Last week, I wrote a post about embattled United States Senator Ted Stevens, a Republican from Alaska that was in a tight spot, steering down a double-barreled shotgun of federal ethics charges and a bitterly contested bid for reelection against a spirited Democratic candidate, Mark Begich.

Stevens’ colleagues at the Republican State Party, observant readers will no doubt recall from my earlier blog entry, had these shocking, but poorly designed, garments printed for a Welcome Home rally just prior to the election.

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With the Presidential election now less than a day away (thankfully), t-shirt entrepreneurs on both sides of the political spectrum are scrambling to milk the Obama cash cow for every last drop of cream.

Urban Outfitters, for example, peddles no less than 11 Barack-related designs. As it is, I’m rather partial to this one and its cute word play:

(The irony, you ask? The company’s leadership is rumored to shower politicians on the extreme Right with financial $upport. Commerce and politics have always been strange bedfellows.)

More examples of shirts in this playful vein are plentiful. Take these two, which riff on the same pun.

Still not convinced of Barack’s commercial potential? Take a peek then at Zazzle.com, which offers more than 30,000 Obama-related items that encompasses everything from t-shirts to skateboard decks. Not to be outdone, Cafepress.com also features a seemingly infinite number — 87,500, to be approximate — of user-submitted designs that can be individually customized with regards to color, size, text and image placement. As you might imagine, they range from creative to crass, stupid to smart and inspired to insipid.

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