Posted on 01/14/2011 7:12:15 AM PST by toma29
From AP:
Some question pep rally atmosphere at Obama speech
What was billed as a memorial for victims of the Arizona shooting rampage turned into a rollicking rally, leaving some conservative commentators wondering whether President Barack Obama's speech was a scripted political event. Not so, insisted the White House and host University of Arizona.
Not a political even in the least, they say.
The university said it did the planning with minimal input from the White House. The school paid for the event, including $60,000 for 20,000 T-shirts bearing the words "Together We Thrive," which were handed out for free. The money will not come student tuition, fees or tax dollars.
But where have we seen the slogan, "Together We Thrive" before? Why, only on Obama's own Organizing for America's website. In a February 11, 2008 post entitled "Together We Thrive", John Berry IV says this:
For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society. How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution. A chance for every group to participate and be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many. Together we can and will change the world and return America to the shining beacon of Hope and Prosperity that we were and that we can be again. Only when we work together do we accomplish feats that rival any ever accomplished in the history of mankind. Diversity is our strength, that is what this campaign brings us a promise of. For many this is a scary prospect and thought, getting to know someone different from myself. We all want the same basic things for example a safe place to live, health and a quality education for our kids.
In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!
Minimal input from the White House my eye.
As seen on Free Republic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2656595/posts
According to linkedin, the company that printed the shirts (Youth movement) has only been in business since 2010 and has 11 to 50 employees.
ping!
How did they design and print $60,000 worth of T-shirts that fast?
Who appropriated the funds, called the vendor, got a design, approved the design, printed 20,000 copies and distributed them in 3 days
If America buys Obama’s BS next time around then the country will get exactly what it deserves. More’s the pity.
I’m sorry, Youth Monument is the name of the company that printed the shirts. Youth Movement placed the shirts.
Registered October 21, 2010. Probably established to supply T-Shirts for 2012 campaign.
I’m sure the U of A always gives large emergency orders to out of state companies with 70 days of operation under their belt.
...or maybe, just maybe, the Obama camp made that phone call.
We knew that this was going to be another Bund rally.That’s
we watched the Good Earth on TCM,instead.
Youth Monument? That doesn’t sound like a left wing golden calf, does it?
This event was all about The One, planned, orchestrated, and a kick off for The One’s 2012 campaign. Can anything be more reprehensible and disgusting? No, in my opinion.
The Rally in Arizona is proof positive that the Left and the MSM think we’re all stupid. Everything these vermin do is proof positive that they didn’t hear the American people on November 2nd. The grieving families in Arizona, in my opinion, were used as props.
According to Sean Hannity it was just an Irish wake.
Every thing about this phony is orchestrated. They chose a college campus because that is obama friendly territory. NO company or organization could have placed all those shirts in the rally without permission of the secret service. You bet it was disgusting, but what about this person isn’t? If I had been a family member or friend of one of the deceased, I would have walked out pronto.
Pretty sick when they turn a funeral of innocent victims into a campaign rally for a phony president. And then claim that Sarah Palin interjected herself into the situation.
I used to work for MCM group (Midwest college marketing) which is a considerably larger company that does the same sort of thing. That would be a pretty fair sized job, let alone one that would need to be done within a 72 hour period.
The logistics of getting everything from design to placement of the shirts would be a nightmare to do within 3 days.
In my opinion the shirts were already printed and the “memorial” was used as a kick off event for a new slogan.
Interesting that no one has the guts to publicly state the obvious! Spine, guts, and cajones are in short supply in this country including the reporters at Fox News.
Has anyone heard the truth behind the Tee Shirts being reported?
“In my opinion the shirts were already printed and the “memorial” was used as a kick off event for a new slogan”
Very possible.
BTW, Tucson has an Event Center. There were no events scheduled last Wednesday. Why not use that venue? What connection to the University of Arizona made it the arena of choice? Did they choose it, purely to fill the hall with college students?
NO!
Think about the logistics of coming up with the t-shirts from scratch and getting them placed on the chairs inside of 3 days.
Somebody has to come up with a slogan and a logo, they need to be approved. Then someone has to print the decals for pressing on or screens for screen printing. The shirts need to be ready for the logo. The job needs to be done along with quality control, set up, down time etc.
I’m minimizing what goes into something like this and I just can’t see this tiny new company pulling it off.
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