House of Eratosthenes

Friend —

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.

We can win a race in which the other side spends more than we do. But not this much more.

So I need your help. If you believe that regular people should decide elections, then please chip in $3 or more today.

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.

I believe we can do this. When all of us chip in what we can, when we can, we are the most powerful force in politics.

But today is the day to prove it. Donate now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/Outraised

Thank you — for everything you’ve done before and everything you’re doing now. It matters.

Barack

I must say I’m perplexed by the cognitive dissonance: “Barack” is bringing us all together, by declaring some among us deserve to have a voice and others do not. Habitually, I write this off to the two contradictory messages being spaced sufficiently far apart that the average Obama fan’s attention span has been exceeded. But here they both are, big as life, within a relatively brief shakedown letter from the President…”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.” It seems to be lost on whoever wrote this, that Americans are in control of the democracy through the massive spending.

Michelle Malkin had a gigglesnort moment about this, and she was right to so indulge, for was it not just four years ago we were told what a super-duper mega-awesome champion of these “ordinary Americans” Obama was, because of the historical magnitude of His campaign war chest? Three quarters of a billion dollars or so…now how is that 2008 war chest to have been described, if not with the word “massive”?

Is it only “massive” when it belongs to the bad guys?

Well, not much detail is required where there is not much curiosity applied. And if there is one thing about which the Obama-loving community lacks curiosity, it is about who their enemy is. Is it people in America who can make money? Are they the enemy? That would make sense; the way the economy has been doing lately, it does look like there’s someone in charge, who believes it’s a problem when Americans make money. That would explain quite a few things.

My one-line reply:

“Regular people should decide elections”? I’m confused; who exactly are the non-regular people you have in mind? Aren’t we ALL supposed to have a voice?

The pretentious, supercilious, smug dick currently masquerading as our president really has chutzpah. He spent $750 million in 2008, a 3 to 1 advantage over McCain; he has spent more money-and currently has more money- than Romney; and he has rich equine Americans such as Sarah Jessica Parker lining up to write $50,000 checks for him. And yet Mitt is trying to buy the election?

My biggest hope is that the evening of November 6, while Barry’s hopes and dreams are turning to ashes, is that the ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC/CNN TV anchors collectively shit themselves on camera right before curling up into fetal balls on the floor.
- Physics Geek | 07/10/2012 @ 12:07
PG,

Amen. My one real hope for this whole F-d up campaign is that the people will finally, finally, finally see the contempt in which the left and the media (BIRM) hold them.

Y’all: They truly, honestly think you’re a bunch of fucking idiots. They’ll say both A and not-A in the same sentence and expect you to swallow it, because they really believe you’re Just. That. Stupid.

And honestly, up until about 2010 I really couldn’t blame them. “Vote for us, you mouth-breathing racist Jesus-thumping rednecks” was the Dems’ campaign slogan from 1992 on, and God help us, it worked far more often than not. Nearly two decades of success with this particular tactic would lead anyone to believe that maybe we, the People, really are that dumb.

I’m hoping maybe this will finally do it. I can’t even look at Obama anymore; the sneering contempt in which he holds the majority of Americans is just too obvious. Ditto any blowhard on CNN, MSNBC, etc. Maybe this will finally wake us up….. [but I doubt it].
- Severian | 07/10/2012 @ 12:30
They’ll say both A and not-A in the same sentence and expect you to swallow it, because they really believe you’re Just. That. Stupid.

To be fair, there’s ample evidence to support their position.
- Physics Geek | 07/10/2012 @ 12:46
Off topic here but just had to share. Enjoy…
http://www.washington.edu/news/articles/got-milk-climate-change-means-stressed-cows-in-southern-u.s.-may-have-less
- drowningpuppies | 07/13/2012 @ 01:37
Know thy enemy.

Golly, I subscribe to other pols “personal” and party “announcements”. Eternally disgruntled Socialist ones tend to be the same DAILY (sometimes three per) pleas for …you know…just, just a LITTLE more than you can afford, cash.
Strangely they all seem to have the EXACT same main body composition, with different folks name pasted on.

I wonder who’s vote they expect to buy with funds from the “likely voter” they ALL address as “Friend-” when pleading for spare change?…spare change?…spare change?…

The GOP (and the NRA) have the respect to only address me personally for cash once a month or so. Tea Party-ish folk, much less.
- CaptDMO | 07/13/2012 @ 05:56
Good points from Sev and PG.

Personally I’m just sick of hearing about this “corrupting influence” of “too much money in politics.” It’s what got us turkeys like the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” bill a few years back. I was outraged when it was signed by Bush and subsequently upheld by the SCOTUS, because it was the wrong solution in search of the wrong problem. It seemed to me like curing an eye infection by cutting off the patient’s leg.

The problem wasn’t too much money in politics or even the question of what donors expected Politician A to do for them once elected. The problem was related rather to Politician A having the power to do whatever the donors wanted him to do, in the first place. Most likely, Politician A was already well outside the boundaries of the Constitution, and naturally nobody on the other team was seeking a judicial remedy to this or even making a stink about it in the media.

I want people asking what Sarah Jessica Parker expects to get for her fifty grand, the money she (hypothetically) gave to Chairman Zero’s re-election campaign. I want people asking why employee unions have pulled out all the stops to get this guy back in for another four years. I think it’s downright strange that our president can give the country away to a bunch of his cronies, grind the rest of us under the heel of his shoe, and the rank-and-file voters in the Democrat party don’t seem to have a problem with it. It never occurs to them that there’s such a thing as right and wrong.
- cylarz | 07/14/2012 @ 00:02

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