Pompous Ass

[R.R.]

Here is Obama's presidential seal.



Don't even have an election. This guy is entitled to the office.

[Xavier_Onassis]

What the Hell is your point?

[R.R.]

What the Hell is your point?

Isn't it "obvious"?

Obama is an arrogant jackass. He looked like a damn fool holding a press conference behind that seal. Just because he has a fawning press doesn't make him the president. He has to get elected first, and I doubt he can beat McCain.

[Michael Tee]

Obviously a campaign seal, not a Presidential seal.

[R.R.]

Obviously a campaign seal, not a Presidential seal.

I bet we never see it again. It is this type of arrogance that is going to prevent Obama from standing behind the real presidential seal.

[Plane]

CHICAGO - Barack Obama?s presidential campaign rolled out a new slogan on Friday: ?Vero Possumus.?

The Latin phrase roughly translates to his main campaign mantra, ?Yes, we can.?

The words made their debut on a seal on the Democratic White House hopeful?s podium as he met with governors from his party in Chicago. The seal resembled the official presidential seal, complete with a picture of the American eagle with ?Vero Possumus? inscribed above it.

It helped complete a presidential-looking setting for Obama?s meeting with the governors. In addition to the seal were a row of American flags lined up behind Obama and long blue curtains that also adorned the backdrop of the roundtable meeting.

Click here for more Reuters 2008 campaign coverage.

Photo: Reuters/Jim Bourg - Barack Obama at a news conference after meeting his foreign policy advisory panel at a hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2008.

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/06/20/obama-gets-a-new-latin-slogan-vero-possumus/

[Xavier_Onassis]

Should we make it illegal for a presidential candidate to speak at a podium embellished with any sort of seal, so as to assuage the delicate sensibilities of Republican diehards?

I suppose you imagine that Michelle and Barak and the girls all got together, got out their Crayolas?, and all hunkered down at the kitchen table and made this seal just to annoy you.

Should Americans vote against a candidate for president because (gasp!) he has the audacity to want the job, and demonstrates this shamelessly by making a campaign seal? Is that what you're saying, Bunkie?

[BT]

Is Obama's new faux-presidential, alternative-reality seal his "Mission Accomplished"? 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. ... The seal probably started out as a bit of fun. But unless David Axelrod is insane, the thing will never be seen again.

Mickey Kaus is hardly a die hard Republican and he thinks the use of the seal was ridiculous.

http://www.slate.com/id/2193674/#sealgate

[Xavier_Onassis]

This is a very silly issue, if indeed it is an issue at all. If he loses the seal or keeps it, so what?


I am thinking that Mickey Kaus's parents perhaps were not thinking too clearly about naming their son "Michael", with perhaps no thought that he might later be referred to as "Mickey Kaus", and thereby be taken less seriously. 

[BT]

I am thinking that Mickey Kaus's parents perhaps were not thinking too clearly about naming their son "Michael", with perhaps no thought that he might later be referred to as "Mickey Kaus", and thereby be taken less seriously.

Hmmm. Is it the name Mickey or is it Kaus that is the subject of your derision?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Hmmm. Is it the name Mickey or is it Kaus that is the subject of your derision?

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There are names that go together, and others that do not.

Others are simply humorous. Xavier Onassis, for example.
Iwana Mann, I.P. Freeley, Jack Cass, Laura Lynn Hardy, Jack Goff, May Ann Naze

Mickey Kaus is, well, Mickey-Mouse.

[Plane]

    I don't think this is a big issue , but it is a fun one .

    Do Barak Obama or his adoring followers feel as if the Contest should be over now?

    Should any criticism of the canadate be construed as reactionary racism and any challenge to the Senators claim on the presidency be abandoned?

    This is supposed to be a contest and a chance for people to get to know the canadates , can we learn something usefull from the "vera possimus" seal?

[Xavier_Onassis]

This is supposed to be a contest and a chance for people to get to know the canadates , can we learn something usefull from the "vera possimus" seal?

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If you look VERY CLOSELY, you might learn that "vero possimus" means 'Yes we can".
It's vero,  not vera, by the way.

The verbal ending -mus in Latin means "we". Vero is related to such words as very, verily, veritable, verify, and verification. It is related to the word veritas, which means "truth" in Latin.

Other information would be that you would learn Obama's website address, and that he is running for president.

A bright person might conclude that he has at least one opponent, hence the need for an election.
Note the color blue is used throughout. This might also mean something to some Americans.

[Plane]

Note the color blue is used throughout. This might also mean something to some Americans.

He isn't going to try to be a uniter , good enough to please the base?


Chooseing a slogan and a symbol is portentious ,and this one seems presumptuous.


Not fatally so but good enough for a chuckle.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Chooseing a slogan and a symbol is portentious ,and this one seems presumptuous.


Not fatally so but good enough for a chuckle.


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Portentious?  Presumptuous? How would that apply? Should a presidential candidate refrain from all foreign languages, then?



Is the slogan on a dollar bill either of these? It is in Latin, after all.

Do you have any thoughts about what sort of slogan or symbol might be 'fatal'?

I am reminded of the "killer joke" skit Monty Python did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3zCQzZx68