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Barack Obama ran an unprecedented Presidential campaign – utilizing the power of design to help secure the seat of the President of the United States of America. However, his iconic emblem, the ever present “O”, holds more power than even Obama knows. Bill Whittle points out the dangers of branding an ideology with an icon and how, perhaps, the powerful symbol will be used against the very man it built up. – www.pjtv.com
Excellent. Good job.
@teton99 I know what you mean, but perhaps A. Huxley’s Brave New World is more like what you mean? In the book the masses are just drone workers in state-run corporations, they’re conditioned to consume and chase the fashion, angst is removed by feel-good drugs, education is just repetition of slogans – and the masses are taught to hate books, entertainment is just eye candy, music is muzak, recreational sex eliminates the family, individualism is anathema.
Huxley predicted, Obama delivers.
Where do I get the LOL! sticker?
I LOL’d. Great job on the video.
Geroge Orwell would have been proud of Obama. Obama seems to have borrowed quite well from Oceania.
@Synapticsnap My funny bone was still cranky this morning during my liberal use of the CAPS key. LOL Have a great rest of the day.
@pdy666 I see no flaw in your statement or your logic. Just don’t forget to tickle your funny bone every once in awhile, helps to not go insane being CORRECT all the time. Cheers
I said “made in the year 2011”. This video is from 2009 I realize that. Same rules apply though.
@Synapticsnap The motto USED TO BE “E Pluribus Unum”. It was REPLACED by “In God we Trust”. This of course means that the statement made in the year 2011 that our national motto is “E Pluribus Unum” is INCORRECT. What should have been mentioned was the fact that Obama’s campaign refused to use the actual national motto, just as he refused to say we have rights endowed “by our Creator”. So as not to incite folks that “bitterly cling to guns and religion”.
@hammondtree Why? because the Nazi image is the one most people will have front of mind when hinting about, “Branding of an ideology centered around a cult of personality”.
They were both evil empires, but come on, what’s political rhetoric without a Nazi comparison? that’s the American way.
@theylied1776
Why just focus on a possible NAZI connection? Stalin killed a well millions, ruled at the first half of the last century and used as well a lot of portraits of himself.
I think the RNC should think of it this way. The DNC is a bakery with donuts, cakes, cookies, etc. in the store window nicely decorated and well lit, screaming out “Forget your diet, PIG OUT!” The RNC is a health food store in an office building that doesn’t even have pictures of the food but a print out of a spreadsheet displaying the calories, fat, cholesterol, etc. of the foods the store sells and you have to go down to a loading dock to pick up your food.
All that… just to make a veiled NAZI connection? talk about passive aggressive.
Come on “Billy Boy”, you can do better than this.
@pdy666 The motto “E Pluribus Unum” appeared on the “Great Seal of the United States” and was first used in 1782 and later used on some federal coins in 1795. In 1864, the words “In God We Trust” was applied to a new two-cent coin as our new Federal (read that as “Union”) Motto. In 1956, the 84th Congress passed a joint resolution to replace the existing motto with “In God we Trust.” (Gathered from the web)
Mr. Whittle was not incorrect, just incomplete in his statement. Hope this helps inform
Goebbels would have been proud of our current fascists.
Our national motto is “In God We Trust” not “E Pluribus Unum”. Apart from that mistake this is a great video.
This is a good and informative upload more on this subject should be explained to the people
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THANK YOU
OoOoOoOoO… Watch it – the icons will get you! God, if you people weren’t too stupid to see through this shit in the first place, you deserve everything you get (I’m talking to Republitards and Dumbocrats here). You both are the stupidest excuses for human shit I’ve ever heard. I’m embarrassed to be an American standing beside sheep pieces of trash like you. GOP: “Onoz! They fooled you with hypno-iconographic powerz!” Dems: “Nuh-uh! We’z got Obama! His picture look like red, white, & blue Che!”
I love the elephant logo – you’re just not using it right.
Saaaay MrIekaum, what the HELL WAS your argument anyways? LOL
@MrIekaum Lookit YOU, MrIekaum, resorting to the same old tired Ad Hominem attacks so common in your political type without bothering to bolster your petty argument! Probably didn’t have much of an argument to speak of anyway to give up on it so quickly. You dare to call me an IDIOT when it is YOU who have NO IDEA of the common Logical Fallacies and Errors of Reasoning that consistently riddle your arguments, do YOU? GET AN EDUCATION ….and maybe THEN we can TALK! Haaa ha ha ha ha! DOLT!
@bigisezhi You are pretty much an idiot
We love you Bill, keep fighting the good fight.
@bass109 Who invited Jesus anyways. Don’t you just hate unwelcome guests?