Painting Shows Obama Trampling Constitution

WTAE.com ^ | September 16, 2010

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

The painting will now sell like hotcakes at IHOP.

[donna]

Wow, the video has some closeups of the faces. Very will done.

[onedoug]

Most ¨forgotten men¨ these days are drug addicts, winos and bums.

[Leisler]

TR ran roughshod over the Constitution.

http://www.mises.org/mp3/Pres/Pres9.mp3

[OrangeHoof]

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.

[mojito]

TR is a controversial figure who has drawn the criticism of both conservatives and liberals who have studied his presidency.

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.

[Libloather]

Art lover ping.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Check out the video:

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/25036219/detail.html

[ExTexasRedhead]

I sent the link to my Congressman’s office. I hope they enjoy it in DC.

[ExTexasRedhead]

PING

[Liz]

" One Nation Under God" by painter Jon McNaughton.

[himno hero]

Thank you very much!
Great explanation but I am sure he has thought much, much more! Where can we get the unedited version?

[Kirkwood]

W is pointing to the right and going “Hey, I was supposed to be over there!”

[I still care]

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.

[pillut48]

Beautiful painting, meaningful and SPOT ON. But obviously, this guy is a RACIST and HATES BLACK PEOPLE because the artist is WHITE and he has Obama at the FOREFRONT stomping on Americans' Constitutional Rights!! /sarc

Liberty.com Salutes Artist Jon McNaughton for His Work – The Forgotten Man

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Beautiful work! I really like this artist! Might have to buy something from him to support his ministry!

[Gordon Pym]

Teddy had his faults, but I would never question his patriotism.

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

[ClearCase_guy]

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).

[LongElegantLegs]

Have you seen this?

[Vigilanteman]

You, and the artist, are both entitled to your opinions. However, in evaluating any president, the good needs to be weighed against the bad. That's why I put a guy like Lincoln in my top ten even though he made some terrible mistakes at the beginning of the Civil War which may have prevented it altogether had he played it right. For example-- a proper response to Ft. Sumter would have been sending the navy to shell Charleston and the marines to retake it, not an invasion of Virgina.

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.

[Gordon Pym]

We're probably not as as far apart on our view of history as you may think. I do believe that TR firmly believed he was doing the right thing when he took lands of unique character for federal protection. I credit him greatly for developing the US navy into a world class power and for developing the US voice in international affairs. However, his failing was in seeing the federal government as a means for meddling in issues that should have been no business of the federal government. It is this elitist mindset that led to further power expansions being accepted by the states and by the individual citizens. It was under TR that federal regulatory agencies were formed and it was these agencies that were used to control ever more of individual lives. Perhaps he thought they would always be altruistic and not overreach their authority but it was TR that created the dragon that has since gone so far out of control.

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.