Obamania!

My wife's friend Cat is a hard-core Republican. So is her entire family... parents, cousins, hubby, hubby's family... all except Gramma, that is.

A few weeks before the election, Gramma announced during a large family gathering that she was going to vote for Obama. It's a miracle she got out of there alive.

After the election, there were lots of conversations involving Gramma saying words to the effect of, "Now you'll see", and the rest of the family saying, "Shut up Gramma." If not for that whole pesky "Gift of Life" thing, I think they would have driven her out to the middle of nowhere and left her for dead by now.

And now, we have the pinnacle of partisan joy. Gramma has announced that *everybody* in Cat's family is going to get an Obama commemorative plate for Christmas this year.

My malicious side loves this. 'Tis the season for gifts I know you'll hate! I hear she's also buying up some hair gel for Howie Mandel and a speedo for Santa.

I did a quick search for other Obama merchandise. I'm not making any of the following up:

Commemorative Silver coins
Yeah, I know. Nothing unusual here, unless you consider that the coin features an ape-man-ish monster and a turkey with the legs of an olympic power-lifter. Moving on...

Mousepad?
Startin' to get weird here... I want to celebrate history by mashing a egg-ish blarg of plastic down on his face and rubbin' real hard!

Coloring Book!
This one is so weird I'm including a link so you can share my confusion. I thought that "coloring book" wasn't PC enough for us anymore... I'm surprised they didn't call it a "Tome of Paint Pages" or something.

Christmas Ornament
If you put political ornaments (for ANY candidate) on your tree, then I don't wanna be your friend anymore.