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Controversial Artist Depicts Obama Trampling The Constitution
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| February 3, 2012
Posted on 02/03/2012 4:05:03 PM PST by NCjim
In front of the White House a man is sitting on a park bench in the throes of depression. He is surrounded by 43 presidents. In the forefront, purposefully ignoring the depressed man is President Obama, whose right foot is stepping on the Constitution. James Madison is next to Obama, pleading with him to stop.
This tableau is called “The Forgotten Man”, a painting by Jon McNaughton, an artist who is known for his politically-charged work.
The painting, which uses objects such as discarded dollar bills as symbols and scraps of paper with individual constitutional amendments scrawled onto them, has been making the rounds across the Internet.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2020election; election2020; forgottenman; jonmcnaughton; mcnaughton; obama; theforgottenman; utah
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:05:07 PM PST
by
NCjim
To: NCjim
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:06:59 PM PST
by
zimfam007
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
To: All
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:10:54 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: NCjim
Gotta read the comments........
Sounds like a bunch of FReepers...mainly.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:12:53 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.)
To: NCjim
If its ‘controversial’ I guess he should get his $500,000 federal arts grant, huh?
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:13:23 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: NCjim
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:14:17 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(FOREIGN AID: A transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries)
To: NCjim
CBS calls it “controversial.”
Well it might make lefties recoil at the truth it illustrates, it’s not even as edgy in approach as your typical Marboro man. Still I might not mind a tableau like that on my pickup truck, if I could afford to have it done.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:15:42 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: NCjim
So, truth is now labeled as controversial?
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:17:27 PM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
To: GeronL
It’s gotta be “racist” because the rogue president (Obama) is black. Really, I think I’m going to barf at what the lefties have foisted on America.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:17:50 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: HiTech RedNeck
I bet CBS defended government funding of Maplrthorpe’s photo’s of bound and gagged naked children.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:17:52 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: GeronL
I know he did a ‘Urine’ Christ, but no idea he did this too.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:19:14 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
To: NCjim
Yes, it is very powerful. And to be completely historically accurate, I’m assuming Lincoln is clapping, as well; his hands are apart as if he is, though his facial expression is somewhat confusing. Lincoln was the first president to truly trash the Constitution, so his clapping would make sense.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:26:21 PM PST
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: NCjim
IIRC, Glenn Beck showed this on his show 1-1 1/2 years ago.
I know I've seen it before, but for today especially, it is quite apropos to be on Drudge.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:37:17 PM PST
by
Las Vegas Ron
(Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
To: NCjim
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:40:23 PM PST
by
gop4lyf
(Socialism is the political dream of the unachiever, the excuse maker, and the lazy.)
To: NCjim
Wow. I am famous. I got my picture on See B.S. news.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Note Clinton and the two Roosevelts clapping.
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:48:19 PM PST
by
nhwingut
(Sarah Palin 12... No One Else (Maybe Tim Thomas))
To: NCjim
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:50:06 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Spoiler Alert! The secret to Terra Nova: THEY ARE ALL DEAD!!!)
To: NCjim
Is that Clinton and FDR applauding on the right? What about Jimmah?
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:50:43 PM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(Obama: The Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy.)
To: NCjim
i'm not positive, but... i think the artist is a FReeper
i've seen this painting and a couple others by the same guy here on Free Republic before
if not a FReeper, someone here knows him
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posted on
02/03/2012 4:56:10 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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