ALBUQUERQUE - Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is retiring a presidential seal that made its debut at a Chicago event last week.
“It was a one-time seal for a one-time use,” Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. The seal, which resembled the official presidential seal, had a picture of a bald eagle on it. A phrase inscribed above it read “Vero Possumus,” a Latin expression that roughly translates to the campaign’s slogan, “Yes, we can.”
The seal helped complete a presidential-looking setting as Obama sat at the head of a U-shaped table with Democratic governors in a stately hall of a Chicago museum. In addition to the seal on the podium, blue curtains adorned the backdrop along with a row of flags.
Our earlier blog post on the Obama seal posted on Friday prompted mixed reviews from readers. Some liked the seal and thought the Latin expression was clever. Others thought it conveyed a penchant for image over substance.
Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic.com said there were second thoughts about the blog at Obama’s campaign headquarters.
“The worry for Obama’s image managers is that it gives the press a pretext to call Obama arrogant, an example for them to add to a list of arrogant moments, and a way to distract them from what Obama is saying,” Ambinder wrote in his blog.
Photo credit: Reuters/Carlos Barria (Obama delivers speech)

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The Presidential seal only became a one time use when people became upset about your audicity. What did the seal, stage and and flags, not to mention the Greek God aacceptance stage with props cost your supporters? Some people sent ten dollars because that is all they could afford. You blew it on pomp, and a jet for you and 200 of your closest media friends to take a trip. I am one more Democrat voting for McCain.
- Posted by Lois PaytonQuote of the Day……..’My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.
– Barack Obama
Why if WE are the greatest nation do WE need to change it? (and like WE are going to have a say)
I think Obama is in it for himself
People are so lame, people seem to believe what ever they want to hear, and that is all. PEOPLE remember where our freedoms came from and remember that is the ONLY reason you are able to say half the crap you say, i’d love to see some of you go into anthoer country and run your mouth the way you do, and see what their leaders do to you.
Anyone who wants a narrow minded arrogant President obviously doesnt care about our countries future and let alone your families future.
Anyone who thinks this a none issue , must have no care for the USA
IN GOD WE STILL TRUST and taking GOD out of our country was the worst thing we could have done.
This quote below says so much, about where the USA has begun to fail, it because everyone WANTS THEIR NATURAL BORN RIGHTS when most werent NATURALLY born here, and everyone wants a say for what they want but forget that the WORLD is not about 1 person it is about all of us living together COMPROMISE is the key not CHANGE so the USA can be ONE WAY and suit 1 MAN.
‘In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.’
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
IT’S TIME TO PAY A LOT MORE ATTENTION TO WHAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE DOING TO OUR COUNTRY.
IN JUST ONE YEAR!
This email comes in three parts:
Part 1:
In just one year.
Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one year ago:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.
19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.
Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.
50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.
3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.
2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.
America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!
Remember it’s Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what’s handed to him.
Quote of the Day……..’My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.
‘
– Barack Obama
Part 2:
Taxes…Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
http://www. taxfoundation. org/publications/show/151. html
Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates
It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can’t wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don’t even know what happened.
PART 3:
You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?
Read this:
Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://…com/zob77
2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www. cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.
html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://www. cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.
html
4.
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at:http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 0. html
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium. cnn. com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt. 01. html
9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt. 01. html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
Verify at: http://transcripts. cnn. com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt. 01. html
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://…com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.
‘ Verify :http://www. nationalpolicyinstitute. org/pdf/deportation. pdf
13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www. rense. com/general75/niht. htm
14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.
Verify at: http://www. drdsk. com/articleshtml
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A Yr.
WOW people open your eyes ITS not about how you vote and what party your represent its ABOUT life for generations to come, HOPEFULLY people can get this through their thick skulls
- Posted by Jordan