Looks Like The Obama Campaign Laid An Egg

By way of the Ace we see this image hosted at the Obama website (I am not the most computer-savvy guy going, but I am satisfied this is no spoof.)

Coupled as it is with the Biden announcement, I can only infer that the Obamaites think they laid an egg (no dissent here).

I'll be saving a screen shot, you can bet.

PLAY AT HOME:  On the left below is my screenshot of the Obama/Biden screen.  Note the blue background to the left of "Your e:mail". 

When you are at the Obama website, right-click on that blue background, select "View Background Image", et voila - until they change it, they are laying an egg with this one.

I love these guys.

MORE:  OK, it is at least a couple of months old, so they have been planning to lay an egg for a while.

Comments

[Rick Ballard]

Obama is more than just waffles...

[PeterUK]

The central logo looks like the flag of some banana state.Crass.

[Rjgh]

Biden was for all Obama's foreign aid. He doubled and tripled the President's foreign aid budgets. He extended the debt out five years and authorized the second five yers of foreign aid funding.

Hearing two killers, oops.

Biden is for term limits and change and opportunity, really.

[RichatUF]

That image was discovered at LGF a few weeks back. Sort of creepy and pointless.

[FSW]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/nyregion/23bloomberg.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

[Porchlight]

IIRC it had been there for quite awhile before LGF picked it up. But I must admit I did not notice the laying-an-egg posture of the eagle. And why are we seeing the eagle in a 3/4 pose from the back? Very odd symbolism all around.

[Rick Ballard]

"Sort of creepy and pointless."

I agree, Rich. All the symbolism that I've seen to date from the Obama campaign fits into that description. I know that they're trying to generate buzz about the "new and different" approach Obama has taken but it's only new to the truly ignorant. To anyone with an understanding of the past it's all "Roosevelt, Stalin and Hitler meet Max Headroom".

[PeterUK]

The iconography of this is rather disturbing.
The O of Barrack Hussein Orgasm overshadows the symbols of nationhood which are faded into the background.The man has very serious ego problems

[VFD]

So, he's hired becasue Obama had a billion for Georgia and Biden did too? Obama is foreign aid money. Biden runs foreign aid. Why would Obama choose him unless it's the farm lobby price increase thing or the Fiji Shayes thing and all the ruined Australians and NZs 'cause Obama got mad.

Obama wants to write more foreign aid money checks and Biden will do this for him and we're already 100s of billions in debt over 5 or 10 years that foreign countries count as an entitlement.

Obama, like Clinton is buying his foreign policy. Of course they want him in office, he's cash. Biden has been writing the checks over the last few years that go us in all that debt, so he's wanted too. Yes, when Obama gets in we're cutting foreign aid because dems ran it up this last year tripling our debt. They have been doing this for 5 years now.

So, we will be cutting foreign aid to it's basics. I guess Americans finally figured out taking care of home comes first and paying a mortgage is important when 100s of billions goes overseas... hello there.

your families can enjoy their new friends.

[M. Simon]

No matter who wins the old white guy will be answering the phone at 3 AM.

[swift boater]

Joe Biden, Attack Dog.

Attack dog, but on who?

Thanks to Slow Joe (slow as in stupid-regardless of his own inflated opinion of himself) he made a McCain commercial.

All Big MaC has to do is make the commercial where Biden is saying how Obama is not ready to be President. Asked if he wanted to stand by that, he stated "YES"

Thanks Barry, you and Joe, two overblown egos perfect together!!

[kim]

Where the 'el' is that word?
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[BumperStickerist]

Slightly OT, but in Tom's wheelhouse.

The Left is making something/much of Biden being a regular guy based on his financial reportings that he has a net worth around $300K

My take is that the guy's been in the Senate for over 36 years with a salary that, for the sake of argument averages out to $125,000 - that's about $5,000,000 in earnings, with perks that most people don't enjoy.

I mean, jeesh, Joe ... if you'd put 3% of your take home in US Savings Bonds you'd've been better off.

Joe Biden: If He Can't Plan to Save for Himself, How Can He Save America?

[GMax]

He has a Senate pension that would be the envy of the UAW. Add that into his networth and you have a fairly rich man by regular Joe standards.

[Buford Gooch]

Well, is it the "Hope/Dope" ticket, or the "Change/Deranged" ticket?

[sbw]

Using the Hope-a-Dope strategy on McCain?

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Heh. just got an RNC email; here's a selection of the headlines.

* Biden Said Obama Is Not Ready To Serve As President.

** Biden: "Having Talking Points On Foreign Policy Doesn't Get You There."

* Biden Attacked Obama For Voting Against Funding U.S. Troops In Iraq And Afghanistan, Accusing Him Of "Cutting Off Support That Will Save The Lives Of Thousands Of American Troops."

* Biden On Obama's Leadership On Iraq: "I Don't Recall Hearing A Word From Barack About A Plan Or A Tactic."

* Biden On Whether He Would Meet Unconditionally With The Leaders Of Rogue States As Obama Said He Would: "Absolutely Positively No."

* Biden Attacked Obama's Public Pronouncement That He Would Unilaterally Attack Pakistan, Saying "The Last Thing You Want To Do Is Telegraph To The Folks In Pakistan That We're About To Violate Quote 'Their Sovereignty.'"

* Biden Criticized Obama's "Johnny-Come-Lately Position" On Afghanistan.

* Biden Said President Bush Should Have Followed John McCain's Foreign Policy Lead Following The September 11, 2001 Attacks.

* Biden Praised McCain's Early Call For More Troops In Iraq.

* In 2005, Biden Even Said He'd Be Honored To Run On The Same Ticket As John McCain.

* Biden Suggests That Dividing The Iraqi Population Will Bring Unity To The Region.

** Saudi Prince Turki Al-Faisal Said Biden's Plan Would Be "A Disaster."

* Biden's Issues With Exaggeration And Self-Discipline Have Marred His Credibility In The Past:

... and so on. (Anyone who wants a copy let me know.)

[ic]

Porchlight: Is that an eagle? I thought it was a dove. The message seems to be an eagle morphs into a dove.

[indga]

I think the creep factor is that in some way, it looks like it wants to look like the Islamic moon thing. Yes, I know the Islamic moon is a quarter moon, but this image bugs me because it is evocative of that.

[bc]

It's bluetifull. Hep me! Hep me! I been hypnotized!

[Porchlight]

ic, my goodness, you are right, it does look like a dove. I just assumed it was an eagle. There was an earlier incarnation on the Obama site (similar to what we saw on the Great Seal of Obama) that was pretty clearly an eagle. Jonah Goldberg pointed it out IIRC as being a throwback to the FDR Blue Eagle and its Fascist forebears.

[Joe Biden]

Howdy folks!

Greetings from Delaware, where you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent!

[Jane]

shouldn't you be on a plane headed for Lincoln country?

[Mike G in Corvallis]

Laying an egg? I don't think that's an egg ...

It reminds me of the "Nappien" commercial on The Simpsons.

[tonto]

check this twisted logic out,

JOHN HARWOOD: He is not somebody who is infused with political correctness, the verbal equivalent of putting his pinky up when he opens his mouth. So this is what, the way ordinary voters are as well. They’re not always worried about sort of calibrating every single word by “ooh, is this racially insensitive?” That’s something that Joe Biden brings as an asset to the ticket. The gaffes actually show one of his strengths.

Yea, thats what I thought when George Allen had his macaca moment. /sarcasm

[Ranger]

Ok, I'm not a specialist in hearldry, but arn't the images supposed to be facing the viewer? It looks to me like the bird is turning its back on the viewer.

[clarice]

Jane, My email to you was returned as undeliverable--I was asking you to use my yahoo address.

I am so excited for you.

You will be great.

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Hey, folks --- I wanted to let everyone know that I've set up something for the DNC. I've got a special email address 'askcharlieanything@gmail.com', set up. If you have **any** questions about what's going on in the DNC, especially if there are things you you don't understand, or things where you have some odd, off the wall question (like "how's the food?" except that one is already on my list), please send it on to me.

That's Ask Charlie Anything.

[Elliott]

Excellent, Charlie.

Are you going to any of the state delegation breakfasts?

[a72]

The second five year programs are like 100s of billions. The MCC programs are in their second five years too, and they're failing. The States that wanted the cash are having coups instead. So, the money has already been voted on by Congress for the last five years and the next five years. Why would Obama and Biden keep writing huge checks? They don't need to, they did under Bush and doubled and tripled his budgets. So, why do we need Obama and Biden, we don't.

McCain is going to win cause Obama and Biden are both going to have strokes or something cause they really already gave up the cash. The foreign aid programs have spent so much for so long that no one wants to write big checks. Foreign aid should be dropped. It's a waste of cash. We get nothing and they call it an entitlement. Free health care. Yes, people are going to get aids because of the money.

Record articles!!!

[MayBee]

from Political Punch:

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hasn't given a press availability in half a month, since the day before he left for his Hawaiian vacation.

He and his new running mate are currently giving an exclusive post-announcement interview to “People” magazine.

- jpt

heh heh heh

[MayBee]

tonto- John Harwood has also raved about Obama, when Obama told him he was definitely going to remove troops in Iraq immediately but was also going to go by conditions on the ground. He's a pragmatist! He said.

"Pragmatist" has become the favored Obama label these days. I do love a pragmatist, but saying everything about every situation doesn't qualify.

[David Conrad]

Oh my God! You discovered that the Obama campaign uses their official campaign logo as the background on many of their web pages!

What a stunning find! Brilliant!

[Charlie (Colorado)]

Are you going to any of the state delegation breakfasts?

Hadn't thought of it. Good idea.

Oh my God! You discovered that the Obama campaign uses their official campaign logo as the background on many of their web pages!

No, he realized it's goofy, and made fun of the official campaign logo.

[Jane]

Clarice,

I'm not getting any emails and I can't figure out why. I didn't get one from Hit either.

Thank you for the good wishes.

[CLARICE]

The mailer daemon sent it back to me,Jane..Now I'm seriously worried about Charlie being surrounded by all those goofy gals of the DNC.

[sbw]

Dear askcharlieanything,

Why is it that the blue-haired ladies at conventions end up wearing handfuls of garish and ugly rhinestone pins?

[VFD]

Change. The five year budgets are good until McCain is re-elected. Who needs dems?

North Carolina is a waste of money. Why did anyone spend any there?

[kim]

Mebbe 'cuz the odd one is real?
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[hit and run]

bummer. I didn't get anything bounced back saying the email didn't get there.

[hit and run]

oh, wait, I did get a bounce back message. it was in my spam folder.

[clarice]

The web is not the only place the Obamagraphics are weird:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmzI5VbqX3k

[MayBee]

Why is it that the blue-haired ladies at conventions end up wearing handfuls of garish and ugly rhinestone pins?

sbw-it is in deference to their patron Saint, Madeleine of Albright.

[PaulL]

My bet is that the People exclusive will highlight Obama and Biden's dazzling white teeth on its cover.

Is that the real reason why Biden was chosen?

[Publius]

It looks to me like the bird is turning its back on the viewer.

The campaign is subliminally telling America to "Kiss my a$$."

[Jane]

Hit,

I'm gonna send you an email from my google account. Can you resend it there?

[Porchlight]

Why is it that the blue-haired ladies at conventions end up wearing handfuls of garish and ugly rhinestone pins?

Hey now. I'm not a blue-haired old lady yet, but I have a thing for vintage rhinestones. Colored ones, though.

[clarice]

Jane, both the medusa and agincourt addys were returned by mailer daemon

[Porchlight]

It looks to me like the bird is turning its back on the viewer.

That's exactly what's strange about it.

The Obama design team and all its young sycophants may not see anything troubling about riffing on traditional symbolism, but there are some things you just don't mess with if you want to be respected and taken seriously.

[Elliott]

sbw-it is in deference to their patron Saint, Madeleine of Albright.

MayBee,

You are superb.