Start Your Day With Obama Coffee. Finish it with Obama Noodles

Over the past several months, I've seen many Obama-related items on the streets, like tee-shirts, bumper stickers, yard signs, posters, and pins.  While all of these show some type of affection for Obama, they're pretty weak in terms of creativity, so it's only fitting that 16 different Chinese companies are filling the gap. 

The Chinese State Trademark Bureau has already requests from 16 different companies to produce Obama-related products.  Tee-shirts just don't go far enough.  Why not have an Obama belt, Obama shoes, or Obama clothes for your children?  In case there's any confusion, you can also get them with the "American Obama" logo. 

If you have to take medicine, why settle for a generic name when you can have "Barack Obama" traditional medicine?  Wouldn't your coffee and instant noodles also taste better if they were an Obama-brand?  That's even more impressive than making it to the Wheaties box.

Despite the enthusiasm, it's not extremely likely that these efforts will be approved, since, as the Daily Telegraph reports, "all politicians names are censored in China."  This censorship apparently goes so far, though, since it clearly hasn't stopped the use of Mao-related products.  Even the infamous Clinton-Lewinsky condoms made it onto the market, though maybe not through legal channels.

In any case, whether or not you will be able to buy official Obama-themed wooden logs or drink Obama coffee, chances are you will be able to purchase Aobama or Obamma-related paraphernalia throughout China.  Perhaps these ambitious entrepreneurs will soon be exporting some of the Obama children's clothes to Kenya, to outfit the Barack baby boom.