October 26, 2008
Sunday It's a Little Creepy Even If You're Drinking the Kool-Aid Photo: October 26, 2008
Another image from Shepherd Fairey's recent tour of the District. It can't be said how omnipresent Fairey's image has become in America -- from the minds of even the least-conscious undecided voters to every surface onto which an ad can be flashed. This writer, for one, hopes that an Obama administration does not mean that he has to gird his loins. But say that some international crisis did prompt President Obama to put the Constitution in a choke-hold. When he goes dictator, can any of us say we didn't see the signs? They were all over our coffee mugs, t-shirts, alleys, even Psychofarm's photostream.
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People still read Mark Levin?
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I enjoy Kool-Aid mimosas with my Sunday brunch (champagne and orange flavored K-A). I hope that's not creepy.
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This article basically summed up my feelings about this creepy artistic trend in portraying Obama. Even if you don't agree with the site's politics, I think the comparisons stand on their own.
http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/06/23/obamas-propagandistic-iconography-the-making-of-a-messiah/
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honest-to-god, if the ronald reagan was around today (or the internet was around in 1980), he would have been portrayed exactly the same way, and the sides would switch in saying whom is making a god out of whom. it's much ado about nothing.
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Nice to see I'm not the only D.C. resident that finds these posters creepy.
It's called Messiah complex and the posters are icing on the cake.
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Agreed w/IMGoph. This sort of iconization is ongoing. Recall how for a while there it seemed like every photo of Bush was shot so he had a halo?
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Photographic_manipulation
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People seriously find these creepy? GTFOOHWTB
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sixfive said:
Always nice to read intelligent comments from Obamabots. The McCainiacs usually try to convert me to Christianity and tell me I'm going to hell. It's nice to be loved by theocrats and socialists.
BTW, TX 4 UR POV, now GTHYFB...IYKWIM.
JK.
- Gthunda
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This is an unlikely venue for this (since in general this site has a serious left slant, and I am sure that this thread will draw the ire of the many of those who are a member of the cult of Obama). But it good to see other residents of the area slightly creeped out by these posters.
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Sure, it's a bit much. But most of the posters are being put up by grassroots activists, so perhaps there's more to be said about the amount of enthusiasm that Obama has been able to generate in all kinds of people than about "drinking the Kool-Aid." Usually we're all so cynical about the candidates - I for one find it refreshing to see this man campaign.
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I think the Shepard Fairy image is really well done, and I like it. And I agree with IMGoph; if this was during the Reagan era, you'd see the same thing on the Republican side. It's been fun for having the charismatic candidate for once, so don't y'all piss in my kool-aid quite yet.
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NCinDC: Did you find the "Ron Paul reLOVEution" posters creepy? Why or why not?
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politburo: you actually have to have a following to be a messiah...
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"But it good to see other residents of the area slightly creeped out by these posters."
DC's something like 90% Dem, and while the surrounding area trails that figure, it doesn't lag by much. So I'm guessing most aren't creeped out.
But I do feel terribly guilty over how many poor starving children (of Republican out of work rust belt steel workers, naturally) that could have been fed by all the wheat that went into the paste used to put the posters up.
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And on Jan. 21, when Obama has to make his first compromise to, you know, actually govern effectively, how are the Kool-Aid drinkers going to respond? Like lovers spurned, or sensible people who have a deep and abiding understanding of how the political process actually works?
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ledroitist- let's hope we don't look to recent history for the answer to that one! :)
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Downtown Rez, When Obama throws something like DC Statehood under the bus, I'll be going with "lovers spurned."
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Did he promise statehood? It's harder than simple voting representation.
In my fantasy world Obama gives us back our share of NoVa. :)