Apollo Braun Designs "Jews Against Obama" T-shirt

this NY Jew thinks that Doron Braunshtein is a schmuck.
and anyone who would pay $250 for a t-shirt, let alone a stupid one, deserves to loose their money.

shalom

oh these silly believers of fairy tales & religion make me laugh every time! can such a dumb ass really be considered a provocative artist?

what a fagala.

Doron... Apollo... whatever: STFU. Self-important schmucks like you give all the Jews a bad name. You're selling schmottas, and not very good ones, at that.

Great, another asshole giving the rest of us Jews a bad name.

Rather than judging a candidate's Jew-friendliness (whatever that means) by his middle name or the comments of his estranged pastor, why not some up some real criteria and see how he measures up.

Instead, just more racist, anti-Muslim nonsense.

A man whose middle name is Hussein. Apparently one can be guilty of being anti-Semitic, but not of being anti-Muslims (and still believe in equality and fairness?!). In great museums and galleries one day, I hope to see acknowledgement of great injustice done to thousands of innocent Muslims, whether by their own, or by others. It does not matter who. And where is the "design" in this design? The typography's crap. In one minute, I aim to forget this dude's name.

Idiot, and bad typography at that. What is this guy's problem?

On another note, I'm afraid I'm getting 2004 deja vu, when all of us New Yorkers were sooooo confident that Bush couldn't possibly be voted in for another four years, and all these stupid statistics about how Kerry was going to take it. Surprise! I never underestimate the fact that the rest of the country do not have the same political views that New Yorkers do, and our arrogance is often our own undoing.

$250.00 for a lousy t-shirt?

What an a-hole!

maybe he'll use the money to do something about that hideous mullet.

christ.

this racist bullshit makes me want to vote for obama despite the fact he stands, like all major-party presidential candidates, for the status quo.

Why are you giving this idiot fuckhead face time?

Is someone on the staff sucking his dick or something?

I wouldn't claim myself to be an artist...but I am happy with my first 'official' piece. Apollo decided he would switch t-shirts for the second round of his photo shoots and keep that same arrogant look on his face. Here was the second photo that they didn't show. http://www.flickr.com/photos/26506439@N04/

Truth in Decmocracy

I'm a Jew for Obama, and I know many, many others who are, too.

I don't think this racist, xenophobic hipster needs to be given a platform for his stupid t-shirts.

Actually, it was his Indonesian STEP father Lolo Soetoro that was Barack's Muslim influence, his Kenyan stepfather was an atheist. At least get your facts right. I happen to think that having that background is useful for engaging the Muslim world; a stark contrast to Bush's complete ignorance of the culture of that region. This guy is as big a hipster douche bag as all the retards on the street wearing Keffiyeh because they saw it in Vice magazine.

how does writting a few words in plain font warrant "design".

what a douche.

$250 for a t-shirt anyone could make for $15 or less?

Anyone who buys this should be driven out to the desert and left for coyote food.

Concerns about his middle name and his Muslim influence are invalid. I don't think concern about staying with an obviously radical preacher for 20 years and no one seeming to care now are, but unfortunately that valid concern got lost in the invalid one.

Is it me or Does he attempt to resemble the Zohan??

If he's so proud of his Jewish heritage why is his "artist" name taken from a Greek god?

@TreesForTheForest, maybe he named himself for Apollo Creed, who himself was quite the showman, wanting to beat an "Eye-talian" on the nation's holiday.

That shirt should cost $9 at Cafepress.

It appears there is a huge rift in the Liberal-Hipster-Blipster-Muppie-Yuppie-Trendoid-Articist political monolith. What is going on, whats with the big D's that always used to goose step together all the way to the DNC ??? Eating each others brains out ??? What a waste.

You know that the majority of jews would never vote for Obama, The majority of Mexicans would not vote for Obama. The majority of asians would never vote for Obama and proably half of whites would not vote for Obama. Obama's got 91% of the blind black vote and probably 70% of the idealist college kid vote and 55% of the white democratic vote. That's it. He's not going to win over midwesterners, or old people. Many minorities don't vote in primaries and they just come out during the general election. You will see a huge swell of minorities that are not black not voting for Obama come november. I'm voting for Obama just cause I'm following my democratic screed. but if he doesn't win, it'll be fucking funny how all these obama thumping people will be deflated. Democrats don't realize that Midwesterners will never vote for anyone except a white guy who is christian. If they found out jesus was black, they would become atheists. midwest republicans outweigh democrats 2 to 1. Why do you think the church is against abortion? it's cause they lose young impressionable children who will become a powerful voting bloc come november. It's simple math. The church says abortion is bad. Conservative christians don't use birth control. they have 2-4 kids. those kids turn into adult conservative christians who in turn have 2-4 kids. those numbers increase. Liberal democrats use birth control and have abortions. they divorce more easily. for every democrat you have living in a big city you have 4-8 republicans living in the rural counties. All the Liberals live in NY or California. they refuse to move to the midwest. so if you are a liberal living in NY your vote doesn't really count cause it's like adding water to a full reservoir already. it's pointless. If liberals really wanted Obama to win, they'd move to kansas and register there. but they don't. They just feed this bullshit about "progress" and preach to the choir.

man.... i hate days where i agree with babyhitler.

Do most Christians realize that Jesus wasn't Christian but Jewish? Also as a side note he was not Italian as some are led to believe.

Babyhitler might just be right - but I'm voting for the black with big ears because Paul Volker is advising him on the economy, which is good. And Ron Paul seems to like his foreign policy, which is also good.

Too bad Obama doesn't agree with Pat Buchanan on foreigners in this country - or I would feel very good supporting him.

You can insult this guy all you want, you know you're just feeding into his ego. The more plebeians (in his opinion) he pisses off, the better his thinks his "art" is.

I think I know what will really piss him off. I'm gonna go down to the T-Shirt shop, print up some shirts just like his and sell them for $7 directly outside his shop.

Ok, babyhitler, where does all this knowledge of the Midwest and minorities come from? I grew up in the midwest, went to college in the south, and now I live in NYC. While I agree that NYC and Cali liberals are a little too much their own asses, drinking espressos and agreeing with each others politics. But to think that its only people in those areas that will vote for Obama in the general election is false.

Remember in 2004, there were several states that Kerry just barely lost, by 3 or 4 percentage points. Some of those southern states have high black populations who are going to be much more motivated to turn out this time around to vote, now that they feel like they might actually be represented this time around.

All I have to say is, wait for the debates. Its going to be Nixon-JFK all over again. McCain looks very much his 72 years, mumbling and repeating himself when he goes off script, that against Obama's eloquence and youth, and you'll see a nice bump in Obama's numbers after the debates.

#49 - are you daft? that's a democratic primary. When you put Mccain in the mix versus Obama come november I guarantee 90% of those states will check McCain. The liberals weakness is that they can't see through republican eyes and thinks everyone should think like them just like the repubs. You have to think like a republican to win. For example, Conservatives hate gays but they love Clay Aiken who's fruitier than a fruit loop. Why is this? Cuase, he doesn't say he's gay. You've got to compensate for their illogic. You think the republicans in those states will vote for Obama cause their kids are dead in the war and they are jobless? they voted in Bush for a 2nd term and they'd cut off their noses to spite you, regardless.

A person makes enough comments and you're bound to agree with him at some point. babyhitler is that person and this is one of those days.

Guess I should play the lottery too, speaking of unlikely scenarios.

I have been unfortunately subjected to hearing and reading the illogic of many Midwesterners who are certainly representative of that area of the country. Obama could win if they stayed home. That's about as likely as Al Sharpton and Pat Buchanan deciding to get real jobs.

i wonder if his store is closed on saturdays since you know, hes a practicing, faithful jew.

People overestimate the number of Jews in the electorate. They're only around 2 percent of the population and they're mostly concentrated in blue states anyway like NY and CA. They could be a deciding swing vote in a state like Florida maybe.

Regardless, people are ready for change:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051201073.html?nav=hcmodule

Ihate? What if we kill all Muslims, blacks and Jews? That would get rid of the possibility of having problems in the future with Obama being president, wouldn't it?

$250 for that piece of crap shirt? Let alone the actual saying on it, but $250 for that shirt? My God, the man is delusional. Perhaps he owes his mom back rent on that basement apartment that's shown in the background. His mom is going to be so mad when she sees that he glued all that junk onto the walls.

$250 doesn't seem so exorbitant, considering prices designer t-shirts at Barneys. ;-) Moron Doron thinks he's arrived finally.

Jewish people will vote for Obamessiah in November anyway. Obama could announce he's going to herd all American Jews into camps and Jews would still vote for him because he's the Democrat candidate. Never mind, he got a near endorsement from a leader of Hamas (“We like Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election") & referred to Israel as "this constant wound, this constant sore, that does infect all of our foreign policy". (Any readers of The Atlantic here?)

He'll never be ready for prime time. Changiness & Hopitude will have to wait.

Does it come in other colors? I could use an XL in black with black lettering.

IHAB, twasn't obvious to me until I checked the link. No biggy, just put in italics, different font, quotes, someting. Keeps things clear, and helps folks avoid atrrib'ing good/bad stuff toward the poster.
And yeah, ain't it a kick in the butt that the election will likely be decided on the negative biases on the group people WON'T vote for?
Can't vote (partly) black, can't vote for anyone without a Y-chromosome, Can't vote if you don't like their pastor (or other theist conjuror/priest/rabbi/shaman/spirit advisor). And the vote, by default goes to:
The old guy who's pandering to everybody, has a Y-chrom, has no black blood, no possible Muslim ties, managed to get captured in a war.

Whew, It's just a bad American bias resulting in the likely vote for the non-negative bias. Maybe if Hil or OB did a stint on Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, or American Idol would people pay attention.

But like I said, what else have we got?

Dadoc

And I don't think an association with Bill C. (except for his recent strident BS) is a negative. I think we have all come to accept him as a kinda "Uncle Buck" character, kinda endearing, fulla faults, etc. But his wife IS THE ANTICHRIST. Just kidding, but she is an evil being, and is Armageddon in a pantssuit.

And c'mon, admit it. If you were in the big house, you wouldn't take a hummer from some beltway hussie?

"It's good to be the King"
Mel Brooks, from "History of the World"

Dadoc

and now the sites start rolling in - check out these AMAZING replicas

and the site that spawned it - an anti-anti-Obama site

i love it. you guys are chastising this guy for doing this, yet I bet most of you goofy liberals praised the guy who put elephant crap on a picture of the virgin mary and called it "art".

You're all pretty self-serving if ya ask me.

As for his political views...I gotta say, i agree with the guy.

Not so much about the Muslim thing, since Obama is not actually a Muslim.

But there's an old saying in Russian..."tell me who your friends are, and i'll tell you who you are."

This guy associated himself with a dude like Rev.Wright...not just associated but sat in the pews for over 20 years and was mentored by him. Has his kids baptized by him and married Obama and his wife.

I'm sorry...but as a Jew...that's scary to me.

and then this guy goes on to say that both Hamas and Hezbollah have "legitimate claims".

so basically...according to him, obliterating Israel (which is explicitly stated in the Hamas charter),is a legitimate claim.

He also wants to negotiate Jerusalem.

sorry...don't want a guy like that in the White House.

I can't understand why some of you native-born American Jews are blindly loyal to the Democratic party...no matter who's running for office.

this isn't the same Democratic party of the 60s, 70s or even 80s.

Get over it already. It's time to wake up.

A zionist is a racist movement just like any right religious nut, but he seems to be protected by AIPAC and other nuts that have no business in U.S. politics or this country.If they want to kill palestinians and act like fascists they shouldnt get 6 billion of welfare foreign policy money.This guy is no doubt an art student Israeli agent provateur.He needs to leave the country and GET out of our elections.Where do you think that 65 to 200 bucks goes to?? Building more illegal settlements in Palestinian land. He is a REAL racist

It's no wonder that I have not heard of this "artist" until I just happened to be surfing the net in search for t-shirts donning the Superman or Aquaman logo. I might very well pay a pretty penny for those but this guy; He's a complete joke. Thank God for countries where idiots are allowed a voice and the right to capitalize hand over fist. After all; idiots are people too and they are free to call themselves artists when in fact they are just slightly (and in this case I do mean slightly) creative capitalists. It's quite obvious how much conviction this moron has for his cause since he makes sure that his t-shirts are not accessible to "the masses" by charging a mere $250.00 for them. I doubt that anything he does is for "the people" and the sake of art. I am convinced even further that his convictions are motivated by the dwindling American dollars which he is forced to scrape into a mound in order to occupy such prime NYC Real Estate. He should have taken this "act" to London or Paris where his "bravery" might have been met quite easily with a swift kick to the head or the cracking of his pelvic bone. I would be more impressed if the proceeds from his comedy routine were granted to such a cause as "Simpletons For The Ethical Treatment Of Assholes" but not even that group would endorse his shinanigans. This is a clear display of a guy making a desperate effort to pay his rent in Manhattan's Lower east Side before he is evicted and his shop becomes a Mc Donalds or Starbucks Coffee shop. Apollo Braun (which is a very Jewish name by the way)is simply a fruad and a failed attempt at capturing any significant media attention (Google Chris Crocker...he's a lot more fun...younger, prettier, talented and more clever than this queer duck). The motivation that drives me to even leave this message is the same motivation that drives me into the "Rambles" late at night to be sucked off by self absorbed egoists (like this jester -Apollo Creed...I mean Apollo Braun) that secretly desire to bow before me and call me "big black daddy" until I shoot them in the eye with fiery man juice. In the words of the quite funny comedian Martin Lawrence I will say "Apollo Braun...You so crazy."

To #17 Yoplay, Nice try but if you're talking about Hagge, McCain was never a member of his church! So what do you idiot supporters of Obama think of him now!? Do support the communist style take over all the industries! Hugo Chevez said just recently that Obama is so left wing that he makes both Chevez himself and Castro look like conservatives!
Do you support Obama's recent claim that Iran has the right to nuclear power! Funny how Obama feels that way when it comes to Iran, but he doesn't think that the US is entitled to have nuclear power!!

To #78 DeepHauz, Amen!

To #80, your rantings about Israel sounds very racist to me! You don't even know what the word Zionist means so who are you to even give your opinion on it! An ignoramus like you has no business making comments on something that you don't know anything about! Palestinian land? Get Real idiot!

To West Side Michael, did you by any chance check out that really deep bow that Obama did for the Saudi king a few months ago?