Animatronic John McCain & Barack Obama Presidential Dolls

by Scott Beale on September 1, 2008 · 8 comments

Animatronic Candidates

Here’s a creepy display of animatronic John McCain and Barack Obama presidential dolls, plus a defunct Hillary Clinton close out model, I found at a local Walgreens.

photo by Scott Beale

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filed under Politics, Robots

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 David Cairns September 1, 2008 at 1:44 pm

The John McCain doll looks suspiciously close to Rush Limbaugh, don't you think? Trying to further conflate the two: typical liberal bias in the animatronic doll industry.

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2 dawn stott September 1, 2008 at 2:16 pm

I saw these in the five and dime by me yesterday and thought of you. :)

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3 whitew September 10, 2008 at 12:51 pm

I want these dolls. Which Walgreens had them?

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4 Scott Beale September 10, 2008 at 12:57 pm

I shot the photo at the Walgreens on the corner of 4th and Townsend.

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5 whitew September 10, 2008 at 1:31 pm

City and state?

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6 Scott Beale September 10, 2008 at 1:38 pm

In the blog post I mention that it was at a local Walgreens, which means it would be in San Francisco.

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7 Joe October 4, 2008 at 6:36 am

These are humorous.

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8 Rob October 20, 2008 at 10:31 pm

I saw these. The Hillary doll packaging says “Watch her TRY to dance her way into the white house!” The Obama doll packaging says “This D.C. rookie is TRYING to dance into the white house!” The McCain doll, however, says “This old D.C. warhorse IS dancing his way into the white house!” How's that for a slant?

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