A Style of Obama Poster Not Likely To Be Widely Imitated

NRO Campaign Spot ^ | March 14, 2008 | by Jim Geraghty

[jdm]

It's a free country, and if Barack Obama's campaign wants to make money from posters ($70 a pop!) designed by the artist Shepard Fairey, they can go right ahead. (The candidate himself thanked the artist, and said that his "images have a profound affect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign." You know, because they're put on stickers and posted all over public property.)

And I'm sure I'll be told that the artist uses Communist propaganda imagery in an ironic way, or a satirical way, or in a way of making a pro-freedom political statement that I'm too obtuse to get.

It's not even that I don't like the style of his art— I was surprised to see he did this very striking poster for the movie "Walk the Line" which became the DVD cover.

But I can't help but wonder if it wise for a campaign to use an Obama poster that seems so stylistically similar to Fairey's posters that feature Stalin and Lenin, Saddam Hussein, Stalin and his cabinet, Stalin and Lenin again, and again, and Mao, Lenin again, Stalin again, Mao again...

Like with the Che flag in the Texas office, doesn't it seem a little odd that nobody around the people making this decision took a moment to say, "uh, guys, are we sure this is the image we want to associate with our candidate?"

Paging Jonah Goldberg.

[KarenMarie]

Sorry, but that artist is sorely lacking in creativity.

What’s he got... like 5 colors and no imagination?

[DBCJR]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985563/posts

[null and void]

And also mohammad’s horse. (A dark horse candidate?)

Question: Sir, we read in the Koran that Mohammed had a horse called Baraq. We also read that this horse had wings and the face and breasts of a woman and the tail of a peacock. . Most interestingly, we read in the Koran that Mohammed road Baraq 700 miles over night, that’s 80 miles an hour, to Jerusalem, dismounted and ascended to Heaven to chat with God. My question sir, is if you are elected President, given our energy crisis, can you help us get some of these horses? And sir, will they look like Angelina Jolie or Margaret Thatcher?

[Nateman]

I got your poster right here

[Radix]

Abomination.

Obamanation.

Tous les deux.

[counterpunch]

[Zack Attack]

[newheart]

:-)

[Charles Henrickson]

[Charles Henrickson]

[null and void]

I think you might enjoy Corin Stormhands’ and counterpunch’s illustrations of Obama at 29 and 30...

[EveningStar]

TaЯd ping!

"Tard" refers to the ping list members and not to the subject of the thread!

List of Ping Lists

[dfwddr]

Maybe the “P” should go too..........

[weegee]

I was out last week, bumping for later...

[woofie]

change the “change” to “spare change “ or “sex change”

[Dajjal]

Here's another thread on Shepard Fairey:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006110/posts
The Art of Politics ["Obey Obama"]

Artwork from Fairey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints

[reasonisfaith]

This artist’s style is like a stomach ulcer. Painful to look at.

A true representation of the ideas of communism.

Of foolishness and evil intent, only one can take the lead and communists have no other choices.

[B-Cause]

This was sent to me by a friend in D.C. who knows truth from fiction:

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John,

This came from a good friend that is very connected to Africa and the missions and many of the missionaries there. I don't know if there's any proof, but at some point, if it's true, it will come out.

These are Missionaries in Africa and can shed some light on one of our Presidential candidates.

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Thanks for sending out an alert about Obama. We are living and working in Kenya for almost twelve years now and know his family (tribe) well. They are the ones who were behind the recent Presidential election chaos here. Thousands of people have been displaced by election violence (over 350,000) and I don't know the last count of the dead. Obama under 'friends of Obama' gave almost a million dollars to the opposition campaign who just happened to be his cousin, Raila Odinga, who is a socialist trained in east Germany. He has been trying to bring Kenya down for years and the last president threw him in prison for trying to subvert this country!

December 27th elections brought cries from ODM (Odinga Camp) of rigged election. Obama and Raila speak daily. As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election if he doesn't win and possibly cause a race war in America.What we would like you to know is what the American press has been keeping a dirty little secret. Obama IS a Muslim and he IS a racist and this is a fulfillment of the 911 threat that was just the beginning. Jihad is the only true Muslim way. We have been working with them for 20 years this July! He is not an American as we know it. Please encourage your friends and associates not to be taken in by those that are promoting him. It is world wide Jihad. All our friends in Europe are very disturbed by the Muslim infiltration into their countries.

By the way, his true name is Barak Hussein Muhammad Obama. Won't that sound sweet to our enemies as they swear him in on the Koran! God Bless you. Pray for us here in Kenya . We are still fighting for our nation to withstand the same kind of assault that every nation, including America, is fighting. Takeover from the outside to fit the new world order. As believers, this means we will be the first targets. Here in Kenya, not one mosque was burned down, but hundreds of churches were burned down, some with people in them, burned alive. Jesus Christ is our peace but the new world order of Globalism has infiltrated the church and confused believers into thinking that they can compromise and survive. It won't be so. I will send you a newsletter we sent out in February documenting in a more cohesive manner what I've tried to say in a few paragraphs.

[Salamander]

Post #58.

[shibumi]

No shock or surprise here.