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.
But: I did hit upon an idea for a universal Barack Obama bumper sticker.
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.
Here is my best-ever matchbook:
“Save the world from home in your spare time!”
But a bumper sticker… That’s a real writing challenge…
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 worth of message. Very rare to see it done well.
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:
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.
Russell Shaw says:
LOL !!
March 15, 2008 — 1:06 am
Doug Quance says:
How concise.
😆
March 15, 2008 — 8:12 am
Robert Kerr says:
It’s Barack, not Barrick.
Am I missing a joke with that typo …?
March 15, 2008 — 1:52 pm
Greg Swann says:
My mistake. Fixed now.
March 15, 2008 — 2:04 pm