Forward! Or Even Better, Fast Forward!

Team Obama lets their freak flag fly with their new slogan:

New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism

The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, "Forward" — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism.

Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has an entire section called "Forward (generic name of socialist publications)."

So it does; here are some screen shots so we can track future defensive editing. From the main Wiki page for "Forward", which includes things like power forward in basketball, we get this subsection on politics:

And the Wiki page devoted to 'Forward' as a generic name for socialist publications has this:

 

I don't know if I should be afraid that Team Obama is didn't research this, or afraid that they did.

Comments

[Rob Crawford]

The hilarious thing is, they'll scream "MCCARTHYISM" about this, but they've already done the same. Anyone else remember some member of the press "mis-hearing" a Romney speech to claim he was using a Bircher slogan?

Well, if they can invent references to Birchers, we can sure recognize their shout-outs to their socialist precessors.

[Milhouse]

They didn't need to research it; I'm sure they knew it very well and intended it, and it never occurred to them that anyone would object. They're well within the socialist mainstream and the slogan "Forward" comes naturally to them.

[Extraneus]

I agree, Milhouse. There's no way you're wrong about that.

[narciso]

You're giving them too much credit, they just knew they couldn't use 'Lean Forward' so they shortened it,

[Sue]

I wish we were dealing with idiots that didn't do the research. I think they know damn well what they are doing.

[Danube of Thought]

I think they did it purposely, thinking that they'll get an overreaction and that a majority will think that overreaction is silly.

[Extraneus]

That's a good theory, DoT, but it seems pretty dumb if that's their strategy. At any rate, there surely were meetings attended by higher-ups who couldn't possibly not know the pedigree of the word in socialist history.

[Dave (in MA)]

The Great Lean Forward

[Captain Hate]

Are we sure it isn't "Fore!ward"?

[Chubby]

from M-W, LUN

note: 2a and 5b

Definition of FORWARD

1a : near, being at, or belonging to the forepart b : situated in advance

2a : strongly inclined : ready b : lacking modesty or reserve : brash

3: notably advanced or developed : precocious

4: moving, tending, or leading toward a position in front; also : moving toward an opponent's goal

5a : advocating an advanced policy in the direction of what is considered progress b : extreme, radical

[Chubby]

uh, not 2a, *2b*

b : lacking modesty or reserve : brash

[Threadkiller]

" The first 38 seconds of President Obama's new 7-minute campaign video are devoted to the economic deluge he inherited. Team Obama doesn't blame President Bush's administration for this bitter economic bequest by name, but the inference is inescapable.

Obama knows the U.S. economic recovery is weak, consumer confidence timid, job growth uninspiring and optimism jittery. This is not the historic foundation upon which a second term is built. Therefore, the past must be made present to guarantee (or at least enhance) Obama's political future.

The video, with the one word title "Forward" is utterly and not surprisingly consistent with former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs statement Sunday that the central complaint of presumptive-GOP nominee Mitt Romney is Obama "didn't clean up our mess fast enough."

But it is clear - to the discerning eye - not everything Bush bequeathed Obama was a mess.

The video asserts Obama's 2009 stimulus law, which now carries a price tag of $831 billion, "saved up to 4.2 million jobs." This is a more cautious assertion than earlier White House statements that the law "saved or created" millions of jobs. This despite Congressional Budget Office analysis suggesting the stimulus not only saved jobs but created hundreds of thousands...."

http://decoded.nationaljournal.com/2012/04/-normal-0-false-false-3.php

[Thomas Collins]

I suspect it will resonate with hard core prog activists. The Obama campaign is depending on these folks for an unprecedented get out the vote and voter fraud campaign. It may also help with certain white collar types in swing states who fancy themselves chic. I think the calculation is that the socialist flavor wouldn't turn off truly persuadable voters in battleground states. Obama neede an inflamed base for a vicious campaign, and this helps.

[henry]

Maybe he is pandering to WI.

State Motto: "Forward" Reflecting Wisconsin's continuous drive to be a national leader, the state adopted "Forward" as the official state motto in 1851. .

If Obama loses Wisconsin, he loses it all.

[Theo]

It is as vapid as "Hope" or "Change" and those worked out well for them last time. They are afraid that their target audience will not understand or remember anything longer than one word.

[Threadkiller]

The title of the piece I just linked:

" 'Forward' Starts in Reverse; Obama Campaign Anchors 2012 Message to Economic Deluge of 2008"

It's a car thing.

[Threadkiller]

Operation "Escape Occupy"

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news-old/obama-arrives-in-afghanistan-on-unannounced-visit-report-says/story-fn3dxity-1226344187448

[Chubby]

the blatancy is reminiscent of the Kerry-Edwards campaign slogan, "Let America be America again," borrowed from Langston Hughes, proud and vocal supporter of the Communist Party

and that campaign was such a tremendous success

[Clarice]

OT:http://news.investors.com/editorialcartoons/cartoon.aspx?id=609781

[Threadkiller]

" Barack Obama’s latest campaign slogan “Forward!” also happens to be a Nazi marching tune.

Vorwärts! Vorwärts! was a marching song of the Hitler youth. What a shock."

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/obamas-new-campaign-slogan-forward-is-a-nazi-marching-tune-video/obama-youth-3/

[DebinNC]

Here's Jon Stewart in 2010 mocking MSNBC's new Lean Forward slogan. Toward the end he has a montage of MSNBC "all-stars" talking about how horrible things are (not were). lol

[Rick Ballard]

TC,

You and DoT could both be right. I'm sure it was Fuddle Tested and found to be non-offensive with those too damned dumb to do anything but feel bad for poor BOzo being a called a commie just because he picked a commie slogan. His adoption of NO_LIMIT Grillntats was done on the same premise - the Fuddle is supposed to see BOzo as the innocent 12 yo gunned down after being chased by Hulking Brute Whitey.

BOzo's little problem is that the Fuddle just isn't going to give a damn about what he's called as long as gas is at $5 and Uncle Bob, Aunt Sally and the kids are still living down in the rec room. The Fuddle is feeling rather annoyed by reality and they feel BOzo is much more on the cause rather than the solution side.

[narciso]

Well that does remind me, of this;

http://www.diederikrep.nl/thewave/wave.htm

[MarkO]

I guess "Workers, Arise," was taken.

[Clarice]

I owntheworld has already done the bumper sticker:http://lh5.ggpht.com/-gEZ3Yg1-RDw/T6AFqDpAdYI/AAAAAAAAeTQ/khST8LrmYYE/enhanced-buzz-649-1335789689-151_thumb%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800

[Rob Crawford]

You have to wonder how long they considered "Work Shall Set You Free".

[AliceH]

I hate that O logo. I really hate it. The fact he purposefully associates himself more with it than the Presidential Seal of Office fits right in with his making everything about him, nothing about the honor and responsibility of leading the country.

Has any candidate for any office ever branded themselves like some sort of soft drink or line of clothing before? And the slogans! Bleeeech!! If they come up with a cutesy jingle - the kind of ditty that you can't get out of your head - don't tell me about it.

[peter]

Here in New York, we had a radio station called WEVD, the last three call letters standing for the initials of Eugene V. Debs. The radio station was associated with a socialist newspaper, the Jewish Daily Forward.

[Janet]

That Iowntheworld bumper sticker is wonderful, Clarice! Inappropriate & wonderful!!!

[NK]

Going back to my Frosh Philospohy 101 days-- Hagel/Marx used their dialectic of history to push back against 'reactionary' monarchies trying to preserve their 'Dieu et Mon Droit' deal. "Forward" is an obvious slogan for the Marxist, because it claims the dialectical inevitability of world socialism. 'Bam and MSNBC use Forward! as slogans-- really?-- Quelle Surprise.

[Extraneus]

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[Jim Eagle]

Clarice,

LOL. I wonder if Jane will stock them?

[NK]

ding ding-- we have co-winners of thread comments --MarkO @12:10 and Rob @12:13. Congratulations.

[Chubby]

extraneous lololol!

[Extraneus]

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[daddy]

Another Brit unimpressed with Obama the Osama Killer:

Obama's tacky 'I Shot Bin Laden' ad has turned a military triumph into a political disaster.

[Extraneus]

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[Porchlight]

Agree with those who think it's a reachout to the progs. The hardcore base is just about all he has left to work with. If the right overreacts, it can't hurt him with those folks.

Ridicule is the best weapon.

[Some guy]

I don't know if I should be afraid that Team Obama is didn't research this, or afraid that they did.

Just be afraid...

[Extraneus]

Great Leap Forward

[Rocco]

henry

Great idea. I just wish I was a little better at this. The fonts are hard to match, as Sheriff Arpaio has pointed out, right TK?

Forgive me DoT.

[NK]

Correction-- we have a third co-winner Ex @12:19 )effin' hysterical) and 12:22 (effin' scary)

[Some guy]

The perfect slogan for this crew in the White House is 'Forward (or Back to Bush)'*

*because the last thing they want anyone focusing on is the last 3 1/2 years.

[Rob Crawford]

And did anyone else notice that that five Cleveland bridge-bombers chose Occupy's "general strike" day to, er, strike?

[Danube of Thought]

I hope this begins to simmer and then boil:

The frustration—or, even anger—within the SEAL community is real, and has been brewing for months, particularly among a politically conservative core of operators. It started immediately after the raid, with questions among the Special Forces and intelligence community of whether the president should have waited to announce the kill to exploit the intelligence cache at Osama’s compound. It simmered after a Chinook helicopter was shot down, killing 30 Americans, 22 of them Navy SEALs from Team Six.

Was it a coincidence, SEALs asked themselves, catastrophe hit Team Six so soon after being named as the team responsible for the killing?

[Jane (Better a crate than a plate)]

Boy this is fun!

[Extraneus]

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[Rob Crawford]

Oh, hey... LUN... one of those arrested in the Cleveland bomb plot *IS* an Occupooper.

[Extraneus]

I can stop at any time. (I think.)

[Captain Hate]

Boy this is fun!

At this rate we may even get Letterperv to join in the ridicule.

[Jane (Better a crate than a plate)]

Was it a coincidence, SEALs asked themselves, catastrophe hit Team Six so soon after being named as the team responsible for the killing?

What do you think DOT?

[AliceH]

wrt extraneous' poster @ 12:23, in addition to "Forward", we can work in "Obama, leading from behind". Maybe drop a little white arrow pointing somewhere out of frame.

[centralcal]

Wow. Some of the best photos every posted on a JOM thread.

Captain - who is Letterperv (Letterman?)?

[cboldt]

ROTFL at the photos, and the real memorabilia.

Obama is such an empty-suit. Amazing, just amazing how many brain dead idiots there are. Limitless resource, it seems.

FORWARD!

[Captain Hate]

Yes, cc.

[Extraneus]

I don't think the 12:22 is a joke. It comes from a link to HuffPo. It'd sure make a fine iPhone background, though. If I didn't have my dog posing in front of some tulips, I'd think about it.

[Extraneus]

Not a joke at all. It's already a t-shirt.

[Extraneus]

Uh oh. Drudge is already on it.

[Extraneus]

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[Rick Ballard]

Extraneous,

A revision to BASSACKWARD!! seems in order.

[Extraneus]

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[Extraneus]

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[Rob Crawford]

The new campaign theme song starts with the lyrics "Douchebags, douchebags, over alll..."

[Danube of Thought]

What do you think DOT?

I'm not aware of any evidence connecting the two events, but then again I really have no way of knowing.

[Extraneus]

Nope, not a joke. This one is at lots of lib sites right now. How embarrassing for them.

[Rob Crawford]

I don't get the meaning of the pic in Ext's 1:15. Do what for Ward? Who's Ward? Ward Churchill? Burt Ward?

[Dave (in MA)]

FORCLEO

[Dave (in MA)]

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/firstofmay.jpg

[sdferr]

Gutfeld has both truthfully and amusingly pointed out one of the keys to the choice of Forward and not some other descriptive term. Forward has the necessary "O" in it, the indispensable place for the Obama-logo to sit.

[Captain Hate]

Not a joke at all. It's already a t-shirt.

It looks like something you'd get if you took some of the street vendors on 125th Street in Harlem and relocated them to Provincetown.

[Extraneus]

lOl

[Extraneus]

Between the ridicule he's taking over this and the pushback from the SEALs on his single foreign policy claim to fame, this May Day isn't going as well as Dear Leader probably envisioned.

[Extraneus]

Click for full size.

[pagar]

"They didn't need to research it;"

It would come from Obama's earliest childhood memories. His Mother, his Grandfather, Frank Marshall Davis, etc.
As near as I can tell the only non communist mentors he ever had were the Islamic ones. We know he remembers fondly: "The muslim call to prayer being one of the prettiest sounds on earth"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2580992/posts

Did Obama have any non communist or non Muslim mentors while growing up?

[Rocco]

Fore

[Dave (in MA)]

Dave (in MA) | May 01, 2012 at 01:28 PM
I guess Ace doesn't like hotlinks.

[Chutz, Mon.]

Kiddoes, it's chutzpah.
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[Jim Eagle]

The O in Foreward:

[TexasMom2012]

Just as another thought. "Forward" is the command a guide dog learns so the blind or visually impaired has the dog start off first in a leading position. I know this because I am raising a guide dog puppy for Southeastern Guide Dog School and Forward is one of the commands I have had to teach "George". Combine the "Forward"command and "leading from behind" with the reminder that O ate dogs and I am sure that someone can find comedy gold!

[TexasMom2012]

Btw, George is nearly five months old and already has many commands learned including "Forward". Obama with a guide dog says "forward" and "LEADS FROM BEHIND" blindly.

[hit and run]

F-Word

[Rocco]

Heh

[rse]

Jane-the shutdown is probably unrelated. Hubby read report and said Rangers were pinned down in a firefight. Team 6 was responding with little notice to help them. Little time to plan and it was probably a lucky shot unaware of the reliever. However, because firefight had been going on for hours everyone with rockets in area had time to come and wait for a lucky strike.

Even beyond Navy there is a great deal of concern that so much confidential info came out for selfish political showboating.

If the 12:22 is real, these guys really are historical illiterates.

Different topic-have I said how tired I am of utility or insurance execs or businesses where govts are the only or majority customer being the face for what this economy needs from education?

The good news from the meeting is I did figure it all out correctly. The bad news is it remains a horrendous idea.

Forward into the abyss based on what the feds are pushing on the states. It's amazing how many senior business execs think now there is a magic funding genie if they push bad ideas. "We have to do this so there will be funding available."

From where?

[That silver thing he gave her was a Davey Jones Locket.]

Uptwinkles 12;22.

AA, but I gotta hand it to the swift seal bots. Must be sumpin in the water.
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[JeanD]

rse,

I read all of your links with great interest, and I thank you for them.

Would it be too FORWARD of me to beg you to please, please hurry up with the book?

I anxiously await!

[Rocco]

Ok...spelled it right this time, what a doof!

[Panetta&Clinton shared the Brass Rag.]

AA_Bill has it in the first column of comments at 12:22.
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[Frau Erster Mai]

Clinton, Kim? Yesterday my husband called Bill the Kardashian of Politics.

[Frau Erster Mai]

Ok, Rocco. Your 2:50 is my choice. I want 6 bumper stickers and 30 small stickers. Paypal?

[RichatUF]

test.

[Sara]

At any rate, there surely were meetings attended by higher-ups who couldn't possibly not know the pedigree of the word in socialist history.

I wouldn't bet on it. Libtards have little regard for history and even less knowledge.

[Porchlight]

It surely cannot be a coincidence that this hits the news on May Day.

Yes, the official announcement was yesterday, but Obama's people know how news cycles work.

[Rocco]

Thanks Frau. That was fun even though I screwed up the spelling (and Henry even spelled it for me)

[Rharper6]

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/9721/greatleapforward.jpg

[dee13]

It looks like the proggies are trying to delete the forward page on Facebook...

[dee13]

Heh, sorry Wikipedia, not Facebook...

[Why Do All Tea Partiers Look Like Ron Gardenhire?]

Penzey's, the well known communist front carries a spice blend called FORWARD!