Am I wrong or is the current president,the first president in history to be used as a marketing tool by companies ?

I have seen none of these ads… can you link to them?

@Likeradar I’m surprise you have never seen the “Obama ask mother to go back to school!! It’s annoying as hell,it has two women dancing with each other !! I’ll try to find the link !!

From the New Yorker

The American craving for Lincoln soon led to the use of his likeness and name to sell life insurance, cholera remedies, and lead (“By Its Purity & Excellent Qualities This Lead Deserves The Name Bestowed Upon It”). Children began playing with Lincoln Logs, invented by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, and, in a telling trivialization, during the 1909 centennial the Waterman Company’s new no-dip Lincoln Fountain Pen guaranteed “the emancipation of millions of slaves to the ink bottle.”

I have seen him used for credit re-building companies.

Do you mean the companies that make the posters, t-shirts and chintzy rhinestone watches is see being sold on the street that bear his likeness and name?

I’ve seen those types of ads online and I’ve heard a few on the radio that are almost as stupid. Many of them take the “Obama is going to eat your freedoms for breakfast” angle. They’re really annoying, but I doubt that it’s the first time this has happened before.

@proXXi NO, as I said car/home insurance companies,online schools,mortgage companies etc,etc,

Gotcha.

I would assume these companies are betting on Obama’s popularity regardless of his policy.

Just like his campaign staff.

@Likeradar———- link 4 ads

@Talimze Are you Ok ? You must be sick,girl as you are not the Talimze I remember from AB !

George Washington slept here.

RACISM! I am a proud owner of the Obama bronze bust, the Obama Chia Head, have a full set of the Obama coins, and I expect my “Obama as Jesus on Velvet” any day now. But I have not seen anyone taking advantage of his popularity to make money or peddle worthless crap.

Definitely not the first, but since Obama is ridiculously popular, such a surge in branding is expected.

The examples of Lincoln and Washington were after they left office. I’m curious to know if any sitting president has ever been used for marketing purposes.

it is what America does, it could market communism wholesale and make a profit, i swear to God, in fact it could market God, Osama Bin Laden, AIDS, Hell, Global warming, any damn thing you like.

@mammal I beg to differ…I tried to buy and sell the Osama Bin Laden bronze bust, the Osama Bin Laden Chia Head, the full set of the Osama Bin Laden coins, and the “Osama Bin Laden as Jesus on Velvet” to no avail…some things just don’t have a market in the USSA – (United Socialist States of Amerika).

So apparently…communism does not sell. Maybe when the next wave of government spending kicks in.

He’s the first a lot of things, and most of them are not good.

My new year’s resolution this year is to watch a whole lot less television!! Nothing more irritating than these ads. Gonna do alot more reading.

@Fluthermucker I don’t know who told you that you were funny, but I really want to smash that person’s face with a hammer right about now.

He’s a tool for sure. You have him pegged.

Relevant link.

New York A billboard featuring President Obama that was erected three days ago will be coming down, according to a spokesman for the company that paid for the outdoor ad in Times Square…

…Company spokesman Allen Cohen on Friday said the ads will be removed “in an expeditious manner” after what he described as a cordial conversation late Thursday with White House counsel Kendall Burman, who requested their prompt removal.