Can new Chairman Hillary-style poster turn the race for Clinton?

Just in time for next week's Kentucky and Oregon Democratic primaries -- what do you want to bet they each win one? -- the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton has a new poster to play with.

Who could quit with this hanging around?

It's heroic, don't you think? Chairman Hillary. Like what's-his-name, the little guy with the crew cut who runs North Korea, and his dead father who had that immense goiter that everyone pretended not to see to avoid execution. Their grand portraits like this are everywhere, usually several stories tall.

We can see these everywhere. And you can read more about them in an entertaining piece by James Oliphant right here.

-- Andrew Malcolm

Comments

[Peg]

Thanks for the new wallpaper! GO HILLARY!

[John]

deceitful , tasteless attacking article and for some reason, were Hillary not to win, stories like this, just make more people want to vote McCain. You have strengthened McCain's chances.

LA times has become more like the National Enquirer.

[ross]

Too "Fahrenheit 451" for my taste, and given Hillary's apparent willingness to do anytihing to get ahead, not a good image for her. Would the person depicted in the poster safeguard your liberties or trample them if need be? I'm thinking the latter.

[Ronald Grube]

It seems to be a fitting poster. The champion of world trade in front of a Japanese Flag.

[ch]

She looks great !

[gaypastor]

Yes....of course....you would take any chance to render her gender as irrelevant, wouldn't you. If you're going to poke fun at least called her "chairWOMAN."

[Peter Noble]

The best joke of the primary. You guys are funny. Make a great bathmat.

[08vote]

...more importantly and of relevance, anybody see the PBS special on FDR (Franklin D Roosevelt)? The economic problems then may not be as grave now, but definitely see some political/philosophical parallels to the current circumstances between Obama and McCain (Cindy McCain, release your tax records! If not why not, is it because of the Bush tax breaks?), and will Obama get a Homecoming welcome in Iowa, post Rev Wright and Bitter-gate, hmmm?

[Dennis M]

Tora! Tora! Tora!

[Anne]

This poster is hardly new, it has been around for some time . I have seen it at Hillary rallies on TV and I have been trying to find where I can get one.
If Obama and the DNC do not need woman's votes to win , all well and good. But if they do...they have a big problem . I will not vote for yet another egg loser. and I speak as a Democrat of 30 years. The straw that broke my back was when the Dem elite sensed there was a problem, they knee jerked the cynical trotting out of Roe vs Wade like we were Pavlovian dogs ( or should I say" bitches" in keeping with the tender of Media coverage during this primary)

the Dem congress let two Bush Supreme Count appointments sail in and Obama himself was about to vote for Roberts before an aide stopped him. I have no reason to believe the Dems , even in power, would defend Roe vs Wade . So why would I be persuaded to vote for the latest in a long line of Democratic egg head losers they want me to based on Roe vs Wade, or indeed any Democratic core belief? ....they themselves violate Democratic core beliefs hourly . Just ask voters in FLA and MI.. Usualy the Dem base does fall in line, I held my nose to vote for Kerry,....but not this time. I like a Dem who fights . I'm voting for Hillary Clinton

[johnny99]

Why is she posing in front of the Imperial Japanese war flag? This is a joke, right? Or is she planning a kamikaze attack on the USS Obama?

[Steve M.]

Sorry to say, but my initial reaction to Sen Clinton's colorful poster reminds me of a neoclassical artwork of an Imperial Japanese WWII propaganda poster or the People's Republic of China, featuring Mao Tse-Tung or Chou En-Lai, rather than "A new day rising." At the sametime, Sen. Obama's multicolored posters looks like something out of apartheid South Africa. What ever happened to posters with class and meaning?

[Ken]

I don't care for the poster. It really isn't an attraction for Clinton. However, I question why this is even open for questioning. If this were not Clinton (or a woman) very little would be said about it.

Had this been Obama, most probably the questioner would have been gushing how great it was.

[N.E. BodybutHillary]

Your coattail ride is finnished. Your obligation now is to campaign for Borack Obama. Stop polarizing the Democratic Party. You kost now get over it.

[MaoTseClinton]

What scares me is that she looked at this poster and probably thought "HEY! This is really cool looking"

It's such a deliberate reference to the Japanese Imperial and Communist posters that the guy/gal who created it obviously is an Obama person. Or a McCain. It's got nothing to do with her being a "female" with this poster - Mao wasn't a girl. A man would get just as much flack.

I don't understand how a so-called feminist, can go around cloaking herself in the mantle of the "Great Father". Just.Don't.Get.It.

I'm so glad she won't be the president. Too bad Edwards doesn't want the VP. I want that position sewn up before Clinton can threaten the party further.

[Mimi]

You have nothing better to comment on than her looks- I would like to see what you look like.(Jerk)

[dave]

while some meanings of the poster, as shown by the comments, appear to be quite obvious to many people, in addition to the imperial implication e.g. there's also the religious one, and the grotesquely halo-like array would then be reminiscent of the iconography of a 'holy virgin,' with all the various intimations or innuendos; interestingly enough it has also been noticed that these posters used by obama (divide and conquer: 'unite') and clinton seem to be designed to generate support for mccain, expecting people to overlook that he is the third pretender and proponent of the same imperial (and globalist) delusions, sponsored by the 'power brokers' behind the show. the 4th, and only honest candidate for PRESIDENT, RON PAUL 'champion of the constitution' and of liberty, only independent steadfast mind, resents all fascist aspirations to repressive power and domination, and advocates the consistent application of constitutional standards to all politics.

[Pablo]

Hahaha this poster is embarrassingly bad. Especially considering how the posters of Obama made by OBEY's Shepard Fairey have been up in Los Angeles and other cities since late January.

[Suzan]

Wow! More sexism from the media and Obama supporters? It just never stops, which is why I'm voting for McCain if Hillary's not the nominee.

The thugery of the MSM's blatant sexism, coupled with BO's flipping off Hillary, calling professional women sweetie and letting us know he has no problem with a "bitch" by his use of sexist rap music at rallies, is enough to turn me into a life-long Republican.

If not Hillary, then McCain in '09!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kay]

I can't grasp people supporting a junior senator who has built his life around liberation theology and trash a woman who's been working for so many years on behalf of women, working people and children and has no radical religious or social views.
Someone made a post modern poster of Hillary and now the sky is falling! Obama says - in his own words-- he made a bone headed decision regarding Rezko and the media bob their heads in approval. Amazing.
We are going to hear a million times the sound bites of "bone headed decision" and vid clips of Wright this fall and all the entreched Dem leadership think that won't sway the swing states? Obviously they don't live in a swing state like I do.
Also, obvious, there isn't anything quite too bad to say about Hillary when the press have to report on artwork. Obama we get Wright, Rezko and that guy in jail, used to sell cocaine......but hey! he looks and sounds great and his campaign artwork is just fine..........oh, brother are we screwed

[JimF]

This blog says more about Andrew Malcolm than about Clinton. There is a similar poster for Obama. Did Malcolm equate Obama with Kim Il ?

[Dee Cooper]

Anything it takes to win. Hillary is the only one running qualified to be President. Go Hillary!

[McLame '08]

Bush fooled you in 2000, shame on him. He fooled you again in '04? Shame on you! If you're considering McLame (and a third Bush term) in '08, apparently you're just a fool.

[Steve M.]

One more item- Forget Hillary, Obama, Nader, Barr or McCain. I say let's go all the way, with the great Senator from the State of California, Bill McKay.

"The Candidate" (1972)
re: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068334/maindetails

[simplerep]

Mr Malcolm,

Correct me if I am wrong, but Japan's "wartime flag of the rising sun" has similar features, don't you think? Or is that the point?

[Suresh]

Hillary' poster reminds me of the movie "1984". It is big brother (well, sister in this case) watching over everything you do. Hillary is dangerous and not unlike Hitler. She would succeed is destroying this country, what little is left of it under the 8 years of Bush presidency. I also do not see a dime' worth of foreign policy difference between her and McCain.
Will Obama be any better? I don't have a clue. Although I am a democrat, I am going to vote for Ron Paul. I know he can't win, but the point of one' vote is not about winning but about one' conscience. I like to go back to the Constitution and get rid of the governement taking over everything. If enough people vote for Ron Paul, it will be felt by the U.S. Congress in 2009. Change comes slowly but this is where I would start.

[Jim]

WHAT A COPYCAT. Obama has a poster like it since several months ago already:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1199/1337958487_8b58931cc2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/78548168%40N00/1337958487/&h=500&w=376&sz=626&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=Fna7vlsHsqlFZM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dobama%2Bposter%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

[j]

I love how every woman I see talking about Hillary pretty much just says "I'm voting for Hillary because she's a woman and I'm a woman."

Does gender really trump all?

[mruth]

I get a kick out of this retro-totalitarian poster. I especially like the fact that the colors of the sunrays present only a muted contrast, lending the image a vaguely homespun quality. It suggests the shoddy dyes of the impoverished Soviet Union or North Korea. Groovy--I really want one. I'm not so sure it's good for the candidate, though. I was very surprised to hear that Hillary's campaign was selling them. (When does the t-shirt come out?)