One word; seven letters; so much nefarious hidden meaning. The Obama campaign\u2019s new slogan, \u201cForward,\u201d may seem like a typically oblique and anodyne piece of political branding \u2014 but thankfully, right-wing bloggers are here to reveal its true meaning, and predictably, it involves socialism and Hitler.<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s reelection campaign unveiled the slogan yesterday in lengthy new web video, and while the obvious subtext is that presumed GOP nominee Mitt Romney would take things backwards, there is so much more.<\/p>\n
Breitbart.com\u2019s Joel Pollak explained that the \u2018Forward\u2019 \u201cborrows\u2026from decades of communist iconography.\u201d Pollak checks off a litany of scary historixcal world leaders whose lineage Obama is supposedly following, from Marx, Stalin, and Mao, to Benito Mussolini, to Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa. \u201cCommunist leaders frequently used \u2014 and still use \u2014 the word \u2018forward,\u2019\u201d he notes.<\/p>\n
The Washington Times also sees a \u201crich association with European Marxism,\u201d quoting at length from Wikipedia to prove the point.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, ever-hyperbolic blogger Jim Hoft went straight for Hitler, writing that \u2018Forward\u2019 was a \u201cmarching song of the Hitler youth.\u201d He added a helpful illustration of Hitler Youth wearing Obama pins.<\/p>\n