The Barack Obama Campaign Store Rip Off — Poor Need Not Buy
Posted on September 14, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston
He cares about the little guy, Barack Obama does. He’s for all sorts of wondrous new programs and handouts for the benighted poor in this country. He’s like Moses leading them to the Promised Land, isn’t he? Well, if he is, apparently he doesn’t expect the poor to be wearing any Barack Obama gear as they dance off into the sunset with the Pied Messiah marching before them playing his mesmerizing tune of hopenchange.
OK, enough metaphor mixing, let’s get down to brass tacks. Barack Obama is ripping off the public with his Internet Obama gear store on his campaign website theONE.com (well, OK it’s really www.barackobama.com/, but who’s really taking notes here?) His gear is so over priced that a regular guy might find it a bit daunting to deck himself out in messiahgear for the upcoming coronation… sham… er, I mean “elections.”
Let’s just take the most common Barack-a-brac that the average gungho Obamaton might want to wear to show his sycophancy… dang, er, I mean support… for the Obamessiah. Let’s consider that a commoner that stumbles onto the messiah’s webstore would want to buy a hat, T-Shirt (union made of course) and a campaign button. After all, that’s the bare minimum that a supporter could buy, right? The coolers, underwear, and S&M collars will have to come later, I’m sure. First the basics.
So, let’s get a patented Hopenchange T-Shirt. One will click onto Barack-Mart and see that “our price” — we say “our” because we want to be inclusive. Don’t you feel part of the team already? — we see “our price” is a mere $25. Man. $25! Aren’t we led to believe that Obama supporters make like, what, $8 an hour, because he appeals so to “the poor”? So, these poor schlubs have to work like three hours to afford this Barackaphanalia?
Well, maybe we’ll be able to afford the hat better.
So we go to the hats section and see that our first offering is the Obama ‘08 Logo Embroidered Hat (black) and “our price” is $15. Sheese, that’s two working hours lost to this basebarack hat! Yikes.
OK, OK, how about a simple campaign button? That can’t be too crazy, right? It’s just a little button, after all.
So, we click on over to the O-buttons page and what do we see but button after button at a flabbergasting $3 each. That’s 1/3 of an hour of work just to buy a stinkin’ button!
So, let’s add up what it will minimally cost to deck ourselves out in Barack-a-brac so that everyone will know we are an Obamaton.
T-Shirt, $25, check
Hat, $15, check
Button, $3, check
Shipping, $7.05 and will take two weeks or more to get to you
Total, $50.05, checks not wanted, give us a credit card
Jeeze. That’s about 6 and 1/4 hours of work at $8 an hour spirited away by the messiah for his O-parrel! That’s 3/4 of a day at work for the downtrodden to be able to afford to be the well-dressed Barakite.
That seems pretty stiff to me.
Now, let’s contrast this with the McCain campaign’s store prices, shall we?
Well, we click on over to see one of McCain’s T-Shirt offerings and find that it prices in at $15. Not quite as bad as $25. Oh, sure you can get Mccain shirts that are more expensive, but here is a nice one so let’s throw that one into the ol’ shopping cart.
Now for a McCain hat. Hmmm, 17 buckaroos. A bit steeper than the Obama hat. Well, OK. Republicans are all supposed to be billionaires, right? They can afford it, man. Shopping cart.
And now for the McCain campaign button. Wow, what a difference. They are all at a rock-bottom, bargain basement price of $1 each! Obama’s are three times more expensive. For the price of one Obama button I can get THREE McCain buttons, one for me and one each for my wife and my boss (some may say those last two are one in the same, but I mean the guy I work for and my wife).
So, let’s see how the McCaingear adds up:
T-Shirt, $15, check
Hat, $17, check
Button, $1, check
Shipping, $5.80 for US Post
Total, $38.50, check’s in the mail Johnny boy
Total for the Obamessiah gear $50.05 and for McCainaphenalia we come up with $38.50. That is a full $11.55 cheaper for the McCainiac gear, folks.
So, John McCain saves poor people over an hour of their wages if they were to shop with him! Seems to me that John McCain is the better bargain.
Choosey shoppers choose John McCain.
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DOes not matter, Msnbc is campaigning for the Obama Team everyone knows that,
but it does not matter, if she has a agenda or not one thing for sure Obama does not have one, and he has less experience than than Palin,
Obama is riding on the bubba Vote, just like Dick Armie meet the press,
Obama getting the BUbba vote, in other words black people and many others are going to vote for Obama no matter what, even tho he has no agenda,
and he wants more, of the same voter, Obama wants any vote he can get, 75% bubba Voter,
Me I feel the same way, THey should be able to vote for everyone they want,
it their right,
I Voted Hillary , but now McCain,
Now I am Voting strictly for Palin,
A woman , Pretty , Sexy, more experience than Obama ,
I am hot for Teacher,
If we can train and give Obama on the job Training just like Joe Biden said, then we can train
A woman who looks HOT,
And on the other subject, Bias
Media, Fox is Favors to the right but over all THe balance is very fair, I never use to watch Fox every until this elec
Does anyone in here really believe, in this Kieth Oberman insanity,
His days are numbers on Msnbc, Bias,, then he got upset, during the republican convention, when they showed, 911, footage,
But Msnbc thru is his face, and then 09/11/08 Msnbc did show mostly the same footage McCain showed,
HMMMMM talk about throwing it in his face,
Now you know why they kicke them out of the coverage,
Now kieth Oberman, is going to sunday night Football,
Now he going to screw that up,,
TaLK ABOUT THE WORST NEW STATION EVER, LAST IN THE RATING UNLESS YOU ASK OBERMAN, LIKE oBAMA,
tion, Because CNN & Msnbc is on barack Obama Payroll,
They are upfront campaigning for the barack Obama Team, Obama TOld Last week CNN & Msnbc, to go after
Palin, they are on the Obama Payroll to change history,
I’m assuming McCain’s stuff is cheaper b/c its probably made somewhere in China. Obama’s stuff is more expensive b/c its made here in the USA. I’m fine with paying a little bit more if it helps keep jobs at home. It’s that Wal-Mart mentality that you have that keeps screwing up America.
Well, mj, you assumed wrong.
Yes, MJ you are wrong. The reason it is cheaper is because the McCain store is run by a company that is NOT part of the campaign and the gear is sold for profit, none of the $ going to the McCain campaign On the other hand, the rip off of Obama’s stuff is a campaign donation because HE runs the store.
You forget to mention McCain is selling his stuff for profit because that is how he does everything. His record is clear, he voted no on Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday in Arizona, Yes on Iraq, and yes on PAC contributions. However the Obama camp is built by American’s who are tired of this one sided view of America. I’m an Arizonan and an American and I’m not voting for McCain or Palin!
Obama 2008…