One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute

[stephanie]

Oh my... it's a BIG ZERO:laugh2::poke:

picture at site.

One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute
August 07, 2008 04:53 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link

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."

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/08/07/one-nation-under-a-new-obama-salute.html

[Dilloduck]

Oh my... it's a BIG ZERO:laugh2::poke:

picture at site.

One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute
August 07, 2008 04:53 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link

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."

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2008/08/07/one-nation-under-a-new-obama-salute.html


LOL It's right up there with telling someone that they are # 1 with your middle finger but little gimmicky things like this are what I expect from a rookie.

[hjmick]

Huh... a gaping hole. I realize it's supposed to represent an "O," but my first reaction was "asshole." There is no way this will catch on, is there? It's just silly.

[stephanie]

maybe they can just recycle the Hitler salute..

good gawd, will these people look stupid holding up the O:lmao:

[Yurt]

the obama salute:

http://cayankee.blogs.com/cayankee/images/2008/04/19/obabma_bird.jpg

OH, OH

http://www.moonbattery.com/michelle-obama-fist-salute.jpg


HOW OBAMA REALLY FEELS

http://autone.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/380_salute.jpg

[theHawk]

I can just picture a sea of Obamaphiles, all holding their hands over their heads, indicating their IQ with the big Zero.




Huh... a gaping hole. I realize it's supposed to represent an "O," but my first reaction was "asshole." There is no way this will catch on, is there? It's just silly.

Well that does reflect his foreign policy -- the U.S. will just bend over and take it.

[Noir]

any form of salute just seems odd to me, I couldn't imagin what would be said if one of our potential prime minsters wanted use to give him a specail salute, but what ever floats your boat...

[Joe Steel]

One Nation, Under a New Obama Salute
August 07, 2008 04:53 PM ET | Paul Bedard

George Bush had his three-fingered W salute that supporters flashed when greeting him at presidential campaign events in 2000.

Three-fingered salute?

No.

We just wanted to see if he was smart enough to read between the lines.

[stephanie]

Three-fingered salute?

No.

We just wanted to see if he was smart enough to read between the lines.



O

[red states rule]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SJwnGtVkZzI/AAAAAAAAPpM/0FJeTUMb6vE/s400/space+hippies.JPG


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SJwpepGyPlI/AAAAAAAAPpk/53D0CRF_6E8/s400/space+hippies3.JPG

DRINK YOUR KOOL AID MY CHILDREN

[Kathianne]

One would think they saw the problem with a zero, but apparently not.

[Little-Acorn]

Very appropriate.

Two hands raised, with nothing in their grasp.

http://admin.usnews.com/dbimages/master/6181/FE_DA_080807whispers.jpg

[red states rule]

Very appropriate.

Two hands raised, with nothing in their grasp.

http://admin.usnews.com/dbimages/master/6181/FE_DA_080807whispers.jpg

Nothing to offer

Nothing new

Nothing accomplished

[Hobbit]

Huh... a gaping hole. I realize it's supposed to represent an "O," but my first reaction was "asshole." There is no way this will catch on, is there? It's just silly.

That was my first reaction. Made me think of goatse, which is just another reason to hate the Obama campaign with fiery passion.

P.S. No, there's no link to goatse here. You don't want to see goatse. It's probably against board rules, anyway. Don't look it up. For the love of God, don't Google it. Just know that it's a terrible, horrible thing you NEVER want to see and leave it at that.

[darin]

http://admin.usnews.com/dbimages/master/6181/FE_DA_080807whispers.jpg


"...And THIS is your bum-hole AFTER Obama screws over the citizens..."