call BS. That sort of claim doesn't hold water with me or most other people. If you have information that is relevant to the debate, then YOU need to let people know. Sure, 99% of people will just gloss over the text (like I'm sure most people are doing to our conversation right now), but that 1% who will listen shouldn't be discounted. Remember, it was only 534 votes in Florida that decided that 2000 election. Florida has a population of 18,089,888. Convincing less than .01% of those people could have changed the outcome of the election.

When people come to their own discoveries it has a more profound and lasting effect, in my opinion. Kind of like the philosophy, people wont take action until it affects them personally.

Is asking questions of other not taking action? How do you suggest we inform people who have no idea how to use Google (and yes, there are LOTS of these people still out there). John McCain just admitted that he's completely clueless when it comes to computers. The majority of people get their information from 10 second sound bytes that are replayed ad nauseum on the news. How many people do you think saw Barack Obama's entire 40 minute speech about his pastor? Shit, how many people even know that the President has a weekly radio address?

The man has been propelling New World Order concepts since getting into power and your comments on him are evidence of it.

[Citation Needed]. And Obama is not MY senator, he doesn't represent any states that are even close to mine. What exactly do you know about me and how I vote, or how he has influenced my thoughts. For Christ's sake, I dropped my independent voting status this year and registered as a Republican (ugh), just so I could vote for Ron Paul in the primaries.

BTW, Try not to get isolationism and sovereignty mixed with each other. These are 2 entirely different ways of living.

I'm aware of the difference, but I fear that other's aren't. Bush 2 doesn't even know what the word sovereign means, and he's running things.

Oh, and thanks for the voting record link. I'll spend some time with it and get back to you with examples. I prefer looking at his own website for the info though. Globalists aren't shy.

No problem. But as I am sure you are aware, his personal site will be biased towards him, and his opposition will be biased against him. Voting records are strictly fact, and cannot be manipulated (or mis-remembered... right, Mrs. Hillary-I-had-to-run-from-snipers-while-in-Bo snia-Clinton?)

Anyway, my hat's off to you for having enough passion to speak your mind.

Cheers to you for replying to my post, I thought it'd just be blown off or met with profanity and insults like usual.

'm an american citizen with legitimate concerns about my government.

I haven't trusted a political candidate in a loooooong time, and think that Republicans and Democrats are just two slightly different flavors of the same shit-sandwich. Partisan politics are for idiots like Bill Kristol and Michael Moore.

I'm also an artist who is fed up with his peers blindly supporting someone they don't know anything about.

I as well, and I feel the same pain that you do when I see college kids walking around with a Che Guevara t-shirt and no idea who he really is or what he stood for.

YOU may be aware of some issues presented here but many don't and are making decisions based upon what's presented to them on television.

And that final sentence sums up exactly what is wrong with our political system, and our voting public.

Seetwist (63 months ago | reply)

I haven't forgotten to reply, I've just been extremely busy. I'll address your post sometime today (hopefully). Thanks for posting all that info, BTW.

wouldpkr (62 months ago | reply)

hhaha
no, sorry, my tin foil hat is too strong for this bullshit...

wouldpkr (62 months ago | reply)

So, whats your point?
www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/5775
"I have reservations about Obama's qualifications and his ties to shady political dealmakers and the angry words of Rev. Wright. He has also played fast and loose with his resume."
Sorry, what youve posted is mostly bullshit compared to clintons lies and ties to evil.

wouldpkr (62 months ago | reply)

LOL
Yeah, Ron Who?
tell him to run next time...
and you may consider that the democrats were hogtied by bush who wouldnt let them give him anything less...

Seetwist (62 months ago | reply)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NDr1tmNkFXA

Ugh, that video reminds me why I hate YouTube. I long for the days when I could just read someone's diatribe and not have to listen to their thespian rage.

Cue Jon Lovitz: "It's ACT-IIING!"

Quotes:
"Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. "

What's so wrong with this statement? I'm sure some people out there do hate us because of our gluttony and massive amount of sinful freedoms. I also highly doubt that people just sit there and stew in their own juices about "our freedoms", when there are so many other reasons to hate us.

Why are these people trying to scare us into submission? Could it be that old philosophy of creating a common enemy to unite people? (The world)

Every politician since the beginning of time has done this.

The only candidate I see proposing REAL solutions is RON PAUL.

How soon we forget Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich...

Obama is saying we need to change this, change that and move forward, etc. But He is severely lacking in practical solutions.

What specifically worries you? What do YOU have a solution for that he doesn't?

Brzezinski chillin' with the hommies:

Insert pictures of Rumsfeld with Saddam, Nixon with Mao, Clinton with Arafat, etc. Yes, people who the USA was friendly to many years ago are no longer our friends, and in some cases, our enemies. I can drag up photos of myself from 20, 10, even 5 years ago with people who I despise now. Show me footage of him hanging out with Osama a bit more recently than the 1970's and I'll change my tune.

From the first video.
"I don't think the country needs to go back to what we had 8 years ago. I think there is the need for a fundamental rethinking of how we conduct world affairs."

I couldn't agree more.

Obama & the New World Order Connection:

Oh boy, here we go. Pardon me if I don't take a video like that seriously. Edited clips, ominous background music and it comes from someone named "Conspiracy Hunter" who has "No New World Order" as his avatar. Like I said much earlier, the people who don't like Barack are going to come up with all sorts of "information" that is biased towards their agenda, and vice versa.

Gore Vidal on the Election & Corruption in America:

I have great respect for Mr. Vidal, and great respect for Henry Rollins as well, but nowhere in that video is Obama or Brzezinski mentioned. Good video, I just don't know what your underlying point is...

So far, everything I have seen makes Barack Obama out to be a horrible person because he has associated himself with Brzezinski. I hear the same thing about Obama and Rev. Wright. So I must ask, why are you so afraid of Obama? I've been hearing this New World Order shit for years and years and years now, no matter who is president. I've been out to the Denver International Airport and seen the spooky NWO symbols and murals... I've read articles in poorly-xeroxed newsletters and seen them on Loose-Change-esque websites. I try to keep an open mind about a lot of things, but this type of talk is, I have to say, tinfoil hat chatter.

Turns out, Brzezinski's son AND daughter both keep in contact and advise Obama while at the same time publicly supporting him.

Again, do you have anything against Obama personally? Or is it just this connection that frightens you?

If you think Obama is any different than clinton you're in for a BIG surprise.

Obama's last name isn't Clinton. This Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton bullshit has to stop, we don't need an entire generation knowing only 2 presidential families. Monarchy is one of the reasons we fled King George to begin with.

The only one with a clean record is RON PAUL. He practices what he preaches.

Yeah, that would have been nice, but it ain't gonna happen. In a choice between Clinton, Obama and McCain, I'm gonna have to go with Obama. And I won't feel the least bit compromised in doing so.

Seetwist (62 months ago | reply)

I have a lot to say about this stuff but I'm going to refrain from commenting any further

Well, thanks for the comments and info, I enjoy trying to see things from someone else's POV. You're more than welcome to keep posting if you like, and if you do, I'll (eventually, heh) respond.

no one has been able to give me reasons why Obama SHOULD be president other than the fact that he's "better than the other options".

Isn't "Being the best option" the reason you vote for a candidate anyway? Sometimes it sucks, but that's the way it is in politics. Vote for the best candidate, protest by not voting, or vote your conscience and select a write-in candidate.

You can call me crazy or a tin-foil-hat-wearing-nutjob or whatever you want

I didn't mean to imply that YOU were some sort of kook, I merely said that about some of those videos and made a comparison to the kooks of old... Sorry if it came across as an attack, it was not meant to be.

I'm not the one getting hung up on issues that should be decided locally, not nationally.

Again, Ron Paul woulda been nice, but woulda/coulda/shoulda doesn't mean shit when it comes to elections.

but I'm not the one ignoring the real problems we face.

I think you and I just have different ideas of what constitutes a severe problem. I am concerned about the economy tanking, the dollar deflating, nation after nation hopping on the "Hate The US" bandwagon, the thought of us pre-emptively bombing Iran, and more pressing matters like these. I've heard about this North American Union for a while now (the whole deal with combining the peso, dollar and loonie, the 10-lane superhighway from Mexico to Canada, all that...) and I just don't see it as a REAL possibility. Even if it was, nobody has shown me why exactly it would be so terrible. But then again, I'm one of those strange people who is in favor of demolishing ALL borders between countries. Why people are so intent on building a fucking FENCE is just beyond me. Buncha Xenophobes, if you ask me.

NAU = NO MORE USA, make sense yet?

Let me ask: What part of American culture/society are they trying to destroy, and what part are you trying to save?

I spent a long time defining why Obama is NOT a viable candidate and don't feel the need to elaborate anymore until someone can give me an equal amount of positive things Obama is doing or has done that makes him so great.

Fair enough.

For starters (and this is HUGE for me seeing as how I am someone who could benefit from stem-cell research), he has pledged to overturn this retarded presidential veto that Bush keeps giving to stem-cell research bills. That may not be big for most people, but for me, it's HUGE.

He would be (and I'm basing this statement off of MANY news articles from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America) a much better foreign diplomat than Hillary Clinton or John McCain. Like I mentioned before, I want to be able to travel without pretending like I'm Canadian. When people in Tanzania line the roads during President Bush's trip there and hold up signs that say "Go Barack!", I am filled with a sense of relief that perhaps we can be forgiven for being a nation of morons since September 11th, 2001. Show me one other country that says they would benefit from having John McCain as president. He's another war president and everyone else knows it.

Those are just a few of the many reasons that I would support Obama.

Unfortunately his voting record and past actions don't back up or prove his worth.

I disagree. The best way to see if a candidate is worth voting for is to look through their past voting record. As we've learned before, campaign trail promises are worth less than the airwaves they're sent out across.

As for Barack's voting record... Just take time to go through this site:
www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id= 9490

It'll take you a while, but this is something every voter should look at, as well as the records for McCain and Clinton.

Just looking at his record, I agree with probably 80% of his votes. FAR better than theother two candidates fare.

...agendas such as socialized healthcare (forced vaccination/sterilization)

Careful, you're straying into Alex Jones territory with statements like that. Forced sterilization? Really?

...the first ever Global Tax on carbon emissions

The first ever HERE.

suppressing technologies such as cars that run on electricity or water.

[Citation Needed]. Seriously. That's a statement that definitely needs some backing up.

Shouldn't Obama be listening to what the American people want and not some foreigner?

Wow. Ok, that's where you completely lost me. "Some Foreigner?" At least in order to gain citizenship here, you have to LEARN about the political process, the nation's history and all sorts of other things. The majority of natural-born Americans couldn't do that if they tried. My father is "some foreigner" from Germany, and he knows more about politics than some of my old school teachers did. This country is made up of "some foreigners." California is RUN by "some foreigner." How fucking long have you been here, and what makes your opinion so much more valid than anyone else's?

Sorry, but that last little line just overshadows the rest of your argument.

Seetwist (62 months ago | reply)

People hate us because of (necessary) actions like Iraq & Iran. I say 'necessary' because these are strategic moves that were made by the globalists to secure the middle east region prior to what's to come. It's no accident that we're in Iraq even though they had nothing to do with 911 and are currently building permanent bases.

I agree 100%

I truly believe the only way to regain face is to pull out of the 300+ countries we currently occupy.

Again, I agree 100%. I think it's ridiculous that we're still in places like Japan and Germany. Those wars are LONG over.

Obama may be talking about the POSSIBILITY of withdrawing troops from IRAQ

As opposed to McCain who says we'll be there for another 100 years, or Hillary who voted for the war to begin with. At least Obama can honestly say that he didn't believe we should have gone in there in the first place.

he says nothing about these other occupations aside from sending a troop surge to Afghanistan.

That's what we should have done in the first place instead of going into Iraq. If we had just focused on Afghanistan to begin with, we'd be out of there by now. Unfortunately, the next president has to clean up the mess that Dubya has made, and that's not going to be an easy task.

didn't mean what you implied with my last statement. Agreed it was brash and uncalled for but I was thinking something else in my head and it didn't come out right.

Understood, no offense taken.

BTW, Are you saying Arnold was a good choice for California?

God, no. From a comedic standpoint, he's the best thing since Jesse Ventura. That's about it though...

oh, and for the car comment, just watch the documentary: "Who killed the electric car?"

I not only watched it, I own it. Great movie.

I think you and I have a lot in common politically. But from what I can tell, you're still stumping for a candidate who would be wonderful but has no chance of winning, whereas I am stumping for a candidate who is wonderful compared to the competition, and DOES have a chance of winning. And if I'm wrong and President Obama brings about the end of the world as we know it due to his connections with these "globalists", then I'll have nobody to blame but myself.

Vox Massive (62 months ago | reply)

"I'll admit, My distaste for Obama started with his martin-luther-king jr.-jocking speeches." : DerekShumate

thank you.

farlane (62 months ago | reply)

Hello there, I blogged your photo to Cast my vote on my blog.

Hope that's all right by you!

Seetwist (62 months ago | reply)

Sure is, thanks for letting me know!

Zlatko Unger (62 months ago | reply)

nice find

blakie [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)

yes we can

Seetwist (62 months ago | reply)

Cool, well it looks like someone submitted this to Reddit, and it's currently sitting at the top of the page, which would account for the 23,000 hits. Thanks to whoever uploaded this, I appreciate it.

reddit.com/info/6gzp5/comments/

Update
It has now made it's way to Digg, Jimmyr.com, Wired.com and Popurls.com. Viewed almost 65,000 times. Thanks to everyone who favorited or commented!

digg.com/2008_us_elections/I_am_asking_you_to _believe_pic

kropfjw (62 months ago | reply)

You want to know why Obama should be president DerekShumate?

Simple. I am what John Dean terms a process voter. What has happened to the political process in this country since 1980, and especially since 1994 is maddening. It is no longer about compromise and debate--essential features of a well functioning political process--but about scare tactics, and authoritarian imposition of wills. This is no way to run a country.

The fundamental checks and balances written into the constitution require that the executive and legislative branches be distinct entities from one another. But today, this is no longer the case. Republicans (and to a lesser extent, Democrats) set the most important entity as the party, not the institution itself, or the people. This is the prime reason for the congressional fealty of the last 8 years.

Obama is the only presidential candidate who seems to see anything wrong with this. And he has said so many times. He has proposed sunlight initiatives to take government dealings out of the back rooms and into the public square. He wants to televise negotiations between the administration and insurance companies about his health plan. He wants to put legislation online for comment by the public before he signs it. In essence, these policies are designed to encourage scrutiny of and involvement with the public sector. And that is desperately needed.

Obama is the candidate for those of us who think the political process is poisoned. He is the only remaining (viable) candidate who has addressed these issues in any real way. No good legislation can be made without a functioning political process, and Obama is the only candidate for whom that seems to be a priority. This is why I voted for him, and why I want him to win.

kropfjw (62 months ago | reply)

@DerekShumate

I was originally for Gravel. I gave Gravel money. I hoped Ron Paul would win the Republican nomination. But he didn't. And the Republican nomination is over now; they've nominated John McCain. So what am I to do? Sit around and pine for a candidate that won't be on the ballot? Or switch my vote to one of the three candidates who still have a chance to be on the ballot, choosing the one who seems closest to my positions on the issues most important to me?

It seems that you're living in a fantasy land in which it is possible for Ron Paul to become President. The current electorate just don't seem to want him. I find that regrettable, but it is never-the-less true. To refuse to even acknowledge the merit in the candidacy of Obama, because he doesn't agree with you on everything, is childish, and a perfect example of what's wrong with this country's political process. Politics is all about compromise, but the politicians aren't the only ones who have to make them. We, the electorate, must do as well. I am ready to embrace that fact. It seems as if you're running from it.

spattergroit (62 months ago | reply)

Vox that's really tasteless.

I just came to say that I love what you did with the art. I'm not coming to dispute you on Flick'r (of all places) but say I liked it.

Seetwist (62 months ago | reply)

Yeah, there is no need for picture spamming the comments. I have no problem with open debate (as you can plainly see), but if you're going to promote Hillary, at least back your statement up with words and not a home-made campaign poster.

Flickr-spam is about as tasteless as blog-spam, and that's why I deleted your comment.

FUCKTHIS. (62 months ago | reply)

haha nice try

Stolen Jo (61 months ago | reply)

I hate how people take politics so personally, like the world is trying to insult them. I love the mural!

Seetwist (61 months ago | reply)

ROFL. You and I may not see eye to eye on politics my friend, but you can sure give me a good laugh.

The Steel Chariot (61 months ago | reply)

no graffiti writers should vote for hillary clinton.. she has some kind of anti graffiti plan or some shit...

bros before hos

vote for obama

FastFoward (61 months ago | reply)

Obama's ties to the Islamic world are disturbing at the least. He's been a long time friend of many radical Muslim extremists, yet nowhere can I find any evidence of him being friends with any moderate Muslims. He has gone on trips to visit some of America's worst enemies with Louis Farrakhan, a rabidly anti American and pro-Islam extremist. Farrakhan believes that the terrorists SHOULD kill all Christians, and that they (Muslims) are the supreme beings. He also believes that the nation of Islam should exterminate all atheists. In fact, he believes that anybody refusing to convert to Islam should be exterminated. He also openly advocates violence against white people. Obama has been tight with Farrakhan for many years.

Obama has a long record of racist votes and he lies about the so-called legislation he has done. He claims 851 pieces of legislation to his credit - a blatant lie. He HAS sponsored a few hundred bills, and he HAS authored a handful of bills. But of everything, only 2 of all of those 851 have ever passed into law. So it's clear that he's on the wrong side of every major issue.

I wonder why it is that democrats and republicans alike include educated, intelligent and compassionate people, while the liberal extremists seem to be only the most uneducated, insecure and hateful people.

CK'sPhoto (61 months ago | reply)

Obama is a fraud. he has no answers... HOPE HOPE HOPE.. I'm tired of hearing of HOPE I want answers! He is not the right person for the job. He is just another Liberal trying to enlarge government... more government = more power. sadly I believe all politicians are moving to this... we need a true conservative leader. I'm tired of politicians telling us what they're going to do for us.. We don't need handouts.. freebies are making us weak. Americans are forgetting what we were founded upon.. The govt. doesn't owe us anything.. leave us the heck alone.

Seetwist (61 months ago | reply)

Show me a TRUE conservative who won't inflate the government, who will cut spending drastically and who isn't a warhawk. All you need to do is name ONE.

Ron Paul does not count. I dig the guy, but it just isn't going to happen. And it isn't going to happen in 2012 either, the guy is a year older than McCain...

Perhaps if Republicans got their shit together and nominated a decent candidate, then there wouldn't be all this talk about Obama H. Christ.

Enjoy John McCain. He's the John Kerry for 2008. Bitch about Obama as much as you want, but I don't see conservatives suggesting anyone except war presidents and bible thumpers (as usual).

Seetwist (61 months ago | reply)

"...while the liberal extremists seem to be only the most uneducated, insecure and hateful people..."

Would you like a larger brush? I don't think you're painting with broad enough strokes. Then again, people like you (the folks who make wild assumptions and only get 10% of the facts before making a decision) tend to have a sub-average level of intelligence, and usually don't listen to reason. They just know that "them damn libruhls is screwin' up this country!"

...oh wait, did I just do the same thing? Blame it on my insecure, hateful nature.

Groovacious Groovefest Utah [deleted] (61 months ago | reply)

Right on! There may yet be hope for America.

CK'sPhoto (61 months ago | reply)

I'm still waiting on my conservative hero.. I have my eye on Bobby Jindal! Gov. of Louisiana.. he is friggin awesome!

Statistic: Barack Obama missed 252 of 1221 votes (21%) since Jan 6, 2005 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers).

wouldpkr (61 months ago | reply)

CK spreading misinformation again...
Here's the attendance record (the percentage represents votes missed):
John McCain: 58.4%
Barack Obama: 40.2%
Hillary Clinton: 29.7%

and as far as demopcratic senators go...
it is not Obama who's missed the most, but Senator Biden, then Dodd, and Obama comes in third.

CK'sPhoto (61 months ago | reply)

hey I never said I like mcCain.. but I do agree with him on a few things.. Obama what the heck does he stand for? Iran is a threat it isn't the next day? please inform me on what his policies are?

Seetwist (61 months ago | reply)

Sorry, you can't pull that "what does he stand for" crap anymore. Links have been posted that help explain exactly what he stands for, if you still don't know at this time, then you are just being willfully ignorant in order to further your anti-Obama agenda.

Jennifer Esperanza (60 months ago | reply)

≈ Go Obama ≈

print.magazine (60 months ago | reply)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called 2008 Election Graphics, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

eddyjustine888 (60 months ago | reply)

hey seetwist, i absolutley love this picture. can i use this image on my webpage? and if i can how do i get the url? like to save it to my photobucket. btw all your artwork is great! :)

Marcello del Bono (60 months ago | reply)

I love the picture, can I use it on my blog ottovas.blogspot.com/?

staramaze (60 months ago | reply)

rock the vote!

Seetwist (60 months ago | reply)

eddyjustine888 & otto_vask:

Not a problem! Thanks for checking out my other photos as well!

TRANSAMI (60 months ago | reply)

Did Barack actually say that? I know he doesn't have a plan. But he admitted he doesn't have the ability to run this country, and people still voted for him?!! I don't get it!

Seetwist (60 months ago | reply)

STACY RU: Perhaps you don't understand the quote as well as you think you do. That's not what he said at all.

People need to stop with this "Doesn't have a plan" nonsense. That's what Hillary wanted you to think about Barack before she lost to him (over a month ago).

btsteed (60 months ago | reply)

Great artwork. Here is some other Obama artwork on Flickr:

onejamephilly (59 months ago | reply)

I love this.

davidwatts1978 (59 months ago | reply)

innit

jcarwil (58 months ago | reply)

Haha, he kinda looks like Will Smith. Nice street art design.