Posted on 12/31/2008 12:11:46 PM PST by Sub-Driver
bamabilia For Sale By Katharine Q. Seelye A T-shirt designed by Zac Posen.
Selling Barack Obama memorabilia has been lucrative for everyone from souvenir dealers to newspaper publishers to the Franklin Mint.
Now, the Obama inaugural team is getting in on the act.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee has just opened up an online store where people can buy “official” Obama collectibles, most of them related to the inauguration. (It is separate from the store on the Obama campaign Web site.)
Fans can pre-order panoramic photographs ($400) and posters of the swearing-in ceremony, which takes place Jan. 20. Also for sale are designer T-shirts and tote bags from the likes of Donna Karan, Diane Von Furstenberg, Tory Burch and Zac Posen, who also created similar items for Mr. Obama’s campaign.
“We found that merchandising efforts during the campaign were successful, that people were so enthusiastic and they wanted to have a little piece of history,” said Linda Douglass, a spokeswoman for the inaugural committee. Obama basketball jersey.
“We have always planned to raise money in as many different ways as possible, to make us less reliant on big donations and to make it possible to prohibit donations from corporations, unions and lobbyists,” she said.
The committee has raised about half of its goal of between $40 million and $45 million for Obama inaugural events, which will include the traditional parade and 10 official balls, as well as JumboTrons on the national Mall. Ms. Douglass said the fund-raising was on track.
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pfftttt, they would have to pay me that just to use it to start a fire in the BBQ
A little piece of Chinese mass-produced history. Feh.
All I can ask is that they please have an “I voted for the Obamessiah” tattoo, that way it’ll make it easier for us to know who to blame (and maybe keep them occupied on Election Day 2012).
January 20, 2009. A day that will live in infamy...
At the Chicago train station (Union) there was a small deli type store that had a whole section on Obama stuff ... T’s and cups and whatever’s .....
My television and radio will not be on that day. I will be grieving for our country.
Cult of Personality! Stalin had one too.
Oh God, my office has CNN on multiple TV’s all day. I may need Dramamine that day
I was walking around DC a few weeks ago and made my way over to the National Tree on the Elipse. Parked on 15th St. was a truck selling hot chocolate and Obama tee-shirts. I thought that was an interesting and ironic hot & cold combination.
If they come out with an Barack Obama trash can, I may consider buying that.
Just like they do it in Hollywood- first design all the merchandise, arrange for advertising, flood the market with hype and then produce a crappy movie as an afterthought.
It’s a historic event - The beginning of the end of the American Experiment abd the triumph of the nanny state.
One day, it may prove to be as iconic as Chamberlain’s ‘Peace in our time’ photograph, or than one of the Frenchman crying as Nazis marched through Paris.
Headline?
Hollywood announces seventh show featuring President Obama
President Obama, Children of the World Love You
New Sunday morning two-hour show joins week-day morning show "President Obama Lives the Day the Healthy Way" and prime time shows "Reality West Wing," "Working Out With Obama," "Obama Goes One-On-One With NBA," "Learn A Language With The President," and "Obama: The American Idol"
Is it too late to market a Barack-O-Barfbag?!
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