Compared to his competition, Obama’s fresh to death

Posted by Lance on June 14th, 4:26 am

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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Tags: People of character

2 responses so far ↓

  • Bryan // Jun 14, 2008 at 10:35 am [1]

    Quite simply: white boys can’t jump.

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