Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
The latest fundraising pitch at barackobama.com involves a lottery:
Make a donation today—and be automatically registered for a chance to have dinner with President Obama and three other supporters. We will cover your airfare and the meal—all you need to bring is your story and your ideas.
I'm struck by the "supporters" qualifier. I guess critics or fence-sitters will not be bringing themselves or any "ideas" along to dinner with the president.
Bolstering my hypothesis, yesterday, whoever ghost-writes Barack Obama's official Twitter feed requested conversational topics for #DinnerWithBarack. Today the campaign tweeted a link to its featured results. We stand at the brink of a second Great Depression and the president will soon be addressing average citizen concerns such as the following:
How can we work smarter in public schools to close the achievement gap?
I would ask what he believes to be the most useful way people, such as myself, can help him get re-elected.
What I, and other 16 year olds, can do for the country even if we generally aren't heard in larger politics.
Ask him about his biggest obstacles, his dreams and his family. Share mine with him, Enjoy dinner and thank him for trying to make America even greater than it is...with dreams, goals, hard work and optimism.
I would like to let the President know how the changes he made to medical coverage have helped me personally. And the positive effect he has had by being in office. I'd also like to know how this time in office has affected him and what he thinks about it.
I would love to talk to him about how he balances family life with his responsibilities. I've always been very impressed with how connected he seems to be with his children.
That's the complete list. Morning in America, folks! Unemployment plus underemployment sum to a depression-like 17 percent, despite two years of the largest Keynesian spending binge in world history and the vigorous expansion of that liberal favorite, the regulatory state, and there isn't a single voter concern expressed, however obliquely, about growing our economy or putting anyone back to work. I suppose I should be grateful that no featured comment praises our president for saving or creating so many jobs--"Just imagine how awful it might have been without him!"
Out of the six campaign-highlighted comments, three deal with how great the president is, one praises him for his wonderful but as-yet unimplemented health reform law, and only one has to do with something that needs improving--public education. I don't even know how to categorize the aspirational tweet from the 16-year-old.
This is Barack Obama's first time running for election on the basis of an actual record, except he is not because he cannot.
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Jun '10
Re: Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
I have a lot more fun at McDonald's with my grandchildren than I would at dinner with Obama. They're more fun and their comments are more grounded in reality.
Jun '10
Re: Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
Over and over, I see blatant evidence that he is only the President for his supporters and not the nation. I've never felt that way with any other president. We all know his most infamous quotes about punishing enemies and bus seating arrangements, but it goes beyond that.
Others alienated the opposition through their policies, but Obama seems to make extra effort to exclude his detractors as actual relevant citizens. I never felt that way with Clinton or Carter and even though Bush did some things I hated, I always felt a genuine interest coming from him in his obligation to serving the entire nation.
Edited on June 27, 2011 at 3:33amMar '11
Re: Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
That could be worth $5 just to be able to see the look on his face when I say "if, at some point I have made enough money, it follows inexorably that at some point, you have spent enough of my money."
Then I'd try to hit him up for a loan before the Secret Service throws me out on the street.
On second thought, make that a grant.
Aug '10
Re: Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
George Savage
We stand at the brink of a second Great Depression and the president will soon be addressing average citizen concerns such as the following:
Hmm... Tough one. How about privatize 'em? (Or at least abolish the DoE.)
Do nothing. Better yet, campaign for the other guy. (Not useful for The One's re-election, but more useful overall.)
Don't try to be heard in larger politics. Try to be good and study hard instead. (And try not to get into auto accidents.)
Consider yourself lucky, then.
Edited on June 27, 2011 at 4:55amJan '11
Re: Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
Can the Kiss Barack for a Dollar booth be far behind?
Aug '10
Re: Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
Hey, at least a guy who's kissing can't be talking at the same time.
Jun '11
Re: Any Sycophants Interested in Dinner with Obama?
Dave Molinari: Over and over, I see blatant evidence that he is only the President for his supporters and not the nation. I've never felt that way with any other president. We all know his most infamous quotes about punishing enemies and bus seating arrangements, but it goes beyond that.
Others alienated the opposition through their policies, but Obama seems to make extra effort to exclude his detractors as actual relevant citizens. I never felt that way with Clinton or Carter and even though Bush did some things I hated, I always felt a genuine interest coming from him in his obligation to serving the entire nation. · Jun 26 at 6:30pm
Edited on Jun 26 at 06:33 pm
Obama came to my hometown a few months ago for a fundraiser. $30,400.00 per person and didn't leave us a dime to repair the soccer field that his entourage destroyed.