[Jemian]

When you put “rob from the rich to give to the poor” into a modern political context, Robin sounds a lot like Obama doesn’t he? Who’s the modern counterpart of the Sheriff? Already, just a few weeks after the election, I feel like I’m in the Pit of Despair.

No! You have the players wrong.

Robin Hood robbed from the government and the church which were empoverishing the rising middle class by high taxes and other wrongfully imposed fees. He took back what was considered excess and stolen and returned it to the rightful owners who had been made poor.

So, the modern day players are Obama and his henchmen are the Sheriff of Nottingham, etc. The overtaxed in this country are the "poor" of Robin Hood's day. WE DO NOT YET HAVE A ROBIN HOOD AND HIS MERRY MEN.

[dangus]

>> Robin Hood robbed from the government and the church <<

True in a way, but gravely misleading:

The regency of John and the Catholic Church were quite at odds. In fact, it’s quite possible that the legend of Robin Hood may well have been fed by a Catholic to shift the blame of England’s poor bank accounts away from Richard the Lionhearted’s wholehearted support for the war against Islamofascists and onto King John’s theivery.

While John so bitterly hated the Church’s influence that he sought out the Sultan of Morrocco to convert England to an Islamic state (!), the Church proclaimed an interdict against England (possibly explaining Friar Tuck’s role of giving mass to the people in the countryside, rather than in a church building). When John asecnded to the throne, the Church denied his validity, instead holding the position that Arthur of Brittany was the legitimate holder to the throne.

Needless to say, however, John had Rome-approved church hierarchy replaced by sycophants and thieves, to the extent that he could.