John McCain ripping off Obama campaign material
Does the image and slogan about look a little familiar? Thanks to African-American Political Pundit for hipping me to a Huffington Post article regarding McCain stealing Barack Obama’s steeze. Here’s what Sam Stein had to say:
- The line donned McCain’s lime-green backdrop as he addressed supporters in Louisiana. During that speech, moreover, the Arizonan took his Obama-posing a step further, uttering the word “change” more than 30 times. Not that Obama can claim sole ownership of the word or idea, but still…
- Now there is this. On Wednesday, the McCain campaign put out a new homepage, featuring his new, Obama-like slogan, and an image that seems uncannily similar to Obama’s trademark campaign logo – the red and white stripped valley under what appears to be a blue sun (or in McCain’s case, blue sun rays).
McCain’s seems to be positioning himself so that he is not caught, like Sen Hillary Clinton, simply ceding the mantle of change to Obama. But when the co-opting of images, logos, and slogans is this blatant, it could prove more embarrassing than advantageous.
As I said in a recent post, the Republicans don’t have any new ideas, and obviously can’t come up with a slogan for anything. Remember the last slogan we heard from the GOP was Change You Deserve. They came to find out the saying was already taken by an anti-depressant
And what about McCain’s idea of a League of Democracies? I guess NATO and the U.N. just don’t cut it anymore.
Is anyone else laughing or is it just me?
