Bartman Barack?

I can't really afford to collect baseball cards anymore, so I've enjoyed browsing through the 1988 Topps blog I posted about yesterday (showing up this morning - Les Lancaster!).

Not content with just 1988, I started exploring some of the links on that blog's sidebar, and came across another blog that posted about a special insert series in this year's Upper Deck set - Presidential Perdictors. These cards feature cartoon portrayls of a number of presidential candidates as legendary players/fans from their "home" towns. Obama as Jermaine Dye (though clearly he's being portrayed as Steve Bartman), Guiliani as Jeff Maier, Mitt Romney as Carlton Fisk, etc.

Here's a link to Upper Deck's site where you can click through the set (click on the card to "flip" it and view the back): Upper Deck - Presidential Predictors

Notably absent - Hillary Clinton. Not sure if that reflects Upper Deck's opinion of her chances in the '08 elections (though she's already outlasted 4 of the 7 of the guys in the set), a males-only bias, or what. Given Clinton's Chicago connection, Hillary as Marla Collins would have been a natural (and we all would have been grateful that it was a cartoon representation rather than Hillary actually posing in Marla's short shorts "in the flesh"). Still, it's a fun set. There's even an bonus "wild card" featuring John Stewart (as Nolan Ryan) wailing on Bill O'Reilly (as Robin Ventura). Classic.