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Obama Wants Your Birthday Money & Wedding Gifts
As mentioned on Rush Limbaugh’s program today, POTUS would be thrilled if you shared your special day with him by registering for campaign donations in lieu of presents.
And why stop there? Barack Obama baby showers. Barack Obama lingerie showers. Barack Obama money dances. Barack Obama house warming parties. Because you don’t actually need money or presents, but Barack Obama does.
Go check out the post and hilarious comments on the President’s reelection campaign site. They surely won’t last long.
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First, the dead person can, in some states, still vote for you. Second, in the obituary: “In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you contribute to the Obama for President campaign.”
“Breaking: President, film crew escorted from school bus after asking teenagers to taunt him #Obamafundraisingideas”
via Ace of Spades
“My campaign strategy is doing fine.”
I’ve never heard of a Keynesian campaign strategy…
President Obama is spending a lot of money on a shovel-ready campaign. Last month, it spent $15 million more than it raised.
Well, you’re not that far off, I’m afraid…
(Comment deleted – hadn’t had my morning caffeine, it didn’t make any sense.)
When all I saw of this story as the headline the first thing in my head was the just-as-credible proposition that Obama was asking voters to name their price: Register for a “free” gift that’s yours if you promise to vote for BHO.
No. Not that they’ve anything against gravy. But they use a trough.
Asking for the kids school lunch money might be next, supported by Teachers Unions.
How about the homeless collecting money on streetcorners for Obama ?
All this is beyond the pale.
The absolute coup de grace would be to just run this as a commercial. Not mocking, and as without irony as possible. Run an add on TV asking for your wedding presents and your kids’ birthday cake.
Make this fundraising appeal as famous as possible.
Make this fundraising appeal as famous as possible.
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I like! :D
My southern mother has the perfect word to summarize this unusual pitch : t-a-c-k-y.
Not to Godwinize it all, but asking people to forgo wedding gifts so you can scrape up campaign cash is the campaign equivalent of pinning an Iron Cross on a 12-year old and sending him off with a panzerfaust.
Okay, I Godwinized it. Sorry.
I have been stuck at the airport for 6 hours and looking at spending the night here. Yet I have been smiling for the last 10 minutes reading this. Thank you richotoise
David Freddoso@freddoso
Now THAT’S what I’m talking about. RT @John_R_Dykstra: #ObamaFundraisingIdeas Donate $10k and add the person of your choice to the #KillList
Genius.
For everyone living in heavily Democratic areas: Print out 150 cards with Obama 2012 Logo announcing that a $10.00 Gift In Lieu has been made to Obama 2012 Campaign. Hand them out to homeless panhandlers, OWS types and children trick-or-treaters, maintaining as self-righteous an attitude as you can muster.
You’ve hit upon my one concern with a Romney Administration- when that 3 AM phone call comes, do you want a President who can’t drink coffee?
You’ve hit upon my one concern with a Romney Administration- when that 3 AM phone call comes, do you want a President who can’t drink coffee? ·23 minutes ago
I don’t drink coffee either. I get my caffeine in other forms. :)
I’d cut them some slack for one reason: where can you go with this? I’ve tried desperately to come up with some kind of joke, but this is just so off the wall that it defies parody. The closest I could come would be an old Conan O’Brien bit in which he played a video clip, and then responded to it by simply staring at the camera blankly for 10 seconds.
There was also a running gag in “Baseketball” in which the villain, when faced with with insanely idiotic comments from the protagonists, placed his fingers on his head (as if he had a headache) and grunted in pain.
Or, finally, there’s the ever popular “Buh…buh….buh….buh….”
Seriously, I got nothin’.
Okay, I Godwinized it. Sorry. ·3 hours ago
Betcha that even as I write this, someone is uploading a “Hitler reacts to Obama confiscating his and Eva Braun’s gravy boat” video.
The beauty of the comments page is the image on the right side of the screen, frozen in slowly-dawning horror as the ridicule piles up.
Unseemly.
I use my gravy bowl. Don’t Democrats?
The only drawback (for Obama) is, I don’t send wedding presents to people who just a moment ago stopped being my friends.
I just registered my colonoscopy as an event and mentioned that if he’d like to personally attend we can say its our very own special stimulus package. I also told him to cough when he turns to the left.
Not low enough for me. I’m holding out for free liquor at the polls.
Joking aside, isn’t there a big campaign finance issue here? Who would such a donation be recorded for? The donor, spouse A or spouse B? What if someone has reached the hard limit for the campaign? Isn’t this potentially an attempt to get around the hard limit?
Next year: special plaques for those who name their children “Barack,” “Michelle,” “Malia,” and “Sasha.”