Bush: "I'm the Commander Guy!"

Remember that old TV commercial that had Mrs. Fletcher shouting "I've fallen and I can't get up!"? That's what America has become, my friends. It's fallen and it's so lame, there's no standing back straight and tall ever again. The timbers in the ship of state are just too rotted.

Witness the latest sign of the decadence: President Bush has a new name for himself. Yesterday he said this:

"The question is, 'Who ought to make that decision, the Congress or the commanders?,'" Mr. Bush said. "As you know, my position is clear – I'm the commander guy."

"I'm the commander guy"?

Two things that are so tragic about this: first, is that it has come to the point where we have gone from the eloquence that was once found in leaders like Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt, and come to where the height of presidential rhetoric is "I'm the commander guy". I mean, heck compared to George W. Bush, even Andrew Jackson was a classical orator.

The second thing that's so sad about this, is that there are poor fools that are going to be found who will absolutely lap stuff like this up.

"I'm the commander guy"... who possibly takes this president seriously anymore?

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Enzyte

Who the hell buys this stuff?

I've seen two Enzyte commercials twice in the past hour or so (which is two times too many). And I mean... seriously, who in the world could possibly be conned into paying good money for this?

I only started noticing the Enzyte commercials a few months ago when I was working at the TV station. We never ran the ads ourselves, but they were part of the packages with a number of syndicated programs that we did run, so I wound up seeing "Smilin' Bob" quite a bit. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Enzyte is claimed to be a "natural male enhancer" (i.e. it's supposed to drastically increase the size of male genitalia). In the ads for it a character named Bob - who has this perpetual Jack Nicholson "Joker" grin - is shown in all kinds of situations where it's implied that his penis size is a determining factor in business dealings, golf swings etc.

The syntax of the message being delivered here: big penis = good, small penis != good.

This is what our culture has deteriorated into: one that prides itself not on intellect and compassion, but on the size of its sex organs. And I'm not sorry for saying this, but any man who bases the belief that he's "not man enough" because of feeling inadequate about the size of his member... is an idiot. And he deserves to lose over fifty bucks a month for a supply of this new-wave snake oil.

Sigh...

I really can't begin to say how disgusted I am when I see stuff like this. Twenty years ago, nobody would have marketed something like Enzyte on nationwide television. Now it's everywhere. What does that say about our shallowness and gullibility... and our overall spiritual condition?

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