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Two for Price of One: $5 Raffle Ticket Now Buys Dinner With Biden, Too
CNS News ^ | Monday, June 27, 2011 | By Matt Cover

Posted on 06/27/2011 7:31:33 PM PDT by newzjunkey

(CNSNews.com) - The Obama reelection campaign's $5-per-chance dinner-with-the-president raffle is now a two-for-the-price-of-one deal.

The winners will not only get dinner with President Barack Obama but with Vice President Joe Biden, too.

In an email sent out June 15, President Barack Obama's reelection campaign announced that in return for a $5 donation the president was offering supporters a chance to participate in a raffle to win a “casual” dinner with him at an unstated location. Four lucky contributors would win this prize.

In a follow-up email sent out yesterday, the president's reelection campaign announced that Joe Biden will be joining the four lucky winners for their dinner with Obama.

The email features a video of President Obama personally announcing the Biden bonus.

“I’ve got a pretty big announcement about that contest the campaign is running where you can join me for dinner,” Obama says in the video. “We’re setting another place at the table for Joe Biden.”

In order to comply with federal law, no donation is actually required to participate in the president's campaign dinner raffle. While the e-mail prominently displays a donation form, a separate link to register for the contest without making a donation to the campaign is included in the email's fine print.

In the video accompanying the email, President Obama alludes to Biden famous off-the-cuff remark that the passage of ObamaCare was a “big f***ing deal.”

“To use one of his favorite expressions, that’s a big deal,” Obama says of the raffle dinner.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bfd; biden; obama; raffle
Is adding Biden supposed to encourage more interest?
1 posted on 06/27/2011 7:31:37 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

>The winners will not only get dinner with President Barack Obama but with Vice President Joe Biden, too.<

So you win dinner with 2 pukes who would ruin anyone’s dinner? Pass.


2 posted on 06/27/2011 7:35:32 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012)
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To: max americana
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A couple of Biden fans will buy tickets.

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3 posted on 06/27/2011 7:38:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: newzjunkey

How ‘bout Rimshot pays me 5 bucks to eat with me and he gets to pick up the tab?


4 posted on 06/27/2011 7:38:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
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To: newzjunkey

They’re appealing to the most broke people out there to spend money vying for a spot to dine with the a-holes running this country into the ground. And to add insult to injury, they want these same people to donate to their re-election campaign.


5 posted on 06/27/2011 7:40:04 PM PDT by KJC1
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To: newzjunkey

Second place is dinner with Obama, Biden, and Pelosi.


6 posted on 06/27/2011 7:41:32 PM PDT by hometoroost (Per Oceander: The only guarantees in life are death, taxes, and stupidity.)
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To: newzjunkey

So which one plays the ventriloquist?


7 posted on 06/27/2011 7:42:36 PM PDT by Hoodat (Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. - (Rom 8:37))
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To: newzjunkey

There isn’t enough money on this planet that they could pay me to have dinner with either of these two morons.


8 posted on 06/27/2011 7:45:03 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: newzjunkey

It’s gonna be a BFD everybody!


9 posted on 06/27/2011 7:46:50 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: newzjunkey

Has anyone yet determined if these two illegal office holders are in fact running an illegal lottery?


10 posted on 06/27/2011 7:47:43 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: max americana

If you’ve an upset stomach and need to hurl, five bucks isn’t a bad deal considering the cost of Ipecac.


11 posted on 06/27/2011 7:56:17 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: newzjunkey
Geez. With the both of these stooges there in person, the dinner should be a laugh a minute. One guy stuttering around for a thought with out his teleprompter and the other dolt regaling you about all his exciting rides on Amtrak. All for a fin. Swell.


12 posted on 06/27/2011 8:08:11 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: newzjunkey

The winner gets their picture taken with a cardboard cutout of the One and the Two.


13 posted on 06/27/2011 8:18:55 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15.)
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To: newzjunkey

Could pose a problem though. If Slow Joe Biden is wearing his clown suit, what will Zero wear? Maybe they will do fast changes so you think both of them are there together.


14 posted on 06/27/2011 8:45:48 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: newzjunkey
The winners will not only get dinner with President Barack Obama but with Vice President Joe Biden, too.

Which one is "Lenny" and which one is "Squiggy?"

15 posted on 06/27/2011 8:50:05 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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16 posted on 06/27/2011 9:01:22 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: newzjunkey
Two for Price of One: $5 Raffle Ticket Now Buys Dinner With Biden, Too

They do that at a club I go to - they raffle off liquor that nobody is drinking that much of and they have just sitting around...if the raffle isn't selling that well or fast enough they throw in a couple of more bottles of crappy liquor no one is drinking...it seems to help raffle sales....maybe that's what they are shooting for here.....*snicker*

17 posted on 06/27/2011 9:17:43 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Dept. of Life, Dept. of Liberty and the Dept. of Happiness)
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To: Don Corleone
It's come up but I haven't seen any indication of a serious challenge.

Since they don't require a donation this is probably more a legal "sweepstakes" than "lottery."

18 posted on 06/27/2011 9:50:50 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Will winners eat like the Obamas or like MyPlate peasants?)
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To: Lazlo in PA
Geez. With the both of these stooges there in person, the dinner should be a laugh a minute. One guy stuttering around for a thought with out his teleprompter and the other dolt regaling you about all his exciting rides on Amtrak. All for a fin. Swell.

I think TOTUS will be there, after all can't have Barry say too much in front of the subjects.
Don't want to give away the true agenda ya know.

19 posted on 06/28/2011 5:40:19 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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