Do They Serve Birthday Cake at Tea Parties?
Barack Obama turns 49 on Wednesday. I have complicated feelings about that -- I'm a little younger than he is, but only a little. This is the first time that we've had a president who's roughly my age. I'm not sure if they're making them younger these days, or if it's just that I'm getting old. But I will say this: I liked it better when the President of the United States was a reliably old dude I had nothing in common with.
This week, all over the country, the Obama political outfit called Organizing for America is having a series of birthday "parties" for the president.
They're not really parties, of course. They're fundraising events and volunteer-raising efforts. There's an interactive map on the site showing where and when the various events will take place across the country.
Me, in an innocent voice: "I wonder what would happen if a lot of ordinary Americans went to some of these birthday parties? I wonder what would happen if a Birthday Party suddenly became a Tea Party?"
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Jul '10
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Could one get a cake at these birthday parties? Isn't there some new health regulation against serving cakes to the hoi polloi?
May '10
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These parties remind me of the scene from Hogan's Heroes where someone from the Gestapo stops by to ask Col. Klink to make a "donation" for Hitler's birthday present.
Wait a minute! Did I just compare Obama to Hitler???? <head explodes>
May '10
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I'm gonna take this as Obama telling us all "Let them eat cake", shortly after which heads will roll and America will finally start to like soccer.
I think most Americans see this as stupid yet harmless. Unlike being a feminist or a union member, everyone has a birthday, no interest group needed. But I don't think he's trying to reel in most Americans with it. It's for the 10% that think of this as a cutesy and personable way to organize, and it'll probably work. But it's strange, I don't remember them doing anything like this last year...
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It would be fun to show up at one of these, wouldn't it? With, maybe, some kind of Breitbartian hidden camera? Just to record the madness for posterity?
Who's up for it?
May '10
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Rob Long: It would be fun to show up at one of these, wouldn't it? With, maybe, some kind of Breitbartian hidden camera? Just to record the madness for posterity?
Who's up for it? · Aug 2 at 6:08pm
For posterity? How about for evidence at the involuntary commitment hearing? There's a very creepy, bug-zapper quality to this whole thing. Maybe it's really a Secret Service sting operation to beckon the loonies out of their parents' basements (you'll have to forgive the expression - I am, after all, a South Carolinian and cannot escape the Alvin Greene campaign).
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All the more reason: Crash the Birthday Parties!
May '10
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Admit it, Rob. You're an Alinskyite.
Aug '10
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Imagine the reaction of the MSM to a crashing of the birthday parties: "The temerity, the gall of these people to make a political event out of a...political event!"
And I'm with you, Rob: I'm just slightly older than the President, and that makes me feel old, no matter how often people refer to him as "young."
May '10
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This whole thing reinforces the nauseating Cult of Personality that got Obama elected in the first place. Maybe I missed it, but can anybody else recall a sitting U.S. President having this kind of organized glorification?
They're not of the same scale, but it reminds me of nothing so much as Kim Jong Il.
May '10
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This is becoming too Orwellian for me. First Michelle sends invitations asking for money gifts. Then the parties, obviously it's a sort of Mini Camp for the organization that is to come. Pretty soon donations directly to BHO will be added to our property tax bill like when you haven't finished paying your street improvement obligation. And before you know it we will be informed of our "manditory" voluntary gift to the Dear Leader.