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Team Obama’s Flip-Flop On Girl Scout Freebies
It looks like team Obama narrowly avoided a PR disaster when a Girl Scout leader wanted to teach her 7-year old troop about the Presidential election.
Michelle Walsh said she called both campaigns and asked for free trinkets she could give the 7-year-olds to help them learn. If they did well, she explained, each Scout would earn her “Ms. President” patch. The tchotchkes would provide added incentive.
Walsh said the McCain camp immediately responded by sending her a box filled with stickers and signs. However, when she called the Obama campaign, the woman who answered referred her to the campaign website where she was welcome to buy whatever she wanted. When she saw the prices, she called back and asked if she could have just a few items for free and pointed out that Mccain had sent over a bunch of stuff. The woman said she sympathized but, the campaign needs all the money it can get.
She said she asked Obama’s campaign worker again if she could get a few items for free. She pointed out that McCain’s camp had agreed to send a box and, well, her 12-member Scout troop runs on a very small budget.
Walsh said the woman at Obama’s headquarters put her on hold. After a few minutes, she returned with the same answer. The woman told her that she sympathized, but the Obama campaign needs every penny it can get, Walsh said.
“She said, ‘We’re up against the machine and we just can’t hand anything out for free,’ ” Walsh said. “She was very nice . . . but I wasn’t getting anything.”
The woman then directed Walsh to another spot on Obama’s Web site where she could print out pages for the girls to color on, she said.
Walsh said she couldn’t understand how a campaign that’s raised more than $400 million dollars could be so stingy about a handful of trinkets. Determined to keep her presentation to her troop bipartisan she emailed the Chicago Tribune about the dilemma.
The newspaper contacted the Obama campaign and within days a box of goodies arrived for the Girl Scouts along with a hand written letter from Barack Obama.
The woman who delivered the materials to Walsh’s house was extremely nice, Walsh said.
Still, Walsh questioned why Obama’s campaign didn’t just send the materials when she first asked.
“I thought it was a little ridiculous,” Walsh said. “I guess I don’t understand what the problem was.”
It is interesting that Barack Obama has focused his entire campaign on the idea that “people are hurting” and Americans are “losing their homes” but his campaign is spending money at an absolutely obscene rate. He’s raised nearly half a billion dollars and can’t even throw a few freebies to the kiddies?
That’s not change we can believe in.
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This is turning out to be a really popular article to blog about. I did, too (http://www.boyandgirlscouts.com/uncategorized/obama-mccain-girl-scouts/). I also noticed a weird entry in Obama’s website regarding Boy Scouts that I discussed (http://www.boyandgirlscouts.com/policies/mccain-cites-scouting/). Basically, some Boy Scouts have set up a sub-domain on Obama’s site and are improperly using the official BSA logo in support of Obama’s presidential bid.
I am not surprısıng to anything. But thanks..