It appears that the
Washington Times story on the communist/socialist history of the term "Forward" has taken off.
Naturally, the Left is trying to pooh-pooh the story as they are quite sensitive to being labeled "socialists." Who can blame them?
The
Washington Times story contains these paragraphs on the history of "Forward":
The Obama campaign released its new campaign slogan Monday in a 7-minute
video. The title card has simply the word "Forward" with the "O" having the
familiar Obama logo from 2008. It will be played at rallies this weekend that
mark the Obama re-election campaign's official beginning.
There have been at least two radical-left publications named "Vorwaerts" (the
German word for "Forward"). One was the daily newspaper of the Social Democratic
Party of Germany whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky. It
still publishes as the organ of Germany's SDP, though that party has changed
considerably since World War II. Another was the 1844 biweekly reader of the
Communist League. Karl Marx, Engels and Mikhail Bakunin are among the names
associated with that publication .
East Germany named its Army soccer club ASK Vorwaerts Berlin (later FC
Vorwaerts Frankfort). Vladimir Lenin founded the publication "Vpered" (the Russian word for
"forward") in 1905.
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| Above, the Obama Campaign's "Forward." |
In view of the Obama Campaign's choice of a slogan with such a notorious history, here's my suggestion for an "inspiring" campaign poster:
