Yes. This email is real. Not making it up.
Friend –
Supporters like you are the reason I’m here, and the values we share have always made our organization more than just a political campaign.
So whenever I can, I want to take the opportunity to meet you. Last month, that meant I got to talk to folks in Iowa about small-business opportunities, and sit down with a group of volunteers from around the country who helped build this campaign in their communities this summer.
Today, I want to ask if you’ll join me and three other supporters for a meal and conversation sometime soon.
Please donate $5 or more to be automatically entered for a chance to join me for dinner.
That is just like him, isn’t it? Start with the sweet talk, then stick you with the bill. And the answer is “No.”
If this sounds a bit familiar to you, it’s because we’ve done this before. In fact, my hope is that I’ll be able to keep doing these dinners throughout the campaign.
No means no.
They’re a chance for me to talk one on one with people like you who are taking ownership of this campaign and connect with the work going on every day in neighborhoods across the country.
You mean, like the TSA. No wonder they’ve become so familiar since Obama’s election.
These dinners also set our campaign apart. No matter what our opponents do over the next 14 months, dinners like these are how we will continue to put people at the heart of this campaign — and prove that we don’t need checks from Washington lobbyists or special-interest PAC money to win an election. We can do it person to person, in our neighborhoods and backyards, and over the dinner table.
He just got a little too close to quoting an old Beatles song there. Or Green Eggs and Ham. Either way…yikes.
That’s why I’m asking for your donation today. I hope you’ll take a minute to help build this campaign. When you do, you’ll have a chance to join me for dinner:
https://donate.barackobama.
com/Dinner Maybe I’ll get to thank you in person.
Barack
No still means NO. Do I need a restraining order?
almost feel sorry about those obama supporters who might still donate to his campaign but dread to eat anything near michelle for fear of her nasty looks and lecturing over the chance to have a good meal provided by the white house staff
I’ll pass.
Don’t need somebody telling me what I can and can’t eat.
No Thanks !! I`d rather spend the 5 bucks on someone truly needy and what?, your buddies couldn`t make it ??
Wow, I’m nearly compelled to donate $5 just for the chance to share my story and tell him what I think about his policies face-to-face. To hell with the lottery, that’s what I call a sweepstakes!
Its not the 5 bucks deal – after al it is a fund-raiser. It is the cheesy level of campaigning at a time when high political skills are needed. The economy is in serious straights, his leadership capabilities are being being criticized by his own party, and he thinks that going out into the boonies and raffling off opportunities for a chicken and arugula dinner while listening him saying exactly what he has been filling the air waves with for two years is the route to victory? Has he so little comprehension of how he should be spending his time in a crisis? Th truth is that he is inflexible but fearful and seeks the comfort of being surrounded by uncritical adoration.
It is difficult to believe that his handlers would recommend this absurd course. He has no instinctual political savvy. I have the feeling that he is becoming unhinged by his decline in approval, resisting all counsel as criticism, and insisting on the campaign approach which brought him to his high office, and is his greatest pride. Beyond being ineffective, this takes him away from the protection of the teleprompter and makes him more prone to gaffes like today’s “bipartisan” and the Joe the Plumber socialist platitudes.
This is a mediocre man, in away over his head, flailing, bent on self-destruction. The DNC brought it upon themselves.
What? That two timing S.O.B.!!! I got the same email.
And I thought the most interesting man in the world was into me and wanted to share an intimate moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18VkI0uDxE
If I donate, can I then assume that in fact he will not take any money from Washington lobbyists and PACs? Any lawyers know if I have an enforceable contract?
Obama: If you love me, you’ll give me the damn 5 bucks.
Right Now!
Even when they come from politicians (all two of them) whom I respect, I don’t like the “Dear Friend” approach. It strikes me as a lot like third grade. Or Mr. Rogers’ theme song as spoofed by Eddie Murphy. “Dear Fellow Citizen” would describe what and who I am in relation to most politicians. Only one is a friend, and he addresses me as “Dear Gloria.”
By definition, if someone is your friend, you know his or her name.
But I admit it, any words that emanate from Obama would meet with criticism from me. I feel about his ability to tell the truth exactly as Mary McCarthy felt about her arch-nemesis, Lillian Hellman. McCarthy said, “every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’ “
Just for giggles, and because I love to get spammed all to hell by D-onkey organizations, and, of course, HELP THEM SPEND their campaign money chasing the wrong voters…
I attempted to throw my entry into the ring. the rules clearly state at the very beginning…
NO PURCHASE, PAYMENT, OR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS PROMOTION.
1. Eligibility. PURCHASE, PAYMENT OR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION WILL NOT INCREASE ODDS OF WINNING.
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After plugging in my info, and email, phone # etc, I attempted to click submit without entering the creditcard info.
What do ya know…it will NOT TAKE IT…keeps given the redlined fields that I am supposed to fill out.
No purchase or contribution necessary, my arse, they are digging for gold, collecting a lot of MONEY…that probably isnt trackable.