Early Influences -- Lincoln, and Link

Insight into the younger years of our soon to be president: he watched The Mod Squad growing up. That's Link above on the right. He was the crime fighter in a dashiki, and along with Pete and Julie, he battled the forces of evil with his far-outness. Link's fro is a little bigger than the messiah's, but Obama came a little late to the party; when this picture was taken the style favored half-fros. Ha! Nobody under 45 will have a clue about what I just said.

Anyway here's the trio:



Unrelated, check out the dialog, and fifty pound car-phone:



Great googily-moogily, we used to watch just anything.