Posted December 3, 2008 7:09 PM
by James Oliphant
Barack Obama still wants your money. But now you can get something back -- just in time for the holidays!
According to his website, a donation of $15 or more will place this "limited edition" coffee mug in your hot little hands.
What makes it a "limited edition?" Well, it's uh, black. And it has the words "Obama" on it. Other than that, it looks like a rather garden-variety coffee mug. Couldn't it be shaped like Joe Biden's head or something?
(I may save my money for the Sarah Palin limited edition ammunition belt.)
For a donation of $200,000 or more, Bill Clinton will come over and pour the coffee himself.
Comments
Look who woke up and smelled the coffee:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-1203edit1dec03,0,2555838.story
Posted by: Trib Wakes Up from Deep Sleep! | December 3, 2008 7:25 PM
"What makes it a 'limited edition?'", asks James Oliphant.
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The term "limited edition" means that only a certain fixed number of an item will be produced. If that number is low enough, the item may then become valuable as a collectable. There may be nothing extraordinary to distinguish the product (other than, say, a logo). Often "Limited Edition" is just a ruse for jacking up the price.
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I thought everybody knew what the term means. I certainly thought a journalist for a major daily would know that... with the higher edjamaction and all.
Posted by: MJ | December 3, 2008 8:01 PM
Sounds like "bottom of the cup"
as the old saying was "bottom of the bucket".
Posted by: Inky | December 3, 2008 8:20 PM
This may be the McBama administration. I'd like fries with that.
Posted by: Vivian | December 3, 2008 8:59 PM
Good to the last drop?
Posted by: bill r. | December 4, 2008 7:24 AM
This is truly hilarious! The exact same mug had been for sale the entire campaign season on the Obama website. Other times they would ask for $15 - $30 for a ‘limited edition’ magnet or some jive and then post it up in the store section for $5 not one month later.
Still, probably my favorite slice of paraphernalia this entire election had to be the Palin/McCain yarmulke on sale at my local Jewish crafts shop. Baruch!
Posted by: Cakers | December 4, 2008 9:35 AM
I'll drink to that !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | December 4, 2008 9:55 AM
I got the email myself...thanks for the good laugh, James!
Posted by: Brian M. | December 4, 2008 8:56 PM