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August 07, 2008

Obama is a Zero
— Gabriel Malor

Many commenters have pointed out this hilarious attempt at a new rallying symbol for Obama.

These people are really stretching.

More: Several bloggers have noted the call-back to Star Trek's The Way to Eden, but I think Baldilocks was first. For those of us who missed out on TOS, the Enterprise is hijacked by a criminal former university professor and his loyal, hippie-like followers who are attempting to find paradise.

I shall go to them and be one with them. And together we will make a world such as this galaxy has never seen. A world... a life... a life!

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 07:55 PM | Comments (96)
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1 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/images/mecca-27.jpg

Posted by: Tom W. at August 07, 2008 07:59 PM (pXS7q)

But be careful to remember: there is nothng at all humorous about Obama, his public image, or his devotees. Kneel before Ozama.

Posted by: Liberal Conscience at August 07, 2008 08:05 PM (vjl9g)

3 That logo says to me: Hope. Change. Goatse.

Yeah. It's a "stretch" all right.

Posted by: Daryl Herbert at August 07, 2008 08:05 PM (YvLui)

I'm not shocked at the salute's particulars, im deeply shocked they devised a salute at all. Do these people even have the capability to self reflect?

Posted by: Dr. Chopper at August 07, 2008 08:06 PM (vjl9g)

I posted three comments. All blocked or erased. They're back to one comment. WTF?

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 07, 2008 08:10 PM (CrSOk)

6 *kicks NCTy*

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at August 07, 2008 08:11 PM (1Ug6U)

7 I find this logo curiously erotic.

Posted by: Senator Larry Craig at August 07, 2008 08:18 PM (NIBuj)

8 #3 - I had the exact same thought. that poster is ripe for a photochopping.

Oh, Slublog...

Posted by: sulla at August 07, 2008 08:20 PM (tlFbX)

Now they're down to zero comments. Fascinating.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 07, 2008 08:21 PM (CrSOk)

10 Daryl: thread winner.

Posted by: baldilocks at August 07, 2008 08:30 PM (WlTx5)

11 It could represent the Stargate that Obama will use to take everyone back to a time where America was "what it once was"...

Posted by: phreshone at August 07, 2008 08:33 PM (bsZk4)

Hey, I finally got them to post one of my comments!

How wonderful! I think Obama is great! What a perfect symbol!

Heh. I finally made it. I'm sombody!

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 07, 2008 08:35 PM (CrSOk)

WTF? I sent them another one:

You dmfcks. You're disgusting.

They didn't post that. I feel so very surprised.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 07, 2008 08:40 PM (CrSOk)

14 BTW, I got screencaps.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 07, 2008 08:41 PM (CrSOk)

Everyone, hurry and look at my last comment! It was posted. I threatened the comments section idiot with screen caps. And s/he posted that one.

Hurry before it disappears.

Posted by: rdbrewer at August 07, 2008 08:48 PM (CrSOk)

16 Isn't this the internationally-recognized hand gesture denoting "Gaping Asshole"?

Posted by: Darth Bacon at August 07, 2008 08:52 PM (5ut5b)

17 I hope they get thousands of people at a rally to simultaneously perform this symbol. Should scare the shit out of reasonable people everywhere.
Would look a little like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/Ingsoc_salute.jpg

Posted by: j.pickens at August 07, 2008 09:03 PM (U6aUB)

18 if you took Obama's new asshole salute, and put his head *upside down* below the "O," it would look like he was bending over and showing his butthole while looking back at you between his legs.

If you could get him waving at the same time it would be better (I think... but maybe it would be too busy).

Anyone have these kind of skillz?

Posted by: ace at August 07, 2008 09:16 PM (1WR4H)

19 Instead of new presidential seals, custom chairs with 'president', and now this nonsense, maybe Obama should focus on actually clinching the nomination?

Or maybe he forgot the super delegates can do what they want and this goofy cult-like crap could turn them off?

Posted by: liontooth at August 07, 2008 09:52 PM (n3pxb)

20 Indeed, I must say that I am rather distressed by Mr. Obama's tendency to celebrate exuberantly before the contest has been properly decided.

Posted by: Chad "Ocho Cinco' Johnson at August 07, 2008 09:58 PM (1WR4H)

21 If you turn it upside down, you have what we used in high school to symbolize a blow job. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Posted by: Chef Mojo at August 07, 2008 10:47 PM (enbb3)

22 I was thinking it looks more how they hold O!s cock as they get ready to slurp it.

Posted by: XBradTC at August 08, 2008 12:03 AM (pSXbN)

23 Holy Craper!

Posted by: monkeyfan at August 08, 2008 12:33 AM (cEE8N)

24 Andrew Sullivan heartily approves this image.

Posted by: Spartan Fan at August 08, 2008 12:56 AM (7365r)

25 I know it says more about me than Obama, but all I could think when I first saw this new salute was, "My girlfriend has to use both hands, too."

Given how I think we're going to get jerked around if Obama's elected, it seems pretty appropriate.

Posted by: Strick at August 08, 2008 01:43 AM (6+GsS)

26 I knew I could count on the moronosphere to see goatse, too.

(I thought it was just me.)

Posted by: moviegique at August 08, 2008 02:11 AM (1y5Vr)

27 I posted (as Diana Moon Glampers) a demented, incoherent paragraph or two of praise. Still up after 8 minutes.

And, yes, that probably would be a record for me. Cocksuckers.

Posted by: Uncle Ted at August 08, 2008 02:16 AM (1Mq7K)

28 Hmmmm.

Frankly I thought it was a play on Subway's "Five dollar, foot long" commercial.

And that it was the international symbol for "Asshole!".

Posted by: memomachine at August 08, 2008 02:25 AM (3PLow)

29 It's the Goatse Salute!

Posted by: karlito at August 08, 2008 03:31 AM (eKllX)

30 "This is your bunghole after Obama's new policies are enacted."

Posted by: CrankyProf at August 08, 2008 03:35 AM (4q3/n)

31 Hmmmm.

"This is your bunghole after Obama's new policies are enacted."

The winnah!

Posted by: memomachine at August 08, 2008 03:54 AM (3PLow)

32 HERBERT HERBERT HERBERT!

Posted by: MAJHAM at August 08, 2008 04:14 AM (NMK3S)

Isn't this the internationally-recognized hand gesture denoting "Gaping Asshole"?

Yes, Darth. My dad said that was what that sign meant, when we first watched that Star Trek when I was a kid.

So they're basically saying: Obama - the international gaping asshole.

Posted by: roy at August 08, 2008 04:29 AM (cB77O)

34 "Washinton Whispers" is still frenetically deleting all references to goatse in the comments. HAHAHAHHA

Posted by: Sarahw at August 08, 2008 04:43 AM (7sl9X)

35 GOATSE.CX!

Posted by: Gaping Asshole at August 08, 2008 04:43 AM (Nk4wG)

36 Chef Mojo, my high school too! As it appears it would be how someone in the front row you would say suck it to someone behind them!

Even as far back as 1975 Tony Blair was an Obama supporter!
David

Posted by: LifeTrek at August 08, 2008 04:55 AM (tJTIW)

I thought it was the international sign for "I'm a giant douche."

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 08, 2008 05:04 AM (oLULt)

38 Show some respect people. Your mocking someone who garnered the second largest crowd in German history for a speech by a autobiography writer.

em...nevermind.

Posted by: JonathanD at August 08, 2008 05:22 AM (VcUD7)

39 In this case, lets hope for once, that Goatse Always Wins does not bare out.

Posted by: gabriel at August 08, 2008 05:27 AM (ywKLw)

40 This is how much money you have left after Obama's fiscal plan is put into place. At least he is being honest.

Posted by: gabriel at August 08, 2008 05:30 AM (ywKLw)

41 As of 10:30 am 8/8/08 - All comments are down the memory hole...

the un-comments...

Posted by: phreshone at August 08, 2008 05:31 AM (bsZk4)

42 Considering the number of people in that Star Trek episode with big, weird ears....the symbol works for Obama.

Posted by: Tami at August 08, 2008 05:47 AM (P3ErD)

43 I'm surprised no one has noted how stylistically similar the image is to the posters frequently seen throughout the Soviet Union. The color is blue, not red, but it still has a "Workers of the world, unite!" feel to it.

Posted by: Diffus at August 08, 2008 05:52 AM (MR/ge)

Of course, when they got to the Planet Eden, they ate "the koolaid" and were promptly killed by swallowing the acid filled fruit. As Shymalan would say, "what a twist"

Posted by: narciso at August 08, 2008 06:41 AM (XWJh5)

45 Is the Soviet-style artwork any kind of indication of what to expect under an Obama presidency?

Posted by: jazz at August 08, 2008 07:01 AM (sUWlR)

46 "Bend over and smile, America!"

Posted by: Trimegistus at August 08, 2008 07:24 AM (V7sy6)

47 Its Goatse Obama!

Posted by: anon at August 08, 2008 08:04 AM (PwGfd)

Speaking of Soviet propaganda, what are they selling here?

//http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/322828458_bd4efa0ba1.jpg?v=0?

Posted by: Javems at August 08, 2008 08:05 AM (hq71Y)

49 I don't get it.

Posted by: Herbert at August 08, 2008 08:06 AM (xOrB4)

Crap, I can never get the hyper-link thingy to work. Copy and paste this into the address bar, it's funny.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/322828458_bd4efa0ba1.jpg?v=0

Posted by: Javems at August 08, 2008 08:13 AM (hq71Y)

51 I pledge allegiance to the goatse of the 57 Imperialist States of Amerikkka...

Posted by: monkeyfan at August 08, 2008 08:19 AM (cEE8N)

52 Hope. Change. Bukkake.

Posted by: LtE113(mike in chicago) at August 08, 2008 08:46 AM (/L1AV)

53 Obamas O Sign: Jay-Z Roca Rip-off?

A reader of mine just commented that the Obama sign looks a lot like Jay-Zs Roca-wear symbol as seen here. In light of Obamas love for Hip Hop and relationship with Jay-Zwell, make of it what you will.

Posted by: Elizabeth Crum ("E!!") at August 08, 2008 08:52 AM (j0TCV)

54 It's a poster *against* the Big Z(ero). It clearly reads, "Obama... Zero Sign of Progress".

Posted by: ellersburgwhoresonellis at August 08, 2008 09:12 AM (dAzoD)

55 Yep. My comment vanished as well.
And I was being nice, too.

Posted by: lauraw at August 08, 2008 10:04 AM (hV5Mh)

56 This way... to Denver... Yayyy... brother....

Posted by: unashamed trek geek at August 08, 2008 10:36 AM (w0E4C)

57 Guys - you all realize this is a joke. Some marketing company with no affiliation with Obama did this to get some PR, which the LA Times fell for.

Posted by: Jon at August 08, 2008 10:50 AM (zeCGV)

58 In solidarity with the progressive spirit embodied in the new Obama-national socialist salute of anal unity, here are the newly translated party slogans for our German komeraden constituents:

From the autobiography: Die Kühnheit der Hoffnung.

Hoffnung und ändern!

Ändern können Sie glauben an!

Ja, wir können Hündinnen!

That is all.

Posted by: monkeyfan at August 08, 2008 11:26 AM (cEE8N)

59 If it were me, I'd certainly not have picked a picture of some guy masturbating a horse as my campaign gesture.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 08, 2008 11:46 AM (0+Ggj)

60 Clearly, this is not the prolapsed anus that I knew.

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 08, 2008 12:14 PM (DrGKS)

61 Heading out to Eden
Yea brother
Heading out to Eden
No more trouble in my body or my mind
Gonna live like a king on whatever I find
Eat all the fruit and throw away the rind
Yea brother, yea.

Posted by: Evil Otto at August 08, 2008 12:43 PM (tYvh+)

62 Somebody thought the salute was Herbert enough to put it on a t-shirt...

Posted by: Rich Peyton at August 08, 2008 01:00 PM (7mmQn)

63 It's like a liberal response to a good ol' thumbs up.

Posted by: exswede at August 08, 2008 02:02 PM (Dx7HY)

64 The blown O-ring of Hopenchange?

Posted by: Fa Cube Itches at August 08, 2008 04:55 PM (U9h+H)

If this is a joke, it's on them. I saw a few photoshops of this already,

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd338/captainnemotode/Obamacomrade.png

and here

http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd338/captainnemotode/Obamaheil.png

Hope is not a plan http://www.americanbumpersticker.com/

Posted by: sojerofgod at August 08, 2008 05:53 PM (wz6ea)

I did a bit of a mashup of the Star Trek piece.

Posted by: mike O at August 08, 2008 08:55 PM (ncuIy)

67 Another one to add to the mix.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3189/2751115411_fd187c8f90_o.png

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