Word: seal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...perhaps in another sign that the Democratic nominee leads a charmed political life, Obama's presidential seal gaffe was swept away by the news that one of John McCain's top aides had been quoted saying that a new terrorist attack on U.S. soil before the election "would be a big advantage to him." It didn't matter that Charlie Black, a veteran GOP strategist and Washington power broker, was merely expressing a bit of conventional wisdom about American politics - that voters prefer Republicans over Democrats in times of national security crisis. What mattered was that he made it sound...
...week did not begin auspiciously for either presidential candidate. On Monday, Barack Obama's normally sure-footed campaign suffered a rare, completely unnecessary embarrassment, when it had to retire the pseudo-presidential seal it had trotted out a few days earlier. The seal - complete with a Latin phrase for "Yes, we can" replacing "E Pluribus Unum" - was such a head-slapping example of gratuitous hubris that you had to wonder whether the opposition hadn't activated a mole inside the Obama campaign. It was an invitation to ridicule that Republicans happily accepted...
...Seal of Disapproval. The Obama camp's telling logo gaffe...
...event in Chicago for Democratic governors on June 20, the Obama campaign placed an official-looking seal on the candidate's lectern, clearly intended to resemble the Seal of the President of the U.S. In place of E PLURIBUS UNUM, it read VERO POSSUMUS, a rough Latin translation of Obama's slogan "Yes we can." Republicans, the media and even some Democrats slammed the move as uncomfortably presumptuous; a McCain spokesman called the gesture "laughable, ridiculous [and] preposterous...
Obama's campaign initially defended the placard but later declared the seal "a one-time thing for a one-time event." Whatever the original intent, it was a serious gaffe for an operation that has made miraculously few mistakes during a long, tough campaign. Political pros say the mistake is a reminder of how dumb even a smart campaign can be--reflecting a blindness to the danger that Obama can at times come off as too sure of himself...