Posted by
S.M. Conley on Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:55:45 AM
"The Cross imagery is incidental."
Or so Mike Huckabee claims it to be. But if he is intellectually honest, the are no incidental images in campaign ads.
Huckabee's now much talked-about, much maligned commercial, wishing America a Merry Christmas, featured a white bookshelf in the background. At one point during the commercial, as the camera slowly pans from right to left, we see the intersecting shelves making a very noticeable image of the cross behind the candidate.
Coincidence? Maybe, just maybe, it hadn't been originally written into the script. But what couldn't have been missed by even the dullest of advertising novices was the imagery when that commercial was viewed time and time again by those who created it, and by Huckabee's staff before it ever aired on national television. The vast majority of Americans claim Christianity as their religion of choice, and Huckabee is trying to reach that majority, as are all the other candidates vying for voters.
Incidental, coincidental, or providential? We'll wait and see.