Pepsi Ad Campaign: Obama Will 'Refresh Our Nation'

CNS News.com ^ | Matt Hadro

[jmcenanly]

Pepsi is running a new advertising campaign that keys into the upcoming inauguration – one that features a re-designed corporate logo that mimics the distinctive Obama “O” campaign logo, and refers to the president-elect as “the man who is about to refresh our nation.”
PepsiCo’s Web site -- RefreshEverything.com -- features an application allowing anyone to send a video message to the president-elect. The feature’s explanation reads, “Help us refresh America.”

[jmcenanly]

This has got to be the most saccharine promotion I have ever seen, It leaves a bad taste in the mouth. This presidency is going flat before the inauguration.
I can only hope that the Republicans can field 'The Real thing' in 2012

[FreeAtlanta]

Pour your pepsi into the Boston Harbor!

[manc]

there is a dangerous cult out there and just wait till he gets his national security force in place of which he wants to rival our military
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s

[wk4bush2004]

I don’t drink Pepsi, but my dad does. I’m going to have to convince him to boycott Pepsi.

[Red in Blue PA]

Note to self: Cross Pepsi off of grocery list.

[mmichaels1970]

Switching to Coke.

[Tarpon]

Jim Jones syndrome.

[MetaThought]

I’m never going to drink pepsi again.

Oh, wait. I don’t drink any soda. Damn.

[NoKoolAidforMe]

Pepsi has taken a drastic turn left over the years. They celebrate gay pride month in their corporate headquarters much to the disgust of their employees.

[ArrogantBustard]

I have a few cans of Pepsi at home ... looks like I'll have to take them to the rifle range ...

Too bad nobody but Pepsico makes anything like "Mt. Dew" ...

[A_Former_Democrat]

I’ve seen the banner on my team’s Rivals site and I was at a loss for words when I realized what it was about.

I’m done with Pepsi and with good riddance. A decades long Diet Pepsi habit isn’t good for me anyway.

Screw these busters. What a terrible business decision this is. Don’t these idiots realize no one’s going to drink Pepsi because of this crap but people like me will boycott their products from now on?

PS . . maybe they’re aligning for a bailout.

[theDentist]

The ONLY time I drink Pepsi is when I get Pizza, which I haven't had since last summer. Now I'll have to switch to a non-PepsiCo beverage... or just stick with Beer.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

I used to drink diet coke & then switched to diet poopsi
and that was a while ago.
I WILL NEVER BUY ANY POOPSI PRODUCTS AGAIN

this is more than a overt form of brainwashing,beyond kool-aid

NEVER BUY POOPSI AGAIN !

I’ll drink something but it won’t be that crap

[ArrogantBustard]

The "Choice of a New Generation" ad campaign was nauseating. I just ignored it.

This ????.

To Hell with them.

[astounded]

Never drink Pepsi, but now have to eliminate all PepsiCo products. There are a lot of them, too...

I also have to dump U2 from my iPod, and ban Will Smith Denzel Washington, and on ad nauseum, movies from the house.

[Nea Wood]

I guess Pepsi doesn’t want Republican customers. Somehow, our money doesn’t seem to be as good or as valid as libs’ money. At least, all the companies, movie stars, etc. seem to think so.

[steve-b]

It seems a bit foolish to offend not-quite-half of the potential customers.

[ETL]

Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[the_Watchman]

Unfortunately, the advertising companies are based out of New York. These folks have no clue that many of us lost sleep for weeks after the election.

FR should maintain a list of companies which try to jump on the “O” bandwagon so that we can boycott.

Was I dreaming, or did Oregon football start featuring the “O” as special this year. It could be that it just caught my attention, but I do not remember that nonsense from the past.