***NOTE***. Before jumping to any conclusions about our thought process here over at Mang Now!, we encourage you to first look at the image comparisons preceding this introduction to better understand our point of view and where we are deriving these opinions to follow. We do not, nor have we ever, believed the Obama Administration is communist, but we find it very intriguing that stylistically these posters are extremely similar.
I realize this article is coming late—almost an entire year late. But having been combing through political articles lately, I again came across this item that I wanted to discuss back in 2008 but have never got around to writing about until now.
The Obama Poster is something that is very familiar. We have seen this poster before at many places. Stores hung them up, restaurants put them in their windows, and people who were generally fans of Obama when he was running for office had them plastered everywhere. It was hard to not see at least one of these posters while walking down the street. At Ohio State, they were everywhere.
It is a peculiar poster and one that interested me greatly: the angle of the face, where the eyes were pointing, the use of the colors, and the overall feel of how it jumped out at me. I never liked this poster, and in fact it creeped me out. But it did intrigue me. I had seen it before, and though I had already determined long ago what the poster was similar too, I am only now writing about this because it popped back into my mind.
The reality is I HAVE seen this poster before, or at least the style. Two individuals in history were notorious for having this style of poster: Che Guevara and Vladimir Lenin. The comparisons of these images are downright creepy, because the similarities are unbelievably close. It was why the Obama poster made a shiver run up my spine, because the Obama Campaign has employed posters that were inherently communist in style.
You might be thinking a poster itself cannot be inherently communist unless it is in fact a communist poster. But if you look at historical political posters in America, you would find very few that are similar in style to the Obama poster. In contrast, if you were to look at posters from Soviet Russia and from communist/socialist states in South America, you would find posters very reminiscent of the style of Obama’s poster.
What does this mean? Well, that is something I will let you judge for yourself. If you look at the colors, the style, where the eyes are pointing, the expression, they all are extremely similar. Granted, not all communist posters are like this and some are completely different, particularly in different countries.
However, it is either coincidence that these posters happen to be alike or someone was doing their homework and came to a determination they wanted to make the posters of this style.
I do not know, but all I can present here is a comparison for you to evaluate.
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The Mang
Conservative Capo of Youngstown
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