Posted on 08/11/2008 6:00:23 AM PDT by cartan
George Bush had his three-fingered W salute that supporters flashed when greeting him at presidential campaign events in 2000. And now, if a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way, Sen. Barack Obama will see fans meet him with his own salute like the one above. “Our goal is to see a crowd of 75,000 people at Obama’s nomination speech holding their hands above their heads, fingers laced together in support of a new direction for this country, a renewed hope, and acceptance of responsibility for our future,” says Rick Husong, owner of The Loyalty Inc. Husong tells me that he got the idea after seeing the famous Obama-Progress poster by artist Shepherd Fairey. “We wanted to get involved some way,” he says. So, the agency came up with their own a symbol of hope and progress that also plays off Obama’s name. “We thought, ‘Let’s try and start a movement where even while walking down the street, people would hold up the O and you would know that they were for Obama,’ ” says Husong. Much thought went into the relatively simple idea. “You interlace your hands in a circle, the interlacing being a symbol of different types of people coming together and the circle a symbol of unity,” he says. Their design, unlike Fairey’s, is free, and Husong is urging people to download it and print it on posters and T-shirts. “We want to see it everywhere, but more importantly we want this sign to take the world by storm.”
All right this is getting pretty freaking creepy.
It does look like an obscene gesture, doesn’t it?
Heil Obama!
**It does look like an obscene gesture, doesn’t it?**
Obscene, yes ... because it looks a LOT LIKE the SALUTE used in the movie, 1984.
“All right this is getting pretty freaking creepy.”
No kidding.
It’s interesting that the worshippers of the zero (liberals) unwittingly chose the zero as their symbol. Philosophically speaking, those who believe in nothing of substance have subconsciously chosen to show it.
I think this will die a quick death.
Got that right. He’s a freak.
My answer to that is a middle finger pointed up from a clenched fist.
Soldiers of Oceania salute Big Brother in the movie 1984.
O-bunghole
**Soldiers of Oceania salute Big Brother in the movie 1984.**
Close enough to be FRIGHTENING ..
but that’s DOUBLEPLUSGOOD!!
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