Obama Forward!

Published Sunday, September 30, 2012 A.D. | By Donald R. McClarey

For only $25.00 you too can have from the official Obama campaign store a portrait of Fearless Leader with his campaign slogan Forward! Sheesh! If the Obama campaign must steal a Nazi slogan, the least they could do is come up with an updated version of the old Hitler Jugend Vorwarts! Vorwarts!

This gripping scene from Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) reminds us that for the Nazis the slogan Forward was into an abyss.

I am of course not calling Obama a Nazi. The portrait actually reminds me of Socialist Realism of the Soviet Union in the twenties and thirties. Note that Obama is not shown smiling. Instead he is almost scowling and looking off in the distance, heroically determined to overcome his enemies and the enemies of the People. Note also the uplifted head. We are meant to view the portrait not straight on, but rather as if we are looking up at Obama. Finally Obama’s face seems to glow with light. A bit trite as propaganda goes, but I assume the artist wanted to rely upon the tried and true, at least in places like the old Soviet Union if not in America.

6 Responses to Obama Forward!

T. Shaw says:

Sunday, September 30, 2012 A.D. at 9:49pm

Likely Das Obama stole it from Chairman Mao.

“Most characteristic of this preaching [of the Great Leap Forward] was its utopianism, the promise of a bright future just in the offing, “three years of suffering leading to a thousand years of happiness.” — Franz Schurmann writing in Ideology and Organization in Communist China

The parallels don’t end with “Vorwart!”, N.B., “three years of suffering leading to a thousand years of happiness.”

Reality: three years and nine months of misery leading to far more misery.
Ioannes says:

Monday, October 1, 2012 A.D. at 8:38am

Oh my goodness, coming from a country dealing with socialism propaganda, that poster really freaks me out. May Our Lady help us.
Mary De Voe says:

Monday, October 1, 2012 A.D. at 11:18am

The eagle, the creature of St. John the Evangelist and the symbol for the swiftness of Divine Justice flies over the youth core in Hitler’s film. The blood of innocence flows in the O of “forward”. The red ink of debt to fund vice and murder flows in the O of “forward”. Into the red ink of debt and the blood of innocence, the world, led by Obama, sinks into the abyss of the O of forward as Donald McClarey says. The blind leading the blind, both fall into the pit. Obama is not sustained by virtue, nor by angelic love for God, nor by moral compassion, nor by innocence, nor by truth, nor by God. God is removed from our culture. Obama commands the forward removal of God, into the Red Sea of debt and innocent blood.
tom murphy says:

Monday, October 1, 2012 A.D. at 11:56am

Unfortunately, both Der Fuehrer and Derbama stole the slogan from Wisconsin, my home state. Rumor has it there are petitions floating to rescind the Badger State’s. But that would be only to cave. We won’t.
Mary De Voe says:

Monday, October 1, 2012 A.D. at 12:12pm

FORWARD TO WISCONSIN needs to be flaunted
Paul W. Primavera says:

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 A.D. at 5:06am

1st John 2:18-19

18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Many Antichrists: Robespierre, Napolean, Calles, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Obama, etc. Nebuchdnezzer was made to eat grass on all fours like an ox for arrogance such as this. It’s all in Daniel chapter 4.