Posted on 04/15/2008 5:42:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is something unsettling and very familiar in the Obama poster campaign which has plastered his image over the country. The posters depict the same graphic closeup of the candidate with one block word either "Hope," "Change" or "Progress" at the bottom. I knew that I had seen this before, and then it came to me that this image appropriates the graphic style of totalitarian Soviet propaganda. It recalls the idealzed portraits and personality cult of the "Beloved Leader" such as Stalin and Lenin. The leader, face illuminated by a "holy" light, looks off to the horizon and sees the truth that is not available to his mere mortal followers, who must look up to his image.
The one-word message offers a simple (simple-minded) promise of a utopian existence. These stenciled words bring to mind They Live, a 1988 film, in which secret alien gods take over Los Angeles and control the inhabitants by subliminal billboard messages which display the word "Obey." Coincidentally or not, the website for the artist, Shepard Fairey, who designed Obama's posters is called Obey and boasts on its homepage, "Manufacturing quality dissent since 1989," and the artist bills himself as an agent of "worldwide propaganda delivery."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Well, this should help people wake up. The thought that pops into my head is that of the “Leader” in the movie “Sleeper” - - wheelchair, seeing eye dog, etc.
They can’t use his actual theme: “Death to America”
Wow. Go to the site and compare the posters. Creepy!
WOW, that’s just SCARY.
Note that Lenin's ear is in full view -- Obama's are obliterated by shadow. The Obama graphic also has a somewhat feminine quality.
All part of the "perfect" propaganda image of a highly imperfect human being.
Isn’t there a FReeper here who has a ‘shopped pic of that same poster with the word “obey”? Seems I seen it lately on another thread. I’m surprized it isn’t posted here yet.
I know, I saw them
I need one of those posters to use for target practice.
That looks like something right out of 1984. Creepy.
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Somebody ought to creat a yard sign with the Lenin and Obama poster pictures side by side.
Big Brother
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