I used to be a political junkie. Then I started law school. I know, I know, there are plenty of you who still keep up on current events and the political scoreboard, especially in THIS year of an historic election. Occasionally I look at the color composition of the US map on CNN. Other than that, I limit my non-law reading to PostSecret, this blog, the GWU Hatchet Crime Log and whatever book I have by my nightstand that helps me to fall asleep.

So, when my still-hooked-on-politics friend from college sent me this link, I almost closed it immediately because I saw it involved campaign posters. And then I read the caption. And then I decided watching the video (in class, on mute) merited my attention. Finally, I read the paragraph of text. (I feel the same way about political blurbs as I do about footnotes in court opinions; I don’t read them until I’ve exhausted all other avenues of understanding.)

So what ARE these guys doing? I mean, if you got in a car with your friends to go to a political rally, and saw they were wearing Abercrombie t-shirts TOO, wouldn’t you feel like a little bit of a tool?

It’s possible that this “coincidence” was the brainchild of some young, hip Obama staffer, who, having lived his or her life for the past year between tourbuses and hotel rooms, has watched enough blogs to figure out that people would talk about the “coincidence” and VOILA free campaign coverage …. But I’m old-fashioned and like to give people the benefit of the doubt; I just don’t think it was calculated. If I were in a campaign meeting and that idea came up, I’d shoot it down faster than someone could say “Hillary.”

And in my old-fashioned, optimist nature, I just don’t want to believe that some marketer from Abercrombie encouraged these boys to grab the nearest overpriced t-shirt and get seats immediately behind Obama’s microphone. It just creeps me out that capitalism would stoop that low.

But, that’s just me. Thoughts?