Spammed by Obama
Mike Ahlf
Those who know me know I'm no supporter of Barack Obama. I'm no fan of the racist church he attends. I'm no fan of the behavior of his campaign in the theft of an unofficial fan-support myspace profile and their subsequent attempts to lie about and vilify their former supporter after the stunt.

So, so far, I considered Obama the usual sort of politician, leaning towards "lying jerk."

Today, that changes. Obama's the worst kind of person, save perhaps for a serial murderer or serial rapist. He's a spammer..

I have never contacted the Obama campaign.
I have done nothing to give them my email address.
I have done nothing to indicate to them that I would ever want to support Obama as a candidate.

What do I find in my email box today? An email from the Obama campaign titled "Taking it to the streets." Sender ID is "Barack Obama <info@barackobama.com>", ID of mailer is mta2.bluestatedigital.com (IP address 207.234.209.148). This is most definitely from the Obama campaign.

The gist of the email is a form email trying to get me to be an organizer for their supposed "Walk for Change" campaign to happen in June. They are "offering" to send me informational packets to set up a "neighborhood walk" in support of getting Barack nominated for the presidency.

I don't want this spammer nominated for dogcatcher, much less the presidency. And I may just look up a walk in my area so I can show up and pass out a few pamphlets on what Obama is REALLY like, rather than what his campaign says he is.

One down, Dems. 7 to go, unless someone else jumps into the race. My offer still stands. Give me someone I can trust to do the right thing 70% of the time - I'm willing to drop 3 out of 10 serious issues here - and I'll support them and vote for them.

But don't you dare give me Obama any more. Put him in your nomination, and I don't care if the Republicans nominate a Freddie Kreuger/Jason Vorhees ticket, they'll get my support against Barack "The Spammer" Obama.
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RAW wrote:
Could somebody be playing a prank on you by signing you up for that email list? Google didn't turn up a host of complaints like one might expect if this were being done widespread.

Didn't search very deep, though. All I found were some instances of people being unable to unsubscribe or regretting making him a MySpace Friend, though.
5/9/2007
 
SAM wrote:
Another swing voter deserts the Obamamobile... imagine their chagrin.
5/10/2007

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