It’s all so weird. It’s all so unseemly. Multi-millionaires begging for $3 and selling themselves off in raffles.
The email Michelle Obama sent to me:
This holiday has felt a bit like one last long, deep breath before we plunge into 2012.
This time next year, I don’t want us to have any regrets. I want to be able to say we rose to the task, and got it done. We’ve all got some work to do right now.
Over the next 11 months we’ve got an organization to grow, voters to register, and people to get fired up.
I hope you’ll close out this year by donating $3 or more now to help make sure we’re ready for the next one:
https://donate.barackobama.com/No-Regrets
Thank you so much, and happy new year,
Michelle
P.S. — Also, when you donate today, you are automatically entered for a chance to be one of three supporters to have dinner with Barack and me.
She vacations in Hawaii each year at a cost of $4 million, takes her own jets to vacation destinations all at taxpayer expense, wears $500 Lanvin sneakers to help the poor, $2000 Mexican tablecloths on vacation, and she wants us to to rise to the task and send her $3 so she won’t have any regrets.
Barack sent me this email:
It’s not all that often that Michelle and I get to host a casual meal with friends.
That’s one of the reasons we’re both excited about the upcoming dinner with three supporters and your guests.
It’s the first one we’ve ever done like this together, and we’d love to have you and whoever you choose to join us.
Chip in $3 or whatever you can today — and you’ll automatically be entered to be one of our dinner guests.
I enjoy these dinners not just because they’re a way to connect with supporters across the country.
They also say a lot about what kind of campaign we’re running.
We don’t take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs — never have and never will. Instead, we believe in the kind of politics that gives everyone a seat at the table — so we’re literally offering these seats at dinner to folks who are willing to step forward and be a part of it.
There are just a few days left to add your name for a chance to be one of our guests at the next dinner, and help build this campaign before 2012 finally arrives.
Make a donation of $3 or whatever you can today — and automatically enter to be there:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Me-and-Michelle
Thanks,
Barack
As soon as he was done saddling us with a trillion dollar failed stimulus, Barack Obama sucked down a meal of $100 per serving Wagyu beef.
When he got to Hawaii, Obama headed right for Morimoto’s. There are countless sushi restaurants in Hawaii but few as tony as Morimoto’s, where the Oyster Foie Gras runs $22 per piece.
Then he ate at Alan Wong’s, another exclusive locale, and it’s estimated that he spent at least $260, or 13 weeks’ worth of middle class tax cuts.
The Obama’s, who deny themselves nothing in the face of a poor economy (“Middle Class Warriors” as Keith Koffler describes them), the Obama’s, who eat the best food at the best at the best restaurants at our expense, invite YOU to send $3 so you can share a “casual meal” with them.
Waygu beef and martinis for them, beer and pizza for their supporters.
That’s as good a metaphor for this Presidency as it gets.
A couple of days ago Mitt Romney compared Barack Obama to Marie Antoinette:
“When the president’s characterization of our economy was, ‘It could be worse,’ it reminded me of Marie Antoinette: ‘Let them eat cake,’ ” Romney told The Huffington Post in an interview Thursday.
With the Obamas dining on the finest food, enjoying the best vacations, not letting Presidentin’ get in the way of his 91 rounds of golf, Romney’s got a point.
It’s good to be Queen.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
I could be surprised in 2012 but I can not see how much more disgusting one President and his privileged family could get. I only have one wish for 2012 and that is to have this, one of America’s absolute worst ever (sorry Jimmy Peanut Head but move over), President be voted out of work!!
drj, don’t you find it ironic that the $3 a day for this election year is approximately the same amount that Obama wants to “give back” with the payroll tax cut extension for the year?
So with one hand he giveth.. so to speak. And on the other hand, asks for it back, and into his own political pockets?
LOL
Our suspicions confirmed.
They’re both nothing more than cheap three dollar whores.
Still too much.
Wow!!! That does it right there! I am entering that contest for sure! To be in the same room, to breathe the same air, to gaze upon their beauty, their grace, and to listen to in awe and revered silence as both of them speak words of wisdom to us as we all eat and share our food together! And all for three bucks? That is a no brainer dude! The press will be all over us wanting to know what we felt, what we thought, what we ate, and how did we contain our excitement. Then we will all make a tour of the TV shows as we relate with laughter and tears our one in a lifetime experience. Oh man! This is better than Christmas!
@MataHarley: That, Mata, is exactly what I think. Obama is funding his re-election with pre-tax dollars.
@Rides A Pale Horse: Please, “cheap 3 dollar third world whores”. After all they are ‘The One’ and ‘The Other One’. Show some respect to the working girls here.
@Gary G. Swenchonis: “how did you feel eating with the President?” “”I had to contain my gag reflex, I though I was going to be sick” insert pause “I can only stand so much BS in my diet”
You cons are just jealous of the best president ever in the USA! And all this griping about Him and the first family is unseemly!! Worrying about carbon footprints and making a good impression is for the little people!!! And He can play golf all He wants, He’s earned it with His great foreign policy victories!!!!
!!!!!
Meremortal/Liberalmadd… seems to me you’ve been around here enough to know the FA house rules… pick a single handle and stick with it. No sock puppets welcomed.
@UpChuck.Liberals:
Hmmmph!
YOU were the one who inserted “third world” into my assessment of the Terrible Two!
You apologize to the third worlders and I, on the other hand…..
Extend my deepest apologies to the working girls HERE.
Take THAT sir!
UpChuck. Liberal
apology accepted
May he golf in a thunderstorm tomorrow………….
Our American Legion post prepared turkey dinner with all of the trimmings ON THANKSGIVING DAY for free to anyone who wanted to come. They could donate if they wanted to, but they didn’t have to. With the economy the way it is, it was the most the post has ever had. I would rather have a meal with anyone in this group than THE ONE and THE OTHER ONE who would be looking down on me all through the meal. I was glad to do my small part in helping with the meal.
Let’s not forget that THE OTHER ONE wasn’t proud to be an American until her husband was president.
@Rides A Pale Horse: 3
I’ve never used one, but I am guessing I would get more satisfaction out of the cheap three dollar hore than I would out of a meal with THE ONE and THE OTHER ONE.
How would you refer to Barack and Michelle if they were white? As three dollar whores? I don’t think so.
By the way, I heard that W aspirated a pretzel covered with Belugian caviar the other day.
@rockybutte:
It doesn’t matter WHAT color they are. If they acted the way these two do, they would STILL be nothing more than three dollar whores.
Besides, one of them IS half white. But both halves act like a three dollar whore.
That being said……..
Happy New Year “Acers”! From the gang at DBKP
http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae277/RAPH6969/23.jpg
Pale Horse
Thank you for articulating the unseemly racist position of most FAers, who usually try to pretend they’re not racists.
@rockybutte:
Since I don’t really post here that often, I don’t recognize your S/N and don’t know how long you’ve been hanging around F.A. but I have been around long enough to know that the folks here don’t see race as an issue. They see the actions and behavior of ALL races and call them on it.
Coming in here and disparaging “most FAers” as racists tells me that YOU, sir, are the racist. You see everyones color and project that on to others that only speak the truth, no matter what their race.
I submit that you are nothing but a troll and will treat you as such by ignoring any further comment you make.
That said, Happy New Year and I pray that the racist scales fall from your eyes.
I just was hoping that the Prez have an en lightning day on the golf course for the benefit of the rest of us….. he needs something……. and we really don’t need him
@rockybutte: You’re going to have to do better than that. FA is manned by many rhetoric-hardened individuals seeing through the nonsensical charges of racism. Racism has become the last refuge of the desperately vapid.
I have something else for you to read here and here.
Your Journolista media poodle mind tricks won’t work on us.
I plan to join P.E.T.A. on this one, with a $100 per pound wagyu beef presidential onslaught it is the moment to stand and deliver in protection of the wagyu cow. There needs to be mooing stone memorials built by compassionate taxpayers all across America commerating the greed and slaughter of these poor unfortunate hiefers who die only to please and delight the very privileged few dining on sterling silver dinner flatware carving away at wagyu steak.
“””””””””””””” PROTECT WAGYU COWS NOW “”””””””””””””
@rockybutte:
“heard” is commonly known as “hearsay” not allowed in any court since the Tudors so the pretzel with caviar story inadmissable.
I get it, there’s George Washington on the one dollar bill and Thomas Jefferson on the two dollar bill so there can be Barry O’BasketCase face on the three dollar bill. With inflation going through the roof people will need three dollar bills just to purchase a loaf of bread, a quart of milk or a can of chicken soup.
@Liberalmadd: Thanks for the post. I needed a good laugh, it’s the best I’ve had all year.
@THE SOOTHSAYER:
Where do YOU live?
A loaf of bread here is between $4 and $6 for anything other than that white or ”wheat” awful crud that uses so much vinegar to activate the yeast for quick baking that people get stomach aches just from eating it.).
(I make my own – no vinegar – for ~$2 a loaf)
Personally I don’t care what someone eats as long as it isn’t a truely endangered species. I do care what they eat when its on my dime and my big dining out experience is a fast food Chinese/Vietnamese/Mexican place which is all we can afford with our medical insurance tripling thanks to the ‘affordable’ health care act, our electrical rates jumping 40%, car fuel up, food prices going straight up. Barry is a true peoples president. As long as the people are the Left Rich.
@Rides A Pale Horse: I was merely suggesting an edit to more IMHO correctly identify the topic of this discussion. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL HERE AT FA,
keep them coming, and we will get to 2012 november HARMONIOUSLY TOGETHER without any open wounds
and blood spills.
@rockybutte:
come on that race baiting is so old. I wouldn’t care if he was pink with purple stripes IF he was a good president – but he is not. He wants to force marxism on me, he wants to tax me until oblivion and force my children and their children to incur debt before their time, wants to allow the military to arrest me without due process if they believe I am a terrorist (and according to big sis’ explanation, I am), wants me to work my ass off and give it to people who can work but don’t want to, and give my hard earned tax monies to illegals who BTW get more benefits than my family ever can. He wants to take away the freedoms that most people take for granted and replace them with his marxist dictator style of leadership, which if he got his way he would take over our property (as in these dictatorships the government OWNS everything), dictate where and when we work and what we are allowed to earn etc. etc. I could go on but if you just sit down and read about hitler, chavez, castro, stalin, mussolini, bill ayers, rev wright and the like you will find the way of life he wants for you and I. So again cut the crap. people are sick of you race baiters.
@THE SOOTHSAYER: #25
Obama already has his image on an appropriate currency: The Food Stamp!
http://thefreshxpress.com/2010/09/tea-party-put-obama’s-photo-on-a-food-stamp/
There are more people on Food Stamps than ever before.
@Disenchanted,
Bless you. You have encapsulated in buzz words most of the (Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity…, etc.) con concepts about the president: marxism, illegals, hitler, chavez, castro, stalin, bill ayers, rev wright (how did you miss that he was born in Kenya and raised a Muslim?). You’ve paid attention to your masters and regurgitated their mantras. You’re a good student of the misinformed and a lackey of the power elites. But, you’re not alone.
@…Pale horse (Pale, huh?)
You’re right. I am a racist. Every white person in this country was raised a racist. I’ve tried to expunge my racist feelings, but have not been entirely successful, although I’m close. I’ve been reading FA comments for years at the advice of Wordsmith, who is not white. I’m sure that most white people I encounter are racist. I know for certain that conservatives are even more likely to be very racist even though they fervently deny being racist.
Conservatives were comfortable with segregation and Jim Crow, or, to be more accurate, even if they were troubled by segregation and Jim Crow they were not troubled enough to do anything about them. Liberals did something about them and forced the reluctant federal government to do something about them, thereby allowing conservatives to champion “states rights” (aka don’t interfere with the states attempts to keep the “coloreds” in their place).
@ Smorgasbord.
You do realize that the US government no longer issues food coupons…right? They issue Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cards (SNAP, like a debit card, without presidential photos).
The Tea Party newsletter put Obama’s photo on a faux food coupon. It’s not real.
@rockybutte: #34
I know it’s not real. I also know that the Obama $1,000,000 bill is fake.
I even have an Obama $1,000,000,000 bill.
I had forgotten that the government had gone to debit cards for the recipients. They did that with the victims of Katrina and found they were spending them on luxury items.
You might want to tell the news media there are no more food “stamps”. Many headlines read something like, “More people on food stamps than ever.”
@rockybutte: Give a liberal enough time and he will make a fool of himself.
bill ayers: Ayers admitted holding a fund raiser for Obama as was asserted by the right. Watch as Robert Gibbs bald face lies to Sissy Matthews
rev wright?
Seriously? Which part was something other than true? Did you miss Wright being thrown under the bus by Obama? Did you miss Obama claiming he never heard anything Wright said during the 20 years he attended Trinity?
You really need to visit somewhere other than HuffPo for your news.
@rockybutte:
Racism is a characteristic far more common on the left than on the right. democrats are contemptuous of black conservatives. Seldom does one hear such racial invective as is spewed by the left against the likes of Allan West and Clarence Thomas.
@rockybutte ##33:
Probably biblical…not racial. 😉
Please explain this. ‘Cause by the only criteria I can possibly imagine, blacks must be “raised a racist” as well as every other group in this country (and outside of it).
I’m really curious to know how you are arriving at this. If it’s out of sarcasm then I failed to notice (I have not read the comments that come before yours- just happened to see your comment highlighted as a recent comment on the front page).
Now there’s a headscratcher….
White guilt? Pfft! Let it go, man.
For some reason, this makes me think of the following from Miracle on 34th Street:
Just replace you with Alfred and Sawyer with, say, Howard Zinn; and Kris Kringle with FA 😀
I’m a twinkie! :p
rockybutte used to comment on my blog and was civil toward me in our disagreements. But since he liked to debate and argue so much and my blogging habits were on the decline, I figured he’d get fed a lot more attention and troll-bait from folks smarter than I if he came here where he’d have a lot more conservatives to play with and who would indulge him.
You’re welcome, folks!
That comment just floors me!
Whereabouts do you live?
I grew up a military brat and have lived all over the country. I’ve been in the LA area for over 20 yrs. I’ve experienced racism firsthand. But I witness and experience it very little it. Imo, America is not a racist country. Racism will always exist (and race profiteers like Al Sharpton and the Democratic Party will always want to keep the issue alive)
I say it’s mostly just the opposite.
Liberal do-gooders wanting to relive the supposed glory days of the 60s good fight want to perpetuate the notion that they are fighting the good fight (lgbt as a civil rights issue).
The 60s were over four decades ago. Quit living in the past. If you can’t see the difference between then and now, then the Sawyer of the Democratic Party has scrubbed your brain well.
How on earth are blacks being “held back” today in 21st century America? Majority Americans voted a (half) black president into office for goodness sake! Herman Cain was favored much more strongly over a lily-white Mitt Romney but the sexual impropriety allegations derailed the Cain train. I suppose the tea partiers only supported Cain out of white guilt, huh?
If we talk in terms of party, which party- Democratic or Republican- has a stronger history of racism against blacks? Here’s my hint:
The real question that matters is, “which party is more racist today: Democrats or Republicans?”
Demcrats are fixated on race. They see the color of people’s skin all the time and obsess over it.
Republicans keep trying to move beyond it, wishing to make race an irrelevant and obsolete issue. To live MLK’s dream of seeing the content of character rather than the color of skin.
Democrats see skin. They can’t see past it.
But Democrats have to continually bring up differences, celebrating multiculturalism, diversity, and magnify all those things that separate and divide.
@DrJohn:
Well….he does come here. :p
Yes the dems/left obssess over race, but another factor is the divide and conquer technique. The English used it to control large parts of the world despite being heavily outnumbered.
@ THE SOOTHSAYER:
Wagyu isn’t that expensive. You can get a 9 lb brisket for about $100 to $175, which is pretty reasonable. And if you know how to cook a brisket, there is just no comparison. You’re looking at spending maybe $30 to $50 more than Prime. Please don’t protest the Wagyu.
And where is Rich? How ’bout them Noles?!?!?!?!
ROCKYBUTTE
read all WORDSMITH EXCEPTIONAL ENLIGHTEN AND BRIGHTEST HISTORICAL ANSWER,
APOLOGIZE HERE AT FA, OR YOU WILL BE LOOKED AT A DUM DEMOCRAT AND CORRUPT TO THE BONE FOR COMING HERE AND ACCUSE US ALL OF RACIST;you are repeating the racist card of OBAMA DEMOCRATS, like a dog who always shit on the floor every place he goes
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT EVERY MAN THAT LOVE SLAVERY ,BETTER THAN FREEDOM ,
IS A DEMOCRAT. thank you to WORDSMITH.
THAT OUGHT TO ROCK YOUR BUTT hey ROCKYBUTTE?
that tell me when 2012 electiom will change leader, there will be a great healing joy for the black AMERICANS,
AND there will be no more race card used allowed
in the WHITE HOUSE.
THANK GOD
Dang… talking about “buzz words” blanket mentality…. I’d say that @rockbutt managed to convey all the hatred pent up in so many on the left in just a few paragraphs.
Ya know, Wordsmith, when you take out the garbage to get rid of it (rockbutt on your own blog), you should haul it out to the curb for disposal. Not throw it into your neighbor’s bin (sending him here to FA…). LOL
Considering his history of comments here, we’ve not enjoyed any debate of substance. Just another leftist parrot. We already have our quota of those, ya know….
@MataHarley:
Well, sometimes recycling is less harsh and costly on the environment. 😀
@Wordsmith:
True.
If only he’d come here to learn instead of coming here to show how little he really knows.
@ilovebeeswarzone:
LMAO
@drjohn: #44
Anyone who comes here (FA) learns something good, whether they want to or not.
SMORGASBORD
HI,
YES , we learn a lot of good from you too.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Hey Rocky…try some ointment that’s 16-20% zinc on that rash. You might be happier then.
Aqua #40 Belated Congrats to the Noles. Anybody who doesn’t think college football is the GREATEST sport in the world has had his /her head in a bunker the last couple of days. WOW
thanks for forwarding the donation request. i just donated $100.
haters gonna hate.
Word,
You advise me to forget the “sixties”. I remember the sixties.
Prior to the sixties a citizen could be arrested for speaking against government policies in public. Mario Salvo at the U of Cal, among others, helped confront that wrong.
The “Ban the Bomb” movement helped keep the possibility of nuclear annihilation in the public’s eye.
The “Freedom Riders” performed a radical act: ride public transportation while black from one southern city to another. Despite humiliation and intimidation, the first group from Memphis was allowed by Bull Conner to proceed from Birmingham to Montgomery under escort. In Montgomery the riders had the crap beaten out of them by rednecks with lawmen standing by.
The “sit-in” at the lunch counter of the Greensboro, NC, Woolworth also had a radical agenda: African-Americans sat at the segregated lunch counter and ordered coffee. They were refused service. Still, the sit-in continued daily for some time, and, after a sharp decline in business, all customers were allowed to be served.
Three young men were killed in Neshoba County, Mississippi in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan because they were trying to help African-Americans carry out their radical agenda: register to vote. Ronald Reagan gave his post-convention speech in Neshoba County in August of 1980 and promised, with a wink and a nod, that, if elected president, he would ensure that the federal government would recognize states rights over outside influences.
In March of 1965 thousands of people marching for voting rights were attacked by lawmen in Selma, Alabama. Some were shot and killed, all were tear-gassed. Many were beaten with bullwhips and rubber hoses covered with barbed wire. Over 4000 US Army soldiers, Alabama National Guardsmen, US Marshals and FBI agents eventually escorted them to their destination: the Alabama statehouse in Montgomery.
Later that year LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act, which, along with 1964’s Civil Rights Act, set the legal framework for minorities to attempt to exercise their legal rights.
So yes, Word, the sixties matter. A lot happened in that decade. It’s curious that you dismiss the 1960s yet reach back to the 1830s to advance your argument.
One of the gimmicks that conservatives use in proving that liberals are racist and conservatives are not is the tracing of African-American liberation back to Lincoln, the first Republican president. Incidentally, his campaign called not for the abolition of slavery, but the prohibition of slavery in states yet to be admitted to the union. Slave owners feared this would result in slavery “dying on the vine”, and thus was formed the CSA.
The term Solid South describes the electoral support of the Southern United States for Democratic Party candidates from 1877 (the end of Reconstruction) to 1964 (the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964). During this time, all local and state officeholders in the South were Democrats, as were federal politicians the region sent to Washington, D.C.. The virtual non-existence of the Republican Party in the region meant that a candidate’s victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. (Wikipedia)
When the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 conservative southerners left the Democratic party in droves. In the first presidential election after the act passed Barry Goldwater, a Republican, won only six states: Arizona (his home state), and the five “deep south” states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina).
After Nixon’s “southern strategy” (convince conservative southerners that the Republican Party was more in line with their views on race and limited government) took hold, virtually all southern conservatives became Republicans, and they were followed, in time by practically all of the conservatives throughout the land.
Some commented that liberals are racist because liberals opposed Cain, Clarence Thomas and Alan West. Liberals opposed those men because they’re conservative. I oppose Alan Keyes and Michael Steele, too. In fact, I oppose all conservatives.
I realize that it serves your purpose to brand liberals as racists. As I have mentioned before, I am a racist. Everyone is a racist to a degree. What we should be doing is helping each other become aware of our racial blind spots.
Please stop spewing hate of Latinos and Muslims, Flopping Acers. It doesn’t become you.
I won’t bother you again.
As my old dean at the Boston College School of LIBERAL Arts says: “Bye-bye”.