Cult of Personality

[davhill]

As I drove around the bend in I-4 in downtown Orlando I was greeted with a billboard displaying a huge 20' visage of Bush with the inscription "Our Leader". It was not left over electioneering; it was just recently erected. Such billboards are characteristic of dictatorships everywhere. I never thought I would see one in my own country. Are such things popping up all over the rest of the country too?

[flowomo]

1. yikes! this is not a joke?

you gotta get a picture of that sucker. Chilling. Unless, we laugh it off the planet -- which having a picture to mutilate in clever ways would help us do. :)

[dogman]

2. There was a report in the news today that Kim Jung Il was taking his down.

May be Bush bought them and changed the picture.

[robbedvoter]

3. Yeah, I was just posting somewhere: you'll be seing W on the papers

cofee makers and toilet seats. BIG.
Deja vu all over again.

[Cleita]

4. Wait until they start erecting statues and try to put

him on Mt. Rushmore.

[SmokingJacket]

5. Take a photo and post it!

I'm dying to see this.

Is he wearing a Mao suit?

[davhill]

7. I will tomorrow

It just shows his head hovering over rush hour traffic.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING.

[kwb]

8. Subject: Who' Paying for that one?

Hi, I'm new here.

Davhill, Would you be willing to call the billboard company to find out who paid to put Bush up there (them, or an individual or Business Supporter or the GOP) It would be interesting to know who is responsible.
Thanks

[newyawker99]

23. Hi kwb!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

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[Jack_DeLeon]

10. Cult of Personality

Look into my eyes, what do you see?
Cult of Personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality

Neon lights, A Nobel Price
The mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your T.V.
I'm the Cult of Personality
I exploit you still you love me

I tell you one and one makes three
I'm the Cult of Personality
Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
I'm the Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality
Cult of Personality

Neon lights a Nobel Prize
A leader speaks, that leader dies
You don't have to follow me
Only you can set you free

You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You me power in your God's name
I'm every person you need to be
I'm the Cult of Personality

[GRLMGC]

11. Now that's just freaky

wow.

[Zorra]

12. I'm not a vandal, but I would be seriously tempted to burn that.

Or at least paint an appropriate little mustache on "its" face.

[Be Brave]

13. Hmmph. The billboard should be captioned "Saddam, Jr."

He took up where Saddam left off in the massacre of Iraqis.

[morgan2]

14. would be funny/possibly very effective

to secretly purchase billboards and put bush's face on them all over the country.

This would fall in my overall stradegy of letting people get innundated with only republicans for the next 2 years, then come out with a clear alternative. Let people get sick of hearing about Bush and his policies.

[Malebolgia]

15. So this is what Nazi Germany was like in 1939...

:scared:

[Cat Atomic]

16. Their sycophantic, cowardly neediness is just disgusting.

Conservatives desperately want strong father figures.

[maveric]

17. Stalin had huge posters and billboards with his likeness all over

Russia. Hitler, Saddam, Castro and Kim Jong Ill did too.
Hmmmmmm???

[Qanisqineq]

18. Scary

:scared:
I wouldn't be able to drive down that road anymore.

[robbedvoter]

19. I used this important story in my entry Wake up and smell the Dictatorship

http://robbedvoter.forclark.com/story/2004/11/19/125843/98

[loudestchick]

21. ForClark is still up?

I remember it going down for 3-4 days in the months following Wes's withdrawl...I thought everyone had migrated...I can't seem to log on over there any more...I got all misty when I saw your screen name, and then ArkySue over there...wow...I need a minute.

[robbedvoter]

22. Been up for me. Alhough I mostly hang up on the Clark DU group now

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=235

[Crankie Avalon]

20. I can actually imagine him...

...removing the heads from all of Saddam's old stautues in Iraq and re-erecting them with heads of his own in their places...the way the emperor Caligula removed the heads of the statues of all the gods and substituted his own.

[politmuse1]

24. We need a picture and backup info

Davhill -- Can you take a picture of the billboard or give the exact location? Someone should be able to find out more, or we'll be laughed off the planet if we tell people "Big Brother is up" and can't back it up. A billboard is public info. At least so I hope.