McCain Loses Hastily Convened Fourth Presidential Debate With Lifesize Cardboard Cutout of Obama

[RedEarth]

In a Manhattan conference room this afternoon, Senator John McCain (R.-Ariz.) conducted and lost a hastily arranged rematch of last night's Presidential debate, this time to a cardboard cutout of the Democratic Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama (D.-Ill.). According to CNN snap polls following this impromptu affair, McCain turned in more respectable numbers, losing by a narrow 50-45 margin to the cardboard image of the actual man who had trounced him in a debate just the night before, 58-31.

The cardboard Obama was a life-size image of the junior Senator from Illinois purchased by McCain handlers for $40 at Nick's, a Fifth Avenue souvenir shop. Cardboard Obama depicts Barack Obama smiling and holding his glasses at his waist, and was placed behind the table at which McCain sat for the free-form, unmoderated debate.

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In the spin room afterward, McCain-Palin08 strategist Steve Schmidt crowed over the narrowness of Cardboard Obama's victory. "After three debates, we think John McCain has turned a corner. America may have been deceived by Obama's eloquence, and by greater margins each time, in the first three Presidential debates. But tonight, we saw the best of Senator McCain."

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