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  1. 1.

    Comrade Mary

    Ha! I wonder how long he’s been waiting to do something like this.

    (Shouldn’t you be cleaning? Get back to work!)

  3. 3.

    TimE

    Oh man, that is *way* cheekier than I gave anyone in the administration credit for. I am so getting one of these.

  4. 4.

    Cris (without an H)

    It’s not the shirt that’s awesome — it’s the fact that it’s an official campaign shirt. A campaign that knows how to laugh — who expected that from a national level Democrat, even this one?

  5. 5.

    Susan Kitchens

    Can’t wait for those tee shirts to be bought, donated to thrift stores, sent overseas, and then captured again overseas using the Repatriating Tee Shirts idea I saw over at Sullys. The mind boggles at the meta-on-meta messages that’d come from THAT!

    (Oh, and if you don’t want a tee shirt, you can get a Made In America Mug, too)

  6. 6.

    aisce

    that’s an official campaign shirt?! i love it. that’s so unlike him though.

    rethuglicans have no idea what’s coming after reelection. none.

  7. 7.

    MagicPanda

    Ha!

    BTW, I love the “Made in America” slogan. It ties in with the idea of bringing jobs back home, which I think we should be talking about more.

  10. 10.

    Svensker

    Obama does lots o’ things that piss me off, but this ain’t one of those things. :)

  11. 11.

    Villago Delenda Est

    This tshirt is just win, win, win, win, win.

    A real in your face to the fucktards.

  13. 13.

    Mike in NC

    The Donald would order one (size XXL) only if you could convince him it was made in a Chinese prison or Kenyan sweatshop.

  15. 15.

    Poopyman

    Heh! Love it!

    And the pic on the front is of a guy I could have a beer with, too. Also.

  16. 16.

    catclub

    OT: Political Animal considers the shallow GOP field.

    Benen assessed Perry with this: “Perry reconsiders
    [presidential run], unless there’s a secret reason he’s afraid of national scrutiny”

    Boy do I miss Molly Ivins!

  19. 19.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    Awesome.

    But let’s start the pool for first journo to decry this shirt as (uncivil/unbecoming a president/too mocking/hurting the GOP fee-fees/whatever.) As always, I take Halperin.

  20. 20.

    aisce

    @MagicPanda:

    certainly a lot better than Win the Future.

    thank you donald trump, you racist jackass, you have no idea what a boon you’ve been to this nation now. just never in the way you hoped.

  22. 22.

    Bulworth

    But let’s start the pool for first journo to decry this shirt as (uncivil/unbecoming a president/too mocking/hurting the GOP fee-fees/whatever.) As always, I take Halperin.

    And way too partisany.

  24. 24.

    SIA

    @Bulworth: Don’t try to pretend you don’t know Tunch was educated in a madrassas in Indonesia. We have photos of him there. Cole snuck him into the country right before the 2004 election.

  26. 26.

    Radon Chong

    That shit better not turn out to have been made in China, though I don’t think Obama’s team would be that stupid.

  27. 27.

    grape_crush

    There’s a mug, too, with the same thing.

    Weak odds on one coming out that says, “I got a long form for ya, bitchez!”

  28. 28.

    dmsilev

    I call foul. The shirt says “Made in the USA”, and while it is doubtless true that Obama was *born* in Hawaii, we have little or no hard evidence about where his parents were when he was conceived.

    We need to see the long form conception certificate!

  29. 29.

    Chris

    This isn’t the first time Team Obama has done something like this. I have a photo magnet purchased during the ’08 campaign that shows Obama and Michele sharing that “terrorist fist bump” during the nominating convention.

  30. 30.

    JCT

    @dmsilev: Whoa, don’t give those idiots any ideas.

    Hmmm, wonder if Springsteen will let them use his old “Born in the USA” at campaign stops.

  32. 32.

    scav

    @dmsilev: Conception? Ha! We need a complete 9-month (24/7) long documentation of the entire manufacturing/construction process.

  35. 35.

    salacious crumb

    well…Jon Stewart went on O’Reilly’s show to say there is a possibility he may not vote for Obama. That makes him a racist!!

  36. 36.

    MagicPanda

    @JCT: If Obama used Born in the USA at rallies, the GOP would go on TV and accuse him of being an America-hating liberal by pointing to the lyrics.

  37. 37.

    Violet

    @Comrade Javamanphil:

    But let’s start the pool for first journo to decry this shirt as (uncivil/unbecoming a president/too mocking/hurting the GOP fee-fees/whatever.) As always, I take Halperin.

    I’m thinking the first criticism will be in the “uncivil/conduct unbecoming a president” vein, so that means it’ll have to be someone who routinely operates in that stick-up-their-rear manner. Someone like George Will. I don’t think he’ll be first, but he’ll certainly tut-tut.

    I think first out of the gate will be someone who can simultaneously chuckle at it (showing their humor credentials) and speak sadly of the degradation of our political discourse. Perhaps Bobo would be appropriate for that task?

  40. 40.

    AxelFoley

    @Chris:

    This isn’t the first time Team Obama has done something like this. I have a photo magnet purchased during the ‘08 campaign that shows Obama and Michele sharing that “terrorist fist bump” during the nominating convention.

    Heh, my sister’s got one of those.

  41. 41.

    Citizen_X

    @Comrade Javamanphil:

    As always, I take Halperin.

    I thought Halperin had been taken off he market due to all the strong side effects it caused: projectile vomiting, painful headaches, suicidal thoughts, etc. I always prefer to take…

    Oh, I’m sorry: you mean Halperin the person. I always get that confused.

  42. 42.

    MagicPanda

    @Violet: Oh, Halperin is the king of worrying about Republican feelings. Just not in a stick-up-the-rear way.

    Do you rememeber how he said that Obama made a huge gaffe by not giving President Bush enough credit for catching Osama Bin Laden? And how he partially corrected it by inviting him to visit ground zero with him, but that he waited too long to make the request?

  43. 43.

    vtr

    I just received the email from the Obama 2012 folks, advertising the tee-shirts. It also talked about Jerome Corsi and his delusions. One of them I had never heard before: It turns out that there is “an infinite supply of petroleum” just waiting for at the earth’s core! Anyone know about this? Any chance it comes naturally refined as unleaded regular and no. 2 heating oil? Where I can get drilling rights? How Corsi finds someone to print his books? Why he’s not in a hospital?

  44. 44.

    Ash Can

    @aisce:

    that’s so unlike him though.

    Oh, I don’t know about that. After all, the White House or some affiliated outfit came out with a “Big F#@&ing Deal” t-shirt after ACA passed, and the prez has shown on numerous occasions that he has a wicked dry wit.

  45. 45.

    mikefromArlington

    Radon Chong – May 18, 2011 | 1:12 pm · Link
    That shit better not turn out to have been made in China, though I don’t think Obama’s team would be that stupid.

    All their stuff has a symbol from the union that makes them

  46. 46.

    Josie

    I was thinking Andy Card (although not a journalist) might be one to find fault with it as not having the proper respect for the office. Remember his obsession with jackets and shirt sleeves, etc.

  49. 49.

    Ash Can

    Also too, I wish I could buy up a few cases of these suckers and hand them out in the lobby of Trump Tower downtown.

  50. 50.

    Comrade Javamanphil

    @Violet: Bobo is certainly a good option. Although on further reflection I am now regretting I didn’t pick Sully awarding the Obama campaign a Moore award as the opening shot in the “no snark for presidents” war.

  52. 52.

    catclub

    @vtr: google search on ‘abiogenic petroleum’ should help.
    Here is the first line at Wikipedia:
    “Abiogenic petroleum origin is a discredited hypothesis that was proposed as an alternative to theory of biological petroleum origin.”

    Sounds like a winner in the rightwing nut crowd! Except for the ones who actually pay for oil drilling and don’t want any more dry wells than necessary. Funny how actually needing to get it right changes one’s credulousness.

  53. 53.

    Violet

    @MagicPanda:

    Oh, Halperin is the king of worrying about Republican feelings. Just not in a stick-up-the-rear way.

    Yeah, but I don’t think the first criticism will be in the “worrying about Republican feelings” style. It’ll be more in the “conduct unbecoming a president” manner. But since the shirt is funny as hell, and pretty much everyone with even a small sense of humor will get that, the first criticism needs to be from someone who can acknowledge the joke, but then criticize Team Obama for making a joke at all. I think Bobo is the right guy for that.

  54. 54.

    catclub

    I bet someone will get a non ‘Made in USA’ shirt and transfer the image onto that for their 15 seconds of fame pointing out the hypocrisy.

  60. 60.

    Mnemosyne

    @Fred:

    Just wait until you see their conservative Bible project. Apparently all of that “love your neighbor” and “take care of the poor” stuff is just too, too liberal to be allowed to remain.

    Which means that the conservative Bible will be about three paragraphs long, but anyway ….

  61. 61.

    Montysano

    @Comrade Javamanphil:

    Oh sure, but what does Conservapedia have to say on the topic, hmmm?

    “Exxon’s Australia chief, Mark Nolan, told an industry conference in Adelaide, Australia, that “the end of oil is nowhere in sight.” Suck on that, hippies.

    Cue Brick Oven Bill to tell us all about oil shale.

  63. 63.

    Fergus Wooster

    @catclub:

    Except for the ones who actually pay for oil drilling and don’t want any more dry wells than necessary. Funny how actually needing to get it right changes one’s credulousness.

    I have known petroleum geologists who are also young-earth creationists. At least one who owned his own exploration company.

    That keeps me up at night.

  64. 64.

    Culture of Truth

    I love it.

    And it seems very much like something Obama would do, to me.

  67. 67.

    Mnemosyne

    @Montysano:

    If that’s the case, then the people who picked Mark “Matt Drudge Rules Our World” Halperin are going to win the prize.

  70. 70.

    grape_crush

    @slag:

    Nah. Mine was the wiseass comment near the bottom of the comment thread and then the “rat in a cage” GIMPing (since I didn’t use Photoshop, I can’t call it ‘photoshopping’) of the Gingrich-Brooks photo.

  73. 73.

    Jerry

    @Bulworth: Don’t try to pretend you don’t know Tunch was educated in a madrassas in Indonesia. We have photos of him there. Cole snuck him into the country right before the 2004 election.

    @@SIA: Why won’t Tunch release the long form pedigree?

  74. 74.

    grandpajohn

    @Comrade Javamanphil: hmmm so according to them there are vast undiscovered deposits? So exactly how does this disprove the idea that at sometime in the future we will still reach a point of peak oil. the only way not to is for the oil deposits in someway to start regenerating and producing new oil to replace that removed.

  76. 76.

    grandpajohn

    @Montysano: Drudge? oh the agony and the irony, The big O cashes in on a controversy , and who was it that created the controversy? payback is a bitch ain’t it.

  77. 77.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    I just fought myself back from the brink of buying one. I never ever wear tshirts like this, and the husband, while he would enjoy the fact of this one, wouldn’t wear it either.

    But damn. I really want one! Can’t someone make it in a nice hoodie, or a v-neck babydoll? Hmmmm?

  78. 78.

    grandpajohn

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Go for the mug then, they also have that same design
    Probably what I will do, Since I live in South Carolina, I could only wear the tee shirt at home which would be no fun, well I could wear it in public but I would probably get shunned.

  81. 81.

    estamm

    These t-shirts better actually be manufactured in the USA, or the right will go ape shit, and the Obama campaign will look silly. I’ve ordered one, so I’ll know myself soon.

  82. 82.

    Ash Can

    @Montysano: Actually, the Drudge Report simply links through to a Jake Tapper piece about the t-shirts. Tapper, to his credit and not surprisingly, makes it clear in the article that he has no problem with the shirts, and thinks birthers are idiots.

    So, there’s actually no butthurt here. The Halperin, Will, etc. betters are still in the running; the sweepstakes is still on.

    ETA @ estamm: I’ve never known the Obama campaign to use anything but American-made, union-made products.

  83. 83.

    flukebucket

    @grandpajohn:

    Shunned? I live in Georgia and if I were to wear one of those out in public I would probably get assaulted and my car would get keyed.

  84. 84.

    Mnemosyne

    @Ash Can:

    And it wouldn’t be a Tapper article without some good old-fashioned concern trolling:

    Selling products featuring the long-form birth certificate might be a risk for the campaign, given how seriously the president and many of his top aides have objected to the birther lie, some suggesting that it is in no small part a racist way to make the president seem “other.” Merchandise featuring the birth certificate could be seen as trivializing those concerns, or even crassly exploiting them to raise campaign cash.

  85. 85.

    Montysano

    @Ash Can:

    Actually, the Drudge Report simply links through to a Jake Tapper piece about the t-shirts. Tapper, to his credit and not surprisingly, makes it clear in the article that he has no problem with the shirts, and thinks birthers are idiots.

    Well sure, that’s how Drudge operates. He knows that the 27%-er low-information mouth-breathers will not click the link. They just read the headline,then wait for further instructions from Rush/Sean/Glenn.

  86. 86.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    @grandpajohn: @Nellcote: Ack! (she said, channeling her inner Cathy) I need more mugs like I need more tshirts I’ll never wear – indeed, less so. The “I can see Russia from this blog” mug I bought from this here site represented a complete breakdown of my own moral authority, and it had to be crow-barred into the cabinet.

    And aside from anything else, I would want to wear it out and about for the world to see!

  87. 87.

    Ash Can

    @Mnemosyne: LOL! Good catch.

    Merchandise featuring the birth certificate could be seen as trivializing those concerns

    Gee, Jake, ya think??

    At least he doesn’t drop one of those “Questions, however, persist” turds. And I suppose just the fact that I’m so willing to give a newsie credit for even that much is a commentary on the state of our news media these days.

  88. 88.

    JPL

    @flukebucket: I live in GA also and thought that I’d order a few coffee mugs and smile every time I used them. I also have friends with a different opinion and my top cabinets have glass doors where I will keep them in.

  89. 89.

    Montysano

    @Ash Can:

    At least he doesn’t drop one of those “Questions, however, persist” turds

    But I feel sure that, at some point, Some People will be concerned, and will have valid questions.

  95. 95.

    grumpy realist

    Shouldn’t we be demanding that we be allowed to order the long-armed form of the tee-shirt?

  97. 97.

    metalgirl

    @efgoldman: Agree! I still can’t delete her webpage from my browser links — too sad!!! Molly would like this shirt — I’m glad I ordered one when I read the article on “The Hill”!

  98. 98.

    hamletta

    @Radon Chong: Skipped to the end to answer you, so pardon me if it’s already been said, but hells yeah, it’s made here.

    Even in a right-to-work-for-less state like Tennessee, all Dem Party merch is made by union shops. There’s a union bug somewhere on that shirt.

  100. 100.

    grandpajohn

    @Mnemosyne: Exploiting,like bush and 9/11? WMDs in Iraq? this type exploitation?
    Well hell yes of course he is thats what smart intelligent politicians do, exploit the fuck-ups and stupidity of their opponents.that’s exactly what makes the whole thing so great, not only does Obama exploit the hatred and stupidity of these morons for political gain, he also rakes in campaign money off of their disgusting behavior,.
    Exploitation is what made this the great country it is, exploitation of the native Americans, the black slaves, the poor immigrants from Europe. The system of free enterprise was built on the backs of the Sweatshops and 14hour, 7 days a week labor forces,Our history books tell us of the “Robber Baron Era” so why would we not expect our politicians to exploit the stupidity of their opponents?

  101. 101.

    grandpajohn

    @Ash Can: So how does one go about trivializing concerns that are so irrelevant as to be pushing the limit to even be considered trivial to start with., well except to MSM people such as Tapper

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