Sunday, July 1, 2012

5 Great Gifts to Send Obama in Lieu of Cash Contributions

In what is arguably a modern low point in political discourse, President Obama's re-election campaign is exhorting supporters to sacrifice birthday, wedding, graduation, and other personal gifts to the greater cause of...President Obama's re-election. No kidding:
Got a special milestone or event coming up?
Instead of another gift card you’ll forget to use, ask your friends and family for something that will go a little further: a donation to Obama for America. Register your next celebration—whether it’s a birthday, bar or bat mitzvah, wedding, or anniversary—with the Obama campaign. It’s a great way to show your support for a cause that’s important to you on your big day.
But cash is so impersonal — and Obama has got oodles and oodles of it already: some $260,926,200 of it, in fact, according to the New York Times.
So instead of just sending him another dollar he'll forget to use, why not send him something that you've already received as a wedding or bat mitzvah or graduation or gag gift? Or something you've always wanted to send someone but never followed through on?
Here are five great ideas to gifts to send Barack Obama in lieu of cash.
All are ripped from the pages of the world's most ubiquitous catalog from which no known or observed purchase have ever been made, a.k.a. SkyMall (clogging airline seat pockets since 1990).

Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/30/5-great-birthdayweddinganniversarygradua

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