I make every attempt to be fair and balanced when I write my articles each week. I think it is important to be fair in my approach to covering stories so that people can have facts and an objective voice that I hope helps in coming to conclusions about who to vote for and keep up with issues. This week though my finger is pointed directly at President Obama for doing something that seems to have some people including me disappointed.
It irritates me that President Obama’s campaign is putting out advertisements online that show how you can “win dinner with the President” via lottery but only by contributing to his campaign. If he was a rock star this would make sense, but he is an elected leader. This type of behavior has monarchy written all over it and creates the idea that there is President Obama, and then all of us regular people down here.
His campaign website says they offer a chance to register without contributing. “You may enter by contributing to Sponsor here or click here to enter without contributing.” However, when you click “here” to enter without contributing, and after giving your information, you are routed to a second page where you are in fact asked again to donate money. What it seems to suggest is that if I do not give him money he would not hear my concerns.
The President should have dinner regularly with a large cross section of citizens for his own benefit. Perhaps he can then lead because he has his finger on the pulse of real Americans needs and not the needs of the small demographic contributing to polls. Anyone can sit down with a yes man who pays you for your time and not gain much but an inflated ego. He campaigned as accessible in many ways
