Are people so stupid they can’t see through the “Obama was in 3rd grade” smoke-screen? That just means that Obama was younger than the bomb-building terrorists he hung out with. Oops. I guess logic makes me racist.
Pete, I was around back then (a little older than Obama) and, as I recall, gorillas were pretty big as marketing tools. Magilla was a very popular cartoon character, and there was a brand of instant breakfast called Gorilla Milk. I think where the cartoonist erred was in the backpack itself. Kids used satchels to carry their books back then, not backpacks.
pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago
Are people so stupid they can’t see through the “Obama was in 3rd grade” smoke-screen? That just means that Obama was younger than the bomb-building terrorists he hung out with. Oops. I guess logic makes me racist.
Possum Pete over 15 years ago
Not nearly as racist as thinking that Obama would have a Magilla Gorilla backpack!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…Twinkie
runar over 15 years ago
Pete, I was around back then (a little older than Obama) and, as I recall, gorillas were pretty big as marketing tools. Magilla was a very popular cartoon character, and there was a brand of instant breakfast called Gorilla Milk. I think where the cartoonist erred was in the backpack itself. Kids used satchels to carry their books back then, not backpacks.
margueritem over 15 years ago
No, Runar. You were a geek if you carried your books in a satchel. We carried them in our arms.
runar over 15 years ago
Marguerite, where I went to school, schoolbags (as we called them) were de rigueur. That aside, nobody used backpacks for school back then.