Change...
Posted on 04/15/2008 5:42:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is something unsettling and very familiar in the Obama poster campaign which has plastered his image over the country. The posters depict the same graphic closeup of the candidate with one block word either "Hope," "Change" or "Progress" at the bottom. I knew that I had seen this before, and then it came to me that this image appropriates the graphic style of totalitarian Soviet propaganda. It recalls the idealzed portraits and personality cult of the "Beloved Leader" such as Stalin and Lenin. The leader, face illuminated by a "holy" light, looks off to the horizon and sees the truth that is not available to his mere mortal followers, who must look up to his image.
The one-word message offers a simple (simple-minded) promise of a utopian existence. These stenciled words bring to mind They Live, a 1988 film, in which secret alien gods take over Los Angeles and control the inhabitants by subliminal billboard messages which display the word "Obey." Coincidentally or not, the website for the artist, Shepard Fairey, who designed Obama's posters is called Obey and boasts on its homepage, "Manufacturing quality dissent since 1989," and the artist bills himself as an agent of "worldwide propaganda delivery."
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Change...
Hope...
Just WOW!! I hope Rush has seen this little ditty this morning! This needs to get wide coverage. Once again American Thinker does the work that the DBM should be doing!!
GREAT JOB!!
LOL!!
Spot on - it *is* in the Soviet style. I thought those graphics were parodies with that in mind....are they the real deal?
The posters are definitely creepy; but are they actually coming out of the Obama camp? The artist who got famous for his stupid “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” campaign doesn’t seem like someone that you’d want working on your campaign posters.
The cult of the great leader. Expect progressively worse irrationality from his supporters.
Just like that. Now it needs to be turned into a yard sign.
well, thanks!
I just whipped that up, and on only 1 cup of coffee!
I wish I could find a better match for the “change” font, tho.
The whole thing needs a little cleaning up.
Obama thinking: “Just look at all those typical white folks who are so ridden by racist guilt that they will elect even me...”
And I thought Hillary was dangerous.
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