Barack Obama, in an attempt to appeal to as many niche political groups as possible, has splintered his support so much that — in the end — there is no single coalition of minds that leads to results instead of mere yearning. Here is one of the lapel buttons for sale on his website:
Here’s the Obama button supporting Gay Pride.
Here’s the button for African Americans:
This “Asian Americans Pacific Islanders” button seems like an overdone, politically correct, joke — until you realize each button costs a serious $3.00USD:
If you’re Latino — here’s your button!
If you fought in a war, Obama has a button for you:
Female? Button? Youbetcha!
Independent? Not any longer… if you’re with Obama!
I don’t understand why one button can’t be used to unite all of us.
What’s the point in this splintering and “niching” of American political interests?
If you stand for everything — then you mean nothing — and all these buttons speak to a scatter-shot philosophy of uniting and that’s bad for America and really bad for Barack in November if we don’t all cast away out self-interested buttons in favor of a single semiotic.
Here’s my favorite Obama Button. It unites. It speaks to everyone in a single image:
precisely what Barack Obama needs to fix within himself before he can even begin to fix us as a nation.
Bring us together.
Don’t separate us by lapel semiotics.