July 24, 2008
Avert your eyes!
Certain precincts of the left are upset that conservative bloggers notice the creepy resemblance between Obama propaganda art and that of assorted demagogues. Now he is in Berlin, speaking at Hitler's favorite monument (moved to its location as the planned focal point of his reconfigured Berlin, to be re-named "Germania"). Teutonic Obama believers must be in charge of picking the poster art, and certain memories of poster art past are triggered by the latest Obama poster art, as noted by blogger Dr. Melissa Clothier.
But we are supposed to avert our eyes to all of this, or so the lefty bloggers demand.
Matthew Eglesias of The Atlantic mutters about "guilt-by-association," and lamely offers a White House photo of Bush at a podium, seen from the side (as if this were comparable to a poster). But Eglesias apparently knows his left wing art, and sagely realizes that socialist realism seems to be a stronger artistic influence on Obama fans, at least in the United States.

Gawker joins the fray, snidely implying that to notice this is to claim that Obama is "just like Hitler."
Sorry, Gawker: this poster is another hilaious indicator of the clulessness and insensitivity of the Obama campaign. It deserves scrutiny, and is part of a larger pattern. Picking such a historically-loaded location was a gaffe, a second-choice in-haste error rsulting from the offensive (to the German government -- our ally) announcement to the press that the Brandenburg Gate was to be the site of the political rally (a label the Obama believers now eschew).


And we refuse to avert out eyes. This is akin to the "don't you dare make jokes about Obama" rule that some on the left would impose.
Do not trust any political movement that seeks to foreclose criticism of and laughter at its charismatic leader and his bumbles.
FOLLOW US ON
Recent Articles
- Why Do Democrats Hate Women and Girls?
- There is No Politics Without an Enemy
- On the Importance of President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’
- Let a Robot Do It
- I Am Woman
- Slaying the University Dragons
- Canada Embraces European Suicide
- A Multi-Point Attack on the National Debt
- Nearing the Final Battle Against the Deep State
- Now’s the Time to Buy a Nuke (Nuclear Power Plant, That Is)
Blog Posts
- Bob Lighthizer’s case for tariffs
- An eye for an eye, an order for order
- Peace on the Dnieper?
- Tesla protestor banner: 'Burn a Tesla, save democracy'
- Pro-abortionists amplify an aborton protest's impact
- A broken system waiting to crash
- The U.S. Navy on the border
- Rep. Jasmine Crockett opens her mouth again
- Buried lede: San Francisco has lost 60,000 tourism-related jobs
- I’ve recognized manipulation in the past, and I see it now on the Supreme Court
- The progressive movement has led the Democrat party into a political black hole
- A Colorado Democrat’s immoral cost-benefit analysis to justify taxpayer-funded abortion
- We must reclaim Islam from Islamism
- Texas under siege: the stealth Islamic takeover we can’t ignore
- The UFO mystery