The Obama monkey shirt is making waves in the online press as Drudgereport.com picked up the story of the Georgia bar owner selling t-shirts with a picture of the cartoon character ‘Curious George’ with ‘Obama 08′ at the bottom.

The bar owner has the right to express his ideas about Obama’s appearance. “This is my marketing tool,” he said. But the copyright holder of ‘Curious George’ has the legal rights to the use of their brand. Curious George’s publisher said, “We find it offensive and obviously utterly out of keeping with the value Curious George represents,” Blake said. “We’re monitoring the situation and weighing our options with respect to legal action.”

As much as Obama may resemble a curious monkey in the eyes of some rednecks, his economic ideas are marginally better than those of his competitors for the Democratic nomiation says Martin Hutchinson. He also dismissed the lame gas-tax holiday endorsed by Clinton and McCain as political pandering. The recent endorsement from John Edwards should give Obama a boost to pull away from Hillary Clinton in her last throes for the Democratic candidacy.