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Am I Going To Have To Support This Baby Chick?

By Uppity Woman on July 29, 2008 at 2:10 PM in Advertising, Barack Obama, Current Affairs, MoveOn.org, Obamatopia

My first thought when I saw the MoveOn ad below was,

“Gee, I really want to suck my thumb.”

But after I saw it on the internets a few times, I realized that this is not what most adults would be thinking if they saw this ad. Instead, they would more likely recognize their own Gen-Y kids who are hanging around still being supported by Mom and Dad, pretending to be “upscale” on their parents’ money. The parents would be thinking about how their charming and sensitive little dependents don’t seem to be offering the slightest indication that they have any intention of actually getting off on their own and paying for silly things like their own own heat, food, property taxes, car insurance and cell phones–for a change.

This condition, of course, allows a generation known as America’s longest-running parental dependents to hang around all dreamy-eyed, thinking of Hopey-Changey – while pushing the age of 30 in some cases. So I would imagine that their parents’ actual reaction if they saw this ad would be,

“Am I going to have to support that baby chick!???”.

That’s why MoveOn will be more likely to run this ad on MTV and Comedy Central– so that all these sweet, sensitive, expensive dependents will remember to get up on Election Day and do that irritating Vote Thing.

 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BncNpB6IZ9I[/youtube]