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On Martha’s Vineyard, 'Miss Me Yet?' Bush T-Shirts Outselling 'I Vacationed with Obama' Ones
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Posted on 08/22/2010 3:51:46 PM PDT by fabrizio

Picking up on a nugget (my tweet) surprisingly included in a Wednesday Boston Globe article, on Thursday night FNC’s Bret Baier reported in his “Grapevine” segment: “President Bush is apparently more popular than President Obama on Martha's Vineyard – at least when it comes to clothing.” Baier relayed the day the First Family arrived on the Massachusetts island:

When the First Family vacationed there last year, Obama-themed trinkets were flying off the shelves. Now, the owner of a store called the Locker Room says this summer's best-selling shirt features Mr. Bush. And even Democrats are buying it. It reads: “Miss Me Yet? How's that Hopey-Changey Thing Working Out for Ya?”

In an August 18 Globe story, “Vineyard buzzes less for Obamas’ second visit,” Milton J. Valencia reported on the Oak Bluffs store:

...One barometer of the plunge in excitement has been the sale of Obama-themed T-shirts, which designers had been banking on after the craze of last year. Clothing labeled with the president’s name sold by the thousands, helping to salvage a tough economic year for the island. But this year’s T-shirt sales are much less brisk, merchants say.

“Last year, Obama gave you goose bumps, but I don’t think you’re going to see that this year,’’ said Alex McCluskey, co-owner of the Locker Room, who sold more than 4,000 “I vacationed with Obama’’ T-shirts last year. But so far this year, he said, his hot item is T-shirts of former President Bush asking, “Miss me yet?’’...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; dubya; missmeyet; msm; obama
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To: fabrizio

This reminds me a lot of when I vote most of the time .... hold your nose and vote ... and hold your nose and buy a T-shirt.


21 posted on 08/22/2010 4:24:16 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Maybe he gave you goosebumps, masshole, but he gave me a headache

Jeez, relax--what he was saying was perfectly accurate as a prelude to talking about how well the Bush shirts he's got are selling.

22 posted on 08/22/2010 4:25:22 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. -- written by Robert Towne)
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To: fabrizio

Looking forward to the t-shirt saying “I was present at mac daddies trial and ate a triple decker hamburger and drank a beer, best fun I have ever had”.


23 posted on 08/22/2010 4:26:41 PM PDT by chiefqc
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To: fabrizio

24 posted on 08/22/2010 4:33:29 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality Now: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: A message

has anyone actually seen machete machelle on this vacay?
i certainly haven’t not by any press pics

she’s laying low for fear of more bad press y’all are only seeing daddy & the keeds


25 posted on 08/22/2010 4:34:25 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Free Nobel Peace Prize with oil change =^..^=)
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To: fabrizio
Brethren and Sistern....our Bible verse reading for today is from The Song of Solomon 2:15........

"Catch for us the foxes
The little foxes
That ruin the Vineyard
Our vineyard that is in bloom"

Here endeth the reading.

Leni

26 posted on 08/22/2010 4:41:27 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Red_Devil 232
I just hope she doesn't go down to FLA to the Harry Potter theme park and ride the broom..... :-)...
27 posted on 08/22/2010 4:41:27 PM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Roscoe Karns

HAH!


28 posted on 08/22/2010 4:43:25 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama on The View: "When those folks came over on 9-11". Folks??? WTH?)
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To: MissDairyGoodnessVT

My guess she is scarfing down some Maine lobstaas while her hubby isn’t... Think about it...


29 posted on 08/22/2010 4:43:40 PM PDT by taildragger ((Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Red_Devil 232

The dress threw me off. She needs a waist belt to make it hers! lol


30 posted on 08/22/2010 5:03:05 PM PDT by cameraeye (A happy kufir!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“He Holds an ice cream cone like it was a tampon”

Kind of like how John F’n Kerry held a Philly cheesesteak sandwich.


31 posted on 08/22/2010 5:06:33 PM PDT by getarope (One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“He Holds an ice cream cone like it was a tampon”

Kind of like how John F’n Kerry held a Philly cheesesteak sandwich.


32 posted on 08/22/2010 5:07:35 PM PDT by getarope (One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

“He holds an ice cream cone like it was a tampon”

Kind of like how John F’n Kerry held a Philly cheesesteak sandwich.


33 posted on 08/22/2010 5:08:50 PM PDT by getarope (One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
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To: getarope

Sorry for the trifecta!


34 posted on 08/22/2010 5:11:11 PM PDT by getarope (One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
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To: nhwingut

"KICK ME!"


35 posted on 08/22/2010 5:15:14 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama on The View: "When those folks came over on 9-11". Folks??? WTH?)
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To: fabrizio

"Time to circle the wagons, boys!"

36 posted on 08/22/2010 5:18:24 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama on The View: "When those folks came over on 9-11". Folks??? WTH?)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“Heck, I even rather we have President Hilary!”

I don’t feel that way but a lot do. In my home county, Hillary beat Obama 88-10 in the primary. Yes, she won by 78 POINTS!!!! Obama was despised then and he’s even more despised now. This is a Democrat-dominated county that I live in but no one, I mean no one, pipes up and says “what a great job our president is doing.” If I were in the Obama camp I would be worried, very worried, about 2010 and 2012. This is a complete train wreck. The train is off the tracks and the locomotive is on fire.


37 posted on 08/22/2010 5:19:20 PM PDT by chippewaman
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To: mel

Heck old gaffe himself Joe Biden would be an upgrade to the Oval Orifice.


38 posted on 08/22/2010 5:20:53 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: mel

I was not a GWB fan ..he was too republican liberal for me.. so I would not mind Clinton back WITH A REPUBLICAN House and Senate :)


39 posted on 08/22/2010 5:25:41 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7

yes, i agree this past 2 years has been the perfect storm.
absolutely horrible.


40 posted on 08/22/2010 5:29:16 PM PDT by mel
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