If you haven't seen the new "Organizing for Healthcare" logo from Barack Obama's website, here it is:
This is bizarre. It is spooky. It is actually kind of frightening.
Narcissist that he is, his official campaign logo affixed prominently in the middle, on top of a map of the country. No American flag to be seen.
Some AMA-like symbol, with white, faceless beings standing behind the Obama logo, like lost souls, as if he's is protecting them.
I'm going to catch flak for this, but, it reminds me of some Nazi propaganda poster from World War II.
Who the hell thinks this crap up?
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Yes it's unfortunate. The ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by jim | August 5, 2009 10:04 AM | Score: 12 (14 votes cast)
Yes it's unfortunate. The caduceus resemble the eagle and they placed the Obama symbol right where the nazi cross would be.
Ironic, but not surprising given how amazingly tone deaf this administration is.
What's really creepy is not the logo but the idea that they need to raise a propaganda army to force this crap socialized medicine down our throats.
1. Posted by jim | August 5, 2009 10:04 AM |
Score: 12 (14 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 10:04
2. Posted by Texan99 | August 5, 2009 10:05 AM | Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
I can't decide if that rounded, translucent thing looks more like a jellyfish or a mushroom cloud.
2. Posted by Texan99 | August 5, 2009 10:05 AM |
Score: 9 (9 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 10:05
3. Posted by OLDPUPPYMAX | August 5, 2009 10:11 AM | Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
Nothing more than a clear representation of leftist thought. The "huddled masses"--the mouthbreathing, mindless public--under the kind, munificent control of their superiors.
3. Posted by OLDPUPPYMAX | August 5, 2009 10:11 AM |
Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 10:11
4. Posted by MPR | August 5, 2009 10:12 AM | Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
Obamalala has made a big mistake making this about him. His re-election depends on getting this "reform" rammed through despite the horrific consequences to the country. To him and his minions nothing else matters. Being tossed out after four years will be as much if not more of a rebuke than it was to Carter. And Obamalala knows it.
4. Posted by MPR | August 5, 2009 10:12 AM |
Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 10:12
5. Posted by Falze | August 5, 2009 10:13 AM | Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
How's that saying go? When your only tool is a hammer, all your problems start to look like a nail?
I guess when your only experience is community organizing, all your problems start to look like a job for ACORN.
5. Posted by Falze | August 5, 2009 10:13 AM |
Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 10:13
6. Posted by Stephen Macklin | August 5, 2009 11:01 AM | Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
It's even more troubling considering that they have spent last few days attempting to demonize organized opposition to national healthcare. It's apparently only OK to organize in support of The One.
6. Posted by Stephen Macklin | August 5, 2009 11:01 AM |
Score: 13 (13 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 11:01
7. Posted by jennifer | August 5, 2009 11:06 AM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
To be honest to me it appears as if the people are dead, kind of risen spirits heading off to the afterlife.
Does this suggest that we are going to die under this health care plan? Who knows but I am with you it is surreal/ creepy.
Jennifer
7. Posted by jennifer | August 5, 2009 11:06 AM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 11:06
8. Posted by The Obvious One | August 5, 2009 11:10 AM | Score: -28 (32 votes cast)
Frightening? You're frightened by the simplest things.
The 'organizing' is being done outside of the white house. It appears they are using Obama campaign organization grassroots mechanism. There's no "american flag' because its not a whie house/government effort.
Let me guess - you hide under your desk if a black man enters your place of business?
Surely you don't wet your pants if a man in a turban walks by?
"Frightened" conservatives are the nation's bedwetters. Luckily there is a network, Fox News, that caters to bed wetters so that there is a sense of community and belonging. That and this blog, obviously.
depp=true
notiz=Time to change your diaper TOo
8. Posted by The Obvious One | August 5, 2009 11:10 AM |
Score: -28 (32 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 11:10
9. Posted by M.E. | August 5, 2009 11:20 AM | Score: 18 (20 votes cast)
To carry it further, the "AMA-like symbol" is the Caduceus which comes from mythology and is the symbol on the staff carried by Hermes - the "Messenger of the Gods." The proper medical/healer symbol would be a single snake wrapped around the staff.
So, Team Obama has metaphorically portrayed themselves Hermes, the messengers of the Gods, delivering God's will for the people in our land.
9. Posted by M.E. | August 5, 2009 11:20 AM |
Score: 18 (20 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 11:20
10. Posted by Dave | August 5, 2009 11:23 AM | Score: 22 (22 votes cast)
"(T)he organizing is being done outside the white house" Oh, that clears it up! Of course The One has nothing to do with this at all, its just some bipartisan grassroots organization taking it upon themselves to educate us fly-over country bumpkins. Thanks for clearing things up, Larry.
"Let me guess - you hide under your desk if a black man enters your place of business?"
Its always gotta be about race with you moonbats, huh? Forget about the consequences of this bill, forget about the costs, forget about having to get some government bureaucrats permission to have surgery or a procedure, forget about taking the decision about treatment away from doctors and giving it to the government- We dont like the plan because The One is a black guy. Keep drinking the kool-aid, man.
10. Posted by Dave | August 5, 2009 11:23 AM |
Score: 22 (22 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 11:23
11. Posted by Neoluddite | August 5, 2009 11:36 AM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
You notice where on the map those poor, faceless souls are standing? They are the shades of the Canadian Health Service's victims seeking to impose their own curse on the U.S.
11. Posted by Neoluddite | August 5, 2009 11:36 AM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 11:36
12. Posted by Stephen Macklin | August 5, 2009 11:36 AM | Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
I would oppose socialized medicine if it were being proposed by a white woman, like say Nancy Pelosi. Or even an old white guy like Harry Reed. Hell, I'd oppose it if were being pushed by a wise latina woman with the richness of her experience.
I even opposed it when it was out forth by a perjurious white guy and his wife.
12. Posted by Stephen Macklin | August 5, 2009 11:36 AM |
Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 11:36
13. Posted by Hank | August 5, 2009 12:02 PM | Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Re" "Its always gotta be about race with you moonbats, huh?"
It's all they have left, no pun intended.
Really, what else can they defend Obama with?
13. Posted by Hank | August 5, 2009 12:02 PM |
Score: 11 (11 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:02
14. Posted by Timmer | August 5, 2009 12:22 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Reminds me of the USSR Propoganda of the early 80s.
14. Posted by Timmer | August 5, 2009 12:22 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:22
15. Posted by GarandFan | August 5, 2009 12:26 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
"You're frightened by the simplest things."
I can recall wary Germans in the early 1930's being told the same thing about another guy.
15. Posted by GarandFan | August 5, 2009 12:26 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:26
16. Posted by iwogisdead | August 5, 2009 12:34 PM | Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
"Frightened" conservatives are the nation's bedwetters.
Yeah, this is almost as bad as the Democratic National Committee's claim that Republicans are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America. Republicans, extremists, and lobbyists, oh my!!
Just kidding. This is not nearly as bad as the DNC's paranoia over American citizens who are actually exercising their right to speak.
16. Posted by iwogisdead | August 5, 2009 12:34 PM |
Score: 12 (12 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:34
17. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 12:44 PM | Score: 10 (12 votes cast)
"This is not nearly as bad as the DNC's paranoia over American citizens who are actually exercising their right to speak."
Well, they're not supposed to be doing that! They're not smart enough - if they were, they'd be Democrats! Democrats is smart, they is - it says so on the label!
LOL.
They've established the rules of engagement. Dissent is patriotic, as they've made so perfectly clear in the past. I think the days of one acceptable standard of behavior for liberals and another for conservatives are just about over.
17. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 12:44 PM |
Score: 10 (12 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:44
18. Posted by Oyster | August 5, 2009 12:48 PM | Score: 13 (17 votes cast)
"Frightening? You're frightened by the simplest things."
Frightened? No.
Try: Pissed.
Try: Sick and damned tired.
Try: If you think I'm just going to sit idly by while people like you - who step in to insult and demean those around them - tell me what's best, then you're in for a rude awakening.
We got your message. We got it a long time ago. You've reached the point now where you're simply a nuisance. Your constant insults and snidery are old hat.
And finally - Cram it, clown.
18. Posted by Oyster | August 5, 2009 12:48 PM |
Score: 13 (17 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:48
19. Posted by Gary
| August 5, 2009 12:59 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
It looks like a bowling ball that's about to bowl over the American people in the background.
19. Posted by Gary
| August 5, 2009 12:59 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 12:59
20. Posted by Falze | August 5, 2009 1:11 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
No one does 'angry at community organizing' like a failed community organizer.
20. Posted by Falze | August 5, 2009 1:11 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 13:11
21. Posted by Cloudfish | August 5, 2009 1:20 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
It reminds me of this recent graphic found at the top of this article.
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2002/11/56152
Shades of modern 1984.
21. Posted by Cloudfish | August 5, 2009 1:20 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 13:20
22. Posted by tomg51 | August 5, 2009 1:22 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
8. Jennifer "To be honest to me it appears as if the people are dead, kind of risen spirits heading off to the afterlife."
The wraith floating at the NC/Virginia border appears to be dragging his foot - Zombies!
22. Posted by tomg51 | August 5, 2009 1:22 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 13:22
23. Posted by Justrand
| August 5, 2009 1:30 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Democrat "response" on all issues, but especially this one: DEMONIZE someone or some group.
Charlie Gibson picked up the Obama flag and ran with it claiming opposition to ObamaCare is "orchestrated". Babs Boxer claims those against ObamaCare are "too well dressed".
"Too well dressed"?? I've watched dozens of clips of people protesting ObamaCare...they're nearly all in jeans, t-shirts, and shorts. Does Boxer think we should all be barefoot, and clad only in loin-cloths?
23. Posted by Justrand
| August 5, 2009 1:30 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 13:30
24. Posted by LaMedusa | August 5, 2009 1:59 PM | Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
The figures appear more pastel blue to me. But remember the last scenes from E.T. and Ghost? We iz ALL Alienz, now, and they iz Organizin' 4 da "common good". Ghouls meet World.
24. Posted by LaMedusa | August 5, 2009 1:59 PM |
Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 13:59
25. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 2:26 PM | Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
"Does Boxer think we should all be barefoot, and clad only in loin-cloths?"
Of COURSE, Justrand... because how else can you tell the peasants from the aristocrats?
25. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 2:26 PM |
Score: 8 (8 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 14:26
26. Posted by DJ Drummond | August 5, 2009 2:41 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Interesting symbolism. I notice the US flag is completely gone, there is no eagle anymore and the wings look distinctly pigeon-ish to me. And what's with just 3 stars? Are those the only states left in Obamaland?
26. Posted by DJ Drummond | August 5, 2009 2:41 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 14:41
27. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 2:48 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Almost makes you wonder what's in that bill, doesn't it?
27. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 2:48 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 14:48
28. Posted by apb | August 5, 2009 2:55 PM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Eh -
The Obvious Douchebag, being a True Believer of The Won, has the obvious intellect of a twelve-year-old. Unfortunately, Obvious Douchebag and its ilk are not too different from the teeming legions of socialists that followed the little mustachiod Won of the 1930's.
28. Posted by apb | August 5, 2009 2:55 PM |
Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 14:55
29. Posted by The Obvious One | August 5, 2009 3:09 PM | Score: -12 (16 votes cast)
Frightened? No.
Try: Pissed.
No, try frightened.
Shawn: "This is bizarre. It is spooky. It is actually kind of frightening."
Frightened by a logo? And Republicans want Americans to believe that Democrats are weak-kneed?
29. Posted by The Obvious One | August 5, 2009 3:09 PM |
Score: -12 (16 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 15:09
30. Posted by epador | August 5, 2009 3:14 PM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
ME beat me to it in #10.
Hermes indeed, how appropriate.
30. Posted by epador | August 5, 2009 3:14 PM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 15:14
31. Posted by Larry Dickman | August 5, 2009 3:33 PM | Score: -10 (16 votes cast)
Democrats are weak on defense and O. goes over seas and is lily-livered with foreign leaders.
But repubs are sooooooo "frightened" of a "spooky" logo that they wet their pants and have dreams of Nazis.
I thought you went in for a new spine. You'll get a better one with ObamaCare.
31. Posted by Larry Dickman | August 5, 2009 3:33 PM |
Score: -10 (16 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 15:33
32. Posted by _Mike_ | August 5, 2009 4:18 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
And what's with just 3 stars? Are those the only states left in Obamaland?
Pelosi, Obama, Reid - Your New Healthcare Trinity.
32. Posted by _Mike_ | August 5, 2009 4:18 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 16:18
33. Posted by LaMedusa | August 5, 2009 4:36 PM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
"I thought you went in for a new spine. You'll get a better one with ObamaCare."
Not if the health care is rationed, and the procedure is deemed "unnecessary".
33. Posted by LaMedusa | August 5, 2009 4:36 PM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 16:36
34. Posted by DJ Drummond | August 5, 2009 4:40 PM | Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
By the way Larry, how are your brothers Moe and Curly?
34. Posted by DJ Drummond | August 5, 2009 4:40 PM |
Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 16:40
35. Posted by DJ Drummond | August 5, 2009 4:42 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Mike: "Pelosi, Obama, Reid - Your New Healthcare Trinity."
Hmmmmmmmm, not quite right. Let's try
Pelosi, Obama, Senate Majority Leader Reid - Your New Healthcare Trinity.
That way you have "P.O.S.", which more accurately describes this troika.
35. Posted by DJ Drummond | August 5, 2009 4:42 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 16:42
36. Posted by DaveD | August 5, 2009 4:57 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Hey Obvious One,
Let me remind you again of the situation. There is a Democrat in the White House. There is too good to believe majorities of Democrats in both houses of Congress. Why would you even waste your time insulting us here because the country is yours for the taking. The Democrats would have to be idiots themselves to mess this up don't you think? Or maybe that's just a little too uncomfortable to discuss. It was supposed to be so much easier than this. Just sayin'.
36. Posted by DaveD | August 5, 2009 4:57 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 16:57
37. Posted by retired military | August 5, 2009 4:59 PM | Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Wait a minute. The Dems are saying that republicans are organizing protests and that is bad yet what they are doing.
37. Posted by retired military | August 5, 2009 4:59 PM |
Score: 6 (6 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 16:59
38. Posted by Maggie Mama | August 5, 2009 5:50 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Three stars are representative of the new "holy" trilogy: Obama, big government, and labor unions.
38. Posted by Maggie Mama | August 5, 2009 5:50 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 17:50
39. Posted by retired military | August 5, 2009 8:54 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I can see it now. Hordes of Acorn workers are busying typing in names and addresses from various phone books around the country into the online petition they have going.
39. Posted by retired military | August 5, 2009 8:54 PM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 20:54
40. Posted by GarandFan | August 5, 2009 10:22 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Why does every Obama program have to have its own logo?
40. Posted by GarandFan | August 5, 2009 10:22 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 22:22
41. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 10:24 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
"Why does every Obama program have to have its own logo?"
Only the graphic artists have any talent in the Obama administration... The rest of them have to hope you're so impressed by the change represented by the logos that you don't EVEN think about what the programs actually ARE.
41. Posted by JLawson | August 5, 2009 10:24 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 22:24
42. Posted by Aresay | August 5, 2009 10:27 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
From the White House blog: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain e-mails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an e-mail or see something on the Web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
I offer myself up as sacrifice please report this blog post http://stopthepresses2.blogspot.com/search/label/Waterfall
To the White House KGB after all it is fishy. I will now go into hiding.
42. Posted by Aresay | August 5, 2009 10:27 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 22:27
43. Posted by GarandFan | August 5, 2009 11:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Hey Aresay, I've made a suggestion to them so that they don't have to rely on tips. Here's my email to flag@whitehouse.gov
Dear Great Leader:
Here's a suggestion so that You can tell 'them' from 'us' at town hall meetings.
Have 'our people' dress in a conspicuous uniform. "They" will then stand out when our elected commissars hold meetings in which to give Your instructions out to the commoners.
Uniform suggestion: Brown shirts, brown jodhpurs, black boots (hobnails optional). All topped off with a nifty visored cap. I'd also suggest a contrasting color for the shirt. Perhaps a bright red armband. On the armband we could have a large white circle, and in that circle a black captial "O". I think the style might catch on and we could quickly round up those opposed to the progressive movement, perhaps send them to a re-education camp. I personally don't know how successful that might be. I believe one of your friends, Bill Ayers, once estimated that approximately 25 million citizens would have "to be eliminated" because they could not be retrained. But I'm sure it will be worth the cost to advance Your ideas for the good of the country.
43. Posted by GarandFan | August 5, 2009 11:20 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on August 5, 2009 23:20
44. Posted by Listen up | August 7, 2009 9:22 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It is very cold. It is chilling to look at. Not inviting at all. I am a designer and this says cold control to me.
44. Posted by Listen up | August 7, 2009 9:22 AM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on August 7, 2009 09:22
45. Posted by Listen up | August 7, 2009 9:26 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I have and idea! Why don't we let the people vote on this health care bill instead of congress?
45. Posted by Listen up | August 7, 2009 9:26 AM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on August 7, 2009 09:26
46. Posted by Bobby Blaze | August 23, 2009 6:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Obama is messing up hopefully things will CHANGE for the better with regards of the american people
46. Posted by Bobby Blaze | August 23, 2009 6:41 AM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on August 23, 2009 06:41