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It's all about the "O"
Topic Started: Aug 8 2008, 06:38 AM (413 Views)
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George Bush had his three-fingered W salute that supporters flashed when greeting him at presidential campaign events in 2000. And now, if a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way, Sen. Barack Obama will see fans meet him with his own salute like the one above. "Our goal is to see a crowd of 75,000 people at Obama's nomination speech holding their hands above their heads, fingers laced together in support of a new direction for this country, a renewed hope, and acceptance of responsibility for our future," says Rick Husong, owner of The Loyalty Inc. Husong tells me that he got the idea after seeing the famous Obama-Progress poster by artist Shepherd Fairey. "We wanted to get involved some way," he says. So, the agency came up with their own a symbol of hope and progress that also plays off Obama's name. "We thought, 'Let's try and start a movement where even while walking down the street, people would hold up the O and you would know that they were for Obama,' " says Husong. Much thought went into the relatively simple idea. "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, unlike Fairey's, 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."
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I can think of a more "exciting" 'O'. :devilgrin:
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The Big O > Obama's O.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Aug 8 2008, 06:40 AM
I can think of a more "exciting" 'O'. :devilgrin:

That's what I was thinking too!
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A large group of people all making that hand sign together at the same time would look pretty silly.
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The "O" -- Totally empty inside.
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I think they should think long & hard before they adopt that gesture.
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Aug 8 2008, 11:03 AM
A large group of people all making that hand sign together at the same time would look pretty silly.

Especially if they start moving it back and forth.. back and forth...

But I guess it takes two hands to handle an O-boner.
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Aug 8 2008, 10:03 AM
A large group of people all making that hand sign together at the same time would look pretty silly.

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Dewey
Aug 8 2008, 11:07 AM
I think they should think long & hard before they adopt that gesture.

I agree. :lol:
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Obama is popular among American youth.

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:spit: :lol2: :lol2:
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Aug 8 2008, 07:03 AM
The "O" -- Totally empty inside.

That's funny!
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WTF George?
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Aug 8 2008, 11:28 AM
Obama is popular among American youth.

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WTF??
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Thanks for telling me I look silly.

Silly for wanting smaller constitutional government.

Silly for wanting to eliminate the income tax.

Silly for being conservative when conservatives these days are actually socialists.


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Aug 8 2008, 12:45 PM
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WTF??

Spock 'reaches'.

Maybe that could be THE slogan.. 'Do you REACH Obama?'
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Aug 8 2008, 07:28 AM
Obama is popular among American youth.

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Okay Mik, you are almost responsible for my death. Almost choked on my carrot.
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Aug 8 2008, 06:38 AM
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Sorry, the image that this "salute" brings to my mind is a nation bending over and taking it in the Obama.
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Aug 8 2008, 03:28 PM
Okay Mik, you are almost responsible for my death. Almost choked on my carrot.

An unfortunate choice of words, in this context.

But I wish I were so limber.
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Yer asshole is going to be THIS big around, after Obama's term is up!
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