The Obama Campaign Runs on Dunkin Donuts ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080212/480/93cb8e2e20dd4887a9d2918ae3e07ad8/

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., followed by Washington
Mayor Adrian Fenty, right, and others, offers coffee to his volunteers who have come
out to get out the vote, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, in Washington.


http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080212/480/4ccc51df638f4ce19183324bc33e3711/


http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080212/480/e36af26c807546c0a5da14af1c0be702/


http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//080212/480/87f838539b4148e4a73f174fb71d9a25/

http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_8201350?source=commented

Barack Obama

A 30-second Super Bowl ad: $250,000

Telephone expenses, paid to Verizon on Nov. 29: $70,308.48

Printing costs for the last three months of 2007: $709,579.47

Postage expenses for the last three months of 2007: about $1 million

Website hosting expenses, paid to Blue State Digital LCC on Oct. 3: $71,527.56

Payments to Dunkin' Donuts during the last three months of 2007: $352.69

Travel and lodging in the last three months of 2007: about $5.7 million

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Ads that began airing Jan. 23 in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah: more than $1.6 million

Telephone expenses, paid to Verizon on Nov. 27: $14,279.55

Printing costs for the last three months of 2007: about $1.3 million

Postage expenses for the last three months of 2007: $332,001.22

Office equipment expense, paid to US21 Computers Inc. on Dec. 19: $50,236.12

Event expense at Morton's steakhouse in Chicago, paid on Oct. 3: $18,551.80

Travel in the last three months of 2007: about $4.1 million

[beachmom]

1. Thanks for the pics! Nice to hear Obama is frugal.

[NightWatcher]

2. This is complete BS

everyone knows that KrispyKreme has the best doughnuts

:hi:

[Stephanie]

4. But you forget the Box o'Joe!

Can't beat it!

[madrchsod]

13. i can buy better at my local bakery

[underpants]

3. From my experience campaigns run on Diet Coke

I ws amazed at how much Diet Coke got drank during the Kerry campaign in 04

My wife and I were buying it (for just a 4 day phone bank mind you) several times a day.

[Renew Deal]

5. That donut picture is priceless

Especially for Dunkin Donuts!

[Stephanie]

7. I told you it was for the volunteers!

I love it! I wonder if the Clinton campaign has enough money left over for volunteer donuts?

[harun]

6. He was buying them for his staff, he told one of the reporters he

is not a donut kind of guy.

[NJSecularist]

8. Fucking Obama

I'm not voting for him anymore. Dunkin Donuts, Barrack? Are you fucking serious?














Why not Krispy Kreme?

[Renew Deal]

10. Carlyle group bastard!

[Scurrilous]

9. Great pics!

:thumbsup:

[Wilms]

11. Yikes! Carlyle Group Donuts!

:scared:

https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/press/PressRelease.aspx?viewtype=current&id=100070

[DS1]

12. There's pictures of every campaign with Dunkin

because Krispy Kreme is overloaded with sugar, and shit.

[tridim]

14. Is he also carrying a box-o-coffee?

I thought they only sold wine in boxes. :)

[Stephanie]

15. Box o' Joe!

[Retrograde]

16. well, there goes the Starbucks vote! (nt)

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

17. There he goes, pandering to the Homer Simpsons of this country.

mmmmmmm...... donuts

[Tatiana]

18. Dunkin Donuts? Surely you jest!

What? They couldn't find a Starbucks?

[southern_dem]

26. Am I the only one who

doesn't like Starbucks coffee? It just tastes really funky to me.

[Stephanie]

27. it burns my stomach

i literally get sick from it. doesn't stop me from drinking it, either.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. Is he going to feed the multitudes with only one box of donuts?

(Just a little religious joke. I like the guy.)

:hide:

[nomorewhopper]

20. places like DD fuel these campaigns.

these people work SO hard, and i'm not talking just the candidates i mean the people working the phones, at the local offices.

and when you walk inside of them, you're more than likely to see abox of dunkin donuts and a box o joe sitting around!

[Stephanie]

21. Volunteer Snacks, a campaign necessity

If it's not donuts then it's pizza, depending on the hour of day.

[Straight Shooter]

22. Great advertising for Dunkin Donuts, which was acquired by The Carlyle Group, March 2006

Selling Out the Presidency

March 2006 - Dunkin’ Donuts is acquired by the Carlyle Group and two other buyout firms. The Carlyle Group, headquartered on Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and Capitol Hill, pays George’s daddy for public speeches promoting Carlyle interests.

The firm has many strong ties to the Washington establishment as well as to the Bin Ladens and to powerful politicians and businesspeople in Asia and the Middle East.

Carlyle’s massive investments in a range of weapons firms, oil corporations and media companies ensure it handsome profits from U.S. military incursions in the Middle East.

http://www.cheesebikini.com/2006/07/16/selling-out-the-presidency/

Remember the uproar over this obvious ad by bush?



The Carlyle White House

By William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Columnist, Tuesday 14 November 2006

It was bad enough when the Carlyle Group bought Dunkin' Donuts last year, forcing millions of conscientious caffeine addicts to look elsewhere for their daily fix. Now, it appears Carlyle has added 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to its formidable portfolio of acquisitions.

The Carlyle Group achieved national attention in the early days of the Iraq occupation, especially after Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" exposed the firm's umbilical ties to the Bush family and the House of Saud. For the uninitiated, Carlyle is a privately-owned equity firm organized and run by former members of the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations.

Currently, Carlyle manages more than $44 billion in 42 different investment funds, which is an interesting fact in and of itself: Carlyle could lay claim to only a meager $12 billion in funds in December of 2001. Thanks to their ownership of United Defense Industries, a major military contractor that sells a whole galaxy of weapons systems to the Pentagon, Carlyle's profits skyrocketed after the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Some notable present and former employees of Carlyle include former president George H.W. Bush, who resigned in 2003; James Baker III, Bush Sr.'s secretary of state and king fixer; and George W. Bush, who served on Carlyle's board of directors until his run for the Texas governorship. One notable former client of Carlyle was the Saudi BinLaden Group, which sold its investment back to the firm a month after the September 11 attacks. Until the October 2001 sellout, Osama bin Laden himself had a financial interest in the same firm that employed the two presidents Bush.

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/66/23859

Why do I hear snickering from the White House as these pics are shown to America? Because Americans have short memories.

[Stephanie]

23. lol!

:rofl:

[hootinholler]

28. I wonder if Obama knows that. n/t

[eleny]

24. Even Howard Zinn said he likes DD coffee!!

[IronLionZion]

25. GRR..... I thought he was supposed to be the healthy one!

What happened to the daily morning workouts and basketball? He said he has won every primary/caucus when he played basketball the day of.

j/k of course. I like doughnuts too and Dunkin Donuts has the best coffee.