Posted on 07/03/2008 9:40:20 AM PDT by george76
Last fall, Barack Obama explained why he hadn't been wearing an American flag pin on his lapel.
"I won't wear that pin on my chest," the presumptive Democratic nominee said. "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism."
What a difference a presidential campaign makes.
Obama, who suggested back then that the flag pin "became a substitute for I think true patriotism" after the Sept. 11 attacks, now regularly sports the patriotic symbol at campaign events.
He even briefly employed a campaign seal that looked a lot like the official presidential seal, the symbolism of which was hard to miss.
For a candidate who took an early stance against what he seemed to characterize as an empty symbolic gesture, the heavy use of symbolism in Obama's campaign has been particularly hard to ignore.
"All politicians, especially presidential candidates, traffic in symbols all the time," said Rutgers historian David Greenberg. "But Obama has given special care to his symbolic statements."
Image makers have long understood the importance of creating powerful symbolic associations for their candidates. A good photo of a politician gesturing confidently, a row of American flags behind him, can convey leadership ability and competence; a poor one, like the infamous shot of 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in a tank, can have the opposite effect.
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"Who ees it who won't wear the ribbon?" < /seinfeld >
This change is very confusing.
First he threw the flag pin under the bus and now he has reached under it to retrieve it?
Can you fit more flags behind ya Barry when youre making speeches?
Nice find.
Never enough flags....now.
Will they fall down like Hillary’s, that moment was priceless, look what happened./Just Asking - seoul62.......
His “changes” are a red flag as to how he’d operate should he win the White House, we’ll all be in big trouble.
Won’t wear the pin with the flag of my country, the United States of America. Then he doesn’t deserve to be president.
He accuses loyal patriotic people of being rednecks; well, Obama is a pinkneck Marxist and should never be allowed to hold any office in my country.
Hmmmm. Is pinkneck a word? I like it. It is descriptive.
And the most Photoshopped image of the day goes to -----
TA-DA
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE for their "That Arab Guy Obama is G-d" cover image!
Rolling Stone graphics designer Irvin Goldberg who worked on the image said "I swear that cover gives me an erection!" Oy!
One Obama supporter said "That white halo around his body is real! I have seen it! He gives us hope for a change for hope and change like we have never seen hope and change ever in America!
Marice Brown, a young African American, looked at the Rolling Stone cover as it sat next to a newstand in downtown Atlanta and declared "Damn! That Arab looks good! I seen him once in a limo! Sold him a couple of rocks! Uh, you haven't seen a pipe on the ground here have you? It was next to my underwear."
Obamas campaign approved of the Rolling Stone picture and said that Obama would soon announce his energy policy on a nearby mount where he would take one barrel of oil and transform it in to many barrels of oil!
Obama's wife, Michelle, will be featured on next months Rolling Stone Magazine's cover. While the magazine denies that Obama's wife's image has been Photoshopped and that the "small differences are due to her recent makeover" some readers may wonder about that. Here is the picture of Michelle Obama that will be on next month's cover:
Michelle Obama.
That looks more to me like the effect used to indicate an unsavory aroma emanating from the object in question.
If Obama started wearing a swastika the press would explain that it’s an ancient Hindu good luck symbol intended to show his solidarity with people of Indian origin, and in no way associated with Nazism.
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Hmmmm. Is pinkneck a word? I like it. It is descriptive.
Obama talked in almost achingly intimate terms about the impact service had on him...
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Priceless!
That’s not the swastika I knew!
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