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item posted 22:03:24: 12-19-06 by kyle.

Update 01-07-07: Due to demand for stickers for laptops, we're now offering the best of the Barack series in packs six of 5"x1.5" short-size stickers. For the price of 1 bumper sticker, you can order six "Barack for the Futures," six "Don't Tell Mamas", six "Obama Oh-Eights", or two different mix'n'match packs!

Will Barack run? Undoubtedly. Sure, the Land of Lincoln's Favorite Son Since Ditka may be playing it coy, but it's pure Progressive political theater, in the grand tradition of Mark Warner— err, Mario Cuomo— err, Warren Beatty&mdash err.... Hang on a second.

Will Barack run?

Here at Bumperactive, we say he damn well better. And to help make it happen, we've worked up a passel of "Draft Barack" bumper stickers, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the to-be-announced Obama campaign per our revenue sharing program. (And if he breaks our heart and ducks out, we'll forward the dough to the Democratic National Committee).

Of course, the critics have already started knocking Barack as a "blank canvas" onto which the swooning masses are projecting their own, unarticulated hopes and dreams. But take a look at the man's admittedly brief record, and there are some substantive things to like, a lot: Repudiating the Iraq invasion at a time (Oct. '02) when nearly every other Democratic contender was for the War before they were against it; the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (co-sponsored with Tom Coburn) is a nifty law creating a Google-like search tool of the recipients of fat government contracts; and waltzing into a conclave of 2,000 Orange County evangelicals to proselytize the virtues of condom distribution in the AIDS fight suggests the man has no short supply of cojones. And he speaks coherent English, with subject-verb agreement and everything — I'm 90 percent of the way toward wanting to have my Obama ballot miscounted already!

After these past years of titantic misrule, at the very least all of us aboard the Good Ship America deserve a fair chance to learn what kind of skipper Obama would make. Help chart the course of the discourse with a Barack Obama bumper sticker today!