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Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« on: August 08, 2008, 07:18:02 AM »
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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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2008, 07:20:18 AM »
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I just hope this sort of bulls__ turns off enough people before November...


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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2008, 07:23:20 AM »
I have a salute I will give him.  And it only requires one finger. angel
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2008, 07:29:56 AM »
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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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2008, 07:37:41 AM »
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" Smiley



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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2008, 07:38:34 AM »
What about: 
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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.
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2008, 08:04:36 AM »
That salute seems to fit perfectly for Obama as the "Big Zero".

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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2008, 08:09:31 AM »
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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« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2008, 09:56:05 AM »
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2008, 10:06:00 AM »
This really isn't politics...
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2008, 10:22:28 AM »
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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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2008, 10:22:54 AM »
Anyone else think it code for "your ass will be this big when we're done bending you over"?  shocked
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2008, 11:13:02 AM »
The Original, and still the best...



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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2008, 11:26:00 AM »
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.  smiley
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #14 on: August 08, 2008, 11:27:46 AM »
The Original, and still the best...



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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2008, 11:30:56 AM »
Bush says, "I got something for that circle thingy Obama!"


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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2008, 11:52:56 AM »
John Kerry, human condom, has something for it too

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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2008, 12:04:52 PM »
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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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2008, 12:57:54 PM »
What is your avatar supposed to be?  Huh?
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« Reply #19 on: August 08, 2008, 12:59:41 PM »
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #20 on: August 08, 2008, 01:20:44 PM »
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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.

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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #21 on: August 08, 2008, 02:08:34 PM »
Of course it could be some weird sexual innuendo, but surely not.   smiley
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #22 on: August 08, 2008, 02:14:53 PM »
I think this is where he stole it from:

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« Reply #23 on: August 08, 2008, 02:56:01 PM »
What is your avatar supposed to be?  Huh?

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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.  angel
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Re: Obama Gets Personalized Salute
« Reply #24 on: August 08, 2008, 03:22:17 PM »
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