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Home Front: Culture Wars
Caduceus or Rod of Asclepius
2009-08-10
UnBiege has a mocking post in which he states:
"Fortunately, the LA Times' art critic Christopher Knight was there to step up to the plate and swat down this so-absurd-it's-sadly-funny piece of illiterate design"

Rush Limbaugh flunks Graphic Design 101

There's just one hitch: Asserting a resemblance between the two logos is like saying Limbaugh resembles Gary Busey because both men have two eyes, a nose, a mouth and a drug addiction. Obama's healthcare logo includes no eagle, Roman symbol of imperial authority, and it has no swastika, the bent-arm cross designed by Hitler himself as the emblem of National Socialism.
FAIL. Hitler didn't design the swastika, he took the ancient Hindu symbol and reversed it, tied to his idea that the German Volk were the true Aryans. Clearly Mr. Knight is makin' stuff up.
Instead, the Obama design surmounts the red, white and blue landscape of his presidential campaign logo with a caduceus, the winged staff entwined with serpents that derived from the rod of Asclepius, son of Greek god Apollo. An ancient symbol of healing, the rod is often used as a medical logo. So the Obama design shows a medical symbol above the American landscape.

Make that two hitches: The claim that Nazism embraced healthcare is obscene.

Lets look at his claims:
A Caduceus is not a Rod of Asclepius, although the two are often confused especially in North America.

The Caduceus preceded the Rod of Asclepius, by hundreds of years.

The Caduceus in Roman iconography was often depicted being carried in the left hand of the Greek god Hermes (Roman god, Mercury), the messenger of the gods, guide of the dead and protector of merchants bankers, shepherds fleecers, gamblers, liars and thieves. Which just about describes Obuma's administration.

As for his second statement, false again. Nazi Germany had an excellent health care system, if you overlooked the bit about euthanasia when you became a burden on society (just like ObumaCare)
Posted by:tipper

#1  Judge for yourself.

Posted by: Black Bart Ebberens7700   2009-08-10 08:54  

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