Tuesday, June 24, 2008

There won’t be much political blogging here as we lead up to the election. I’m tired of the elevation of the Obama cult. I’m not thrilled with the GOP nominee. It’s a complete mess and I’m very tired of it all.

However, the story of Obama’s faux presidential seal brouhaha is too rich to leave alone. I first thought it had to be some parody by a blogger online, but it turns out to be some nitwit idea by someone in the Obama campaign. How completely arrogant - I wonder if they were planning to make it the real Presidential seal after his coronation in November.

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - After days of media mockery, Barack Obama has decided to stop using a presidential-looking seal that his campaign designed and affixed to his podium on Friday.

Journalists said the seal, which features an eagle clutching arrows and an olive branch, smacks of arrogance. John McCain’s camp had a field day, calling the seal “laughable, ridiculous, preposterous and revealing - all at the same time.”

The seal was conspicuously missing from Obama’s lectern when he spoke to a group of women in Albuquerque on Monday. Not surprising, given how much grief Obama took from a normally laudatory press corps after unveiling the seal at an appearance in Chicago on Friday.

There follows quotes that I would never have expected to see from members of the media who did all that they could to ensure that Obama is the left’s nominee. My favorite is the Quote of the Day:

“The Audacity of Hype,” cracked ABC’s Jake Tapper. “No word on whether they played a remix of ‘Hail to the Chief’ as Obama walked in.”

Ha!

Amazingly, it was the media reaction that caused the campaign to dump the seal. I wonder how the campaign would have reacted if the media hadn’t said anything about it?