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good thing you erred on the side of caution!
DULink: http://www.democraticunderground.com/128039737
I doubt the campaign came up with it, I think some industrious entrepreneur who could make some money selling T-Shirts did.
Sorry you're offended, but it's election season...
There WILL be offense...
politician and not any one race.
"Your compadre"
I merely took umbrage at the turning of it into a punch line.
"Your (not) compadre."
Of course it is a jab at Obama and his record! I totally agree that the posters' look and the word hope obviously reflects that iconic poster.
BUT... You must be aware that there is a large segment, especially from the left of the party, that has been disappointed with the current President's positions and the strong opinion that he has been anything but a champion for "hope and change" in the status quo when it comes to financial reform, TPP, wiretapping, drones, etc.. Obama opened himself up for this kind of satire, by his actions, not because of his skin colour. 
If you play the race card too many times the cards get a little dog eared and worn out don't you think?
Trust me, the Google is amazing and you will see this use of the Farley poster by many, many, many different causes. This one is actually quite late to the party.
It's been offensive to many for a long time, and only defines the mocker. I made a post about this kind of maliciousness:
Joy strengthens the heart of the weary, the ones whose purpose is loving.
Just remember that people out to hurt others can gain nothing of value from their actions, all they can do is create misery.
Misery is easy to create. It's the tool of the maliciously lazy.
Happiness takes work, it is the reward for a life being well lived.
Make the choice to not let others steal your hard earned joy.
Take the negative energy they try to fill you with and create something beautiful.
~ Anonymous
This is the fruit of love, to look at the eyes of this girl and others in a refugee camp that Obama visited. These people are the victims of war and exploitation of the most brutal kind ever known, yet media gives them scant attention, as the 1% are not affected by it
The amount of murderous violence in our land alone that this man has had to see and feel and comfort, is staggering. Confronting and healing evil in a world of hatred and violence, is part of Obama's complex task in a world in which many insist he fail. He is planting seeds of consciousness in all he does that is lauded or condemned. This is the reality of the world we live in.
It is not a job for the faint of heart, and the maliciously lazy who see their victory in tearing down the work and the workers are not going to do it. Look into those angel eyes meeting his, and weep for those whose lives deserve love:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110211344#post2
Vanity is unworthy and inappropriate in the face of so much suffering.
Which is true, and she jumped straight to that solution. She is right as white people aredoing the violence to black people, and the BLM people agreed with that.
There is no need for a white person to tell black people how to manage their protests, and she didn't chide them as others have. White people need to be confronted to manage their knee jerk response to black protest. They need to listen, truly listen, take a bow and learn from black people how much their white responsibility and power is in this situation. As the man said AAs are helpless to stop white violence.
The last time I saw white people stopping white violence by meeeting it with force, was by JFK and RFK who were struck down in their prime to the grief of black and white Americans:
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. In 1962, he was the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi,[1] an event that was a flashpoint in the American civil rights movement.
Motivated by President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, Meredith decided to exercise his constitutional rights and apply to the University of Mississippi.[2] His goal was to put pressure on the Kennedy administration to enforce civil rights for African Americans...
Meredith won in court, but the Governor still fought it, and RFK talked him into following the law and admitting him. Federal law, not state law.
Some white students and segregationists, many who had driven in for the event, protested his enrollment by rioting on the Oxford campus.
Robert Kennedy called in 500 U.S. Marshals to take control, who were supported by the 70th Army Engineer Combat Battalion from Ft Campbell, Kentucky. They created a tent camp and kitchen for the US Marshals.
To bolster law enforcement, President John F. Kennedy sent in U.S. Army troops from the 2nd Infantry Division from Ft. Benning, GA under the command of Maj. Gen Charles Billingslea and military police from the 503rd Military Police Battalion, and called in troops from the Mississippi Army National Guard.[13]
Gen. Bllingslea's staff car was mobbed and set on fire at the entrance to the university gate. General Billingslea, the Deputy Commanding General, John Corley, and aide, Capt Harold Lyon, were trapped inside the burning car but managed to force the car door open and had to crawl 200 yards into the gate to the University Lyceum Building while someone was shooting at them and continued to shoot the windows out, though the Army never returned fire.
Gen Billingslea had established a series of escalating secret code words for issuing ammunition down to the platoons with another one for issuing it to squads, and a third one for loading, none of which could take place without the General himself, confirming the secret codes.
In the violent clash, two people died, including the French journalist Paul Guihard,[7] on assignment for the London Daily Sketch. He was found dead behind the Lyceum building with a gunshot wound to the back.
One hundred-sixty US Marshals, one-third of the group, were injured in the melee, and 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen were wounded.[7][1[13]
US Army trucks loaded with steel-helmeted US Marshals roll across the University of Mississippi campus on October 3, 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meredith
During this time, he was advised by Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader.
Evers was also inspired by Kennedy and killed the same day he came home to tell his family the good news he had heard about his decision. Terrorists gunned him down in his front yard in view of his wife and children.
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President John F. Kennedy's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled into his driveway after returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go," Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 rifle; the bullet ripped through his heart. He staggered 9 meters (30 feet) before collapsing.
He was taken to the local hospital in Jackson where he was initially refused entry because of his color, until it was explained who he was; he died in the hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medgar_Evers#Assassination
All these leaders were attacked repeatedly and denied the most basic of human rights. Meredith was a very intelligent, successful man with his own strong views shown at the link. The terrorists have not stopped hating:
In 2014, vandals linked to the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity vandalized Meredith's honorary University of Mississippi campus statue by putting a noose around its neck and draping it with a controversial former Georgia state flag. In response, he said "that just clearly shows that we’re not training our children like the Bible says. They don’t know right and wrong, good and bad and how to apply it to life."[1]
Our current crop of Tenthers, Teaterrorists and Libertarians would have called what the Kennedys and the military did the action of a police state.
We have not seen that kind of response since then with white people taking action against violent white people. It is a white problem. The only common factor in all these cases are AAs just asking to be treated as the amended Constitution demands they be.
Quote from the artist:
"Obama has had a really tough time, but there have been a lot of things that he's compromised on that I never would have expected. I mean, drones and domestic spying are the last things I would have thought he'd support." http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/interviews/a35288/shepard-fairey-street-art-obama-hope-poster/
and Mr. Fairy's Occupy poster (is this mocking?):
After a trillion takes on that design, it's now a sign of "masked" racism to make any use of it now?
It's cute and funny. It's not particularly mocking of Obama, but you know what? THAT'S OKAY. PEOPLE CAN MOCK LEADERS.
Even the ones we like.
Nice going as usual WillyT.
(Let's give the anti-Sanders race-baiting a rest for a day or two maybe?)
Literally no one thinks that.
Anything Bernie has ever done in 30 years.
Me too.
Let me count the ways......
I know what you did there.
In this case it's about giving a nod, and a tip of the hat, to the ideals behind the Hope for change, and to say that the person wearing this logo is supporting the "no bullshit" candidate.
The presumption being that this candidate won't distance himself from his campaign platform.
As far as politics go, it's pretty mild. If someone made it there might be some sales, humor is a matter of taste, but I'd prefer something more classic, with a more enduring message and iconic imagery*.
Wasn't going to reply or rec but given what's been sent your way I thought I should. 
*I'm a working class person, give me a working class shirt! Something strong and direct, a shirt built to last, and with colors that won't run. 
