[Schnucki]

[Americanwolf]

just as much as all those bush is a monkey cartoons were evil and mean spirited....

[Blennos]

Looks about right to me.

[agere_contra]

But the monkey pictures of Bush were fair comment.

Anyway, good for the Daily Mail. They stayed neutral on this.

[tet68]

“A spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit...”

The who??

[Tarpon]

Doesn't look nowhere near as racist as the things Obama said about the police.

Is this racist too?

It's time we weren't cowed by the PC police, throw it back in their faces.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Did these same Wankers say this image

of Bush was 'mean-spirited and dangerous'?

[gov_bean_ counter]

Well Boo Freaking Hoo...

Obie couldn't take 1% of the ridicule the last 4 Republican presidents were subjected to. Little boy needs to grow up.

[Mind Freed]

A spokesman from the Los Angeles urban policy unit said that depicting the president as demonic and a socialist 'goes beyond political spoofery.'

It's not "political spoofery", it's calling ugly, ugly.

[johnfchick]

I guess the dozens of posters I witnessed at the anti-war ralleys of Bush with a Hitler mustache and haircut weren’t mean-spirited according to the liberals. The networks wouldn’t even show the disgusting displays at these rallys on t.v.

[Jagdgewehr]

The man himself is far more dangerous than any image or effigy that mocks him.

[trisham]

“Communism” would actually be more appropriate, since Obama has made progress in acquiring the means of production in this country.

[NotSoModerate]

I can’t find the Lifson piece referenced in the article.... do u know anything about that piece?

[taxtruth]

Get use to it.

[ConservativeMind]

Aw, poor liberals.

They can fervently believe Bush and Cheney blew up the WTC just to make Bush look good, but they find this is “dangerous.”

Liberals are freaking crazy.

[suthener]

I just have one question (not directed at you, rhetorical): what is the Los Angeles urban policy unit and who cares what their spokesman has to say? What did the reporter do, keep asking people what they thought of the poster and quote the one that most closely resembled the reporter’s opinion? I wonder if the reporter thought “Gee, that’s a disgusting poster. I wonder what the spokeman for the Los Angeles urban policy unit has to say?”

[P.O.E.]

This would probably be ok, though?

[all the best]

mean-spirited? It is either true or not. To be mean II think there has to be some truth to it. If you call a lean and trim person a fat slob, that wouldn’t be mean just stupid. Calling an overweight person a fat slob would be mean. Likewise a horror image of Obama with socialism has more than a little truth to it and some could choose to see it as mean. As in it is mean to tell the truth when I don’t like that truth.

[WaterBoard]

I guess ‘Obama Supporters’ forgot about the hundreds of thousands of posters used by Democrats to mock Bush (Chimpy McBush, Bush is Hitler) or thousands of Dailykos/DU types sites doing much worse.

1) New Scientific Study Reveals Bush is a Chimp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-slater/new-scientific-study-reve_b_63515.html

2) http://www.bushorchimp.com/pics2.html

3) Ad Comparing Bush to Hitler Gets Heat

What MoveOn.org wanted was for people to submit 30-second ads that were critical of President Bush, but what the liberal-leaning organization got was a controversy over one entry that compared Bush to Adolf Hitler.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,107426,00.html

But hypocrisy is fine in their eyes.

[novemberslady]

A poster depicting Barack Obama as Batman villain The Joker has been called 'mean-spirited and dangerous' by the U.S. President's supporters.

...'and dangerous'...sounds like a threat to me...

[NMEwithin]

and yet...this: Bush Joker was considered a brilliant work of art.