Abraham Obama?
Posted on July 10th, 2008 by bile Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Obama, Barack Obama, Boston, Massachusetts, Ron English
The owners of a small South End
gallery say they had the best of intentions when they commissioned a famous
and often mischievous street artist to install a massive political mural on a construction wall lining one of the artiest strips of the South End.
The mural, 13 feet high and nearly a block long, features multiple composite portraits of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln, their faces melded together in a rainbow of colors. It is meant, the gallery said, to inspire dialogue.
That it did. The morning after artist Ron English and his band of volunteers finished the mural, “Abraham Obama,” it stirred a tempest in this insular arts community, though it had nothing to do with Lincoln, Obama or English himself.
Wha? I think both men should/would be offended by this. Obama has been affiliated with people who don’t like the whites and Lincoln wasn’t so thrilled with the blacks.
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July 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Still, it’s slightly more interesting the than a passe Bush-Hitler reference. BTW, does anyone find it a little creepy that Obama will be speaking in front of a stadium of people in Colorado?
July 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Oh yeah… yes. Have you seen the media going nuts about this? “Rockstar Obama!!” Asking McCain how he’s going to combat it. Cult of personality.
July 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I heard that bosco will only vote for Obama if he plays the Winger Chord that night.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Hmm… hair metal Obama would be pretty sweet. So far my favorite Obama related thing has been this.