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Kerry Chooses Campaign Slogan...

...and it's incredibly lame. For those of you too lazy to follow links, he's chosen "Let America be America again". Blech. I'm all for ripping off poems, but this slogan is only good if you actually read the poem it's derived from. Without that context the slogan really doesn't make much sense. Maybe Kerry's going to boom out these lines at some point:

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Of course, millionaires who co-opt poems about alienation, oppression, and inequality seem silly, but that's just politics. I guess he's planning on taking this new slogan and combining it with Edwards's "Two Americas" campaign themes. Stir in a little foreign policy and it's probably a good plank, but still a bad slogan—not that it matters. After all, who pays attention to campaign slogans other than politics addicts and wordsmiths?