April 08, 2011

The Forgotten Man




"Against the background of a darkening sky, all of the past Presidents of the United States gather before the White House, as if to commemorate some great event. In the left hand corner of the painting sits a man. That man, with his head bowed appears distraught and hopeless as he contemplates his future. Some of the past Presidents try to console him while looking in the direction of the modern Presidents as if to say, "What have you done?" Many of these modern Presidents, seemingly oblivious to anything other than themselves, appear to be congratulating each other on their great accomplishments. In front of the man, paper trash is blowing in the wind. Crumpled dollar bills, legislative documents, and, like a whisper—the U.S. Constitution beneath the foot of Barack Obama."

It doesn't require a huge leap to imagine similar unthinking tomfoolery here. The old adage remains as true today as it ever did: when America sneezes, we catch a cold.

We have imbeciles in charge too.

CR.

5 comments:

mescalito said...

brilliant and very sad...

Captain Ranty said...

My thoughts exactly.

Katabasis said...

Amazing - and like mescalito says - so very sad.

And a UK version could be commissioned too - showing them being asked to sign six times....

Thanks for sharing CR, that pic has really given me something to think about....

Jacobite said...

Inspired and brilliant

Anonymous said...

He states of the man in the painting:

"This man represents every woman and child who is an American. Like you and me he hopes for a better life to find the American dream of happiness and prosperity...."

The above polarly opposes the socialists belief, the control by the state of the individual. The sooner people wake up and realise they're living under Socialism the sooner they can act and do something about it.

"know they enemy, know thyself..."