Comedians who can’t think of any Obama jokes should check out this post by Steven Heller at the New York Times‘ Campaign Stops blog. During the primaries, Obama said American flag lapel pins were a “substitute for … true patriotism”. But now “the presumptive Democratic nominee is seldom seen at public events without ‘old glory’ on his lapel,” writes Heller. “Since Mr. Obama promotes himself as the candidate of change, maybe he should start wearing a different kind of lapel pin that signals his patriotism as well as other values he wants to communicate. To provide him with options, I asked some illustrators and designers to suggest alternatives.” Here are my three favorite alternatives. Finishing in third place is illustrator Oliver Monday, who argues that buttons are the new lapel pins:

Runner-up is Daniel Young’s mirror-flag pin: