Sealed with diss for democracy
Watching Barack Obama delivering a campaign speech from behind his very own, new-and-improved presidential seal, all I can say is this:
I, for one, welcome our new liberal overlords.
Oh, come on, my fellow conservatives - don’t you read Newsweek? Aren’t you watching PBS? Obama has a 15 percent lead, has flip-flopped on campaign spending and therefore is president in all but name only. Any day now, he’ll be spotted in D.C. with Deval Patrick, picking out new White House drapes.
So we all might as well get with the mainstream media program and bow to the new regime of hope, change and insufferable arrogance - no, wait! I meant “American greatness!”
Please don’t hurt me, presumptive President Obama.
I’m not one of the people complaining that having your own presidential seal at this point is a bit arrogant. It’s that traitor to the new regime, Mickey Kaus over at slate.com:
“If you wanted to emphasize to voters that the Democrats’ nominee is a bit stuck up, it would be hard to do better. I suppose he could start requiring reporters to stand when he enters the room.”
I, for one, like the New Seal of the Obama-dency. It’s so much more hip and avant-garde than that old, patriotic thing. The shield of stars and stripes representing the USA? Gone. Replaced by the royal “O,” and an image of the rising sun, symbolizing, uh, imperial Japan, maybe? I’m not really sure.
And changing that tired old “E Pluribus Unum” was a masterstroke. On the Obama seal, the motto is “Vero Possumus,” which loosely translates to either “Yes, We Can” or “Let Them Eat Possum” (an appeal to disaffected voters in West Virginia).
cw-4Regardless, millions of Obamaniacs are ready for Barack to be president, and they want it right now. They don’t see the point of all this “will of the people” nonsense. “Why do we have to listen to the stupid Constitution, anyway?” they wonder. “Why can’t we do wh