In a CNN interview on Barack Obama’s pop icon status, CafePress vice-president of marketing Amy Maniatis places the President-elect among rather dubious company:
It’s almost like what you’ve seen with Che Guevara or Eva Peron, when a political leader has this coolness factor that goes well beyond their political beliefs. They represent something even bigger.
You can’t blame Maniatis: her main concern is selling t-shirts, and any political figure with enough of a “coolness factor” is pay dirt. But at what point does CNN actually pick up on this comparison between our next president and two decidedly undemocratic figures, and start asking whether Obama-worship has gone too far?
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