Obama's visage appears between the svelte curves of fashion models on Europe's most prestigious runways. His speeches are remixed into thumping music tracks in underground dance clubs. His campaign slogans are the foundation for modern art hanging on trendy Parisian gallery walls. In Europe, Barack Obama is much more than the Democratic presidential nominee. He's the hip new thing... "Barack Obama represents our hidden consciousness, our hidden dreams," said Helene Faussart, who's half of Les Nubians, the Grammy-nominated Parisian Afro-beat duo. "He really represents the America we imagine it to be." ... Earlier this month at the Paris Fashion Week, at least four top European designers unveiled dresses, skirts and tops featuring images honoring Obama. One Parisian art gallery recently tore up its schedule and asked dozens of artists to produce pieces for a special "Obama in Paris" exhibition that's already become one of its most popular shows. "It's Obama mania," said Catherine Meyer, one of the artists who contributed to the exhibition. "It's very fashionable."
In Europe, Barack Obama is much more than the Democratic presidential nominee. He's the hip new thing...
"Barack Obama represents our hidden consciousness, our hidden dreams," said Helene Faussart, who's half of Les Nubians, the Grammy-nominated Parisian Afro-beat duo. "He really represents the America we imagine it to be."
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Earlier this month at the Paris Fashion Week, at least four top European designers unveiled dresses, skirts and tops featuring images honoring Obama.
One Parisian art gallery recently tore up its schedule and asked dozens of artists to produce pieces for a special "Obama in Paris" exhibition that's already become one of its most popular shows.
"It's Obama mania," said Catherine Meyer, one of the artists who contributed to the exhibition. "It's very fashionable."
you are the media you consume.
obama is iconic...that combination of intellect and smile don't come around too often...
he's so global, and the funny thing is that while i don't think americans care much about that, the rest of the planet sure does...
we'd all do anything to have leaders a hundredth of that calibre.
take the chance, america! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
So! :P Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
This would be wrong, how?
Plus, for the whole mural thing, you have to be in a city. And the Bushie-style whitefolk generally stay away from the cities in the Deep South, because there's "Coloreds" and "hoodlums" and "student radicals" and stuff. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Same with Hillary and the history of a viable female candidate. I didn't appreciate that as I should have. It didn't really occur to me what it meant until my grandmother (big for Hil) passed away.
But, like I said, I'm a white guy. We've got hundreds of years of presidents who look like me, so I'm, I guess, more cognizant of my own inability to fully appreciate the significance after this year. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
