Wouldn't it be wonderful if all our needs were freely and happily supplied by a caricature similar to the tire commercials? The operative word is caricature for no real person can be automatically counted on to do our bidding so easily.
We just celebrated Mother's Day and soon we'll be extending our love and appreciation to dads as well; but they are people who have the right and responsibility to respond to our requests (even demands) with yes/no/ maybe so/wait awhile will ya.
Having been involved for several years with an organization called Handicapped Encounter Christ, I was privileged to learn from persons with physical disabilities that their real handicap was not what they were born with or acquired through illness or accident. Rather, they readily admitted that they were hindered by unhealthy socialization from family and friends. In particular, they were crippled by those who would not allow them to do things for themselves (mother-smothering) and isolated by those who couldn't bear to deal with them as human beings (father-abandonment.)
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But wouldn't it be wonderful if your movie star-governor husband brought you coffee in bed every morning, possibly lovingly prepared by your maid-servant? Apparently, five minutes of campaign media fame can get you twenty-six hours (the average American's interest in anything) of lampooning by the same media that kept the evidence on file.
