How Obama’s Media Machine Imitates the Propaganda Art of The Communist Soviet Union - and what it tells us

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It makes sense that hero worshipers imitate the iconic forms of the heroes themselves, and their methods of operation.

Obama Is A Communist 

Let’s not play games about this: his close friends Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dorn (who also ran the terrorist Weather Underground) are self-admitted communists; 

 Here Dorn makes herself famous in 1970 on the CBS Nightly News by declaring war on the United States

 Reverend Wright espouses communist philosophy in his racist church of hate and was Obama’s “spiritual advisor” by Obama’s own admission. Obama’s mother was so captivated by communism that she moved to an essentially communist country in the late 1950’s when such lifestyles were adopted only by the truest of anti-America, pro-communist believers. We all know Obama grew up in Indonesia, but no one ever states why: because from the 1920’s – 1966, Indonesia grew into a hard-core communist enclave country, and that is where his pro-communist mother, originally from Kansas, consciously chose to raise her children in the late 1950’s. Indeed, with growing popular support and a membership of about 3 million by 1965, Indonesia’s PKI was the strongest communist party outside the Soviet Union and China. (The PKI was revived by the self-styled "Leninist wing" around D N Aidit.) 

It was under the Indonesian Marxist/communist influence that Barack Obama spent his formative years, and that is not theory, that is indisputable fact – that’s where he was and he admits it.  

One does not grow up with a free-market capitalist influence in the world’s third most communist country, one grows up under a communist influence in the world’s third most communist country, as his mother very obviously intended for her “good son”.

  Jarkata, where Obama grew up. In the center square you see figures in the soviet style.

 This image in Indonesia of a common worker breaking the chains of the oppression supposedly forced upon him by wealthy capitalists is a central and recurring visual analogy to communist propaganda. The fact that it makes no literal sense whatsoever in a free-market, representative republic like the United States is  entirely beyond the point; people for a good century bought into it.

This is the immediate environment – politically and socially – in communist Indonesia where Obama was instilled with his core beliefs and ideology.

Obama’s Teen Years.

In one of his two(!?!) autobiographies written before he even ran for President, Obama brazenly admits that in his teens and twenties, he sought out only communist revolutionaries and socialists with whom to associate, so it’s clear that the Indonesian ‘education” was entirely successful, and Obama has never – ever - recanted his former views. Finally, there is no history of Obama being ensconced with any conservative American groups for balance. That is Obama’s world. 

Obama is a communist. By his history, by his associations, by his upbringing, by his own essential admission, Obama is a communist. Anyone who wants to split indistinct political hairs in his defense or stick his or her head in the sand for fear of witnessing an outrage, is living in a dream world. Obama is a communist. Our President is a communist. Not maybe. Absolutely.

The Art

One would ask then, “If Obama is a communist, why didn’t he run as a communist?” Incredibly, in many ways he did, and in his egocentric machinations his political art pays tribute to the communist heroes of the past he almost certainly grew up adoring in Indonesia in the 1960’s.

First, as has been cited on ObamaFake before and recognized by others, his poster art is in all respects extremely imitative of the soviet propaganda art during the times of Lenin and Stalin, and are quintessentially the reverse of the current America illustration styles. 

For the last 10 years American illustration and political advertising has been gigantically influenced by computer technology and therefore is rich in three-dimensional character and photographic, realistic tonalities, even to the point where even the American cartoon has rejected 2-dimensional line art in favor of those mainstream aesthetic qualities. In the aesthetic reverse of this, Obama’s posters contain all the elements of the soviet style of Lenin and Stalin with shockingly little variation: a simple color pallet (necessary back in the day but a conscious style choice today); silkscreen-style line art (once again, a production necessity in the soviet union at the time but a obviously deliberate style choice today), a close up of a neutral-looking hero whose deification by commanding low angle forces us to feel as though we are looking up at him adoringly even if we’re not, so contrived are the angles, and this, too, is how the soviet tyrants manipulated the lower classes. The neutral expression, incidentally, is an intentional manipulation; by making the subject look great by low angles but not defining his character, it allows the viewer to “fill in the blanks” in his or her own imagination and see that great person as they define the character of a “great person”.

To regard such comparisons between Obama’s “Hope” poster and the soviet propaganda of Lenin and Stalin as coincidence is absolute, blind lunacy. 

 Note how the McCain/Palin campaign art, contemporary, in-line with current and historical American campaign art,  sharpens by contrast the striking resemblance that Obama’s art has to the old Communist soviet union. 

 

The History of the Original Obama Poster

 

The artist who rendered the first version of the main poster independently, Shepard Fairey, was a “graffiti artist” who created graffiti art critical of George Bush. This was immediately embraced by Obama and the campaign with Obama writing personally to Fairey:

I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can change the status-quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign. I am privileged to be a part of your artwork and proud to have your support. – Barack Obama, February 22, 2008

(You might have noticed in the "Stop Sign" reference, Obama is espousing an inner-city slum encouragement of the graffiti-style defacing of public and government property. I wonder how soon he will change his tune if people start spray-painting "Obama's birth certificate is fake" on stop signs)

Fairey was then commission directly by the Obama campaign to produce variations on the original theme. Rather than reject the soviet style, they embraced it.

In a shocking column, another Obama supporter in the mainstream press, Laura Barton, in the   Guardian newspaper, wrote that the image "acquired the kind of instant recognition of Jim Fitzpatrick's Che Guevara poster, and is surely set to grace T-shirts, coffee mugs and the walls of student bedrooms in the years to come." 

If you don’t know, Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary and figured heavily in the murderous and horrifically bloody Marxist takeover of Cuba, a person with whom Barton is making gloriously optimistic comparisons to Obama. Barton is right about another thing, too – Obama’s poster and Guevara’s are similar, and because they are both coming from the otherwise unique visual style of the Lenin and Stalin communist regimes. There is no example of American political art in the entire history of this nation – save for Obama’s – that mimics this Soviet Marxist political/leadership style. That is unique to Obama, who grew up a communist., Guevera wrote in his diary of the thrill he got from shooting people and, in a savage bit of irony, "The negro is lazy and indolent, and spends all of his money on frivolities on booze."

 An un-retouched image of a Guevera poster at Obama campaign headquarters.

The Variations

The word “Change” has been the central core of all Marxist revolutions for obvious reasons; capitalism and communism cannot co-exist. This poster was commissioned directly by the Obama camp.

"Progress", though not a bad word in itself, is a word legendary nevertheless in soviet communist propaganda. The reason is that it focuses the people’s attention away from their own needs and into a greater project, which in communism is never quite fully explained except that it is supposed to lead to a better life.

 "Progress" in the worker-ant sense in which it is used in communism  also takes people attention away from the rather quick dismantling of Christianity in those countries, and the USSR was famous for essentially outlawing religion. The assumption is that the hard work of the soviet people now will lead to a better life in some future time as they give their earnings to the state which will then redistribute it equally. Or, as Obama would say, “pay our fair share” and “We’ve been living beyond our means.”(funny coming from an inexperienced community organizer who tripled the debt with meaningless spending)

As a consequence, with any humanizing or religious references out of the mix so as to leave the state de facto supreme, entertainment in the USSR was greatly derived from science fiction, and the country poured its greatest revenue of entertainment into that genre. Sweeping epics of heroic explorations into space and our nearest planets in the solar system were the implied wonders that the soviet could expect for his sacrifice today as his earnings were confiscated by the state. The it was horrible false promise. When it fell, unemployment in the soviet union was  40% and alcoholism among men at 50%, most restaurants had almost no food and people stood in line for hours to purchase the essentials at nearly-unaffordable prices. Russia was in ruins because of communism. And our economy is falling also, for exactly the same reasons.

So the next time someone jokes about the soviet-style of Obama’s old campaign art, or does a send-up – stop them cold. It’s not a joke. These people are communists, they mean it, and unless you want to live like the old Soviet Union at the time of its collapse, you better start telling your fellow Americans.

Obama is not a left-wing capitalist. He’s not a “socialist”. By all available evidence save for his own word which has proven not be worth a plug nickle, Obama is a Marxist communist. Dismiss the mockery of the left-wing media that shares Obama’s extremist ideology - it’s to your advantage as an American that Obama and his ilk need to hide the fact of their communist roots and political persuasions. Expose that, and you “break the chains”.

But time is running short, and the economy is collapsing – just like Russia and for the same reasons. Please get the word out without apology. Hurry.

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ADDENDUM:

I clearly hit an Obot nerve with this one, it seems. Rather than allow this place to devolve into a flame war, I simply deleted the Obot comments, because I'm a delete Obot comments kind of guy - they can delete my comments on their boards, if they want.

However, it did occur to me to give an overview, and basically their objections are over citing the fact that Obama grew up in a country with a huge communist enclave, which seems to be driving Obots into hysteria, because, you know, that's something everyone can understand: if the guy grew up in communist surroundings, what is to make us think that things like not saluting the flag and raising taxes are not coming from that influence (which is a terrifying thought when applied to a US president).

Let me recap how these posts have been going, with responses:

1. "Indonesia was not a communist government, they loved America, bla bla bla"

Response: The government might not have been communist, but it had the third largest communist party in the world after China and Russia, and Russia was extremely difficult to get into and "only Nixon could go to China". in the McCarthy-era 50's and early 60's, If you wanted to be hip - and safe - communist expatriating from the US, Indonesia was your best bet. So cut the "Indonesia was all pro-capitalist" BS, because that's what it is - BS.

2. "The government hated communists so much they exterminated them all in the mid-60's"

Response: Yes, there was a massacre of communists when the government went through some upheavals. But the communists remained as a powerful underground force, as one would expect when you try to eliminate a party that large. They couldn't (and shouldn't, of course, the massacre was an atrocity ) have massacred them all or even close when a party grows that large in any country. Besides, Obama and his family were taken to Indonesia years before the massacre.
To recap: Indonesia had the largest communist party in the world in the 50's and 60's after Russia and China. US citizens didn't go there for the glorious capitalism that was the American way. They went for the communism. Like Obama's mother. Get it now, kids?