Right-wingers say Obama’s campaign slogan proves that he’s a commie or a fascist or something - Akron, OH - The Suburbanite

Right-wingers say Obama’s campaign slogan proves that he’s a commie or a fascist or something

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By Pat Cunningham

THESE PEOPLE just can’t help being parodies of themselves:

One word; seven letters; so much nefarious hidden meaning. The Obama campaign’s new slogan, “Forward,” may seem like a typically oblique and anodyne piece of political branding — but thankfully, right-wing bloggers are here to reveal its true meaning, and predictably, it involves socialism and Hitler…

Breitbart.com’s Joel Pollak explained that the ‘Forward’ “borrows…from decades of communist iconography.” Pollak checks off a litany of scary historical world leaders whose lineage Obama is supposedly following, from Marx, Stalin, and Mao, to Benito Mussolini, to Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa. ...

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