The U.S.
of O.
The Obama cult is back!
By JAMES
TARANTO
The Obama campaign website offers
prints of four campaign artworks. Two of them, titled "Our Stripes," are
a parody of the American flag. The red and white stripes are shown as streaks
of paint, which strikes us as inoffensive artistic license. But the blue field
with 50 white stars is replaced with the "O" campaign logo. It's not the United States
of America anymore, but the United States of Obama.
Bier also observes that the Obama
parody flag has only nine stripes: "I wonder which of the four original
colonies went for McCain in 2008?" But if you construe the white spaces
above and below the "flag" as stripes, that brings the total to 11,
which would fit with excluding South Carolina. No red states indeed.
It seems we have a president who
thinks the national symbol is the bald ego. Bier notes that the campaign
previously used the "no red states, no blue states" slogan on
Twitter, to promote a T-shirt. It shows a colorful map of the 48 contiguous
states--well, of some of the 48 contiguous states. Obama's face blocks
Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota; almost
all of Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota and North Dakota; about half of
New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming; and the southeast corner of Montana.
If his head gets much bigger, it will eclipse the entire country.
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