Opinion: Obama now pleading for money to fight Sarah Palin
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Never shy about $eeking money, Democratic President Obama’s Organizing for America is now using the threat of Republican Sarah Palin as an opportunity to acquire more.
It has just sent an e-mail out to its millions of supporters today pleading for urgent donations to fight the mother of five, now on her heavily-publicized, cross-country book promotion bus tour. She holds no political office currently; in fact, she’s among America’s unemployed, though doing quite well financially.
Perhaps you’ve heard a little something about Palin in recent days.
The former governor of Alaska has written a book called ‘Going Rogue’ that details her experiences in last year’s presidential campaign, her values and thoughts on various issues.
Some San Francisco bookstores are declining to sell the book. And no one really cares about her or the book, obviously (see photo above), because she only sold 300,000 copies the first day.
Some people (bipartisan) think (fear) she may become a candidate for the 2012 presidential election.
Since the Republican Party that chose her as its first female presidential ticket member last year has such a glaring national leadership vacuum these days, she’s getting tons of publicity in her symbiotic hate-hate relationship with the media, which doesn’t mind attracting crowds with her name either (see headline above).
Although the Democratic National Committee dismisses Palin as an ignorant non-factor, it’s invested way more time and effort this week attacking Palin than selling Obama, who was on another overseas publicity trip of his own.
Attempting to use Palin as a lucrative opportunity, too, today’s e-mail plaintively asks: ‘Please chip in $5 to help.’
The committee says its goal is a half-mill in one week, chump change for the one-time senator’s $750-million presidential campaign.
Today’s electronic missive calls Palin ‘dangerous,’ blames (credits) her for the term ‘death panels,’ and says it needs the money to combat her lies (claims), which will be magnified in coming weeks by well-known complicit conservatives in the media.
The donation plea also warns ominously that ‘the rest of our opponents will likely parrot those attacks.’
It says the money will be used for event organizing, advertising and funding calls to Congress in support of Obama’s beleaguered healthcare legislation to counter ‘right-wing attack groups.’
Naturally, Palin is also playing off of Palin’s publicity. If you give $100 to her SARAHPac here by midday next Wednesday, she’ll give you a free signed copy of ‘Going Rogue.’
-- Andrew Malcolm
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