Obama’s Birthday Bash

[JoFox]

GOP Debt Ceiling Ace in the Hole: Obama’s Birthday Bash
 
Oh boy, this is going to look bad.
The Republicans may not realize it, but they have an extra point of leverage in the debt ceiling talks: Barack Obama’s birthday.
It’s on Aug. 4. The president is turning 50. He’s decided to have a quiet celebration with family and a few close friends.
NOT.
Instead, the president is planning an extravagant fundraising bash Aug. 3 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, including a birthday concert teeming with celebrities and – for couples contributing $35,800 – a private dinner with the president. All this just one day after the government is scheduled to run out of cash!
Undoubtably, the sight of so much money getting thrown around and dissolute stars crooning to Obama will make a stirring contrast with a federal government bankruptcy featuring unpaid government workers, seniors and soldiers wondering how they’ll afford the groceries, shuttered national parks, and angry investors trying to cash out their Treasury Bills.
If the government defaults, you can be sure the birthday bacchanal will do much more to harm Obama’s reelection prospects than help them. Maybe House GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who has been refusing to back down while needling Obama to the extent that the president stomped out of a White House meeting yesterday, already knows this.
The excitement kicks off at 4 pm with a concert that may feature singer Jennifer Hudson and other A-List stars, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
To show that hope and change is for everyone, a pauper section will be included for those contributing a measly $50. But the general admission ticket is $200, and the more you give, the more you get.
For $1,000, you can sit in the rich people’s area with easy access to alcohol. And for $10,000 you not only get a great seat, but a photo with The Birthday Boy.
Perhaps Timothy Geithner will be doing stand up comedy at a smaller room elsewhere in Chicago the same night, with all proceeds going to fund the federal government.
 
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/07/14/gops-big-debt-ceiling-card-obamas-birthday-bash/

[duke_john]

 

[Byteryder]

That should be a Public Releations Disaster, but you can bet the Media will smooth the waters and make like "so???"

[Byteryder]

I cant see clearly yet......

[slickclick]

Sounds like a great time. Wishing President Obama an early Happy 50th Birthday and many more.

[Byteryder]

Actually, if the SS checks dont go out, he might not be able to attend his birthday party.

[Truman62]

And bush would be on vacation while America was burning...

[takncarabizniz]

As I said earlier on this story...
 
This man's arrogance is astounding...
 
His hypocrisy embarrassing...
 
His failures mounting...
 
I guess a fool and his money really are soon parted...

[hoosier_daddy]

wow, i never heard of anybody celebrating their birthday before!!  i remember after new orleans was hit by katrina, bush spent the next couple of days going to a big ass birthday/campaign donation party for mccain in arizona, then on to california for another campaign donor rally while the people in the city of new orleans were without water, food and even basic sanitation.....and you are bitching about a president celebrating his birthday on his birthday and making it a campaign event at the same time....what stupid shit crazy partisan assholes you punks are...

[JoFox]

I see nothings changed, you're just as dumb as ever.
 
Oh and BTW hoosier if you think you're fooling anybody....YOU'RE NOT!