"He may change everything ? "
Posted on 07/03/2008 9:40:20 AM PDT by george76
Last fall, Barack Obama explained why he hadn't been wearing an American flag pin on his lapel.
"I won't wear that pin on my chest," the presumptive Democratic nominee said. "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism."
What a difference a presidential campaign makes.
Obama, who suggested back then that the flag pin "became a substitute for I think true patriotism" after the Sept. 11 attacks, now regularly sports the patriotic symbol at campaign events.
He even briefly employed a campaign seal that looked a lot like the official presidential seal, the symbolism of which was hard to miss.
For a candidate who took an early stance against what he seemed to characterize as an empty symbolic gesture, the heavy use of symbolism in Obama's campaign has been particularly hard to ignore.
"All politicians, especially presidential candidates, traffic in symbols all the time," said Rutgers historian David Greenberg. "But Obama has given special care to his symbolic statements."
Image makers have long understood the importance of creating powerful symbolic associations for their candidates. A good photo of a politician gesturing confidently, a row of American flags behind him, can convey leadership ability and competence; a poor one, like the infamous shot of 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis in a tank, can have the opposite effect.
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Pffft. What a POS. Our troops are dead the way he’s cut and run from his pastor, his gram, etc., etc., etc.,
Obama talked in almost achingly intimate terms about the impact service had on him...
“Obama talked in almost achingly intimate terms about the impact service had on him...”
What service? Did I miss something?
He also claimed to have visited 57 states and...
BO would lie about anything.
Seems like he is claiming to have served ?
He also claimed to have visited 57 states and...
BO would lie about anything.
Seems like he is claiming to have served ?
Serving as a covert al Qaeda thug probably doesn’t count yet.
The makeover machine is so appropriate.
"He may change everything ? "
That must be a brave person.
I had a GWB sticker on my brand new Pick up truck and it was keyed shortly thereafter. It wasnt kids, but a concerted effort to damage my truck that caused $1500.00 damage.
The freedom of speech only applies to the left. The left is the REAL source of policial violence.
The odiousness of the American Left is only matched by their cowardice.
He pretended to be for it before he realized he was against it before he pretended to be for it.
Thanks geo. Great day, all, I got invited to a party, gotta dash.
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