The Obama campaign continued a string of recent emails begging donors for funds in the face of strong fundraising by Mitt Romney with an email a short time ago from Barack Obama — subject line “I will be outspent.”
“We’re getting outraised — a first for a sitting president, if this continues. Not just by the super PACs and outside groups that are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into misleading ads, but by our opponent and the Republican Party, which just outraised us for the second month in a row,” the email says.
“We can win a race in which the other side spends more than we do. But not this much more,” Obama continues. “So I need your help. If you believe that regular people should decide elections, then please chip in $3 or more today.”
Obama adds “this isn’t about me or the outcome of one election.”
“This election will be a test of the model that got us here. We’ll learn whether it’s still true that a grassroots campaign can elect a president — whether ordinary Americans are in control of our democracy in the face of massive spending,” he said.
Oh, dear me. I am so sorry that my gift registry hasn’t inspired all my friends to donate to the campaign.
Hold on a bit, I might be able to find some coins in the sofa cushions. BRB!
Just the other day he was asking (begging?) for supporters to forgo giving wedding and birthday presents to loved ones and instead send him a cash donation to his campaign.
Whats next? Begging for
Christmas…err – Ramadan gifts? (do muslims have this)?I suspect O’s next fundraising ploy will be an appeal to friends and family’s of the recently deceased, as in: Bequeath your loved one’s assets to our re-election effort to show that not only can a grassroots campaign elect a president, but that those soon to be grass can too!
Janet Reno’s brother recently passed away, and in the obit they actually included a request to send money to Obama.
The smell of despiration is heavy in the night air.
Soooo . . . the president wants us all to donate to him so he can engage in massive spending, which will somehow prove that “ordinary Americans are in control of our democracy in the face of massive spending[?]”
Yeah, when we vote him out in the face of his massive spending, sure, his point will be valid. Assuming anyone is interested in giving him a massive amount of money, of course.
(This is one of my favorite bits of liberal hypocrisy from the past year or so. With a straight face, these people imply that Mitt Romney raising money is anti-democratic/evil, but Barack Obama doing THE EXACT SAME THING is democratic/good)
– whinin’ four years ago.
“If you believe that regular people should decide elections, then please chip in $3 or more today.”
He doesn’t say it has to go to him. How about we all chip in $3.00 to the Romney campaign fund and make sure Obambi gets the receipt?