A spontaneous and immediate by-product of Sen. Barack Obama’s successful presidential run is the run on merchandise that’s entering a potentially hot, post-election phase after enjoying a typically tacky campaign phase that produced lots of forgettable memorabilia.
There are those cigarette lighters with the caricature of a grinning, goofy Obama, and the Lucite paperweight with a smiling, squint-eyed Obama peering through it, and the Obama combo pen knife, scissors, bottle opener and key chain with his smiling photo over his “Yes We Can” slogan. My personal favorite is the glow-in-the-dark Obama refrigerator magnet.
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