How You Know American Culture Has Gone Completely in the Crapper: Topps Releases Obama Trading Cards

I grew up collecting these cards:




Kids today, not mine mind you, will be collecting these:

Topps Company, Inc. -- the maker of commemorative sports memorabilia and ''Bazooka'' gum -- announced the sale of 90 ''Inaugural Edition'' trading cards Thursday spanning the life of President-elect Obama.

The color photo collectibles are packed with Barack Obama facts and quotes and will be sold for $1.99 in foil-sealed packs of six before the January inauguration.

The cards document the 47-year-old Obama's political life, including his time as an Illinois senator and his presidential acceptance speech in Chicago's Grant Park.

The cards also feature snapshots from his childhood in Hawaii, at Harvard Law School and his work as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago.

What complete crap! Can you imagine kids in the neighborhood gathering in a tree house and trading these things? "Hey Petey! I'll trade you Obama during his Harvard years for that Obama smoking a spliff card".