Great news in class rings: Get your Obama tag now!
posted at 9:29 am on September 17, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Most of us who have gone through high school in America have class rings celebrating our graduation. I got my class ring — which I still have, almost thirty [choke] years later — from Jostens. At the time, as now, rings had the school mascot or symbol on one side of the ring and options for the other. Students chose from various symbols representing the school activity they most liked. I chose drama, other chose band, a sport, academics, and so on.
A reader tips me that Jostens has a new set of options for the era of Hope and Change, as seen on page 22 of their catalog:
Yes, along with one option each for Republican, Democrat, and Independent, students have two choices for Barack Obama, 44th President, for their high-school class rings. Presumably, students will choose this option because … why? Barack Obama was their greatest achievement in school? He was their favorite hobby? They made the varsity team in Hopeandchange?
No matter who’s President, the cult of personality this strongly suggests is just a little creepy. Somehow, I doubt that “Obama 44″ replaced “Bush 43,” though, in the Josten’s catalog.
In a way, I feel for the students looking at this option. After all, had Josten’s been doing this when I ordered mine, my choice would have been limited to … “Carter 39″.
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wow….just wow
cmsinaz on September 17, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Where’s Emily M.? The ring second from the left looks just about perfect for her.
BadgerHawk on September 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM
But I want Mao on mine…
myrenovations on September 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Vomit inducing…..
JoeinTX on September 17, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Woot? No Che?
TheSitRep on September 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Meh, class rings are a waste anyways, if you ask me. I got one, what, the second half of my senior year? And as soon as I graduated it promptly became worthless, because it was lame to wear it at college.
Caiwyn on September 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM
There’s a difference? Oh, right, Mao was Chinese.
Racist!!!
Daggett on September 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Good ol’ Jostens. We ordered our class rings sophomore year of high school – which is really strange I think. Not a single person would have been old enough to even vote for Obama in my class when we ordered rings. Not one.
Even if you were ordering class rings senior year, most seniors aren’t 18 before the beginning of November. What a silly symbol to pick to remember your years in high school.
Rightwing Czar on September 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM
I was under the impression that the majority of his supporters were high school dropouts, so who is the intended market?
Vashta.Nerada on September 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM
A what!?!
canopfor on September 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM
can’t kids be kids…they couldn’t even vote for the guy last year unless they were held back…
cmsinaz on September 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM
We need a poll because there is no way that is true.
sammypants on September 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM
I can see some misguided pimply-faced tools choosing this option…In 20 years they’ll feel the way I would’ve had I chosen to put parachute pants or a big ole Rubiks Cube on the side of my ring…
CapitalistPig on September 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM
More ways to get money from stupid liberal parents.
My son is a junior and his school finally showed Obama’s speech Tuesday. He said almost nobody paid attention to it, they were all eating or texting or looking out the window. He did figure out that his homeroom teacher is a hardcore Obamabot, ans only because one of his classmates started making fun of Obama and she went ballistic.
From what I can tell, the Obama cult is pretty much over, except for public school teachers and ACORN.
rockmom on September 17, 2009 at 9:35 AM
The Obama ones provide the secret message about making sure to drink your Ovaltine, too.
Mr. D on September 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM
30 years later…see son, don’t be a fool and support a fool for President like I did.
WashJeff on September 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Ed: I chose drama
Foresaw Obama’s presidency?
Loxodonta on September 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM
The time for debate is over.
Let us put aside our petty bickering and start discussing how to remove presidential term limits.
NickelAndDime on September 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM
What about Obama: 666?
Loxodonta on September 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Can’t you just imagine the look in her eyes when you ask her to wear your BARACK senior ring?
TXUS on September 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Emily, Chris & Kayla are poor little misguided nincompoops! Their Mamas & Daddys probably work for ACORN and get the rings for free if they sign up 100 Disney characters within 24 hrs.
SouthernPride on September 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Carter 39
Yikes!
Reagan 40
WOOT!
bitsy on September 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM
“I’m with Stupid”? Lovely.
I put this in the “at least I can see them coming” category. Too bad it’s so small.
NickelAndDime on September 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Stuid. Seriously, stupid. Sad thing is probably 90% of the high school kids that will be of voting age in 2012 will vote for him because he is “uber cool.”
deidre on September 17, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Just bow and kiss the ring.
ObamatheMessiah on September 17, 2009 at 9:39 AM
I also assume you wear the Obama ring on your pinky, Chicago alderman-style.
Mr. D on September 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
i never got a class ring
who the hell is going to spend 300 dollars to remember four years in which people were cruel to one another
got knocked up
and drank too much?
certainly not I
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Whats next,Obama cowboy boots!!
Wait a tic,designer Hopey Mom Jeans
might be the next cult clothing for
the savvy and well dressed ObamaVoter
Bot!!
canopfor on September 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
I feel like screaming this morning – he is everywhere destroying everything
gophergirl on September 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
I really don’t recall Bush 41 being an option when my parents bought my class ring.
myrenovations on September 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Uh-Oh. Here comes my breakfast.
anniekc on September 17, 2009 at 9:41 AM
geez….who wants one of those? Id like to know how many Obummah rings they actually sell.
becki51758 on September 17, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Don’t you usually need to GRADUATE to get a ring? That’ll keep the Obama choice down.
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:41 AM
I had a Clinton option, but that was under the heading Sex Ed. :)
txaggie on September 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM
5 to 1 he’s on MTV’s TRL by September 2010 for the elections.
NickelAndDime on September 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Capitalism baby. When consumers demand kool-aid, you make the stuff by the gallons and sell it to them.
angryed on September 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Oooh. Good point. Maybe we could get them all to wear a big gold “44″ around their neck. Or even a tattoo.
At least they are easy to identify when you are driving around. I can’t tell you how many times I get cut off by Obamabots on their cell phones.
bitsy on September 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Next years new choice is: One side has the number of “b#tches” you’ve “knocked up”
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Hey rockmom. My kid saw the speech this week also and it got pretty much the same response. My son said he ended up using the time to finish math homework and most of the other kids used it for naptime.
As far as this ring thing goes, I have a feeling it will be a waste of some artists talent. No student it my kids class wants to even hear Obambi let alone honor him with a spot on a class ring
ZeeMI on September 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM
The one for McCain is made out of lead.
Ted Torgerson on September 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM
A woman on Twitter the other day asked her Tweeps if a six inch Obama logo on the small of her back would be too much.
myrenovations on September 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Ok, between the missle defense thread, and this–I am DEFINITELY putting some whiskey in my coffee…It’s gonna be a long, depressing day…
lovingmyUSA on September 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM
ohhh, there’s a window into blatentblue. so.much.pain.
NickelAndDime on September 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Class rings are a total waste, since you don’t wear them in college. The same way high school varsity letter sweaters weren’t worn at Auburn when I went there. If you wore ANY varsity sweater, it was one with a burnt orange “A” for Auburn and on dark blue sweater. I still have mine, but it doesn’t fit any more. Damn.
It’s surprising that the ring manufacturer just didn’t go all the way and provide one choice with Obama’s head on one side and his teleprompter on the other.
bradley11 on September 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Schoorings ®
Shy Guy on September 17, 2009 at 9:45 AM
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:45 AM
With other news of today, I think a single picture of Warsaw (or Topeka) as a smoldering ruin may change some minds.
BobMbx on September 17, 2009 at 9:45 AM
I think the Obama “Dear Leader” cult has passed it’s expiration date and is beginning to smell.
At best it’s on life support. Perhaps it’s time to pull the plug like Obama wants to do to Grandma?
wildcat84 on September 17, 2009 at 9:45 AM
I was thinking the same thing but didn’t want to pick on a guy with a drame club ring.
BadgerHawk on September 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Will they still think he’s “uber cool” when they graduate and find themselves unable to afford college because their parents are out of work, and because unemployment is at 15% working their way through college or even to save for it is not an option?
wildcat84 on September 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM
The worst part about the Ogabe rings is that Josten’s cuts the ring in half, right down the middle; you get one piece and the other is given to a student who can’t afford a ring.
Bishop on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
I will stop being mean to him. He has suffered enough.
angryed on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
<—Still wearing my “cool” high school varsity sweater or jacket with the footballs on it every day, with those “cool”"72″ numerals on the sleeve…LOLOL
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
I would get the “hers” wrestling ring.
That would be hot.
Rhinoboy on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
I find cognac to be more soothing at this time of the morning. To each his own.
zeebeach on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
As clueless as I was back then, I probably would have put a pot leaf or beer can on my ring if given the choice. I do remember agonizing over my ring choice and now, 22 years later, I don’t know or care where that hideous thing is.
Monica on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Ok, between the missle defense thread, and this–I am DEFINITELY putting some whiskey in my coffee…It’s gonna be a long, depressing day…
lovingmyUSA on September 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM
lovingmyUSA: Turning down the missile shield is suicide!!
A Sh*t storm is on the horizon!!:)
canopfor on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
omg.
ctmom on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Hey kids!
Now you can piss your money on a keepsake of your ignorance when you voted for Barack Obama, just like you pissed the nation’s treasury away by voting for him, and just like you’re going to piss your own future incomes and those of your neighbors and children away by supporting his outrageously wasteful, expensive, unsustainable policies!
Now go hit up your parents for the money.
Good Lt on September 17, 2009 at 9:48 AM
They won’t have to wait till graduation to learn that. They’ll be face to face with Hopenchange when Mom and Dad can’t afford to buy lil’ Johnny his car for high school.
BobMbx on September 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
the mayor of Gary, Indiana took the HS kids on a schoolbus during class hours to vote Obama in our primaries, this is just one more way to nab the HS voters before they can think for themselves
makes me ill
ginaswo on September 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
You got yourself knocked up, huh?
Bishop on September 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
I never went to a class reunion. Couldn’t stand them back then, couldn’t care less about them now.
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
And we wonder why his ego knows no bounds. Please make this stop.
sherry on September 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
I thought the Clinton worship was nauseating back in the 90s. It doesn’t even come close to Obamamania. I suspect that 30 years from now, an Obama 44 ring is going to be just as embarrassing as a Carter 39 ring would be today.
Class rings are a waste of money. I am going to discourage my kids from getting one. I got one near the end of my junior year and haven’t worn it since the day I graduated. My 6 year old wears it when she plays dress-up. I didn’t even bother with a class ring in college.
ExcessivelyDiverted on September 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Bishop on September 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
BWAAAAAHAAAAAAAA!!! Ah man I needed that after the missile shield news, thanks Bishop :)
ginaswo on September 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Your class ring said that?
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM
He is “Dear Leader” after all.
Conservative_SAHM on September 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Aren’t these “Made in China?”
beatcanvas on September 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM
I can’t afford to buy a dang ring…Obama already has all my money
ZeeMI on September 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Maybe it’s a Wisconsin thing, Jeff. I feel the same way.
zeebeach on September 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM
i have some explaining to do
do i not
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Is the artist who designed those rings possibly getting grant money from the NEA?
ornery_independent on September 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
I want Daffy Duck on mine, ‘cuz this is dethspicable.
NeighborhoodCatLady on September 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
What is even more offensive is the PRICE of these danged things. We are picking one out for our boy now and it looks to costs $750.00.
Elizabetty on September 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
<—Will need to pawn ring soon to pay for “big, big, tax hike” coming.
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
New keyboard, new monitor, new desk, new rug.
TXUS on September 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM
Hahaha – there is one for Gamer, too.
If you want your ring to commemerate spending Friday and Saturday night playing WOW.
reaganaut on September 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM
What, no option for Racists?
I mean it is the most rapidly growing segment of society soon to account for 90% of the popultion.
Elizabetty on September 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM
I’m having a really hard time taking HS class ring Obama worship seriously. If anything it provides a clear warning sign that the wearer is a complete and total idiot. Political messages aside, they have to be reminded what their name is!
highhopes on September 17, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Can I order one that says:
Palin
2012
#45
???
ornery_independent on September 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM
For a class ring??!!! Just bought my kid an early Christmas present, $500 for a 9mm he needs for school. (He’s going to be a cop.)
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM
I would usually be all over this but I really don’t blame Jostens or anyone else that markets in Obamamania. Jostens is targeting the very people that put Obama in office and trying to cash in on the “Cult of Personality”.
Hell, I think Nike would put Obama on jockstraps if they thought the kids would buy them to show their devotion to Teh One.
TendStl on September 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM
kewl!
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM
I’ll give my boys the option: You can have a class ring, or for the same money I will provide you a motorcycle. $750 for a ring they will never wear? Don’t think so.
Bishop on September 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM
LOLOL
Jeff from WI on September 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Does it come on an actual human finger?
myrenovations on September 17, 2009 at 9:56 AM
What is wrong with today’s schoochildren?
ornery_independent on September 17, 2009 at 9:56 AM
best
dad
evar
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 9:56 AM
i believe
skoo-chill-rin is the proper way
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Great! Something they can pawn on the way to the soup kitchen and homeless shelter, thanks to #44.
ziggyville on September 17, 2009 at 9:57 AM
The “0″ stickers have become an endangered species on cars around here lately, but when I spot them I view them as an “idiot on board” sign. A lot of them seem to also be poor drivers :)
wildcat84 on September 17, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Oh who cares… they’re just after a buck and if people want to buy it let them…
ninjapirate on September 17, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Aligning our schoolchildren with failure before they’ve had a chance to fail sends the wrong message. :o)
David2.0 on September 17, 2009 at 9:59 AM
My class ring would have had Carter. Maybe a peanut etched with his name in bold letters
“JIMMAH”“S T U P I D”.jbh45 on September 17, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Rings are for wimps. If you’re completely smitten with The Big O, get yourself inked — multiple times and in highly visible places — and restrict your career choices thereafter to book store clerk, trendy coffee shop server, or ACORN shill.
ya2daup on September 17, 2009 at 10:00 AM
got knocked up
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 9:40 AM
You got yourself knocked up, huh?
Bishop on September 17, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Bishop: BB had an Immaculate Conception!!hehe:)
BB,I`m kidding!:)
canopfor on September 17, 2009 at 10:00 AM
That’s about my attitude. Jostens saw an opening to dazzle the stupid so they went for it; capitalism in action.
Bishop on September 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Actually it is skoochidren
thomasaur on September 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Thanks for the anecdotal story that I omitted. It warmed my heart. Thankfully, my niece, the public-school kindergarten teacher in VA, loathes Obama. But then she’s only starting her third year. That said, her dad is a Marine colonel, her brother is at the U.S. Naval Academy, and the rest of the family has no liberals.
BuckeyeSam on September 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM
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