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June 10, 2009
Concrete Obama Head Goes on Tour
The USSR specialized in oversized statues of communist thugs done in the awkward Socialist Realism style. As in so many other areas, the Hopey Changey USSA is following suit:

Its creator, 82-year-old artist David Adickes, is traveling with the 3½-ton bust, and grinned as he looked at the head that was parked on the street.
"Most people just ogled it on the highway," he said. "Only one guy gave us the finger."
Take it on tour in a couple years, after the media hype wears off and economic hardship takes firm root. The bust will get a lot more fingers.
On a tip from mandible claw.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 10, 2009 9:00 AM
Comments
Put a telempromtper in front of this thing and we can dispense with the other one.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 10, 2009 9:05 AM
So lifelike! Just like the real thing: Full of rocks.
Posted by: We Are So Screwed at June 10, 2009 9:07 AM
what would be cool is if that dog hiked its leg on it...just me thinking out loud. again.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 10, 2009 9:09 AM
Kneel! Kneel before the Giant Obama Head!
Posted by: Evil Otto at June 10, 2009 9:19 AM
Only one guy that he saw. I'm gonna give ti all three fingers.
Posted by: Jimh at June 10, 2009 9:34 AM
This is great, target practice! Hope I can find my paintball gun.
Posted by: Lord Crimson at June 10, 2009 9:35 AM
"Take it on tour in a couple years, after the media hype wears off and economic hardship takes firm root. The bust will get a lot more fingers."
And more than a few sledgehammers.
Posted by: single stack at June 10, 2009 9:38 AM
I'm betting that bust has 100x the brainpower of the real Hussein, and would make a much better president.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 10, 2009 9:44 AM
Is it really a promotion for the Obama Chia Head?
http://www.asseenontvguys.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=557
They should dump that ridiculous thing on Easter Island. Or load it into a cargo plane and drop it on the Whitehouse. Now, that would be hilarious. Obama walks into the Oval Office, sees a big hole in the ceiling, finds his desk destroyed and this 7,000 pound head staring backing at him.
Posted by: Ch Ch Chia at June 10, 2009 9:47 AM
I protest! How much CO2 is this old fool emitting hauling around a 3 1/2 tons concrete block head? Is he buying carbon credits???
Posted by: Al Gore at June 10, 2009 9:51 AM
"For me to poop on!"
/triumph
Posted by: AWO at June 10, 2009 9:58 AM
Shouldn't there be a cigar? David Adickes gives head to Obama. Monica Lewinski gives head to Bill Clinton.
Posted by: Mo at June 10, 2009 10:05 AM
The stone version is smarter too
Posted by: JamesJ at June 10, 2009 10:22 AM
It gives new meaning to the old saying give him some concrete slippers to take a walk with the fishes.
Give him a concrete helmet to take a walk with the sea kittens.
Posted by: Eric at June 10, 2009 10:43 AM
Look at the bright side, at least it keeps his mug off Mt. Rushmore, and concrete isn't that durable (like granite, or marble) so it will turn into dust in a few decades. (not unlike his own history)
Posted by: Eric at June 10, 2009 10:45 AM
RACIST! That concrete is WHITE!
Posted by: Eric at June 10, 2009 10:46 AM
I object that its path hasn't intersected mine; there would have been more fingers.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at June 10, 2009 11:04 AM
That big head gets my panties hot.
Posted by: Ghost of Wellstoned at June 10, 2009 11:14 AM
/triumph HAHAHA
That guy is lying about the reaction he's getting.
Posted by: Karin at June 10, 2009 11:36 AM
O'blockhead.
Posted by: Kevin R at June 10, 2009 11:47 AM
What a dreadful waste of all that cement. I THINK I,LL TURN LOOSE A BUNCH OF SPARROWS,PIGEONS and STARLINGS and let them use it as a their own pooping place
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at June 10, 2009 11:48 AM
HYUK,HYUK,HYUK, SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK WE BIRDS ARE A COMMIN TO RELEIVE OURSELVES ON THE BUST OF THE ANNOYING ONE BOMBS AWAY SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK HYUK,HYUK,HYUK
Posted by: Flu-Bird at June 10, 2009 11:57 AM
It's so realistic! If you look in one ear, you can see through to the other one.
Posted by: Man of few words at June 10, 2009 12:43 PM
I just read as much of the article as I could stomach. It says several times that the head is 20 feet tall. If you assume the guy walking the dog is close to 6 feet tall, that ugly head is no more than eight feet. Must have been a woman that wrote the article. If it were 20 feet tall and he drove under some power lines, the head would come off. Hmmmmm.....smile.
Posted by: Man of few words at June 10, 2009 12:51 PM
Look again. That's me standing on top of it emptying my bladder on Chairman 0's head.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 10, 2009 12:58 PM
Remember when the United States Marines pulled down the "Saddam Statue" in central Baghdad's Firdos (SP?) Square in April of 2003?
Anybody up for a reenactment?
Posted by: TonyD95B at June 10, 2009 1:11 PM
My caption: "Which way to Easter Island?"
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 10, 2009 1:13 PM
Maybe someone could paint up the statue's face so it resembles the Joker (a la the museum scene in Tim Burton's 'Batman').
Posted by: Adam at June 10, 2009 1:17 PM
got his very own statue already - jesus. Anyone remember the shoes being thrown at Sadam's statue? Anyone w/ a statue or "bust" while still in office needs a SERIOUS reality check.
Posted by: Heather M at June 10, 2009 2:22 PM
Leave it in a bad part of town, the local Obama youth will decorate it with their spray cans......Yes they can...LOL
Posted by: Buttmonkey of Wellstone at June 10, 2009 2:50 PM
Just a fingers? I'm placing bets that someone will whack that bust with a 50lbs sledgehammer. Anyone want to disagree?
Posted by: Moonbat skullcracker at June 10, 2009 3:58 PM
I can almost see Charlton Heston looking at the bust and hear him yelling, "You MANIACS!"
Posted by: Judith M. at June 10, 2009 4:20 PM
Isn't a graven image against his religion?
Posted by: grayjohn at June 10, 2009 4:52 PM
alllaaaaaahhhh snackbar
Posted by: grayjohn at June 10, 2009 4:53 PM
Do it, SPURWING PLOVER! Do it before it's in the Oval Office, screaming "I AM OBAMA! THE GREAT AND POWERFULL!" at visitors.
Posted by: KHarn at June 10, 2009 5:14 PM
I thought of a better caption:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Posted by: KHarn at June 10, 2009 5:16 PM
RE: Posted by: KHarn at June 10, 2009 5:16 PM
Percy Bysshe Shelley?
I was thinking more Mary Shelley........
Posted by: TonyD95B at June 10, 2009 6:54 PM
The original was modelled in a Tijuana gasoline station restroom when the toilet overflowed.
Posted by: Thomas Jackson at June 10, 2009 8:11 PM
It's started! If that isn't an obamanation, a desolation, I don't know what is.
Posted by: batman at June 10, 2009 8:58 PM
Don't tell Obama about this or he will insist
it be added to Mount Rushmore
Posted by: singsalot at June 10, 2009 9:54 PM
SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK BEWARE,BEWARE ME AND MY FELLOW BIRDS ARE READY TO RELEAVE OURSELVES SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at June 11, 2009 7:46 AM
Take it 100 feet up in the air drop it and it will be a real BUST at least 2000 or more teensie weensie peices
Posted by: turu the terrible at June 11, 2009 9:48 PM

