by Roxeanne De Luca | June 29th, 2011
This email landed in my inbox just now:
Friend –
We’re closing the books on the first fundraising quarter of the 2012 race at midnight tomorrow.
A lot of folks will be interpreting our numbers as a measure of this campaign’s support.
They’re not wrong, but they are wrong about why.
We measure our success not in dollars but in people — in the number of everyday Americans who’ve chosen to give whatever they can afford because they know we’ve got more work to do.
I’m asking you to be one of them. Please donate $5 or more before midnight tonight (….)
Thank you,
Barack
Translation: Our numbers really suck this year, but we’re going to spin it and pretend that we still have support. Because let’s be real: the guy who lead the first-ever billion dollar campaign doesn’t measure support in anything besides gigantic piles of cold, hard cash.
Four-dollar a gallon gasoline? The extra $50 a week that households spend on that isn’t going into his coffers. Onerous regulations that hurt small businesses? Comments about pitchforks? Sorry, Obama, but people don’t want to give you their hard-earned money anymore.
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
Okay then, I’ll write it as a moderate: I believe that there are serious problems for the nation and that we should not waste blood and treasure laughing at the woes of the president, whom of course deserves our respect.
That was a funny comment. I love when people play with words that way. Well done!
I laughed my nose snotty, and it didn’t seem “wrong” to me at all. Thanks for a nugget toward optimism!
The great majority of O’s contributions come from corporations and rich individuals if I am not mistaken. I think only a small portion of his contributions come from contributors giving < $100/each.