{"id":8717,"date":"2010-02-18T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8717"},"modified":"2010-02-18T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T11:43:28","slug":"yes-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8717","title":{"rendered":"Yes, They Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of &#8220;Dubya&#8221; memorabilia are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2010\/02\/16\/2010-02-16_yes_they_are_missing_dubya_shopping_web_site_reports_spike_in_sales_of_bush_item.html#ixzz0fmUnOmpR\">spiking<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Demand for the items spiked after a billboard featuring the ex-commander in chief appeared alongside a rural Minnesota highway last week, stirring up buzz.<\/p>\n<p>CafePress spokeswoman Jenna Martin said sales of Bush-related products virtually disappeared after Obama replaced him.<\/p>\n<p>But last week, she said, 10 of the firm&#8217;s top-selling 100 designs were &#8220;Miss Me Yet?&#8221; items, moving to the tune of up to 500 orders a day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;as sales of Obama items (not to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8488\">Obama-themed stores<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4141\">Obama radio<\/a> stations) <a href=\"&quot;There were no Obama-themed designs on the list - Bush has stolen the political spotlight, just like Sarah Palin did the week before when she re-surfaced with crib notes written in her palm,&quot; she said.  Read more: http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2010\/02\/16\/2010-02-16_yes_they_are_missing_dubya_shopping_web_site_reports_spike_in_sales_of_bush_item.html#ixzz0ft2ewpTS\">crater<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There were no Obama-themed designs on the list &#8211; Bush has stolen the political spotlight, just like <a title=\"Sarah Palin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Sarah+Palin\">Sarah Palin<\/a> did the week before when she re-surfaced with crib notes written in her palm,&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying we need to imbue this factoid with any significance at all.<\/p>\n<p>But if it means those wretched &#8220;Obama Tells Mothers To Go Back To School&#8221; and &#8220;Obama Backs Insurance Regulation&#8221; get pulled one of these days, I think we can all agree it&#8217;s for the greater good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of &#8220;Dubya&#8221; memorabilia are spiking&#8230;: Demand for the items spiked after a billboard featuring the ex-commander in chief appeared alongside a rural Minnesota highway last week, stirring up buzz. CafePress spokeswoman Jenna Martin said sales of Bush-related products virtually disappeared after Obama replaced him. But last week, she said, 10 of the firm&#8217;s top-selling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8718,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}