Not Joking

I’m surprised she’s still around. We learned more about that family than we needed to hear.
Then again, things are not looking up for the Republicans. Sarah’s at least pleasant to look at – maybe that’s what’s keeping her in the public eye. Whatever it is, it’s certainly not her ideas.
What’s this picture about? She seems to be reacting to something with her little old me persona. She is pleased, delighted and flattered. It looks like one of these “Caption this picture” photos.

There’s an outreached hand to her, yet her hand is holding something – a credit card? A business card? So she is not reaching out to the hand that’s reaching for her. The hand at her throat is a protective gesture. The disembodied hand is from a POV that makes the person whose hand it is seem larger than Palin.
Contrary to the caption, she doesn’t seem to be greeting the crowd. She is greeting other people who are behind the security line with her, turning her back on the crowd. Her husband is shielding her from the crowd, and I think the guy to her left (right side of the photo) in the sunglasses might also be security, plus the guy who’s just beneath the Obama/joker sign is also security – he has his arms spread and is standing in front of the security yellow tape.
she is in a state of being dwarfed and overhwelmed by her protectors while beseiged by her admirers.
For a “wildly popular” figure she always seems to need a lot of protection – not just from ill-doers, but protection from exposing too much of her weaknesses.

She’s probably holding one of the credit cards she forgot to return to the Republican National Committee after the ‘08 campaign.

Your comment identifies Sarah Palin as Michelle Bachman.

Mary, if you click on the link (‘this’ in the parenthesized phrase) you’ll see the picture of Michele Bachman he’s referring to.

oddly, all I see is a login page, no Michele Bachman. Maybe I’m fortunate…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jet16pics/
I dunno if this link will work for some of y’all, but there are other pictures from this person that have been labled the “People’s Surge”. The kill the bill poster with Obama in a coffin is next to a woman on a park bench.
Apparently, there was a Code Red Rally in Taft Park in DC on March 18.

It makes complete sense to me that a Palestinian would view Obama as a sociopath considering the devastation of Gaza and the West Bank that could not be achieved without implicit and explicit support from the U.S. This doesn’t appear to have been the artist’s intent, however.
He did not condone using his image to label Obama a socialist and said, “…First of all, who said being a socialist is evil?”
Of course, couldn’t be the Joker without some face paint, so there are uncomfortable echoes of minstrel shows that didn’t come to mind when Bush, et. al. were depicted as the Joker.
I’ve seen plenty of disturbing photos of the trend referred to in this post. I just didn’t feel that this was a particularly strong example of it.
The link above works if you delete the comma. While there are some examples of hateful signs I would hardly condemn the majority of the images or tactics represented. Whoever compiled them seems pretty uncomfortable with alternative lifestyles and the concept of resistance to ’some’ styles of government.