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Town Overboard! (Obamoron-mania)
Time Magazine ^ | January 15, 2009 | Ramesh Ponnuru

Posted on 01/16/2009 5:03:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

At least one segment of the economy is booming: the market in Obama kitsch. The dedicated supporter of the incoming President need not content himself with a T shirt or bumper sticker. Also available are Obama coasters, lava lamps, jigsaw puzzles, mugs, skateboards, toy trains, CDs, DVDs and, of course, commemorative dinner plates. Ben & Jerry's is introducing a Yes Pecan flavor in honor of Obama's campaign slogan, and Marvel Comics is running a special Inaugural issue of Spider-Man. Pepsi has created the Pepsi Optimism Project with a red, white and blue logo almost identical to Obama's sunrise button. And Obama's face now graces subway tickets sold in the nation's capital.

Officials in Washington expect record crowds for Jan. 20--record lines at the Porta-Potty too--and closing time at several hundred local bars and watering holes has been extended practically into the breakfast hour for celebrators' convenience. (Tourism is getting a boost outside D.C. too: in Honolulu, a $40 bus ride will take you to see where Obama scooped ice cream as a teen.) We have an economic stimulus plan, and his name is Barack Obama. (See pictures of Barack Obama on Flickr.)

Conservatives harrumph at all this adulation. Before declaring his greatness, we insist that we should wait for him to accomplish something for the country. (Spike Lee didn't even wait for the election. Last summer he said we were soon going to measure time by "BB, before Barack, and AB, after Barack.") In some of his supporters, we see the spectacle of secular-minded folk looking for a messiah. But we risk looking like spoilsports or sore losers, and we can sympathize with the excitement over the first nonwhite President, even if we would have preferred that someone else had played the role.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: bho2008; bhoinaugural; democrats; inaugural; obama; obamainaugural; ponnuru; sacrilege; sheeple; zero
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To: bikerman

Ahh dude...ya beat me to it.


21 posted on 01/16/2009 5:45:13 PM PST by Pipe Dog
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To: AnAmericanMother

My small town in NC is having an Inaugural Ball.

I belong to a women’s organization which has a few black members. A couple of them view everything in terms of race. Anything we want to do as a group, must pass their “can we sell it to Our People test?” I am so sick of hearing “our people”!

We didn’t buy tickets to the town’s Inaugural Ball, but wonder what they would have said if we had said “sorry, that just doesn’t sell to My People”. I can imagine the outcry.


22 posted on 01/16/2009 5:48:17 PM PST by kalee
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To: dianed

Yeah, that was a good one. LOL


23 posted on 01/16/2009 5:48:28 PM PST by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: AnAmericanMother
oops, should be Anything we want to do as a group, must pass their “can we sell it to Our People?" test.
24 posted on 01/16/2009 5:50:24 PM PST by kalee
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To: bikerman


25 posted on 01/16/2009 5:53:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Don't confuse what you got a right to do with what's right to do." Bill Bennett)
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To: bikerman

BHO TP http://www.jeremyinc.com/


26 posted on 01/16/2009 5:55:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Don't confuse what you got a right to do with what's right to do." Bill Bennett)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ben & Jerry's is introducing a Yes Pecan flavor in honor of Obama's campaign slogan

This will only make sense to Yankees.

27 posted on 01/16/2009 5:57:00 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At this point, I am convinced that Priscilla Presley is Barack Obama’s PR person.


28 posted on 01/16/2009 6:04:08 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: autumnraine

LOL. Velvet Obama.


29 posted on 01/16/2009 6:09:35 PM PST by LucyJo
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To: Chickensoup
Haven't seen anything like that at our Waffle House.

Even though it's owned and managed by a nice middle-aged black man.

I bet he's figuring that he's going to get a good chunk of his income taken away, and doesn't give a flip about the color of the man who's going to do it . . . .

30 posted on 01/16/2009 7:02:09 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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To: Fred Nerks

Those buttons probably have radioactive radium on them.


31 posted on 01/16/2009 7:07:43 PM PST by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: Fred Nerks
Yikes!

"The only shining example of every German is our Führer Adolf Hitler."

The buttons say "Loyalty to Loyalty" - motto of the German paratroopers and also some of the SS.

The typewritten label notes helpfully that the buttons glow in the dark.

I suppose this is what passes for Prussian culture (see the watermark).

32 posted on 01/16/2009 7:09:57 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Are we in a Sci Fi Movie with the POD people taking over the country?

Judging by the ridiculous election results, and the blind faith of the Obamunists, IF an Alien race decided the Earth was ripe for taking, they could do it without us knowing what hit us.

Rod Serling was way ahead of his time. In his stories, the Aliens usually succeeded, i.e., To Serve Man.

33 posted on 01/16/2009 7:33:17 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
closing time at several hundred local bars and watering holes has been extended practically into the breakfast hour for celebrators' convenience.

Really bad idea.

34 posted on 01/16/2009 8:18:08 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Will they be selling roach clips as well?

This has gone far beyond nauseating.

35 posted on 01/17/2009 3:25:19 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier)
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