Shepard Fairey • Obama Prints, by jamesreeve5 on Mar 13, 2008 20:17:56 GMT 1,

scavos said:

I respect your view Bongo. I honestly can't purport to have much of an educated insight into this. However, personally, I believe having a Black president in the USA would lead to great change and indeed would be a great change in itself. Whether this will happen within the next decade or two, who knows? I somehow doubt that the USA is ready to accept a Black man as president. I suspect Hilary will increasingly play on this in terms of justifying her campaign.

I do hear your point about the pervasive, distracting and often pathetic cult of personality but I agree with Shep's comments about his Obama prints on the site and feel they justify why this is an important piece of art in the history of the USA.

I think a good counter-print would be one depicting Hilary practising her script whilst sitting on the toilet; thereby demonstrating her dedication to the cause, giving an insight into motions of a clearly hardworking presidential campaigner. It could be called, 'If it floats you've got too much fat in your diet'.

I don't exactly get why you think a black male president would lead to a great change, and then you slag off the white female democratic nomination runner. Would a white female president not lead to a relatively equal change? The truth is Obama and Clinton have pretty much 95% of the same ideas about the USA.

And actually both used scripted tele-prompters when giving speeches.

At least you were upfront about lacking insight into the workings of US politics.

scavos said:

I respect your view Bongo. I honestly can't purport to have much of an educated insight into this. However, personally, I believe having a Black president in the USA would lead to great change and indeed would be a great change in itself. Whether this will happen within the next decade or two, who knows? I somehow doubt that the USA is ready to accept a Black man as president. I suspect Hilary will increasingly play on this in terms of justifying her campaign.

I do hear your point about the pervasive, distracting and often pathetic cult of personality but I agree with Shep's comments about his Obama prints on the site and feel they justify why this is an important piece of art in the history of the USA.

I think a good counter-print would be one depicting Hilary practising her script whilst sitting on the toilet; thereby demonstrating her dedication to the cause, giving an insight into motions of a clearly hardworking presidential campaigner. It could be called, 'If it floats you've got too much fat in your diet'.

I don't exactly get why you think a black male president would lead to a great change, and then you slag off the white female democratic nomination runner. Would a white female president not lead to a relatively equal change? The truth is Obama and Clinton have pretty much 95% of the same ideas about the USA.

And actually both used scripted tele-prompters when giving speeches.

At least you were upfront about lacking insight into the workings of US politics.