Everything New is Old Again?
John McCain - "I can't come up with any exciting new slogans, so I'm gonna rip off my opponent's":
Is John McCain trying to be the older, whiter, more conservative Barack Obama?
Yesterday he co-opted the slogan that has come to personify Obama's candidacy, taking the Illinois Democrat's "Change You Can Believe In" and altering it into "A Leader You Can Believe In."
The line donned McCain's horrible lime-green backdrop as he addressed supporters (Nobody named Katrina was allowed in) in Louisiana. During that speech, the feeble pretender to the Bush throne 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). Take a look.
Labels: John Mcain, Obama
posted by John Good @ 9:52 PM
2 Comments:
I saw it, too. Cheap. Cheap. Cheap. Senator Clinton's "Yes we will" (a clear take off of "Yes we can") and Senator McCain's "A leader we can believe in" (an homage to Senator Obama's "Change we can believe in") shows me that neither Clinton nor McCain could do much more than rehash--badly--what was already working.
Funny how both said that Senator Obama was little more than empty slogans. Funnier still given how much effort they went to to rip those slogans off.
Lalita - What more can one expect from "old school" politicians? Thank God progressives are back in control of our party!
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