When Shepard Fairey posted his wonderful Barack Obama poster last week, many people of course made the statement “Barack Obama Has a Posse”, in reference to Shepard’s infamous “André the Giant Has a Posse” stickers and posters. A couple of Obey fans have taken it a step further and created “Barack Obama Has a Posse” images based on Shepard’s original designs.
Over on Chicagoist, Margaret Lyons posted a collection of some of the other Obama artwork that has been making the rounds, like this great illustration by Thomas Brodahl.
The online support for Obama has been pretty astounding over the last few weeks. I’m not seeing anything like this for any of the other candidates, including Hillary. In fact this is the first time I’ve seen so many prominent endorsements for a candidate this early on in an election, like these from Craig Newmark and Lawrence Lessig.
Viral support for Obama spreads fast. “Yes We Can!”, a music video inspired by Obama’s New Hampshire primary speech directed by Jesse Dylan featuring will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and multiple celebrity cameos, is showing up all over the place and now has over 1 million views on YouTube in just two days.
Speaking of Obama videos, Eddie Codel and Ryan Junell have made a couple of great videos in support of Barack Obama, “Super Duper Tuesday!” and “Coming together for Obama”.
So yeah, I think it’s pretty safe to say at this point that Barack Obama does in fact have a posse, a pretty impressive one at that. Tomorrow we will find out just how big his posse really is.
UPDATE: I think Noam Cohen is on to something in his New York Times article “Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?”, which would explain the creative and artistic appeal of Obama over Clinton.
illustrations via Obey Giant & Thomas Brodahl
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i’m happy to see people actually getting involved in the election, and so many of them young voters that have been apathetic about past elections.
it’s wonderfully overwhelming to know that i’m not the only young person that really cares about politics.
Or the Apple v PC could be a statement of :fanciful dreamers vs those who do; or overpriced and lacking in features vs overpriced and dysfunctional; or cult vs worker bee.
However the point is taken that the two campaigns have a different tone. Like everywhere else the “creatvies” will work for those who can run the show. It comes down to getting things done, and touchy-feely is a failure at that.
I wonder if the numbers at the convention will be comparable to the Mac v PC numbers?
I humbly suggest people who are supporting other candidates (other than Ron Paul) check out this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNB1U1tgX1g
It is from the Florida GOP Debate in October 2007 & the only debate Ron Paul has been given equal time in a debate (for whatever reasons)
Just check it out & form your own opinions. I have a feeling people who are supporting Hillary or Obama would be pleasantly surprised by
how intelligent & honest Ron Paul is & realize how Hillary & Obama are really giving vapid answers (telling you what you want to hear) instead of intelligence.
Just take a look, it will only take about 10 minutes of your time. We are all in this together.
Yes, Obama does have a posse.
Sadly, the brains behind that posse is Zbigniew Brzezinski ; the guy who financed Pol Pot and the Kheme Roughe (sp?) and who also funded Osama Bin Laden in the 1980s when that guy was our buddy.
I have no strong feelings on Obama personaly, other than he talks tough on the campain trail and then in office voted to give Bush whatever he asked for, but some of the people i his cabinet really scare me.
As a reporter for the UC Berkeley Oakland Black Voter project I was overwhelmed by the amount of people voting for Obama. From downtown to West Oakland almost everyone we spoke to was pro-Obama.
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/primary08/blackvote/
Wow I didn’t realize that Obama is as tall as Chewbacca!
And 520 lbs!? He’s a giant! ;-)
JUST MY OPINION!!!!!!!
I cant believe as AMERICANS that we are even considering the idea of having BARACK OBAMA as leader of our country. Did we not learn our lesson with 9-11. Have we no heart or soul that we forget so easily all we lost on that day to allow this person to run our country. This is AMERICA not the republic of KENYA.
Do you people not think that if the BIN LADEN and all his followers went to so much trouble to seek out all the planes in which they would need to carry out their plans of torture on our great land, all the time and money spent, all the people involved to carry it out that they would not set the wheels in motion to have one of their own come into our office and destroy our country.
I am sorry but if the people of AMERICA think thats its ok to have a Represenative with a foreign SOIL background rule our country that we are no longer the LAND OF THE FREE. We are no longer the LEADING COUNTRY of the world. Do you think that KENYA OR IRAQ OR SAUDI ARABIA would allow an AMERICAN family to move there, give birth to a child and then let that child become their LEADER. I THINK NOT.
Do you people not remember all the talk of a man in a TURBAN who will be the one to start a NUCLEAR WAR. Well BARACK in that TURBAN does not make me want to invite him to lead our country. If we thought having the BUSHES run our country was bad enough I think we are in big trouble inviting BARACK OBAMA which to me OBAMA sounds a little to close for comfort to OSAMA, to run our country.
HAVE WE ALL GIVEN UP SO EASILY.
WE ARE AMERICANS AND AN AMERICAN SHOULD RUN OUR GREAT LAND.
B-Born
A-A
R-Rebel
A-American
C-Citizen
K-Killer
O-Observe
B-By
A-Assassinating
M-Most
A-Americans
IS THIS WHAT WE HAVE COME TO.
Obama just won in my opinion.
(BTW, I borrowed one of your photos)
http://newstrain.com/2008/06/04/obama-wins/
You’ve looked at it as it reflects on Obama. I’ve been thinking that it’s pretty interesting to think about how it reflects on Fairey as an artist – especially one who at one point was undergound/outside of the mainstream system.
http://tubalcainsworkshop.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama-posse-led-by-fairey.html
gale is such a loser she dosn' know what shes talkig about obama is a great leader for the us and the fact that u are talking about him like that u should be a shade of your self
Gale, by your logic, American presidents should all be Native American only. Which is funny, because I don't see you posting about how awful McCain is.
I would hope your ancestors are all native american. Because without it, you are just stupid and racist. You do understand that Kenya and Iraq/Saudi Arabia are on two diffferent continents. You do know that they are 3 different countries with three different agendas. kind of like you KKK meetings differ from the PTA and/or AA. Dumb ass. And by the way, Harry Truman from Missouri started a nuclear war. When was the last time you saw Barack Obama or Harry Truman where a turban? So why don't you stop f-in your sister, you redneck prejudice bastard, and read a book. Oh yeah, Jesus was not only middle – eastern, he probably wore a turban. I bet you probably think the name Muhammad refers to a terrorist, just because your name is bubba and muhammad is the most common name on the planet doesn't make you less of a terrorist. Plus if every muhammad killed someone, like you probably think they would, then this entire planet would be vacant of everyone besides Muhammad. My name is Justin and you sir is exactly why this country has gone from the top to the shitter. I bet you didn't even graduate high school. You are a waste and if I were president, I would make it illegal for people like you to have a child. Please do humanity a favor and get a vescectamy.
i agree 100% with my friend Justin. f-ck off Gale! ur an idiot
Obama has never said he wants to restore our country to what it really is. He has only said he wants change. The programs that he wants to implement are the same types of programs that Hitler initially implemented before Dictatorship. Oh that's right you weren't alive over 60 years ago. Folks he sounds just like Hitler did, he's doing the same things Hitler did, please do your research on Hitler and please for you sake keep your eyes open. We are a very complacent country and are prime target for being taken over. Obama doesn't care about our Constitution he has proven that by increaasing the taxes on ammunitions purchases by 500% so folks can't afford to purchase ammo to defend themselves. And he has proven that by wanting to enable the Fairness Doctrine. Our Constitution says we all have freedom of speech and it isn't suppose to be discriminant upon your party affiliation.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Uma boa cabeça e um bom coração são sempre uma combinação formidável.
Parabêns Obana!
Ronaldo Silva, Caxias-MA, Brasil.