Get The Barack Obama Action Figure!
I don’t know what’s more nauseating. The doll itself:
Or the sales pitch that goes with it:
Like countless others out there, we’ve been inspired by the meteoric rise of Barack Obama and his campaign. In a time when America so desperately needed a hero, along came a man to show us a brand new vision of what America and the world could be in the 21st century. In many ways, Obama is the closest thing we’ve ever seen to a superhero... someone who has literally inspired millions of people simultaneously to step past fear, to be brave enough to hope and to go past cynicism and imagine what we could be if we were at our best. That’s the stuff of legend! And we wanted to pitch in.
In that spirit we created The Obama Action Figure because every superhero should have one.
Superhero? Good grief.
Americans aren’t supposed to worship their political leaders. They are to be citizens like the rest of us elevated to power by our consent, not supreme beings surrounded by a cult of personality.
But checking out the other dolls that are sold on this site sort of explains the Obama doll. Vladimir Lenin? Check. Mao Zedong? Check.
Che Guevera? What Obama-worshiping doll-maker’s website would be complete without him?
