Politics as Arts and Crafts Therapy

The subliterate Zac Moffat brags about how the G.O.P. used free labor to create "unique and creative" signs with the party's pre-approved messages:

We are proud of the fact that, all over the country, supporters of the President devoted hundreds of hours to the creation of the thousands of hand painted signs to be used at this year's Republican National Convention. In New York, Americans from across the globe came together at daily sign painting sessions to produce unique and creative signs expressing their enthusiastic support for the re-nomination of President George W. Bush at this year's convention in the many languages of this diverse city.

Sign painting sessions were also a wonderful experience for those of us who to go to sign painting session (sic) and met with grassroots volunteers whose stories of how the President's steady leadership and compassionate agenda has touched their lives. It is moving to see how many people are excited by this convention and the President's optimism.

And when the yokels show up in New York, they'll have these hand-painted signs pressed into their hands before they can say, "this looks like it was painted by a five-year-old, I'm not holding...."