"Sweet Sasha" and "Marvelous Malia" Beanie Baby Dolls

If you were out in D.C. last week then you know first-hand about all of the useless crap that vendors were hustling in the 20 degree weather with Obama’s name and likeness on it. Everything from homemade DVDs that featured YouTube-jacked Obama speeches to Obama leather jackets were peddled on the National Mall during the inauguration.

Recently, toy maker Ty made headlines when they tried to cash in on the Obama madness by coming out with a line of Beanie Babies based on the president’s daughters Malia and Sasha. While Ty’s spokesperson tried to deny that the dolls, named ”Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia”, had anything to do with the Obama girls their mother Michelle, the first lady, is understandably irked that the company is cashing in on her kids.

“We believe it is inappropriate to use young, private citizens for marketing purposes,” Obama’s press secretary, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, said in a statement.

In the last two years, there was no shortage of crappy Obama-related merch, which may have both, helped Obama increase his worldwide “Stan” count and pop culture icon status, and increased the number of companies looking for a bailout because they made questionable product investments.

Here is our list other ill-advised Obama products that have popped up during other the last couple of years.

- Pharoh Martin