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The Black President With White Hands

By The Daily Dish
Jan 28 2009, 5:27 AM ET

Yes, it's true! That cardboard cut-out I nearly Favreaued at an Inaugural bash was very bi-racial:

So why not take the time to find a black body for Barack? "I think it may have been sloppy," says Campbell. "That's just a stock image, a stock body that they had." Again, Advance Graphics declined to give a direct answer. Apparently, finding a generic photograph of a black man in a suit was too much to handle out in Utah.



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