Late last week a story appeared on the Drudge Report that was so outside the realm of reasonable good taste that most people initially thought it was a joke. The Obama campaign has come up with “The Obama event registry.” The nuts and bolts of the fund raising scheme is that people who are getting married, having an anniversary, birthday, etc should forgo the gifts for their event, and instead have their friends and family give the gift money to the Obama campaign. This fund raising idea is so cheesy that it should be sponsored by the late Billy Mays or Hulk Hogan.
According to Fox News, those participating in this registry nonsense are asked to set a monetary goal for their event and are given language they can use among their friends and family to ensure that the wedding purse finds its way to the White House coffers. Not only is this fund raising effort beneath the dignity of people like Bernie Madoff, let alone the President of the United States, but it tells us everything we will ever need to know about Obama.
Barack Obama is asking brides and grooms to give up their gifts for his sake when he never gave up a round of golf or lavish vacation for their sake. He is also trying to shoehorn his way into what should be one of the biggest days of somebody’s life. In essence, he is your wedding gift. Okay, so the objective evidence exposes him as a shallow, self-centered narcissist. Contrary to what MSNBC thinks about the man, very few people will be surprised by this characterization. What most people are probably missing in this mess of a love letter to himself, is that it also belies an almost criminal ignorance (or apathy) for how the economy works.
For the moment let’s ignore the birthday, anniversary, graduation, and bris money Barack wants to get his hands on. Weddings in particular are an economic tempest of activity. On average, people spend $75 for a wedding gift. The average number of gift toting guests to a wedding is 150 to 300 people. This means the average middle class wedding sends between $11,250 and $22,500 into the nation’s financial system. These numbers are based on if only someone’s friends are attending a wedding. When you factor in the average $130 from family members, that number goes up. Multiply these numbers by how many people get married between June and November and economic activity is into the millions and perhaps the billions. In his perfect world, this is money that Barack would rip away from the private sector and see diverted to his campaign war chest.
Barack Obama is putting the needs of his campaign over the needs of an economy in crisis. The billions of dollars from the gift giving industry sustain businesses, both large and small, and provide jobs for millions of Americans. With that in mind, Obama is not asking for donations, he is asking people to give him money INSTEAD of spending it at Bed, Bath, & Beyond or Target; effectively removing that cash from the real world economy.
Even his supporters should be concerned that when the panic of low poll numbers drives him to react on instinct, those instincts tell him to do something that will ultimately hurt the economy. Fortunately very few people are taking this seriously and the gift giving industry appears to be safe unless he signs an executive order that mandates people hand over their gifts to the White House. What the hell, Michelle can probably could use the toaster oven or gravy boat that your Aunt Sylvia bought.
If you give up your honeymoon for Obama, you will be automatically entered into a drawing and might win the right to accompany the First Family on their next vacation instead.
Seriously, if I were a Mohel, I would send Obama all my tips. True, there are only one per bris but they would soon add up.
Are you talking about monetary tips or the fleshy ones?
Finally. The REAL rationale for the individual mandate is revealed.
I suspect their next fundraising ploy will be appeals to the bereaved friends and family of the recently departed.
If Obama can intrude on your wedding gifts, isn’t he really claiming what medieval people called “the Lord’s matrimonial right”? That right was that the Lord of the Manor would be the first person to sleep with the virgin that was your wife. You got married, the Lord slept with your new wife, and then you would be allowed to sleep with her subsequently. The English eventually revolted against this practice and the rise of Anglo-Saxon democracy began.
Droit de seigneur
Of course, this nonsense does not rise to that level. It is simply being gauche beyond belief. One is supposed to gift the happy couple, not try to get gifts from them.
This is government greed taken to the extreme. They want money. They look around the landscape to see where there is any money onto which they can glom. They do not care who has the money. They do not care about how sleazy their request might seem. In fact, it probably never occurred to them to think it might be gauche.
Forget that they are radicals or subversives, or whatever. They are just gauche, tasteless, boors. The french word ‘gauche’ means left. These Leftists are just gauche.
Somehow, when I heard the Left talk of a “classless” society, I did not think they wanted a society with no class.
No, it’s worse than Lord’s Matrimonial Right. Obama will pimp your bride on your wedding night and keep all the profits. Refuse and you can expect an IRS audit.
This shows how out of touch he is with average Americans. Most couples scrape together everything that they can, often taking on an extra job or debt for a wedding, if they don’t elope to save money. The gifts are the building blocks for their new life together (real people actually need pots and pans to cook because they don’t have a personal chef… I know crazy right!?!). To many, it is a way to recoup the cost of the wedding. What? For real? Most Americans are not rich?
Barack Hussein Obama: the bridezilla at every wedding, the corpseman at every funeral.
I disagree with Mr. Cherry on one thing: the late infomercial master, Billy Mays, was nowhere near as classless and gauche as our President. Hell, I’d rather watch an infomercial with that “sham-wow” guy than listen to any address from our President. At least the late Billy Mays and the “sham-wow” guy sold worthwhile if wacky products. They didn’t hold their audiences in contempt as does the present occupant of the White House.
Good thing they didn’t think of this before Christmas and the election will be over before next Christmas.
Dear Johnny, I know you wanted a new Iphone, but for the good of the country I donated the money to the Obama campaign. Love Santa.
If you’re concerned about our future and you are enduring a terminal illness or participate in dangerous activities, consider changing your will to give your entire estate to my campaign. Remember it’s for the children. adn if it’s going to be close, consider forging treatment o hasten the process.