Sir Walter Scott would wag his finger at The Geezer's cyber-theft of The Hopester's elegant homepage motif. According to the talking heads this week, the Obama Web site was key to his win and has been crucial to the The Hopester's candidacy. A search for The Hopester's Web "team" produced Scott Thomas of Chicago (where else?), the 28-year-old director of the SimpleScott Studio. Thomas attended both Iowa State University and the University of Oregon. Thomas is the Creative Director of New Media for the Obama campaign. So, I guess that makes Scott Thomas the marvel of his age as his Web design is described as key to the Obama phenomenon. And it makes The Geezer a pathetic wannabe. Get your own design, Geezer! It's over next to the Depends. If this (is & balanced) technological piracy, so be it.
[x The Huffington Post]
McCain Rips Off Obama's Slogan And Logo
By Sam Stein
Is John McCain trying to be the older, whiter, more conservative Barack Obama?
On Tuesday, the Senator co-opted the slogan that has come to personify Obama's candidacy, taking the Illinois Democrat's "Change You Can Believe In" and altering it into "A Leader You Can Believe In."
The line donned McCain's lime-green backdrop as he addressed supporters in Louisiana. During that speech, moreover, the Arizonan took his Obama-posing a step further, uttering the word "change" more than 30 times. Not that Obama can claim sole ownership of the word or idea, but still...
Now there is this. On Wednesday, the McCain campaign put out a new homepage, featuring his new, Obama-like slogan, and an image that seems uncannily similar to Obama's trademark campaign logo - the red and white stripped valley under what appears to be a blue sun (or in McCain's case, blue sun rays). Here's the old McCain Web site:
Now, take a look at the new McCain below the elegant Obama homepage.
McCain's seems to be positioning himself so that he is not caught, like Sen Hillary Clinton, simply ceding the mantle of change to Obama. But when the co-opting of images, logos, and slogans is this blatant, it could prove more embarrassing than advantageous.
[Sam Stein is a Political Reporter at the Huffington Post, based in Washington, D.C. Previously he has worked for Newsweek magazine, the New York Daily News and the investigative journalism group Center for Public Integrity. He has a masters from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.]
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