@AdioBam

Ya, electing people with experience has been workign well so far..... oh, wait.

KICKASS!

[...] wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBarack Obama may have dissed Grand Theft Auto IV a bit last week, but, on the streets of L.A. at least, the candidate and the controversial game have become one. G4TV’s Attack of the Show producer Luke Wahl spotted some Barack Obama / GTA IV mashups around town: [...]

Have to get that young vote somehow!

That's a... little strange. But actually really well made.

So which side is Barack really on? My guess is he is only bashing GTA4 in public to keep Jack Thompson from forcing him off the ballot. To expand on my guess, Barack knows that kids can tell the difference between reality and fantasy and therefore can decide not to shoot up their schools.

I have a better poster: "Grand Theft America." I'm no fan of George W. Bush, but the country can do better than someone as empty and devoid of ideas as Barack Obama.

@Sherlock

dude...you give gamers a bad name with your baseless hatin, just because you didnt bother looking at Obama's ideas...there all over his debates, his own website, and his last book. Of course they not be the best of ideas to some..but still turning a blind eye and covering your ears and saying he is devoid is dumb.

Anyway..this article is about creativity meshing two icons, not political opinion highhorsing.

[...] pm on May 7, 2008 | # | Seems some political minded GTA 4 gamers and Barack supports are supporting him in their ownspecial way.   [...]

So.. Recycling someone else's ideas and slapping a "HOPE" sticker on it? What a fitting metaphor for his whole campaign.

Personally, I would have gone with "Grand Theft George McGovern Platform 72" or something for the poster. But I guess that doesn't really roll off the tongue as easily..

I wonder who made these, as I highly doubt the Obama campaign itself is responsible.

@Olipyr: Ron Paul's campaign is incredibly full of optimism that would be heartwarming if it weren't almost absurd in the face of its opposition. I do somewhat hope that he runs on a third party - I just have no illusions that he's probably going to poll less than 0.5% if he does.

As for Obama himself, his ideas are perhaps only marginally better than Hillary's, but at least he seems sincere about wanting to improve the country. Hillary still strikes me as horribly inauthentic - she'll say whatever it takes for a vote just so she can move into a bigger office, not because she actually cares about this country. Yeah, it's kind of shallow basing a preference on oratory skills, but there's not enough policy differences between the two to make for much of an intelligent decision.

Ron Paul is irrelevant. He is no longer a viable candidate.

Benji: Ron Paul is only keeping the campaign up so he doesn't have to give all the money he raised to McCain, who he doesn't like much.

That was very well done poster... but Barack Obama is still a terrible candidate.

I'll admit that I don't like Barrack Obama much (the way his fans chant his name makes me think he's the anti-Christ), but he's less annoying than Hillary and I couldn't stand another Republican in the Whitehouse. He's getting my vote, unless Jesse Ventura runs in the race. GO JESSE VENTURA!!!!! :D

@kurisu7885

I didn't mean to imply that we did. I'm so unenthusiastic about this race it's become "Who will screw up the country the least?"

I can't believe that article. Obama is maybe the only top-class politician who didn't diss GTA, but rather gave an elaborate, balanced and thoughtful opinion on the matter. Anyway.

I think it was a little irresponsible to say he dissed grand theft auto. All he said is that we should get kids outside more, doing my physical things, and interacting with people more. I for one agree, and I love my video games!

Plus, my guess is that the Obama camp didn't actually make this poster.

@Austin Lewis

If you believe that John McCain represents change, I got bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you. A man who is running on a platform that could only be descibed as a 3rd Bush term is not considered change.

And you showed your hand when you called Sen. Clinton "Hitlery." Dazzling insight.

LOLOLOL

“I personally thought his comments about video games and entertainment as a whole and parents’ responsibility were well-reasoned and rational.”

Quoted again for truth.
He didn't hop on the "violent games are evil!" bandwagon like, oh say, Hillary did.
He just said kids need to be more active. Which they do.

...
Yeah.
Retarded.

This is how you know when originality is dead, and political issues have become irrelevant. This is less about the issues at hand (which most people seem not to be able to figure out) and more about image.

What The Hell

WoW! That mediocre photoshop is so great and original. Lets all circle-jerk each other while we contemplate this man's greatness.

@Clutch
I called her that before neo-cons took that name to her, thanks. I call her that because many of her policies, especially the 'Fairness Doctrine', range from Dictatorial to Communist in their viewpoints.

@ The conspiracy
"He and Hillary just want healthcare that everyone can afford."
Only Obama has a plan for that, and its not a very good one. Hillary's plan was to create a tax on smokable products in New York (this was while she was senator mind you) that would go into a 'child healthcare' plan.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! This healthcare plan would define children as people up to the age of 26, as well as being open to illegal immigrants! Therein, an entire family could be under this plan, from son to father.

The social health care system doesn't work all that well in many foreign nations, where you can enjoy being triaged from service to service without receiving necessary care, but the chick who wants a bigger rack can get her silicone tits.

The wealthy already pay the highest taxes. It evens out at about 52%. The poor pay about 4%, and can receive up to 20,000 dollars in benefits a year.

You want to know who's getting fucked? The middle class.

Adiobam has the right line anyway. How can you follow a man who doesn't know how HE stands on issues? A man who's claim that he'll lead us out of Iraq will either A. Destroy the region and our credibility or B. be a complete falsehood?

[...] Given his frequent mentions of Grand Theft Auto IV, we can’t help but note the irony of these L.A. GTAIV alterations, snapped by G4TV’s Attack of the Show producer Luke Wahl. (Via Game Politics) Check out the highlights for today: [...]

@Austin Lewis

Have any examples of Obama not knowing how he stands on issues, or is that just empty spin like "John Kerry is a flip-flopper" or "John McCain is an angry old man"?

Oh, and I totally didn't notice that his picture was pasted over Playboy X's mug. Jesus, I would piss myself if I heard Barack call his cabinet members "money".

@Skyler

As if JT had that kind of power…

Wanna put money on that?

@Shih Tzu

I’m sure he doesn’t know who Jack Thompson is.

Someone had better tell him about JT or else JT will have him signing his drafted Anti-VideoGame Bills into law on the false grounds that they disrupt our very way of life.

This brings up something that went on several weeks ago.

At my school's Mock Election Debate, I brought up the school shootings and JT and how said JT is trying to blame the aforementioned shootings on video games. Right now I'm angry that I can't remember each candidate's response to it. Oh well.

@ Austin Lewis

Just because you called her that before RW crazies did doesn't make it any less mouth-breathingly idiotic. If you disagree with her policies, that's fine. But comparing her to Hitler is just mind-numbingly stupid.

And if you really believe that she's wants to turn the country into a communist dictatorship, please loosen the fit of your tinfoil-helm.

This coming from the guy who thinks McCain represents "change." LOL

@Scallion
As far as your last comment goes…what are you talking about? Obama’s been pretty clear that he wants the US to leave Iraq. I’m not to satisfied on his answers as to *when* this will happen, but it’s comforting to know that he wants it to happen.

Well, the thing of it is, it doesn't matter what Obama WANTS. Leaving Iraq would destroy the region, allow for a taliban-esque regime to take hold, and create a state similar to Palestine, where Hamas is the ruling party. Staying means more US Soldiers will die. Which one has worse consequences for the World? And Barack, being the little pansy that wants to run to the UN that he is, will likely settle for 'this is best for the world, we have to think internationally, blah blah blah blah.'

We won't be leaving Iraq in the next four years, and when we do leave, it'll be catastrophic.

There's a two part solution which would benefit Iraq and the US greatly, but no one is intelligent enough to find it.

The wealthy pay most of the taxes. The top 10 percent pay about 80 percent of the total taxes, although they have about 60 percent of the nation's wealth.

That being said, the richest among those often find ways to pay no taxes, or very low taxes. Meanwhile, people who work for their 250000 to 1000000 a year are taxed at 52.4 percent, meaning I don't make money for myself until July. There aren't a lot of subsidies just for being rich. If you open business that employ people you can get subsidies.

if the US cut its defense budget to a reasonable level, and got rid of standing armies and focused more on rebuilding the National Guard and Air National guard,ended the war, stopped nuclear weapons research and maintenance, and you know, made the Department of Defense the Department of DEFENSE instead of Preemptive Warfare, we could pay for all of the social programs we have now, and then some.

If we got rid of our 'standing armies' we'd have no QRF, no well trained military to support our allies in need, and no bases in the third world from which to launch attacks as may be needed. Your idea is tactically unsound. If we stopped nuclear weapons maintanence, we'd lose nuclear capability, and be the only nation that had lost it, making us an easy target for China or North Korea (North Korea being most likely, as they don't have a monetary investment in the USA's success). The National Guard and Air National Guard are doing just fine, I don't know where you get the idea they need rebuilding. One can still drive by Fort Johannesburg (spelling) and see the tanks and HMMWVs that all still function.

By the way, ending the war would have terrible costs for the USA as well.

@Clutch
Really, how has he done that?

By penning the patriot act, which pretty much publicly admitted that we're spying on every phone call in the country, like we have been since the COLD WAR?


There is a very easy comparison between what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and what was done in Russia during the cold war, and if you were half as studied as you claimed to be you could see it. However, I'm willing to bet your 'study' was from your school textbook, and very little more. How many people did you talk to who lived in Soviet Russia? How many people did you talk to who remembered the concentration camps?

In Nazi Germany, the beginning of the Holocaust was marked by the slow loss of rights. Rights of weapon ownership. Loss of right to use public property like pools. Loss of right to attend public schools, public institutions. Loss of right to purchase certain things. Loss of the right to own your own store; jewish owned stores were quickly nationalized. These culminated in a gain that was undesirable: gaining an identification. The identifier, of course, being the star they were forced to wear and the cards they were forced to carry.

Let's cut over to Russia. It started quickly in Russia. You could no longer own firearms. You could no longer communicate with people on the other side of the Iron curtain. You could no longer have any American products. You could no longer use certain institutions unless you were part of the party. EVERYTHING was nationalized. And then? Stalin started killing off his own people.

What's Hillary's agenda? Do some research.

@Shih Tzu

The Geneva convention only applies to Opposing Nations in a time of war. It doesn't apply to guerilla forces or insurgent forces.

Wiretapping laws have been flouted since wiretaps were around. Just because he does it publicly instead of pretending he's not doing it or selling out the people who do it makes him a bad person I suppose. As for the 'pro-war' mouthpieces in the media, what president hasn't done something similar? All those fluff pieces written for clinton, all the parrots for Sr., etc, etc, etc.

As for the deaths that the Clintons had arranged, you're right. People jump down elevator shafts with a bullet hole in their head all the time. Four reports of it in Little Rock within 2 weeks of each other, just coincidences right?.

@JustChris

Yeah, I don't see that. I see someone who 1) relies on a cult of personality, not an agenda 2) is fairly shaky on his actual policies 3) has the farthest left-record of any of the Senate, 4) seems to enjoy associating with America-haters, 5) doesn't really see anything wrong with the above, which brings us to 6) tries to put himself out as "post-partisan" and "post-racial" while simultaneously representing neither and inflaming both racialism and partisanship.

Nobody really seems to question him on his agendas, and he doesn't seem to be able to defend himself properly. I don't like either Clinton or Obama, and feel neutral to McCain, but Obama would cause all kinds of problems for the nation.

@Shih Tzu
The sad thing is, it's too long past the statute of limitations for a report. Besides, they won't do anything. The murders were already reported, and a lot of good it did them then.

@JackDon'tKnowJack
Isn't Godwin's Rule that someone will be compared to Hitler?

@Dark Sovereign,

Ah, I see that you just fear uncertainty more than being certain on what people stand for, even if they stand for things you don't necessarily like. I'd say our nation is fucked up economically and militarily right now to the point that it's reasonable to understand that people would choose a flash in the pan that might turn out to be good, over someone that has something to say. People that are so tired of Bush are put into a spot where they will take risks with anything else.

"I’d say our nation is fucked up economically and militarily right now to the point that it’s reasonable to understand that people would choose a flash in the pan that might turn out to be good, over someone that has something to say."

But you see, that's why no one asks your opinion of our military.

To be honest, approaching 5000 dead isn't a big deal. Is it sad? Hell yes. Is it regrettable? Absolutely. Is it a 'huge military defeat' like everyone likes to think? No. The bigger problem is that people don't understand how to end the war, and think it'll become Korea all over again, when there's a very obvious 2 step solution that anyone with half a brain could see. But its interesting how Obama, with all his inteligence and whatnot, can't see it. Nor can Hitlery, or McCain, though McCain is closer to grasping it than the rest.

As for choosing a flash in the pan, that's always a great idea, especially when its a flash in the pan from a man filled with empty promises.

Let's all march to the idealistic tune of CHANGE!

@JustChris
I like how you've lost the argument so you resort to poorly worded insults. Of course, if you want to follow Obama's banner of 'change' you're more than welcome to, but you'll find that he'll sell out gamers as quickly as he'll sell out gun owners.

@Damian

As long as Jack did it for the lulz its alright.

A tax cut on gas, considering that there is nearly a dollar in taxes on each gallon, is actually a great idea, as would be the dissolution of either medicare or medicaid and the folding of the dissolved agency in to the other. A tax cut for gas would allow poorer people to be more mobile, especially in regions where mass transit isn't a viable option. This would allow people to seek jobs in a larger area than currently is available.

As for medicaid/medicare, you can drop the huge cost of running one of the staffs of bureacrats and fold them into each other, and put the saved monies into paying off national debt, just like you could cut funding to the weird programs that every state has and save that money for the debt too.

Obama wouldn't set into motion anything helpful, would he? He just wouldn't do things you don't like about the other candidates, things which, in all reality, are actually a good idea. Cut out the tax that the EPA gets off of gasoline. Cut out the tax that the state takes from gasoline. Save the PEOPLE some money, instead of giving it to the nanny state.

@JustChris

You know, oddly enough, money for the roads doesn't come from state governments, it comes from FEDERAL funding. Also, many states pay for roads via toll booths. So, those construction workers would still be working, because they still have money to maintain roads and bridges, as well as build new ones.

Most of the things you say are outright wrong and represent a poor understanding of how things in the US actually work.

@JustChris

There's nowhere else to come up with that funding, right? There's no ridiculous programs spending 12 million dollars on doing nothing, right?

 

PS:

The state gas tax is 25 cents average.