But, for extra fun, have your partner disclaim "You are the Change I have Been Waiting For".

We're talking multi here.

From: http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11885292

The junior senator from Illinois is strikingly self-obsessed even by the standards of politicians. He has already written two autobiographies.

This can't possibly be true. He's only, what, 46?

If he wins the presidency will there be an autobiography every other year?

Saying "yes we can" as you climax is a tense error. That is to say, it is labeling a current event in a future tense. The correct forms are yes we can before you climax, yes we do as you climax, and yes we did after you climax. It's once one realizes that these people can't even keep the most basic temporal axis straight in their head that one understands why nothing else they say makes much sense either.

Obama already has the iconographic posters of his face plastered everywhere (like Stalin, Mao, etc.), he's already got the iconic symbol of the red white and blue sunrise logo instead of the national flag (like Hitler's swastika), and now he has completed the trifecta by creating a hand salute for all his minions to do as he walks by (like the heil Hitler salute).

This guy will never get elected. Nevermind that he is a communist, this emulation of Stalin/Mao/Hitler is way too creepy for mainstream America.

“Barack Obama is inspiring us like a desert lover, a Washington Valentino,” Lili Haydn wrote in the Huffington Post. “Couples all over America are making love again and shouting ‘Yes we can’ as they climax.”

Somebody, please tell me that that ghastly doggerel was a lame attempt at satire...

That's funny, Vitruvius. And profound, and -- I hope -- prophetic. George Burns once said, and I paraphrase here, "Marriage is all that stuff that happens when you get out of bed." Well, Americans are married to the President they select, too, and Obama's charismatic, sloganistic approach to politics is ultimately dilatory to all the serious up-and-at-'em issues, once you get past the, er, mania of it all.

The real question is, is there sufficient time for Americans to see through the mania? I think so; I think time is Obama's enemy, in a big way. He's a mass-culture timing artist, not a President.

Remember the monster hit "Hot Butter", by Popcorn? No? Okay, I'm dating myself, but the point is, it sold a lot of records, but for an incredibly short period relative to....life; the prospect of listening to it even once, a year after it came out, would drive even those who purchased it to take a loaded rifle to the nearest bell tower.

Obama's alluded-to revolution is at its core a dog's breakfast of trolled, hideously time-bound, marketable memes. At the moment that all starts to slide -- and it's starting already -- the identity and, er, characteristics of the holdouts will be increasingly telling, as part of a political feedback loop, to the remainder. Obama's simply been selling dumb, mass-culture charisma, and he's been convincing potential voters eager for change that it will rub off on them if they just put an X beside his name. While some people are clearly excited by the possibility he's promised -- "ooh, that's right, yes we can!" -- what hasn't hit ground yet is that they could vote for Alec Baldwin, too, if they wanted to. Once the thrill of what had been thought impossible or improbable becomes casually possible, that thrill will turn to embarrassment over the temporary loss of reason and, ultimately to disavowal.

Money quote from the Economist link: "How many more times can American hear the phrase 'Yes we can' without wondering whether they really want to?"

Ah hoo ha ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVFExA_bGfw

According to posts on other blogs, the "O" salute, which I'd like to believe is satire, was made by Spock on the Star Trek episode The Way to Eden. Whether or not this is accurate, the fact that it's all so plausible is disturbing.

One of the cruder comparisons has been made to goatse (trust me, don't go looking for the image, see this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site )

Let's see, who else can we think of in history who was adored by throngs of uncritical Germans and wrote his autobiography after accomplishing exactly nothing?

wtf

Truthfully, IMO, Obama has climaxed. The song has ended, the melody is slowly drifting away....

By now, surely his platitudinous rants are being rehashed in peoples minds and evaluated for what they are. The reality contest will soon begin.

With allof this "O" CRAP happening how much fun will it be at the convention when The Clintstones try to rewrite the outcome of the primaries?
The Obama Motto could be "THATS ENOUGH ABOUT ME, LETS TALK ABOUT YOU, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ME?"

On the subject of "climax", that hand gesture meant something other than "sign of progress" when I was in (an all-male, which has some significance in this context) high school back in the 1960s.

I actually like some of Lili Haydn's music. She is a terrific violinist and has played with a wide variety of people- Jimmy Page/Robert Plant, George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic, Tom Petty and shilling for Folger's coffee just to name a few, but as is often the problem with people in the entertainment business she's a real leftie and that is certainly one of the dumber things she's said.

is that the sign for wanker or tosser? some Brit help me out please

when I was in high school we had a game where you made a little circle with your thumb and index finger, and if you could trick someone into looking at it you got to punch him (ahh good times...) anyway I'm thinking the Obama cultists should be ready for a metaphorical beatdown (they actually deserve a genuine beatdown) for falling for this obamamnia nonsense.

In keeping with the metaphor.

So far Obama is all foreplay, but when it comes time to actually f**k I think his lovers will find a flaccid penis. And that my lovelies, won't get the job done.

One more ...

This Obama mania is not unlike the Beatle mania of the 60s, BUT, take heed, he already married his Yoko Ono and she's even crazier.

and that "Yes we can" motto belongs to someone else. Bob the builder for prez!

Is that an Oh or a Zero sign.

If zero it could stand for his experience for the job or the likelihood that I would vote for him!

I still like NO-bama!

the Beatle mania of the 60s

I still maintain that that phenomenon was also fabricated, with music industry teeny-bopper daughters, nieces as screaming, fainting plants. Then the power of suggestion took off, helped greatly by the media.

The Beatles, though, were a performance that stood the test of time.

Bdogginit ... that circle and punch thing ... I though that only happened in North Bay Ontario. I used to have that silly game going too.

One more point to the new Barry symbol. I first saw it as a symbol for zero and I think that is more appropriate.

And one more thought ... these democrat air-heads have really latched onto the idea that all lefties are neck-deep in Jungian philosophy where everything is a meaningful symbol of something important to the self-centered idiot who never stops trying get her head together and her life in order.

The Obama camp is literally selling voodoo with these never-ending symbols.

"HOW TO RECOGNIZE ARCHETYPAL IMAGES:

1. they carry a high emotional charge (positive, negative, or both simultaneously); they have a powerful, compelling effect
2. for an individual, they frequently recur in situations when the rational, conscious mind is not in full control (e.g., recurring dreams and fantasies, obsessive behavior patterns which have no fully rational explanation)
3. this recurrence occurs also in many different eras and cultures (e.g., commonly used symbols in literature, art and life; recurring types of dreams; mythic patterns, etc.)

Archetypes constitute a theory to explain the constant recurrence, persistence, and emotional power of certain ways of symbolizing reality. Their manifestations (“archetypal images”) are always personally and culturally conditioned. In given individuals and cultures, some archetypes are activated and others dormant; we say that their “triggers” are based on personal and cultural experience, though the archetypes are universal. A study of archetypal symbolism in myth provides us with maps, not dictionaries. " MORE

And when O loses in November just try and find one person who supported him or fell for all the hype. I have asked americans, ok, what can he do, and what will he change. Maybe they should start asking, what will he do, and what will he change.
The Edwards bombshell (known by many, denied by many) will certainly have some effect on Obama. How could he not know, or believe the rumors, or take the word of a liar and actually consider him as a VP. Lots of questions re what else does the media know and refuses to report.
Who should Hillory pick as VP, maybe Bill.

Hadn't we already established that lefties/socialists are (forward-facing) always about emotion and symbology?

I guess extra data doesn't hurt.

PiperPaul,

The noon train arrives everyday and drops off more well-meaning hayseeds who haven't yet learned everything you already know.

It takes a very long time for everyone to know the same stuff. That's why schools fail so many ... they don't teach the old stuff, they think is will happen through osmosis. Or maybe not happen at all sparing the kids the burden of knowledge, for ... ignorance is bliss.

There are none so blissful than an Obama supporter.

I like Vitrvius. He takes a crude joke about rutting and copulation and turns it into something I could tell to my grandma.

She'd still smack me, but not as hard as if I left it in my own words.

When I went to high school that "O" was a way of insulting another individual. The "O" referred to the female genitalia and you used it when 'giving the finger' was not a strong enough statement.

The "O" signal for obstruction penalty calls in hockey is something like that as well.
This is getting weirder by the day. Has the news media always been like this? I am just a few months older than Obama, and I could swear that previous campaigns have never come up with sort of psychedelic stuff.
There's a hint of the old communist propaganda poster art style here, which is cool.

If barry-O can swindle his way into the white house then why can't a monument replica be built like stonehenge? For future messiahs.

...the "O" salute, which I'd like to believe is satire, was made by Spock on the Star Trek episode The Way to Eden...

Posted by: CJ at August 9, 2008 5:09 AM

Spock and the space hippies were less careful about roundness. Check it out here, at about the 2:20 mark of the clip:

Weird Star Trek - The Way To Eden 2/8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVG1KfcAWgY

Definately goatse-worthy.

CJ

I think that is the episode where Spock is hanging from a tree when Kirk orders him back to the ship and he refuses. The verbal tirade Kirk lays on Spock is classic "Your a machine!". I've coined the phrase "Kirkspearian" for the acting style of W.Shatner. I consider Bruce Campbell a master of the Kirkspearian arts, he should have had his own starship years ago.

It's the ROC!

Or is it the Diamond cutter?

What a biter!

That 'lil' O is all about the song..."He's got the whole world in his hands"
continuing with the deification theme.

Vit...you certainly have a way with words.

John V...sounds like you went to school with my kids.

Kate: On the new Obama "O" logo, which is supposed to be the sign used at critical junctures in his "nomination speech" at the whatever-it-is centre in Denver, with 75,000 people or whatever present, does any of this remind you of "Logan's Run"?

Not to reveal any personal info but the very last thing the mrs and I are thinking about when climaxing is some media-made puppet politician (or even his wife).

The hype surrounding this presidential flash-in-the-pan is truly disgusting. Sad part is the he is starting to believe his own press clippings.
And lest Canadians get too full of themselves we have Steffie "green" Dijon who is Obama Lite in so many ways.

Just think, we are only a few months away from the US election and all our worries about Obama-Rama will be a thing of the past. As I have predicted in earlier postings...McCain will win by a large majority and then all will be right with the world....

Didn't Germany used to have a fancy salute too? How did that slogan go, "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!"

that circle and punch thing ... I though that only happened in North Bay Ontario.

We used to play it at college in London, Ontario. Well, I wasn't really a willing participant, I just got punched a lot. (stupid, semi-retarded photography students)

PiperPaul - thanks for the link - it (goatse, etc.) was disgusting enough to read about it; I wouldn't have wanted to actually see it.

So it's a big O. Big deal. A smoke and a shower usually follows.

Charles MacDonald, thank you for the link to that clip. That was hilarious. You're of course right that they didn't worry so much about the salute's "roundness" but they did say "one", which is something I didn't know.

Indiana Homez, check it out:

Star Trek - The Way to Eden

Obama:

The Story of O.

Wait a minute.

Did you catch that?

The nerve of the Democratic National Party appealing to the most base racist sentiment. The two hands clasped together are implying the man is endowed like an Alaskan Oil Pipeline -- the oldest and most racist myth about African Americans around. Just think of the double entendre.

Domestic Drilling, indeed!

Just LOOK at the Phallic imagery. The only reason you all don't agree with me is that you are COMPLETELY blinded by your Western, Colonialist slavery sympathizing masters.

How dare they! How dare they!