The president-elect's face is selling like hotcakes.

By GottaLaff

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The Obamabilia stimulus package:

[I]if you really had foresight, you would have bet the rent on Barack Obama baby bibs.

Or Barack Obama mugs, T-shirts, stationery, posters, postcards, notecards, aprons, coasters, dog jerseys, throw pillows and mouse pads. With so many segments of the economy in the fetal position, the Obama memorabilia business is one of the very few that is actually thriving.

In most election years, the candidate T-shirt and button market pretty much disappears after the ballots are counted. Not this time. [...]

At CafePress.com there are 96,000 different Obama-related designs for sale, according to vice president of marketing Amy Maniatis. That includes a T-shirt that says "Now I don't have to move to Canada" and a poster that says "Once you go Barack, you'll never go back." [...]

Anti-Bush stuff sold so well for so many years that there was genuine concern at CafePress that the end of the president's second term would hurt the company's bottom line. [...] Instead, Obama love has more than offset the downturn.

At America!, the exuberantly punctuated chain of patriotically themed souvenir shops, they're moving a lot of life-size cardboard cutouts of Obama, at $42.99 each. (And by the way, all the McCain product -- half off.) [...]

There has even been some additional work for tattoo artists. Some people prefer their Obama souvenirs permanent. [...]

But no one has seized on the Obama keepsake market with quite the ambition of A.J. Khubani, the president of TeleBrands. The New Jersey company is best known for creating the "As Seen on TV" logo and selling items like the Flat Fold Colander, the Stick Up Bulb and the Pedi Paws, "the incredible nail trimming solution for dogs and cats." [...] [He] hired an artist to design a commemorative plate [...]

Khubani expects big things from this tchotchke. He's ordering 1 million of them. Sadly, the manufacturing upsides of the "victory plate" won't be part of the Obama economic mini-surge here in the United States.

The plate is being made in China.

PhenomObama. Take it to the bank.