While Rachel Maddow was exciting Charles into his impersonation of the Ecstasy of St. Therese; LGF2 noted one more sign of an economy that isn’t moving as it did a mere 10 months ago:
They cashed out retirement funds to build their business during the 2008 presidential campaign. Now they have 3,000 jack-in-the-boxes with smiling Barack Obama puppets inside — all sitting in a California warehouse, waiting to be sprung open for $29.95 apiece.
For Barack-in-the-Box creator Heather Courtney and her husband, David Manzo, the Obamamania that drove sales so fast they could barely keep up during the inauguration is over now. Sales have slowed to a “sporadic drizzle,” the 36-year-old artist said, in part because the president just isn’t as popular.
And that’s just one product. In a few years flea markets will be flooded with junk like this.
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