Important to note: I plan on voting for President Obama.
But, oh my GOD, you have to see what I got in my Inbox from his campaign people.
The insanity of it is just.too.MUCH for me to keep to myself.
In case you don’t have your reading glasses, this e-mail asks supporters to donate a couple of bucks to the campaign in the name of their favorite conservative and then post it on their Facebook wall.
“It’ll be fun!” the e-mail says at the end.
Clearly, the president’s social media campaign is being run by Malia’s best friend. Malia herself seems far too mature for this sort of thing.
I wrote back. I totally did!
It went like this:
“Um. No, no it will not be fun. It’ll incite people and be rude. Your communications department really needs to revisit its social media strategy.
Regards,
Really?”
Interestingly, many folks insist that the President has been far too diplomatic with his opposition per the taste of his supporters, so it’s funny that his campaign is asking them to do something he has, for the most part, refused to do.
I really, really want the President to win the next election and I think he should.
I don’t agree with the sentiments that paint the position of the presidency with a paintbrush dipped in hagiography. A tale of a superhero with disproportional super duper powers that can simultaneously undo eight years of a costly war, rescind a foreign policy based on fifty years of acting like the entitled captain of the football team, correct the effects of an unethical financial system and curtail the obstinate behavior of a Congress full of toddlers without just declaring himself grand emperor in charge of everything except the kitchen sink.
For the record, he can be in charge of my kitchen sink. Totally cool with that.
AnyWAY.
I like the guy and I think he’s doing an okay job.
But this e-mail is stupid and childish.
Oh. Mai. GAWD! This reeks of back in high school when we would call up Domino’s Pizza and send a pizza to some yahoo’s house who had been a jerk to us at school. Ah… nostalgia for sure, but not something I’d like to see from my Commander In Chief’s social media staffers! Are you sure you’re not being punk’d?
After I saw this comment, I went and double checked. Yep. It’s real. Craziness.
Next we’ll be asked to put flaming bags of virtual poo on their Facebook wall.
“Faiqa has just put a flaming bag of poo on your wall — would you like to tp her wall? click here!” I think we have a potential gold mine here, my dear.
I like this guy and I think he’s doing a mediocre job.
I stopped reading the emails I get from the Obama campaign. So I probably deleted this one without ever having read it. Lame.
I don’t read them either, this one caught my eye. And made me unsubscribe.
And I mean I stopped reading them because they were coming too often and never saying anything important. Not because I am opposed to him or his campaign. I plan on voting for the man again as well.
Just to clarify.
Gotchya.
You wrote the President and included an errant apostrophe?
I fixed it. Now people are going to see your comment and be all, “Whaa, is Muskrat losing his mind?” Except that I’m writing this comment…damn.
Thanks for not just fixing it and leaving my comment. I’m just glad I beat Adam to the punch.
Oh, Adam is being all passive aggressive these days and not commenting on my blog because I don’t comment on anyone’s blogs anymore and he thinks he’s trying to teach me some kind of lesson except that I don’t care. Hi, Adam. But, yes, I’m sure he would’ve said something by now.
This is actually the first chance I’ve had to read your post, and I absolutely would have corrected it had I seen it!
I don’t remember that e-mail. I will not give money to any political campaign, so I probably just trashed it without looking at it. Good for me.
I agree. It’s childish. And not in a good way.
Why don’t you give money to political campaigns?
I think every presidential campaign should be required to use the word hagiography in appropriate contexts in at least one out of every 10 campaign letters. Further, we should have a spelling and geography bee at the next presidential debate. That will separate the wheat from the chaff.
PS You Rock!
I am SO glad you said something. Because this entire post was centered around working in that word somehow. Hand to heart truth.
dammit, you are gonna make me look up hagiography.
fucking obama campaign people pissing you off and making me research definitions. fuckers.
sigh.
Did you look it up? It’s a cool word, isn’t it?
I think that sums up the situation accurately. Politics is a dirty business and no one, not even the best candidate, claim to be above it. That’s how the game has always been played. People think things are rotten and ruthless now but whoo doggie this is nothing.
You captured how I feel
…you captured exactly how I feel about this whole topic.
We’re all “civilized” now and got that way by fooling ourselves into thinking our politicians are as well. You’re right, this is nothing compared to our past, though.
I do not approve of that tactic, AT ALL.
I once gave to a charity in a relative’s name and she was very unhappy about it. I would never want to repeat that experience, unwillingly. And to repeat it willingly is to be extremely spiteful. blech.
I never thought about how giving charity in someone else’s name could be offensive, but now that I think of it… yes, I can see why.
I am just trying to imagine how icey Christmas would be if I made a donation to the Obama campaign in my conservative mother’s name.
Right? I’m just worried for people’s Christmases here!!
Yeah, not exactly how I want my President to play ball. I like him, and I plan to vote for him, but it’s sad that it’s come to this. Unfortunately with the way this political climate is lately, I think this is only a taste of what’s to come.
I feel like there’s a big, silent minority that is beyond this, that is actually more accepting and conciliatory than we appear to be as a whole, but that the loud wack-jobs make us ALL feel crazy. If that makes sense.
I was going to write a post about this when I got that email, because I also found it terrible, but you beat me to the punch and while you did a mediocre job, you did use the word “hagiography”, as mentioned above, which trumps anything I would write.
I didn’t donate and put anyone’s name in, but I did buy my entire family T-shirts that say “President Obama, Respect Yo’ Nigga” for Christmas.