Obama as The Joker

Posters of Barak Obama as The Joker have turned up stuck on walls around Los Angeles. An unsolved mystery...

During the last few days, the posters of the American President have papered the walls of Los Angeles and appeared all over the blogosphere (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, etc.). Even worse, the T-shirt is already on sale.

The poster shows Barack Obama made up as The Joker, played by Heath Ledger in «The Dark Knight», with the word «socialism» written below his picture

The mystery surrounding the origins of the poster is in all the media this week – mainly in right-wing papers, although it's clear it certainly has its origins on that end of the political spectrum. The ongoing speculation includes a joke in bad taste stemming from disappointed American voters, as Obama has been steadily losing popularity in the past few weeks.

According to the media, this destabilization campaign could be led by opposition to the Obama's health care reform package, or by Americans who are outraged that the president took the side of the Cambridge police in the controversy over the recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., the renowned Harvard professor and literary critic – who is black.