Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you’ve probably seen Barack Obama’s throwback jersey floating on multiple Web sites. For 60 bones, you can be as fresh as this senator once was when he rocked a ‘fro and beat his opponents to the rim with a fake right, and a quick jolt left.
Whether you want Obama to be our next president or not, he beats all other presendents and president hopefuls in sports coolness points already. Don’t believe me? Once you take a look at his competition, you’ll see the needle jump to the red on his freshness o’meter.
Tone setter: Barack Obama
Exhibit A: George W. Bush
Exhibit B: Hillary Clinton
Exhibit C: Bill Clinton
Exhibit D: Abraham Lincoln
Exhibit E: John McCain
Exhibit F: Ronald Reagan
Exhibit G: John F. Kennedy
Exhibit H: Jimmy Carter
Exhibit I: Richard Nixon
Exhibit J: Dick Cheney
Photos Courtesy Neighborhoodies.com (Obama throwback), newsday.com (Obama team), tsl.state.tx.us (Bush). Umpbump.com (Hillary Clinton), Viewimages (Bill Clinton), Wikimedia.org (Lincoln), MSNBC (McCain), CBSNews.com (Reagan), MedalofFreedom.com (Kennedy), JimmyCarterLibrary.org (Carter), New York Times (Nixon), Boston.com (Cheney)















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Quite simply: white boys can’t jump.
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