Obama's Tone Deafness (III) - Obama makes Willamette Week "Rogue of the Week"

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I seem to recall the left-wing saturated media demanding that all of the money floating President Bush's Inaugurations should have been used for the troops... or the poor... or something.

I'm missing those suggestions this time around. Why is that?

Via oregoncatalyst.com and orbusmax.com.

Barack Obama - Rouge of the Week!

Partying on our last dime

BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF 503-243-2122

[January 7th, 2009]

Plenty of us little people in Portland wish we could make it to Washington, D.C., for Barack Obama’s inauguration. This is the guy Oregon put over the top in the Democratic primaries and in the general election. Trust us, Obama, Portland would rush the stage and crowd-surf you back to Burnside if we could be there.

But sending multiple emails offering us a chance to win one of 10 tickets to the Jan. 20 inauguration—if we donate $25 or more?

Guess what, Mr. President-elect. We’ve lost our jobs. We’re so broke after the holidays we can’t even remember what money looks like. So please, stop guilting us for cash in the middle of recession so you can throw a massive party we can’t attend. Until you stop with the nickel-and-diming, we’re swearing you in as our first Rogue of 2009.

When the first email arrived Dec. 30, we were scraping together our last dollars to go drinking on New Year’s (with a flask of vodka in our sock, recession-style). And there you were giving us the same odds at a ticket as Willy Wonka.