Obama unveils new Symbol

Examiner.com ^ | 3-3-09 | Phoenix Conservative

[Scott Martin]

Barack Obama sure likes his symbolism.

Who can ever forget the hopeful rising sun coming up over a horizon of stripes, suggesting a new day of change coming?

Or the Obama for President seal, complete with a spread-eagled eagle, heart filled with the hope of Obama's first seal?

And certainly not the self-adulatory hubris of the Office of the President Elect.

Today President Obama unleashed the latest creation of his egomaniacal mind, a stamp that will forever glorify (and transform, I'm sure) all the wasteful projects stemming from his porkulus spending bill, ARRA.

President Obama announced today that his administration will begin stamping an emblem on projects funded by the economic stimulus packageso that people can easily recognize the effects of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act....

[dubie]

[ari-freedom]

[MrB]

Sarlacc... had to look up the reference...

Star Wars, pit thing in the desert.

[Ladysmith]

What the he**??!

[Designer]

"I bet the Obama Youth Corps will have all kinds of cool-looking badges and insignias."

To wear on their brown shirts.

[vidbizz]

Is that the new Seig Heil arm gesture?

[tomkat]

yup, precisely !

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[DannyTN]

I think, Obama is not taking enough credit. The seal should read

ObamaPork.Gov.

[xcamel]

[ari-freedom]

well at least this means he definitely not a muslim

[tomkat]

very good !

[gridlock]

Let us critique this design.

The stars are arranged a rectangular grid, rather than in staggered rows, like the 50-star flag. This makes the field look less like the flag than it should.

"RECOVERY.GOV" is the name of a website, not the name of a government office. Websites are ephemeral things, with no substance, making this logo look insubstantial.

The gears do not mesh, and never can. The keyway on the larger gear is a cross, which is never used because it is structurally weak and difficult to machine. To anybody with even a small familiarity with machinery, looking at those gears causes almost physical pain.

The plant is small and insubstantial, not robust and productive. I have a lot of wild mint in my garden, and this looks like the little weeds I have to pull every week.

The three sectors, blue for government, red for industrial and green for agricultural, are not in the proper proportion. The government sector is half of the total pie. As much as the Obamites might like that idea, we are not there just yet.

The blue government sector is over top of the productive sectors, which suggests a level of government control which is seen by many as a negative thing.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

[aruanan]

Who can ever forget the hopeful rising sun coming up over a horizon of stripes, suggesting a new day of change coming?

You mean that recycled Weather Underground symbol?

[Bassfire]

[Grampa Dave]

[depressed in 06]

I understand the marijuana and the bleeding red cross and the vacuous space over recovery, but, what is with the stars?

[wagglebee]

This one is better:

[Candor7]

Is that IT?

Buahahahahahhahahahahahah!

[aruanan]

I have a button I’m making. It’s red on black with Army stencil lettering that reads F.O..

[sniper63]

Absolutely nothing,

She is perfect and beautiful as she ever was. God Bless her......

[Seaplaner]

For a minute, I thought he might have meant this symbol...

.

[PhilDragoo]

[FormerLib]

I was just going to post that!

We’ve nicknamed the mascot “Mr. Stimulus.”

[JHBowden]

[ari-freedom]

“I understand the marijuana and the bleeding red cross and the vacuous space over recovery, but, what is with the stars?”

the stars are what you see once you get knocked in the head from Obama’s plan

[dubie]

found it here: http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-salute/

[gridlock]

Now I know what it reminds me of!

Remember the camera from the 1953 version of War of the Worlds...

[silverleaf]

ding ding ding- we have a winner!

[DannyTN]

Eating a healthy helping of Pork Barbeque could have accomplished the same thing.

[EGPWS]

His stutter doesn’t fit, however pictures say it all!

[ari-freedom]

I thought it was a mutated Simon Says

[Bryanw92]

>>It isn’t a coincidence that the green leaves symbolize the sickle of agriculture and the gears symbolize the hammer of industry.

Its not a coincidence. I’ve been telling people for a couple weeks to be on the lookout for a nice, happy symbol of the new Socialist America. No hammer and sickle for the America of Hopey-changiness.

I think it’s here. I really didn’t even expect him to be some obvious.

[geege]

Now he’s a cutie!!!

[gridlock]

GMTA

[CrazyIvan]

The gears do not mesh, and never can. The keyway on the larger gear is a cross, which is never used because it is structurally weak and difficult to machine. To anybody with even a small familiarity with machinery, looking at those gears causes almost physical pain.

Very observant! As a machinist, this is the visual equal of fingernails on a blackboard. Also the teeth have parallel surfaces, something else that literally doesn't mesh.

[vidbizz]

Holy Crap!

[Need More Cowbell]

Here is a more appropriate symbol:

http://favtag.com/u/AFQEXI

[throwback]

Obama is Chance from the movie “Being There”. MSM has over analyzed him into brilliance, but there is none. The concept of failure and success is foreign in the government enterprise because reward and punishment are the same for both. So people that work in government cannot produce solutions that work because they have never had to.

[Houghton M.]

It took nearly 100 posts before someone allluded to the Mark of the Beast. I’m shocked.

[gridlock]

I had a security program on a computer at work that had three interlocking gears arranged in a triangle as a background. I begged the company to change this background, but they would not do it, and it was not a user definable setting.

I had to stare at those damn locked gears, day after day, for three years. Finally, when I had the chance to spec a new program, I rated that company very low, to make sure I would not get that program back.

[Ramius]

Has anybody else noticed that those gears don’t mesh?

Ah, irony. :-)

[potlatch]

Recovery Gov?? Lol, looks like a marijuana plant and some loose cogs to me! [haven't read the thread for prior comments!]

I like your image off of the background!

[dead]

[Zakeet]

[21twelve]

That’s what I thought too. (Maybe they just made an error in their spelling).

[Dead Corpse]

AFRCOM Project Mayhem.

Caution: Bad language inside.

[Verginius Rufus]

Plus the larger cog has what looks like a little red cross. Isn't that patent infringement, as well as causing affront to Muslims and other non-Christians?

The color green is presumably because it's one of the colors of the flag of Kenya. Kenya's flag also has black in it, but he doesn't want to think that his government is ever going to operate in the black.

[Right Wing Assault]

The gears do not mesh, and never can. The keyway on the larger gear is a cross, which is never used because it is structurally weak and difficult to machine.

That's the first thing I noticed.

[paulycy]