This takes the cake!!! Rec'd email from Jill Biden asks me to sign Joe's B'day card

[BrendaBrick]

Wait...what?

Subject of email: Sign Joe's Card

"I know I don't usually send you emails, but Joe has a birthday coming up this Sunday, and I'm trying something new.

The First Family and I are putting together a special card for him, and we'd like as many supporters of this campaign as possible to add their names and messages for Joe.

Because the year ahead is going to be a big one -- not just for Joe and me, but for all of us. We've all got some work to do.

So help us make this birthday a memorable one for Joe. Add your names, and, if you like, your own notes and well-wishes for the year ahead:"

http://my.barackobama.com/For-Joe

Thanks,

Jill


Paid for by Obama for America

All I can do is just shake me head :crazy: With all of the problems in our country right now...I'm being asked to sign Joe Biden's birthday card???? For Pete's sake!

[LaurenG]

1. don't worry it asks for donations for Obama's campaign at the end. nt

[bigtree]

46. no it doesn't

oh, crap, it does

never mind :dunce:

[MedleyMisty]

2. Take the opportunity to add your own note

A strongly worded note, perhaps.

[BrendaBrick]

6. Its crossed my mind...

[bigtree]

45. wrong place

[MADem]

3. It's a virtual and folksy way of asking "Do we have your vote next year."

It also puts you on the "touch" list (donations), if you aren't there already.

Don't read into it more than it is...don't do it if you don't want to.

[BrendaBrick]

10. I would have preferred the straight-out question:

"Do we have your vote next year?" instead of this *folksy* round-about approach. Comes across to me as more of a dumb-downed tactic!

[MADem]

43. Not everyone is as sharp as you are--this sort of thing appeals to many. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

4. He'll probably have a birthday cake too!

The nerve.
Obviously deaf to the country's woes.

[NYC Liberal]

5. Right, because this is ALL they're doing now.

All work has stopped. The president and the entire executive branch have dropped everything and are doing nothing but this.

Of all the fucking things to complain about. Seriously?

I really hope nobody believes this is being handled by more than one or two low-level staffers.

[bluestate10]

7. Just fucking delete and move on!!! nt

[elleng]

12. ...

:thumbsdown:

[CJCRANE]

8. Let's start a War On Birthdays!

Who's with me??!!

:bounce:

[ellisonz]

16. Yeah, Birthdays are worse than Santa Claus!

Nobody should celebrate them for anybody - they should be more scourged that the fat man coming down the chimney annually with a bunch of junk I don't need.

Birthdays:mad:

[gateley]

9. I happily signed - Love Joe and think he's doing a great job. Just

because he has a birthday doesn't mean he's stopping working on "all the problems in our country".

It always stuns me that people think it's either/or.

[HappyMe]

13. I signed also.

Will The War on Birthdays supersede The War on Christmas?

[nini]

11. "With all of the problems in our country right now..." -- THIS is what sets you off to post?

REALLY?

Don't sign the damn thing and better yet get off their mailing list if it bothers you so you can spend time on more important things.

:eyes:

[trueblue2007]

14. well.... I SIGNED HIS BIRTHDAY CARD!!

[madokie]

15. I signed it with a message of hope

I like my Vice President and President for that matter

[gateley]

21. Ditto (that I like them) - That's nice you offered a message of hope.

:) :hi:

[quinnox]

17. He wouldn't want me signing his birthday card

I'd leave him a message that would spoil the mood...

(I can't stand Joe Biden)

[ellisonz]

18. I asked him to please stop...

...washing his Firebird shirtless in front of the White House. :-)

[gateley]

20. Bwah! Valid request, IMO! nt

[bigtree]

36. lmfao

[UTUSN]

19. Thanks for including the link. I signed and commented

about us lifelong and committed Dems yearning for the true FDR/HST/LBJ fighting spirit and a HUGH voter turnout effort. Thanks, again!1

[JohnnyRingo]

38. Ironic, isn't it?

This posted outrage on DU probably added 20 or 30 more signatures to his birthday card.
Hahahaha

Personally, I don't know how anyone can dislike Joe Biden. He's probably one of the least controversial and contemptous politicians alive. Even Republicans leave him alone.

[LibDemAlways]

22. Biden's a busy guy. Earlier this week he was NYC - no, not

expressing solidarity with OWS. He was visiting the "Live" tv show to sing the praises of Regis Philbin. Priorities, you know.

[KoKo]

26. ...figures....

Wan't Obama on Leno while Occupy Oakland was being raided?

:-(

[LibDemAlways]

28. Yep., calling on the 1% definitely seems to be more of a priority than

touting the cause of the other 99.

[BrendaBrick]

34. Exactly. Priorities.

I am partly upset that the use of the time of this/these staffers to coordinate this could have been better spent on a much more important subject matter.

And while on the subject of priorities, in times past during war-time, our society maintained an ongoing, daily awareness about war and acted in ways surrounding entertainment that are quite different from the disconnect I FIND of today, which I also find upsetting.

A snippet about the history of the Academy Awards:

1942: The event is nearly canceled following the Pearl Harbor attack. Academy president Bette Davis suggests moving the event to an auditorium and allowing the public to buy tickets benefiting the Red Cross. Instead it is decided to tone down the event, as a 'dinner' rather than a banquet, including a ban on formal wear.
1943: For the first time the award statuettes are made of plaster due to the war. All are replaced with standard statuettes after the war ends.

Source: http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000003/overview

I am sure that there are other examples along these lines.

The fact that time, effort and attention is being given to such a frivolous matter such as Joe Biden's birthday while more of our vets are committing suicide at a rate of 18 per day (more than has been lost in the wars themselves) gives me great cause for concern yet, the sobering fact of these suicides rarely get the attention it not only deserves but in fact warrants...which, if it did, might actually help to alleviate some of these suicides since, I would venture to say, that the vets probably come home to find that the unimaginable terror and horror that they have just been through is basically treated as pretty much a 'non-issue' in today's society.

I think what could have been a much better use of time and energy - along these lines - would have been for the White House to have coordinated something celebrating all of our vets and asking us to sign a card on THEIR BEHALF for appreciation and well wishes on Veteran's Day.

I would have thought that this was fairly obvious. Apparently not.

Priorities.

[KittyWampus]

40. Ironic you mention priorities yet you litter DU with this idiotic thread.

[treestar]

23. That includes yours, doesn't it?

With all the problems in this country right now, we should all forget birthdays.

And holidays and vacations.

[spanone]

24. i can't believe you're upset over it.

[GoCubsGo]

25. LOL! No kidding!

If it bugs you that much, don't sign the damn card, FFS. Sheesh. No need to make a federal case out of it.

[Auntie Bush]

27. Democrats living up tp their reputation again.

Let's find something to complain about!

[appleannie1]

29. No one is forcing you to sign.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

30. So what?

Wait until President Romney is asking you to sign your life over to Wall Street.

[nadinbrzezinski]

31. Well I got a letter for local fundraiser

At an exclusive estate.

I sent email back pointing out how tone deaf that is.

[jaxx]

32. Thanks for the reminder.

I signed and wished him well.

[JoePhilly]

33. Thanks for posting this ... I sent him "Happy Birthday from another PA Joe"

[bigtree]

35. this is nice, thanks for posting

rec'ed

[girl_interrupted]

37. This is what I sent Joe for his Bday, wonder if he'll like it

Postcards from Home:

Dorli Rainey Seattle



Brandon Watts NYC

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.979572.1321599677!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_485/image.jpg

UC Davis, CA


http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.980109.1321731240!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_485/image.jpg

[KittyWampus]

41. Oh you're so clever!

[sabrina 1]

44. Has he said anything about the brutality towards

Americans by their police departments yet? I remember at the beginning of the Arab Spring, he said that 'Mubarak is not a dictator, he is a good friend and ally of the US'.

Guess if you're not a victim of a dictator, it's hard to relate.

[Liberal_in_LA]

39. what does Joe care about a lot of anonymous bday well wishes. He's not even gonna read them

[BrendaBrick]

42. It's a dumbed-down ploy the way I see it

Like...I'm all of a sudden on a first-named basis with the Bidens...and that is to suppose - all of a sudden what? Make me feel important because of this? PLEEEEEZE. Give me a break! It insults my intelligence and I feel sorry for anyone who has fallen for this.

It's a timley crap-shoot to try and wrangle up support as far as I am concerned...which tells me that they are running a bit scared if they have to resort to these sorts of cheap tactics as a measure to try and gauge and rally support, albeit on some sort of fluffy, sentimental level.

Geesh. Am I the only one that can see through this crap?

They're running scared and are trying to muster up any and all support for their party and hoping that we'll fall for it...or at least, can tally those who have fallen for it as a supporter come November 2012. Cheap. Shot.

Again. Major Insult to my intelligence.

[madamesilverspurs]

47. Slow week in Stirshitville?

[whistler162]

48. With all the problems in the world you are taking time to

post on this message board..... OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!

[ellisonz]

49. And it's Joe Biden's Birthday.

He's 69. ;-)