No Red States, No Blue States, Only Obama States [Updated]

    The Obama campaign at @BarackObama just tweeted the following:

    A lovely, bipartisan, can't-we-all-get-along, feel-good tweet, no?  However, clicking on the link takes you directly to the Barack Obama campaign web store and the following items:

That's right, no red states, no blue states.  In fact, no states at all!  Just the traditional blue field and white stars (what was Betsy Ross thinking, anyway?) replaced with the ubiquitous Obama O!  At least the red and white stripes are retained, although two of each are missing.  I wonder which of the four original colonies went for McCain in 2008?  Just when you think the Obama campaign has reached the peak of self-aggrandizement, it goes and demonstrates there are higher heights to climb.


UPDATE: By the way, the last time the campaign used this "No red states, no blue states, only the United States" slogan, they tweeted an image of the President superimposed over a map of the country. Apparently they thought better of it, because the photo disappeared from the tweet.  However, the image lives on, where else?  In the campaign store on a shirt!

You Say Potatoe, I Say Amercia

    Spelling holds a special place in American Presidential electoral politics.  The most infamous is, of course, Dan Quayle's 1992 misspelling of "potato" that earned him the top slot for spelling gaffes in a presidential campaign.  Earlier in the 2012 campaign, Republican Jon Huntsman's campaign misspelled their own candidate's name as "John." And now this week comes news that the Romney campaign struggled with the name of our country.  The Washington Post reports:

Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign misspelled the word “America” on its new iPhone app, and it’s already paying a price for it.
In the app, the phrase “A Better America” is misspelled “A Better Amercia.” The misspelling was picked up and tweeted widely Tuesday night, soon spawned a hashtag-driven Twitter meme in which people imagined just what Amercia stood for and what kind of policies Romney had planned for Amercia.

But if you think "Amercia" is bad, listen to this.  Mitt Romney supporter Donald Trump reported this week that President Obama's birth certificate misspells "Kenya" as "H-a-w-a-i-i"!