Obama $3 Bill, Meet the McCain “Keating Five” Dollar Bill

You’ve probably heard reports of the “Obama $3 bills” being passed around by Republican supporters in which Barack Obama is wearing an Arab headdress.

It’s meant to insinuate that he’s a Muslim, secret or otherwise, and apparently they’re all plotting to bring about the destruction of America.

(I remember there being some kind of commandment that says not to bear false witness against your neighbor. Since the Republican Party are purportedly big on the Ten Commandments, maybe that one has recently been repealed.)

In keeping with their inability to fight back against Republican campaign tricks, the Democrats’ response has been rather lame: a couple of statements expressing disappointment in this cheesy tactic. I thought I’d do them a favor and teach them a thing or two about winning a war of memes by creating this template for a bill featuring John McCain. Better still, I don’t have to tell any lies.

So, Democrats, take this idea and run with it: the “McCain Keating $5 bill”:

I didn’t have much time to whip this up and I’m not a graphic artist by trade, so if you can do better, by all means, please feel free to improve upon my work and spread it around.

Keating Five?

You know, as in the Savings and Loan Crisis, which cost the American taxpayer about $125 billion (and in late ’80s/early ’90s dollars).

See McCainKeatingFive.com, AZCentral.com’s writeup of McCain’s involvement with the Keating Five, the Wikipedia entry for “Keating Five” and the Phoenix New Times article titled McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five.