A bit of a cold snap from both the right and the left fronts may be freezing Obamania in its tracks, but a bevy of products got the benefit of the Obama Effect since the president (and his first lady)
took office last January, Laurie Petersen reports.
J. Crew, Planters Trail Mix, Honest Tea and Hartmarx suits were all touched in one way or the other, she writes, and "if
Bill Clinton was strictly a McDonald's man, Obama's cravings helped put Five Guys Burgers and Fries on the national map." Every Portuguese Water Dog had its day, too, as did Hawaii
tourism. A slide show provides entertaining rationale for Petersen's 10 choices.
Stephanie Clifford reports in The New York Times, meanwhile, that New York outerwear company Weatherproof Garment Co. has
decided to cooperate with the White House and has removed the Times Square billboard showing the president wearing one of its coats.
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