Progressive Buttons Blog

You may say that it’s okay, because the man going through the secret trial, closed to the public, is a terrorist. The truth is, though, that you don’t know that he’s a terrorist. He’s never been convicted of any terrorism-related crime. All you know is that the government says that he’s a terrorist.

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The green spires behind Barack Obama could represent leaves, or positive energy such as solar energy. So, it could be an environmentalist message. Obama standing in front of the green design could just as easily represent him standing in accord with the Green Party, though.

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These aren’t necessarily buttons that the person who made the list designed himself. He may have just found the buttons by looking around at web sites like this one. The member of this site finds political buttons he or she appreciates, and then recommends them, and then other people may recommend them too.

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I found a cozy little group of eight Barack Obama buttons today over at a cozy little web site called Good Left Hook. It’s not hard to find Barack Obama buttons these days, but the thing that stands out to me about this collection of buttons is that they’re just, well, atypical.

Typically, a political button follows the motif set by the candidate. For a presidential candidate, it usually is red, white and blue and has a star, or a representation of the American flag. You see, the idea is that if those items aren’t there, we might just forget that we live in the United States of America.

Sometimes, the White House sits in the background, just so that we can make no mistake about what the button’s intention is. Don’t these conventions get kind of boring after awhile? I’m happy to say that none of the eight buttons follows the conventions of political button designs. They’re all for Obama, and they’re all original - kind of like Obama himself.

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