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Advertisers Launch Truly Awful Obama Memorabilia

pdtl-108595001.jpg UPDATE: BNET reader jenniferot4u (see comments) noticed these even-worse Obama trinkets:

Marketers are dispatching a tidal wave of Barack Obama-related commemorative garbage. The foremost offender is VictoryPlate.com, "commemorating the day the world changed -- forever!" Here's the pitch:

It features the president-elect with confident smile and kind eyes...
"Kind eyes?"

The back displays the seal of the American Historic Society...
The American Historic Society is actually a creature of the National Consumer Marketing company. A Google search will show you that this company is best known for being the subject of numerous complaints by unhappy customers.

Save for the president, the ad only features white people. And by "white people" I mean super-duper caucasian mayonnaise-y white people. But don't worry, there's a commemorative coin for black collectors -- with a black voiceover and a black female "customer" -- as well.

Don't like that plate or that coin? Then try this slightly different plate. There's a whole set of worthless coins here.

As if this needs to be said, don't be fooled by the notion that once the plate kiln is fired up, "65 firing days after that the die will be destroyed forever!" These things are not going to become collectibles anytime soon. The Smithsonian's Larry Bird says:

Anything that's made to be collectible is not.
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