I recently reported that the now famous photo-shopped image depicting President Obama as Batman’s antagonist the Joker with the word “Socialism” written underneath was originally the work of a Palestinian-American Chicago student:

20-year, Chicago college student and Palestinian-American Firas Alkhateeb. Firas though did not write the word “socialist” and while not a big Obama supporter does vote or did vote Democratic.

Firas photo-shopped the Time magazine cover of Obama and then went to work on it to create the image of the Joker. Firas just wanted to poke the image of Obama as if he were “the second coming of Christ.”

“From my perspective, there wasn’t much substance to him,” Firas was quoted as saying. The young student supported left-wing Democrat Dennis Kucinich whom along with libertarian Republican Ron Paul was the only publicly pro-Palestinian candidate in 2008.

Firas just wanted to have fun with Obama and posted the image on his Flickr. An unknown right-winger then took Firas’ photo and put the word “socialist” and then circulated it.

The young artist criticized the revision of his photo as “immature.”

“It really doesn’t make any sense to me at all to accuse him of being a socialist is really ... immature,” Firas stated. “First of all, who said being a socialist is evil?”

I recently came across this comment made by Firas in what was for all purposes an apology to Obama:

I would like President Obama to know that I didn’t intend for any of this to happen and of course we’re all Americans and we’re all rooting for him and we’re all hoping he does a great job.

This made me angry. What is the matter with his Joker? Why is he so afraid of offending Obama? Does he believe that if an Arab, or worse a Palestinian Arab, offends the U.S. president he’ll be deported or something?

This kid is so pathetic and just creates the image that Arab-Americans was all a bunch of apologizing pu$$ies. This is America, Arab or not, we can say whatever we want about our presidents and not have to apologizing.

Just look:

Hey Obama! F@ck You!