As The Matrix‘s chosen one, Thomas “Neo” Anderson.

Playing the part of Spider-Man opposite Republican opponent John McCain’s Dark Knight.

Comics great Alex Ross wistfully imagines the senator as Superman in this limited-edition poster.

Getting his good-guy on as a patriotic, garden-variety superhero with arguable steroid-use problem. Go team America! [YourSuperhero.net]
This red-white-and-blue silkscreen finds him donning a Green Hornet-esque bat-mask.

His visage as stylin’, geek-kissed propaganda ornamenting the concrete jungle.

A talking bobblehead, which purports to be the “Official Barack Obama Superhero ToySimilarities were drawn between Obama and Harvey Dent in the 2008 film The Dark Knight, released during Obama’s campaign. The character, portrayed by Aaron Eckhart, and his time as the “white knight” district attorney – who provides hope in a demoralized city, is given major focus.

Barack…the superhero?  WTF

Obama joked, “Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.

He has the power to bore you to sleep…avoid eye contact…He can only be beaten by an old lady, a small child or a large woman…oooo…fear the O…

Obama for Taiwan 2008

Oh my god, it’s Obama! The banner is actually for the Taiwan Solidarity Union party, one of the third-parties in Taiwan.  Is it a zero and a sunset over a deserted highway?

In other breaking Barack news…

Misc. fun facts ’bout Bomba, er Bama? Barry:

• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball (Nice nickname)
• His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili (please…whose isn’t?   what you and everyone you’ve ever met?)
• His favorite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini (awww, that’s sweet…he’s a pussy and he’s whipped.)
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics (good choices…Lil’ Lulu was taken I’m guessing?)
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From My Father (Of course he did)
• He is left-handed – the sixth post-war president to be left-handed
• He has read every Harry Potter book (oh yes he’s mature and ready to lead people…soon as he puts down his magical wand)
• He owns a set of red boxing gloves autographed by Muhammad Ali (ooo…he’s tough)
• He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can’t stand ice cream (yeah, that makes sense…doesn’t everyone hate ice cream…its icky)
• His favorite snacks are chocolate-peanut protein bars (of course, like the average person…)
• He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper while living in Indonesia
• He can speak Spanish
• While on the campaign trail he refused to watch CNN and had sports channels on instead
• His favorite drink is black forest berry iced tea
• He promised Michelle he would quit smoking before running for president – he didn’t
• He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia (please…once again, who hasn’t had a pet ape?)
• He can bench press an impressive 200lbs (ooo…he is Superman)
• He was known as Barry until university when he asked to be addressed by his full name
• His favorite book is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (of course White Whale chased by white man)
• He visited Wokingham, Berks, in 1996 for the stag party of his half-sister’s fiancé, but left when a stripper arrived (Queer!)
• His desk in his Senate office once belonged to Robert Kennedy
• He and Michelle made $4.2 million (£2.7 million) last year, with much coming from sales of his books
• His favorite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• He carries a tiny Madonna and child statue and a bracelet belonging to a soldier in Iraq for good luck (see…he must be Christian)
• He applied to appear in a black pin-up calendar while at Harvard but was rejected by the all-female committee (seems ’bout right…)
• His favorite music includes Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bach and The Fugees
• He took Michelle to see the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing on their first date (see…he is black)
• He enjoys playing Scrabble and poker
• He doesn’t drink coffee and rarely drinks alcohol
• He would have liked to have been an architect if he were not a politician
• As a teenager he took drugs including marijuana and cocaine (and yet still he was a nerd…impressive)
• His daughters’ ambitions are to go to Yale before becoming an actress (Malia, 10) and to sing and dance (Sasha, 7)
• He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside (wait…thought you said he was black…)
• He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
• His house in Chicago has four fire places (yet he criticized McCain for owning several homes…)
• Daughter Malia’s godmother is Jesse Jackson’s daughter Santita (yet Jesse still wanted to “rip Obama’s nuts off”)
• He says his worst habit is constantly checking his BlackBerry
• He uses an Apple Mac laptop
• He drives a Ford Escape Hybrid, having ditched his gas-guzzling Chrysler 300 (yeah, now)
• He wears $1,500 (£952) Hart Schaffner Marx suits (yeah but McCain’s loaded…)
• He owns four identical pairs of black size 11 shoes (yeah that’s just GAY)
• He has his hair cut once a week by his Chicago barber, Zariff, who charges $21
• His favorite fictional television programs are Mash and The Wire (How I loathe MASH…)
• He was given the code name “Renegade” by his Secret Service handlers (OOO…yes, replacing the old regime with other oldtimer regime is waaaay cutting-edge)
• He was nicknamed “Bar” by his late grandmother
• He plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds (Its for street cred)
• His favourite artist is Pablo Picasso (have you seen Picasso’s art? the man was legally retarded or blind or somethin’)
• His speciality as a cook is chili
• He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were “street urchins”(by ‘street urchins” he means to say ‘terrorists-in-the-making’)
• He keeps on his desk a carving of a wooden hand holding an egg, a Kenyan symbol of the fragility of life (he is a brother)
• His late father was a senior economist for the Kenyan government

Walgreens Pulls Chia-Obama. Is it Racist?

Sometimes controversy springs forth from the most unlikely places. Walgreens stores in Chicago and Tampa recently introduced a new version of the lovably tacky botanical totem known as Chia-Pet. Yes, “the pottery that grows” has entertained Americans for years now, and along the way it has evolved into various shapes: kittens, trees dogs, elephants, even Mr. T. You name the shape, so long as the sprouting seeds give the appearance of growing hair or fur, Chia was a guaranteed hit. Well, that was before Chia-Obama.

Via Wired comes word that this presidential version is being pulled from Walgreens’ shelves:

Spokesman Robert Elfinger said store managers have the ability to market products of their choice. But the top brass of the Deefield, Illinois-based drug chain was not amused by some of its Tampa and Chicago managers’ choices to market the President Obama likeness.

“We got some complaints from people that they thought it was racist,” Elfinger said in a telephone interview.

Obama Fried Madness in New York

Posted Apr 6th 2009 3:57PM by Sheryl H. Salomon
Filed under: BlackSpin, News

Thought Obama Chicken Fingers were hard to stomach?

Then you’ll absolutely choke on the latest shameless attempt to capitalize on the name of America’s first black president: Obama Fried Chicken joints.

This time we can’t blame it on clueless Germans or Russians, or even right-wing zealots who can’t get over the results of election 2008. No, this trend is made in New York City by merchants who are, in all likelihood, just trying to ride the wave of Obama’s popularity to riches.

Two city fast-food joints are calling themselves Obama Fried Chicken — and the new names are ruffling some feathers.

Eateries in Brooklyn and Manhattan plastered the new president’s last name on their awnings recently.

And some passersby are cringing, saying the name change plays into old racial stereotypes.

This just in…

Brooklyn Cyclones will hail from ‘Baracklyn’ for one game in June

Barack Obama’s inauguration is still a week away, but the push to use the 44th president as a minor league marketing tool has already begun. First to strike are the Brooklyn Cyclones, who announced today that they will change their name to the “Baracklyn Cyclones” for their June 23 game against Hudson Valley.

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