Peggy Shapiro at American Thinker has connected what has been bothering me about the Obama campaign posters. This should have been obvious since Barack Hussein Obama’s love for utopian politics.

Obama’s Posters: Message in the Image

There is something unsettling and very familiar in the Obama poster campaign which has plastered his image over the country. The posters depict the same graphic closeup of the candidate with one block word either “Hope,” “Change” or “Progress” at the bottom. I knew that I had seen this before, and then it came to me that this image appropriates the graphic style of totalitarian Soviet propaganda. It recalls the idealzed portraits and personality cult of the “Beloved Leader” such as Stalin and Lenin. The leader, face illuminated by a “holy” light, looks off to the horizon and sees the truth that is not available to his mere mortal followers, who must look up to his image.

Obama’s poster artist is Fairy reflects the philosophy of both:

Fairy’s art also reflects a common theme of the Obama campaign: America is a nation that oppresses. It is the America in which Obama’s wife Michelle can take no pride and that Obama’s spiritual advisor damns. It is the vision of America and its place in the world by one who is unfamiliar with history and who has the luxury of American freedom to express his distain for the country.

Michelle Malkin had a photoshop contest on Obama’s poster theme:

MUCH BETTER!

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