re: #554 haakondahl

I have a bigger problem with it because I don’t want to be lectured by a seven year old about which car to buy.

For the corporatization of children, no place has Japan beat. Everything has to be so damned cute, you just spend half the day choking back the bile.

I’m not necessarily bothered by kids in ads. E-trade has a particularly good series running with a baby doing trades on line. Pretty clever if you ask me.
What I detest is political ads using kids - which IMO - is the exclusive domain of democrats. Forlorn looking kids asking for more taxes for schools for example.
The most vile one I recall was shortly after the 2000 election when the Democrats ran a series of ads showing kids drinking water and complaining about the arsenic levels. Levels which Clinton had doubled days before he left office just to force Bush to roll them back because the cost of compliance would have been ruinous. That was a low-life thing to do.