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<\/p>\nI could make Barack Obama jokes all day. Like this: “Bill Clinton might have been the America’s first black president, but Barack Obama is the nation’s first black Kennedy.” From this you should not surmise that I am for<\/i> John McCain. I find all three of our current maladies to be just about equally repellent.<\/p>\n
But: I did hit upon an idea for a universal Barack Obama bumper sticker.<\/p>\n
Writing a workable bumper sticker is the hardest copywriting job there is. Writing at my voluminous length is easy. All you need are ideas and a vocabulary. Writing poetry is hard, because that economy of words is hard. Writing a matchbook or a billboard is even harder.<\/p>\n
Here is my best-ever matchbook:<\/p>\n
“Save the world from home in your spare time!”<\/b><\/p>\n
But a bumper sticker… That’s a real<\/i> writing challenge…<\/p>\n
It’s almost typographic iconography: The message has to be brief enough to be big, short enough to be readable in a glance, and yet it must convey a virtual book’s<\/i> worth of message. Very rare to see it done well.<\/p>\n
And I make no claim for this bumper sticker except that it is universal. Whether you are for Barack Obama or against him, you can display this bumper sticker with pride:<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If someone wants to pony up the dough for printing — heavy vinyl and UV inks, please — I’ll provide a PDF file. ObamaNation.com is already owned, alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I could make Barack Obama jokes all day. Like this: “Bill Clinton might have been the America’s first black president, but Barack Obama is the nation’s first black Kennedy.” From this you should not surmise that I am for John McCain. I find all three of our current maladies to be just about equally repellent. 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