Man, that guy's "woo"s are pretty distinct. Maybe it's some sort of mating call?

Hmm... especially odd for a company that was sued a few years ago for supposedly having a racially discriminatory hiring policy. The class-action suit was filed by lawyers in Philadelphia a few years ago but no idea how it played out.

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He's courting the elusive 'douche' demo that he alienated with all his 'intellectualizing' and stuff.

Is it just me, or do all three look like their genitals are bound?

@VoxPopuli: I heard about that. A&F settled.

I haven't been as distracted an imponderable since I first came across the "did Adam and Eve have navels?" controversy.

@Bell County: Rum is the devil! That should read "I haven't been as distracted by an imponderable...".

You just know they were so excited that they went back to the dorm after this and ... well, lets just say Richard Quest and Anderson Cooper missed out. Big Time.

these guys were such oblivious chuckleheads - I'm sure Obama people saw what we all saw but were fucked b/c they couldn't pull them out during the speech - man - guy on the right (obama's left) wouldn't stop talking to guy in the middle, picked his nose, and I believe was writing on the far side of his sign to show his buddy - towards the end it almost seemed like homeboy was mock parroting obama's delivery, surely b/c he knew no one would see - ugh

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who found the A&F boys distracting (and disturbing). Why promote a company that has been so clearly racist and divisive in the past? Is this an example of product placement run amuck? Another reason to question the judgment of the folks running the Obama campaign....

Harold? Kumar?

Abercrombie is sort of four years ago. Unfashionable, bitter, cock-starved gays are for Hillary. So, yeah, these are Hillary plants.

Also? Evansville is my home town! Woooooo!

We need to see Obama's contributor's list. That's clearly product placement. How easy is it to get that close to the leading presidential candidate? Secret Service, you know, not to mention the scads of officious events planners who would like their own friends in that spot. How easy is it to then get lined up in a row immediately behind him? There are too many obstacles for that to have been coincidental.

This gay isn't voting for her.

The best part about being openly gay is that you get to be very, very honest. She could take a lesson from us in that department.

This was really gross. Not only was it really gross but the guys acted like total toolboxes - they couldn't even condescend to *pretend* to be interested. I couldn't listen to Obama because they spent the whole speech making asses of themselves. Whoever is responsible for this obviously has NO respect for the democratic process *or* young voters, and I *really* hope it's not the campaign. Obama should use this as an example of how corporations don't have any respect for American values.

I wonder if there was tape running while those people were lined up on the stage. It would be interesting to see that dynamic.

Yeah, these are, like, C-Listy Carlson twins.

Wait, Indiana is on to A&F already? It was only last week when Pepe jeans hit.

@rod: And Earthquake City of late.

@rod: The hometown of Red Spot Paint & Varnish Company??? Lucky!!!

I think we have to consider the cellphone call received by the one on the far left. You know it was some douchy meat-partner calling with something like "OMG DUDE YOU'S ON DUH TV! OMFG DUDE!" which implies that maybe their placement wasn't planned in advance. They would've surely called "all da bro'z" already, had somebody deliberately placed them in the shot.

Dude, the Dave concert is tomorrow night, bro.

Wow, sort of clueless about flyover country, aren't we? This is Indiana, bro. Abercrombie & Fitch is right now for hep cats and cool chicks in the state time forgot. This is haute couture from Bloomington to Terre Haute.

Which brings me to another feature of this campaign that is driving me nuts: all of the candidates are being followed by dickwads and cum catchers who cannot, for one fucking second, hang up or stop taking pictures with their stupid fucking cell phone. And that's good in a way, because it reminds me that no matter who gets elected, they'll still preside over a nation full of assholes.

Gawker staff doesn't leave NY much?... EVERYBODY wears that stuff!

@Calaverius: your mom wears that stuff.

Maybe Obama should have had his shirt off?

They were three staffers....wearing coats and ties.....they needed to make the crowd look "younger and hip." Somebody ran to an A&F, bought the shirts, they put them on and thye shoved them behind Obama.

If you watch the video, it's pretty obvious they are gay, literally.

I had no idea Hillary had the gay vote locked up. Personally I can't stand the bitch, and I was under the impression my fellow gays were leaning more toward Obama.

Both of them just better quit bickering before they fuck the whole party.

I could not stop watching the little guy on the right. At the start of the speech, he was really fired up, wooooooing and thrusting his sign up into the air. After about 5 minutes, he started to lose interest. He was talking to his friend, letting his eyes wander all over the place, looking at his feet. But then the crowd would start to cheer again and he would get this look like "oh shit, what did he sayWOOOOOOO!"

At the end, he got to shake Barry's hand while the other two stooges just shoved their phones in his face.

If you get bored of the fellas, though, watch the girl on the lower left repeatedly close her eyes and nod solemnly. It's a whole different flavor of funny.

@rod: Are you kidding? (not that anyone would kid about that). It is my hometown too.

I vote we get rid of people who use words like meat-partners and cum catchers as if those were bad things.

Apparently he's got the guys who look like Larry David vote locked up too.

@Mediahohoho: I had to look up "flyover country" on wikipedia. I'm curious what Arizona would be called? SoCal's Annex?

Obama isn't black, he's Abercrombie black. Or as I like to call it, Blackercrombie.

I think the answer to this query is fairly obvious.

TOOLS come in sets.

@LadyMadonna:They actually have an official corporate rule at the A&F product development headquarters that bans black (the color... just want to be clear) from their store entirely. Not that you would want to go in there to check it out, but I'm just saying.

@nicepony: You may be on to something. Those shirts absolutely stink of "just ran to the store and grabbed three different large t-shirts off the sales rack."

Surely, the campaign isn't going to pay RETAIL to outfit their plants.

Twattish college kids <3 abercrombie, and that is the Obama core vote.

@luciluce666: Then why are two of the three shirts black (one faded, but still)? Or am I misunderstanding the rule that you're talking about.

@Rod

"...bitter, cock-starved gays are for Hillary."

Hey! I'm bitter and cock-starved and totally for Obama! Oh, did I say that out loud...?

@Smirk: And you would think the bitter, cock-starved straight women are for Clinton out of solidarity but I'm for Obama. Yay for oversharing!

@Buzz Killington: Do we really want to get into the "let's judge the candidates by the goons at their rallies" game? Because I've seen crowds at Hillary photo ops that would rival the cast of The Hills Have Eyes in their in-bred drooliness. And McCain? Let's just say that we now have proof that the dead do roam the earth.

@Mediahohoho: I think McCain alone is proof that the dead do roam the earth and still win more delegates than Ron Paul.

@VoxPopuli: Never discount the dead vote. It carried Hillary in Pennsylvania yesterday. Word is Transylvania is a lock, too.

@VoxPopuli "And you would think the bitter, cock-starved straight women are for Clinton out of solidarity but I'm for Obama. Yay for oversharing!"

Y'know misery loves company and all... I'll save you a seat by me! ;)