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.
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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.
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Unlike Mr. Adams (August 6th comment) I found the exchange to have been refreshingly frank, and I am heartened by this evidence that the American public are not to be taken in by flash, arrogance and socialist platitudes. Regarding the perceptions of other nations, the concept of sovereignity is generally lost upon globalists. We should just proceed do what is right, and let them think what they may. I only hope that this forum is still available to us if the Democrats get into office and push for reimposition of the “Fairness” Doctrine and other restrictions which curtail free exchange of ideas. God bless the USA.
- Posted by Tolmie Erik WachterI am utterly amazed by the petty bickering and nonsense that you guys (well, not all of you, of course, but some of you above) engage in about this issue; and even more sadly, the way that you seem to think it normal to display such brutally childish and defensive, almost bitchy points of view about an election. It is a great shame for America that it is now, in the eyes of most of the developed world (not to mention a lot of the under-developed world) is regarded as a rather narrow-minded, nationalist, ignorant nation. It is those few, loud, catty, defensive voices that soil the reputation of the rest of the land, for they are the loudest and most whiny.
- Posted by John Cole AdamsVero Possumus doesn’t mean what Obama says it means. To replace this motto and to give him a new name, I would substitute the Latin phrase “Veto Possumus”, which means Veto the Possum. I would suggest The Possum as his new nickname. He has a grin resembling that of a Possum eating excrement. These young androids who are going to vote for him so that he can “change” things are going to have a rude awakening, similar to those who followed Hitler, and later found out that Germany suffered as a result.
- Posted by J. T. CooperVeto the Possum, or Veto Barack Oppossum!