Look out Sarah Palin! Obama Offers 4-Year Calendar

First published at WashingtonTimes.com

 

I blogged last week about the Sarah Palin 2009 calendar, and this week Team Obama sent over a new fundraising appeal.

 

They offer a 4-year calendar that will cover every moment of the Obama administration.

 

Here's the note from the campaign, which notes the money goes to help retire the DNC's debt:

 

It's been just over a month since Election Day, and we're getting ready to change America.

We can't do it alone, and we can't do it in a single day.

But thanks to supporters like you, change is coming.

Show your support for our ongoing movement with an Obama four-year calendar -- or share one as a holiday gift.

Make a donation of $35 and get a limited edition, full-color calendar featuring photos of President-elect Obama and his family from the campaign trail:

You can also donate just $25 and get an Obama winter hat:

https://donate.barackobama.com/hat

Your donation will support the Democratic National Committee, which did so much to strengthen this campaign over the past two years.

The DNC will continue to support change -- but it also needs to retire the debt it accumulated by putting everything on the line for victory in 2008.

Get a four-year Obama calendar with your donation of $35 or more:

https://donate.barackobama.com/calendar

If you order by December 15th, delivery is guaranteed before December 25th.

Thank you for your continued support,

Obama for America

 

 

If you go to the donation page, it allows for you to put in a gift message.

 

— Christina Bellantoni, White House correspondent, 
The Washington Times

 

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Comments

[ArjenBoatsma]

Where can I buy the 8-year calender covering Obama's presidency?

[Nyckname]

It would need to be a forty-nine month calender to get the entire first term.

[Pat15]

would love if someone could produce a toilet paper roll with Palin images on it ...should sell well & may be she could make extra money to get ready for the 2012 Presedential run Also by that God will be on her side & will open the doors for her ...Amen

[Mellenbal]

Actually, it was December 3rd when they began selling this 4-year calenda, not this week.

[Girl28]

$35 isn't bad for a calendar that stretches out over four years.

[2008CaliforniaFan]

I was just wondering......

Would the Palin Calender have the 'Important' dates circled on the calender?

You know...
1.Start date of the Iditarod Race
2.Day that Moose season opens
3.Miss Alaska Competition

[Dovescorner]

lol!!!! too funny

[publicmenace]

4. The Rapture
5. All Real Americans ascend to heaven.

[LMPE]

Can we just stop talking about Sarah Palin?

[socratiskiss]

Tell me about it!

[AliLiz]

I agree...stop talking about Palin and STOP putting her photo on every HuffPost page...wants me to re-think why I go to Huff Post...this is still my favorite, but I'm beginning to reconsider . Why is HuffPost' obsessed with Palin? Let this go!

[OlderBudWeiser]

I'd go for a couple rolls of "Palin Paper." Any one working on that?

[Mellenbal]

They tried, but test subjects said it was too scratchy and rubbed people the wrong way.

[freelyb]

Touche'! lol

[aloha43]

She should be getting her own TP soon!

http://www.piehole.net/store1.html

[ShanniC]

I won't be able to keep up with A four year calendar, and I am not paying 35 bucks for one either. I donated a fair amount during the election and I refuse to donate a penny more. I think that's why I started getting those robocalls during the Dec2 runoff in GA because my name and phone number was on some kind of political list.

[LillyDePlume]

I still haven't received my car magnet from three months ago so I won't be purchasing anything else for a "donation".

[StillIRise]

I received my car magnet, yard sign and Obama/Biden tee-shirt before November 4th. Giving donations is a choice. However, I don't fault them for asking for donations. This is what campaigns and political organizations do. But they're not twisting our arms or putting a gun to head. If I don't want to donate, I simply ignore the request.

[adv2int]

I didn't receive mine either.

[sheputstheLinPAIN]

I have a basic question: Why is the campaign still asking for donations now that the election is over? I've never seen this before and it bothers me. The solicitations sound like donations pay for government: "we can't do it alone and we can't do it in a single day". Someone please kindly explain. Thanks.

[TheBrizz]

I believe the donation solicitations now are for the DNC, not the Obama administration.

[deosil]

Agreed, it´s a great idea.
Marketing at its best. I´ll get one for my kids, they an be part of something big...I HOPE....

[Freesia2]

I've puzzled over the memorabilia for Obama - trying to decide what it means, or if it means anything at all. Wondering why I am sitting here in my Obama - Biden t shirt feeling okay with it but find the idea of post-election Palin swag offensive. I wondered why I feel so differently about the right/wrong between the two. It's more than the fact that I'm not, never was, never will be a Palin supporter. So what is the difference?

I've decided it's because the memorabilia for Obama is something tangible that represents the momentum that he built not just for his own ambition, but for what his candidacy meant to so many people.

Palin's swag is an effort to create a momentum that doesn't exist. It's symbolic of an empty hype that hopes to substitute for any real substance and artifically create a candidate simply because she's famous. I

I'm not making sense. I'm trying to get at something and I think I need another cup of coffee.

[eden4barack08]

Actually you made perfect sense, and I agree.
It's like with Obama, one really feels like it's not about him, with the other one it's all, and nothing BUT about her.

[Freesia2]

That's it in a nutshell. Sarah is all about Sarah.

[lizziekw]

As someone who continued my late mother's campaign button collection, I will be hanging on to my Palin buttons. I basically have two collections. Nixon, Agnew, Bush and Palin (among others) can't be in the same bowl as FDR, Truman, Carter, both Clintons, Gore, Kerry and Obama (among others). But I still keep all the buttons, even Dukakis. I don't know about the rest of the stuff. I have a few t-shirts from various campaigns over the years and various yard signs are disintegrating in the barn.

As for Ms. Palin's "fame" and future - I understand exactly what you're saying and agree but I'm all for it. I encourage them to push her forward at every possible opportunity. Run that empty trainwreck for 2012 and we'll all have a decent Summer while the President easily beats her from the Island White House in Hawaii. Seriously - she represents the Republicans clinging to religious extremists, fiscal insanity, incompetence and the failures of the past. It's a losing strategy for them, fantastic for us.

But I do really understand what you're saying. I'm just cynical and crave another humiliating defeat for these clowns the next time around. I'd just as soon that defeat get handed to Sarah Palin because I was deeply insulted that they ran her in the first place. Appalling people.

[ZimboChick]

hmmm the clowns eh?

[Freesia2]

You're funny. :-)

I love how you won't let the "bad buttons" mingle with the "good buttons". And you know - as easily as politics taints- that is not a bad idea.

By the way - my husband wondered if you by any chance have a Pat Paulson button? He always got a kick out of him.

And thanks for getting what I was getting at. I shouldn't be allowed to drive a keyboard without a pot of coffee down and another at the ready.

P.S. to ZimboChick - Yeah. The clowns. She got that part right on the button. No pun intended.

[trishthiel]

Cool calendar!
I just wish I could addord a $35 donation right now!

[ohioan73]

I have never seen a POTUS have more memorabilia than Obama. I don't think KISS had this much merchandise. LOL! Its fascinating to watch all this unfold. After all, he is the first black POTUS, so this event is a moment in history. It seems so strange to be living it.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Be honest, how much Kiss memorabilia do you have...

[lizziekw]

Look into political memorabilia collecting - you have no idea how much stuff is out there from candidates and presidents in the past. It's actually really cool. I'm continuing my mother's political button collection which is a lot of fun for me.