We're loathe to readdress Barack Obama's Abercrombie moment, but here's a quote from the NY Times that supports our theory: the campaign placed the t-shirt trio behind Obama to woo white, middle-class or working-class voters:

They were asked by the Obama campaign to join the crowd behind the candidate.
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Virtually all campaigns strategically select the audiences who appear behind their candidate so as to send a message to television viewers. The talk on television that night from the Pennsylvania primary was about Mr. Obama’s difficulties in attracting white, working-class voters, although Mr. Obama’s audiences often feature white people.

No word from Obama's campaign on whether the attire had an impact on placement.

Meanwhile, the men - who refuse to be interviewed, surprisingly - told the Times that they always wear Abercrombie and thought nothing of the fact that they were basically all wearing the same thing. Sad….

In honor of Barack Obama's Abercrombie moment, here are some snaps of Vision Men model David from Europe's new "adults only" Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.

We may hate the company, but we love their dedication to the male body.

The weather must be warming up because finally the chiseled pectorals over at Abercrombie & Fitch are visible again after a long winter spent beneath microfleece and expensive parkas. There aren't really enough photos in the website gallery and they are a bit too female-centric for our taste, but we find the good where we can.

If you need more, just head over to the flagship store on 5th Ave. in Manhattan, where you can be surrounded by these very models, plus homoerotic murals and bare feet in flip-flops year-round. New York Magazine interviewed teenagers on their feelings about the store when it opened last year, and this was our favorite response:

“They’re just trying to make you think that by wearing Abercrombie you’ll have a better chance of having sex.” - Max Wang, age 13.

See a few more photos after the jump.

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Salon profiles the man responsible for dressing 90% of the Gays: Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries. He talks like his young employees, acts like his young employees and, yes, dresses like them, too.

What was that we said about A&F clothes on men of a certain age?

The man behind Abercrombie & Fitch [Salon via Gawker]