Seal Team Barack, RIP

The Obama campaign has done away with the Great Seal of Barack. Marc Ambinder offers an insightful analysis of how the Great Seal came in to being:

Some Obama aides are enraptured by the idea of an Obama brand that transcends politics; others, including most of those who are actually close to the candidate, are much, much more concerned with the type of hubris that all the talk of an Obama brand actually encourages. All of which is to say that if you were to exchange brains with your typical Obama staffer, you can kind of see how designing a new seal seems cool and presidential...

Could the Obama campaign possibly be too cool for school? As one reader stationed in Iraq opined last week: Obama's "proposals for Iraq sound like something a college student who has no background in military matters would write in a term paper and think they've said something profound. 'Dude, you know what would be totally cool? A "counterterrorism" force!'"

One has to wonder if the same staffer who thought up Obama's counterterrorism force designed his super-patriotic seal.