Did Abercrombie & Fitch pay Obama's campaign for product placement?

[Maven]

Seriously, that's ridiculous.

[lisa58]

1. I'm old... I was wondering what that was...

...thanks for clearing that up.

[NightWatcher]

2. college kids, but comeon, throw em an Obama shirt already

[MonkeyFunk]

5. lol

yeah, really.

[MattBaggins]

22. I couldn't decide what was dumber

the fitch shirts behind Obama or the boxing gloves behind Clinton.

[tishaLA]

3. Hoosier Frat-Wear

Thank god that phase passed 5 years ago in Los Angeles.

[Buddyblazon]

7. Now guys are buying womens jeans, spiking their hair, and wearing...

makeup in LA.

I don't know which is worse.

[coyotespaw]

17. I'm assuming you mean Los Angeles

and not Louisiana, as the thought of drunk cajuns in makeup scares the hell out of me.

[UALRBSofL]

44. tishaLA, what's the new thing out now???

I don't keep up with it any more. Is Polo still in style? Seriously, what's the new clothes line? :)

[flowomo]

4. LOL... I see your point....

bet the story of those three guys get covered by the media tomorrow.

[Mike Nelson]

6. This will be the LAST time that happens

I predict!

[46and2]

8. Anytime now

I expect Senator Obama to open a can of Pepsi and take a big drink, followed by a loud "aaaaaaahhhhh"...

[OhioChick]

9. Better than a

TJ Maxx Pantsuit. :)

[Swamp Rat]

11. LOL!

:rofl:

[ima_sinnic]

23. bwahahaha!

good one! :D

[blm]

10. Did Bill lend the campaign money funneled to him by Dubai royals he protected on BCCI matters

he deep-sixed throughout the 90s for GHWBush and Jackson Stephens?

[Maven]

12. You realize how stupid you look bringing that up on *this* thread

don't you?

[ima_sinnic]

24. that is appropriate to bring up on EVERY thread

she can't answer questions about it, but only laughs nervously in a way I'm not allowed to say exactly for fear of being called "sexist."

so back to the important issue of Abercrombie & Fitch shirts ...

[blm]

29. You think Clinton's protection of Dubai and the money Clintons make from it doesn't effect this

nation and the political debate?

Can you explain that view in detail?

[mod mom]

30. I don't think knowing the truth about who/what we are possibly electing is ever stupid!

[dionysus]

35. blm actually needs to do this because clinton hacks like you stick your head in the sand...

the clintons are corrupt... it's a fact... they covered up serious crimes... get used to it.

[Maven]

38. Ooh, the sidekick chimes in.

Tell me, sidekick, why does Obama take so much money from Halliburton financier Lehman Brothers?

[dionysus]

40. trying to compare that to the level of DLC\Clinton corruption is laughable...

[blm]

43. You want us to get warm over THAT while MILLIONS of dollars from BCCI thugs goes unnoticed by YOU?

HAHAHHAH...

try some perspective.....Halliburton is where it is today because of Bush-Clinton-Bush.

War on terror is where it is today because of Bush-Clinton-Bush and their involvements in BCCI.

Lehman Brothers?????? As if. But you know that - you just NEEDED to say SOMETHING to make you feel better about the FASCISTS you support.

[mod mom]

31. Or Selling out elections to the highest bidder (from the NYT Jan '08):

After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton

By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: January 31, 2008
Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying the Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty, a ruggedly picturesque city in southeast Kazakhstan. Several hundred miles to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Mr. Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them.

Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton.

-snip

snip

"Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, whose 19-year stranglehold on the country has all but quashed political dissent."

"Mr. Nazarbayev walked away from the table with a propaganda coup, after Mr. Clinton expressed enthusiastic support for the Kazakh leader’s bid to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy."

-snip

Just months after the Kazakh pact was finalized, Mr. Clinton’s charitable foundation received its own windfall: a $31.3 million donation from Mr. Giustra that had remained a secret until he acknowledged it last month. The gift, combined with Mr. Giustra’s more recent and public pledge to give the William J. Clinton Foundation an additional $100 million, secured Mr. Giustra a place in Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, an exclusive club of wealthy entrepreneurs in which friendship with the former president has its privileges.

LINK:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html

[JJH]

13. a vast ambercrombie & fitch conspiracy--sort of

In March, Abercrombie & Fitch sponsored the annual Black Solidarity Conference at Yale. A writer for the Swarthmore college newspaper was non too happy. A&P has been sued a few times for discriminatory practices.
http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2008-04-03/opinions/18122

[TheDonkey]

14. A&F likely paid those guys

[oasis]

20. A & F weren't hiring nor catering to non-whites. But Obama is the uniter.

:eyes:

[Raine]

15. It was bizarre and distracting

I hope we don't see that again. :crazy:

[ruby slippers]

16. I dunno, but they were kinda creepy looking.....

http://gawker.com/5006621/barack-obamas-abercrombie-boys

and the one kept looking back up into the crowd. I thought he was going to punch somebody.....

[ruby slippers]

18. here they are on video in case you missed it.......

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/04/22/sot.in.obama.short.cnn

[BigDDem]

34. Strange.

The goof on the far right looks like he's scanning the crowd for
either his boyfriend or the nearest keg.

[blogslut]

19. I doubt A&F paid the Obama campaign

But it looks like those three were paid by A&F.

[ruby slippers]

21. did anybody check any tax returns for A&F?

I'd start with Hillary's first. Maybe Bill spoke there.....

[SeattleGirl]

25. Did the folks with the Obama campaign do a check of all clothing worn

at his event?

No?

Thought not.

[nymeria]

26. Those three toolboxes

...filled the frame. No way it could have been coincidence. I don't think his staffers are so dumb as to put three disinterested blockheads in the Key Spot, nor can they be *that* desperate for the "A&F" vote. (Interestingly, those who are very brand-loyal are more likely to be Clinton supporters.) People who wear gratuitously branded clothing like that are pretty much defined by consumerism and political apathy.

So was it product placement? I can't really believe otherwise. It definitely made me feel like vomiting. If Obama were taking money from A&F for that (which wouldn't make sense 'cause he doesn't need it) I would pretty much have to give up ever bothering to vote again. If he's not a corporate whore, he needs to give us an explanation.

[OzarkDem]

27. Next speech, they'll have them drinking Cokes

Wonder what they have in mind for his friends in the nuclear power industry?

[BigDDem]

33. A&F, drinking Coke's and eating Krispy Kremes

:rofl:

[Adelante]

37. Welcome to DU, nymeria

Obama doesn't owe you shit :hi:

[Maven]

42. I wasn't actually suggesting Obama takes money from A&F. LOL

I can't believe how many people on this thread thought I was implying Obama was "on the take" from Abercrombie. It was a rhetorical question meant only to point out something strange. Shows how silly the season has actually gotten. People are on such high alert they can't even recognize when someone's being facetious.

[Maribelle]

28. Never mind the shirts - - did you every see any of those three even smile?

They did not look like happy people to me.

[dionysus]

36. do you realize how pathetic you guys are?

we have a war going on and you nitpick THIS?!?!?!?!?

go light a candle for hillary or something...

[The Stranger]

32. Context? Link? Hello?

[SoonerPride]

39. Here ya go

]

Hillary Clinton won Pennsylvania tonight and gave a rousing victory speech. Barack Obama then launched into a rousing speech to his supporters in Indiana, but no one in the blogosphere could listen to it because they were so distracted by the three idiots wearing Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirts who are standing right behind him. The guy on the far left is wearing a t-shirt that says "Fitch" in like mile high letters. Plus, the three amigos aren't even listening to his speech! Are they Abercrombie models? Infiltrators from American Apparel trying to drum up a campaign finance scandal?? Fitchtgate is just getting started....


http://www.shoppingblog.com/cgi-bin/sblog.pl?sblog=422083

[BlueGirlRedState]

41. This is on the level of my 10-year-old daughter

who loves and wears her Abercrombie t-shirts every chance she gets. No product placement and no money -- we pay them...

[Neshanic]

45. They can wear that up to Labor Day.