Maybe it's just me, but the "Obama Cookie" guy seems like a bit of a dick

[Amerigo Vespucci]

It's the last paragraph, basically. I'm not exactly sure of what he's trying to say. Maybe he's not a dick. But after reading it three times, I thought "What a dick."

:patriot:

‘Obama cookie’ bringing in lots of dough for cafe
Sales soaring for treat the president-elect and his family enjoyed in Iowa

updated 11:56 a.m. PT, Fri., Nov. 28, 2008

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27957089/



A plate of chocolate-chunk cookies sit out on the counter at Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. The chocolate-chunk cookies were popular with the family of President-elect Barack Obama, including daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, during the campaign season. (AP Photo/Kevin Sanders)

DES MOINES, Iowa - Want an example of the change Barack Obama is bringing to the country?

Check out cookie sales at Baby Boomers Cafe in Des Moines.

Ever since word spread about the president-elect and his family's fondness for Baby Boomers' chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown restaurant can't bake them fast enough.

“Two months ago I was giving these cookies away,” said co-owner Rodney Maxfield. “Now, it's like 'I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.'”

The Obamas became frequent visitors to the cafe last summer when the Illinois senator devoted much of his time to Iowa, where the state's precinct caucuses kick off the presidential nominating process. Obama's main office was next door to Boomers, and his staff made the cafe a second home.

His daughters, 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha, would stop by with their mother, Michelle, and Maxfield said they loved the cookies. During a stop in Iowa last month, Obama's staff ordered about a dozen cookies for the family. That's when word got out about their affection for the confection.

Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75 cents a cookie to make up for the time it takes to make more each day.

“I think everybody just ... thought, 'Oh, great cookie, great president — the world is a happy place. Barack's going to fix all the problems and if I have a bite of this cookie it's going to make me feel good,'” Maxfield said.

[Common Sense Party]

1. Well, that's exactly how many DUers felt and said as much right

after the election.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. I wonder about the "exactly" part, because reading his actual words...

...it sounds as if he's talking about an idiot.

There's a difference between someone encouraged and enthusiastic in light of the election results and an idiot.

Once again, as I said in the subject line, it might just be me...but it sounds like this guy is experiencing a new cash windfall through cookie sales and has a little bit of an attitude toward the people who are buying them.

Not looking for anyone to agree with me...just making an observation based on the actual words on my monitor.

:patriot:

[buff2]

2. That would be my impression too

but he does seem mighty glad to take the money though,doesn't he? :hi:

[babylonsister]

3. I think he's a dick for raising his prices, because he's making

more of them? :wtf:

Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75 cents a cookie to make up for the time it takes to make more each day.

[bean fidhleir]

5. The last para looks to me almost like a sly Matrix reference

The part where the Oracle says that Neo will feel all better by the time he finishes the cookie?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. He's hardly a dick

He's making a simple statement of fact.

Why else are people going so nuts trying to buy his cookies? Because they're indulging in magical thinking, exactly as he describes it.

He's making some money in a good way, and I say "Bravo."

[IntravenousDemilo]

7. I don't really see the prickishness here.

Also, before reading the story, my eyes were drawn to the photo, as I figured the story was about someone "seeing" Obama's face in a cookie the way some people "see" the Virgin Mary in a grease spot or something, and so I set out to find the face. All I found was Stewie Griffin, or the Gerber baby, or when I squinted hard enough, Ted Kennedy.

Then I read the story. No, I think the guy's a small entrepreneur who got some good Obama-generated fortune in his business, recognized the fact, and is running with it. Well, one of Obama's goals is to help generate good fortune for small entrepreneurs via a new and fairer tax code, and I don't imagine the President-Elect would mind this at all.

On the other hand, they're just cookies and they're not imbued with some sort of special powers. Baby Boomer's Cafe just happened to be the place the Obamas happened to visit, and that's Rodney Maxwell's good fortune. And besides, any seven- or ten-year-old girl is bound to express a liking for pretty well any "chocolate-chunk" cookie if she hasn't had lunch yet and the cookie tastes acceptably like, well, a cookie. Little kids don't really have sophisticated palates as a rule.

[ben_meyers]

8. Is it possible that he is cleverly putting down

DU'ers because that's what he does?

[amdezurik]

9. it's just a fad for gawd's sake

just like Billy Beer and jelly beans. sounds to me like he is smart enough to realize that and not buy into the hype. give it a try...

[hlthe2b]

10. Well, he's certainly not much of a salesman:

"“Two months ago I was giving these cookies away,” said co-owner Rodney Maxfield."

Ummm Yumm.....:wtf: