OH WOW! OBA MAO in WASHINGTON
El Marco explores the Mao-loving roots of America’s cult of Obama worship.
by El Marco
It’s not just in China that Obama-Mao iconography is fashionable.
This T-shirt in the window of the Washington DC Souvenir Headquarters caught my eye and my curiosity.
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Just a couple of blocks from the US Capitol this souvenir shop seemed normal enough and there’s a 1/2 price sale going on!
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But this is something much more than a DC tourist shop. Here you will find no Washington memorabilia except for a few postcards on a half empty rack.
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This is a consumer temple dedicated to the worship of Barack Obama aka O-MAN.
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China’s communist leader Mao Zedong has been an iconic figure for America’s leftists since the 1960s. Back then peaceniks and radicals worshiped both Mao’s Little Red Book and Tim Leary’s Politics of Ecstasy as new politico-spiritual bibles. While contradiction-immune hippies put flowers in national guardsmen’s rifle barrels, Mao’s book told them “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun”. Doing drugs and revering Mao as a “revolutionary” has now morphed with Obama worship into OBA MAO. The psychedelic colors symbolize not just the LSD experience but an entire way of seeing the world. In this psycho-delic world-view Mao is cool and that trumps any contradictions presented by the reality of the horrors Mao inflicted on China .
Recently while flipping through an issue of Architectual Digest I saw above the fireplace in a western-style mansion a modern art portrait of Mao. A jaw dropper that for me is as bizarre and telling as hanging a portrait of Hitler or Ceauşescu. I point this out to illustrate how the wealthy left revere Mao as a symbol of utopian change regardless of the real Mao that is now known to history.
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OBA MAO T-shirts in pastel psychedelic colors.
The fact that the real Mao murdered 50-75 million innocent people cannot penetrate the hip-left mindset. When asked directly about the murders committed by Mao or Che, leftists will react defensively, offer justifications or feign shock and ignorance. It’s a simple thought experiment and I encourage everyone to try it out on the nearest lefty. Any strident liberal, aged 16 to 96 will do for this experiment. The fact that Mao’s communists killed with the most gruesome forms of torture and starved millions does not even penetrate the hero-worship. So how does this intellectual confusion get mixed in with Obama worship and a peace sign on a T-shirt in America’s capital?
In the 1970s the new hip wisdom went like this: the failure of Maoist groups like the Weathermen to bring about “change” by violent revolution meant that the system could only be “changed from within”. Decadent, stoned leftists rejected the armed revolutionary model after Bill Ayers and others showed how difficult and dangerous that path was. “Man I don’t believe in violence, I think we should bring it all down from within” became the new hip catch-phrase as the radicals cut their hair and began to worm their way into “the system”. Decades later, Obama, mentored and anointed by those same radicals, stands poised as the ultimate worm, to complete the revolutionary dreams of a generation of unfulfilled leftists.
It’s no accident that OBA MAO has brought with him a host of 1960s bizzaro world patriots like his Maoist communications director Anita Dunn. President Obama’s White House communications director, recently praised Mao in a videotaped speech to high school students by calling the communist dictator “one of the two people that I turn to most.”
Turn on,… Tune In,… Flip Out!!! … America’s spoiled Leary/Mao “freaks” are in power and they are hell-bent on “changing the system from within”.
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The Soulbrotha….and….WHO’S DA MASTA T-shirts. More iconic pop culture symbols of violence. Who exactly are these characters supposed to rough up? The Chi-Coms or the Iranians? No these are symbols of underworld violence and the message is very local DC.
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B-ROK IS A B-BOY
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Another icon of the America hip-left is the ever popular Che T-shirt seen here with rock idol Jimi Hendrix. Also another contradiction that can’t be recognized by the cool and the mind-numbed on the left?
Che Guevara hated rock music and persecuted Cubans who were caught listening to it. Che made sure Rock music was made illegal in Cuba as it was in Russia and other communist countries. Many rockers were beaten and imprisoned in Cuba including Che’s own grandson. Canek Guevara tried playing rock in his homeland and was tear gassed and beaten in the street by the police force that Che had trained. Canek was born in Cuba in 1974 and adorned his guitar with a large decal of a U.S. dollar bill. Canek now lives in exile in Mexico.
In a January 10, 1959 law, Habeus Corpus was abolished and the death penalty introduced in Cuba. Che created and headed the “Commission Puradora” or Cleansing Commission. He was the Director of Cuba’s La Cabaña Prison. Che was also head of the “Prosecuting Tribunals”.
On December 11, 1964 in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Che shouted, “Executions? Certainly, we execute. And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary! This is a war to the death with the revolution’s enemies.” The Black Book of Communism credits Che and Castro with executing by firing squad 14,000 men, women, and teens by 1970.
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RISE LIKE A LION
Combined with the red, green and gold of Africa in psychedelic fashion, RISE LIKE A LION makes a strong Rastafarian statement. The Jamaican Ganja smoking cult believe that Haile Selassie the late Ethiopian president was the 24th genealogical descendant of King David “The Lion of Judah”. To the Rastas, Selassie was the Messiah-warrior who “lay in battle for 24 hours with a machinegun” against the invading white Italians. Selassie thought they were nuts and refused to meet with the Rastas during a state visit to Jamaica in 1966. They continued their dope-smoking worship even after Selassie disappeared in a Marxist coup in 1975. In 1992 his body was discovered under the floorboards of the presidential office in Addis Ababa.
What we see symbolized in this T-shirt art is the substitution of Obama for Selassie as the new “black Messiah” of the Rastafari. The Rasta Messiah is prophesied to rise like the Lion of Judah and slay the enemies of the black race and lead a new world of peace and harmony.
Here we see the red,green and gold combined with Rasta Reagge star Bob Marley’s song title “One Love” Underneath the company logo (concreteroots) it says “Quest for oneness”. Anyone who thinks Obama has “concrete roots” is smoking some powerful stuff. Obama has plush carpet roots and those have been mostly red as he has had every opportunity laid at his feet by Americas left-wing power establishment.
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Democrat donkey with 60s style Afro hair-doo and Afropic. LOL
.CHANGE STARTS NOW……PEOPLE POWERED
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Oh and don’t forget to pick up some of life’s little impulse items by the cash register.
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OBAMA CONDOMS
Hope is not a form of protection!…. The ultimate stimulus package!…. Use with good judgement!
How’s that safe sex working out for ya Washington?
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Presidential breath mints? Definitely.
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Who’s the best dressed man in town?
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Lookin’ for love in all the wrong places.
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Gonna need some cash!
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And a few shots!
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And then everything’s gonna be all right in the world. YEAH BABY!!
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Out in the mean streets of DC there is a different reality. Obama worship isn’t so prevalent where the T-shirt meets the consumer. On 9/12 I took this photo one block from the capitol. With the presidents popularity plummeting it seems that the FBI the CIA the USA and DC itself are all top shelf, while Obama … not so much.
Obama is popular however, in communist China.
The left’s long romance with tyranny and terror is manifesting itself in the Obama administration once again. … some Obama advisers are now getting a new fix by offering thanks and praise to the late communist mass murderer Mao Zedong. Why Obama’s lieutenants love Mao – By Jamie Glazov
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Dear El Marco,
It’s very impressive what the Washington DC Souvenir Head Quarter (WSHQ) offers. On June 23 2011 I bought many things from there (US $ 181.12 for me is a big money). Unfortunately when I came back to Indonesia I was shocked that My Citibank’s Master card (5401-8401-1173-6818) had been charged doubles for one transaction in that shop. Could You help me …give WSHQ’s telephone number or email address….I would like to know who made mistake the Citibank or the WSHQ?
best regard,
Petrus Sumarsono,Komplek Bappenas A-96 Kedaung Sawangan Depok Jawa Barat
Indonesia
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I don’ think obama has any problem with Mao; one of his buddies Klonsky was one of his campaign advisors:
http://a12iggymom.vox.com/library/post/obama-pal-mike-klonsky-another-mao-worshiper-along-with-anita-dunn-and-ron-bloom.html
Klonsky is an unabashed communist whose current mission is to spread Marxist ideology in the American classroom. Obama funded him to the tune of nearly $2 million. Obama, moreover, gave Klonsky a broad platform to broadcast his ideas: a “social justice” blog on the official Obama campaign website. The issue is that Obama promoted and collaborated with these anti-American radicals. The issue is that he shared their ideology.
Klonsky’s communist pedigree could not be clearer. His father, Robert Klonsky, was an American communist who was convicted in the mid-Fifties for advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government — a violation of the Smith Act, anti-communist legislation ultimately gutted by the Supreme Court. In the Sixties, Klonsky the younger teamed with Ayers, Dohrn, and other young radicals to form the Students for a Democratic Society. It was out of the SDS that Ayers and Dohrn helped found the Weatherman terrorist group.Klonsky took a different path, albeit one that led inexorably to a new partnership with Ayers, which Obama mightily helped underwrite. Upon splitting off from the SDS, Klonsky formed a Maoist organization, first known as the “October League,” which ultimately became the “Communist Party (Marxist Leninist).”
Klonsky was CP(ML)’s chairman. He was so highly thought of by Mao’s regime that he was among the first Americans invited to visit Communist China. When he was feted there in 1977, a year after Mao’s death, the communist leadership hailed Klonsky’s party as “reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people.”
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And to think, all the ‘OBA MAO artists’ are National Endowment for the Arts.
which reminds me….
“A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore” (Heinlein)
Art is dead, killed by Incompetent Whores for Obama.
I never imagined Big Brother would be born of Liberalism.
Darn! Obama doesn’t even have a decanter
Boobie, you got that right! Thats the song that should play every time Obama is on the boob tube. What a killer!
Pedro, If you can read, do so. Che was a rat. A doctor who never saved a life. Sadly, Che lived way longer then he had a right to.
Fang
That Che shirt is nice, I’d wear one.
Beware, beware of the handshake That hides the snake
beware Beware of that pat on the back It just might hold you back
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes They don’t tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces Tell lies and I got proof
Your enemy won’t do you no harm Cause you’ll know where he’s coming from
Don’t let the handshake and the smile fool ya
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