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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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.)
Sorry, but that looks like you’re holding a phallic symbol horizontally.
“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.
LOL! I was just working on the same theme! I’ll upload it and post it.
There’s no way around it. This “salute” that Obama’s cult members have come up with is just loaded!
Since this involves both hands, how are 75% of his male supporters going to hold their pants up at the same time??
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!
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
It reminds me of the salute in the movie 1984..
Yours is definitely funnier.
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.”
“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!!!”
My newest creation...what do you all think?
ROFL @ you two!
Priceless!
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