"And Lo, His image rendered upon crushed velvet in the markets of Tijuana shall be the Sign that he is the One."

"It's a nice crossover between fine art and propaganda," says Alex W. Smith, a contemporary and urban art specialist for Phillips de Pury & Co., an auction house. "Obama is such an icon to the public already that would suggest that the work will be valuable no matter if he wins or loses. ... It's partially the hype of the times."

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P.S. Not for nothing but... we plugged "Obama Obey" into Google and had to sift through 8+ pages of the Obama-Hope and Obama-Progress icons before finding the one we wanted on page 9. One would've thought our pic, a popular Obama satire, would've popped-up quite a while before given the unsubtle nature of the search parameters. Interesting.