I’m trying to stay out of the entire Zimmerman/Martin thing – my instincts started firing off the This Story Is Going To Blow Up In Incautious People’s Faces Before We Figure Out What The Heck Happened alarm right from the start, and that alarm’s never wrong – but selling Obama hoodies on the campaign site? Pretty tasteless.
It’s like Obama and his campaign team never think about this stuff, you know? Bob Krumm (via Instapundit) has the right of it: the President has inherently poor judgement and worse instincts. Of course, I’ve been saying that for a while now…
Moe Lane
Moe, Thanks for the link.
Well, it’s not like the Santorum campaign isn’t selling them too:
http://www.cafepress.com/+santorum_president_zip_hoodie,608771215
And the Romney campaign:
http://www.mittromney.com/store/romney-full-zip-hoodie
And to be fair:
http://www.cafepress.com/+newt-gingrich+sweatshirts-hoodies
http://www.cafepress.com/+ron-paul+sweatshirts-hoodies
Yes, Finrod, but did any of the them send out a tweet specifically advertising said hoodies yesterday?
The queasy feeling increases when Trayvon’s mother is trademarking his name. Ugh.
That last comment might be a useful update to the original piece, Moe, as I’d sort of wondered the same thing. In the age of Cafe Press, you can get anything printed on anything almost. The part about the Tweet is where it gets dicey. Just my .02.
To clarify: I do not in any way diminish the loss of this woman’s son. I lost my Dad a month ago, not in the brutal way this young man died, but to illness complicated by Alzheimer’s. Grief is weird. It sneaks up on you, and I can’t seem to figure out when and where I’ll end up weeping. It’s hard for me to judge a mother’s grief–but I do wonder at the attorney who filed this registration for a trademark.
From C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed: “No-one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
It’s hard to make good decisions when you’re afraid.
Making poor or irrational decisions while grieving is perfectly understandable. Everybody does it to some extent. But trademarks??? That’s just, hell, I don’t even know what that is.
That is a crappy decision made in an atmosphere super-charged by race-baiting and opportunistic lawyers. Those individuals should be ashamed. Will anyone stand up the to the $10,000 bounty-hunters? Or someone tweeting a home address? It’s sickening.
Spike Lee tweeted the WRONG address to boot. The address was that of a 70 and 72 yr old couple who have since left their home due to safety concerns. And Spike hasn’t deleted the tweet. Nor has he apologized.