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Obama Campaign Wedding Registry Fundraiser a Flop
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- Tuesday, 17 July 2012 13:11
- Written by The Loyal Opposition
In what is an extremely surprising situation, it appears that newlyweds aren't interested in giving their guests an option to donate to President Obama's re-election campaign through a gift registry. The New York Post reported that the "bizarre" method of hasn't taken off as expected, with the creepy fund raising tool not being embraced, even by the most radical Leftist Obama supporters.
To be clear, this Obama wedding registry is only for the most radical, anti-American degenerates in the country. It takes a committed Marxist to add an Obama donation to his or her registry and an even more dysfunctional human to actually make a donation.
President Obama’s bizarre marriage-theme fund-raising scheme — where he asks couples to request campaign donations from their guests in lieu of wedding gifts — has been a total flop.
The desperate initiative, dubbed “the Event Registry,” is being mocked by event planners and couples — and shows how desperate the Obama campaign is to keep up with GOP contender Mitt Romney’s fund-raising.
Campaign officials launched the initiative in late June, the same month Obama raised just $71 million compared to Romney’s $100 million.
So far, “the Event Registry” has been all but ignored on social-media sites — even though Facebook, Twitter and other networks have been a strong suit for the Obama campaign.
“The number of links and stories about the announcement is very low since the news went live on June 22,” said Meredith Klee, a spokeswoman for the social-media tracking firm Topsy.
Her site’s latest data show 1,137 posts on Twitter about the registry.
And only a few hundred links to the registry have been shared on Facebook — even though Obama has more than 27 million fans on the site, according to Topsy.
“It’s a gift that we can all appreciate — and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl,” said campaign staffer Laura Wilson while announcing the initiative.
Bringing politics into a personal celebration is both risky and tasteless, as some have noted. But for the Obama campaign, nothing is off limits when it comes to raising $1 billion to spend on negative campaign ads to promote fear.
The Obama campaign has redefined a new low in politics. Apparently, his supporters aren't willing to give up what other people are willing to give them.
The Loyal Opposition is a contributing editor for Habledash.