by Mark Silva
Barack Obama is such a card.
And John McCain, what a card.
And how about that George W. Bush? A real card.
The people at Hallmark think so, offering up a series of "party lines'' that have some greeting fun with Obama, McCain and Bush.
"You're a year older? No one could ever tell,'' reads the front of the birthday card picturing Obama, the junior senator from Illinois. Inside, the card gets a little flip with the greeting card equivalent of a flip-flop: "I stand corrected. Happy Birthday.'' Ouch. A chip inside plays a crowd chanting, "Yes we can, yes we can.''
"Another birthday's no big deal,'' reads the front of the card picturing McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, who will turn 72 next month. "At our age, we can still run for senator... run for president.'' Inside: "Run for the bathroom. You look like you gotta go out and celebrate.'' The bladder-minded chip plays the song: "Under Pressure.... Pressing down on me.'' Double ouch.
The presidential card is another story: "It's just a birthday. It's just a birthday. It's just a birthday,'' it reads on the front. "You still look good. You still look good. You still look good,'' it adds on the inside.
Are the card-makers suggesting the president sounds like a broken record? Well, the chip lets Bush do the explaining in his own words, with an actual clip of the president at the podium: "The third time I said that.... I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work, you've got to keep repeating things over and over and over again, for the truth to sink in. To kind of catapult the propaganda.'' Triple ouch.
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Comments
John McCain is a card alright - a wild card.
McCain is just wild enough to flip on every major issue of importance so that he amounts to a third term for BushCo. The same failed economic policies. The same failed policy in Iraq that hasn't produced any sort of political reconcilliation there.
What's really wild though is John McCain taking campaign money from Karl Rove. John and Cindy McCain believe to this day that Karl Rove, on behalf of George Bush, spread a vicious rumor that McCain was a nut with a temper for having been a POW and that McCain had fathered an out-of-wedlock black baby. The baby was a little girl the McCain's adopted from Bangladesh.
I can't imagine taking money from someone I believed did that to me and my family.
No, for these and many other reasons, John McCain can't be trusted to be president.
Posted by: Zook | July 27, 2008 8:13 AM
Is it just me, or do all three cards sound distinctly lame?
Posted by: Quippy | July 27, 2008 8:22 AM
Just more evidence of how our image of politicians has eroded. Now they're fodder for greeting card companies.
Can't blame 'em, really.
http://www.political-buzz.com/
Posted by: matt | July 27, 2008 8:33 AM