{"id":35504,"date":"2014-01-16T20:04:45","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35504"},"modified":"2014-01-22T19:07:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T19:07:48","slug":"10-most-amazingly-bizarre-paintings-of-obama-on-etsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35504","title":{"rendered":"10 Most Amazingly Bizarre Paintings of Obama on Etsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.houstonpress.com\/artattack\/2013\/05\/obama_etsy_painting.php\" target=\"_blank\">10 Most Amazingly Bizarre Paintings of Obama on Etsy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Press<\/a><br \/>\nHouston, Texas<br \/>\n2013-05-09<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jef With One F<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As <\/em>Houston Press&#8217; <em>bizarre Etsy art expert, I thought I&#8217;d see how a nation of crafty lunatics would portray our commander-in-chief. The answer is somewhere between &#8220;awesomely&#8221; and &#8220;needs medication badly.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.houstonpress.com\/artattack\/2013\/05\/obama_etsy_painting.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.houstonpress.com\/artattack\/obamapainting01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mike and Mollie took the title commander-in-chief a little too literally, and here we have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> looking like a cross between a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bj%C3%B6rk\" target=\"_blank\">Bjork<\/a> dress and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Turok:_Dinosaur_Hunter\" target=\"_blank\">Turok: Dinosaur Hunter<\/a>. The weirdest part is he sports a hammer and sickle button, and if anyone can explain to me where the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_Union\" target=\"_blank\">Soviet Union<\/a> and Native American heritage intersect then kindly let me know in the comments which mental health facility is offering the free <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wi-Fi\" target=\"_blank\">wifi<\/a> you&#8217;re using to view this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.houstonpress.com\/artattack\/2013\/05\/obama_etsy_painting.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.houstonpress.com\/artattack\/obamapainting03.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;This piece is described by Psychic Unicorns as imagining our president as the cult cinema anti-hero <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Shaft\" target=\"_blank\">John Shaft<\/a>. I choose to describe it as, &#8220;President Obama&#8217;s purple rage will leave thugs riddled with bullets as he rings the bell of liberty.&#8221; Seriously, this is a lot of freakin&#8217; purple. Are we sure <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\">Prince<\/a> didn&#8217;t do this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.houstonpress.com\/artattack\/2013\/05\/obama_etsy_painting.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Most Amazingly Bizarre Paintings of Obama on Etsy Houston Press Houston, Texas 2013-05-09 Jef With One F As Houston Press&#8217; bizarre Etsy art expert, I thought I&#8217;d see how a nation of crafty lunatics would portray our commander-in-chief. The answer is somewhere between &#8220;awesomely&#8221; and &#8220;needs medication badly.&#8221; Mike and Mollie took the title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,63,8],"tags":[16790,16791],"class_list":["post-35504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","tag-houston-press","tag-jef-with-one-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}