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On the bright side, at least the president didn’t have another meltdown. President and Michelle Obama greeted kids for Halloween at the White House. They didn’t expect this… One of the kids dressed as Obama Joker.

On the afternoon of April 1, 1983, Barack Obama, then a senior at Columbia University, made his way into the Great Hall of Manhattan’s Cooper Union to attend a “Socialist Scholars Conference.” There Obama discovered his vocation as a community organizer, as well as a political program to guide him throughout his life. The conference itself was not a secret, but it held a secret, for it was there that a demoralized and frustrated socialist movement largely set aside strategies of nationalization and turned increasingly to local organizing as a way around the Reagan presidency — and its own spotty...

It's no wonder that the sweetheart deal Senator Ben Nelson got for his home state of Nebraska as part of the Senate health reform bill has caused such consternation among his colleagues.[snip] ...as negotiations continue between House and Senate leaders over final legislative language, the idea of lessening the Medicaid burden for states is gaining traction. [snip] Helping states by extending the Nebraska deal nationwide or by upping federal contributions to future Medicaid costs would certainly relieve some unwelcome pressure. Along with Schwarzenegger, who had previously been a reliable Republican proponent of Democratic health care reform, many other governors —...

Is the "Final Solution" wording that was added to this revamped Obama Health Care graphic warranted? Some might see it as a simple play on words. But before you decide how to consider that wording, please read the following shocking quotes from Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the chief health-care policy adviser to President Barack Hussein Obama, and (not coincidentally) the brother of Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. From: (Principles of allocation of scarce medical interventions, January 31, 2009) Also see: (Deadly Doctors, New York Post, June 24, 2009) "Strict youngest-first allocation directs scarce resources predominantly to infants. This approach seems...

Keeping with the spirit of the Obama-Joker posters, I have decided..... From now on, whenever I'm in a discussion with a liberal who's getting hot under the collar -- when that lib finishes making his point, I'm going to look him square in the face, put on my best Heath Ledger voice, and say, "Why - So - Serious?" Wasn't it a Saul Alinksy rule, to use ridicule whenever possible??

This poster started appearing in Los Angeles. I heard rumors about it showing up in Atlanta, too.