Team Obama: Still grubbing
The latest mass e-mail from the Obama perpetual fund-raising machine. It doesn’t end.
michelle –
Barack Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States of America on January 20th, 2009.
It will be an unprecedented event in the history of our country, and hundreds of thousands of people will come together in Washington, D.C. to share the moment.
Supporters like you made this happen. You know that real change comes from the bottom up, not from the top down, and Barack and Joe want you to join them on this historic day. They want to start off this administration with the people who worked so hard and will continue to fight for change with them.
Between now and January 8th, 10 supporters and their guests will be selected to join the Inaugural activities.
If you make a donation — in any amount — to make the Inauguration a success, you and a guest could be flown to Washington, D.C., put up in a hotel, and be there as Barack is sworn in as the 44th President.
Make a donation of $5 or more right now. You and a guest could receive your ticket to history.
Unlike past inaugurations, this year’s event will not be paid for by Washington lobbyists or corporations.
This campaign was funded by 4 million ordinary people giving only what they could afford, and Barack and Joe are counting on you again. Help start this administration off right — independent of the special interest donors who have shaped Washington for too long.
This Inauguration will be open to as many Americans as possible. We’ll all come together to celebrate the hope and optimism that define this movement for change.
But you could be one of 10 selected to join us in Washington for all Inaugural events. Any donation you make between now and January 8th counts — whatever you can afford.
Show your support for a different kind of politics and a different kind of inauguration with a donation of $5 or more today:
https://donate.pic2009.org/tickettohistory
The Inauguration will be a once-in-a-lifetime event. I hope you can join us.
Thank you,
David
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for AmericaP.S. — If you cannot make a donation, you and a guest could still be selected to receive your ticket to history. Learn more here.
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Its all about the dollar bills yo….
HAH.
I just checked my inbox and saw this. I regret to inform Mr. Plouffe that Obama will be getting no more donations from me until I get the damned tee shirt I was promised for making a $30 donation to pay off the DNC debt.
Yet another embarrassment….
If you will not make a “donation”, can you still get in on this lottery, illegal as it apperas?
cough… SUCKER cough…
Yes. They are required to open it to anyone, not just donors. See last sentence. So hey…have at it.
Pay to Play! Nice. They don’t even hide the fact. Pay more, increase your chances. Make installments. It.All.Counts!
Change you have to pay for.
I’d rather shave with a cheese grater.
More change then your wallet can handle.
Changing your wallet from fat to thin.
Is this true…?If so, I think its welcome change!
I guess he’ll get away with this whopper too. Unfreakinbelievable.
easy, use your debit card and donate a buck. it’ll cost the campaign more than a buck to process the transaction.
Personally, I’d rather have lobbyists and corporations pay for this shindig than American taxpayers…
//ducking for cover//
However, if it’s all paid for via donations, then it’s all good.
I am still waiting for the hooker Obama promised me if I donated at least $5.
I think he might have lied to me but I have a backup plan to buy a hockey puck mine.
Trying to make all the money they can, while people still believe he will make peace with the world. Montel Williams is still selling “Obama coins”. Worthless, of course, but everyone is in making money, before the honeymoon is over.
So, The One is worth millions, as are many lobbyist companies, and He wants the the masses to pay for the shindigs–most of whom won’t be anywhere near there? Contemptible.
That IS moving and inspirational–little tear forming in my left eye now it is. AS WE WRITE I an printing up a 5 Peso Juan Hernandez McCain note to send to OUR BELOVED WHOM I(?) HELPED ELECT. Now that tear is welling in in the other eye, but it could be my cold.
Now there is something I can HOPE for… that he won’t be inaugurated a second time.
Dear Mr. Plouffe,
Sorry but since I just made a $5.4 trillion contribution to the US government lunacy called the “mother of all bailouts” I am a bit tapped out right now.
How about just holding a really big “dutch-treat” event at “Ben’s Chili Bowl?” I hear it is a great place to party.
Maybe the Obama campaign (yes, he’s still campaigning!) can raise big bucks with 1950s-style “kissing booths” where love-struck women (and men) can line up for a smooch with His Studliness.
And half of those ordinary people are not even American. Meet the first President of the World.
Ewww. If this was televised, it would probably finish me off. I’ve seen enough figurative smooching of That One’s backside as it is.
Don’t forget the foreign campaign donors, they helped to buy this fraud, let them pay for it also.
Perfectly said.
BTW, Why not ask Paulson for some some money for this inaguration? He can’t seem to say no these days…Even Bush will not oppose such move.
That was a great video. I was hoping the IDF would pull the trigger sooner than they did to take out that other truck. Still very fulfilling.
You brought up something I’ve been wondering about… The set of “Obama Coins” are nothing more than actual currency being imprinted with images of Obama. The coins are a Washington Dollar, a Kennedy Half Dollar, an Illinois Quarter and a Hawaii Quarter.
The last time I checked, there is a law against defacing U.S. currency. US Code Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 17, Section 331 spells it out rather clearly.
Am I missing something or does it all go back to the fact that Obama is “The One”?
I have a sneaking suspicion we will all be sending money to Obambi’s administration soon. Won’t necessarily be donations.
Anyone who believes a person making a $5 donation is going to get anywhere near being one of the 10 people (plus guests, no less) selected to attend the gala event, I’ve got a bridge for sale.
Elitists don’t “kick it” with people who make $5 donations.
Better think about adding a few zeros after the 5. My guess is the chance of winning will increase significantly for those who add 6 or more.
The only thing missing is this:
“You may ALREADY be a weiner!”
…I mean “winner.”
This sounds like an illegal lottery. Every promotional giveaway has to comply with state regulations, and you CANNOT make a eligibility conditional on a purchase or donation.
Re: comment #2
No joke, my shirt came in the mail today! So I heart Obama all over again!
MM, you are impossible to please.
You grumble and moan about taxes. You say help for the poor should be voluntary, not compulsory.
Yet here, the guy is asking for voluntary contributions to fund a public event, and you find a reason to complain about that too. Would you rather people not celebrate Obama’s inauguration? Would you rather there not be police and extra sanitary facilities to accommodate the crowds? Would you prefer that they be paid for by tax money? Would you prefer that they be paid for by a few very large contributions from special interests?
Of course it’s true. Hamas and Hezbollah are neither lobbyists nor corporations.
Darwin,
Look at the last sentence of the email. You don’t have to donate anything to be eligible. This no problem with the law.
Brad_sk, you are on to something. Obummer should go to Paulson for the Inagural Bailout. Kinda keeps things in a nice, tidy circle.
Actually, I see this as a fine way for the common citizen to take more interest in the inauguration. It is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime event. Even if Obama is re-elected, the first time is most significant.
lgm,haven’t seen you post in awhile.I thought you might have moved.I think the point is BHO is making it look like a Clearinghouse Sweepstakes event and adding the disclaimer “No purchase necessary.”Kinda low life to me.
Analogous to Obama thinking you don’t have to be a natural born citizen in order to be eligible to be POTUS & Commander in Chief.
Perpetual campaigning. It’s what he does best.
There is something unsettling about this. I cannot explain it but there is something very wrong with this.
Is it possible he could continue this throughout his term?
The old saying, “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear” is now blatantly proven to be true. It’s like the Clampett’s moving to Beverly Hills.
Natural-born citizens are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens.
Obama may or may not have been born in Hawaii, which would make him a “native” born citizen (born in the U.S.), but the fact that both he and his father had British citizenship at his birth (a fact that Obama openly admits) means that he is not a natural born U.S. citizen, regardless of his place of birth.
It’s a bit presumptuous for him to be selling tickets to “his” inauguration.
If either the Congress or the Supreme Court upholds their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, then Obama will be found ineligible and will not be inaugurated.
The Supreme Court has denied applications for stays in each of four cases on their docket, but the Court has not denied Certiorari in any of them. Berg’s case has been distributed for conference on both January 9th and 16th.
No wonder Obama wants your money by January 8th!
In three weeks the posturing ends and he’s got to perform. If it is anything like the 2006 Democratic Congress, it will be fun to watch the bobbing, weaving, and whining.
Lgm, Politico reported that Team Obama is driving your buddies crazy:
Lgm, always engaging with both feet in his mouth.
Let’s send him one-thin-dime, but only ten of us.
To lgm..
Yes. Because it’s a coronation, not an inauguration.
No problem if the answer to #1 is Yes.
No problem if the answer to #1 is Yes.
It always is.
Sadly, we are about to witness the most complete devastation of a minority group since reconstruction. Many of those contributing to Obambi were depriving themselves of either food or necessities. Their $5 donations did put him over the top (albeit, along with huge $$ donated from corps., etc..and he’ll answer to them come re-election time) They truly think he’ll somehow relate to them and their common problems. No one can make them believe he truly doesn’t share any common background with them – and what’s more, really doesn’t want to. His roots are found in white America and black Africa. He’s divorced from white America – so anything he can do for Africa will be on the front burner. After all, he is a citizen of the world.
Teachers Unions, the UAW, Trial Lawyers, Wall Street Brokerages
Schools:
Media:
No big names, no special interest, no lobbying, just folks.
lgm turn to the Light, see the Right, give up your
leftist ways and Michelle will be pleased.
Some 67 million voters would disagree.
Do they accept Kenyan Shillings?
BTW, the Old Farmers Almanac predicts a heavy snow in the Washington,D.C. area for Jan. 21st; I hope it comes a day early.
ArizonaNeanderthal said (#49):
Maybe so, she does seem like a nice person.
This is what happens when you have and election and no JOURNALIST show up.
Talking head whores!!!!
60 of the 67 million would not know there is a difference between an inauguration and a coranation.
just sounds like sour grapes to me.
Obama won the election. By a lot. You don’t have to like it but you do have to acknowledge it.
Not when you look at the statistical dat gathered from voter interviews. The average Obama voter was far less informed on positions and policies than non-Obama voters.
That ignorance is a combination of a concerted media propoganda campaign, rampant voter fraud, millions in illegal contributions, and the total inneptitude of Obama’s opponent and his party.
Given the situation the fact he only one by 7 million votes is the biggest surprise.
Even if every single thing you say is true, guess what? It still means he won an ELECTION. Thus it is an inauguration.
Scoreboard. You lost.
This might be proactive.
If, as we suspect, some of the Obama online donations were from foreign sources, they might have to give them back.
They will need funds to do that.
So, spend illegal donations now to buy the election, and replace them with enthusiasts’ donations after you win.
Sounds like a Dem. legal plan to me.
Ahh the good old he won by a lot quote. Here in California prop 8 passed by the same margin and yet it was small one.
All depends on whose ox is getting gored.
Put you dunce cap on and go to the back of the class Chap, and like most of the classless libs on here I won’t acknowledge it.
I thought obama was having a hard time trying to decide what to do with left over funds from his campaign. Why doesn’t he just use those?
Tis True Darth Chappy and we of the Right, as in The Correct, intend to fight the man every inch of the way. We shall give him twice the respect the Left, as in The Wrong, gave Presidents Reagan and Bush.We are still a Republic, as long as we can hang on to it.
Fair?
I’m sure your proud that Obama won the election with a herd of uninformed sheep.
Family man…sheesh!
I guess you can say we have herd mentality too.
I never heard of a herd that wasn’t a Democrat.
4 million ordinary Palestinians through Hamas and Hezbollah, maybe. Tell us again about the “most ethical” campaign where they purposely took down all security requirements for credit/debit/prepaid card contributions that would have prevented illegal overseas contributions.
ECS
Of course Obama’s still asking for cash. How else is he going to pay that lady’s car payment and mortgage???
It is illegal to require a purchase to win a prize, with few exceptions.
(Charity raffles are the exception.)
But laws don’t matter unless you’re a little person.
Surely you are aware of how our electoral system works, no?
But if you DO wanna talk popular vote, after Bush won in 2004 by ohhh…what? 2.5 percent, all we heard from the talking heads on the right (and Bush) was “mandate” “mandate” “mandate”. But when Obama wins by over twice that amount (about 7% actually) it’s a freaking squeaker. But whatever. Call it what you want, if it makes you feel better.
If that idea helps get you through the next four years, then god bless ya. I personally used scotch.
And apparently reading comprehension doesn’t matter to many of you. What part of:
is hard to understand? Seriously you are like the 10th person to make this very same, very wrong point.
Oh boy…it’s going to be a looong four years.
A lot? He won by getting barely 1% more votes than George Bush got and you guys are still crying over that butt whipping 4 years later.
Grow up and be glad for your partie’s sake that the people out there that were stupid enough to vote for Barak Hussein Obama (as the Zogby polls show) are also stupid enough believe the lies you all are spreading that it wasn’t the Democrats that destroyed the financial system.
And in any case, setting the law aside, would you really have an issue if Obama’s little raffle was open only to donors?
So long as there is no correlation between the amount donated and your chances, why shouldn’t it only be open to people that have supported him? I am sure all of you defenders of capitalism believe in the idea that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) get something for nothing. Isn’t that, after all, your primary objection to the bailouts, or welfare or any number of other redistributive programs?
You certainly weren’t smart enough to vote for him.
Please think what you want about Obama voters, but do not cite that insipidly stupid push poll Zogby ran, which by the way, had no correlative poll for McCain voters and therefore would be literally incapable of drawing any comparative analysis from.
So if GWB was, in your words, a butt whupping, and Obama won by over twice the margin (2.5% to 7%), what does that make Obama’s victory?
You’re right – my numbers were off. Unlike a liberal newsman I will admit when I’m wrong.
So go celebrate, it’s the first time a democratic candidate received more than 50% of the vote since 1964 (and that’s a fact) and I’m sure it’s a mistake that won’t happen again for another half century.
Chap, you’re boring.
Please come up with new schtick. Or talk about something besides the wonder and awesome of Barack Obama and the suckiness of all things Republican.
May I suggest:
1. The geopolitical implications of the Israelis bombing stuff again.
2. The reason why Putin really invaded Georgia and why he’s giving nuclear intelligence to Iran
3. Or maybe Britney Spears???
Or just keep talking about the Messiahness of Obama and I’ll continue to ignore your boringness….
Clinton pioneered the perpetual money grab. It is really payola.
Yep, for $19.95 + shipping you can buy what…. $2.25 worth of colorized coins. According to this article on the web they are worth no more than face value due to the fact that no serious coin collector would want a coin that’s been defaced. It says further that some folks are buying 300-500 sets as an investment. Maybe they can use them to buy cokes and peanuts when the rest of their money goes to taxes.
As the saying goes - “there’s a sucker born every minute” and alot of them voted for Obama.
Obama and Joel Osteen should get together sometime and go bowling.
As a former broadcaster, it strikes me as odd that there are more restrictions on contests to give away a 6-pack of CD’s, movie and/or concert tickets or a trip concerning “considerations” a.k.a. “pay to play” than this little “contest” to see our next president elected. Add to that the strings that were attached to getting into Invesco Field for “The Speech” and this presidency starts to feel like it’s sponsored by QVC.
Those were what Bill Clinton called our “investments”.
Hmmm…okay. I’ll give it a shot. I would say there really needs to be a push not just for bilateral talks, but also to bring Egypt, Lebanon and Syria into the fold, because after all they have just as much stake in the awesomeness of Obama’s glistening bod- Oh. Crap.
Well, let me try Putin in Georgia. While the popular mantra is that this is a power play on the US’s global dominance, I really think that the Georgian invasion had its roots more in the internal political dynamic in Russia oh my god do Republicans suck at everythi-. DAMN IT!!!! Did it again!
Maybe I just need to start off with a softball question like Britney. She has become, in many ways, our generation’s Karen Carpenter immensely talented but tragically flawed. One can only hope that she will be able to use Barack’s cut pecs to finally destroy the Republicans once and for all.
sigh…I guess you are right. I guess I really AM that boring.
Seriously, you clearly do not read a whole lot of my posts, or your opinion of them would not be so superficial so as to be embarassing to read (sorry, Morning Joe).
You are going on an assumption you have based on your limited knowledge, and your clear lack of research. I suspect this is how you get by on a lot of issues.
All of our elites in one place at one time. Hmmm anyone watching the airports?
Chapoutier: Goes to show you Big Brother IS watching and only got you your shirt because you felt slighted and weren’t going to give any more to the cause.
P.T. Barnum would be proud of this little scam!
Creepy….but hey! I got my shirt! Shiny baubles to distract me!
It took me a minute to figure out who “Joe” is. Is it just me? Or is Joe Biden so stinking irrelavent and forgettable?
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I love my country; I can make fun of the idiots that get elected to steal my money…
Can we buy you off with some shiny baubles from the right?
No. It was a reference to Joe Scarborough, who had Zbigniew Brzezinski on the show yesterday. They were discussing Israel/Palestine and at some point Zb told Joe that his knowledge of the issue was so superficial as to be embarassing to listen to. Joe was a little taken aback and Mika (Joe’s co-host, oh and the daughter of Zb) looked like she wanted to die. It was all sorts of funny.
In order to allow particpation by all citizens in their Government—Obie.
Please…saggy pecs (or should I say droopy) and dainty forearms do not a president make; Obama is a poser, and a poor one at that!