The Obama effect on cookie sales Obama’s favorite cookie when he was in Iowa is suddenly a big hit:
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.
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“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.
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Wow! Obama really has his work cut out for him lowering expectations. He’s been trying to warn people it’s going to take years to fix the economy but the people just aren’t getting it. Maybe he shouldn’t have sold himself as the one the world was waiting for
. It makes people think you’re able to solve the problems of the world. Good luck with that.
posted November 29, 2008 at 11:59 am
He didn’t “sell himself as the one the world was waiting for.” You might want to stop watching Fox News if you think he was. Of course it’s going to take years, if not decades to fix what this Bush Administration and corporate greed have destroyed.
I would have thought that on Beliefnet one would be more enlightened…and using “cult” as tag on this post shows that you just don’t get it.
posted November 29, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Bush and corporations didn’t hold a gun to your head and make you buy a big-screen TV and a $400K house when you work at McDonald’s. You did that, American Consumer. Look in the mirror if you want somebody to blame.
posted November 29, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Bush and corporations didn’t hold a gun to your head
No, he didn’t. I remember him saying it was our patriotic duty to spend money, go shopping.
Well, we did our part: remodeled the house last year. We’re done spending now, thank you.
posted November 29, 2008 at 9:45 pm
“I would have thought that on Beliefnet one would be more enlightened…and using “cult” as tag on this post shows that you just don’t get it.”
Jillian, I believe the “cult” refers to tiny Calvinist sect to which Michelle belongs and which Michelle brings to us every day.
posted November 29, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Sayeth the Obama:
“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.”
Sayeth also the Obama:
“Hope.”
“Change.”
The large majority of Obama’s supporters followed him not because of a cognizant understanding of his policies and their ramifications, but because they were mesmerized by the “hope/change” mantra. The cookies are just the latest example of the cultish following the man has drawn to himself. This is not to say OCCULTISH, although there may be some element of that at work as well!
posted November 29, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Sayeth the Obama:
“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment—this was the time—when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.”
Sayeth also the Obama:
“Hope.”
“Change.”
The large majority of Obama’s supporters followed him not because of a cognizant understanding of his policies and their ramifications, but because they were mesmerized by the “hope/change” mantra. The cookies are just the latest example of the cultish following the man has drawn to himself. This is not to say OCCULTISH, although there may be some element of that at work as well!
posted November 30, 2008 at 7:21 am
Jillian- you might want to start watching Fox News just so you can get the other side of the story. I didn’t even know about that station until a friend of mine told me about it because I was intelligent enough to realize that the mainstream media was doing a poor job covering the election. I was tired of hearing about the coming of our Saviour, Barack Obama. When I found Fox News, I was relieved to see that not everyone was brainwashed by this guy. The election was a mess, and you and many others like you didn’t pay attention to the issues. This guy is a Marxist Socialist and when he can’t fulfill all of the promises he made to the American people, they can be angry, and I can say, “I told you so.”
posted November 30, 2008 at 11:10 am
Right, because unfettered capitalism has done *so* much for the nation, “catholic.”
We could use a little “Marxist Socialism.”
posted November 30, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Exactly.
And now the “Marxist Socialist” is your president for at least the next 4 years, so learn how to cope just as we had to cope with Bush/Cheney for the past 8 (and got called bad Americans/traitors when we complained).