CULTURE JAMMING

Ron English Inaugurates Oversized Obama-Lincolns In Boston

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Just in time for the Fourth, large scale painter Ron English took his presidential image of Barack Obama intermixed with Abe Lincoln and interspersed it in Boston. The oversized, newly colorized outdoor versions were installed as part of Gallery XIV's 'a politic exhibit. Additionally, he gave out a stack of smaller originals that made their way around town. The two-faced combinations have already caused quite a stir with the gallery fielding calls from the mayor's office. Click below to see the artful inauguration in action, including a bonus video:

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Photos: Will Kerr
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by ANIMAL on July 3, 2008

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hot damn. love it.

"I am not now, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social or political equality of the white and black races. I am not now nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor of intermarriages with white people. There is a physical difference between the white and the black races which will forever forbid the two races living together on social or political equality. There must be a position of superior and inferior, and I am in favor of assigning the superior position to the white man."

-Abraham Lincoln, Charleston, Illinois 1858

Lol Obama fanboi just got owned by historical fact. Good post Mike!

Funny stuff considering that if Lincoln had it his way, he would have deported all Black Americans to Haiti!

At Alton Lincoln tried to reconcile his statements on equality. He said that the authors of the Declaration of Independence:

"intended to include all men, but they did not mean to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development or social capacity. They defined with tolerable distinctness in what they did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ... They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society which should be familiar to all: constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even, though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, every where."

its more simple to me.
yeah Lincoln was what they say ,
we know what we know, and America is what it is for what Lincoln made it to be for all.

peace

i eat balls =]

Lolowned you can eat mine ;)

Vote bush! yeeeeeeeeehah! God dammit I love sucking balls! Mike your next!

I like the ART factor of this post, plus the imagery puts the focus on Obama.

That's just what we need: Obama fused with a racist, murderous, genocidal tyrant who suspended habeas corpus, sent the military to shut down any printing presses that disagreed with the government, and used the military to force a bunch of poor Irish-American peasants into fighting a war that wasn't theirs.

Then again, Obama is a would-be tyrant himself, just like John McCain. So I guess it works out okay in the end.

I actually took the pictures of the installation in process. My company Reflect-arts co-produced the exhibition 'a politic' with Gallery XIV. For more info: www.reflect-arts.com

Juliette Pelletier
Founder
Reflect-arts, Inc.

Michelle Obama should be ashamed.

"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Beneath that Darth-Vader-Mace-Windu-Jedi-Me ssiah Helmet Hairdo of Michelle Obama lurks a Wildabeast. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. The Lexis-Nexis-Albatross-Abacus-Complex of Barack and Michelle's relationship with MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" Rev. Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; is about as much of a Hoax as Oxfam volunteers believe in HIV-- AIDS Witch Doctors in Africa they feed.
"God damn America" - Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama.
"God bless America" - Pope Benedict XVI and Hillary Clinton --
Michelle Obama AKA Wildabeast -- failed the Illinois Bar Exam. If Barack Obama had married Shaniqua instead of the leftist-separatist-racist-beast-'ist Michelle, his jackanapes' excitedly-fixed-elitism, Nemet-Oure-Saxas Our Father Our King -- black rage, and "GLORK" black demagoguery of Obama's Stump Lines Echo Malcolm X; would be taken a lot more expeditiously. Its expected that Obam will manage his explosive MUSLIM JIHADI -- FATIMA EXTREMISM obsession bitter. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It’s time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!

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Very heated debate... how about we all take a break and wiggle around like David Elsewhere but in front of this thing :D

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