Ah, the ARROGANCE ! He's already president, see! He's decided to skip the job interview and figures to even question him is to be a racist hack. "Vero Possumus"? They put "Yes, we can" into latin - actually it sounds like "Velcro Possum" and yes we've had our Teflon President, BUT THIS MAN IS A VELCRO POSSUM!
The Hype and Chains candidate will be the Velcro Possum from here on out, the arrogant elitist flip-flopping leftwing inexperienced junior Senator with bad judgement and a dishonest campaign.
Pejman Yousefzadeh opines:
Consider me officially gobsmacked. Bear in mind that all of this means (a) someone proposed this idea to the top levels of the Obama campaign, (b) the top levels of the Obama campaign agreed that it was a good idea, (c) the candidate himself may have had a hand in designing and
tweaking the logo, (d) someone with a knowledge of Latin was sought out in order to translate "Yes, We Can" into the language of the Caesars (repeat that last bit to yourself a time or two to grasp the full significance of how important this matter apparently was to the Obama campaign) and (e) there was no one in the campaign who perhaps nervously cleared his or her throat and piped up with the words "um . . . folks, given all of our concerns about the Imperial Presidency, as articulated during the Bush-Cheney Administration, doesn't anyone else think that it might be . . . er . . . well . . . a little hypocritical for us to be doing this kind of thing?"
What Barack Obama could learn from King Canute has already been noted, but not only has the Obama campaign refused to take note of Canute's modesty, they have transcended their earlier acts of grandiosity (the waters are really going to stop rising because Barack Obama won the Democratic Presidential nomination?) with an act that reveals just how much the Obama campaign resembles a cult of personality. ...
Relatedly, John McCormack notes that technically, the Davids Axelrod and Plouffe may be risking a stiff fine or a prison sentence. Of course, this will never happen but I can easily find that the Obama campaign has "reproduce[d]" a "likeness of the seals of the President or Vice President, or any substantial part thereof" for a purpose not pertaining to "the official use of the Government of the United States."
UPDATE: Found here - NYT blog: "The country is now known as the United States of Obamerica. " The Obamedia will make sure we know how to worship the new Obamessiah.
UPDATE: It's against the law:
18 USC 713: Use of likenesses of the great seal of the United States, the seals of the President and Vice President, the seal of the United States Senate, the seal of the United States House of Representatives, and the seal of the United States Congress.
UPDATE: NextRight commentater says vero possumus looks like "ZERO POSSIBILITIES" Riverdaughter comment says: "I think Vero Possumus, loosely translated, means “lipstick on a possum”
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got this from the LA Times - "The possum speaks truthily."
And it's got olive branches, which stand for peace, which we haven't really had since 9/11 but DailyKos promises will come as soon as we shoo out Bush and Cheney.
The seal's also got a terrifically impressive motto in Latin -- "Vero Possumus" -- which means "The possum speaks truthily."
No, just kidding. It actually means "Truly we're able," which translates as "Si se puede," which translates as "Yes, we can." Obama is clearly copying George W. Bush's Texas gubernatorial reelection motto from 1998.
Plus it's got Obama's website right up there too. Lord knows, he needs more donations because the poor White Sox fan from Chicago's impoverished South Side has only raised a little under $290 million so far.
As chronicled by our colleagues over at the Swamp, some folks figure he'll top a half-billion dollars before election day, now that he's scrapped his promise to take public funds, this year a measly $84 million to spend between Labor Day and Nov. 4. Public money was good enough for every other presidential candidate for the last three decades. But how could any serious candidate possibly get along on only $1.3 million a day?
During the Democratic primary voting, a lot of folks were fooled into thinking Obama agreed with public funds when he signed a pledge last fall to use them and told constitutents before that, "If we're still getting financed primarily from individual contributions, those with the most money are still going to have the most influence."
As Jill Zuckman notes in the Swamp, the John McCain camp is using Obama's own phrase -- "Don't tell me words don't matter" -- to skewer the Illinois senator on his finance reversal.
An improvement to the logo has been made:
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