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Greasy shitsack Barack Obama has sold out yet again to the Corporates and Racists: “SI.com has learned that for the first time in history, a major presidential candidate may sponsor a race car in NASCAR’s premier series. According to sources, Barack Obama’s campaign is in talks to become the primary sponsor of BAM Racing’s No. 49 Sprint Cup car for the Pocono race on August 3. Details of the agreement are expected to be worked out over the coming days.” Oh ho ho, of course, a TELECOM IMMUNITY CUP CAR. Don’t spend all your blood money in one place, n00bama. [Sports Illustrated]
HE CHEATS WITH HIS SELF-LOATHING AFROCENTRISM
Barack Obama Is Officially A Bitter
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2:09 PM
on Fri July 11 2008
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Jim Newell
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Has he no shame!
Willy T Ribs for Vice-President!
We’ll really know he’s sold out if the Sprint Cup Car has a pair of TRUCK NUTZ on the back.
Whatever, Walnuts has been sponsoring Dick Trickle for years now.
“Greasy Shit Stack.”
WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN
That is totally NOT the American way! What’s next? Marketing Obama to children?
Still not quite the wholesome message given by Clint Bowyer’s car….
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(Seriously, I need to get the fuck out of the South.)
carerer: Giving kids free samples of Hope(TM)?
I wonder how long it will take for the Obama car to get rammed into the wall.
I particularly love this NASCAR-themed image. The Yahoo! tattooed on the little fingers - true Night of the Hunter style.
You laugh, but the demo that follows NASCAR is not just bitters and poor people. There is a huge following across all strata. There are some major deep pockets out there who are diehard fans, so go, go HopeyCar!
And all this time I thought angry drunken hicks didn’t like black people.
He’s going after the fat, white, redneck vote? What TRUK NUTZ!
Doglessliberal: and no, I am not a follower myself.
Doglessliberal: Yeah, yeah, then we’ll get a picture of him behind the wheel of a NASCAR, much like the Green-acres tractor pic. Though I have faith in his handlers to slap a helmet and shades on him to keep him from looking ridiculous.
The car in that picture could win a Nascar race now.
Doglessliberal:
Mmm hmm. Okay there, Becky Sue.
In other news, McCain is sponsoring a mule drawn wagon in the Winthrop Pioneer Days parade.
Canmon (the Inadequate): We can always count on you for the bitter perspective, eh?
So, is the unicorn of hope going on the hood or the doors?
Botswana Meat Commission FC: I knew this would happen. I really am not! Watching cars drive in circles, and burning obscene amounts of gas in the process, sounds suicide-inducing to me.
Barry, I know we need to appeal to idiots to win this thing, but is there any way you could make it hurt less?
Considering his fund raising is down, Hillary is soaking up some of his campaign money, and McCain is supposedly outspending him on tv ads right now, maybe Obama should be spending more money on, oh, say tv ads or things that aren’t kinda silly and ridiculous?
Not to show my neck here, but the car he’s sponsoring isn’t locked into the top 35 in points, so there’s no guarantee it’ll even make the race. It’s a third-tier team being driven by a has-been driver. If it doesn’t qualify for the race, the only TV exposure it’s going to get is two laps of qualifying on Speed Network.
Now this will be really fun to watch. NASCAR fans, most of them whites not well known for their tolerance of black people in general or as president in particular, will have to digest the fact that he has involved himself in THEIR sport. They won’t miss the race because that would be unthinkable. But they’ll have to watch a white man drive a car paid for by one of them damn nigg… uh, persons of color. Heads will explode all over their official-size beer coolers.
Truculent: They may miss the race, but only because Pocono is a terrible, terrible race. I like Obama but I wish he’d spring for a little market research now and then, and try sponsoring a car at a race that some people are going to watch.
Looks like the car will be a Toyota. Nothing helps the Michigan vote like an Asian Car of Terror. Though Hopey can peel off the ‘y’ and the ‘a’ and spell To ot on the back of the car, which will win back the votes
Hooray For Anything: Why oh why couldn’t Barry sponsor something that appeals to his base, like an interpretive dance troop?
Godless Liberal *: The TV exposure it’s going to get is because Obama is the first candidate to ever do this–has nothing to do with the driver/car/track/series. He was going to get roughly the same coverage with this driver that he would have gotten by putting it on Tony Stewart’s car–it’s the novelty that’s the news here. It’s already a lead story at ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and I’ve seen it on CNN and ABC. I think they’re doing well with this one.
Cicada: oops, that was meant forNoWireHangers:
The Obama car was veering left for a while, but has now swerved back to the mushy center.
Also, WALNUTS is sponsoring a horse and buggy.
Canmon (the Inadequate): After the first turn it will go up in a flaming cross.
ReelectTilden: hah! Not a surrey with the fringe on top?
Godless Liberal *: True about Pocono, but I think the very idea of “one of them” being involved in NASCAR in any sort of sponsorship role will rile the average rube. I spend two hideous years in Atlanta, enduring the traffic to the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The Taliban are less fanatic than race fans, and much more racially tolerant. Shit, the fan buy special coolers designed to fit in the stands, shell out hundreds for scanner radios tuned to the car frequencies, buy all the garish clothing. I’m in marketing and I would love to tap that level of loyalty. But I bet the Obama car will get less than a rousing reception.
Barry will get behind the wheel, then get arrested for DWB. Sweet.
The bitters will never love you, Barry. Never.
I don’t get it: Why pander to people that are too dumb to find a polling place, much less read a ballot?
NASCAR is dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb times as many circles they make around the same stupid track. E.g., one dumb for each lap.
Next thing you know, he’s going to be sponsoring the Beverly Hillbillies on TVland.
I gotcher telecom immunity right here, clownie:
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Actually, next thing you know, he’s going to be sponsoring a crossburning.
i’m picturing a purple 1984 Cadillac Eldorado with racing stripes.
Cicada: Good point, it’s just that Hopey has been showing signs of being a little too overly-confident and too clever by a half lately. Okay, onto the snark– maybe this move is to placate all the netroots because all you do in these races is turn left.
You realize that someone over at Camp McCain will be soundly flogged and possibly tiger caged for not having thought of this.
If he shows up at the track with a flask of Crown Royal and a sidearm, it’s all over. Human civilization, I mean.
He is also pandering to the Hispanic vote by sponsoring a fighting gamecock.
Hahaha…there are people on HuffPo royally pissed about this. Some actual posts:
“I would feel like a complete sucker if I gave money to this idiot. And there he goes again selling his campaign. I can “donate” and win my name on a NASCAR…or a free trip to Denver. I guess the change he was talking about was having raffles for perks instead of just straight selling them, like Lincoln bedroom stays. And then a Toyota? Well that will fit in good with his working man, jobs here in America rhetoric. He wears his corruption right on his sleeve.”
“Help! . . . Help! . . . . Obama is turning into THE BIGGEST SUCK UP I have ever seen. He will spend little old lady’s money, and poor supporters money on a NASCAR SPONSERSHIP??? What a total jerk he is becoming. . . . Ahhhh, the reason is - his campaign is flooded with all those disgusting CLINTON people he brought over. . . . Well, it sure shows. I am getting off this stupid train.”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO> WTF ??????”
Oh.my.gawd.
I hate to show MY neck, but I work for a company that makes NASCAR junk, and I have to say, I’m looking forward to the matchbox version of this car. If we make it.
Watch the Obama car take a right turn on the track instead of a left one and explode in a unicorn-shaped foreball of Hope (TM)
$20 says it’s a Prius.
There’s no whore like a young, hopeful whore.
BAM Racing? For Beth Ann Morganthau.
For a day “O”BAM”A” Racing!
Bitter to bet on the filly to stumble at the finish and have to be shot through the head on the track like old Eight Belles, eh?