During the last few years of George W. Bush's presidency, we sold several items that, to put it nicely, "looked forward" to the end of his stay in the White House. One was the incredibly popular Backwards Bush calendar, that counted down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to departure. The other equally popular products - a series of items that featured the slogan "01.20.09" - Bush's Last Day. We had bumper stickers, buttons, regular stickers, etc. The man who ran the company was a somewhat hip older man, former New Yorker I believe, living in Vermont. I don't recall exactly, but I think he was giving some percentage of his proceeds to good causes that were in trouble due to the cuts approved by Bush. I saw him at the New York Gift Show this August, and he said, "do you have a minute? I want to show you our new product." I was taken aback when this new product turned out to be - stickers, buttons, mugs, etc printed with 01.09.17 - Obama's Last Day - and "just can't wait" on the promo literature. He shrugged. Have to make money somehow. But a product like that without conviction behind it beyond that of cashing in on the next thing - no thanks. And I have taken a personal vow not to think much about the next presidential election until we are at least halfway through the current president's second term.
He also sells a series of Peace Magnets for cars. I say - Peace, Love, Patience and Integrity. Obama's far from perfect but how about the benefit of the doubt- at least until you start printing the President Christy merchandise.
This Just makes me sad.
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