Obama and Socialist Propaganda

[Look up on Google images the "Obama campaign art" or "Fairey, Obama" and you'll see the image I am referring to, since blogspot took the image down]

[Frank] Shepard Fairey is the graphic designer behind Obama’s campaign artL[. Who is Shepard
Fariey? He’s a contemporary graphic designer/artist whose popularity is owed to his work on the streets as a illustrator in the skate scene of the early 90’s and beyond. This campaign art looks a little socialist,
no? What about this skate scene graphic designer would bring him to use socialist symbolism in his work? Well in 1990, as a 20 year old, he wrote a manifesto where he links his work with the work of Martin Heidegger. Heidegger was named Rector of the University of Freiburg in 1933 and in his inaugural address praised Nazism. He continued to embrace National Socialism (the Nazi party) until the very end of the Second World War. And THIS is one of Fariey's influences and idols?

Now why would Obama want Fairey, who explicitly says in his manifesto that a former Nazi (National Socialist) supporter is one of his influences, to design campaign propaganda for him? Well who knows? But the links to socialism keep coming to the forefront and his choice of using Fairey's work does nothing but support that notion. So if he is trying to distance himself from the claims of socialism, this does not help his case. In no way am I saying Fairey or Obama are Nazis because they are not. But Fairey's use of Hiedegger's concepts and Obama's use of Fairey's services for campaign propaganda speak volumes.

Did Obama appreciate Fairey's work? Well check out the thank you letter he wrote Fairey here: http://overspraymag.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/obama_letter-to-shepard-fairey.jpg

[Keep scrolling beyond the first Obama images]

DISCLAIMER: I am not calling Obama a socialist, but merely pointing out the references to socialism that can be found through campaign propaganda. Some of his policies are socialist in nature and as we can see is prevalent even in the work of those hired by Obama to work on his campaign. Example: Fairey's work.

Take a good look at the image below. Now, scroll down through the rest of the pages at previous socialist
propaganda art. Notice anything similar? Notice the figures in the pictures. Notice their facial expressions. Notice the colors used in the pictures.

All images can be found through Google's image search and are freely open to the general public and are not original images.