Those of you out there in Hollywood have probably seen graphic illustrated posters here and there promoting Illinois senator Barack Obama’s political campaign. The Obama Hope Edition Henna-like styled posters are already en route to Texas and Ohio for the primaries in those states and the limited edition silk screened/signed versions will be available shortly via the website Upper Playground.
You’d have to be deader than a zombie in a George A. Romero movie if you have not noticed how we, the denizens of this country, in complicity with the press have turned Barack Obama into an icon of popular culture. Or is it the media that is leading the way? In any event, there are star-studded music videos lauding Obama, all kinds of articles of clothing with his likeness, bumper stickers galore, psychedelic posters… Heck, there is even an online musical I posted about on this blog called “Barackula”! Obama has become the new black (pun completely unintended) and has taken on the persona of a “Rock Star” mesmerizing thousands with his rhetoric, great charisma and profound speeches perhaps reminiscent, many have pointed out, of another American icon John F. Kennedy.
Will the love fest change if Obama wins the Democratic nomination and goes on to become number 44? Hell yea! At the risk of making a huge generalization, we are a fickle society that tends to get bored easily. So off course the honeymoon is going to end in a bitter divorce! It is just a matter of when.
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