Posted on 06/23/2008 2:02:00 PM PDT by kingattax
Last week, Barack Obama unveiled a new campaign seal -- and not the kind that swims, barks and balances balls on the end of its nose. Rather, it was the kind that has a big old eagle on it and some Latin (Vero possumus, which translates very loosely to "Yes we can").
It's also a seal that combined elements of Richard Nixon's White House police uniforms and George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished." And it went over about as well. Andrew Malcolm at the L.A. Times had some fun with it. And Mickey Kaus predicted it would be disappeared over the weekend. His exact words were: "But unless David Axelrod is insane, the thing will never be seen again." Kaus was right.
While we don't have full details, someone at Obama's press center, when asked if the seal would be used going forward said simply, "No." There were still a number of vaguely presidential-seal screensavers available at the Obama website, though.
(I'll update this post if anyone from Team Obama calls me back with further details. ...Marc Ambinder's hearing the same thing, by the way.)
Will this hurt the campaign? I find that highly unlikely. The Obama camp responded quickly and it's 133 days away from the election.
Photo Credit: Alex Brandon
any and all apply to osama obama
I forwarded to my email contacts over the weekend after seeing it on Yahoo. I’m sure it’s making the rounds as I type this.
Now if he would just show a real birth certificate.
Considering how soon he ended up in Kenya, it is NOT an unreasonable response.
This Affirmative Action, racist, communist and closet Muslim stumbles and changes direction more than a drunken sailor on leave amongst the whore houses in the Philippines!
When will folks WAKE UP and believe their lying eyes?
Oops, “REQUEST”. Not an unreasonable request.
dan rather swears that birth certificate is genuine
This faux POTUS sign is a "tell" about what Obama really thinks about the American people, the power he wants to acquire and his regard for the American political tradition. That sign smacks of soviet style propaganda
The fact he even displayed this ONE time is very revealing about his campaign and the level of propaganda he is willing to throw out to see what sticks.
“Obama Blows Seal.”
I get where you’re going, but it isn’t UN blue. UN blue is lighter, a powder blue. If you’ve seen it before, you will ALWAYS recognized it again.
Vero possumus, which translates very loosely to “Truly, I am a Possum”
I love how email multiplies like rabbits!
They did the seal wrong.
The Eagle should be clutching a bunch of straws, which is what an Obama Administration would be grasping at during its first foreign policy crisis.
Come on now.
They gots to do some thing to make the Obamma Lamma Ding Dong look presidential and not like a “Magic Negro”.
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He reminds me of a ventriloquist dummy with a bunch of hands up its puppet chute.
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