Obama Health Care logo-- the latest and strangest controversy in Health Care Reform?

Monday, August 10, 2009

It's All About Me!

Can any of us remember a time when a president of the United States had his own logo? While I only really remember Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. and Obama, I don't recall seeing a logo for any of the presidents before them. If I'm wrong, drop me a note, I'm not above admitting that I didn't know something. However, not only does Obama have his own logo (the portion of the picture at the left with the "O" shape containing the red and white stripes), the administration is busy using taxpayer money to adapt that logo into a logo for the national healthcare program (proposed logo is the one pictured).

What if president Truman had a logo and included it in the logo for the Central Intelligence Agency after he signed the Executive Order in effect creating the organization? What about George W. Bush putting a big, stylized "B" logo in the middle of the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence? Somehow, I don't think either of those would have gone over well at all.

But in walks Obama and we see cars tatooed with the logo and now it's being used as part of national program. Draw your own conclusions, but I know having a ruler's logo issued as part of national programs isn't in our history but exists in others that aren't too favorable.

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Obama Health Care logo-- the latest and strangest controversy in Health Care Reform?

August 6, 4:58 PM · Robbin Swad - Miami City Buzz Examiner

AP Photo/Hans Pennink

Just when you think the topic of health care reform couldn't get any hotter, especially after South Florida's heated protests of local lawmaker, Ron Klein's district office on Wednesday, could yet another issue be an image of the Health Care Reform logo?
The Miami Herald has reported that about 100 people showed up for the monthly question meeting with U.S. Rep. Ron Klein's staffers.

"The incident is like others that reflect nerves frayed by the nationwide debate. Democrats decry what they describe as a mob rule orchestrated by special interests trying to protect the status quo; Republicans call it genuine grass-roots concern over a costly government takeover."
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Constituents across the nation are confronting lawmakers in their hometowns during this recess from Congress. Even though, a late-July Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that support for Obama's health plan had dropped: 42 percent called it a bad idea, while 36 percent said it was a good idea, Americans protesting and opposing Health Care Reform are being labeled as "angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists" by the Democratic National Committee. Chicago Tribune, CNNPolitics.com

And here is the latest buzz: the Health Care reform logo featured on Barack Obama's website is getting attention for its eerie likeness to dictator propaganda- style depictions. Is this just another contrived controversy against the current administration or is there any validity to the notion that this is a frightening sign of things to come?
Let's compare and you decide.
Eagle, emanating beams of light, well-known, non-national symbol, geographic map...

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California said:

Be Very Afraid.

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