Obama Drops Faux-Presidential Seal

Advertising Age:

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.

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Comments

[booker52]

I thought it was over the top. Glad they dropped it.

[Tom95134]

I actually thought it was something put together as a joke by some guy with Photoshop and too much time on his hands. If this really came out of the Obama shop then whoever did it should be looking for a new job because the person obviously doesn't know the meaning of "in poor taste".

[SteveStephens]

I kind of liked it.

[gigi09]

I AM AN OBAMA supporter and I will vote for Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States of America! I did not like the seal...I knew the nay-sayers would run away with it. We have come a long way, and we can wait until we get the REAL SEAL in January 2009! Obama 08!

[jayburd]

Unfortunately, sometimes claims of liberal arrogance and elitism are well founded. This takes the idea of looking “presidential” off the frickin’ deep end. Thankfully, I’ve only seen it lampooned on the Daily Show. I don't watch Fox so Christ only knows what they're doing with it...

[2008thankyou]

If Obama is getting rid of his seal because it looks too much like the Presidential seal, why isn't McSame getting rid of the seal he has sported that looks almost identical to that of the US Navy's seal?

[mike53]

I heard the BHO campaign is working on a secret decoder ring now.

[Grunty1]

Once completed, it will translate B'ush's signing statements back into English.

[TrueBlueMajority]

Good. I like a campaign that responds quickly and can admit when a mistake has been made.

[GeorgeP922]

I love the seal!

And I love the sense of Patriotism Obama has brought, liberals for WAY WAY WAY too long have been afraid to admit just how damn patriotic they are.

[scorpioleidy]

I liked it, and I thought Barack should have kept it. This is a non-issue compared to everything else going on with our economy, the war in Iraq, etc.

[Georgianna]

Great!

[frustratedinohio]

It should be a red flag for all Obama supporters.

It's funny how with the Bush administration, they just did what they wanted and didn't offer any explanation. All we could do is suffer.

With Obama everyone rationalizes his behavior. Even the pundits do it. He really can do no wrong. For now.

[MickyD10]

I don't see anyone making a big deal out of Mccain's campaign button that reads "John McCain for President" printed around a graphic of the the real presidential seal. In fact MSM hasn't ever mentioned it that I know of. Rationalizing ones behaviour is one thing. Ignoring ones behavior as a means to avoid the possibility of tarnishing a public persona, as the MSM have done with McCain, is another.

[Grunty1]

B'ush would have gotten angry and started yelling about how he is America and can do damn well whatever he pleases.

Yeah, a ton of similiraties there....

[fflores]

Its funny how idiots are falling over themselves to make this a big deal when its such a non-story.... if you dopes are going crazy because the campaign put up a seal, how have you been reacting to Father Times constant flip=flips? his nearly constant mistakes with facts?

Geez, lets not let the issues get in the way of this election right?

[JackND]

I'm an Obama supporter, but the seal idea was very, very bad.

A hot mess, as it were.

[gwhizz]

If it's a non-story, why the lightning fast backpedaling?

[marymansour]

If the ultimate old white male candidate and former Vietnamese prisoner of war used that as his symbol - nothing would be said. We are still such an unfair country. We have miles to go on this issue.

[nuglet304]

"still" an unfair country? you say that as if that hellacious democratic primary didn't just happen. that was the pinnacle of unfair. but, i do see what you're saying.

[Truthmeter]

This just reaffirms his immaturity. This is something a junior high kid would do..it makes him look silly.

[Pogopaws]

Yes, it was silly. But more to the point, with the real problems facing this country and hinging on this election, why is anyone in MSM getting worked up over this? Where are the reports on McCain campaignn finance irregularities or his consistent flip-flops and idiotic energy policies?

[ApolloniaCreed]

From my vantage point, your statement makes you look silly... *shrugs* Much ado about nothing.

[naschkatze]

You think the sniper fire lie didn't make Clinton look silly? And McCain singing bomb-bomb-bomb? This was a minor thing someone thought up, Obama said it was silly himself, and now it's over.