Looks like the buzz over the Obama for America seal has generated some legitimate uproar, and the Obama campaign is poised to retire it altogether.

The LA Times writes:

Widely mocked (here, here and here, to cite but a few of the items that wryly took note it), the intrepid Marc Ambinder of TheAtlantic.com reports that the insignia will be consigned to some closet to gather dust.

He writes: “I’m told that Obama recognizes that it was a silly mistake, that the universal reaction at (his Chicago headquarters) was, “Boy, was that dumb.’ “

Some things, I guess, were just never meant to be.

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