obey Obama propaganda

I've always been a fan of the obey giant propaganda campaign, by artist Shepard Fairey. I found out the other day that Mr. Fairey made that iconic Obama poster that you see everywhere. You know, the 2008 equivalent of the Che Guevara/Maoist/Stalinist images. This has been heavily covered, but it's news to me. I especially love obey's appropriation of Obama's striped fields logo. I guess Fairey also did a few pieces on Dubya, but I'm pretty sure the Bush camp won't endorse them any time soon... there's "one hell of a leader," "bush hell," and the "bush gore poster."

The socialist/communist implications of the Obama image add to the creepiness of a video, shot in Venice California, of a bunch of kids singing for Obama. People link it to weird communist rituals. Hilarious. The Obama campaign has apparently taken the video off youtube.

Are we in some sort of prewar Germany stage, where the beginnings of fascism are starting to take hold? There does seem to be a lot of young sheeple out there who worship the obamessiah without a clear reason for doing so. That's just Palin stupid. Although this is the election of a person, it's still important to understand ideas and not just focus on people. "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt.

I'm just saying things are interesting right now and if wrong moves are made, things could get very interesting. In any event, I just bought my obey Obama sticker on ebay, which has the word "progress" under Obama's image. Just how ironic it ends up being will depend on who wins in November.