{"id":73,"date":"2008-05-29T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2008\/05\/29\/barack-obama-geek-or-not-geek\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T23:20:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T03:20:56","slug":"barack-obama-geek-or-not-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/29\/barack-obama-geek-or-not-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama &#8211; Geek or not geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">I don&#8217;t claim to know a lot about politics.\u00a0 However, I did run across some geek-related Barack Obama political items lately.\u00a0 I thought they were funny enough to post here.\u00a0 Funny stuff, regardless of which candidate you like.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Look.. On the ballot.. It&#8217;s a Democrat.. It&#8217;s a Senator.. It&#8217;s Super-Obama!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Obama versus Clinton debate<\/strong> (click the image for full-size)<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/img155.imageshack.us\/img155\/3088\/thedebatewebzh7.jpg\" title=\"Obama vs Clinton\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/img155.imageshack.us\/img155\/3088\/thedebatewebzh7.jpg\" title=\"Obama vs Clinton debate\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"520\" src=\"http:\/\/img155.imageshack.us\/img155\/3088\/thedebatewebzh7.jpg\" height=\"743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\" style=\"text-align: center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div 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