An early candidate for “Most Egregious Inauguration Tie-In”:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Summary: Believe in Khanna LASIK and Change(Improve) Vision especially if you are named Barack Hussein Obama
LASIK Surgery for “Barack Hussein Obama”
In honor of the Presidential Inauguration on Tuesday January 20, Khanna Institute of LASIK Surgery is offering free LASIK surgery to any US Citizen named “Barack Hussein Obama”. “This is a historic moment in american and world history” says Dr. Khanna. “I can relate to the emotions that President Elect Obama must be experiencing. My father was also a non US citizen.”  Dr. Khanna has helped people with lazy eyes stimulate their vision by performing LASIK on them. Khanna Institute is celebrating this historic moment of change by wanting to change the dependence of people on visual aids. LASIK has been shown to safer than wearing contact lenses. This free offer will have to be redeemed by Jan 31, 2009. A birth certificate will need to be provided in order to verify the name and citizenship. The person will have to be a suitable candidate for LASIK.

No, I’m not kidding.

Of all the cheap, pathetic, opportunistic…

…worst of all, it’s totally contrary to everything that tomorrow is supposed to signify.

Ah, America.

j.

(By the way — if you’ve come across other lame tie-ins to President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, let us know about it in the comment field.)