Obama Shoes

These commemorative Obama Shoes can be yours for just $39.99. They're "easily an $80 value," according to the TV commercial. (Thanks, Tara McGinley!)

[MrJM May 15, 2009 5:32 PM]

Finally, a change of shoes I can believe in!

-- MrJM

[phisrow May 15, 2009 5:50 PM]

Hidden inside are the unreleased torture pictures. The shoes are also useful for "going forward not backward".

[Antinous / Moderator May 15, 2009 5:58 PM]

If only Muntadhar al-Zaidi had owned a pair of these...

[drivenbyboredom May 15, 2009 6:12 PM]

They just took the swoosh off a Nike Air Force 1. Even the sole is identical.

[Anonymous May 15, 2009 6:20 PM]

Similar kicks (and others) were available @ Inauguration. Check 'em out:

Obamamania: 2009 Inauguration merchandise

[HeartlessMachine May 15, 2009 7:10 PM]

I just wanted to post some comment about copyright infringement on images involved in copyright infringement litigation. That's all.

[johnofjack May 15, 2009 7:15 PM]

Unfortunately with these shoes on you can only take a few steps toward a goal before reversing course.

[Anonymous May 15, 2009 7:32 PM]

Peel off the Obama decal and you'll find they're just repurposed Bush sneakers.

[Anonymous May 15, 2009 7:37 PM]

Wonder if anyone going to throw one of these at any former world leaders…

[Anonymous May 15, 2009 7:53 PM]

You might want to update the original post to mention that adult sizes are $59.99.

For $40 I was going to buy some as a lark, but for $60 I can think of better things to spend my money on.

[normd May 15, 2009 8:50 PM]

the seam where the vamp meets the upper makes me think this are Omar (of the Wire) shoes, not Obama shoes

[HPHovercraft May 15, 2009 9:05 PM]

@#2 ...and yet the catalogue promised they'd be transparent. Those are some highl disappointing shoes...

[flatfive May 15, 2009 10:12 PM]

I seriously kinda want some of these, but the website is so fly-by-night that I can't possibly order them.

And what's an 'adult' size? Is that men's or women's?

Too bad, really. I'd rock 'em.

[obdan May 15, 2009 11:28 PM]

um, where were they made?

[Modusoperandi May 16, 2009 12:56 AM]

Obdan: This is America! Freedom! USA! USA! (Translation: they're probably made in some third world hellhole by children for 8 cents per pair)

[Teapunk May 16, 2009 3:05 AM]

Do they promise to be different and then they take it all back?

[IamInnocent May 16, 2009 4:04 AM]

If only Muntadhar al-Zaidi had owned a pair of these...

What difference would that make really?

[Anonymous May 16, 2009 6:05 AM]

Take one step up, two steps back in these same old new shoes.

[Aloisius May 16, 2009 11:49 AM]

Sometimes I wonder if Republicans are trying to seed discord through an undercover campaign of posting on random blogs.

I mean, Obama == Bush? Really? In what universe?

[Antinous / Moderator May 16, 2009 12:15 PM]

Well I was actually referring to the potential humor of someone throwing a shoe with Obama on it at Bush.

[Anonymous May 16, 2009 3:29 PM]

Only good for making 180 degree turns from your original direction of travel...

[cynicaldrunk May 16, 2009 8:48 PM]

The wiseguy who wears these letting all know he's a keen man of sharp political gumption should be forced to eat these suckers. In fact anyone who buys these is a sucker! Shame on the person who feels wearing these is making a difference other than saying, "Hey, I'm an asshole!" and a Dorkus Gigantea. I'm not a Conservative, I voted for the 'Bama man myself, but to stand so staunchly behind a politician to wear him on your shoes is nothing short of absurd. A liar by any other name is a politician.

Sorry I had to make a TL;DR diatribe, but I had to say it, seeing it seems there's goombas from here to Kabul wearing some article of clothing exercising our sitting President's face. Oh yeah, if these are made in China, they are a literal walking oxymoronic faux pas.

[Ugly Canuck May 17, 2009 6:19 AM]

Are these the type of shoes that will always guide the wearer to have a rightard-leaning bias?

Will Americans ever again have a Democrat as Secretary of defense? Or as Ambassador to China?

Is Afghanistan not Vietnam for slow learners?
Another ten years of war? Why?

[Ugly Canuck May 17, 2009 6:33 AM]

Shoes for shopes, above: "rightard" means "rightward", but I kinda like that typo.

Obama? An instant "Democrat" emerging only after "honest GWB" had been Pres. for years - GWB, the same man who instituted a torture camp program and after that, named two justices to the Supreme Court - one as Chief Justice!!
US politics have become nothing but a media sham, a puppet show: otherwise, policies would actually change as new faces came in, rather than simply result in a change of "tone" (whatever that may mean - I think it means "no real substantive change").
So the "tone" (they mean rhetorical style and 'propaganda', don't they?) has changed, eh?
So what? Without a change in policies, there will be no change in the outcomes.
And as far as "war" goes, be it on Muslims/Pashtun/"terror"/marijuana/drugs/poverty/homelessness, the policies have not changed. Life will therefore get worse than it needs to be for the average American.

[mattdidthat May 17, 2009 2:02 PM]

YES WE RAN

[Takuan August 30, 2009 6:06 AM]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2009-08-29-shoe-thrower-release_N.htm

[Anonymous October 16, 2009 7:06 AM]

I like these shoes, the aesthetics is magnificent, especially colors are too beautiful ; )