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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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If the president wants this election that bad, maybe he should just sell his soul to the devil? There’s gonna be hell to pay one way or another before he’s done.
The comments are just wonderful.
So. Anybody we know getting married soon? And ready to Help Our President? (broad grin)
The other pattern:
Curses! MelFoiled again!
So. Anybody we know getting married soon? And ready to Help Our President? (broad grin) ·4 minutes ago
I actually need a gravy bowl, thank you very much. But even the thought of creating a wedding registry to help the guy I support is beyond tacky to me. Mitt Romney money dance, anyone? Ick.
I’m not shocked. Not even surprised.
I honestly thought it was a parody. I had to click on the link to be sure you weren’t cleverly pulling Ricochet’s collective leg, Diane.
Somewhere between utterly hilarious and disgusting. If your reelection is so desperately important to the country, can’t you talk about the real issues when you beg your supporters to give you money, rather than on unseemly gimmicks trying to trade off your celebrity status? Groan.
Best comment from the website: “I’ll be sure to send whatever is left over after I pay off my $138,000 Nat’l Debt Per Taxpayer. ”
(Grr, once again, late to the party.)
Back in my misspent youth, when I was a libertarian, I nevertheless “hung out” with a number of Norman-Thomas social democrats (YPSL folk, for those who may know), even one iconic figure who used to haunt the fringes of UCB to the irritation of the far, far left, because like George Orwell, he was an anti-Stalinist. He was a kind of Hitch before Hitch (but he wasn’t a Trot); he supported the Viet Nam War and Nixon against McGovern; but he was a Union man through and through.
He and I shared an occasion to exchange papers. I wrote a bit on Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty. He wrote on an introduction to Marx. We had agreed to read each other’s book, then write a few pages. It was fun.
Soon he married, and he actually invited me to the wedding. He gave a little speech, during which he said, without referring to my presence specifically, that “politics wasn’t everything.” (I guess he was a good Hegelian after all.)
Point is, my acquaintance was a committed socialist, but he was not a fanatic.
Obama is something else again.
Point is, my acquaintance was a committed socialist, but he was not a fanatic.
Obama is something else again. ·14 minutes ago
Sir Elton John was gentleman enough to play at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. I respect him a lot for that (besides which, he has some pretty good songs, like Sad Songs Say So Much).
There are some reasonable lefties who can set politics aside. They’re just becoming rarer and rarer.
The fellow always made a fuss about being a colonial. No doubt he’ll give you all the left cheek you could possibly tolerate, and then some.
Whom the gods would destroy. … Uh, you may have heard it in Greek, Pseudo-cat. Some lefties love it–or claim to love those who do.
Point is, my acquaintance was a committed socialist, but he was not a fanatic.
Obama is something else again. ·14 minutes ago
Sir Elton John was gentleman enough to play at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. I respect him a lot for that ….
There are some reasonable lefties who can set politics aside. They’re just becoming rarer and rarer. ·1 hour ago
My acquaintance, like Hitch, considered himself a classical, “scientific” socialist. I could debate with him as one rational man to another. He never mentioned ideas that sounded similar to the neo-Marxists of the French deconstructionists*, the Gramsci-ites, or of the Frankfurt School**. I suspect that he would have considered them to be lunatics. He was almost Adam-Smithian in his insistence on the self-interest of the working class.
I never heard him utter anything so paranoid as rantings of romanticist new Left. There was no cultural “criticism,” only the old-line economic theory of surplus value.
*He, like Hegel, insisted that man is rational and thus free.
**He thought that Middle-class American life was desirable; he just wanted it to be available to the factory workers.
Conservative Wanderer:
Let me also add that my YPSL acquaintance, as well as Marx himself at a certain stage, did not think that capitalists were evil, only misguided and alienated. If they could be shown (here Marx must have had Engels, whose father owned a factory, in mind) that they were exploiting their workers, they would cease. Thus my acquaintance, although never meek and mild, was not as angry and resentful as so many other leftists. His Marxism was largely a matter of intellectual conviction.
Actually, having clicked on that, I’m more entertained by the fact that Julia has a twitter account.