Fame seeking artist irked his Obama parody is being ignored

By Gloria Teasdale, Senior Arts and Trans Fat Writer

The "Oburglar" poster - not attracting much attention.

MADISON, WISCONSIN – A Wisconsin college student is irate a controversial poster he created mocking President Obama isn’t getting any notoriety.

Collin Davlin, an amateur artist and Bovine Studies major at the University of Wisconsin, created his “Oburglar” poster on Photoshop last month, shortly after a poster parodying the President as the Joker drew headlines nationwide.

“It’s bogus my poster hasn’t created any waves, because it’s really, really good,” Davlin said. “It’s easily ten times more controversial than that stupid Joker picture. I have equated the President with the most notorious villain in the entire fast food world – you’d think someone would be outraged by that.”

Davlin’s Obama poster shows the President dressed up as the Hamburglar, the rascally McDonald’s trickster infamous for stealing hamburgers while mumbling “robble, robble” in a saucy voice. On the bottom of Davlin’s poster is the word “kleptocracy,” a form of government in which the ruling class enriches itself at the public’s expense.

“I designed this poster for two reasons. First, I wanted to raise awareness of Obama’s kleptocratic agenda that’s stolen billions of dollars from the people to line the pockets of his corporate cronies,” Davlin said.

“But more importantly, I just wanted to be famous, and thought this poster would piss enough people off to get me that. Maybe even leverage it all into a book deal. Boy was I wrong.”

Davlin is also upset his other two McDonald’s parody posters – “Mayor McPalin” and “Grimace Joe Biden” – have also failed to generate scuttlebutt.

“I don’t know what else I can do,” he said. “I posted them on my Twitter page. I sent them to all my Facebook friends. I even email them to the major news networks. No response. Nada. People are fickle.”

A brief canvass of Davlin’s fellow University of Wisconsin students seems to bear that out.

“Ew that’s stupid,” said freshman Erica Long when shown the Oburglar poster. “Politics is gross.”

“Why would someone want to diss the Hamburglar, he always seemed alright to me,” said junior Brian Johnson.

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