Posted on 09/16/2010 12:50:12 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
SALT LAKE CITY -- A new painting of President Barack Obama by a Utah artist is stirring things up politically.
The piece, which includes every U.S. president, is titled "The Forgotten Man" and shows Obama stepping on the U.S. Constitution.
"I feel like our presidents have really forgotten who put them there," artist Jon McNaughton said.
The painting shows conservative presidents on one side and liberals on the other. It also features dollar bills blowing around and depicts the American flag at half-mast.
"The flag being at half-mast usually happens when there is a tragedy in the country," McNaughton said. "I have painted the flag at half-mast because I feel that right now our country is experiencing a tragedy at monumental proportions."
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The painting will now sell like hotcakes at IHOP.
Wow, the video has some closeups of the faces. Very will done.
Most ¨forgotten men¨ these days are drug addicts, winos and bums.
It would be a better painting if LBJ were picking the pocket of the guy sitting on the bench and Clinton was busy groping some hottie.
The same might be said about Lincoln.
Nonetheless, in my own naive way, I refuse to believe that a man like TR would stand and applaud while anyone, much less a US president, trampled on the US Constitution. Whatever his failings, TR saw himself as a patriot in a way that our current post-American president most certainly does not.
Art lover ping.
I sent the link to my Congressman’s office. I hope they enjoy it in DC.
PING
" One Nation Under God" by painter Jon McNaughton.
Thank you very much!
Great explanation but I am sure he has thought much, much more! Where can we get the unedited version?
W is pointing to the right and going “Hey, I was supposed to be over there!”
Actually, it looks to me like W is tied with the libs, but doubleminded. He’s is pointing to the man with a look of distress on his face but somehow he ended up with a crowd of libs...
This is excellent commentary. I like Madison reaching, wanting to wrest the document from under Obama’s feet.
I like Washington standing in front, taking the lead, with both hands towards the forgotten man.
TR began the explosive growth of government and the federal land grab that has taken place under the national park system. He may not have agreed with what came after his time in office but it was his administration that put in place the destructive machinery that was used by following regimes.
BTW TR was a major proponent of the income tax and that alone puts him on my excrement list
My current list of “worst presidents”:
1 Obama - Because he has actually tried to destroy the foundations of this country.
2 Lincoln - Because he should have understood that this country is about states choosing to form a union, not a centralized government imposing itself on the several states.
3 Wilson - He tried to turn this country in a bad direction (fascism)
4 FDR - He tried to turn this country in a bad direction (fascism)
5 LBJ - He tried to turn this country in a bad direction (fascism)
6 Carter - Incompetent
7 Clinton - Incompetent
8 Buchanan - Incompetent
9 Harding - Incompetent
10 Teddy Roosevelt - He tried to turn this country in a bad direction (but I actually think he meant well).
Have you seen this?
Same observations for TR on the federal land grabs. The National Park System makes up a small portion of federal land holding. The massive socialized land grabs such as ANWR would likely be vehemently opposed by TR if he were alive today.
I believe the same about Lincoln BTW but I cut him a bit more slack because of the crisis he was facing. He also put in sunsets to his power expansions even though congress extended them as long as they could and this should have been a lesson to any true constitutionalists that followed.
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