Pssssst! Here’s the secret hand-sign. . .
By LisaB on August 8, 2008 at 10:30 AM in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, DNC, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Elitism, Hillary Clinton
1) If you’d like to have your very own Obama salute, there is a company hoping their idea for an Obama hand sign takes off. According to USNews and World Report:
“You interlace your hands in a circle, the interlacing being a symbol of different types of people coming together and the circle a symbol of unity,” he says. Their design, . . . is free, and Husong is urging people to download it and print it on posters and T-shirts. “We want to see it everywhere, but more importantly we want this sign to take the world by storm.”
Now that the secret hand-sign has been revealed, Obama supporters will be able to recognize each other at a distance. Of course, so will the rest of us.
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2) MSNBC is reporting that Bill Clinton will be offered the Wednesday night speaking slot right before the VP candidate speech. What does this mean? I have no idea but the author seems to think that means Clinton will introduce his wife as the VP candidate. Yeah, right.
3) An interesting bit from the National Review talks about affirmative action. Mentioning Obma peripherally, the writer talks about having served on CSU hiring committees. The interesting part is not what affirmative action was designed to do and the merits of that idea, but how it plays out when hiring.
We had a variety of recent immigrants from the Caribbean as professors and students, almost all from affluent families. One can imagine the problems of others supposedly with 3/4, 1/2, 1/8 black or Hispanic ancestry. What qualifies as a minority, and who ascertains it in the post-Ward Churchill era? Many of our white students with parents from the Oklahoma diaspora rightly claimed American-Indian heritage, albeit in the 1/16th to 1/8th range. The Asian problem was even weirder — 3rd-generation affluent Japanese, no? But the Hmong immigrant of 10 years, yes? The recent Taiwanese arrival, no? More likely, there were de facto Asian quotas — given the ability of such minorities in many fields to outperform almost everyone else and thereby become “overrepresented” in the UC system.
Bumper-sticker identification was unfortunate. The half-Hispanic student with Wilson as his surname never could obtain the authenticity that his counterpart with a Hispanic father received. Accented and hyphenated names, and renaming, were common, in addition to occasional ethnic dress.
Interesting and confusing. Particularly for a big-tent Democratic party.
4) There’s an interesting campaign analysis at realclearpolitics. The author suggests the McCain campaign has realized this election really IS all about Obama and has taken to skewering him as humorless and “fussy.”
Yes, the [Britney] ad was silly but this is what political observers fondly call the silly season - that time in August when everyone is looking for a bit of light relief. Obama’s allies overplayed their hand by claiming Celebrity was racist and it will be many years before Bob Herbert of the New York Times lives down his fantasy about the phallic symbols therein.
For once, Obama seems a little rattled. He even accused McCain of lying about his energy plan for the relatively mild offense of trying to reduce it to an off-hand remark about tire inflation. He was clearly irked by the mildly amusing stunt of distributing Obama tire gauges. “We weren’t lying, we were mocking him,” said one McCain aide. “He’s so fussy.”
The aide added that he had a theory that the campaign that laughed the most tended to win. There could be something in that. Suddenly, after coming across as unremittingly dour during the primaries, McCain is enjoying himself a lot more, quipping about his wife Cindy taking part in a topless beauty pageant and telling people to lighten up about Celebrity. By comparison, Obama is straight faced.
McCain’s The One ad, which painted Obama as a would-be messiah, complete with Charlton Heston as Moses parting the Red Sea, also hit home. The suggestion that Obama sees himself as too grand to relate to the concerns of ordinary people has real potential to damage him.
Makes me want to look at those ads again.
5) Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan now at the WSJ, has a piece describing the “political landscape” right now. Like many pundits, she describes the “known knowns” of unexpectedly tight polls, a European tour without much “bounce” and the McCain campaign “catching on” to the idea of Obama as shallow celebrity.
She goes on to say all the preening by Obama is strategy rather than vanity. It is all part of a plan to make voters comfortable with Obama wearing the trappings of the President. But, the campaign makes mistakes.
However. Mr. Obama consistently shows that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. It’s a theme with his talented, confident staff. They don’t know what they don’t know either. Because they’re young and they’ve never been in power and it takes time to know what you don’t know. The presidential-type seal with OBAMA on it, the sometimes over-the-top rhetoric about healing the earth and parting the seas. They pick the biggest, showiest venue for the Berlin speech, the Brandenburg Gate, just like a president, not realizing people would think: Ya gotta earn that one, kid. Going to Europe was fine, but they should have gone in modestly, with a modest venue, quietly spread word that his speech was open to the public, and then left the watching world awed by the hordes that showed up. For they would have. “We couldn’t help it, they love him!” It would have looked as if Europe was coming to him, and let that sink in back home.
She ends with this:
Is Mr. Obama’s self-conception in line with his gifts, depth, wisdom and character? That’s the big question, I suspect, on a number of minds.
As for Mr. McCain, I think he had the best moment of the month this week at the big motorcycle convention in Sturgis, S.D., when he was greeted with that mighty roar. And his great line: “As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I’ll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day.” Oh, that was good.
There’s a thing that’s out there and it’s big, and latent, and somehow always taken into account and always ignored, and political professionals always assume they understand it. It has been called many things the past 50 years, “the silent center,” “the silent majority,” “the coalition,” “the base.” The idea of it has evolved as its composition has evolved, but the fact that it’s big, and relatively silent, and somehow always latent, maintains. And watching that McCain event—vroom vroom—one got the sense it is perhaps beginning to pay attention to the campaign. I see it as the old America, and if and when it reasserts itself, the campaign will shift indeed, and in ways you can even see from 10,000 feet.
I hadn’t heard about the Harleys. She is right. That is good.
6) Also at the National Review is this piece about HRC speaking in Denver.
The writer notes that HRC is scheduled to speak on Tuesday - Women’s Equality Day. He also notes there is still some skirmishing about whether Hillary’s name will be placed in nomination and that Hillary herself said:
I know that there have been a lot of questions on this subject. Senator Obama and I share the goal of ensuring that the voices of everyone who participated in this historic process are respected. I want to assure everyone we are working together with Senator Obama’s campaign and the DNC, and I am confident we will have a successful and unified Convention in Denver.
The the author says:
Nothing in there to tell you anything one way or another. But look at it this way: Hillary Clinton speaks to the convention on Women’s Equality Day, amid a big celebration of the role of women in the Democratic Party, and everyone is feeling good about how inclusive they are — and then, just hours after celebrating the right of women to vote, the convention denies a vote to the millions of women who supported Hillary Clinton? How’s that gonna work? Might it be that the fortuitous occasion of Women’s Equality Day will actually create pressure for a floor vote?
Hmmmmm. Hope so!
7) The WaPO has an article today about the Democratic convention. Nothing really new here, but it doesn’t start well:
With the clock running out on preparations for the Democratic convention, advisers to Sen. Barack Obama are scrambling to reach a compromise with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to appease her supporters and find roles for her and her husband.
The Obama and Clinton camps said this week that they agree on a central point: They would like to avoid an embarrassing display of discord from Clinton’s most ardent backers when the national convention begins in just over two weeks. Conversations about how to achieve that have increasingly focused on the question of whether Clinton’s name will be offered in a roll-call vote by delegates to determine the nominee, even though she has said she is not challenging Obama’s claim as the party’s standard-bearer.
Appease? “Appease” does not imply “take seriously” or “listen to” or “talk with.” “Appease” means throwing a bone.
Still, some Clinton supporters and delegates are mobilizing to attempt to force a symbolic vote, or at least draw as much attention to the Clinton team as possible during the Denver events. Michele Thomas, 40, a photographer in Los Angeles, said she is helping organize delegates who think that only through a roll call can Clinton be properly honored.
“If the party is speaking about unity, they [the Clinton delegates] believe the only way to unify the party is actually allowing them to vote,” Thomas said in a phone interview yesterday. “Moving beyond the convention, if they were not allowed to vote there would be a lot of resentment.”
Lastly, there is this ironic bit:
The back and forth with Clinton — as well as questions about whether her husband will actively campaign for Obama after the convention — threatens to distract attention from what Obama’s backers hope will be one of the convention’s central themes: change. Planners are hoping to create an event that looks and feels different from past conventions, with more interactive components and an emphasis on the grass roots, in order to mirror the core message of Obama’s candidacy.
“Emphasis on the grass roots.” Heh. What grass roots would those be? How about all the nascent and established grass roots movements like PUMA? Yeah, there’s the rub.
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Looks just a wee bit obscene, to me. But goes nicely with the phalluses in the John McCain ad.
Oh Lisa I can’t stop laughing. Thank you!!
Of course, the new hand sign could also symbolize that Obama is A BIG ZERO !!!
This is my favorite.
Hey, what happened to the fist bump? A little too aggressive for the new (and phony) Kumbaya message, perhaps?
This hand sign is faulty… How can you hold a beer?
Stupid f**king Obama people.
If they’d done this in Berlin, the Germans would have rioted and Hillary’d already be nominated!
Or is it saying, I just smoked a joint Thissss Biggggg!
LOL, that’s must be it. It’s to meassure the phallic symbols with.
LOL….yttik….only in a mandingo fantasy….
I think it’s more indicative of an ORIFICE….
SEIG O ! DearLeader !….Let’s all bend over for Party Unity in Americastan !
Larry said you’d need a mitre-gauge…
In some quarters that hand signal means vagina, so a ___ for a ____. You fill in the blanks. (Hint: think p-words.
That looks like a gesture used in Japan. It means “no”. That seems appropriate as the consensus feeling about B. Hussein Obama-Soretoro is “NObama”.
LMAO…….
It’s just a reminder to keep you tires inflated.
OK…..that deserved some serious KUDOS!
CLEVER!! Well done!
This just pisses me off because the Obama campaign is ripping off the “Yell O” hand symbol from the University of Oregon. Check out the “Yell O” spirit t shirt on the goducks.com site and you will see. Now I will think of that purulent anal fissure every time I see it at a football game. Way to ruin a formerly fun thing to do at UO.
I was thinking the same thing myself.
They may have a lawsuit. At least injunct it until Nov.
Underneath this new symbol, they could put
Arcus Super
Roughly translated from latin
BEND OVER
That would make a great poster.
I am glad I’m not alone. It looks obscene to me, as well. Absurd…and obscene.
However, aside from the suggestive nastiness, I can’t help but notice the HUBRIS involved in the gesture and the symbol–like these obnoxious, pimpled Team Obama pudpullers would need TWO HANDS to handle their little whoppers!
I think if we’re going for Truth In Advertising, the appropriate symbol might be…a TWEEZER.
Perhaps the street name will be THE GLORY HOLE. CHANGE WE CAN FEEL.
ITS EITHER ONE OF THOSE FISH STORIES,
WHERE THE BOT SAYS ‘AND HIS PENIS IS THIS BIG’!!!
OR ITS A PUMA SAYING ‘AND HIS BRAIN IS THIS BIG’!!!
Is he trying to say: I once saw a vagina this big?
Wonderful. A big fat zero. How fitting.
LOL, that’s what I thought. It looks like an empty space, a big hole.
Obama should hold it over his chest to show the empty space where his heart should be.
so true so true, and they said ronald raygun was a robot
How about an A-Hole?
Yes! That’s what I thought, “A”, with a soft hole in it–if you look out of focus a little, it also looks like the pyramid and rays on the dollar bill but with a hole where the eye should be.
All these great names should be spread far and wide and made into another humorous ad. We’re starved for humor after all the bitterness.
Is Dunkin Donuts an official sponsor of the Barack Obama campaign? If not, why are Obama supporters being urged to make the Sign of the Donut?
I certainly have no problem visualizing the Obama supporters as Munchkins. They have the brains and the annoying bleating voices for the job.
:::looking up as I play my banjo and take a swig from the Jack Daniels bottle:::
Looks more like a black hole to me….
The universal symbol for I got nutthin
It’s a giant orifice that you can project all your hopes and dreams into.
One of the red meat right wing sites has christened it the O-Hole.
Oooooohhhh…( groan )…..chuckle…..That is classic….O-Hole…LOL
I am sure Johns camp will be right O on it!!
All is show is an empty hole just like BO!
I was thinking more along the lines of ASxHOLE…BIG WHOPPING ASxHOLE, but the ZERO hits the nail on the head.
I wonder it will become like Hilters, you know where eveyone had to do it, even little kids? How sick..
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Some of the gangs have hand signals/signs. My 14 year old showed me the sign for the Bloods and the Crips. Needless to say I told her to change her group of friends to exclude gang members or wanna be.
I think that the hand sign is coming from the AA part of his supporters, and then the sheepells will follow it. More of his symbolism?
you did read the article right? you do realize that this has nothing to do with the obama campaign? right?
The hand signal is reminiscent of “Goatse”. If you know what i’m talking about, you’ll agree, if you don’t, you probably don’t want to know.
I would like to know. That to me a looks like a gang sign.
NO NO I made the mistake of looking it up because I’m obsessed with information. It’s disturbingly gross and graphic.
If you really want to know, try wikipedia’ing it. The Wiki page is visually safe for work.
The real Goatse is NOT for the sensitive and not safe for work, but once you know what it is, you’ll never be able to see Barry’s gang hand signal the same way again!
There are many goatse references in modern society, a Time magazine cover, on the BBC, german railways, fake Hurrican katrina photos, etc..
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic.. but his hand signal is ridiculous.
I will leave that alone.
It still looks like a M13 gang sign. I saw Lisa Ling on national geographic talking about Los Angeles gangs.This was one of those signs. I do not know what it means. But it is scary.
Dear G_D! I am LMAO!!!
Thats why he couldn`t visit the wounded troops in Germany. Those with only one arm could only give half a salute.
lol! that’s sick, but funny!
I can think of a hand gesture I would like to give.
Measure your prick with this- great symbol. The biggest problems is it takes two hands and that takes
more effort for the bots- They will struggle with that one.
O O O that Obamamono candy…(for the kids:-)
Appease? Symbolic? That’s just as much an insult to Clinton supporters as doing nothing. You can vote, but it won’t count for anything. So why waste the time?
I really hate what’s happening to the Democratic Party. It certainly doesn’t represent me anymore, especially since I’ve now been labeled one of “those people.”
Obama opponents could easily turn this against him.
Something like “Obama’s got as much substance as a donut hole.”
Or you know how the McCain ad had the BArackadential seal swooping up through the parted waters of the Red Sea? They could have the faux seal coming at you through the O-Hole.
And they should do it in 3-D.
Oh, I think it’s perfect- We all know Barky’s an assh**e, and here’s a symbol for it. All they have to do is say “bend over” to make it complete. Or it could be construed as the “Nobama is a ZERO” symbol. HA! Gee, I’m so glad the “club” has their little hand signs- what’s next- a salute?
Their campaign is really heavy handed with the symbology, and it doesn’t seem to be working out so well…
1.The symbol of the campaign itself, reminiscent of the rising sun on the flag of the plane that dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor. Also, the red used, hmmm… who uses red a lot - hey I remember: the Communist party!
2. The symbol at the Berlin speech, much maligned and misidentified Victory Column. So phallic they had to sissify it by confusing it with the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
3. The faux seal, speaks for itself.
4. And now the freaking Unity Donut Hole that brings with it all connotations of empty-suitedness
and nothingness, and those are just the G rated associations.
When there’s no substance to speak of, the reliance on symbolism can cause problems.
This is what happens when you try to shove Authoritarian sensibilities down the collective American throat….chuckle….leaves a bad taste…lol
did you read the article? this didn’t come from the campaign.
Do you know that for sure? Maybe the “creative agency” is just floating an idea that was presented by a campaign functionary…as of this writing I haven’t seen the Obama campaign disassociate itself from the salute.
Even if there is no direct correspondence between the agency and the Obama campaign, the larger point is this: Symbolism has to be relied upon in support of a candidate who is seriously lacking in the Experience and Substantive Discourse Departments.
Yep…see, if you don’t know “the sign,” you aren’t in “the club.”
You separate out the acolytes from the pretenders that way.
It’s like WW2–What’s the password? Tell me the password or I shoot!
Uh, Mickey Mouse? Donald Duck? Betty Grable?
These people make me SICK!
What a fucking joke and mockery this party has made of our election process and the FOOLS it puts out for office… I’m thoroughly disgusted.
The world will laugh louder and harder at the ignorance and bombastic-ness of ‘America’. All the obassole campaign is doing is playing at and marketing to ‘youth’ and self-absorbed unrealists.
P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C !
Yes and they will pretend to applaud this loser, just to lead any voter stupid enough to vote for him further down the path to destruction. They are mocking us, over this idiot. They know that if Obama is elected the USA will cease to exist as we know it.
What they don’t understand is this. They will have a maniac having control of that red button and it may well be aimed straight at them.
Are going to get arm bands or just be tatooed?
Oh, I’m sure there will piercings with Michelles $600.00 earrings.
Hand signals!!! Like teenage gang members? Why don’t they where bandannas and ridiculously oversized Yankees hats?
Rosee & wry,
This is getting way out of hand. I heard this morning on the radio that in addition to this salute that when the HoBo is greeted at the stadium the zombies have a mantra, as well.
Just a plain old Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo…until he tells them to shush up and listen.
This is fanatical. And, I do agree with an earlier poster with regard to our wounded troops.
I am speechless.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh my! The kids have free reign.
So juvenile. O is Officially the laughing stock
of all politicians. The worst I’ve ever seen.
I think I saw that on an episode of Star Trek. People chanting:
“OOOOOOOOOooooooooooo” “Ooooooooooooooo”
I think they had pointy heads.
I think it’s bio-chips put under our skin so we can be scanned.
I’ve got a secret finger sign I’ll be using. It starts with lifting the middle finger!
The highly read Fark website finally links to a website talking about the Obama COLB. http://www.fark.com/politics/ It provides a link to the Israeli Insider report: http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/13040.htm
I know reporters read the Fark site. Maybe this will spread.
Ahhhh…THE YOUTH OF THE NEW PARTY FOR A NEW AMERICA….DEAR LEADER MUST BE SOOOOO ( sigh ) PROUD…..Truly this is gettin HYSTERICAL….LOL
Whats’ next? A Captain Midnight style decoder ring at the bottom of a chocolate drink mix jar? One that his adoring followers can use to decode WORM?
The hand gesture really means: Bend over, America.
I hear Larry Sinclair is the designer of the sign!
LOL!
Obama lied about his new kind of politics.
Using bloggers as a fourth column.
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/08/and_if_the_guys/#comments
Funny! McCain’s the one giving his bloggers points to post talking points.
Obama sent his out in a direct mailer to ‘journalmalists everywheres’….
looks like a strangling gesture. He is strangling ‘those’ people.
Talk about Phallic Symbolism, Bob Herbert of the New York Times should get a look at this unity hand sign.
It reminds me of something boys do to show their manhood size etc……..
Really highlights our precious Messiah’s insecurities, doesn’t it?
How surprising! A NQ diary filled with quotes from Republican sources.
Meanwhile, here’s the lies from McCain today:
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/08/1255817.aspx
Debbie boy bot you’re an idiot. Go home and play.
debbie can not play today
debbie practicing O-Donut symbol
LIL’ DEBBIE…IS AN O-HOLE….LOL
yum, sounds like a new donut.
I want chocolate please.
Yea use that hand sign to help yourself out.
Meanwhile here is the platform your leader has asked you to follow:
What does it mean to have an “average increase in your income.” I thought this was about taxes, not income. Numbers can be jacked around in a variety of ways. McCain is probably talking about taxes on capital gains (which affects people’s retirement plans).
Any case, telling lies with numbers is politics as usual, whereas Barky as we know is above all of that.
So let him tell the truth about his relations with Rezko, Ayres, and Wright. And let him tell the truth about his birth place and name. And let him tell the truth about his support from the Oil Companies and Nuclear Power industry. Let him tell the truth about his support for offshore drilling and his voting FOR the Bush-Cheney energy plan (McCain & Clinton both voted against). Let him tell us the truth behind his support for NAFTA and FISA. Let him tell us what he really thinks of the poor and downtrodden who lived in Rezko’s tenement buildings, and the bitter folks of PA while he eats arugula. And what does he really think of the wounded soldiers while he shoots hoops in Germany. The list, baby, goes on.
No, this is the result of his UK visit on the Obama world tour.
Tony Blair hinted he try this:
http://xs127.xs.to/xs127/08225/blairhandswns449.jpg
So Obama took it “over the top.” (literally)
We Obama supporters are the doughnut. You Hillary supporters are the big A hole in the middle.
Hey Bobo,
Still say you need to read your leaders platform
You are out of step!
Obama has all the substance of a jelly doughnut - And his supporters? They’re just lured by the sweet and empty calories.
Ah, the subtle wit of the typical Obama supporter. Makes me almost miss the big orange lollipop.
If there’s a role call vote, what day is it.and when is the vote for the nominee?
My comment got deleted from US News site, and I can see that many comments are being deleted by O-Zombies, lol, they just cannot take criticism and must shut down all dissent.
I’ll NEVER vote for your Lord of the FLIES you crazy Oblow followers.
lol
BTW: Love the new cult sign, herd brains.
BREAKING
DNC has scheduled Bill Clinton to speak right before yet-to-be-announced VP candidate.
Could that mean… Hillary will be VP?
Sure seems that way to me!
Team Obama has read the writing on the wall!
Will you vote for an Obama/Clinton ticket?
NOPE! Any ticket with Obama on it is going to fail. Besides, why should the more qualified, older, more intelligent WOMAN take the back seat to the younger, much less experienced, lacking intelligence MALE???
NEVER will I vote for Obama!
I will not be voting for Obama, I don’t care who the V.P is. I would hope Hillary would stay away from Obama.
Not even if my mother was VP.
Not even if I was VP!
No Deal.
You know what? Here’s why I don’t think “Hillary as VP” will be a surprise in Denver: There will be a LOT of people in Denver and there are already concerns about safety and security.
Not EVERYONE would be happy with a result like that. Do you seriously think it would be wise or responsible to just shock the 100,000 ++++ amount of people who will be in Denver?
NOT a good idea.
Wouldn’t it be nice,if Bill Clinton introduced Obama as the VP….I wouldn’t mind,that since that would mean Clinton would be the Nominee.lol
Just dreaming
Not exactly breaking if you read the above post. . . .
no
There’s no truth to the rumor that Barack Obama has responded to the invasion of Georgia by Russia by expressing his sympathy for the displaced people of Atlanta, Savannah, etc…
Inside the Obama campaign, staffers are re-assuring eachother by noting that Georgia was not one of the 57 states targeted by the Illinois Senator anyway….
lol
Funny John…Is Atlanta Okay ?…..classic….
too funny….
Unfreak’ing believable , lol, looks like a big black hole to me. How many Obambi kool-aid drinkers got sucked into that black hole early on and are now trying to find a way out? I’m not sure they will have an easy time getting back out as Obamabi’s middle finger is the gate keeper to the black hole exit.
Hey how do you get your item posted with a screen name like ‘racist’ and I can’t seem to get my item about CNN’s scarey comment section through the filter? Last night on CNN there were some truly hateful (against whites) comments posted. I think it’s a ‘false flag’ operation but every time I try to post it here it disappears into lalaland — which is to Larry’s credit that he’s got filters in place. But still, yours…?
yipee now we can spot an Obama cult member quicker!
A sign of progress? It looks like something cavemen would communicate with..
Never, I have asked my husband should I even get the thought of such a thing to lock me up in the house somewhere until election day passes. I hope she doesn’t, it isn’t going to be something that would ever help her in anyway. Also, it’s transparent as all get out, this is when pandering steps over the line into whoring.
Well I am enjoying this article and posts today.
The only thing is I am beginning to suspect that these crazy ideas are just to keep Obama in the news. They aren’t serious. Similar to how celebrities are always having a meltdown to be kept in the news.
This is so silly:
“They would like to avoid an embarrassing display of discord from Clinton’s most ardent backers when the national convention begins in just over two weeks.”
Well perhaps they should have begun trying to prevent that weeks ago? Somehow I don’t think referring to people as dead enders, sore losers, bitter old hags, etc, was the right path to take, LOL.
Were people embarassed when 43 Kucinich delegates supported him in 2004? What about the 26 votes that abstained and refused to support John Kerry? 69 delegates refused to endorse John Kerry in one form or another.
Gees, they should be concerned about democracy and letting those delegates have their say. Instead they’re worried that Obama might be embarassed because people have the right to chose who they support?
don’t forget racist! you know how much we cherish being called racists.
I mentioned in an earlier post about Bill speaking just before the VP nominee that I fear Obama has force Hillary to take the VP slot to prevent a floor vote.
It is either that or a huge insult to President Clinton to speak in that slot.
Isn’t that the universal symbol for Hang on for Dear Life?
LisaB, very good article. Thanks. I read noquarterusa nearly everyday, but rarely comment. But, that Obama symbol, oh my! The first thing that came to mind was that nasty single-hand a-hole jester that was more popularly displayed by youth back in the 60’s & 70’s. This new BO symbol looks like a larger version.
Is BO and his cult following trying to “secretly” tell the rest of us something?
Do you mean that if we vote for BO, that we’d be getting screwed?
NOBAMA. PUMA.
They neglected to mention that, once you make the salutory symbol, you are supposed to squeeze your head through the hole.
LMAO!! can’t stop laughing. But with the little or no minds of the bots most of them could do it.
I thought O and his followers already had a hand signal when he gave Hillary (and the rest of the country) the finger?
Oh lord, are they that TONE DEAF, look can’t Democrats stopping these excesses Obama as a demigod is well icky and I want a Dem Congress. Please don’t let them chant either.
Item #4 of LisaB’s post is something I can relate to. My family immigrated from Latin America to the US when I was 7 years old and we became citizens when I was a teenager. But, my surname is not “Spanish.” Americans (i.e., people from the United States) who set up these affirmative action and quota categorizations seem to not understand that Latin America is not so different from North America—we had immigrants from Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Russia, Poland, Italy, China, Japan, and then Africans brought in the slave trade. So, we are diverse too and not everyone is mestizo and named “Hernandez” or “Diaz”. I never understood the affirmative action programs as applied to “hispanics” (a term that doesn’t even make sense in Spanish, because it would mean you are descended from a Spaniard)…every state I’ve lived in has a different definition of “hispanic”–sometimes people from South American countries are included, and sometimes they are not. And there is no consideration of a person’s socio-economic background. My parents both had graduate degrees and my father was a doctor, so why on earth would I need affirmative action?
Boy, the young Obamapreneurs are really getting into gear now. I think they’re trying to trade on the old hippie ‘peace’ sign (the rabbit ears you put behind your buddy’s head in the grammar school picture).
Thing is, peace sign meant something (ie, peace) and it was easy to flash while driving your volkswagen down the street. This one is at a distinct disadvantage, requiring as it does two hands. I predict it will not fly.
I love it. Now let them stick their heads inside it and choke themselves. I am so sick of their arrogance and how cocky they act. I have a boy an officer in the Marines and he can’t stand Obama and his followers. They are a bunch of thugs and punks. They wouldn’t last a day in a war. They should all grow up. Better yet - just go away. Hillary or McCain
LUV THAT….stick their heads inside…..YES !!
I agree, I’m blushing at the Obama handshake. So at the convention, is the audience to put their hands-up and wave the Obama handshake. I’m moving beyond blushing, I’m getting hot and bothered by this - more bothered really. Move over Presidential Seal, bring on the secret subliminal some’n handshake.
LOL. So much for the secret. It kinda looks like something else but I won’t say what.
So the non Obama supporters (e.g., PUMAs) can move their middle finger so it slices through the circle which could mean NObama… circle with a diagonal slash means “No”
It’s reminiscent of an episode on the original “Star Trek,” where they pick up the group pf space hippies who are following a charismatic leader (the “one”) who will lead them to Eden. They even had the same symbol. Gatewaypundit has the images up from the series; I spat my coffee out while reading it.
Here is a brief scene from the Star Trek episode you are talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVG1KfcAWgY&eurl=http://www.redstate.com/
Looks like Me-chelles piehole to me.
If anyone EVER shows that fukked up gesture in my presence I WILL (in a symbol of unity) place my erect middle finger through it.
PUMA TILL I’M DEAD
You could always respond in similary sign. With right hand fingers all closed like a fist, extend the middle finger straight, while left forms an open fist with all finger tips meeting the thumb to form same 0, place right hands middle finger through the big 0. Me thinks they might get the message.
So, while they keep trying to deny they’re a cult, they just keep proving they ARE ONE with everything they say and everything they do.
The shingdig in Denver is gonna be much more like a STAR TREK CONVENTION than a National Convention to determine the party’s nominee for President of the United States.
The whole thing would be hilarious if it weren’t so damn tragic for the American people.
OH YES! We CAN. We DEFITELY can use that symbol to describe Barry. Because he IS a BIG FAT 0 (ZERO). Thank you…spread the [word]
as an asside to this hilarity, for those of you not in the know or unfamiliar with the gay community, that hand signal of both hands forming a large O is what is commonly used when referring to somoen in a disparaging way as a result of their promiscuity.
We use it to nonverbally indicate that the party in question’s nether regions are stretched beyond repair from entertaining too many pirates in booty bay, to euphamism-ize it.
omg, do you think this (the new O hand sign) is a joke then? It really is in US & World News.
I think the words “sign of progress” should be replaced with “Obama sucks.”
We can only wish that McCain gets this one, it truly shows what childish behavior will be in the White House, oops that would be BLACK house as per Ludicris.
(Was not there a white person called a racist for saying it would be the black house?)Rap singing would ring out over the lawns, that the New Black Panthers patrolled to keep out the white, Asian, Latin Americans etc riffraff. For joy, for joy….
quipping about his wife Cindy taking part in a topless beauty pageant?? What kind of joke is this? To be a stupid sexist pig won’t help him.
We used to use that sign in high school rally’s to insult our opposing team!!!! So we are the “Sphincter” party now? How perfect in every way—-and so Gay Obama!! Did you ask your blow buddy Larry Sinclair about this one?
Does this mean the Obama people are going to stop flipping everyone the bird?
it reminds me of a joke
person says ” I wish my a-hole was this big” holds hands up in this gesture
second person says ” why ”
person says ” cause right now it’s this big” holds hands up in larger version of this gesture
so when they are all holding up their hands like this, that is what they are saying, ‘we wish our a-holes were this big’
sometimes I get the feeling that I am participating in Mystery Election Theater 3000.
this stuff needs a laugh track.
I just couldn’t help myself…
Here are some alternatives to this new Obama graphic!
http://theproblemwithobama.com
Enjoy!
Fist bumps, donut hole gestures, brushing the shoulder…and they accused Bill Clinton of talking in code? Please….by the time this election is over, the KoolAid kids are going to need an Idiot’s Guide to Barry’s Code Interpretations. Codes are probably the best thing they’ve got though when there is no teleprompter available.
O is for ….
Ori from Stargate SG1
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1/Ori
# Hallowed are the Ori.” (this mantra is repeated by all believers almost as punctuation. Considered Blasphemous if a non-believer speaks these words)
# “Hallowed are the children of the Ori.” (this mantra is said by the priors, which followed by the next mantra):
# “Hallowed are we; hallowed are the Ori.”
# “The Ori need nothing from us.”
# “Is great knowledge, power, understanding not enough for you to revere the Ori?”
# “Those who reject the path to enlightenment, must be destroyed.”
# “Those who stray must be guided back to the path.”
# “The power and the greatness of the Ori cannot be denied.”
[...] H/T: Purple People Vote and NoQuarter USA [...]
I borrowed Bob Herbert’s Secret Decoder Ring and used it to closely examine that image. It is most definitely a dogwhistle, and it says: “Obama is a big, empty asshole!”
Here are some alternative versiosn of this new Obama graphic:
http://www.theproblemwithobama.com
Enjoy!
See my web site for alternative versions of this new logo.
the ^o^ pie hole - should just shut it!
ttthhhhppppssssstttttttt! I’ve had enough of the flatulence.
This symbol reminds me of a shackle, before with iron shackle, now with Obama’s hands.
Well, that symbol brings back memories!! When I was a teenager I attended a parochial school. Trying to outsmart the nuns, all the students made up hand gestures to communicate with each other behind their backs—most of them were cuss words or sexual in nature. That was our symbol for “orgasm”— I kid you not.
I suppose every time Obama speaks, his followers probably feel orgasmic, so I guess the gesture fits.
Zero…Zero…Zero….perfect
http://scotterb.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/irrational-hillary-diehards/
The hand sign thing is sooooooo dumb and bizarre. I will snicker at anyone I see doing this.
Stupid gimmick. No way are people going to go around making this silly “O” with their hands.
It’s BO’s “secret gangsta” sign! He must be trying to appeal to 5 year olds. Desperate!
Is that the sign of the asshole???
I have a deaf friend whom I met when I was very young, and, of course, like with any new language, the first words I wanted to learn were the dirty ones. The first word I learned was “a$$hole.” If you put your knuckles together, basically “fist-bumping” yourself, that’s the sign for “a$$.” The hand sign above is the word “hole.” Hahahahahahahaha! I hope it does catch on as the presumptuous sign for the presumptuous nominee’s stupid followers!!
Hole! LOL! I can’t stop laughing!
Well, I don’t think the new secret “O” salute is quite as forceful as the old German one (palm straight and extended, arm upward at a 45 degree angle), but I think it is intended to serve the same purpose. I especially love the way it is irradiated with a halo, like so many images of The Precious. I would certainly LOL, except for the shivers going up and down my spine. And in spite of the beatific radiance, this salute cannot avoid the connotation: A-Hole with a capital O.
I like it! It is preparatory to the command, “Place your hands on your head!”
Here’s an even better sign, tatoo bama on right butt cheek, bend over and cheer!
NO WE ARE NOT FOR SALE.NO VP FOR HILLARY TO GET OUR VOTES.HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT.OR BUST MCCAIN.REINSTATES ALL HILLARY’S VOTES AND DELEGATES THAT WERE STOLEN FORM HER AND GIVEN TO OBAMA.
WE WILL NOT FALL IN LINE TO THE DNC-WE WILL NOT FALL IN LINE FOR VP. KISS ARE A****!NEVER OBAMA THE FLIP FLOPER,LIAR NEVER OBAMA FOR ANYTHING.NO PRESIDENT FOR HIM NO VP FOR HIM.FILE TO GET HIM OUT OF THE SENATE AS WELL AS DONNA BRAZILE-HOWARD DEAN AND NANCY PEWWWWWWWW..
NO WE WON’T FALL IN LINE!
HILLARY 08
MCCAIN 08
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[...] Mr. Colbert, do you know the Obama hand sign? http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/08/pssssst-heres-the-secret-hand-sign/#more-4072 So, not only is Mr. Obama the new Bush, he is also the new Kim Jong Il and the new Mao Zedong! [...]
The last time we had trendy hand signs, it was 1939 and the signs were accompanied by cries of Seig Heil.
Someone please tell me why the idiot public keep falling for this simplistic garbage, going on to follow some or other despot to destruction.
Also, watch 1984, and you will see the similarity in the hand signs being used for Obama, and the crossed arm signs during the hate.
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