Get a Load of This Slightly Threatening Email From the Obama Re-Election Campaign
- Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:18pm by
Becket Adams
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Quick question: if you received the following email from, say, your local church or some other charitable organization, would you feel even the slightest bit uncomfortable?
Courtesy WZ [emphases added]:
As you may have noticed, we’ve asked you for a donation a few times now.
But according to our records, you haven’t yet made an online donation to this campaign at this email address. (If our records are wrong, I apologize and thank you!)
I’m not writing to ask you for money again. I’m actually writing to ask your opinion about why you haven’t given, and what you think would inspire you or other Obama supporters like you to decide to take the leap and donate.
We have two quick questions for you. Can you take a minute to answer them?
There’s a good reason we’re asking for your feedback: The kind of organization we all decided to be a part of only works if people like you pitch in to build it.
It’s also the reason no other candidate has been able to match our level of grassroots support. This isn’t the easiest way to run a campaign — but we know it’s the right way.
That’s why we want to know what you’re thinking.
Thanks so much,
Rufus
Rufus Gifford
National Finance Director
Obama for America
As mentioned in above, if this email were sent by a charitable organization such as the American Red Cross, we would feel a little harassed. But to receive an email like this from a national political campaign, well, that would make us feel downright nervous.
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Comments (186)
Maidoff101
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:52pmI just cant wait to see “The offer I cant refuse”
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:30pm…or, can’t Rufus.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:09pmIf I got that e-mail…I would hit reply…..
Report Post »Dear Rufus…S C R E W Y O U and BHO!!!
random357
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:09pmI got that e mail. My answer as to what the dems could do to get me to donate was “have someone other than obama run for president”
And it took me less than 2 minutes.
Report Post »BUSHMASTER 223
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 1:31amyou all can give him your reasons for not sending in your donation, just click on the red lettered link in the article. Use your imagination and be brutally honest. I gave him 15 trillion reasons not to send his stupid @ss 3 bucks!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 4:15pmAs a Dem. and voted for obam (beleived in Hope & Change) when I get this e-mail I will tell the truth. I was lied to and won‘t waste good money on folks that don’t follow thru with promises and besides, I read where they are spending a billion bucks which is just buying the office. If he really wont’s to spread the wealth this is a good place to start.
Report Post »kathleenlee
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 5:20pmI answered the last two questions..”I wouldn’t give a penny to this commie” and the last question was what could we do to get you to donate…“I will donate if its to his resignation campaign” lmao
Report Post »Evantoo
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 3:42pmI did the questions too. My comment about what it would take this time? “Looking down the wrong end of a rifle barrel?”
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:41pmThis person had better send at lest $50.00 or I see a IRS aduit coming on.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:47pmNo. It doesn’t sound creepy or threatening at all. If you think it does, delete it and block future e-mail from that sender. End of non-story.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:51pmhello troll
we see you
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:03pmYawn. . . .
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:04pmWhile The Blaze expects an outrage from us regarding this approach to fund raising, don’t be surprised to see future e-mails from Beck Inc. suggesting you havn’t contributed to him lately.
Scooder
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:08pmPlease, let me have your E-mail address! If you don’t like the messages I am going to send to YOU just delete them. End of story!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:21pmLLOYD DRAKO..of course it doesn’t sound creepy to a lefty troll like you. Your perceptions- skewed as they are- are filtered through the statist utopia you envision for all of us. If the state wants to know why you’re not donating…that’s perfectly fine for a statist dolt like you. The “yawn” you offered earlier is the perfect metaphor for the somnabulistic existence you have in servitude to socialism and statism.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:30pmTypical socialist, thinks everybody owes them something for nothing.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:52pmAvengerK: Read carefully. It’s not the state, it’s the Obama campaign organization.If you are truly scared by something like this, then the pu**ification of America has truly advanced to the terminal stage.
Report Post »JohnTwoFeathers
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:01pmSomeone should ask O’schmucko if he has stopped beating his wife and kids.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:03pmTo Lloyd–you said:
AvengerK: Read carefully. It’s not the state, it’s the Obama campaign organization.If you are truly scared by something like this, then the pu**ification of America has truly advanced to the terminal stage.
Obama is the President–that would make it the state. We can play linguistics if you like, but I have a feeling you’ll rely on technicalities rather than reality. Go back to your Lego set. Are we scared? No. But look at what he has already done to this country and to people who do not see him favorably.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:38pm“come and take it”
Report Post »Politikellyincorrect
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:50pmThe best part is…,
Report Post »Thanks so much,
Rufus
sWampy
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 8:55pmJust seems sad to me, that anyone is stupid enough to give Obama money to help him enslave them and their kids.
Report Post »robert
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:08pmThat’s one of the most badly-worded compositions I’ve ever read that has supposedly come from a professional. The wording and phraseology is not only bad, but the psychology behind it is absolutely contrary to what it is supposed to accomplish.
Here’s just one example:
“We have two quick questions for you. Can you take a minute to answer them?”
But the questions are never asked.
Nothing about that coercion for money lays its message out in a logical order.
And, yes, it is creepy.
Report Post »eagle275
Posted on March 1, 2012 at 11:22pmHmmmmm – let’s put it this Drako – over 20 million NRA members, millions of ex-law enforcement, millions of ex-military, and millions of REAL Patriots – now, who should be scared?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on March 2, 2012 at 12:46pmThat many gun-owners (myself included by the way), and you’re intimidated by a junk e-mail? I rest my case.
Report Post »Mrs. Bowers
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:44pmA dun letter? They’re kidding right? That ought to generate the funds that they desperately seek. I can hear shredders all over America being switched on as I write this!
Report Post »poster
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:43pmNext email —
… “We noticed you didn’t answer the two questions we asked you to answer. What’s your problem? We know your email address, we know your name and address — we even know what your pre-schooler has for lunch. Now, reach in that wallet and send us your money… NOW!!”
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:49pmBingo!
Report Post »Mrs. Bowers
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:05pmGood one!
Report Post »PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:34pmYou Nailed it!!!
Report Post »RAMJR
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:04pmHOPE&CHANGE! Gotta pay for those Volts and executives at failed green energy companies tax payers lost BILLIONS on!
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:07pmFunny, but at the same time sad because that message could be real by summer time…..
Report Post »josie
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 5:50am@Poster, you got it right on the head. First a nudge, than a shove, than a push
Report Post »johnnylingo
Posted on February 28, 2012 at 8:06amMooochelle needs it to take another vacation. Don’t you Sukas understand?I want us to be your KING. I already cut the health care for the military today. Stupid patriots.Now pay up, or else!!!!
Report Post »xyfbx
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:43pmI don‘t like Obama’s policies but this is a great marketing email. If you have a list of past contributors, work it. This should not be attacked but copied.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:50pmYou know what, I agree.
There’s nothing I like that veiled threats in the snail mail. I wish I got them every day.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:56pm@Leftfighter
This is an e-mail, not snail mail.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:23pmXYFBF…it’s called “churning” in the investment industry…you keep hitting the same donors for more money when you need more because there’s no new ones adding to their numbers. It’s prophibited in the investment industry.
Report Post »la maquina
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:32pmI agree, the big thing is it was only sent to previous contributors who had signed up and agreed to be part of the campaign. Rarley is anything stated accurately anymore!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:41pmHe and Hilrod are so sure he is going to be re elected maybe they know something we don’t
Rmember watch the other hand – what is Holder and the Justice (?) Dept doing, where is rolly poly Napolitano and her TSA Hands?
What about the FEMA compounds and the OWS people, the New Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam?
Watch out it;’s coming.
7.62×39
OMG
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:54pmLook Bill, if you‘re a little low on funds right now and can’t afford more tin foil I can probably spot you a little dough.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:22pmyo Bill…..We are playing with a deck stacked against us. The real solution, politically, is something we can’t talk about here. unless we desire a visit from the secret service. The country’s founders saw the possibility of despotism taking control and made sure that we had the RIGHTS to confront this type of evil.
Report Post »If our republican candidate for the nations highest position appears strong enough to unseat his majesty, there may not even be an election in november. The nefarious actions of this administration preclude any kind of “representative” competition…..this is going to the mat, and it will NOT be pretty.
biohazard23
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:41pmThe words “pathetic” and “creepy” come to mind. So does “desperate.”
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:41pmWell if you ask me they sound a little desperate! I know I would be if I we he.
Report Post »I think the writing is on the wall and they are trying to re-paint. The fact of the mater is that no mater what they say or do it is never going to get this bunch re-elected, legally. this song is for them called
“Their Wrong” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12090926
Pat Alexander
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:38pmThat’s a real nice car/house/family/job/horse/dog /etc ya got there…
It would be a shame if anything happened to em. Ya know what I mean ??
Specially cause it costs so little to protect em…
Report Post »chips1
Posted on March 1, 2012 at 9:43pmIf you refuse, you might wake up with a horse head in your bed. No offense to Michelle!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:36pmMore Chicago style thuggery from this administration.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 9:56pmDude, it is a fund raising email. Put the hammer down, not everything is a nail.
Report Post »Arthur Spooner
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:36pmWhat is the response going to look like if one answers honestly why they have not given?
I would not like to have received this letter from anyone, much less a political candidate. Glad this is out in the open.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:36pmHaven’t received this one yet, but haven’t checked my Spam file today. Frankly, I would love to have the chance to answer that email with my heart felt honesty. But, on the other hand I don’t think that I would appreciate loosing my email account, getting that media based anal exam, the annual IRS audits, and especially Bill Maher using me as the butt for his jokes.
Report Post »Livia
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:51pmThat’s ok, wait till the IRS won’t go after you (like I did), an anal exam will find polyps, so just think of it as free medical exam and Bill Mahr is a butt wipe anyhow. I can think of all sorts of things to say about him. I have VERY strong feelings about someone threatening me in any way, and my PTSD just kinda takes over. I did get some emails from someone inviting me to dinner with the odumbo’s. Told them I would rather starve to death than to sit down at a table with those wildebeests. When I told them I had gone to the media, they evidently got so upset they haven’t sent anymore.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:35pmBully much?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:02pmThe words “Chicago Thug” … kind of sums it up.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:33pmI wouldn’t characterize it as threatening, but it’s definately disturbing and is bordering on prosecutable harrassment.
Making a general announcement asking for donations is fine. Targetting specific individuals and repeatedly begging them for money is panhandling.
Report Post »walker1812
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:31pmAre you kidding me. This is intimidation by this administration and their cronies. They have a huge e-mail database and must be cross referencing it against their donor database. A “no hit” means you’re going to get slapped. Maybe added to there “black list database”. This sounds unbelievable but considering what we‘ve seen out of these Marxist regime it’s no wonder. Hope this backfires big time.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:37pmObama is not for America so lets get that straight. You minions at the bottom are the same ones who do not pay any taxes and so its funny their asking for money from people who are asking…no wait demanding more money and free things from government. You ask me for a contribution…. weeeelllll you knooowwww… you better free your mind instead.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 1:29pmChief george…..good to see your handle on the blaze …I always get something from your posts.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:31pmCreepy .. and yes … considering this I would be concerned … Watch the attached video .. you won’t believe WHO is saying WHAT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7mwP5Di5NE
Then please spread this video and the word ….” Obama Justifies FEMA imprisonment of civilians !!!”
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:54pmsorry i cant watch that video …………….that guy makes my skin crawl
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:03pmCan you believe that this person is calling out Obama on this? I couldn’t … on MSNBC (DNC) no less!
Report Post »GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:30pmI would be really pi**** off. I would spend a whole day sending them opinions about Obama and what I think about their rude message. I’m praying for your country……it’s just February and their desperation smells in the air…..
Report Post »PoliticallyRightUs.Com
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:40pmThank you!!! You are the kind of people we want to immigrate to the United States!!!
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 7:46ami answered their little survey as follows:
#1 i selected other and typed he should be in jail not the white house
#2 if it went to the purchase of a plane ticket to kenya
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:30pmVe have vays ov making you donate, yah?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:33pmGeorgie is that you?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:29pmPeople don’t care, and they’re full of apathy. Here’s a better solution: a couple asteroids coming right up; maybe a blast or two from the sun; and a catastrophic earth quake. Yeah that should fix apathy.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:34pmBut in the meantime how’s about some naked people everywhere.
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:29pm“It’s also the reason no other candidate has been able to match our level of grassroots support.” Sounds more like astroturf to me….
Report Post »sickofthelies
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:27pmWonder if they’re counting the ” I don’t know what happened to it money” from Corzine?
Report Post »ticktockoma
Posted on March 9, 2012 at 9:26pmMy dog ate the donation!
Report Post »Marximus65
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:27pmsickened, but not at all surprised…
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:27pmTheir sheep will follow then to slaughter
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:23pmThis is a “slightly” threatening email?
I don’t know if slightly is the right word there.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:25pmThe Don Corleone reference is apropos, by the way…
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:03amYeh! Slightly fits. I would think thay have also a medium and greatly size as followup. I would guess that there are MILLIONS of folks that will get “NUDGED” in thre next few months. Poor little lambs, why are they crying!!!(Line from “Silence of the Lambs”). Yeah- I think it‘s it’s THAT creepy!
Report Post »tbolt71
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 5:21pmIt basicly says “why haven’t you given me the rest of your money?”
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 6:13pmHe just wants some of his stash back .. remember from DETROIT ????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-Etb0k0Q
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