They didn’t “collide”. He usurped it.
The Obama campaign didn’t usurp it, they distorted it and demeaned it, turning it into something all together different, where the strength and vigilance of the eagle is turning tail and taking flight, the olive branches are dropped and the flag or bunting, looks to be hurried gathered behind the Obama seal, where it can hardly be seen. Oh, and it is not the bald eagle, with a white head, that we are accustomed to seeing, maybe a golden eagle with a smaller head, but that is no bald eagle.
Aw,oh, I should have looked at the thread. Obama changed the seal, again. This one bears no resemblance to the one that is used as wall-paper on his web site.
I’ll have to take another look.