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Will all respect to Dave Barry, "I am not making this up."
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/08/07/one-nation-under-a-new-obama-salute.html
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."
Kind of an eerie resemblance to the salute show in 1984:
I am sure it is coincidental. Toss it on top of all the other cult of personality / messianic / marxist overtones already displayed in the BHO campaign, and it BHO's new salute is creepifying.
At least they have gotten beyond earth tones:
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I just hope this sort of bulls__ turns off enough people before November...
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I have a salute I will give him. And it only requires one finger.
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The first think I thought of when I saw that is that they're telling him he's a big ahole...
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The first think I thought of when I saw that is that they're telling him he's a big ahole...
I concur or a bigger "insert slang for female anatomy"
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What about:
The well-known OK gesture, when held with the thumb on top at the level of the chest means "ahole", as seen in the film Mr. Holland's Opus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity_in_ASL
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That salute seems to fit perfectly for Obama as the "Big Zero".
Umber
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Hmmmm...Maybe I'm just weird, but the first thing that comes to mind when I see that is the old Goatse.cx (Wiki article, NOT the actual image) site.
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Icewater through the nose sure stings!
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This really isn't politics...
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The first think I thought of when I saw that is that they're telling him he's a big ahole...
That's exactly what I thought, too.
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Anyone else think it code for "your ass will be this big when we're done bending you over"?
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The Original, and still the best...
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So is that some sort of new Rock, Paper, Scissors move?
I don't remember seeing it on www.worldrps.com, but it has been a while.
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The Original, and still the best... Hitler picked "Paper". He chose poorly.
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Bush says, "I got something for that circle thingy Obama!"
Scroll down
keep scrolling
Almost there....
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John Kerry, human condom, has something for it too
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Hmmmm...Maybe I'm just weird, but the first thing that comes to mind when I see that is the old
Goatse.cx (Wiki article, NOT the actual image) site.
Avatar update!
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What is your avatar supposed to be?
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What is your avatar supposed to be?
You really, really don't want to know.
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The first think I thought of when I saw that is that they're telling him he's a big ahole...
<snort!>
Closely similar to my first thought on seeing that.
<snicker>
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Of course it could be some weird sexual innuendo, but surely not.
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I think this is where he stole it from:
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What is your avatar supposed to be?
You really, really don't want to know.
Hmmm. I wonder if I could get away with a bumper sticker or a t-shirt. Kind of like the guy with the London olympics.
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We will all learn to love big brother.......
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Hmmmm...Maybe I'm just weird, but the first thing that comes to mind when I see that is the old
Goatse.cx (Wiki article, NOT the actual image) site.
Avatar update!
Bwaahaha!...Please Bwahaahaabwahaabwaahaahaa help...bwaahaaabwahaaa get me some oxygen bwahaahaa...
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Hmmmm...Maybe I'm just weird, but the first thing that comes to mind when I see that is the old
Goatse.cx (Wiki article, NOT the actual image) site.
Avatar update!
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Hmmmm...Maybe I'm just weird, but the first thing that comes to mind when I see that is the old
Goatse.cx (Wiki article, NOT the actual image) site.
Avatar update!
Bwaahaha!...Please Bwahaahaabwahaabwaahaahaa help...bwaahaaabwahaaa get me some oxygen bwahaahaa...
I love learning new things, thanks.very funny!
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He's doing the Obama Salute (either that or it's yet another "Open wide, here comes Obama!"):
Chris
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Chris, that's very rude to the screaming beards.
I'm very disappointed in you.
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I'm very disappointed in you.
So is everyone else in my life...
Chris
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Well, at least you have a baseline you can meet...
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xavier fremboe you're a genius!
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xavier fremboe you're a genius!
Many thanks, but I really have to give Sindawe the hat tip for the inspiration.
*Edited to add. Just googled "obama goatse", it and someone else actually did an almost identical one during the primary. They also added:
FEB 12, 2008. The Obama campaign will debut an updated logo tomorrow, to reflect the gapingly wide margin of his latest victories.
The updated logo is intended symbolize Obama "spreading open the political process so the light of hope can shine into the darkest recesses of Washington."