A Long Island Obama supporter scored vanity license plates bearing his presidential hero’s name – now, if he could only use them.
Jonathan Lifschutz, 50, of Great Neck, got his “OBAMA” plates from the Department of Motor Vehicles three days after the Jan. 26 South Carolina primary, and they soon became the most sought-after in the state.
In fact, they were so sought-after that Lifschutz couldn’t keep them on his Saab – because would-be thieves tried prying them off.
He even caught one man in the act.
So Lifschutz, a financial analyst, has taken off the plates for safekeeping and put the old ones back on.
“Those plates will probably, at some point, become a collector’s item – in someone else’s house,” he joked. “I decided that they will best be preserved if I took them off and just carried them in the car.”
Lifschutz – a one-time Hillary Rodham Clinton backer and donor – said he applied for the license plates after he saw former President Bill Clinton minimize Barack Obama‘s primary victory over Sen. Clinton in South Carolina. Kyle Murphy and Clemente Lisi