Michelle Malkin » The Obamessiah’s deep humility shines through in his new seal

The Obamessiah’s deep humility shines through in his new seal

By see-dubya • June 21, 2008 05:10 PM

For such a wonderfully media-savvy candidate, Obama’s graphic artists keep sending up clunkers. Frightening, presumptuous clunkers. Here’s the campaign’s latest, though I don’t know whether Shepard Fairey had a hand in this or not*:

THE GREAT SEAL OF THE OBAMESSIAH

Some bloggers have postulated that it’s too close to the existing Presidential seal, and therefore violates federal law. I don’t think that’s true; examining the Obama seal at high resolution reveals several differences**:

I. Latin motto changed to “VERO POSSUMUS”, which is Latin for “Si, se puede!”
II. Close examination reveals Obama’s seal contains 57 stars;
III. Eagle’s left wing is much stronger;
IV. The arrows in the eagle’s claw have Nerf tips;
V. That’s not an olive branch, but actually arugula in the other claw.
VI. There is no snake in the Obama eagle’s beak. It was thrown under the bus. It was not the snake that Obama’s eagle knew these many years.

Along with hawking his faux-leather bound “historic” speeches, “adapting” the presidential seal is not exactly enhancing the candidate’s reputation for humility, is it?

*Actually, scratch that. I’m sure Fairey did this, and I’ll tell you why. First, look at the Obama PROGRESS poster. See that little Obama logo on the lower right?

Let’s take a closer look:

See the how it’s looking at you like some malevolent panopticon? Yeah, that’s Shep Fairey’s weird-o-rama trademark, based on his OBEY pictures:

There’s a tiny one at the bottom of the CHANGE poster, too. I think he works them in to all his art.

Now look at the seal again. I’m going to zoom in on the Eagle’s wings, right where the oddly overly-defined tendons join the white meat and the Logobama shield:

There’s the Shep Star–legs, wings, head forming the five points, with the hooded eyes looking at you. When you stare into the Obamessiah, the Obamessiah…stares back.

** #1 is accurate–in English, “Truly, we can!” The other items are…nuanced. I figure most of you knew that, but sometimes people come here from Media Matters and they’re kind of slow.

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{Post by See-Dubya; h/t Allah.}

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#357118

On June 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm, pubscout said:

I thought vero possumus meant “playing Possum.”
#357326

On June 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 am, DaveC said:

isn’t the motto from his website; Nunc id Vides, Nunc ne Vides (”Now you see it, Now you don’t.”)?

at least on the comment section?

(credit for the latin (?) goes to Terry Prachett)
#357341

On June 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 am, diggafromdover said:

I thought that was the Huckabee seal, WAIT! That had “Nos Fryaumus Possumus:
#357558

On June 23rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

Jeez that Obama fella is bad for America – anyone who agrees with me should join the military and do some tours in Iraq – who’s with me?
#357677

On June 23rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm, Barry F. said:

** #1 is accurate–in English, “Truly, we can!” The other items are…nuanced. I figure most of you knew that, but sometimes people come here from Media Matters and they’re kind of slow.

ROFLMAO
#357731

On June 23rd, 2008 at 4:35 pm, diaphanous said:

If hillary or a republican “changed the Presidential seal” the word on the liberal street would be “see that person is so self involved”.

obama’s personality or lackthereof is just coming to the forefront. The more that is exposed about this guy, the better. He’s an unknown and we need to make his objectives and their ramifications well known. The last part unfortunately will have to be spelled out for those under his spell if we want any chance to get them out of it. That will be key for republicans to put on an aggressive agenda. Of course, republicans aren’t off to a good start when they have mccain letting obama off the hook for having a whacko preacher as his “spiritual advisor” for so many years. Where is the leadership of the RNC? I find the RNC rather wimpy. You hear from howard whacko dean all the time yet no leadership from the RNC? What’s up with that!

birds of a feather flock together.
#357734

On June 23rd, 2008 at 4:38 pm, atheling said:

On June 21st, 2008 at 5:35 pm, David e said:

Obama is Julius Ceasar without the brains.

What an insult to Gaius Julius Caesar. Caesar was a statesman, diplomat, lawgiver, historian, and military leader, among other things. His genius and accomplishments are unparalleled by any 20th century man, Churchill excepted.
#357814

On June 23rd, 2008 at 6:11 pm, diaphanous said:

haha obama just dropped using this seal..HILARIOUS:

http://www.examiner.com/a-1455131~Obama_campaign_drops_seal_on_podium.html

I love it..charismatic but arrogant..the republicans should have played that up a bit more. Again, where is the RNC leadership??????