It Has Begun… School Supplies Now Distributed With Obama Logo
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 5:06 AM
Missouri parents were upset to see “Change We Can Believe In” notebooks and pencils distributed at the elementary schools.
The distribution company Pencil Wholesale says the design was “a total accident.”
Yeah, right.
Missouri parents and teachers were outraged after discovering that “Obama notebooks and pencils” were being distributed at Columbia schools.
The Columbia Daily Tribune reported:
Pencils and notebooks resembling President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign ads have been sold in at least one Columbia school and other public schools, causing the company that distributes the materials to travel around the state yanking the supplies out of machines.
“Don’t be mad at us,” said Greg Jones, a sales representative with Pencil Wholesale. “It was a total accident.”
Pencil Wholesale distributes supplies to six Columbia schools: Parkade Elementary, Cedar Ridge Elementary, Paxton Keeley Elementary, Mill Creek Elementary, Smithton Middle School and Hickman High School, said Linda Quinley, the district’s chief financial officer.
At Mill Creek, at least one pencil and a notebook with designs similar to Obama campaign advertisements have been sold out of a supply machine. Two families have complained about the politically tinged materials.
Three Missouri schools have contacted Jones since the beginning of the school year asking that the materials be removed, and Mill Creek Principal Mary Sue Gibson this week said she also planned to call Pencil Wholesale.
“I just don’t want to get into that political arena at all,” she said.
The bound three-ring notebook bears a photo of literal change — pennies, quarters, dimes and nickels stacked into piles. Above the photo, white text reads “CHANGE” over a navy background.
Below the photo, “WE CAN BELIEVE IN” sits above a logo similar to Obama’s campaign image — three red stripes separated by white stripes in front of a white circle with a blue background arching over the circle.
The supplies were designed by the art department of Harcourt Pencil Co., based in Milroy, Ind., Jones said.
“The art department was trying to be cutesy,” he said.
Hat Tip Larwyn
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myna commented:
It begun.
Anonymous commented:
That is perfect, pennies are all that will be left for those poor kids when the leftists are finished with their “change” nonsense.
barbara commented:
Let the market decide, DON’T BUY!
That said:
Since when do K-12 schools sell such goods anyway? They sure don’t have such stores in schools around here.
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Listen up commented:
I have worked in design all my life and in “art depts.” No artist gets “cutesy” approved without the company signing off on it and in most cases it is launched by an “editoral or marketing” person. No design sails out of the art dept. without approval from higher ups. This attempt to pass blame to some design employee(s) is very lame.
mrt commented:
“The art department was trying to be cutesy,” he said.”
Sounds like this “art department” was part of the Yosi Sargent NEA tele-conference.
olm commented:
What’s kind of weird about this is that apparently no one was prepared for the resulting outrage.
Holy Crap, are Obama’s minions brain dead? We have an absolute loser as president and you are still attempting to sell propaganda to first graders?
Darwin Akbar commented:
Next week, Obama armbands will be distributed at the Kwanza Assembly.
Karen commented:
OH. MY. GOD.
A.W. commented:
btw, is this a pro or anti obama message. i mean maybe the message is that when obama is done with us, all we will have is spare change.
No, its probably not what they meant, but its funny how it has that probably accidental double meaning.
down with dems commented:
get your hands off the children, Obama
Barry and Kevin Jennings both want your kids
Steven Foley commented:
At first glance these look as if liberals are trying to disseminate Obama paraphernalia to the kids — but upon closer inspection the notebook actually looks to be spoofing Obama rather than supporting him — Literal “Change” coupled with the fact that Greg Jones, a sales representative with Pencil Wholesale, identified himself as a registered Republican who voted for John McCain in 2008…
2 things to think about
1) These were done very poorly either way and
2) Libs who bought these didn’t realize the joke was on them….
JKB commented:
Well, it sounds like the art department has cost the company some cash. So when the layoffs come, I think I know where they should start.
wow commented:
This is the way it happened in Venezuela, years ago with Chávez. First little things, and then it just pervaded everything. This is cult of personality in action and propaganda, beginning with those most vulnerable… children.
bg commented:
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most transparently HONEST/LITERAL governmental advertising in US history..
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bg commented:
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irony is, they’ll probably be worth millions to presidential memorabilia
collectors decades from now (that’s if we survive the NWO BS et al are
rushing US into)..
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JaneLovesJesus commented:
Democrats aren’t the only ones propagandizing the kids. Back in 2004, when my daughter was in first grade I made a surprise visit to her classroom.
You may not believe this, but right there on the classroom wall — right between the letter ‘V’ and the ‘X’ — that’s right …. there was a capital ‘W’! What a shameless ploy for Bush — they’re no different from the Dems.
Mapleleaf commented:
“The bound three-ring notebook bears a photo of literal change — pennies, quarters, dimes and nickels stacked into piles. Above the photo, white text reads “CHANGE” over a navy background.
Below the photo, “WE CAN BELIEVE IN” sits above a logo similar to Obama’s campaign image — three red stripes separated by white stripes in front of a white circle with a blue background arching over the circle.”
Similar to Obama’s campaign image?!?! It is exactly the same, nay identical. Compare this to the one on the notebook and tell me how they are different.
http://www.sff.net/people/raymund/uploaded_images/Obama-logo-712385.jpg
If this is something that was a mistake then certainly there is a suit being filed for copy write infringement by the Obama administration in place right now. If not this was intentional and deliberate, approved by the administration.
Listen up commented:
Heads will roll…but like always it won’t be the ones that should roll.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Ha ha ha. It was an “accident”.
Ha ha ha.
CathyB commented:
I laughed because I saw that double meaning too, W & Steven Foley.
It is such an obvious bit of snark directed at Obama!
LMBO!
I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!