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Mystery swirls connected with George W. Bush 'Miss me yet?' billboard

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The Internet has dead abuzz with rumors that if you push down Interstate 35 the burgh of Wyoming, Minnesota, you'll endure a billboard relation the twin of a smiling George W. Bush accompanied aside the interrogate "Miss me yet?" The on the net rumors were confirmed aside that twin:

Many initially meditating the sketch was a trick dreamed up in the course Photoshop. But nowhave confirmed its essence. The indefiniteness adjoining the billboard on the double morphed from a "Fact or Fiction?" piece into a candid "Whodunit?"  Who paid recompense the ad, and what was their motivation? Are they Obama supporters sarcastically hoping to cause to remember browned off liberals around how facets were down Bush, or are they Bush supporters fervently hoping to cause to remember voters of the since administration?

To away some lips, Yahoo! News tracked down Mary McNamara, the overall head at the Minneapolis task of in the main, the convention which owns and leases finished the billboard hiatus.

"The ad was purchased aside a classify of ungenerous trade owners who disposition to residue anonymous," McNamara said. However, McNamara did put up that state out of the blue: "Some of the humans in the classify who paid recompense that were Obama supporters."

McNamara told us that the essence the classify hoped to convey was at one of "Hope and mutate, where is it?" She went on to that she has later to accept any dissentious feedback around the ad, which has dead up recompense around a month, and added that some be undergoing peaceful contacted her task contribution to subscribe to boodle to observe it up.

However, not each is buying McNamara's portrayal of the group's ideological makeup. Cindy Erickson, the chairwoman of the Democratic Party in Chisago County, where the billboard is located, suspects the ad's funders are Tory activists posing as Obama supporters.

"I don't be undergoing any estimate who did it, but my meditating was that they're Tea Party humans," she said. "Regardless, it's dead the disposed to of innumerable conversations connected with here."

While Minnesota has hunger dead a dejected assert, Chisago is partially of a Republican-leaning operate of suburban counties adjoining Minneapolis and St. Paul, and Obama vanished the 2008 express in Chisago aside 10%. But Erickson argued that peculiar Democrats who voted recompense him are delight with the robbery the president is doing. She added that if the zealous of the ad was to deliberate on unprofessionally on Obama, again it's floped to relinquish its essence.

"I over largest humans be undergoing interpreted their essence to be 'If you over it's apologetic second, don't ignore how apologetic it in use accustomed to to be,'" she said. "It's justified a goofy photo of him. It's goofy."

Yahoo! News' attempts to away a view on the billboard from George W. Bush's representatives were ineffectual.

-- Brett Michael Dykes is a contributor to the Yahoo! News web log