From my RWNJ pal
Doug Brink, who sees a Leni Riefenstahl at work in the photos of the president with the troops:
This image still bothers me...
The White House poster recently noting Veterans Day weekend... It bugs me...
Maybe what disturbs me is how it compares with other historical images. [jump]
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| "Triumph of the Will" 1935 |
Obama's fundamentally changing America may be presented in a slick, colorful format. But for those of us who take time to contrast it with black and white warnings of history, we see plenty causing us to feel more than a little uneasy.
I wrote back proposing some of the following—not the pictures, just the URLs—but the moderator (who I presume is Doug himself, this is not a very corporate kind of shop) wasn't having any of it. Jeez, when you think you know a guy, and he turns out to have
no sense of humor!
The most remarkably Fascist-looking picture I found, actually, was of George Herbert Walker Bush, from Thanksgiving 1990:
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