This photo, taken at a bus stop one block from the Xcel Energy Center, is making its way around the interwebs today via the Silenced Majority Portal. The bus-stop billboard — showing the Bush/McCain embrace with the headline, “Does this look like change to you?” — is just the latest in outdoor messages for the coming GOP, commentaries that so far have come in the form of graffiti missives like the “Greed Over People” tag along Hiawatha and the “Get Out Phascists” graffito on the back of the Grain Belt beer sign along Hennepin.

Not including the wonderfully subversive “Daily Show” billboard, so far this is the first paid-for anti-GOP message we’ve seen around town. Sorry, the Chino Latino billboard in Uptown for the “capitalist pig roast” doesn’t count since it’s an ad for the restaurant and not a financed direct message for the GOP and its platform. But we want to know: What have you seen around that qualifies as a direct hit?

As for who created this sign, the shelter billboards are owned by CBS Outdoor, which specializes in what it calls “street furniture” advertising, that is, selling ads on bus shelters along the 350 or so Metro Transit stops throughout the Twin Cities. (Is it any wonder there’s graffiti when private companies own so much public space?)

A local rep for CBS Outdoor could not be reached, but as soon as we hear who bought the ad and how much they shelled out for the prime location, we’ll let you know.

Meanwhile, send us your Spotted GOP Greetings. We’ll post them here all week.