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Bush billboard on I-35: “Miss me yet?”

Looming over the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 in Wyoming, Minn., is a grinning portrait of former President George W. Bush, asking “Miss me yet?”

“It was put up by a group of small business owners — who want to stay anonymous —because they felt Washington wasn’t listening,” said Mary McNamara, a spokeswoman for the company that owns the billboard. “They felt like it was a good way to get their message out.”

The billboard was first reported by Minnesota Public Radio blogger Bob Collins Monday morning.
He took a photo of it while cruising past, about 30 miles north of downtown Minneapolis.
Collins wrote: “It’s beginning to sweep along the Internet, accompanied by various claims that it’s a Photoshop fake. But it’s not. It’s real…

“It’s time to crowdsource this puppy.”