Arianna Huffington has linked three interesting graphics in an essay titled "Posterizing the Modern GOP."
I like the poster to the right the best, but the politician roster above is also effective. One change I'd make if I had designed it is to have replaced George Tenet and Richard Armitage with David Addington and Ari Fleischer. Maybe even Elliott Abrams.
There are 17 names on the poster. If the Bush administration had not taken this country on the disastrous course it has, just think about a poster that had names something along the likes of:
GEORGE W. BUSH
COLIN POWELLBRENT SCOWCROFT
RITA HAUSER
CHUCK HAGEL
ROBERT ZOELLICK
ROBERT KIMMITT
ERIC SHINSEKI
RICHARD ARMITAGE
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN
RICHARD HAASS
JOHN BELLINGER
JOSHUA BOLTEN
JOHN DANFORTH
OLYMPIA SNOWE
WILLIAM FALLON
RICHARD LUGAR
Some of these names -- particularly Richard Armitage's given his involvement in Valerie Plame's outing -- will not thrill progressives and liberals.
But my point is that the Republican Party has had a choice in who its prominent players are -- and has sculpted an image of pugnacious, anti-intellectualism, and anti-internationalism that has betrayed the classic Republican standard.
The Republican Party has options, and in the long run should re-sculpt its dominant features.
It would be interesting for someone to generate some posters that contrast Hillary Clinton's crowd and themes with Barack Obama's, or Edwards', or Dodd's, or Biden's, or Kucinich's, or Ron Paul's. . .
More later.
-- Steve Clemons publishes the popular political blog, The Washington Note
That's the point of the poster. There's no reason to contrast it with another group of people. What other group of people can you think of who have wrought this kind of damage?
"over my cold dead f*ckin body"
Count on Bush-Cheney to invent every possible MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and then call it MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Unfortunately, ADVERTISING is NOT everything. Advertising is NOT REALITY. Advertising is LYING.
The grim reality is: we're living in a NANNY STATE FOR THE RICH and Bush-Cheney corporate welfare queens, Big Oil, war PROFITEERS grabbing all our money and tax dollars.
Middle America's economy is being destroyed for the sake of mega-profits for deregulated, unaccountable "corporate welfare queens" .
Where's the art?
Political posters have a long, creative, colorful history just like rock posters... surely we can do better than black and white at least.
I'd suggest those participating check out RAR (Rock against Reagan/Racism) posters, Meese is a Pig (just words but colorful), or the 1994 Smoke-in poster Inhale to the Chief with Clinton toking on his sax.
Unfortunately, it will be average Americans and especially future generations who will suffer from the economic devastation this worst ever regime has visited upon our country. Everyone should read the Nobel economist Stiglitz's article in the new Vanity Fair on the ruinous Bush economic legacy.
Go to: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/12/bush200712?printable=true¤tPage=all
And Danforth, who championed, pushed and guaranteed Clarence Thomas a seat on SCOTUS is a better or more decent member of the GOP?
Or am I misunderstanding your post?
A Thousand Pinpoints of Lightweight Reichees
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There are a whole bunch of us who are saying the same thing about the Democratic Party...or haven't you been reading the comments on PuffHo?
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Steve Clemons: It would be interesting for someone to generate some posters that contrast Hillary Clinton's crowd and themes with Barack Obama's, or Edwards', or Dodd's, or Biden's, or Kucinich's, or Ron Paul's. . .
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Trust me, if Billary gets the nomination, their sins of omission and commision will be more than posterized.
The repub and 527 TV commercials will be a political media whore's wet dream.
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01/20/2009: The end of an error
we could fill a halliburton prison without much effort.... by the way, in case i havent mentioned- if hillary is the nominee i am voting for ron paul. i am progessive and liberal, but i am not a lemming. :)