Count down when ready! OK ... ... I run a significant Obama T-shirt and campaign button Web site ... www.ElectObamaStore.com. Well, crew, I want to make a boat load of "Obama Crew" T-shirts, Ringer T-shirts, sweatshirts and the list goes on. And, I'm not leaving out the coxswains (being one myself). I row a single and in a double with a pal. I just wish my WinTech wasn't made in China.
If we're all associated with the Obama effort, we're part of a winning crew. Don't you think? (don't throw me off the dock yet). So, as the summer becomes fall, crews all over the country should be wearing Obama Crew gear when out on the water doing those lovable drills -- or walking down the street looking for carbs after practice.
Let's get the word out to our fellow rowers at high schools, college and universities and the niffty community rowing clubs and associations all around the country to get them to buy Obama Crew gear to promote our guy.
Contact all the crews you know about the Obama Crew items at ElectObamaStore.com. There are just a few items there now ... ... but there will be enough to fill an eight in a week.
FINALLY -- Go team U.S.A. come this Sunday! The men's eight, men's double and the women's eight are going for the gold. What's more, the Chinese eight and quad was disqualified because the stroke didn't get the time right on the semi-final heat ... ... and was two hours late ... ... CRAB!
Anyway ... ... send this post or whatever to all the crews you know of. We're going to have a power twenty come the fall and we can't slide behind -- though McCain will try to be a floating log ready to ram.
As a person who has used too many video recorders since 1980 (VHS thank God), I have a major collection of more than 5,000 recordings of poltical programs, events and breaking news. Most of my recordings are from the Washington, D.C. region where I lived.
I have watched (and burned to DVD) with wonder the events of this campaign. I find that it's not until some time after I've made a recording, the news junkie that I am, that I understand the context the event had when it happened. It's puzzle piece in the larger historic picture.
Having ADD, I'm able to listen to a number of broadcasts at the same time and can instantly catch those little elements that seem to get overlooked byt the "professionals" and this is often frustrating.
I'd like to touch base with other newsies who watch and read the news as I do ... in a present day context and in the wider historic context.
The Barack Obama era is without question is heaven sent to us news junkies.
The Obama campaign design is one of the best in history.
Not since the 1972 re-election campaign of Richard Nixon, or the 1980 run of Ronald Reagan, has a presidential election identity been so flawless as the Barack Obama effort this year. What's more, the "look" of the Obama campaign was so imbedded for the primary season; this is exceptionally rare.
Usually primary season design of presidential campaigns are an afterthought. In our election history, it's not until the summer convention that "the look" appears that is carried thorugh to Election Day.
As a collector of American election buttons and posters since Abraham Lincoln, I've always wanted to design my own complement of campaign items. I started the www.ElectObamaStore.com site to show off the designs I've come up with. Many are for the Go Green efforts that are important today.
I've never designed t-shirts before, etc. But, it has given me a new perspective of American political visual design. I'll let you know what designs for Obama I've come up with that people like — and the ones that are not.
Thanks for reading ... ... much more to come.
