Archive for December 9th, 2009

Turkey in Chief

Alpha had his school Christmas holiday program. While we were walking to the cafeteria/auditorium/cafetorium, we passed by display cases containing artwork from the various classes. I don’t know which grades did these turkeys, but apparently a number of students were handed line-drawing turkeys which they were supposed to color or otherwise decorate.

turkey drawings by school children

I wish I knew the story behind this.

  • Did the child happen to glance at the stack of magazines in the art room, see Obama’s photo, and just decide that he would look good on a turkey?
  • Did the child purposely put Obama’s head on a turkey body as a statement of how poorly he thought the government was being run?
  • Or was the child thankful for Obama and trying to indicate that by associating him with Thanksgiving?
  • Is the small picture to the right of Obama’s head a picture of a turkey with Obama’s head on it? Was that the inspiration for this art? From where did that come?

Obama's head on a turkey body art drawing

The world may never know.

I find the most interesting part to be the bicycle handlebars. Why a bicycle? Shouldn’t he be holding onto the handlebars? So many questions . . .

When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.

Colossians 2:15