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Candidate-related art taking off (Obama fad spreads to arts)
Chicago Sun Times ^
| 07/20/08
| CHRISTINA S.N. LEWIS
Posted on 07/20/2008 5:35:38 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Candidate-related art taking off
July 20, 2008Recommend
BY CHRISTINA S.N. LEWIS
Last week's New Yorker magazine cover, an illustration depicting Sen. Barack Obama and his wife as fist-bumping terrorists, has been all over the news. But that isn't the only Obama-related artwork attracting attention these days.
Collectors, investors and fund-raisers -- many of them looking to cash in on the candidate's popularity and place in history -- are snapping up campaign posters and other works depicting Obama.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: art; electionpresident; fad; obama
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/20/2008 5:40:39 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: TigerLikesRooster
I like those. That’s positive but...hope they don’t cost a small fortune. Anything Obama will be worth something in the future because he is the first black man to not only run for the highest office in the land but to secure the nomination. If hillllereee had won all her things would have been worth something too because of her being the first woman nominee. It’s only natural.
To: TigerLikesRooster
I thought the Obama Sock Monkey was the best novelty item of the year, but we aren’t even allowed to show the picture.
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posted on
07/20/2008 5:40:44 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
(I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Leave it to the Chicago Sun Times to produce this kind of bias.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Reminds me of the Che Guevara t-shirts.
I always appreciated those shirts because it let me know instantaneously whether I'm dealing with a moron or not.
This art will achieve the same effect.
To: cubreporter
That’s positive but...hope they don’t cost a small fortune. Anything Obama will be worth something in the future because he is the first black man to not only run for the highest office in the land but to secure the nomination. He hasn't secured it yet.
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posted on
07/20/2008 5:46:56 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
To: antienvironmentalist
Yes, things like this tend to undermine his credibility.
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posted on
07/20/2008 5:47:59 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/20/2008 5:55:01 PM PDT
by
Coffee200am
("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/20/2008 6:02:35 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/20/2008 6:27:43 PM PDT
by
yooling
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Even the VRWC Postal Service gets involved!
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posted on
07/20/2008 6:29:48 PM PDT
by
Seeking the truth
(Barack Hussein Obama images, stamps, tees, bumper stickers - 0cents.com)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I think it would be appropriate to paing an image of obama on a felt painting dressed as Elvis.
To: TigerLikesRooster
I walked into a customer's a week ago and the lady I spoke with had this poster in her cubicle:
She was a white woman, appx. 60 years old, looked like an average Granny. The dark comedy behind this poster I'm sure is lost on its earnest creators, not to mention anyone who buys it. Mexico is such a bastion of freedom and democracy!
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posted on
07/20/2008 7:36:07 PM PDT
by
avenir
To: Centurion2000
Well for all intents and purposes he has. If it changes so be it but...anything Obama will be valuable.
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