This cult of personality thing just keeps getting creepier:
From: Michelle Obama [info@barackobama.com]
To: Darleen
Subject: “I love you back”Darleen —
I see this happen a lot:
Someone in a crowd yells at my husband, “We love you, Barack.”
That’s when he interrupts himself, smiles really big, and says, “I love you back.” And he does.
That’s why Barack’s dinners with supporters mean so much to him — because they give him a chance to show it and to say thanks.
I can say from experience you won’t want to miss out on the next dinner. I hope you’ll consider donating $3 — or whatever you can to support the campaign — and be automatically entered today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Dinners-with-Barack
Thank you,
Michelle
I keep waiting for the giant posters/murals on the sides of abandoned buildings and at hubs of transportation.
Kind of like North Korea.
Leigh, this what you’re looking for?
I don’t want politicians loving me. They always mean it carnally.
Heh. Pretty much says it all, eh Blake?
I really really don’t like that guy.
I think there’s a mistake in this US News article. The writer accidentally let some truth slip into his article.
I’m quite sure referring to emails from the Obama campaign as “desperate” will get the writer some negative feedback from the administration.
leigh, as much as I despise President Obama, I also remind myself that Obama is merely the end result of decades of fecklessness on the part of the electorate. And that includes me.
It’s only in the last few years I’ve come to realize just how much the GOP was party to the corruption in Washington.
*sigh* yeah, I know Blake. I count myself in there, as well. My husband is just starting to wake up about it and it’s like the seven stages of grief around here.
I know this is Rove but the editorial is good.
So when will we have a 96 hour telethon with Hollywood stars answering the phone banks on stage and Castro length speeches from “The One” begging for money? Must-See-TV!
When politicians speak of love what springs to mind to me is an abusive relationship.
They “love you long time”, charles.
geoffb, thanks, that’s the article I was originally thinking of, but couldn’t remember. However, I thought the wording in the US News article was somewhat surprising.
Anyway, a key sentence in the end of the article you link: “The president’s difficulty in raising campaign cash is evidence of this. He is working a lot harder than he thought he would to raise a lot less than he had hoped.”
Our president has lead a gilded life and never actually had to work. I’m quite sure Obama is shocked that he can’t just mail it in this time around.
The campaign meltdowns could very well be spectacular this year, because rather than being the obnoxious and cocky hunter, Obama will the hunted, looking over his shoulder, and won’t have the cover he once had.
President Obama has always had brittle veneer over his faux “above it all” persona. Someone like Santorum or Gingrich could easily push Obama over the edge. Romney doesn’t have the balls to really go after Obama.
Everyone has seen the movie “A Face in the Crowd” with Andy Griffith, yes? I’m waiting for Obama to have an epic meltdown of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes proportion, complete with applause machine and yelling from the balcony.
I read elsewhere, perhaps at Ace of Spades HQ, that the $3 price tag is not necessarily an act of desperation, but rather a way to harvest a bunch of names and addresses which can be employed to hide foreign contributions.
I wouldn’t put it past these crooks.
Darleen,
Was this litle flirtation pre or post-GDB comic production?
I just threw up a little in the back of my mouth….
Totally off-topic.
Could somebody tell me, what the hell is the matter with people today?
I’m doing some spring yard work and minding my own business when the frau says to me that she wants to take the kids to some parade before we go to early Mass so I should go find something appropriate to wear. Now, I hate early Mass, and I’m not much for parades. Hell, I didn’t even know there was a parade today. But whaddya gonna do, right? So I go I find a clean pair of khakis and a black polo shirt and we head downtown to this parade thing.
Well, anyways, we get there, and people start staring at me. Angry eyes, crazy eyes even. Next somebody starts swearing at me. Then somebody spits at me! Now there’s a whole crowd around shouting and the kids are crying and somebody threatens to punch me in the mouth! Finally a couple of cops show up and the crowd starts thinging out, and I’m starting to think everythings going to be okay, when they threaten to arrest me for disturbing the peace! What the hell did I do? I want to know. They tell me to get the hell out of there. So the wife is steaming and the kids are balling and and she grabs me like I’m one of the kids and we start walking out of there, and the parade hasn’t even started yet.
At least I got out of church.
jeez ernst you landed in #ows zone
Is that why everybody was wearing green? I thought those bastards wore purple.
Wow. I guess I got lucky. This could have been as bad as that time I wore an orange polo into Murphy’s Irish Pub on St. Patrick’s Day.
Have a drink Ernst.
Now see. If I can walk into Murphy’s and order a “Black and Tan” (which I can) you’d think I’d be able to toast Oliver Cromwell on his birthday.
But you would be wrong!
That Obama’s campaign has outspent its donations by 158% tells you everything you need to know about his time in office. If team R doesn’t use it as a talking point, they are gob-smackingly stupid.
Which is why you probably won’t hear much about it.
Ye just be addin’ to the Troubles, Ernst.
leigh and blake, when I first saw O’s phiz on Old Glory, that’s the first thing that came to mind – Kim Il Barack. Could it get any more cultist? Even the gray-scale in the pic they used is creepy
Seth, that’s why they call it the Gob-Smackingly Stupid Party.
Red, if you read the DNC’s release regarding the O Flag, they saw absolutely nothing wrong with the flag and were surprised by the controversy.
I’d suspect this was a publicity stunt if there weren’t articles like this.
Argh. Is it just me who is bothered by the fact that the president says stuff like “gotta”? You’d think that a fellow who attended a pricey prep school and two Ivies would have a better command of the language.
If he tosses off an “irregardless” on the stump, we’ll know for a certainty that his CV is a big fat lie.
Problem being, Blake, I’m afraid that O expects women to faint and grown men to tremble at his sight. He’s a member of his own cult.
Were you wearing Nikes, Ernst?
Thanks to the effects of his policies I don’t have an extra $3 to send him or the madness it would require to want to sent it.
I hope they specify that you write a $3 check and mail it in an envelope with a first-class stamp. ‘Cuz PayPal and the like are just killin’ the USPS…