Political Expression from Los Angeles

"Political Art = Free Speech ??"

For many years since the start of the Reagan Administration, walls, construction sites, overpasses and underpasses in Los Angeles have been plastered with the "art attack" of Robbie Conal.

Conal's "plaster and paste" commentary come from a far-left perspective. Many will remember his "Contra Cocaine" and some of his other "plaster and paste" rendering of conservative figures Ronald Reagan, Oliver North, and Jesse Helms.

But today, local and national media have gone into a "double-standard overdrive" in seeking out the artist and group behind the Obama renderings which has been popping up in locations city wide.

And it did not take long for the race card to appear courtesey of Earl Ofari Hutchison.

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson is calling the depiction, politically mean spirited and dangerous.

Hutchinson is challenging the group or individual that put up the poster to have the courage and decency to publicly identify themselves.

"Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," says Hutchinson, "it is mean-spirited and dangerous."

"We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama."

Memo to Earl,

What was wrong in depicting members of the Reagan Administration as front people for Cocaine Dealers ?? What was wrong in depicting George W. Bush as a trigger-happy warmonger in the Robbie Conal creation posted above ??

Nothing!! It is call "FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION!! That includes the Obama "Socialist" creation which is right on!!

Your thoughts.....................