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August 1, 2008

Some Breaking News: “Dollar Bill” McCain

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… But what’s really classic is that McCain put Obama’s face on a dollar bill over a month ago!

Is the media buying McCain’s story that Obama played the race card, using his description of McCain doing things analogous to putting his face on a dollar bill?  Of course, most everyone has taken it as an analogy and McCain, as well as some of the media, have been looking to crucify Obama for it.  The thing is, McCain actually DID put obama’s face on a dollar bill — over a month ago in a little-seen web video.  The point is, Obama’s analogy — whether he realized it or not, and maybe he heard about the video and only recalled it subconsciously — isn’t even an analogy, it’s true!

Plus, Team McCain turned him pansy yellow, made him all starry-eyed, then blew him up.

(…And, I leave it to my sharp-eyed and photoshop-savvy readers to decide if those aren’t X’s embedded in that last frame, or maybe other weird stuff.  Not sayin’, just wonderin’.)

Video here.

(image: McCain for President, as usual)

  • ratfood

    Too bad the Obama campaign didn’t point out that his remarks were in reference to the McCain ad at the outset. Too late now, it’s time for them to take control of the narrative instead of simply reacting to the McCain camp’s baiting.

  • Joey

    Even better is the same YouTube video under the campaign’s account.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDTJDv4hevU

  • http://lancethruster.blogspot.com LanceThruster

    IN OBAMA WE TRUST :-D
    He looks good on there (no offense Ben).
    Maybe considering the extreme damage Shrub has done to the US economy, President Obama will one day be on the gajillion dollar bill (hopefully worth as musch as a Zimbabwe dollar by then).

  • http://www.woodka.com donna

    The lameness of the McCain campaign stays mainly still the same…

  • cenoxo

    Implicit in the Bag’s ongoing visual analysis is the uncritical perception that young healthy black outsider Obama = Good, but old one-foot-in-the-grave white insider McCain = Bad. However, the reality of our closely-held views may shock even the most politically correct thinkers.
    And those aren’t dead XXs over the eyes, they’re definitely — and subliminally incorrect — stars:

    Don’t let the stars get in your eyes,
    Don’t let the moon break your heart!
    Love blooms at night,
    In daylight it dies,
    Don’t let the stars get in your eyes,
    Don’t keep your heart from me,
    For some day I’ll return,
    And you know you’re the only one I’ll ever love!
    Too many nights! (Too many nights!)
    Too many stars! (Too many stars!)
    Too many moons could change your mind!
    (Don’t let the moon change your mind!)
    If I’m gone too long,
    Don’t forget where you belong,
    When the stars come out remember you are mine!
    Don’t let the stars get in your eyes,
    Don’t let the moon break your heart!
    Love blooms at night,
    In daylight it dies,
    Don’t let the stars get in your eyes,
    Don’t keep your heart from me,
    For some day I’ll return,
    And you know you’re the only one I’ll ever love!

  • http://Myspace.Com/ily4life41 rAwR

    THAT WOULD BE SO AWESOME iF OBAMA WOULD BE ON THE $50 BiLL!
    :-]
    YEPP HE iS AWESOME!
    ♥rAwR♥

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