Obama will continue his “common person” touch with flying into Switzerland on September 2nd for a glittery, exclusive fundraiser featuring actor George Clooney. (no word yet from Camp O! on what cabinet position Clooney is being vetted for…)
Dear Friends,
We are very excited to announce that Academy Award winning Actor George Clooney will be headlining an event for the campaign. The event will be Tuesday, September 2nd in Geneva, Switzerland and we really need your help to make this special event a success.
The evening will be broken down into two parts – a reception for $1,000 where Mr. Clooney will speak and take questions followed by an exclusive dinner at the home of NFC member Charles Adams for $10,000 per person. The dinner is limited to 75 people so if you are interested in attending, please fax in the attached invite as soon as possible. Or if know of anyone you think may be interested in attending, please forward this email.
If you do send this to friends and colleagues abroad, only American Citizens with US Passport numbers can contribute to the campaign.
Thank you so much!!!
Cookie Parker
How fun, raising campaign funds amongst a monied class that love America so much they choose not to live here.
Comment by Minister Jack X Klompus Muhammad ali Kareem Abdul Jabbar on 8/6 @ 5:41 pm #
Clooney will “speak and take questions?” Haha. Oh that should be truly enlightening. Will there be cocktails and self-smelling in the flatulence lounge?
Comment by B Moe on 8/6 @ 5:42 pm #
I suppose they are flying over their on some sort of hybrid jet. I hope the remember to check the tire pressures.
Comment by B Moe on 8/6 @ 5:43 pm #
Over their what, I am not sure.
Comment by B Moe on 8/6 @ 5:44 pm #
I left this out too: y.
If you see anything else, let me know.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 8/6 @ 5:45 pm #
Surgeon General?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 8/6 @ 5:51 pm #
So Clooney is what, D or C list these days?
If that’s the best he can get, I think O! is in trouble.
Comment by Minister Jack X Klompus Muhammad ali Kareem Abdul Jabbar on 8/6 @ 5:52 pm #
and Eddie Murphy’s character Tyrone “Kill My Landlord” Green would make a great ambassador to Pakistan, at least until the invasion.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 6:15 pm #
So Clooney is what, D or C list these days?
If that’s the best he can get, I think O! is in trouble.
It’s not just Clooney. Doug Henning is going to introduce the good people to the woooorld of magic! Then he’s going to escape from a huge cup of hot chocolate.
Oh and the Hudson Brothers will be providing the music.
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 8/6 @ 6:15 pm #
- They must be thinking another try at a “bump”. With fondue, the closest you get is a “lump” if you overheat.
- Maybe they could exchange the tire gauges for some good cooking thermometers.
Comment by urthshu on 8/6 @ 6:18 pm #
I would like some cheese, please.
And not to be picky but none of the gouda or that horrid wine-cheese. Thanks.
Comment by Minister Jack X Klompus Muhammad ali Kareem Abdul Jabbar on 8/6 @ 6:19 pm #
Will Jimmy JJ Walker be there? And Suzanne Sommers hawking Thighmasters? We’re going to need strong legs to operate our rickshaws.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/6 @ 6:20 pm #
Sen. McCain ought to send an FTD bouquet to Sen. Obama. It would be the polite thing to do.
Comment by guinsPen on 8/6 @ 6:35 pm #
Never turn your back on cheese.
Ever.
Comment by guinsPen on 8/6 @ 6:39 pm #
Or Chicago ward-heelers.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 6:42 pm #
Obama makes fun of McCain for suggesting a tax holiday on gas for the summer because “it’s a gimmick and what will it save? Pennies.”
Then he turns around and cries like a pussy about being made fun of for pointing people toward the air hose because “if everyone did it, you might save 3 or 4 percent”
OK, let’s say half. So with “The Genius’s” theory you’ll save 2%.
2% savings on fuel efficiency magically transforms a 20 mpg drag on our planet’s well-being to an environmentally friendly 20.4 mpg earth-saving vehicle. But wait! At $4 per gallon at 20 mpg, each mile costs $.20 but at 20.4 mpg each mile costs $.196! That’s a savings of $.004 per mile! So if the average American’s commuting miles for a month is 1000 miles that’s a monthly savings of 4 DOLLARS PER MONTH!!! THAT’S DOLLARS!
And if you’ve got a truck that could be 2 dollars a month!!! Imagine what you could do with an extra 2 dollars!!
Of course at 20 mpg and 1000 miles per month that’s 50 gallons per month and at $4, that’s $200. And with 18.4 cents per gallon eliminated with the tax holiday that would be a savings of only 920 cents per month. pennies.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/6 @ 6:47 pm #
And if you’ve got a truck that could be 2 dollars a month!!! Imagine what you could do with an extra 2 dollars!!
Buy a couple of cups of coffee?
Comment by urthshu on 8/6 @ 6:47 pm #
But the magic has already started! I keep seeing folks with O! bumperstickers blowing up their tires at Hess. This whole gas crunch thing will be superfluous [like Iraq] by the time of the GE.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 6:50 pm #
Full disclosure: The more you drive on over-inflated tires, the more you save.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 6:54 pm #
“Yes, hi George. It’s such an honor. My question: I heard that Tutti had a breast reduction. Did you ever get to see them? You know, before?”
Comment by guinsPen on 8/6 @ 7:01 pm #
Senator Junior drives on over-inflated egos.
An Italian tire, I think.
Comment by guinsPen on 8/6 @ 7:08 pm #
Tyre, Democrats.
Comment by B Moe on 8/6 @ 7:17 pm #
Imagine what you could do with an extra 2 dollars!!
Buy a pint of water.
Comment by buzz on 8/6 @ 7:18 pm #
sample questions:
Is Bush the most evil man ever,or just in our lifetime?
Are you the bravest man ever for speaking up or just really really brave?
So 2000 years ago, did Jesus have a wristband that said WWOD?
If you vote against Obama are you a bigot OR a racist? Or both?
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 7:22 pm #
Buy a pint of water.
Oh, you’ve not heard about the bottled water tax yet?
Comment by B Moe on 8/6 @ 7:26 pm #
Let me guess, a rainfall profits tax?
Comment by guinsPen on 8/6 @ 7:26 pm #
Come Nincompoop, Come Tyre-Gauge
Comment by Mr. Pink on 8/6 @ 7:27 pm #
Sorry to be a buzz killer guys but doesn’t overinflating your tires increase the risk of a blowout?
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 7:28 pm #
Bingo.
Comment by guinsPen on 8/6 @ 7:31 pm #
Not to mention egos.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 7:33 pm #
Sorry to be a buzz killer guys but doesn’t overinflating your tires increase the risk of a blowout?
Thank you for pointing that out. And do you know how many jobs are created by tires exploding on the highway? Millions. More jobs than stupid John McCain’s stupid drilling plan. Jobs picking up shredded tires. Jobs throwing more tires on The Great Springfield Tire Fire. Jobs making tires. Jobs putting tires on cars. Jobs jobs jobs jobs jobs. I believe I’ve answered enough of your questions. The Ab-lounger beckons.
Comment by marybel on 8/6 @ 7:38 pm #
We can only hope that the Messiah’s second trip to the snooty sorts across the pond will be as successful as the first. Cheese and arugula all around.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 8/6 @ 7:44 pm #
I would give my left nut for one of those fax-in sign up forms. Yes, I do believe that H. Pierpont Rockefeller-Vanderbilt IV and his lovely wife Eleanor would be on the guest list . . .
Comment by Ouroboros on 8/6 @ 7:49 pm #
OT.. kinda.. but has anyone noticed that at the supermarket those 5.99 blocks of cheddar cheese are now 10.99?? Goddam Nancy Pelosi..
Comment by Ouroboros on 8/6 @ 7:53 pm #
I’m so poor I’ve had to give up smoking, drinking, whoring,crack, weed, espresso and porn.. Now the government wants to deny me my last two real loves… Cheeseburgers and Tacos.. For my own good, no doubt..
The bastards.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 8/6 @ 7:58 pm #
Up next on the enemies list….Big Cheese. I heard Dick Cheney used to own stock in Pizza Hut.
Comment by odin on 8/6 @ 8:05 pm #
You know Clooney keeps spending seven million dollars on the rights to the ”
Hamdan defense team” and a few more films like Leathernecks, even Oceans
13, and he’s not going to be able to keep up these sorts of stunts for long.
Comment by Sean M. on 8/6 @ 10:18 pm #
And here I thought all those people were bluffing about the 2004 election.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 8/7 @ 12:00 am #
Well, as hesitant as I am to say this, I really hope there is a flatulance lounge, because every man loves the smell of his own farts.
And -
I think he is more likely to be appointed sturgeon general. That would be much more appropriate, because I would bet $100 that Clooney’s face smells like fish more often than not.
Bastard!
But I have to admit, it’s a hard life when every woman in the world wants to take your pants off and survey your territory. And believe me, I know!
(I wish).
Comment by pan on 8/7 @ 1:02 am #
What a faggy homo caviar-eating pinko fag. I’m glad you guys know what’s important.
Comment by John Bradley on 8/7 @ 1:21 am #
And here I thought we were just snarking about The Chosen One’s dubious grasp of the cares and concerns of the common man, as exemplified by a high-roller fundraiser in Switzerland.
But apparently it was all about hot steamy man-love.
Thank God pan was here to clue us in. It’s those darned Evil Republican Code Phrases, even we can’t keep track of them all. Darleen, strike “glittery” from the lexicon, please. I think it’s sending the wrong message.
Comment by Sean M. on 8/7 @ 2:19 am #
You’re right, pan. We should be ashamed of the fact that we’re pointing out that Teh Secular Savior is jetting off to Europe to dine with a bunch of expat millionaires to raise around a million bucks when his own party is blocking a vote on energy policy (by deciding to go on vacation) that might do something to help ordinary people at the pump.
But be sure to drop by again and tell us how you’re a fan of the party that represents the “common man” or “working people.”
Oh, and you might want to take up the “faggy” and “homo” and “fag” stuff up with a mental health professional, since nobody here used those terms before you showed up. I’m sure your doctor could explain the concept of “projection” for you.
Comment by SevenEleventy on 8/7 @ 2:23 am #
What a faggy homo caviar-eating pinko fag. I’m glad you guys know what’s important.
Life must be one big closet for you, eh pan?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 8/7 @ 4:34 am #
Pan that was quite homophobic of you.
Comment by fred lapides on 8/7 @ 4:36 am #
Are they still citizens? that is what counts. Many Am have decided to live elsewhere–my son for exampole lives in the far east, wherehe teaches. What about the very wealthy who do offshore banking to avoid taxes? and they live here? that is what is “un-American”–stop the snippiness. it is cheap and chilish.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 8/7 @ 4:46 am #
Wow you have more typos than I do congrats.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/7 @ 4:57 am #
cheap and chilish
Isn’t that the name of Costco’s private-branded salsa?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 8/7 @ 5:06 am #
Fred who called anyone un-American?
Comment by Rusty on 8/7 @ 5:10 am #
Fred. Welcome! You just made me look like a fuckin’ grammatical intellectual.Stick around.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/7 @ 5:24 am #
My math was wrong according to John Corzine. Tire inflation would save 800K barrels per year. The US uses 3.4 billion barrels per year. So it would be a savings of .002%. So your 20 mpg beater would be 20.002 mpg. At $4 your cost per mile would go from $.2 to .19998 per mile. If you drive 100K miles per year 1. You’re crazy and 2. you save $2 per year or you free up close to 17 cents per month for clothing, or rent, or fruit.
According to John Corzine who seemed to be speaking for Obama. Of course, these savings are immediate. And as always if you drive a pickup, your savings could be more like 7 cents per month.
I’m not against proper inflation, mind you. I just think it’s a very faggy non-solution that only a homo would come up with. Imagine how much caviar we could by with an extra 17 cents per month.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/7 @ 5:29 am #
Dammit! I rushed it. Your savings would be double. Your car would be .004 more fuel efficient which would make your tidy little nest-egg, 34 cents tidier each month. It would be like a damn bearer bond on wheels.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/7 @ 5:37 am #
…….that is if you drive 100k miles per year. 12k miles per year gets you 48 cents per year to the good! Thats around 4 cents per month savings. 2 pennies for you pickup and SUV drivers. The copper is worth more than the monetary windfall.
Comment by alppuccino on 8/7 @ 5:40 am #
the horse is dead
Comment by JD on 8/7 @ 5:40 am #
I see pan the goat-fucker stopped by in the middle of the night to puke up some projection. At least it dropped its air of civilty and went straight to invective.
Comment by JD on 8/7 @ 5:43 am #
Now all we need is sashal to drop in, call us Bolsheviks, and flirt with alppuccino.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 8/7 @ 5:50 am #
It is easy to puke up a bucket full of projection when you view people to the right of you politically as not only wrong but teh evil (or bigot, racist, homophobe, or heartless oppressor).
Comment by Silver Whistle on 8/7 @ 5:55 am #
1. I love cheese. Clooney, not so much.
2. What if we used helium in our tires instead of air? Wouldn’t that be even better?
Comment by alppuccino on 8/7 @ 6:00 am #
Nitrogen cost $20. That would eat up that 4 cent monthly savings pretty quick.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 8/7 @ 6:04 am #
How about someone finds a way to tap into all that hot air contained in George Clooney and Obama’s heads?
Comment by Silver Whistle on 8/7 @ 6:07 am #
pan,
Can’t we still be friends?
Comment by Salt Lick on 8/7 @ 6:09 am #
stop the snippiness. it is cheap and chilish.
At a 2003 National Board of Review event, Clooney said of Charlton Heston, “The head of the NRA announced **again** today that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.” (Heston had publicly announced his diagnosis the previous year.) Asked if he’d gone too far with his remarks, Clooney said, “I don’t care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association; he deserves whatever anyone says about him.”
So go chilish yourself, Fred.
Comment by SevenEleventy on 8/7 @ 6:25 am #
Snippiness seems kinda gay, so let’s ask pan on the official faggy homo caviar-eating pinko fag ruling.
Comment by Salt Lick on 8/7 @ 6:31 am #
Clooney, et al, tearing up for Obama.
Comment by SevenEleventy on 8/7 @ 7:16 am #
Snippiness seems kinda gay, so let’s ask pan
onwhat the official faggy homo caviar-eating pinko fag ruling is.Damn!
Comment by afall on 8/7 @ 7:24 am #
“How fun, raising campaign funds amongst a monied class that love America so much they choose not to live here.”
The guy that runs electoral-vote.com has often talked about Americans who love America so much that they choose not to live there to participate in the elections. I think he profiles websites for them to participate. Must be one of them types.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 8/7 @ 7:35 am #
Wait a minute – who is pan calling names: is it Obama, or Clooney? Or is it both of them?
I’m confused.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/7 @ 7:36 am #
Is there a point to this, or are you just an alpha troll?
If you’re trying to turn Darleen’s comment into an attack on servicemen overseas, I’d like to point out that there aren’t that many stationed in Switzerland.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 8/7 @ 7:41 am #
Suzanne Sommers?
She’s one of those women who look awesome with their clothes on, but looks like a meat shop with them off.
Comment by Darleen on 8/7 @ 7:43 am #
geez a fall, I guess the descriptive phrase “monied class” kinda slipped by you, eh?
You know, the Johnny Depps-like crowd who make oodles of cash for a few months work, live overseas and then support policies aimed at confiscating the cash of people who make just a bit less cash than them.
Comment by Darleen on 8/7 @ 7:45 am #
btw, last I heard, those “we support the troops” Dems have refused to do anything to make sure our troops overseas have the opportunity to vote AND have their votes counted.
Imagine that.
Comment by afall on 8/7 @ 7:45 am #
“If you’re trying to turn Darleen’s comment into an attack on servicemen overseas”
I hadn’t thought of that, though I guess it is true that they love America so much that they are choosing to live overseas. I believe that the electoral-vote.com guy is a scientist at a university abroad, not a servicemen.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 8/7 @ 7:49 am #
So am I, Pan. So am I.
Comment by afall on 8/7 @ 7:50 am #
“btw, last I heard, those “we support the troops†Dems have refused to do anything to make sure our troops overseas have the opportunity to vote AND have their votes counted.”
The electoral-vote.com website links to a website run by democrats abroad that helps people abroad register and get absentee ballots. That doesn’t look like “refus[ing] to do anything.”
Comment by Darleen on 8/7 @ 7:56 am #
afall
again “monied class”
and
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/07/the_soldier_voting_scandal.html
Comment by afall on 8/7 @ 8:10 am #
“the_soldier_voting_scandal.html”
I’ve heard about these issues. I find that there is a difference between that and “refuse to do anything” after I’ve talked about a website linking to efforts by democrats to get people abroad registered and participating. The article you linked to has Hoyer working with Blunt on the issue. Which is different than “refuse to do anything.”
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/7 @ 8:17 am #
Because, really, who needs results when you have intentions, right afall?
Comment by afall on 8/7 @ 9:01 am #
“Because, really, who needs results when you have intentions, right afall?”
I don’t know how lazy congressional staffers are, so maybe it is true that when Novak’s brain reported that they’re working on something, its the same as “refuse to do anything.”
Comment by JD on 8/7 @ 9:07 am #
Is afall alphie/actus ?
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 8/7 @ 9:47 am #
How many incarnations can that one have? A different name and I still have no clue what he’s attempting to say.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 8/7 @ 10:22 am #
That would be my bet. The style’s identical.
Comment by kelly on 8/7 @ 12:01 pm #
Obtuse check
Pointless check
Dense check
It’s alphie/actus/a fall/a-hole
Comment by N. O'Brain on 8/7 @ 1:19 pm #
Comment by afall on 8/7 @ 7:24 am #
alpo!!!!! You’re alive!!!!! I thought the dingos had got you!!!!!!
Either the dingos or the passive voice.
Darn, you’re one lucky asshole.
Comment by nikkolai on 8/7 @ 2:08 pm #
alphie/actus returns to amuse us! Nobdy could be that dumb…
Comment by SevenEleventy on 8/7 @ 3:10 pm #
alphie/actus returns to amuse us! Nobdy could be that dumb…</i
afall’s comments prove you wrong.
Comment by BJTexs on 8/7 @ 3:47 pm #
Please keep in mind that alphie/monkeyboy/Neville Chamberlain were one obtuse entity while actus was an entirely different obtuse entity.
BJTex: Providing information on obtuse trolls since 2006!
Here an alphie/monkeyboy screamer from wat backwhen: The Balloon Fence
One last note: Alphie/monkeyboy was banned by Jeff for proclaiming that the Virginia Tech shootings weren’t that big a deal as they represented only a fraction of the daily casualties in Iraq.
Sweet fellow.
Comment by BJTexs on 8/7 @ 3:49 pm #
Broken link. Try this. The Balloon Fence.
Hilarity ensued!
Comment by guinsPen on 8/7 @ 6:15 pm #
Not to forget al-phieda’s mile-high berm !
Comment by Mikey NTH on 8/7 @ 7:17 pm #
BJ:
The Chinese container ship invasion force. That was a hoot!
Comment by The Lost Dog on 8/7 @ 7:28 pm #
Comment by alppuccino on 8/6 @ 7:33 pm #
alp..
It’s even better to explode a truck tire, because even if it does take your head off, it also blows out big chunks of pavement if the truck is stopped at a stop light.
Think of the DOT here. They can send out seventeen guys to fix the hole, and when a screw falls out of the jackhammer, they get to sit around all day (on the clock) while someone comes out to pick it up, take it back to the shop, replace a screw that anyone on the road crew could have done in about a minute, and then drive it back to the job site.
I was once painting a house across the street from an intersection that had a “Y” where it came into the highway. It took seven guys two weeks to remove the “Y”.
I could have done it by myself in about a day and a half with just a shovel and a wheelbarrow.
I often think that I screwed up by not working for the state. I just wasn’t sure if I could lean on a shovel for seven hours a day.
Comment by Swen Swenson on 8/7 @ 8:34 pm #
A highway crew out this way got to the job site the other day and found they’d forgotten their shovels. They called in and the supervisor told them to lean on each other until he could get some shovels out to them.