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Because this...



Looks too much like this...



I think there is an attempt at some sort of conditioning going on.

Yeah. That makes sense.

I stopped drinking Pepsi back in the 80's when they gave a whole bunch of money to Sarah Brady.

??

Just add rum and all is ok.....

Pepsi signed Beyonce for $50 million and the president Indra Nooyi once said the US is the middle finger of a hand.

Course, Pepsi owns Frito and Quaker O.

At first I thought it might be coincidental and then I found this. No Pepsi for us...ever.



It�s Official: Pepsi Admits New Ad Campaign That Looks Like Obama�s is For Obama; Honest Tea, Dunkin� also in Obama Tank

By Debbie Schlussel

On Monday, I showed you the new Pepsi �Hope� campaign that looked a heck of a lot like the Obama campaign. Pepsi claimed any similarity was just a coincidence. And some readers said I was totally off-base.

Well, I wasn�t.

Now, Pepsi admits it�the campaign was meant to look just like the Obama campaign, and the soft drink company is now officially entirely in the tank for B. Hussein O. I guess I shouldn�t be surprised since Pepsi was a historical participant in the Arab boycott on Israel (which is why it was never allowed in our home when I was a kid).

Well, If A Tea Says He�s Honest, It Must Be True . . .


Caffeine-Free & Full of Fertilizer

And, damn, one of my fave low-cal teas, Honest Tea (which is also Obama�s fave) is now in the tank for him, too, proclaiming that this proven liar is �Honest.� Puh-leeze:

On Friday, Pepsi crews will hit the streets of D.C with product samples, as well as scarves, hats and buttons that read �Hope� and �Change.� Ads with the new Pepsi logo appear in outdoor ads with such Obama-isms as �Yes, you can.�

New Pepsi ads will air in pre-inaugural coverage on networks such as CNN beginning Jan. 18.

�This is a unique moment,� says Frank Cooper, vice president, portfolio brands. �There are very few times when people of various backgrounds and affiliations come together with a common sense of purpose.� . . .

[QVC] has paid a fee to broadcast live on Inauguration Night from a glitzy ball hosted by The Creative Coalition, a political advocacy group founded by TV star Alec Baldwin, and sponsored by Pepsi.

Barf.
Honest Tea:

The brand struck marketing gold when Obama was seen drinking its Black Forest Berry tea on the campaign trail. A small number of custom bottles, renamed �Barack Forest Berry� and graced with a picture of Obama on the label, are going out to the media. . . .

�We appreciate the relationship, and it�s a meaningful relationship, and we don�t want to cheapen it in any way,� says Jesse Merrill, Honest Tea director of marketing.

Um, I think you just did.

Dunkin� Donuts�official home of Rachael Ray�s jihadist scarf:

Red-white-and-blue-sprinkled �Stars & Stripes� doughnuts will be sold in the chain�s stores nationwide from Jan. 17 through Jan. 23 for 89 cents. The brand�s blogger, Dunkin� Dave, also will tout the doughnuts on social-networking site Twitter.

�There�s a hope and energy that will be created with the inauguration and new administration coming in,� says Will Kussell, president and chief brand officer. �You�re going to see us be a little more topical and put more variety in our doughnut line in 2009.�

It used to be that companies and products didn�t officially get involved in politics. It�s bad for business because the company risks alienating those on the other side of an issue or candidate. If you�ll recall, despite Ronald Reagan�s famous love of Jelly Belly jelly beans, the company deliberately never capitalized on it, not wanting to offend anti-Reagan customers.

I guess these companies forgot about the 58 million-plus Americans who voted for John McCain. Or they just don�t want our business. We get the in-your-face message.

I've got PepsiCo stock in my portfolio

Pepsi sucks balls.

Pepsi is queer.

I'm a diet Coke man.

Pepsi is terrible.

Ghost, I sure hate to hear of good folks getting that aspartame internally.

Why? What does it do to you?

Makes you a kook.

I hate a Pepsi , to sweet

it gives a lot of people frontal or peri orbital headaches. Several years ago I found brain tumors in two patients. After referral, when they asked the big city neurologists/neurosurgeons what may have caused them, they were asked if they drank artificially sweetened drinks. Both replied that they did. That stuff is in almost all chewing gum not found in health food stores and definitely gives me migraine type headaches.

Damn. Makes you wonder how some of these poisons are ever cleared to be marketed.

It's the excrement of a genetically modified E Coli bacteria. They collect it after the bacteria poops out enough, then they dry it up, powderize it, package it, and sell it.

Me too. When I used to use it, I'd get those weird, asymmetrical headaches. Gave it up for that reason, but since have learned it's also associated with more serious conditions and diseases.

Crony capitalism.