Coins and Liberty

How many tv ads are there for Obama coins and postage stamps? Is this a straw in the Führerprinzip wind? Burt Blumert once said that America was free when our money featured symbols like Indians, Liberty, buffaloes, etc. It was a bad thing, beginning with the evil Lincoln penny, to put dead politicians on the money. “But when they use living politicians,” said Burt, “watch out.”

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12:47 pm on January 27, 2009