Posted on 08/06/2009 2:54:39 PM PDT by Baladas
(Aug. 6) -- With buzz about the Obama Joker poster still in the air, another reworking of the president's image is causing a stir.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has produced a psychedelic, '60s-style poster featuring a photo of college freshman "Barry" Obama smoking. Above his super-bad Panama hat is the slogan: Yes We Cannabis.
Artist Sonia Sanchez created the poster for NORML's annual conference using a picture taken at Occidental College in 1980 by the future president's classmate Lisa Jack. In the original photo, Obama is holding a real cigarette to his lips. Sanchez tweaked the smoking material to fit her theme, but otherwise the image is unchanged.
The pro-pot group never sought Jack's permission, even though it is selling the poster as well as giving it away to conference-goers, NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre acknowledged in an interview with The Washington Post.
Jack told the Post she's "very irritated" and does not want her work, which is on display at a Los Angeles gallery, used in this way.
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Pimp my weed, man.
"Then I thought - I'll just get all these honkies to vote for me and make me president - then I can get all the pot and blow I want for free."
New computer desktop background. That should drive my LibTard co-workers insane. Errr, even MORE insane, LOL!
Thank you! My boys are ambitious; one is a computer geek who made $100K last year...working from his HOME, and the other is in college, and also a geek, going to school to hone his IT skills and working as a troubleshooter for our local cable/phone/internet provider.
I’m sending this article to them in the hopes that they will continue to stay on the straight and narrow because if they don’t, they might end up President of the United States of America, LOL!
THAT ought to put the fear of God into ‘em, Eh? LOL!
Da bradda got fiiiah... you dig Bra??
Funny interview i heard once.
Jimi had gone to England and gotten with I think Pete Townsend at a Who recording session and listened to Jimi play and he immediately got on the phone to Eric Clapton and John Lennon and told them to come on over. He’d something they all needed to hear. Something that would raise the bar just a bit.
ROLF, oh now that just ain’t right! LMAO
Hey,,it’s just a picture of an international student from Indonesia..what’s the big deal?
Raised the bar a lot! Only one even remotely close was Jeff Beck! And he was held back by the Yardbird’s desire to record hits. You had to listen to fadeouts to hear his stuff!
i am a realtor hence the name ive got a pic of bambis fake certificate and what a real one looks like on my office door and all the libs in my office hate me. im getting ready to put the joker one on my door next along with a sign that says vote no on socialized medicine with pete visclosky phone number. all the libs hate me now and i love it. i sent a mass email to everyone in my office and ladys were screaming not to send them stuff. so funny and i wont stop!!!!!!
Jeff Beck, Wired.
Lots good.
Folks fail to realize how good Faces really was.
And more good stuff on a regular basis. He keeps advancing his craft, when guys like Pagie seem to have hit the wall. Not that I don’t like some of Page’s stuff, but there’s no comparison really. Page immensely outsold Beck, but that’s not a judgement on ability and creativeness.
It wasn't easy grabbing it off of the www, but well worth it
HAHAHAHAHHA! A friend of mine has an identical M&M dispenser (minus the weed).
needs more tacos
The photo was supressed until after the election.
She wanted to profit from the image but control how the public viewed the image (context and timeframe).
Thought control isn’t a positive trait.
If she wanted to keep it from being mocked, she should’ve kept it in her scrap book.
JFK smoked pot in the White House. Also did LSD.
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