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Obama Salute Creator Hits Back at Critics
US News and AWorld Report ^ | 8/12/08 | staff

Posted on 08/12/2008 1:03:32 PM PDT by pissant

At first, Rick Husong was stunned by the overwhelming wave of negative and sometimes crude reactions to his bid revealed in Whispers last week to build a pro-Sen. Barack Obama movement around a hand salute dubbed the Big-O. Among the hundreds of comments posted on the Whispers site were those comparing it to a gang gesture, a Nazi salute, or worse. "This is how Sieg Heil got started. And, no I'm not saying Obama is Hitler. I just think people should be careful about slipping into a personality cult for a charismatic leader," wrote Jake of Tennessee. Husong tells me that he was pretty depressed by the reaction to his idea and free design offered on the website of Loyalty Inc., his California creative company. That is until he heard of a fan walking on Venice Beach wearing a T-shirt displaying the artwork. In fact, despite the tsunami of criticism, the artwork has been downloaded 7,700 times and his site has been hit 214,000 times since the first Whisper went live. "I would call that a raving success," he says, adding that he plans to make his Big-O the "peace sign of our generation."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: larrysinclairslover; obama; obamasalute; whokilleddoanldyoung
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21 posted on 08/12/2008 1:16:20 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: tx_eggman

So, is this how Richard Gere comes on to gerbils?


22 posted on 08/12/2008 1:17:21 PM PDT by Clioman
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To: kenth

TOOO MUCH! What a hoot! Is this for real? I love the Big O Tires! Have they runt his by Oprah yet?! Isn’t she the Big O? Or isn’t the big O stand for orgasam?! Ha! This will be the nail in the coffin for sure! What a great chuckle tho!


23 posted on 08/12/2008 1:18:35 PM PDT by LYSandra
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To: pissant

I read a book once about Zen meditation, and there was a way to hold your hands called the “cosmic egg” that looks like this hand gesture.


24 posted on 08/12/2008 1:18:39 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: pissant

Looks like something Monica did for Bill.

(Except it was no doubt a smaller case O.)

25 posted on 08/12/2008 1:19:13 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: tx_eggman

Note the radiating lines, denoting the puckered structure of the symbol.

26 posted on 08/12/2008 1:20:29 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: pissant
The O from Star Trek
27 posted on 08/12/2008 1:21:02 PM PDT by byteback
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To: pissant
...to build a pro-Sen. Barack Obama movement around a hand salute dubbed the Big-O.


28 posted on 08/12/2008 1:21:55 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: driftless2
Are the creators of this new sign really saying that Obama is a big zero?

And, as a bonus, they're too dumb to figure it out.

29 posted on 08/12/2008 1:21:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

In the words of Paula Jones - “about the size of a roll of dimes”.


30 posted on 08/12/2008 1:22:10 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: pissant

I like the salute. Looks like they’re saying Obama is a big ZERO.


31 posted on 08/12/2008 1:22:33 PM PDT by PhillyRepublican
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To: pissant
Obama's bowling instructor likes the Big-O hand salute.



32 posted on 08/12/2008 1:23:48 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: tx_eggman; pissant
I had to check the website to verify that is the hand sign that you posted. The funny thing is, that's the same hand sign that my friends in college and I used on each other when one of us was "talking out of our ass."

The coincidence and irony are stunning! LOL

33 posted on 08/12/2008 1:24:43 PM PDT by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: pissant

His salute represents the taxpayers rear ends after the Messiah gets done with them.


34 posted on 08/12/2008 1:25:26 PM PDT by mickey finn
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To: pissant

supersized at

http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/files/1_2_1/Public%20Art%20Website/Web%20Pages/Spirit%20of%20Womanhood.html


36 posted on 08/12/2008 1:27:20 PM PDT by Peelod
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To: byteback

Where is the O sign on the video. Thanks for finding this!


37 posted on 08/12/2008 1:28:50 PM PDT by bethtopaz (Obama has bipartisan appeal, but you can't win with just Socialists and Communists.)
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To: LYSandra
"Or isn’t the big O stand for orgasam?!

"Orgasam"? Is that what happens when you screwew? :-)

38 posted on 08/12/2008 1:31:32 PM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: pissant
'Story of O' was a possibly appropriate book.
39 posted on 08/12/2008 1:34:50 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Gorzaloon
Note the radiating lines, denoting the puckered structure of the symbol.

An idea blatantly plagerized from Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of his own a-hole in Breakfast of Champions

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40 posted on 08/12/2008 1:37:37 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Privatizing profits and socializing losses is no way to run an economy)
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