Change! Barack Obama Mocked at This Year's Mardi Gras Parade
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 5:47 AM
One Mardi Gras float pictured Barack Obama in hellfire this year.
Mary Rose Rybak at First Thoughts reported on the floats in this year’s New Orleans Mardi Gras parade. One float “Experiment of His Own Power” mocked America’s arrogant president.
Mardi Gras has become a celebration of vice before forty days of, well, supposed virtue. It’s one of those fun curiosities about the culturally Christian world: People eat and drink gluttonously as a sort of religious observance.
One of the ways vice is simultaneously vilified and celebrated is on the floats that parade through New Orleans, filled with masked people who throw beads and toys to the passersby. In one parade this year, spectators enjoy a hilarious twenty-float lineup of what one might call winners of the Greatest Vices of the Year: Senator Edwards, Senator Vitter, and Governor Sanford are spotlighted on a lust-themed float as “Politicians Gone Wild!”; New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nabin is painted “asleep at the wheel,” accused of negligence and bad time management on a sloth-themed float; and Bernard Madoff appears on a pyramid as “Pharaoh Made-off” on a greed-themed float that describes him as “the modern-day Judas who was traitor to his own tribe for only 20 million pieces of silver.”
Among these scandalous float figures is President Barack Obama.
On a pride-themed float called “Experiment of His Own Power,” Obama is compared to “The Proud One” of Dante’s Inferno, posing with his Nobel Peace Prize medal, next to several other representations of him—along with Oscar and Heisman Trophy awards, he appears as a five-star general, president of General Motors, and as the “healthcare-expert” Surgeon General—all engulfed by the flames of hell.
Is this the rant of a few comic float-makers, or is it a sign of a graver discontent Obama faces from the American people? For many, it’s looking grim: The effect his leadership has had on Katrina recovery-efforts, for instance, is at least as questionable as the promised improvements in foreign policy and economic stimulus.
In related news… After destroying the economy and tripling the national debt his first year in office, a majority of Americans believe that Barack Obama does not deserve a second term.
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P. Aaron commented:
Obama sucks…it’s that simple.
John commented:
I’m surprised this actually made it into the parade without the race card being thrown. But I guess after the Saints’ win in the Super Bowl, everyone’s in a good mood down in New Orelans right now.
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Nahanni commented:
Don’t be too surprised, John.
The majority of black people in Louisiana have no use for the race warriors like Sharpton and Jackson and they see Obama for what he is.
If The Race Card(TM) gets tossed about this it won’t be by the “regular people”, it will be by some “community activist” or ACORN/SEIU type.
Militant Conservative commented:
I’ll mock him some more.
Check out the link folks! Most of this I already knew but there is some new information, very disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlEbBZLzo0
jerryl commented:
ahhh obamas future HELL
NeoKong commented:
It ain’t good when you lose the chocolate city.
Patman77 commented:
Now this is the hope and change I’ve been looking for.
But they forgot the Obama the lying douchebag representation.
ang commented:
I see handlers covering up televisions and newspapers on a daily basis when the one is about to enter a room. I wonder how his ego is handling the current events?
Andreas K. commented:
He was also mocked in Germany during the carnival there. Let me get the photo.
http://tinyurl.com/yzyyuvj
It reads “Obama the savior”
jim commented:
Don’t pay attention to the puny man behind the curtain. Don’t get fooled into believing that you are seeing a platitude-spouting blowhard reading from a teleprompter. Believe in the image of a messiah uttering profound truths. Believe in the hope. Believe in the change.
Aitch748 commented:
In the end, it may be that Obama will be laughed out of office, not because of the socialism, not because of the Chicago-thug politics, not even because of the insane spending, but simply because Obama comes off as a blowhard phony after a while. I’m guessing that a fair percentage of his former supporters are starting to see him as a big fake. Things like getting a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING AT ALL didn’t exactly help Obama here, and the fact that Obama’s accomplished pretty much NOTHING AT ALL in the past year doesn’t exactly benefit him much either.
Jayne on the left coast commented:
Just a correction to the article it’s lazy Mayor Nagin not Nabin. I do love the float, of course, this will never make it to the MSM.
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