McCain Presidential 2008 playing cards
John McCain and Sarah Palin Presidential playing cards, USA, 2008.
John McCain was the losing Republican candidate in the 2008 US Presidential election. This pack was produced by Parody Productions, Cincinnati and like other packs from this publisher it displays the heads of political figures and the media (taken from photographs) which sit atop cartoon bodies, with details of their name and position beneath. The aces all show McCain’s head with the with “McCain for President” above, while the kings show him with different political slogans beneath. The 2 jokers show ??? both wearing jester’s hats.
Above: McCain Presidential 2008 playing cards produced by Parody Productions, Cincinnati, 2007.
McCain Palin presidential playing cards, 2008
McCain’s running mate for Vice-president was Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska. In 2008 a revised pack was produced entitled McCain / Palin Presidential playing cards. The characters are largely the same, though many appear on different cards. McCain appears on the Kings, and Palin on the Queens (with different political slogans beneath). The aces all show McCain’s head with the words “McCain for President” above. The reverse of this pack shows Palin and McCain. There are 2 jokers (one of which is Barack Obama) both wearing jester’s hat. See the boxes►
The deck also contains two extra advertising cards►
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By Peter Burnett
Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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