Don’t get me this for ... anything

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: July 12, 2009

I saw a commercial for something tonight that absolutely astounded me.

Actually, it’s a tough call whether it astounded me more than it disturbed me. But you get the idea.

Behold:

Yes. That is a Barack Obama chia pet.

At first I was startled that the president’s image has been converted into a chia pet. But then it hit me—why haven’t I heard about the racial undertones of this? After all, when your chia pet is—how shall we say? Matured—your President Obama will have an Afro.

But, as they say, that’s not all.

Here’s the web site where you can, as the commercial promised, “ORDER FROM HOME” (and see the stupifying commercial).

Note that when you go to the web site, you are confronted with a difficult choice: Happy Obama? Or Determined Obama?

Maybe both?

The Chia Obama’s tag line is, “Hail to the CH-CH-CH-CHIEF.“

Good. Grief.