By Lee Speigel

Dec 13, 2008 1:13pm

The 25 Days of Obama’s Christmas

ABC News’ Sunlen Miller reports: There’s no chocolate inside this advent calendar, but that doesn’t mean the payoff is any less sweet. Hiding behind each door on this politically-themed advent calendar is a person from President-elect Obama’s campaign trail past — depicting each as a caricature from traditional Christmas tales. Former Chicago Sun-Times editor Chris Whitehead created the calendar enlisting artists from Obama’s hometown to draw the pictures. We peeked early … here are the 25 Days of Obama’s Christmas: #1 Oprah — The Sugar Plum Fairy
#2 Hillary Clinton (showing the puckering former first lady under the mistletoe)
#3 George W. Bush — The Ghost of Christmas Past
#4 Mayor Richard M. Daly — The Ghost of Christmas Present
#5 David Axelrod — Wise man I
#6 David Plouffe — Wise man II
#7 Rahm Emanuel — Wise man III

#8 John Edwards — The red-faced reindeer (depicting a rosy-cheeked Edwards with his pants down)
#9 Karl Rove — The Abominable Snowman
#10 Jesse Jackson — The Nutcracker
#11 Rush Limbaugh (who has nothing but coal in his stocking)
#12 Rev. Jeremiah Wright — The Grinch
#13 Bill Ayers — Frosty the Weatherman (showing a snowman-like Ayers holding a lit bomb)
#14 Ohio (the Buckeye State wrapped up with a bow, To: Barack  From: Ohio)
#15 Rod Blagojevich — Tiny Tim
#16 Abraham Lincoln — Father Christmas
#17 Sarah Palin — The Snow Queen (showing Palin wearing a crown and holding an Ak-47)
#18 John McCain — The Scrooge
#19 Joe the Plumber
#20 Joe Biden — Chief Elf (showing Biden as an elf at a hair plugs workshop)
#21 First Puppy (who appears to be a mutt)
#22 Malia — Lou Who
#23 Sasha — Sue Who
#24 Michelle Obama — Mrs. Claus
#25 Barack Obama — Santa Claus

User Comments

All I want for Chrismas is for the H1Bs to go home. Americans need those accounting jobs, those tech jobs, those customer support jobs that the republicans stole from us. H1Bs don’t celebrate Christmas, so they won’t be mad at you if you send them home. Really, they won’t.

Posted by: Common Sense | December 13, 2008, 1:29 pm 1:29 pm

Where’s Trinity’s dead, gay choir director Donald Young, tralala?

Posted by: Belle Starr | December 13, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

Oprah – The Christmas Turkey.

Posted by: leelee.again | December 13, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm

I really appreciate good humor and tongue in cheek.

Posted by: clancy49 | December 13, 2008, 2:26 pm 2:26 pm

# 10…rofl! Slam dunk on that one, Senate candidate # ?…as Sugar Plum.

Posted by: i am so I can! | December 13, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm

#25 Barack Obama — Santa Claus-
So if Santa shuts down the coal industry, does that mean I won’t be getting a lump in my stocking?

Posted by: wales | December 13, 2008, 3:01 pm 3:01 pm

and on the 26th day of Christmas.. Obama is impeached..la da la da la da da

Posted by: obusha 09 | December 13, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

Sarah Palin = The decorated Christmas Tree.

Posted by: FM | December 13, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

Isn’t it Cindy Lou Who?

Posted by: Tom J | December 13, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

some of these comments here just goes to show, even at christmas time, there are some meanspirited,sour grape people in this world.
for all of you obama bashers,
were you also some of the people who helped give us the gift of
george w. bush?
and if so, after this eight years, why are you now calling for obama to be impeached?
george w. bush is the one who should have been impeached, and all of the cosmos knows it.
if you are so meanspirited and knocking this man, even before he gets into office and has a chance, maybe you just have not had many pluses in your life,and that is the reason for you being so negative.
but, until you try for “right thinking”
things will never be right in your world.
I can see, if you supported geo. w. bush,
why you are so negative, i would not trust my thinking about politicians either, if I had voted bush in, and ended up with what he gave us.
so mistakes were made, and bush was the wrong guy, and for eight years we as a country have paid for it.
try to settle down with the obama hate
until the guy is sworn in-and then makes a big mistake that we all can see.
if you did not call for bush to be impeached, you are still wrong in calling for obama to be impeached.
try to get on the right side of things now,
meanspirited people-try to stop the hate
(at least until the man is sworn in)

Posted by: bushie | December 13, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

Oh, lighten up!

Posted by: leelee.again | December 13, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm

“Bleep” the “bleeping” phone. You could walk out of Rahm’s house and be in Rod’s house in less than 5 minutes. Of course it would appear to be a lot further for a couple of Rats.

Posted by: Chicago Machine | December 13, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Kind of amusing in general, but Bill Ayers is not. Bombing is funny now?

Posted by: BertieW | December 13, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

Concerned in Ohio,
“H1Bs are just doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do. Amirite?”
As any Mexican-American might tell you, we’re Americans! What does that have to do with corporations importing cheap H1B labor to undercut Americans’ wages? Do you even understand the situation?!
H1Bs don’t contribute to the economy, they only suck out the resources and send their money back to India. They don’t buy houses. They don’t buy clothes here in the U.S. They don’t buy from American stores.
Again, do you even understand the situation?

Posted by: Common Sense | December 13, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

#25 I never did BELIEVE in Santa Claus. And I’m not accepting the “gifts” this One is promising to dump on Believers and nonBelievers alike.

Posted by: Laughing Cynic | December 13, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

no,laughing cynic,
just wants more of the same, if not bush then mccain-

Posted by: bush the USA | December 13, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

bush the USA:
There ya go, regurgitating the “if you don’t adore O, you must love Bush!” nonsense. I’ll say it slowly for you, B u s h b a d , g l a d h e ‘ s g o n e . O b a m a t h e s a m e e g o t r i p b u t w i t h b e t t e r m a r k e t i n g .

Posted by: Laughing Cynic | December 14, 2008, 11:18 am 11:18 am

I came up with this cast for a production of an Obama version of Dickens’ A Christams Carol (“Scrooge”) a few weeks ago:
President-elect Barack Obama as ol’ Ebenezer
Vice President-elect Joe Biden as Bob Cratchet
Mayor Richard Daley as Jacob Marley’s Ghost
President Bill Clinton as The Ghost of Christmas Past
President George W. Bush as The Ghost of Christmas Present
President Sarah Palin as The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
and Jake T. as Tiny Tim (“God bless us, every one!”)
Of late I have been thinking of having Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich take over the role of Jacob Marley’s Ghost, but I am afraid he might shake us down to have his wife take over the role of Tiny Tim. That would then cost Jake T. his big break.
Sorry, Governor, but that would be a deal breaker!

Posted by: OBAMANATION [uh-bom-uh-NEY-shuhn] | December 14, 2008, 11:51 am 11:51 am

I wonder if Rahm has ever seen the botton of a bus before? He’s just about ready to now, I think.

Posted by: midwestlady | December 14, 2008, 2:31 pm 2:31 pm

well we all have, and bush put us there,
bush put the whole country off the bus,
and told us we were unpatriotic if we said anything.

Posted by: bush the USA | December 14, 2008, 5:56 pm 5:56 pm

“#7 should be changed from “Rahm Emmanuel — Wise Man III” to “Rahm Emmanuel — Soon to throw under the bus for being caught as Blago’s corruption conduit into the 0bama Administration”"
I’m sorry, who has been inappropriately “thrown under the bus?”

Posted by: Silky | December 15, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

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