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WOW: Obama Campaign Hits a New Low, and No I am Not Making This Up!!!!

By: mikeymike143 (Diary)  |  June 23rd, 2012 at 01:34 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Obama has set up a new website today. It’s called the Obama Event Registry. It’s purpose is to encourage people to….get this…. take the money that would be used to buy someone a gift on a special occasion like their birthday, graduation or wedding and instead donate it to Obama’s re-election campaign. It even tells you how to write the note.

Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?

Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.

Setting up and sharing your registry page is easy—so get started today.

http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/the-obama-event-registry

Am I the only one who thinks it is incredibly tacky for the President of the United States to hustle children out of their birthday gifts for his political fundraising needs? Although Obama doesn’t want the gifts, he actually wants you to give him the cash that would be used to buy the gifts. What selfishness and arrogance.

And it gets even worse. Look at the blatant sales pitch they hit you with on the next page.

 

Register with Obama

 

Got a special milestone or event coming up?

Instead of another gift card you’ll forget to use, ask your friends and family for something that will go a little further:  a donation to Obama for America. Register your next celebration—whether it’s a birthday, bar or bat mitzvah, wedding, or anniversary—with the Obama campaign. It’s a great way to show your support for a cause that’s important to you on your big day.

http://www.barackobama.com/obama-event-registry?source=TheObamaEventRegistry-20120622-signup-HQB&icn=20120622-TheObamaEventRegistry-signup-HQB

I am sure that a new couple will be thrilled to know that instead of getting the microwave they needed, their friend decided to donate the money to Obama campaign. And I noticed Obama is also making a grab for bar mitzvah money. A bar mitzvah is given when a boy turns thirteen. Thirteen. I imagine that ”Tooth Fairies for Obama” is right around the corner.

These people are clueless and classless. November can’t get here quick enough for me.

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  • 6eorge Jetson

    Obama must think that the typical American rube is too dumb to use a gift card.

    • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

      too.

    • NRPax

      “Plus, it

      • wag

        But I guess when you call somebody a “corpse-man” knowing the correct term for a dish that holds gravy is “beyond your pay grade.”

        • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

          When a politician retires and buys a yacht with his lobbyist money.

          Then you aren’t riding the gravy train, you are riding the gravy boat!

          • checkmate2012

            Love’d your comment and did you see the others at O-Biden blog link from mikey:

            mcjenny-Funerals will be targeted next, a donation in lieu of flowers

            Jim Brown-The dead won’t mind, they still vote for him

            Tom Hinkle- You owe me one screen cleaning for that one. LOL

  • Justin_Case

    There was a time when you could give, in lieu of a Christmas gift, a donation to GreenPeace in the name of the person you were “gifting”.

  • checkmate2012

    said her husband is everybody’s husband and O had a gift in hand for Jarrett’s daughter…no donation presumably. Who do these people think they are? Shysters of the worst kind.

    • mikeymike143

      Free Horse Manure

      http://norfolk.craigslist.org/zip/3038981213.html

      • Viet71

        – a 1955 Dreamsicle

        – a kite with a string

        – some marbles

        – a poster of a William Castle movie

        – a burger from 1960

        These are too good. Maybe just a can of food for Bo.

        • gekster

          When was the last time anyone has seen Bo?

          • blooch

            “Pass me the gravy bowl, Michelle.”

      • tnfriendofcoal101368

        A nice U-haul to pack up their crap and move out of the White House/

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Messina selling woof tickets that they would raise “1 billion dollars”. I think Citizens United hurt their feelings. Funny when they thought they would raise a billion Citizens United was no big deal. That and Shelly Adelson pledged 100 million of his own money.

  • bk

    As I recall, they were crowing about how great it was that some kid broke his piggy bank and sent the money to Obama instead of putting it toward a bike. Sick. These people have no decency and no shame.

  • carolina

    and decide not to vote for the panderer in chief.
    “the gift that keeps on giving” UGH

    • mikeymike143

      but anything that makes ”the chosen one” look bad never sees the light of day. so unfortunately the media isnt covering this.

  • westcoastpatriette

    Next, they will be giving out awards to those who “sacrificed” the most to the One who is like the Second Son of God. The One who still makes the tide ebb. The One who, alone, has been able to transform the evil USA into a mediocre socialist cesspool.

  • cactusjack

    so I can go have dinner with Sarah Jessica Parker. Maybe she will show me her shoe collection (swoon). No sacrifice is too great for The One.

  • chbroussard

    In lieu of flowers or a contribution to the deceased’s favorite charity, send that money instead to Obama. No one really needs a gravy boat and the deceased certainly doesn’t need a bunch of flowers.

    I can’t even begin to articulate how disgusting this Obama crowd is. I would love to know which of the village idiots came up with this idea.

    • mikeymike143

      or the obama people who looked at the village idiot’s idea of not giving toys to children on their birthday so that obama could profit financially and then gave a green light to this project.

  • mcrill

    I think you missed the point. It’s not a site to send a donation to Obama instead of giving someone a gift, it’s for people who will be recieving gifts to ASK for Obama donations instead of gifts. Thus your examples of children being hustled out of birthday gifts or a couple not recieving wedding gifts are flawed.

    Granted, it’s still incrdibly tacky of the Obama campaign (and very un-Amerian) to ask people to put Obamas reelection above their own personal interests, but it’s also not surprising.

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

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      • mcrill

        I didn’t reinterpret at all. It clearly says to show how much Obama means to you by asking other people to donate instead of giving you a gift for your special occasion. Which is, whether or not you like to admit it, considerably different than asking people to on their own initiative donate to Obama instead of giving a gift. Two different sides of the same coin perhaps, but if I asked my wife to give me something completely worthless for my birthday I would have no one to blame but myself. If she voluntarily did that it would be a considerably different thing.

        Still tacky, but then aren’t ALL of Obamas fundraising programs tacky?

        • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

          And why is it so danged important to stick up for Barry here, on your one interpretation of the diary?

    • JSobieski

      In the context of a wedding gift, it is the decision of the couple if/where to register. Wedding attendees DON’T register.

      “register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift.”

      This is clearly an appeal for the gift recipient to register at Obama 2012—it is not a request that gift givers unilaterally give money to Obama instead.

      The magnitude of the tackiness need not be magnified by twisting the words—it is plenty tacky.

      Obama’s campaign seems to be self destructing—fortuitous and unexpected good news!!!

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

        Why pick this fight for barry?

        • JSobieski

          Look, we all get caught up in the partisan frenzy at times. I am not accusing the diarist of purposeful misinterpretation.

          It would be a shame to lose out on a fence sitting independent out there visiting this site because of an interpretation of a campaign fundraiser.

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            You’re missing the point of the diary.

            Read it again.

            In your prideful zeal to claim the higher horse, you’re being unfair to mikeymike143.

          • JSobieski

            The statement above is false.

            Obama is inviting couples to register. Weddings guests DON’T register.

            Show me one website where wedding guests and not the couple register.

            People ask the couple “where are you registered”. The couple does NOT ask the guests “where are you registered”.

            The language cited in my comment title is clearly incorrect. it has nothing to do with my zeal for truth or your zeal to wish it otherwise.

            The way a gift registery works is well established, and the language quoted above is contrary to the well established meaning.

            Put another way, if the couple doesn’t register at Obama 2012—they won’t miss out on the microwave that they need.

            Why not address the argument instead of your assessment of my intentions?

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            ..

          • JSobieski

            http://www.incomemark.com/Article/Learn-How-a-Gift-Registry-Works/361294

            The registered gift recipients decide what gifts they want and list them on the registry.

            If you want a donation to Obama in lieu of a microwave, you list it. If you don’t –then you don’t.

            No couple is going to miss out on a microwave oven because of an Obama donation UNLESS they register for an Obama donation.

            The Obama communication is by its very words asking people to register, and the people who register are the gift recipients.

            I have made very specific points, quoted the relevant language, etc.

            All I see on the other side is ridicule and “read the entire diary”.

            The language I quoted comes close to the end of the diary. Yes, I read the entire diary.

          • aesthete
          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            You clearly didn’t read the diary, and your irrational prejudice is showing.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    When should we point out to them that the campaign itself specifically mentions registering your kid’s bar mitzvah, thus making them all look like idiots for not reading the whole diary?

    • acat

      Always suspected Obama was a chauvinist….

      Mew

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

        But I don’t write bar/bat any more than I write he/she. :)

        • acat

          Mikey uses bar inclusively, and as you say that’s pretty standard for goyim.

          This is pretty tacky … I’d say it’s *significantly* tackier than “Trick or Treat for UNICEF” …

          Mew

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            The thing about that is, if some kid came to my door with one of those, he’s getting candy anyway.

          • acat

            Don’t know how they roll in your neighborhood, but around here the parents walk with the kids .. and I keep a separate sack of high quality chocolate truffles to hand to the moms. Gotta reward good behavior.

            Mew

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            …

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            Where I live now there may be kids coming around.

          • acat

            is to find out if the Ryun Brothers can come up with some sort of fun, seed-planting idea.

            Even something as simple as custom red M&Ms with redstate.com on ‘em could be fun …

            Mew

    • JSobieski

      And you admit that the registrant determines what gifts are listed on the registry?

      So the following statement is UNTRUE:

      “I am sure that a new couple will be thrilled to know that instead of getting the microwave they needed, their friend decided to donate the money to Obama campaign”

      Last time I checked a bar mitzvah didn’t involve a married couple. Maybe I just am not up on modern reformed Judaism?

      There is no basis for concluding that the quoted statement is inaccurate. No basis.

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

        That’s the sound of the point of this diary going over your head at Mach 1.

        • mikeymike143

          but i see this diary has 724 likes since i wrote it yesterday so obviously its going over well with our readers.

          • mcrill

            You’re claiming that the donation REGISTRY will lead to people donating instead of giving others gifts. This is indeed the point of the GIFT REGISTRY.

            But the point of a GIFT REGISTRY is that someone requests that you donate to Obama instead of giving them a gift. That’s what a GIFT REGISTRY is. Your diary miscontrues this for no clear reason.

            Really, is the concept of a registry hard to understand? There will be no young married couples who missed out on a microwave because their wedding guest decided to donate to Obama. Unless, of course, some couple asks people to donate to Obama instead of giving gifts.

          • JSobieski

            however, that possibility is always present whether it involves Obama or any other registry.

            Any married man knows that the woman chooses 99% of the stuff on the registry.

            If a parent forces an Obama donation on a child, the primary shame lies with the parent above anyone else.

            In any case the statement about the couple and the microwave oven is false, and none of the counter-arguments address that point.

            No couple is going to be robbed of a microwave oven.

          • gekster

            insted if giving a microwave to the couple, donate to Obama instead.
            You are that blind, arn’t you.

            Insted of spending money on a microwave to give to the happy couple, give a donation to Obama instead.
            So if that is done, how do they get the microwave.
            Does Obama but them one out of his stash.

          • mcrill

            the Obama campaign is only asking you to donate instead of buying a microwave if that’s what the happy couple ASKS you to do, via their obnoxious registry. Which is considerably different fromyour wedding guests deciding for you on their own that an Obama campaign donation is the best gift they could give you.

          • gekster

            That they don’t lose a microwave.

          • mcrill

            This diary, however, claims that the hypothetocal couple will miss out on the microwave that they need. If they really need the microwave then that’s what they will register for insted of an Obama donation, it’s their choice what to register for, not the choice of the gift giver. Thus the diary is disengenuous in claiming that people will miss out on things they need or really want because of thus fund-raising scheme.

            How this point id hard to understand I can’t begin to fathom. Do we really need to tell falsehoods about Obama when there is so much truth to condemn him? Why not write a diary about how this move simply reeks of desparation rather than distorting fact?

          • acat

            In short, you are assuming the motives of the gift giver will bend to those of the gift recipient .. and this is not always the case.

            Mew

            (had an aunt once give me a lovely certificate indicating I’d arranged for a mass to be said, every day for a year in lieu of a birthday gift … just pointing out that it *does* happen)

          • mcrill

            but the Obama donation registry has no feature for people to make donations in place of a gift unless donations have been registered for. They could do that on their own anyway, but there would be no reason to blame the Obama campaign for that. It seems far more likely that some liberal loons will register for Obama donations and receive a bunch of microwaves and gravy bowls instead. Which would be great.

          • acat

            i.e. “This supporter registered, and these people donated .. cross-reference the known likes/dislikes to regional demographics …”

            The whole thing isn’t about gravy boats or microwaves, it’s about building a supporter database that can help re-elect Obama .. but more importantly, that OfA can sell to other Dems.

            These people are not *only* playing short-term ball here.

            Mew

          • checkmate2012

            My VP reveal. Did you hear Pawlenty said absolutely no way to being VP? Shocker as I thought it was high up in the running.

          • mikeymike143

            no loss to see him out of the mix. i think susana martinez would be the best ”dark horse” choice romney could pick. she is saying no now but they all say no until its actually offered to them.

          • checkmate2012

            NV Gov, given all the attention of NV as a swing state?

            Maybe since he looks a LOT like Romney…weird:
            http://www.briansandoval.com/

          • acat

            it’ll be Walker, Ryan, or someone from Michigan – not T.Paw.

            Unfortunately, I think Pawlenty’s poor showing and worse-timed exit have ended his nationwide career .. but he could still run for a Senate seat. Wouldn’t have minded him taking on Klobuchar … alas for what could have been.

            Mew

          • checkmate2012

            to wrapping up WI and IN in my opinion. So a North woods candidate isn’t needed as much as a swing state..Ohio.

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