The Big Shoulders swim, held in Chicago Sept 6th. Offered the new look in USMS sanctioned swims, political partianship. For a link to the discussion go here http:/.../showthread.php This is the same organization that is running next years Nationals. USMS, you need to address this.
Former Member
ILMSA (Illinois Masters Swimming Association) did sanction the event.
The event organizers were Big Shoulders-Chicago Masters and University of Illinois-Chicago, not Illinois Masters.
ILMSA does not show any political partisanship.-YOU JUST DID
ILMSA did not approve the shirt and medals for the event.
ILMSA does not support the decision made by the event organizers
ILMSA wishes to hide its head in the sand at Ohio Street Beach immediately after screaming..."Not Us! Not Us!" Love it when people in leadership positions start looking for the door when trouble appears.
If you want to stir the pot the least you can do is get the link to work...:drink:
OK to make things right, how about we get some McCain swimcaps printed up and hand them out at nats next year...
If you're getting worked up about this, really, you need to breathe. If your $70 went to a campaign I'd understand more but over a ("everyone's a winner") participation award? Gimme a break--just toss it and be done.
Don't swim it anymore. Find another 3 miler. I can point you to several charitable swims if you are so outraged and want to do some good.
I understand it is hard for some people to just look under Illinois Zone Forum (so hard to find, towards bottom of page) so will try again..forums.usms.org/showthread.php
I understand it is hard for some people to just look under Illinois Zone Forum (so hard to find, towards bottom of page) so will try again..forums.usms.org/showthread.php
Um, isn't that link for this thread?
It's tacky. Don't your meet fees pay for the t-shirts? I wouldn't want to have to pay for a swim meet shirt that had any presidential candidate on it.
To soothe the blow.... maybe they could offer another shirt w/ McCain on it wearing a LZR.
It's tacky. Don't your meet fees pay for the t-shirts?
Well, yeah, but how many race shirts do you get that suck? I mean, putting a political candidate on a shirt didn't make it the first shirt your meet fees paid for that sucked, right?
There's always the risk you're paying for a shirt you don't like and will never wear. I have many, and I shall never want when I am looking for rags to wax the car!
In some running races now they give you the option of paying less to enter if you don't want the shirt. I like that!
I think this is a hilarious shirt. It trades on the famous print image of
Obama by Shephard Fairey, who might turn out to be the one with a case to be pissed off. He's a designer and illustrator with a fondness for propaganda, and specifically the visual signature of social realist stuff from the 1930s and later. Site here: http://obeygiant.com/
The goggles make it sort of self-satirizing, as does the substitution of SWIM for HOPE. Yes, I understand the non-partisan nature of people's objections, but holy cow, doesn't this seem like a good-natured riff given that Obama is a local pol in Chicago?
Lincoln in goggles would have worked just fine.
Them's fightin' words! No wei!
:D
Anyhoo, I recollected a few things: Obama has worked to make Chicago a candidate city for the Summer Olympics in 2016 (Dara Torres!) and has also worked with a preservation committee to keep limestone block revetments (rather than cement tiers) along parts of the lakefront traditionally used by swimmers for lake access (which will assuredly not be the case if the cement stuff is poured).
:cheerleader:
To soothe the blow.... maybe they could offer another shirt w/ McCain on it wearing a LZR.
...or Sarah Palin wearing one of the Fabiola Molina two-piece suits.
www.fabswimwear.com/two_piece_sunkini
Just kidding
I agree, no politics in sports in *any* way. Satire and humor (if that was the intent) should be left to professionals IMHO.
