Examples
- George Voinovich said: "It is my opinion that John Bolton is the poster child of what someone in the diplomatic corps should not be".
- The Oakland County Intermediate School District (near Detroit) was cited as "the poster child for fiscal irresponsibility."
- Bobbi Campbell was a self-professed "AIDS poster boy" in the earliest years of the epidemic.
- Willie Horton who became a "poster boy" for the Massachusetts prison furlough program and the liberal sensibilities of Michael Dukakis in the 1988 US Presidential Elections.
- In the debate over capital punishment, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is often cited by anti-death-penalty activists as a "poster child for the death penalty" because his indifference to his victims, especially those who were children, made him appear irredeemably inhuman.
- Ryan White was considered a poster child for social acceptance of AIDS, after he contracted the disease from a blood transfusion and was expelled from his school.
- Harry Reid said in a statement, “I just spoke to the White House and told them that while the president (Barack Obama) is correct that people saving for college need to be fiscally responsible, the president needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn't be spending their money”.
- Mark Simpson identified David Beckham as the metrosexual poster boy in an article published on Salon.com.
- Aziz Shavershian was described as the poster boy of a subculture of amateur bodybuilding in Australia, dubbed "aesthetics".
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