OBAMA X.
Granted, it's probably (okay, certainly) not true. But if that crazy person who runs Atlas Shrugged is right and Barack Obama really is the son of Malcolm X, that would make my day. Honestly, who wouldn't give Malcolm props for that one? And think there's anyway we can fit Tupac into the bloodline? Or maybe Obama actually is Tupac? You know that whole shooting was some bullshit, right?
Incidentally, I see no reason to stop with Malcolm. History is full of great Xs for Barack Obama to be related to. Professor X, which would explain why millions of white people lose their minds in his presence. Weapon X, which would explain the adamantium grafted onto his skeleton. XML, which would explain why it's so easy to structure his data. I'm sure there are others. And if anyone felt like Photoshopping Obama into an X-Men uniform to a) help illustrate this post and b) brighten my day, I'd certainly be grateful.
Update! Reader Robert J. Kelly comes through, turning Obama into Cyclops, field leader of the X-Men (the picture is now atop the post). And it makes sense: What is Obama's practiced into-the-distance gaze good for if not controlling the optic beams that will result from a horrible accident while touring a ruby mine? And check out more of Kelly's work at Namtab.com. It is, if anything, even more awesome.
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History is full of great Xs for Barack Obama to be related to.
Terminator X.
Posted by: X | October 30, 2008 10:03 AM
Project X, which explains why Obama is actually piloted by an oppressed group of monkeys who Mathew Broderick is going to try to save.
Posted by: Torgo | October 30, 2008 10:05 AM
There was a 16th century pope called Leo X. Apparently that's how it was pronounced; not Leo Tenth, but Leo X.
Posted by: Stuart Eugene Thiel | October 30, 2008 10:09 AM
Wow, that's some high-level crazy over there....
Posted by: AHG | October 30, 2008 10:16 AM
Never stop referencing X-Men.
Posted by: Jeff | October 30, 2008 10:24 AM
It's too bad that none of the eight popes named Urban were appointed in succession. Then you could've had Urban decay, followed by Urban renewal.
Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | October 30, 2008 10:25 AM
Terminator X.
Barack Obama needs to come clean about his ties to that noted anti-Semite, Professor Griff. Also, where was he on the Night of the Living Baseheads? Was he a living basehead?
Posted by: Dylan Matthews | October 30, 2008 10:28 AM
OK, so her only actual argument in a blog post longer than the Time Cube is that Barack Obama's mother was supposedly in Hawaii when she conceived (or maybe just gave birth to) Obama, but that's impossible, because she was enrolled in a Chicago college at the time.
Therefore, Obama's father must be a Chicago-based black man. Because Dunham was a radical, he must have been a famous, radical black man. And there is an uncanny resemblance between Obama and Malcolm X. For example, they both have receding hairlines.
What's the point of all this, you ask? Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright, that's what!
Posted by: Cyrus | October 30, 2008 10:38 AM
Chemical X, which would suggest that Obama's adorable daughters are really The Powerpuff Girls!
Posted by: monkey.dave | October 30, 2008 10:38 AM
I hear Obama is also related to Iannis Xenakis. My friends, is America really ready for a leader who uses stochastic processes?
Posted by: inkybrain | October 30, 2008 10:48 AM
So I guess this means that Obama is a citizen?
Posted by: Alex Knapp | October 30, 2008 10:50 AM
Obama reminds me more of Cyclops...quiet, reserved, but definitely in charge of the whole team.
(check your inbox, Ezra)
Posted by: rob! | October 30, 2008 10:51 AM
Well, that's cereal all over my monitor, then.
Well played.
Posted by: Fnor | October 30, 2008 11:00 AM
It's tempting to implicate the mysterious Racer X, long-lost brother of Speed.
Racer X, you have my vote. I know you can outdrive, outthink, and outvirtue the rest of the field.
Posted by: Mach me 5 sloe gin fizzes | October 30, 2008 11:02 AM
Excellent. Personally, I went for Colossus.
You know that Wolverine is buried under the Air Force Memorial, right?
Posted by: ajw_93 | October 30, 2008 11:09 AM
wow, thanks for the plug, Ezra!
i think i mentioned here before--i've even done some work for AP. small world.
Posted by: rob! | October 30, 2008 11:12 AM
(oh, and btw--that's Barack and Michelle in the background, as they fight off the RNC's endless attacks.)
Posted by: rob! | October 30, 2008 11:16 AM
Now, I'm not really a Marvel fan, so this may in fact be obnoxious nitpicking of the completely inaccurate kind, but weren't Cyclops' optic beams themselves the result of his mutant nature, while the accident at the ruby mine merely caused brain damage that prevented him from controlling the optic beams?
And, as such, wouldn't Obama's soulful gaze be equally inadequate to contain the optic beams?
Not saying that Obama/Cyclops wouldn't make an excellent president; just saying he'd be an excellent president who would still have to wear a badass looking visor all the time.
Posted by: LittleMac | October 30, 2008 11:17 AM
Geza X, LA punk musician and producer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geza_X
Great songs from the early 1980s including "We Need More Power" and "Hungarian."
Posted by: Rich | October 30, 2008 11:50 AM
and Barack Obama really is the son of Malcolm X . . .
This would really explain something I've noticed about Obama. Every time he speaks in the state of Florida he stands in front of flags featuring giant red Xs. Coincidence? You've got to be kidding.
Posted by: Rob Mac | October 30, 2008 11:51 AM
Honey... have you seen my super suit?
Posted by: George Smiley | October 30, 2008 12:01 PM
Hey, that's it. Obama/Tupac has the healing gene, like Claire and Adam. So he was shot, but he recovered, and Hiro took him back into the past, where he created a new life as a politician from Illinois.
Posted by: Doctor Jay | October 30, 2008 12:02 PM
Don't forget about Nat X.
Posted by: Josh | October 30, 2008 12:04 PM
Francis X. Bushman!
Oh, the photoshopping possibilities!
Posted by: godoggo | October 30, 2008 12:10 PM
And Geza X! OK, I'm showing my age with that one, but still.
Posted by: godoggo | October 30, 2008 12:12 PM
Or XXX, like Vin Diesel and Ice Cube
Posted by: Josh | October 30, 2008 12:23 PM
Let's not forget Jimmy "Double-X" Foxx.
Posted by: Mike | October 30, 2008 12:25 PM
Rob!, that art is win.
Though I hope Barack isn't quite as much of a dick as Cyclops.
Posted by: Persia | October 30, 2008 12:30 PM
"But if that crazy person who runs Atlas Shrugged is right and Barack Obama really is the son of Malcolm X, that would make my day. Honestly, who wouldn't give Malcolm props for that one?"
I just read that linked article. That is some serious crazy going on. Wow.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan | October 30, 2008 12:42 PM
Actually, I believe he's secretly all the members of the Los Angeles punk rock band X (like trent Reznor is really all of NIN). But that's probably more up Ackerman's alley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_us_band
Posted by: lutton | October 30, 2008 12:48 PM
Self-parody, thy name is Atlas Juggs.
Posted by: Alex | October 30, 2008 1:15 PM
Do they even make medication for that level of insanity???
Posted by: Goldie | October 30, 2008 1:52 PM
Do they even make medication for that level of insanity???
If you'd seen the clip of her singing "Don'tcha wish your girlfriend was hot like me" to Hassan Nasrallah, you'd know the answer to that question.
Posted by: Matt Weiner | October 30, 2008 2:01 PM
Actually, I believe he's secretly all the members of the Los Angeles punk rock band X
Which of course would make him Aragorn's girlfriend, but who's counting?
Posted by: rea | October 30, 2008 2:46 PM
You think it's a coincidence that Obama has such support from the netroots? That's only because the MSM has failed to investigate his hidden ties to the mysterious blogger known only as..... Mister X.
Posted by: The Navigator | October 30, 2008 3:29 PM
I guess I'm really old. How about George Kennan, author of the "X" article defining containment of the USSR?
Posted by: Linkmeister | October 30, 2008 3:42 PM
Duh. Obviously, he is agent of the alien race that seeks to destroy Earth, namely Monster X!
After the inaguration, he will reveal his true form as Blackazoid Gidorah, and that will be the end of Humanity.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Posted by: Oneiros Dreaming | October 30, 2008 3:46 PM
Dude, I'm going to start my own crazy-ass liberal blog, and figure out some batshit way to claim that John McCain is Adolf Hitler's son. I'm going to use lots of pictures and red font, and write posts that go on and on until my readers just glaze over 90% of it.
I will be so awesome.
Posted by: Sam | October 30, 2008 4:00 PM
shit... I'm the daughter of a Quit India freedom fighter... I have black skin and brown hair... maybe my grandfather was really Mahatma Gandhi?!?!
people are so freakin' dumb.
Posted by: UGLY PUNK GURL! | October 30, 2008 4:28 PM
NO NO NO!
He's Racer X, Speed Racer's older brother come to save the day!
Posted by: mrmojo | October 30, 2008 5:32 PM
This would mean that Obama is a cousin to X MarksTheSpot. His close family includes known Marksists!
Posted by: Nowhere Man | October 30, 2008 5:53 PM
Wow.
How old are you boys?
X?
X and a half?
Posted by: eric | October 30, 2008 6:30 PM
How about Mister T?
Posted by: Magic Dog | October 30, 2008 8:11 PM
no, no, he is Planet X.
Posted by: Galen West | October 30, 2008 8:38 PM
Somebody's tinfoil hat is too tight
Posted by: J. Harding | October 30, 2008 9:36 PM
I wish these wingnuts would just say that they do not like black people and just have it over with. I appreciate the craetivity in their rantings, but it is getting tiresome. Just say it. You don't like black folk. Say it once and say it loud, you don't like blacks and you are proud.
Posted by: rogerniner | October 30, 2008 11:41 PM
In a shocking interview, Henrietta Pussycat reveals: "Meow meow X the Owl meow!"
Posted by: Matt McIrvin | October 31, 2008 12:12 AM
that photoshop is very well done and laid out, but the coup de grace would have been to photoshop a little american flag pin on the chest!
Posted by: BruceLee5000 | October 31, 2008 2:08 AM
Terminator X: Fear of a Barack Planet
But it seems like Barack should fear this X
Posted by: Mad Monk | October 31, 2008 6:17 AM
According to FactCheck.org (run by Obama and Bill Ayers former employer, Annenberg Foundation www.factcheck.org/contact)which "verified" Obama's Certificate of Live Birth as though it were his REAL Birth Certificate clearly states that Obama had citizenship in BOTH the U.S. and KENYA.
This further muddies the waters of his supposed "eligibility" to run for President of the U.S.
When Obama says he's got the proof of a REAL Birth Certificaate and refuses to reveal it, as McCain did, and all other Presidential candidates have done for the Federal Election Commission,,,he's lying and hiding more and more.
For those of you who think the Malcolm X son theory puts to rest the question of Obama's U.S. citizenship,,,dream on! This is just the beginning of a whole new can of worms;
http://israelinsider.ning.com/
Posted by: blondegenes | November 2, 2008 3:41 PM
blondegenes, why are you lying out your ass about Obama's birth certificate? Are you that much of a twit?
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | December 26, 2008 10:09 PM
What's the point of all this, you ask? Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright, that's what!
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