Right-Wing Claims Obama’s New Campaign Slogan Reveals His Secret Communist And/Or Fascist Allegiance
Source: Think Progress
One word; seven letters; so much nefarious hidden meaning. The Obama campaigns new slogan, Forward, may seem like a typically oblique and anodyne piece of political branding but thankfully, right-wing bloggers are here to reveal its true meaning, and predictably, it involves socialism and Hitler.
The presidents reelection campaign unveiled the slogan yesterday in lengthy new web video, and while the obvious subtext is that presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney would take things backwards, there is so much more.
Breitbart.coms Joel Pollak explained that the Forward borrows
from decades of communist iconography. Pollak checks off a litany of scary historixcal world leaders whose lineage Obama is supposedly following, from Marx, Stalin, and Mao, to Benito Mussolini, to Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa. Communist leaders frequently used and still use the word forward, he notes.
The Washington Times also sees a rich association with European Marxism, quoting at length from Wikipedia to prove the point.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/05/01/474507/right-wing-claims-obamas-new-campaign-slogan-reveals-his-secret-communist-andor-fascist-allegiances/
These paranoid wingnuts could find Karl Marx anywhere, and probably go to sleep every night fearing the communists under their beds will get them.
snacker
(3,619 posts)marble falls
(57,405 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)and they can't bother reading history to know Hitler from Stalin.
shawn703
(2,702 posts)The words sound scary so that's the important thing.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)E.G. Socialist, marxist, communist, homosexualist, racist, fascist.
truthisfreedom
(23,160 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)Lawlbringer
(550 posts)is like trying to equate The Beatles' influence on history to that of the Backstreet Boys.
WHAT THE HELL?!
Do they even understand the Eco-political spectrum? Communism, Socialism, Fascism in general?! Or are they just using negative figures to associate with Obama and make him look like Dr Doom?
ut oh
(903 posts)what the actual meaning of any of these philosophies are, just as long as the audience has a negative emotional reaction to them and to make sure that reaction is then carried over to Obama.
blm
(113,122 posts)Every Washington Times reader (GOP moonie) knows that the T in Otto Graham: T Quarterback, stands for treason.
Otto Graham associated with that early known forward passer Sammy Baugh, too.
Archae
(46,363 posts)The economy is improving.
Gas prices are going down.
Illegal immigration is way down.
Osama Bin Laden is dead, and GM is alive and well.
So all the teabaggers can do now is simply make stupid shit up about Obama being "communist" and/or "fascist."
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)These people just keep getting nuttier.
Old and In the Way
(37,540 posts)When you spend your whole life wishing you lived back in a time that never existed in the nice way you think it did, you face the future with contempt.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)"Backwards."
nobodyspecial
(2,286 posts)zero regulations, company towns, and the elderly, poor and handicapped dying in the streets.
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)Purveyor
(29,876 posts)The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)and so do his supporters. Google it. This must be a confession on the part of the Goppers. I didn't get the memo that it was a "commie" word. I thought it was English.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Shut 'em down hard and fast.
Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)To wit: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
From now on, I shall avoid using these radical, subversive words. One can't be too careful.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Don't forget all that Commie/Fascist punctuation! Evil nefarious punctuation.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,224 posts)That and the quasi-religious promotion of a nation state.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Then we all had to speak German or some other consonant-heavy language. Thus were we screwn.
EC
(12,287 posts)We've had "Forward" as our motto forever. I even have a red and white flag from somewhere around 1965 or so that says Forward Wisconsin/Forward Kenosha...so I'm guessing it was something local...don't remember exactly though..
When will these idiots just get on with their lives, do something worthwhile?
Suji to Seoul
(2,035 posts)COMMUNIST - "I disagree with you."
FASCIST - "You are making me look bad."
UnAmerican - "My owners do not support this."
The American people want/believe/think - "My owners want. . ."
Rule of Law - "Courts need to be used as political weapons."
Liberal Media - "News needs to be used as political weapons."
unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....while this may or may not be true, it is a well known and scientific fact, that 87% of all right-wing conservatives are wrong 98.4% of the time....
....I believe this was confirmed in government laboratory tests using an experimental breed of rat generically altered and programmed to represent the typical conservative wing-nut intellect....
....although at first, the test results were inconclusive, other studies using similar rats have confirmed what most normal people and many Democrats suspect, 'Wing-nuts are a dangerous breed of liar capable of raping their own mother on Mothers Day.'
eyewall
(674 posts)have to alter a rat to make it act like a republican?
Nihil
(13,508 posts)... or it might eventually come to its senses and change allegiance ...
rppper
(2,952 posts)To all of the Allan west's of the world...cold wars over guys...I was there when it ended, the holdouts are even embracing a capitalist system.....move on!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Yeah... didn't Reagan end it.... by waving his dick around or something?
Which is it guys? Make up your mi.... oh, that's right. Nothing to make up.
Nine
(1,741 posts)demosincebirth
(12,549 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)After all Bush touted his "forward strategy" to bring democracy to the Middle-East. That forward strategy came to be know as the Bush Doctrine. http://www.iviews.com/Articles/articles.asp?ref=IV0311-2153
Crunchy Frog
(26,695 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)zzzzzzzzzz
so nobody finished high school? oh well.
This is usually where one goes... I know you are but what am I...
ashling
(25,771 posts)was a slogan used by the Kirk Fordice administration (former extremely right wing governor of gov. of Missississippi)
rks306
(116 posts)But wait, isn't the actual military a socialist society.
SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)I guess NATO thought it was a good idea to use the 'Commies slogan against them.
mwb970
(11,369 posts)What could be more natural?
Javaman
(62,534 posts)The Wizard
(12,552 posts)Thought disorders and loose associations compounded by schizophrenic paranoia.
The scary part: These nuts were issued state approved drivers licenses and are driving on our roadways at high speeds. Many have firearms permits and some even have carry permits.
Now when do the FEMA camps open?
thucythucy
(8,104 posts)with self-described messiah and all-around GOP stalwart Rev. Moon and his Unification Church.
Think what a 22 year-old Dylan would have written about the Moonies!
GETTINGTIRED
(330 posts)there just comes a point when things are lies foolish and crossing the line.... i really thought republican leadership was better than that... but it sounds like their agenda from the start has been to undermine the president and thats shameful and why ? why this president? and really you say you care about the people and what they want nah seems your against the poor and middle class and only about the rich thats sad
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts).... has a FORWARD!
Jesus! So does this book on Matisse!
and this one about Italian History!
They all have FORWARDS!
THey must all be commie manifestos!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,224 posts)Jeez, these people are certifiably nuts. Well, I guess I can't use the word "forward" in any of my vocabulary, lest my allegiance to this country be called into question.
These were the same idiots who believed Rachel Ray was sending secret subliminal messages regarding terrorism in a Dunkin Donuts commercial because the scarf she was wearing *looked like* a keyiffeh, a scarf traditionally worn by Palestinian men.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/28/dunkin-donuts-pulls-ad-fe_n_103859.html
Oh, and Joel Pollak? Guess what. Your employer's namesake is still a rotting corpse in the ground, just to let you know.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)all them danged Forwards and especially the Power Forwards!!
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)citizen blues
(570 posts)Marxist and Fascist in the same sentence. They obviously have absolutely no clue what either actually means.
"Let's shoot off our mouths and show the world just how stupid we are!"
yurbud
(39,405 posts)federalist.
ms liberty
(8,615 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)need to go back to the crazy Birchers and Communism!
Run Reds coming
Hope you got the secret message!
Nitram
(22,932 posts)The right is certifiably insane. Not only do they confuse the polar opposites of communism and fascism, they think Obama has a "secret" communist agenda that he then announces to the whole world with a new slogan. Makes my head hurt.
NuttyFluffers
(6,811 posts)classof56
(5,376 posts)Reminds me of how much affect he had on my young life back in the day. Also reminds me that at one time I considered joining the Birch Society (mea culpa!). I was a Goldwater supporter, won't go into the reasons (was awfully young), but when the Birchers decided to claim Pres. Eisenhower was a commie, I stepped away and never looked back. Or...maybe it was Bob's song...Whatever, I'm grateful!