One Nation under a New Obama Salute.If a Los Angeles creative agency gets its way, Sen. Barack Obama will see fans meet him with his own salute like the one pictured.
"Our goal is to see a crowd of 75,000 people at Obama's nomination speech holding their hands above their heads, fingers laced together in support of a new direction for this country, a renewed hope, and acceptance of responsibility for our future," says Rick Husong, owner of The Loyalty Inc.
Husong tells me that he got the idea after seeing the famous Obama-Progress poster by artist Shepherd Fairey. "We wanted to get involved some way," he says. So, the agency came up with their own a symbol of hope and progress that also plays off Obama's name.
"We thought, 'Let's try and start a movement where even while walking down the street, people would hold up the O and you would know that they were for Obama,' " says Husong. Much thought went into the relatively simple idea. "You interlace your hands in a circle, the interlacing being a symbol of different types of people coming together and the circle a symbol of unity," he says.
Their design, unlike Fairey's, is free, and Husong is urging people to download it and print it on posters and T-shirts. "We want to see it everywhere, but more importantly we want this sign to take the world by storm."
I really want to see this Obama salute take off. I want to see 75,000 people at the convention giving this salute. I want all of America to see what a cult Obamania has become. Ofcourse, conservatives like myself are going to have a lot of fun with it, because it symbolizes just what we think of Obama, a big fat zero.
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