Posted on 11/25/2008 10:59:39 AM PST by Dutchgirl
According to press reports, President-elect Barack Obama's favorite superheroes are Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian. But what do these picks say about Mr. Obama? Madeleine Brand talks to Gabriel Fowler, owner of indie comic book store Desert Island, about what the superheroes reveal about the next president.
And somehow managing to avoid discussion of Conan's most famous quote...
Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.
Who watches the Watchmen?
Obama is a LIBERAL with an EVIL BENT that NEVER GREW UP!
Plus he HATES America.
This isn’t a symptom of people trying to fawn over 0bama, just our 24 hour news media not knowing what to do with itself when theres no news to cover.
I suppose we could get stories from Iraq or around the world but lets keep hammering on the messiah!
I'm a Mighty Thor, Silver Surfer kind of guy myself. ;-)
Imagine the ridicule that would be heaped on President Bush if it was revealed he had an interest in comic books (or had a favorite super hero).
I'd say it says he was born in 1961 and is a product of his times and, past that, it bears no significance whatsoever.
Why is a man in his late forties still reading comic books?
What kind of toilet paper do you think he uses? Or do you think he is a “bidet” man?
What comics is he reading: Mr. No Birth Certificate? Super Commie? Marx the Magnificent? Carnac the Collectivist? Teleprompter Tom?
“Just proves he is a mal-adapted, regressive, childish, immature loser!!!!”
Does that about cover it?
Like this "non-story"
Marine Makes Insurgents Pay the Price
describing a battle between 250 Afgan insurgents and 30 Marines.
If the dollar was not so weak it would probably be worth a lot of money.
Or ‘The Ambiguously Gay Duo’
He might be trying to keep up with the culture of his voter base. You know, to appear relevant.
Don’t tell me he still read comic books? God help us if he does.
Many geniuses are eccentric. Now if it was Bush reading comic books they would say it was because his lack of intelligence.
Because he can't read anything else?
Why is a man in his late forties still reading comic books?
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with Michelle and the two lil snubs in training, and soon , a dog .. To escape? or he’s making up for his early years in Indonesia and his comic deprivation.
Flipping the pages snaps him out of his eventual spiral to infamy and failure. Like the comic plot, his too is scripted.
He is a complex character, but not by choice. It’s all the folk who shaped him and still do. He inwardly knows he doesn’t belong there.
Here’s my guess:
Spiderman-leading a double life and living with his grandma.
Conan-Brutish lack of empathy for anyone who stands between him and absolute unbridled power.
Only 'cause the Marines don't like a fair fight. Give 'em a chance next time, make 1000 insurgents.
Picture books have long been popular in Latin America.
No surprise that it is their models he is heading us for.
Jeemy redux. Are you ready for 20% inflation?
We’ll try for you, Argentina.
Boxers or briefs?
Reveals that he’s not living in adult reality?
Thanks for the link.
“It was roughly 250 insurgents against 30 of us,” the corporal said. “It was a good day for the Marine Corps. We killed a lot of bad guys, and none of our guys were seriously injured.”
How the hell do liberals love real comics????? I doubt Ofoxxo’s reading “Captain America”.
>>Oh come on, there are a quite a few of us who still like comics. Nothing wrong with that.
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>That aside, of these two characters that Obama supposedly likes, he certainly hasn’t learned any
>values from them. Spider-Man, is heroic, selfless, brave, no trait which Obama possesses, IMHO, and
>Conan, though a serial womanizer knows evil when he sees it and takes action. Another quality Obama
>doesn’t possess.
I agree with you. I’m 26 and I still like comic-books, though to be sure they aren’t terribly high on my list of priority for resource-spending. (I like what Marvel’s been doing grouping multiple comic-books into a single volume.)
But, enough of that tangent. Spider-man is my favorite comic-book hero for the reasons you list; he has a good sense of justice.
It really is too bad that our government seems to be out of touch with that simple idea. The Minnesota recounts, are they right? The massive voter-fraud of ACORN, is that right? What about those Border Patrol agents who were imprisoned for RETURNING FIRE, and doing their jobs, is that right?
I think my old philosophy instructor hit it on the head when he said “Peace is not the absence of war, but the presence of Justice.”
If our leaders want peace then they should strive to be just.
Considering the intellectual content of mainstream propaganda publications, comic books might actually *improve* his mind!
I miss “Sad Sack”.
The MSM did go after Bush as a dummy by suggesting that his reading list was not sophisticated. However, they will use Obama's comic book reading as a positive.
-PJ
Of course, Rorschalk would kick Obama's butt....
What exactly is immature, etc about visualized fiction?
Do you ask the same question of people who read, for instance, Stephen King?
Yep, have you seen the UK’s 2000AD? with Judge Dredd and ‘ABC Warriors’ and suchlike (seriously good) - are they available in the US at all?
A point well-taken!
People who read Stephen King are too illiterate for comic books.
I must object to your tagline. Your question and answer do not agree. In answer to the first question- “Why am I here?” the answer is: “To know God and to enjoy him forever.” And then, Jeopardy style, you have provided an answer and the question is “With what shall I come before the Lord?”
Maybe Obama likes them because one is skinny like a boy and wears a very tight leotard and the other is very buff. ;~))
Ah, well, I was looking at Micah 6:8, which says that God has shown mankind what to do: Act with Justice, to Love Mercy, and to walk Humbly with God.
Now, if you look at Jesus saying “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” what He is saying is that He looks like God... that God has no unChristlikeness in Him. (Like associativity in math, kinda.)
Anyway, if the goal of the Christian is to be Christlike, and Christ is like God, then we are to be Godlike too. (In some sense, read the sermon on the mount where Jesus says as much: Matt. 5:43-48)
So, do you still think my question and answer do not match?
He probably believes he is Super Messiah in black.
He is Captain Telepromter after all !
Still, I cant remember a news story about the POTUS reading comic books before this one. But then again, he's a chump.
When I was a kid, my favorite comic was Marvel’s “The Defenders.” Great “non super group” with great characters (Dr. Strange, Valkyrie, Nighthawk and plenty more shuffing in and out) and pretty good story lines.
Last year, I got “The Essential Defenders” books that covered the first issue through about the 120th (my interest ran from roughly issues 15 through 50). I came to understand that what was so attractive to me back then was that they really didn’t *want* to be part of a supergroup and were often pulled in against their will to fight enemies that could basically be described as fascist. I was a conservative even as a small kid. :)
To be honest, I really haven’t bought that many comics (1-2 a year! Yikes!) Because comics have become another medium for the liberally minded. I just can’t stomach them anymore. They don’t deliver the messages like they use. Even Capt. America gave into liberalism. I was glad that he did die in the comic so he wouldn’t be further perverted. Of course, the writers are so liberal that they found him to be jingoistic and outdated.
Yep, I miss comics of old.
As a comic artist, I really ought to start making comics like what we use to read.
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