Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Wow, it would never ever have occurred to me that our ultra right nationalist party leader is a big admirer of marxists, socialism and people with multicultural migration background. In his current campaign for the Austrian national elections he copies the famous image of Che Guevara to make himself look like somewhat revolutionary and he is using graphic and textual elements (“yes we can”) from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Makes me wonder if he has ever read more about the people he’s trying to imitate than some catchy slogans on t-shirts. Maybe somebody should tell him that Barack Obama’s doesn’t really stand for xenophobia, fear and anger. I guess both of them would have a hard time to find a single point in their politics they could agree on. Nor would Che Guevara throw people, who come and ask for help, out of a safe and wealthy country and send them back, even to war zones, where they came from.

[via helge and rigardi]

  • http://tschilp.com michaela

    am meisten musste ich bei den fotos mit barett und t-shirt lachen!

  • http://spanring.eu/ Christian

    schwere zeiten für die kabaretts: das kann man einfach nicht mehr parodieren.

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  • http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-thursday-debate-open/742065/ veeejay

    maybe at the next election he will also change his name to Barack H Obama and petition Stevie Wonder to play groovy R&B songs at his rallies :)

    greetings from san fran,
    vj

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