I just unsubscribed to the Obama email list.

[AceFace]

I just recieved this email from the Obama... camp?

*snippet*

With far-right ideologues in Congress threatening to block or weaken the President's budget in the coming days, we'll need your help to set the record straight about President Obama's economic recovery plan. Show your support by Monday, April 13th -- before the budget fight ends.

Will you make a donation of $25 or more before the Monday deadline? (http://my.barackobama.com/page/m2/55c13e58/5027411b/30ceb318/11884cf6/1058143537/VEsH/)

WHAT. THE. FUCK? seriously, what the fuck do they need my $25 for when my husband will be unemployed next month and we'll be struggling to live? how DARE they think that we need to DONATE our cash that's so precious right now to help "show our support". i am beyond pissed. how can they possibly be this out of touch?

this was my unsubscibe comment:

"I am sick of these donation emails. how can we possibly donate money when my husband is unemployed and struggling. how about YOU donate $25 to US!?"

[AceFace]

i guess really it was the DNC that sent it, but if you click the link it goes to the Obama website. GRRRRRRRRRRR still pissed.

[yeahwho]

Just did the same, I've been deleting them even during the campaign. What a bunch of elitist money grubbing pigs, is this for real?

Here is where my email linked to, poor nick (https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/dnc08meetnick?source=20090408_MS_ND_4). I did not realize my campaign contribution was also an open invitation to my wallet forever. With one arm they have a gun at your head to skim your wages, then with the other arm they pretend to be poor and need more money to strengthen the arm with the gun to your head.

Great idea AceFace, hats off and cheers to you!

[yeahwho]

Here is what I wrote on the unsubscribe comments (sort of toned down)

You assumed I have an endless amount of cash. You are outright stealing money with one hand then pretending to be poor with the other hand. The mob doesn't even use these tactics. Grow up! If you cannot help Americans at least have the courtesy to leave us alone.

[RobMoney$]

To be fair, the GOP is no better than the Dems when it comes to this.

[DroppinScience]

To be fair, the GOP is no better than the Dems when it comes to this.


Precisely. This is the kind of thing you see from BOTH the DNC and RNC. The name of the game is fundraising and if you have donated in the past, they're certainly interested in seeing you donate again. This also applies to charities, advocacy groups, and other foundations (e.g. Heart & Stroke Foundation, the Lung Association, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, etc.) outside of politics. For better or for worse, these are the tactics they employ to keep their war chest with enough money to continue on.

[Documad]

They're not really looking for money most of the time. They're looking to keep an active email list for when they do need money again. It might be smarter right now to just send emails telling us the good things. What's driving me crazy are local politicians. We have a governor's race in 2010. I'm getting emails requesting donations all the time from candidates I'd never support in a million years. I unsubscribe to all of them.

BTW, I've donated a bunch of money to Franken. I've made more donations after the election than before! He keeps sending me emails and I keep sending him money. He needs to pay for the lawsuit -- he needs help to fight the RNC right now).

[yeahwho]

I have to say why do they call these emails "grassroots movements" or also the actual introduction from our President of our Country is calling this "Organizing for America" a very subtle difference from "Obama for America" it cheapens his and our office of POTUS.

But I mean c'mon, lets get honest why not just call it what it is, "Obama 2012"? Are we morons now? When did we become so fucked up we let our leaders who are bankrupting us dictate what a good contribution would be to continue on this course?

I actually am not too sure what it will take for folks to tell their leaders to quit fucking them and start working their asses off for them. This unsubscribe idea is an excellent way to put them to work and on notice.

[yeahwho]

BTW, I've donated a bunch of money to Franken. I've made more donations after the election than before! He keeps sending me emails and I keep sending him money. He needs to pay for the lawsuit -- he needs help to fight the RNC right now).

I'll send Franken cash, he's been more entertaining the past half year than his whole 30+ year career as a writer/comedian/actor. He deserves $10.00 and not a penny more.

[yeahwho]

Interesting take on "Organizing for America" from the conservative blog "The American Thinker". The Knock on the Door (http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/the_knock_on_the_door.html), I just don't know how you can get away with this sort of propaganda as a sitting president, I'm pretty sure if we allow this crap now we'll be sorry for it and the quality of our future.

This is the USA not a fucking media outlet, show some restraint. Promote the constitution not the political agenda. If your sending me a email saying you have trouble and need money, you've lost my confidence and my vote. Get your ass in gear and get to work, because that is what I have to do to gain respect in my life and live under your offices utter failures this past 8+ years. I expect the President to do the same, not grovel in hotmail.

The more I think about these tactics of propaganda and hustle by our President the more I begin to fume.

excerpt;

What is so ominous about an organization? Americans, Alexis de Tocqueville famously observed, "constantly form associations.... If it is proposed to inculcate some truth or to foster some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form a society."

Certainly, thousands of organizations seek to influence the political debate. There's Newt Gingrich's American Solutions or the left-wing People for the American Way, for instance.

Political parties are another example of an association, of course. Before, during and after political campaigns, the Democrats and Republicans promote their agendas. As legal entities, they have their own constitutions, their rules of business, their chairmen and officers. They have to be accountable to both the government and their members.

But there is a new organization on the political scene -- "Organizing for America," announced by President Barack Obama in late January but officially unfurled last weekend.

Obama describes OFA as a "grass-roots movement" but OFA is a "project" of the Democratic Natrional Committee.

As Politico reported, OFA will take the 10 million person database built up by the Obama campaign "to mobilize support for the president's legislative agenda."
Obama hand salute
A visit to the OFA website reveals that supporters are not simply asked to sign up, they are asked to take a pledge. A pledge to support -- not the flag, not the constitution, not the country, not even the Democratic Party, but Obama and his "bold plan." OFA does not use the Democratic Party logo but the "O"-shaped logo of the Obama campaign in which the red white and blue of the flag are abstracted to soft pastel colors.


You will not find any mention of OFA`s governing structure, their budget, their bylaws, or their officers at the OFA website. Donations to the website go to the DNC, but OFA is managed out of the White House. If you click on the comments button, you are taken to a link to the White House email.

Those who take the pledge are asked to "talk with people about the President's plan" and to "ask them to sign their names to the pledge" in support of Obama's policies.