Barack Obama as Jesus

This picture here is of a jubilant, almost serene Barack Obama with a neon halo around his head. David Cordero, a student of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, created this work depicting Obama as someone resembling Jesus Christ.

Asked why he created this sculpture, Cordero said:

"All of this is a response to what I've been witnessing and hearing, this idea that Barack is sort of a potential savior that might come and absolve the country of all its sins," Cordero said. "In a lot of ways it's about caution in assigning all these inflated expectations on one individual, and expecting them to change something that many hands have shaped."

Sculpture of Obama as Jesus causes stir

While, this artwork has created outrage amongst the more offendable, I think people ought to pay attention to what Cordero is saying. Obama may very well be an excellent President in the future. I think, though, that the reason why some folk support him is not so much for who he is, but what they juxtapose onto him. The potential election of Obama is seen as a means of penance.

This isn't a mockery of Jesus Christ. This is a plea for sanity. Who has ever been opposed to sanity?

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