How the Obama camp should handle the Obama Waffles thing...

[Ghost in the Machine]

I would suggest ordering 10,000 boxes at once, then raise hell when they can't deliver, but if you check their order page, http://www.obamawaffles.com/pages/Order_PageD1.html , they're set up so you can only purchase a single box, buy 2 get one free, or 6 boxes for 25% off...

I think the Obama camp should purchase as many of these as they can, then use the product to help feed a bunch of homeless people and have a big media event. Sure, the douchebag that made the product is gonna make some money, but he won't be laughing all the way to the bank when his little stunt backfires in his face.

Could you imagine having a big tent set up somewhere near Galveston, feeding waffles & pancakes to the rescue workers and cleanup crews??

I know I have some weird ideas sometimes, but what do you think of this?

[KittyWampus]

1. That is a very wonderful idea and I hope you contact his campaign and they hear about it.

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Thank you...

I'll have to admit to being ignorant on how to contact anyone within the campaign though :blush:

[liberalmuse]

2. Please contact the campaign with this!

What a fantastic idea! It gets Obama the spotlight, and turns this ugly, racist shit around.

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. I think it would be great to see Obama capitalize from this...

turn it around and make himself look good using a product designed to make him look bad...

We need to be engaged in some 'in your face' politics from now until November..

[samsingh]

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[Ghost in the Machine]

7. Thank you.... n/t

[samsingh]

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[LWolf]

4. Even better:

Don't buy those waffles.

Set up your media event/s around the nation, organized by the campaign and funded by donors, serving pancakes and waffles made on site from scratch.

Get local campaign volunteers to show up and cook. With banners everywhere, advertising the event and at the event/s, saying something like:

"THIS is how you make waffles political."

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. "THIS is how you make waffles political."

I still think he should use the Obama Waffles.. to show people how to turn a negative into a positive.. I think it could work..

[FLAprogressive]

5. Great idea!

[Ghost in the Machine]

9. Thanks!

:hi:

[Vincardog]

10. I think they and we should complain to Yahoo That these morans are violating Yahoo's terms of servic...

and have their store shut down. Then buy a log of pancake mix and feed the hungry.

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. It's a fine line between political parody & racism in this case...

but I'm falling on the side of parody... that's why I think Obama should turn it around on them instead of trying to turn it into something racist.

Turn negatives into positives, that's how you do it...

:hi:

[tannybogus]

19. Already working on Yahoo to take their site down:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3998056&mesg_id=3998056

[Vincardog]

21. Good on ya

[Vinca]

12. They should use the stuff in a commercial addressing the politics

of hate and racism.

[Ghost in the Machine]

13. Yeah, but they should still buy it up and feed the homeless and/or rescuers & victims

of Ike... and Obama should call for the owner of the site to donate any profits to the disaster recovery efforts, the Red Cross, or FEMA

[LiberalHeart]

15. I'd rather he have a pancake breakfast & announce he doesn't do waffles.

[alfredo]

16. I like the idea of using their product against them. What about a

matching fund? For every one sold, five dollars will be contributed to the Obama campaign.

[texasleo]

17. "The people who told John McCain to select Palin are now launching attacks..."

[Rectangle]

18. I think we've got Lou Dobbs for Racism on this one:>

http://showbizexpress.net/Lou-Dobbs---My-wife-will-love-this--/2059301

I mean, this is flat out racism!!!

CNN should be appalled!:grr:

[CitizenPatriot]

20. Big tent media circus

to raise money for hurricane relief

serving "Obama's Hope and Change Waffles -- the real ones" with Obama Waffles for sale that have great pics on them and say: "Don't be fooled again!"

it can be a family recipe which is printed on the back of the box and Obama can be in picture serving Michelle and the girls breakfast.

Take that, you sexism-card-playing asshats.

You got nothin we can't turn around.

WE GOT OBAMA and you got MACAIN. Oh, boy-- I can't stop laughing.

[Ghost in the Machine]

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