Get your official Illinois Obama license plates while they last

This is pretty cool. I am, or have been in the past, a collector of license plates. While my collection is modest at best, I've always been kind of fascinated by them, all the way back to childhood.

So it's cool to see that Illinois had offered temporary, but legal, commemorative plates for their native son, President Obama. And now that they've expired, they're being offered to the general public as well.

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They tell me over at The Political Carnival that commemorative sales are setting records, so get yours while supplies last. They're $50 for a set of two, but the coolest thing is that $35 of that is a tax-deductible contribution to the Illinois Library Association.

Now to look for that commemorative Texas plate for Drunky McStagger ...