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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world’s only daily column treasuring campaign memorabilia.
Like baseball cards and Beanie Babies, rare coins and locks of celebrity hair, our collection may one day put our grandchildren through college.
The historic nature of the presidential run — from its earliest moments — turned up enough appreciable valuables to fill our closets, shoe boxes and cupboards.
The mint-green “Merry Christmas and a Huckabee New Year” T-shirt may cost $20 on an obscure website today, but give it a few decades and it’ll be the hot item everybody’s scrambling for.
Or at least it will help start conversations when we’re out in the front lawn, pulling weeds.
That light-blue presidential seal that President-elect Barack Obama sat behind at a meeting last summer — the one that said “Vero Possumus” with the “O” sign on the eagle’s chest — ought to fetch your weight in gold here in about 10 to 20 years.
The silly seal may have disappeared quickly after the media attention, but we’re confident some spirited, young volunteer dug the prize out of the trash.
Our Google e-mail box has an advertising banner that guesses what sort of stuff we might buy. On Tuesday, it linked us to a site vending items from Michelle Obama’s campaign wardrobe. But it wasn’t authentic campaign material; rather, some retailer was just trying to make a buck.
If we were going to buy any sort of campaign replica item, it would no doubt be the Michael Jackson “Thriller”-style red leather jacket Sarah Palin wore.
Or maybe we’d put our chips on the “Sarah-Cuda,” a Palin-themed compound bow available now at only $590. It’s painted a stylish “pink camouflage” and was designed to accommodate women hunters, according to manufacturer Lakota Industries.
What a killer idea.
We haven’t seen any of those “John Edwards is Hot” T-shirts lately, likely because their owners want to keep them in mint condition. Sex scandals sell.
Most of the real good stuff will end up in museums, presidential libraries or public landfills. It’s the stuff people don’t think about at the time, or don’t get a chance to touch that accrue the most value.
But the appeal of even simple limited-edition goodies is worth a spot in our ol’ box of memories — yeah, somewhere between the photo of our neurotic ex and the Bob Dylan concert ticket stub.
The treat of voting in a swing state this year bestowed upon Coloradans a nice variety of limited-edition mailers. Our P.O. box was consistently full of colorful fliers aiming to appeal on a variety of levels.
Some were odd, like the Valentine’s-themed one with one of a state House candidate matched up with Karl Rove and President Bush. The arrow-toting cupids put it over the top.
But taken out of context a few years down the road, that gem of a joke will be worth a laugh or two with some friends.
Our favorite grab this campaign season was the stylish pink tote bag we found on our door a few weeks ago. Someone should take a cue from this candidate.
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Like baseball cards and Beanie Babies, rare coins and locks of celebrity hair, our collection may one day put our grandchildren through college.
The historic nature of the presidential run — from its earliest moments — turned up enough appreciable valuables to fill our closets, shoe boxes and cupboards.
The mint-green “Merry Christmas and a Huckabee New Year” T-shirt may cost $20 on an obscure website today, but give it a few decades and it’ll be the hot item everybody’s scrambling for.
Or at least it will help start conversations when we’re out in the front lawn, pulling weeds.
That light-blue presidential seal that President-elect Barack Obama sat behind at a meeting last summer — the one that said “Vero Possumus” with the “O” sign on the eagle’s chest — ought to fetch your weight in gold here in about 10 to 20 years.
The silly seal may have disappeared quickly after the media attention, but we’re confident some spirited, young volunteer dug the prize out of the trash.
Our Google e-mail box has an advertising banner that guesses what sort of stuff we might buy. On Tuesday, it linked us to a site vending items from Michelle Obama’s campaign wardrobe. But it wasn’t authentic campaign material; rather, some retailer was just trying to make a buck.
If we were going to buy any sort of campaign replica item, it would no doubt be the Michael Jackson “Thriller”-style red leather jacket Sarah Palin wore.
Or maybe we’d put our chips on the “Sarah-Cuda,” a Palin-themed compound bow available now at only $590. It’s painted a stylish “pink camouflage” and was designed to accommodate women hunters, according to manufacturer Lakota Industries.
What a killer idea.
We haven’t seen any of those “John Edwards is Hot” T-shirts lately, likely because their owners want to keep them in mint condition. Sex scandals sell.
Most of the real good stuff will end up in museums, presidential libraries or public landfills. It’s the stuff people don’t think about at the time, or don’t get a chance to touch that accrue the most value.
But the appeal of even simple limited-edition goodies is worth a spot in our ol’ box of memories — yeah, somewhere between the photo of our neurotic ex and the Bob Dylan concert ticket stub.
The treat of voting in a swing state this year bestowed upon Coloradans a nice variety of limited-edition mailers. Our P.O. box was consistently full of colorful fliers aiming to appeal on a variety of levels.
Some were odd, like the Valentine’s-themed one with one of a state House candidate matched up with Karl Rove and President Bush. The arrow-toting cupids put it over the top.
But taken out of context a few years down the road, that gem of a joke will be worth a laugh or two with some friends.
Our favorite grab this campaign season was the stylish pink tote bag we found on our door a few weeks ago. Someone should take a cue from this candidate.
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In other news we have an Angel Alert!! Angel Alert!! from the Summit County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, expressing its gratitude to:
• The little couple who wished to remain anonymous, who provided us with a tray of delicious sandwiches.
• Fatty’s Pizzeria for donating dinner to us. The Town of Breckenridge for providing us with Mi Zuppa. The Lodgepole Bar & Grill for all the delicious meals.
• Trina Taylor for the two trays of delicious cookies. And to all of our fellow county employees, our election judges, friends and family of our staff for all your hard work and dedication.
Without all of your help, this difficult Election could not have gone off so smoothly. Thank you!
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We here at the Corporate Suites were certainly pleased with the efficient election orchestration.
Those 10-hour vote waits in other states didn’t look like much fun, even on TV. Here in Summit we spent more time filling out the ballot than standing in line.
And the results came in nice and quick, too.
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It’s Thursday, and we’re raiding trash bins for signs of electoral aspirations.
• The little couple who wished to remain anonymous, who provided us with a tray of delicious sandwiches.
• Fatty’s Pizzeria for donating dinner to us. The Town of Breckenridge for providing us with Mi Zuppa. The Lodgepole Bar & Grill for all the delicious meals.
• Trina Taylor for the two trays of delicious cookies. And to all of our fellow county employees, our election judges, friends and family of our staff for all your hard work and dedication.
Without all of your help, this difficult Election could not have gone off so smoothly. Thank you!
***
We here at the Corporate Suites were certainly pleased with the efficient election orchestration.
Those 10-hour vote waits in other states didn’t look like much fun, even on TV. Here in Summit we spent more time filling out the ballot than standing in line.
And the results came in nice and quick, too.
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It’s Thursday, and we’re raiding trash bins for signs of electoral aspirations.
