The Cauldron

From buttons to bumper stickers, Americans have always rushed to show their support for their favorite candidates come election time, but this year, voters have taken things to the extremes.

A simple Google search will reveal at least ten different variations of "Obama is my homeboy" shirts. Awesome.

Here are the same people raving about taking race out of the election putting race right back into it. It's like asking people to leave the fact that Sarah Palin is a woman out of the Vice Presidential race and manufacturing a line of Palin brassieres. "You've got Sarah's support" would be the slogan.

Strange t-shirts are just the beginning. According to CNN, an artist in Spain plans to create a 500 ton, 2.5 acre gravel and sand sculpture of Obama with the hopes that it can be seen on Google Earth. Who exactly are we trying to persuade here, the two astronauts that are, according to NASA, voting from the international space station?

The Spanish artist is not the only one creating larger than life portrayals of the candidates. AOL News has a picture of a large Obama poster replica created on the property of a Pennsylvania couple, as well as a nice picture of Palin's face in a cornfield. What is even better is that the picture of Palin is a corn maze. I can see the anti-Palin responses now: Get just as lost as Sarah Palin gets lost in interviews.

Art is not the only medium voters (and foreigners) are using to express their support. Voters this year are using alcohol. The Half Moon Bay Brewery in California is holding an "ale-ection" with two types of ale (actually, the same ale in two different bottles) named for the two Presidential candidates. Each time someone gets a bottle of beer, their "vote" is recorded. Now people can support their favorite candidates during politically-based drinking games! "Maverick."

With silly t-shirts, art, and alcohol, what could possibly take the preposterous politics cake? Could it be the Obama and McCain bobbleheads offered by Cleveland's own Lake Erie Monsters? Guess again. The various Halloween costumes and masks people are sporting? Not even.

The most politically preposterous award goes to none other than Chad Morisette of West Hollywood for his "Halloween" display of a Sarah Palin-esque figure wearing a noose for a necklace dangling under an image of McCain coming out of a chimney surrounded by flames. Even the description sounds ridiculous. His reason for the display? According to a statement he made to the Los Angeles Times, Palin and McCain's politics are "scary" to him.

Never mind how scary it must be to the candidates to have likenesses of themselves murdered for a Halloween display

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