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Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with  NO  plea for money!
Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with NO plea for money!
This is no Friday joke. Word has just been received at The Ticket that President-elect Barack Obama sent out an actual e-mail today without asking for more money from tired donors. No, really. The N.Y. Times' Katharine Seelye recently reported growing donor fatigue among eager and ...
Obama For America Becomes Organizing For America
Obama For America Becomes Organizing For America
marcambinder.theatlantic.com — PHILADELPHIA, PA -- The Obama political machine is merging with the Democratic National Committee. The President-elect launched Obama 2.0, or Organizing for America, this morning with a YouTube video. An Obama political aide said that OFA will be ... (more) Obama For America Becomes Organizing For America
Kaine Heads Group Offering Donors Access to Governors (Update2)
Kaine Heads Group Offering Donors Access to Governors (Update2)
bloomberg.com — Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has a Harvard Law School degree, has twice won statewide office, and is fluent in Spanish. It’s a recent line on his resume that may become an issue as President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head ... (more) Kaine Heads Group Offering Donors Access to Governors ...
Obama appears with new DNC chief - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com — WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama appeared Thursday at Democratic Party headquarters with his hand-picked incoming chairman, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine , but his predecessor, outgoing chief Howard Dean , was nowhere in sight. Dean, who has clashed ... (more) Obama appears with new DNC chief - Yahoo! News
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It Has Frozen Over
The Moderate Voice — It has happened. It has frozen over. Read THIS.

Obama Forgot To Ask For Money In Today’s Email
Wonkette » top — ... Today, however, our gimme-gimme new president actually sent an email to his followers without any money-begging. Instead, Barack just said something about somebody in the new cabinet. ...

Today’s Humor: A Barry Email That Doesn’t Ask For Money
Pirate's Cove — ... I think I actually just deleted the email in question from my Crackberry. LA Times: Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with NO plea for money! ...

Today’s Humor: A Barry Email That Doesn’t Ask For Money
Stop The ACLU — I think I actually just deleted the email in question from my Crackberry. LA Times: Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with NO plea for money! This is no Friday joke. Word has just been received at The Ticket that President-elect Barack Obama sent out an actual e-mail today without asking for more money from tired donors. No, really. The N.Y. Times’ Katharine Seelye recently reported growing donor fatigue among eager and happy Obamaites to whom it has occurred that they’ve already given nearly $1 billion to buy all this change ...

Shocking news
Sister Toldjah — ... Andrew Malcolm writes that PEBO has reportedly sent an email out to supporters that did not ask for more money: ...

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