Though Sen. Hillary Clinton won the Florida primary, Barack Obama is still riding high after receiving perhaps the most endorsement of this campaign season. No, it's not the Kennedy imprimatur. It's the endorsement of street art dude Shepard Fairey, the guy who did those Andre the Giant Obey stencils. Recently, Fairey released a "limited edition" Barack Obama poster in which the starry eyed tricolor Senator is gazing into the distance whilst the word Progress is written across his chest and he appears to wear a lapel that is a mashup of the always mutable Obama logo and Andre the Giant. In the spirit of fairness, we've done a similar poster for Hillary Clinton which you can see and download after the jump.

Obama Gets the Only Endorsement That Really Counts
6:14 AM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Joshua Stein
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Isn't "Progress" stolen right out of John Edwards' manifesto? The cornerstone of Barry's policy platform is "Change". Please also amend HRC's to "Experience".
@marlonsays: Good point re:Experience. Changed.
@SteinJoshua: Did you call him Obama Barack on purpose?
@netmath: What are you talking about? That never happened!!! Edit to go live in 3...2...1....
@Joshua Stein: "Experience. Changed."
Wow, you progressed that quickly.
@Joshua Stein: I just realized! You're leaving London soon, aren't you? Could you do some little travel movies before you go?
Flattering art of Monica Lewinsky...is she running also?
@scarletmenace:
Of course she's running. Even as we type, Bill's running a smear campaign against her while Hillary's giving stump speeches elsewhere.
actually, the Barack poster is really excellent! can we buy it?
now, if only Edwards would drop out and endorse Obama...we would be getting somewhere!
If we're honoring supporters here, can we drop the bizarre Soviet-era poster art of Obama and put up a photo of Scarlett Johansson instead?
@mrveryhard: You can get one for a donation at the artist's website: [obeygiant.com]
Why is Dennis Kucinich in drag? And why is he using Hillary's campaign theme?
@mrveryhard: Done
The BBC is reporting that Edwards quit. Can we get a poster of him? That failing, one of Prince William?
@Michael Jahn: All that's missing is the olive drab topcoat and the matching Elmer Fudd hunting cap with the Red Star accent that everyone is wearing on Lenin's tomb during May Day festivities.
That's some graphic design! Retro-kitsch -- a more friendly Big Brother. I like it.
Good thing it's a "limited edition" collectible. Instead of reaching out to the general voting public by plastering it to every vacant square inch of flat space in the city, it will look very handsome framed in your SoHo or Williamsburg loft.
Is the series numbered?
Oh wait. Proceeds from the limited edition screen print go to a statewide postering campaign.
Snark withdrawn.
Man, Fairey sucks now. He just did some photoshop layering. This isn't even stenciled or brushed.
@weazel: How do you know it's not a photo-silkscreen (a la Warhol)?
I really like the thumbnail picture of Obama, it looks an early soviet media poster, so Fatherlandish, so thoughtful. Nice contrast and tone, almost a sepia finish. Keep up the good work down at the Wonkette factory.
Obama has refused to use any union labor for his campaign appearances. Stagehands have thus endorsed Hillary.
@weazel: Yeah - my cat could do that Photoshop if he had opposable thumbs.
This is a humiliating defeat for Obama, considering all of the campaigning he did in Florida. Oh, wait.
What's that button Obama's wearing? It looks like a sheriff's badge with a likeness of Yosemite Sam in it.
your screenprinting skills really need work, gawker.
@weazel: it's a limited edition screenprint, that's a lot more work than just some photoshop layering. quit yer hatin'.
I'm sorry, this guy does some great stuff, but THIS is way below par for him. Perhaps the Obamites wouldn't approve something better. Especially the red shading bugs me. The Hitlery is actually better.
I would submit that the Soviet style is rather the point...and I think its magnificently ironic.
Yet another one of those racist idiot Southerners! I mean, Fairey did grow up in Charleston, SC.
No, wait...
I wish Hillary would go back to wearing her hair like that.
@thegayrecluse: Hmm, you should have stopped at "I wish Hillary would go"
@mrveryhard: so do you think it is in support of obama or an attack on the american system of government, or both? and if both, who does the ironically serve, because i don't think it's obama.
i mean: @mrveryhard: and also: particularly as this is the type of imagery that has been used to call bush a tyrant.
ack, sorry, it appeared as @smartastic at first, sigh.
I can't wait for the Huckabee poster, which has him splayed with Chuck Norris coming into the frame to rescue him in a fusillade of assault rifle fire. It's the awesomist one of the bunch.
@Mediahohoho: "splayed on the cross..."
Damned cut and paste method.
bros before hos!!
@smartastic: its a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" rant....a commentary on the system as a whole. imagine it as a 100 foot tall banner hung on the front of the White House.
@mrveryhard: right, that's the irony side... oh, shit, i just realized that this wasn't paid for by obama's people. uh... yeah, sorry. it makes more sense now. i was confused as to why mr fairy was being hired by the man and the man's apparent lack of understanding of the irony here.
@The Real JR: Brothers before garden tools?
@The Real JR: That's pretty awesome!
@smartastic: so, in summary, quoting the immortal Emily Litella; "...never mind!"
It looks like Hillary has a stach. Is she going for the menopausal vote, the hermaphroditic vote, or the trans gender vote? I'm confused.
Oh my god! Barackobama is Tony Leung! Tell everyone! They're here! They're here!
@weazel: it is photosilk screen, it is numbered, it is good, it did take talent, and it is making him money,
don't be one of those that goes on about shepard or banksy or anyone selling out, sure they sold out, and not only do they deserve it, but they got there by getting a political message across in a medium usually reserved for shameless self promotion and bubble letters.
@Mediahohoho:
Who do you think gets the Ted Nugent endorsement?
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