"Obama art is not for mere mortals" reads the headline to Financial Times reporter Edward Luce's August 26 Denver Diary item. Luce described a shrine fit for pilgrimage by the likes of Chris Matthews or Lee Cowan, the so-called Manifest Hope gallery in Denver.:
The gallery, a few blocks from the convention centre, asked artists for their take on "unity, hope, patriotism, change and progress" and within two weeks it had received 1,500 submissions.
Among the icons of the Obamessiah one depicts the Illinois senator "bare-chested as he strides out of a rose-strewn ocean."
Luce concluded his squib by offering "[t]wo bits of advice for curators":
admit only the converted and conceal it from the candidate until the end of his second term. No mortal can survive this adulation.
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Are there any Republicans in a jar of piss?
August 26, 2008 - 15:36 ET by JTPThat is the standard for a Lib art gallery isn't it?
"I need more cowbell!" SNL
So, the secret service
August 26, 2008 - 16:08 ET by Saint Zero...will be the guards walking around him, whispering "You are a Mortal" like Ceasar's guards did?
No words for it.
August 26, 2008 - 16:56 ET by Mearlinejust leaves one astounded. What is wrong with these people?
If elected, I can see heroic
August 26, 2008 - 17:27 ET by Chris NormanIf elected, I can see heroic Stalinesque statues of The Obama in town squares everywhere...
McNotObama '08
...and I will be the guy
August 26, 2008 - 17:42 ET by HeavyChevyin the M1A1 battle tank with a chain wrapped around the statue pulling the SOB down!
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
Blasphemy!
August 26, 2008 - 18:12 ET by Chris NormanBlasphemy! :)
McNotObama '08
Not blasphemy...
August 26, 2008 - 18:20 ET by HeavyChevyremodeling!!!! :-)
"9 out of 10 doctors agree that flag burning is the number one killer of liberals."
A comparison
August 26, 2008 - 19:44 ET by UnsaneWhen I visited China I bought some editions of The Little Red Book in various languages. I notice that in all of them, to start them off, are various pictures of Mao from different time periods. THIRTY-ONE, to be exact. Mao as a young man. Mao in the fields. Mao with the workers. Mao reviewing the army. Mao playing table tennis. Mao about to swim the Yangtze to show the world he still "had it". And on and on and on.
This eerily reminds me of the same thing.
Whoever casts a vote for Obama-Biden is nothing more than a common thief. Whoever fails to vote against them is nothing more than a moral coward.
Wow, Uns
August 26, 2008 - 23:16 ET by BlondeThat's really creepy.
Right on the bloody point, but creepy!
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
Puncturing Barack's ego
August 26, 2008 - 20:44 ET by nkviking75I hope someone in St. Paul exhibits all the photoshops and parodies of Lord Barack as a counterpunch. And I hope McCain keeps poking holes in The One's pseudo-messianic image.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
O, For Heaven's Sake
August 26, 2008 - 23:13 ET by BondPlainBondI have scoured the Manifest Hope Gallery and cannot find the large size picture of the Obamessiah depicted bare-chested as he strides out of a rose-strewn ocean.
I HAVE to HAVE that one. It is the one "artist created" piece I have seen that spells out the serious, serious delusion under which these followers of the Obamessiah live day-to-day.
Clues? Hints? Links? To where I can find the larger image?
Thx
didja notice?
August 27, 2008 - 06:42 ET by theduck6It's on the moveon.org site.
ironic since it seems they can't move on, no?
but no that pic isn't there.