Posters depicting Barack Obama as Joker appear on Los Angeles streets

An unknown street “artist” remade Obama’s face by drawing out his lips into a sinister smile, his face is painted white and beneath there is the word “socialism”.

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson told WHNT News that such a depiction of Obama was politically mean spirited and dangerous.

- We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama – he said.

The posters did not just cause a stir on the streets of Los Angeles – true chaos erupted when the pictures made it to the internet and the web sites that published them first crashed under the burden of views.