Obama: Is the Democratic candidate starting to symbolize change for change’s sake?

In November, we’ll be hard-pressed to find a voter who says they voted for McCain because some Obama staffer thought it would be a good idea to redesign the presidential seal, just as no one is going to vote against Obama because some overzealous volunteer made two women in headscarves move further away so they would be outside camera angles. (Of course, a third example of this,“we need more white people! we need more white people!” will be a bigger story, because it will be a recurring pattern instead of one or two instances of bad judgment.)

But the fact that the someone on the campaign said some variation of, “Hey, let’s have Obama speak with his own redesigned version of the seal,” and that either no one objected or the objections were overruled — may become a symbol of hubris and disconnect on par with the candidate’s litany of what motivates “bitter” small town voters during a fundraiser on Billionaire’s Row in San Francisco earlier this year.

The Obama camp uses the word “change” more frequently than commas and perhaps in that constant repeating of the mantra they occasionally miss that a country yearning for change wants improvement, not change for the sake of change.