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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What the hell’s that supposed to mean? This how you’re gonna feel once Obama’s done with you?
One of the very few things that Marx ever got right was his dictum,”History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Obama is looking more and more like a farcical Hilter redux. His swooning followers can’t even come up with a usable salute. A salute that requires two hands???!
The last thing Larry Sinclair saw before the limo lights went out?
That’s awesome!!
Heh heh.
Stick it where the sun don’t shine?
rofl!
It is sooooo gay.
Did the W campaign actually spread the word for supporters to do this, or did it catch on by itself?
hehehe...glad someone got it! :-)
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