Arizona for Obama Button Shows A Rising Sun
Arizonans for Obama strikes a non-confrontational tone in its attempt to recruit voters in Arizona to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama for President.
“Arizonans, we can make a difference. From Flagstaff to Tucson and across the Phoenix metro-area, the political dynamics of our state have changed. Arizona has come to represent the return of American politics to the mainstream – where it is more important to solve problems of real Americans, than argue about being a ‘red state’ or a ‘blue state’. A mainstream where we recognize that there is more that unites us, than divides us. This campaign is about us, and as Arizonans, we have work to do. Whether you are in Tempe or Tucson, Phoenix or Payson, Sedona or Scottsdale - our energy, our time, our hope, and our dedication will determine this election.”
The Irregular States progressive directory notes the many subgroups of presidential activists coming together to support the Barack Obama presidential campaign in Arizona, including: Arizona Artists for Obama, Arizona Gays and Lesbians, Arizona Women for Obama, and Arizona Young Democrats for Obama, and Prescott, Arizona for Obama.
This political campaign button celebrates the high level of grassroots political activity going on to support the presidential campaign of Barack Obama for President in Arizona. It features the striking design of the Arizona state flag, which evokes a kind of idea of Barack Obama as a rising star, or of the United States of America at a time of new dawn.
In doing so, the button links the Barack Obama for President campaign to the old story about America’s first President, George Washington. The story goes that, at a critical historical moment in the origin of the United States, Washington was looking at a chair that had, carved into it, the sun on the horizon. He looked at that sun, and asked whether he thought it was rising or setting, a meditation upon the fortunes of the United States itself.
The Obama 2008 campaign asks us to believe that the sun may rise again, and that our nation need not remain in the darkness of fear and secrecy brought down by the presidency of George W. Bush.
Arizona for Obama button (2.25″)
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