Wearing out the ‘brand’
By Todd Domke | Thursday, July 10, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“… The candidate-as-brand idea demeans the candidates and the voters. As Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson said in 1956, ‘The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal . . . is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.’….”…BS
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The “Obama” brand has been getting alot of new slogans, none of them particularly positive:
“Nobama”
“Changeling we can believe in”
“Keep the ‘change'”
“O-same-a”
“Obamydeadbody”
I will be keeping a list.
Peace.
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