Obama 2012 – Bush’s 4th Term
I created this poster last night for fun. I’m not a part of the Occupy movement, but if I were, this is the poster I would be carrying. It’s a parody of the famous poster created by Shephard Fairey
I was shocked to hear that something like 60% of protestors would vote for Obama in a general election. That stat kind of highlighted how they didn’t seem to understand the issues they were upset about. Barack Obama in 2012 will effectively be running for George W. Bush’s fourth term.
President Obama has continued or expanded all of the preferential treatments that banking institutions received from the Bush administration. No criminal action or further regulations were proposed by Obama, even when he had complete control of Congress. The President promised greater transparency and less access for lobbyist and didn’t follow through.
It seemed an image of Obama turning his back on his supporters was appropriate. As Matt Damon said “I no longer hope for audacity”.
If you click on the image you can see a larger version of the poster. Of you would like a vector PDF, you can find that here.
Eric
And it isn’t just his policies toward the banks. For all practical purposes, the Obama administration has followed Bush’s foreign policies as well. I can’t see how what he’s done in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan is substantially different than what Bush would have done.
The only major issue that Obama has handled differently than Bush might have is to push through the health care law (which was so watered down as to be almost pointless). But, regardless of who’s elected next year, I expect that to never be implemented in its entirety.
This shouldn’t have been entirely unexpected. Obama’s campaign was largely predicated on his willingness to work with Republicans, to try to meet them in the center and thus bring an end to gridlock. What has happened, though, is that as Obama has moved to the center (as he said he would), the Republicans have moved farther to the right — and now the “center” isn’t all that far where moderate Republicans (such as Bush) were a few years ago. And the gridlock continues.
I’d rather see the audacity.
December 1st, 2011 at 3:25 pmmcmahant
And today this story came out about Occupiers protesting an Obama fundraiser with the 1% http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/occupy-protesters-mobilize-for-obamas-visit/
December 1st, 2011 at 7:20 pmTim
Michael Moore points out that Wall Street has picked their candidate and his name is Barack Obama. Obama has taken more donations from Wall Street than any other candidate. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/07/michael-moore-barack-obama-wall-street-candidate_n_1134303.html
December 8th, 2011 at 5:24 pm