It turns out the lineage of the official Obamunist salute goes back further than the astro-hippies on Star Trek.
Here’s the Obamaniac “Sign of Progress”:
…and here’s a photo from the history books…
The German Propaganda Archive provides this caption:
The hands of the Führer organize his speech. This picture captures Hitler’s hands as he speaks of the unity of the National Socialist and socialist ideas.
I thought the idea of the salute was to make a zero, summing up the emptiness of the Obamania phenomenon. But maybe it represents the circle that race-obsessed, socialist progressives go round and round in, decade after decade, without making any progress.
Hat tip: IOpian View; on a tip from nanc. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.