Posted on 08/08/2008 5:59:25 AM PDT by teddyballgame
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."
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Take off every 'zig' !!
Obama worshipers are crazy, stupid and creepy all at once.
I assume these fools need a salute so they can identify each other.
B O H I C A
Michelle Malkin has this up as well, http://michellemalkin.com/
“Oh, my. The Obama groupies have come up with their own special sign language to signal their religion to each other. Here is the worshipful new gesture that its creators want to spread across the country...”
...and Instapundit: Instapundit chuckles.
Dan Riehl plumbs hidden meanings. Hah.
And reader Jim M. e-mails: “In American sign language, the sign for ‘asshole’ is the circle formed with one hand. The new Obama sign can mean only one thing: ‘Big Asshole.’ If the sign fits…”
Eclipse chasers use that sometimes.
Now Obama needs a salutation, too, to go with the hand sign.
Loved the movie and the play!
Check out the names of the principals of “The Loyalty, Inc.”
With names like theirs, I’ll bet they have a hard time getting on airplanes...
Is that goatse? Ew!
(For those who don’t know, “goatse” — DON’T google it, for your sanity’s sake! — is a picture of a distended, prolapsed rectum. It was an internet meme for a while.)
I've always loved that Mel Brooks, a Jew, could make fun of Hitler in an environment where all mention of him was almost forbidden...because the way you attack real monsters or the memory of monsters is to make them look silly. (As we well know in here!)
Maybe there is something to that Sinclair story.
The Italians have one that is particularly appropriate.
Bialystock and Bloom- God-dag!
Libs can’t stand mockery, so laughing at this is good. However, at its core, this is no laughing matter. The “salute” is a subservient pose, with both hands occupied putting the saluter at the mercy of the One being saluted. It might look funny, but if the One gets elected, it won’t be. Is is really that hard to imagine a day when failing to salute the image of the One will mark you for the brownshirts?
The world has been here before. Thinking “It can’t happen here” is naïve. In fact, it may be happening here right before our eyes.
Boy, liberals are not only incapable of figuring things out when explaining them, but they will rush to even lower standards if they are offered to them.
This is not about equality, this is about suicide, a path to suicide and a race to tease liberals to an even lower “equal” of crap.
It’s truly “frightening”. I wonder how far this will go.
Mr. Husong "the world" does not have a vote and we as Americans should not give a rat's ass who "the world" wants to be President of The United States.
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