Posted on 08/05/2014 2:20:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This is really not the biggest deal in the world, but every year on August 4, Im reminded of something kind of creepy in the Cult of Obama. That, my friends, is the obsession with his birthday.
I totally get that if you run a monarchy or are a dictator or if youre a good president, your birthday might be cause for celebration. Oh, its the Queens birthday? Lets celebrate. Oh, were going to be killed if we dont pay honor to you, Kim Jong Un (not to be confused with his father who held the titles of Dear Leader, who is a perfect incarnation of the appearance that a leader should have and Shining Star of Paektu Mountain and Ever-Victorious, Iron-Willed Commander and Bright Sun of Juche and Never rotting smiling corpse, among many others)? Sure, lets sing a song. Oh, youre George Opponents Beware Washington? Yeah, well celebrate that.
But thats it. You have to be the Queen, a tyrannical dictator, or George Washington for the people in your country to get all celebratory about the occasion of your birth, mmm-kay?
I am willing to consider whether our celebration of birthdays should extend to other presidents. But wouldnt that require, at a bare minimum, that the president not be cartoonishly bad at being president? I dont feel like thats too much to ask.
Which brings us to the Barack Obama Twitter feed and fundraising operation. Every time someone complains about the froshmoric (read: worse than sophomoric!) tweets coming from that @BarackObama handle, others say, Hey, dont forget that @BarackObama isnt really @BarackObama but a political operation to advance @BarackObama unless its signed bo in which case it is in fact actually @BarackObama. Whatever. Lets look at the Barack Obama political operation and fundraising operations tweets yesterday:
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Sign your name to OFA's birthday card and send a note of thanks to
President Obama. http://ofa.bo/i0NP
8:46 PM - 2 Aug 2014
2,099 Retweets 3,915 favorites
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Have a hard time picking a card? You're in luck: @OFA
wants you to pick your favorite for President Obama's
birthday: http://ofa.bo/q0Rp
9:26 AM - 3 Aug 2014
Pick the birthday card you want to send President Obama
You might not get a Facebook reminder about this birthday. OFA @OFA 388 Retweets 832 favorites
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Help put a smile on the President's face: Sign @OFA's birthday
card. http://ofa.bo/s0Ry
3:47 PM - 3 Aug 2014
2,443 Retweets 3,873 favorites
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Today is President Obama's birthdaymake sure you sign OFA's
card: http://ofa.bo/e0S5
7:56 AM - 4 Aug 2014
1,729 Retweets 2,343 favorites
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Send President Obama some love for his birthday:
http://ofa.bo/f0Pf
11:36 AM - 4 Aug 2014
Choose a birthday card for the President
This year, OFA is celebrating the President's birthday by letting you pick your favorite card that's just right for him.
OFA @OFA 1,215 Retweets 1,947 favorites
The First Lady ✔ @FLOTUS
Happy Birthday to the man who always makes me proud. Thank you for your friendship, honesty and compassion. I will love you always. -mo
1:22 PM - 4 Aug 2014
3,150 Retweets 6,285 favorites
Jason Collins ✔ @jasoncollins34
Happy birthday President @BarackObama! Lmk if you ever need someone to set a screen & free you up for a shot in your pickup basketball game.
3:53 PM - 4 Aug 2014
274 Retweets 796 favorites
Wendell Pierce ✔ @WendellPierce
Happy Birthday, Mr. President @BarackObama
11:26 AM - 4 Aug 2014
517 Retweets 868 favorites
TODAY ✔ @TODAYshow
Happy Birthday, President Obama!
6:15 AM - 4 Aug 2014
3,558 Retweets 4,716 favorites
Vice President Biden ✔ @VP
Happy birthday to my good friend, President Obama.
2:10 PM - 4 Aug 2014
3,051 Retweets 5,587 favorites
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
"Some people prefer cake. I like pie." President Obama
http://ofa.bo/q0Sp
4:53 PM - 4 Aug 2014
It's President Obama's birthday, so don't forget to sign the card!
There's still timebut not much. OFA @OFA 2,030 Retweets 3,286 favorites
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Don't forget to leave a personal note for President
Obama's birthday today: http://ofa.bo/f0Q5
6:08 PM - 4 Aug 2014
Leave a note for President Obama
President Obama loves hearing from supporters, so send him a note for his birthday. OFA @OFA 631 Retweets 1,215 favorites
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
LAST CHANCE: Sign OFA's birthday card for President Obama. http://ofa.bo/d0R2
7:37 PM - 4 Aug 2014
Choose a birthday card for the President
This year, OFA is celebrating the President's birthday by letting you pick your favorite card that's just right for him. OFA @OFA 410 Retweets 822 favorites
Hey, guys, I think it was President Obamas birthday yesterday.
This is not to be encouraged for two main reasons.
One, its childish. Birthdays are for kids. And even for kids, they should be restrained. Yes, its another year to be thankful for Gods provisions. Great. Do that with family and friends. Dont make a big production. Dont put on a My Super Sweet 16 type thing. Be a man and also recognize that all of us who are blessed to survive our mothers wombs (ooh, awkward, President punished with a baby Obama!) have birthdays.
Two, I can not improve on this Volokh rant from four years ago, when Jim Lofgren received one of the now-trademarked Obama birthday fundraising emails:
I find it hard to say precisely why I find this email a bit creepy. At one level this seems innocuous enoughand it is definitely not a big thing. At another level, asking millions of Americans to sign a birthday card for the President suggests a tone-deafness about the cult of personality. If we lived in a dictatorship, getting millions of subjects to celebrate the Dear Leaders birthday would be routine, but in a free republic this appeal to get millions of citizens to celebrate a current presidents birthday strikes a discordant note to my ear. No, I am not saying we are in a dictatorship; I am saying that because we are not, we should not be emulating the trappings characteristic of that fundamentally different sort of regime. Nor do I think this is particularly ominous, just a very small step in the wrong direction.
Exactly. Grow up and dont emulate dictators.
UPDATE: If you can believe it, its even creepier than I presented.
Does he know his Wife has Banned Birthday Cake ?
send him where ???
Has an UNHAPPY-Birthday Card been designed yet? I may sign that multiple times, under an assumed name, of course.
[ Does he know his Wife has Banned Birthday Cake ? ]
Only at a Bake Sale.....
Kneel before the dictator!
They just need to send the Gestapo door to door for those signatures I guess
I think the author just needs to hang out in a less culty crowd. I know lots of libs and the first I knew yesterday was Obie’s birthday was this article.
Meanwhile Thursday is lead singer extraordinaire Bruce Dickenson’s birthday. Up the Irons!
I JUST watched Superman II with Terrence Stamp as General Zod. WHAT timing! :o)
“One, its childish. Birthdays are for kids.”
Pretty appropriate, I’d say:
Isaiah 3:4 King James Version (KJV)
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
Maybe it's an idea whose time has come.
I’ll celebrate when that commie POS finally leaves office. Also when he passes on.
This hoopla is all kind of strange when you consider that the Obama children don’t get presents on their birthdays.
I’m two days younger. I think that my generation had a much bigger deal made of birthdays. I notice that of the people around my age there is a lot more fuss made, the folks 5-10 years older, not so much. It *has* been marginally interesting to be exactly the same age as the POTUS.
Just as I’ve said for awhile now.. Obama’s flock isn’t just comprised of people who admire him... this is an emotional attachment, one that’s probably tighter than these pathetic people have ever had in their lives. He makes them become Chris Mathews.
Obama’s handlers “dost protest too much” to reinforce the false birth narrative. Giving his “birthday” the Nork Dictator treatment buries a little deeper the fact that O’s birth date is a known unknown.
Yes, April 15, 1961 for me. Odd to be as old as the President. A real disappointment for it to be this one.
I’d wager by 2018, August 4th will be a federal holiday.
“End of Ramadan and Baraq Hussein Obama Birthday”
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