06.26.12
Barack’s latest crowd-sourcing whine for cash
UPDATED, UNFORTUNATELY
In today’s e-mail:
George —
No matter what’s going on, Michelle and I make time to check in with each other — as partners and as parents.
I call it my Michelle time.
I’m lucky to have her by my side on the campaign trail — and I can’t think of a better guest for my upcoming dinner with supporters.
It’s most likely the last dinner we’ll do together on this campaign, and tomorrow night is the last chance to enter — donate $4 or whatever you can to be automatically entered to join us:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Meet-us-for-Dinner
Thanks,
Barack
From the original sticker price of five dollars, price drop to four. That’s a 20 percent savings, folks! You know you can’t pass up that deal.
From yesterday:
Not coincidentally, various arms of the DNC and the Obama campaign have filled e-mail in boxes with increasingly hysterical solicitations for money. All of these are wrapped around the truth that the Citizens United decision have given the GOP an unlimited supply of crazy billionaire sugar daddies …
The Obama campaign used to ask for 5 dollar micro-payments. Perhaps because of donation fatigue in the mailing list it has been ratcheted down to 4 dollars. But they still apparently believe crowd-sourced serial micro-collection is an answer to oligarchs.
Eat it. Crowd-sourced fund-raising against the little army of American plutocrats. What losers. Seeming almost like a good idea once, notice the almost , then destroyed by reality as the fancy of people who drank way too much of the Kool-Aid on the “social networking” power of masses of nobodies without mega-money, like me, on mailing lists. And it’s irritating.
Just this afternoon, in case being lined up for crowd-milking everyday is easy to overlook:
Hey George —
I just wanted to make sure you saw Barack’s email from this morning. This is the new reality we’re operating under in this election.
I know we can go up against all that spending on the other side and still win. But it’s going to take all of us.
Please chip in what you can today:
https://donate.barackobama.com/June-Deadline
Tonight is also your last opportunity to enter for the chance to have dinner with Barack and me sometime soon. Your donation today will automatically enter you.
Thanks so much for whatever you’re able to give today. It matters.
-Michelle
Irritating, squared. Because anyone with a lick of sense knows that flunky robots write and send these mails, not real human beings. So much heartfelt effort — all three minutes of it.
Dave Latchaw said,
June 26, 2012 at 6:59 pm
A robot with a very dry sense of humor could have some fun writing that kind of stuff. It’s already close to self-parody. Just needs a little nudge.
George Smith said,
June 27, 2012 at 7:50 am
Yes. It has the obvious sincerity of someone you don’t particularly care for who tells you, “Thanks for all that you do,” before moving on.