Carving out Obama and McCain: Which pumpkin is most fit to be president?

By Molly Priesmeyer
Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 10:59 am

Looking to show your presidential pride this Halloween? A number of sites have come up with politics-themed stencils worthy of the best political cartoonists and satirists. A website called “Yes We Carve” is a gathering place for starving carve artists to download and share their Barack-o-Lanterns. And if the number of carvists choosing Obama over McCain stencils at Zombie Pumpkins is any indication of election fervor, the smiling Obama beats the shadowy McCain figure 65 to 34 percent.

McCainiacs get their pumpkin dues, too, at appropos sites like Spook Master and the hoary Better Homes and Gardens, where the Joe Biden pumpkin looks like The Joker, or pretty much any white guy you saw at Trader Joe’s last week, and Sarah Palin actually appears scarier on a pumpkin than she does in real life.

Boo! Pics inside!

Obama vs. McCain, at SpookMaster.com

Obama vs. McCain, at SpookMaster.com

Even here is neck disappears.

Even here his neck disappears.

Better Homes and Gardens: Making homes haunted for more than eight decades.

Better Homes and Gardens: Making homes haunted for more than eight decades.

Comments

1 Comment

Dustin
Comment posted October 8, 2008 @ 2:42 pm

Awesome article. This is the kind of reading I come to MN Independent for when I need a break from the bad news that is everywhere!! I just downloaded the stencil for the Obama/pumpkin symbol from yeswecarve.com

What a hilarious name for a website. Thanks for cluing me in. I’ll be uploading a pic of me and my pumpkin to the site in the next couple days!!


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