Obama ‘Hope’ designer endorses Sanders

[UglyGreed]

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Artist and activist Shepard Fairey, who designed the iconic “Hope” poster during then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, is backing Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders.

“I’m supporting Bernie Sanders, because I want to push principles, not personalities,” Fairey said in a video released by the Sanders campaign on Wednesday evening.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/269823-obama-hope-designer-endorses-sanders

[cyberswede]

1. Cool t-shirt!

[UglyGreed]

3. Very sharp

[Jefferson23]

2. ha ha nice! n/t

[Merryland]

4. It has a kind of bad-biker look to it

which is kind of cool.

[PonyUp]

17. Bikers For Bernie on FaceBook

https://www.facebook.com/Bikersforbernie.1/

[Uncle Joe]

5. Nice!

Thanks for the thread, UglyGreed.

[marmar]

6. Love that shirt.

[nashville_brook]

7. woohoo -- just ordered mine :)

[UglyGreed]

8. Nice

enjoy the Bern!!!!

[nashville_brook]

9. hubby is going to be jelly!

we'll have to fight over it.

[MohRokTah]

10. I would suggest the Sanders campaign check to be sure he didn't steal that design.

He did steal IP from somebody else for the Hope poster.

[reformist2]

15. Why bother? I'm sure some Hillary-affiliated group is already digging...

[gregcrawford]

18. Care to offer some proof of that assertion?

There was an idiotic accusation that Fairey "stole" the photo reference he used to create the poster, but that was total, wall-to-wall bullshit cranked up by some anti-Obama corporatists looking to set a legal precedent with a lawsuit that would stretch the boundaries of copyright protections to ridiculous extremes, just as patent trolls do.

What was Fairey supposed to do, go to Obama's house to take pictures of him? If he used the actual photo, that would have been one thing; he would have owed AP a royalty. But reference is fair use.

I've been in the graphics business for more than 50 years, so I know a little bit about it.

Rule of thumb: NEVER trust a corporatist any farther than you can throw a truck. They are, without exception, lower than snake shit in a tire track.

[JTFrog]

11. Hmm. Most Bernie supporters I come across on DU trash Obama and his message of hope.

Hillary on the other hand would like to build on Obama's message of hope.

[freebrew]

12. Right...

"NO, we can't"


That works?

[JTFrog]

13. That is a made up slogan by anti-Clinton folks.

Hyperbolic and inaccurate.

[demwing]

16. "Hyperbolic and inaccurate"

you mean like your fabricated nonsense: "Most Bernie supporters I come across on DU trash Obama and his message of hope. "

Why do Hillary supporters have such a loose relationship with the truth?

[JTFrog]

25. For the past 8 years, the Obama bashing has been unbearable.

His message of Hope has been ridiculed and mocked by many DUers that I now see eagerly embracing Bernie's message of Hope. Insinuating I am untruthful for pointing this out is not very nice. In fact.. Obama was attacked with the same "No we can't" crap in 2012 along with calls for him to be primaried.

Anyway, "No, we can't" is just a made up slogan meant to demean a Democratic candidate. And it's just hyperbolic and inaccurate.

[freebrew]

34. Blame Hillary then...

She is the one that said we can't do Universal Healthcare. Meaning, I presume, that she won't attempt fighting for it.

Sanders IS the Democratic Party, AFAIC. His views are closer to New Deal politics than we've seen since FDR.

That's why I support him.

[morningfog]

21. Closer to the truth: Most Hillary supporters shat all over Obama's campaign of Hope in '08.

ANd Bernie's folks do not trash the Hope that was Candidate Obama. They do, however, criticize what came after the Inauguration.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. WRONG! They trash his occasional support of the opposite.

[GreatGazoo]

14. I don't like that shirt

the red white and black, the stylized winged figure, the retro 30s feel is all wrong. Even the font, which makes it look like "Beanie" is wrong.

When I see a 1930s look with nationalist symbols I tend to think of the guy with the little mustache and I don't mean Chaplin. So wrong.

[LiberalArkie]

19. Looking again at it, I think you are correct. Equating Bernies views as something old and from

the past. Reminds me of the old Social Security and war bonds, etc. Very 30-40-50 nationalistic in its design. Beautiful, but does not fit Bernie's view of the future.

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. I had the same reaction.

I've been reading a lot of books about the 1930s lately, so assumed maybe I was just overly predisposed to see it that way.

[panader0]

28. Really? You see Hitler in that shirt? wow

[GreatGazoo]

32. Most art is subjective (unless it is overt) and that's how it hits me.

Not Hitler himself, just Nazi propaganda graphics. I think it is mostly the wings. Without the winged figure at the bottom it would just be kind of retro 1930s...which reminds me of the Great Depression... still not good.

[cyberswede]

33. It reminds me of WPA, IWW, and Worlds Fair posters from the 30s. nt

[JI7]

35. i wouldn't make the same comparison. but i don't think the shirt

Really reflects what Sanders is about. It doesnt really give a Sanders feel.

[GreatGazoo]

36. I love the ones that are just his iconic hair and glasses

Sanders is likeable and should be front and center.

[PonyUp]

20. I like this one:

[UglyGreed]

22. Nice

reminds me of my childhood watching PBS

[Hiraeth]

23. I have large need for that shirt !!

[amborin]

27. K&R

[noretreatnosurrender]

29. Feel The Bern

I just bought 4 of these.

[Sheepshank]

31. this topic has been covered some time ago. I guess the re-runs are important

...when there is little new news to offer.