Recently, and article was posted claiming that Barack Obama will be the face of the new dollar bill. While the “facts” listed in the article are a bit far fetched, it certainly raises some questions. And the humorous political commentary throughout the article is worth sharing in itself.
According to the article in the Weekly World News, Barack Obama will be on the new dollar bill. The Dollar Redesign Project, the article claims, was organized by creative strategy consultant Richard Smith, who hopes that a “rebranded redesign” would help the global recession.
Pointing to a site called “The Dollar Redesign Project” the article claims that “Benjamin Bernanke has signed off on our choice for the redesign.”
Here is some of the rest of the article:
“We don’t need a complete redesign of our coins, but we do want to put President Obama on the penny and move President Lincoln to the nickel. Thomas Jefferson, who was on the nickel, will be… discontinued.” Republican Congressman Paul Ryan suggested President Obama be put on both the “nickel and dime” instead of the penny.
Another American icon might also be replaced. “Uncle Sam is outdated,” said Axelrod. “We need to update this icon as well. It will now be Uncle Barack.”
Republicans are apoplectic about the changes the Administration is proposing. “They won’t get this passed when we get control of the house,” said Minority Leader John Boehner. “Typical Republicans, they want to block everything, even a little meaningless design issue,” said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “It doesn’t matter what they think, we’re going to pass this and every American will be carrying Obama dollars in their wallets and purses come June.”
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