I just got back from roughly three weeks abroad; I left right after the election.
Now, while I do wish our president-elect the best — and his cabinet looks pretty good, so far — I do wonder if things have gone a little batty while I was away. Witness this ad for an Obama commemorative plate:
His “confident smile” and “kind eyes”? Get a room, America. Get a room.
I feel like things started to “go batty” long before the election, though I don’t deny that they most certainly have since (have you seen Jack Black in funnyordie.com’s “Prop 8: the musical”?
While I’m as cynical as the next conservative about presidential memorabilia (and I’m sure plenty will be hawked at the Inauguration), I’m not sure the “kind eyes” of the commemorative plate can be blamed on the activist, liberal illuminati. I’ve seen too much commemorative junk in Sunday ads and coupon circulars alone, much less QVC. Recall, for instance, the amount of household items bearing Princess Diana’s visage. Plates, towels, spoons, postcards, Barbies, porcelain dolls. And that’s just the beginning.
It’s not limited to official merch, either: there are ridiculous conversations taking place on Obama product preferences, like whether Barack favors iPod or Zune.
Great. A celebrity in the White House.