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One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute
U.S. News ^ | August 07, 2008 04:53 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 08/09/2008 9:03:41 PM PDT by bethtopaz

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; fifthposting; obama; president
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To: Roscoe Karns

21 posted on 08/09/2008 9:49:02 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Triage doesn't deal with people who successfully defend themselves with guns.)
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To: nikos1121

Check this out: http://www.zimbio.com/Obama+Salute/articles/2/Obama+Salute+Instructional+Guide

It seems to be a bona fide idea from some loyal Obama supporters.

(probably smoking crack when they thought it up.)


22 posted on 08/09/2008 9:55:21 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Obama has bipartisan appeal, but you can't win with just Socialists and Communists.)
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To: bethtopaz
I think this dumbass has yet to figure it out.


23 posted on 08/09/2008 9:56:41 PM PDT by South40
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To: bethtopaz

Sorry, but that looks like you’re holding a phallic symbol horizontally.


24 posted on 08/09/2008 9:59:29 PM PDT by Ben Reyes
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To: Ben Reyes

“Sorry, but that looks like you’re holding a phallic symbol horizontally.”

And if you rock it to and fro....

I am really sorry about this, but I can’t help it.


25 posted on 08/09/2008 10:02:21 PM PDT by Ben Reyes
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To: FredZarguna

LOL! I was just working on the same theme! I’ll upload it and post it.


26 posted on 08/09/2008 10:22:36 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: Ben Reyes

There’s no way around it. This “salute” that Obama’s cult members have come up with is just loaded!


27 posted on 08/09/2008 10:24:06 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Obama has bipartisan appeal, but you can't win with just Socialists and Communists.)
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To: Ben Reyes

Since this involves both hands, how are 75% of his male supporters going to hold their pants up at the same time??


28 posted on 08/09/2008 10:24:54 PM PDT by linton59 (. bitter,typical,gun-toting,Bible thumping)
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To: FredZarguna; xDGx

29 posted on 08/09/2008 10:26:04 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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To: linton59

Since this involves both hands, how are 75% of his male supporters going to hold their pants up at the same time??
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hilarious!


30 posted on 08/09/2008 10:35:54 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Obama has bipartisan appeal, but you can't win with just Socialists and Communists.)
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To: bethtopaz
this has to be satire - it would be too spooky - first thing that came to mind are those black and white videos of nazis saluting and screaming adoration at hitler - or maybe the goose stepping parades saluting hitler - the second was the mark of the beast

i have my own salute if i see some nut making that sign - but it only involves one hand - in fact - only one finger

as i see it, i will have the advantage - i’ll still have a free hand to cling to a bible or tote a gun while they will have to set down their starbucks oompha doompla choco double soompha latte

31 posted on 08/09/2008 10:36:25 PM PDT by sloop (pfc in the quiet civil war)
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To: bethtopaz; All

It reminds me of the salute in the movie 1984..


32 posted on 08/09/2008 10:36:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Hey Barak... I'm a citizen of the US not the WORLD!!!!!)
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To: Roscoe Karns

Yours is definitely funnier.


33 posted on 08/09/2008 10:39:29 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Triage doesn't deal with people who successfully defend themselves with guns.)
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To: KevinDavis
I wish I knew how to post a photo, but if you link to this and follow it down the page near the end, there's a picture of the salute in the movie 1984 - it's creepily similar:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute

“In the movie 1984 (though not the novel), soldiers marching on parade and the Outer Party members at a frenzied “Two Minutes Hate” wave both clenched fists overhead with their wrists crossed. A very similar gesture is seen in Pink Floyd The Wall, but there the wrists are repeatedly banged together.”

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Someone mentioned that this was also a salute from a Star Trek show where a group of people thought they found paradise and used this salute, only to find out that paradise was poison. Sounds like the paradise Obama promises, huh?

Unfortunately, I think that these naive Obamites are serious. Many young kids these days are so spiritually hungry, they will follow anyone.

“If you don't believe in God, you will believe in anything.”

34 posted on 08/09/2008 10:53:14 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Obama has bipartisan appeal, but you can't win with just Socialists and Communists.)
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To: Roscoe Karns
Artistically, O's graphic is a simple closure of this famous pic:


35 posted on 08/09/2008 11:04:44 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Triage doesn't deal with people who successfully defend themselves with guns.)
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To: bethtopaz; KevinDavis
Here ya go:


36 posted on 08/09/2008 11:06:09 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Triage doesn't deal with people who successfully defend themselves with guns.)
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To: bethtopaz; Roscoe Karns
I find this less threatening:


37 posted on 08/09/2008 11:09:15 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Triage doesn't deal with people who successfully defend themselves with guns.)
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To: nikos1121

“has to b a joke”

I think not - he wasted no time designing a new presidential seal of the U.S..

when john edwards announced publicly Fri. (about his affair) that he’d begun to feel “special” and became “egocentric” - This doesn’t hold a candle to the clouds in which b. hussein’s been dwelling, dreaming “and I believe I can FLY!!!”


38 posted on 08/09/2008 11:16:27 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: All

My newest creation...what do you all think?

39 posted on 08/09/2008 11:28:46 PM PDT by rlmorel (If they can call George "Dubya", we can call Barack "Hussein")
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To: FredZarguna; Roscoe Karns

ROFL @ you two!

Priceless!


40 posted on 08/09/2008 11:43:23 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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