I'll keep this short and sweet. Just when I thought nothing a GOP hack could make my jaw drop anymore, I read this on HuffPost:
Republican strategist Brad Blakeman, responding to a question about how John McCain could square his opposition to wasteful spending with the RNC shelling out over $150,000 on clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin, said that the real outrage is Barack Obama "taking a 767 campaign plane to go visit Grandma." This is the same grandmother who raised Obama and who is very seriously ill.
Clearly Brad Blakeman has had his sould surgically removed and replaced with nothing but guts, and black stuff. Let's show this Blakeman guy how we really feel about Obama's trip to see his ailing grandmother. Donate tonight before the deadline in honor of Grandma Tut, the amazing woman who helped raise our next President. There's no "memo" filed on the donation page, but you can send an email afterward telling the campaign how much you gave and why. Make the jump for more.
By Election Day I will have given about $300 to Obama's campaign. And if every penny goes to pay for his trip to Hawaii to see Tut, I'll be a happy man. I think we should do a round of fundraising specifically to pay for this trip to show Class A a--holes like Blakeman that we're proud to have a candidate who has his priorities straight and will take time to visit his sick grandma less than two weeks from Election Day. A lot of pols would not do that.
So unless you're totally tapped out, donate tonight before the deadline in honor of Grandma Tut, then email the campaign telling them how much you gave and why.
In closing, I found this article about Obama's trip that pretty much says it all:
White House hopeful Barack Obama said in an interview Thursday he decided to travel to the bedside of his ailing grandmother because he wanted to avoid making the same mistake he made by not rushing to his late mother's side before she died.
When Obama's Kansas-born mother, Ann Dunham, passed away, I "got there too late," he told CBS television.
"We knew that she wasn't doing well but, you know, the diagnosis was such where we thought we had a little more time and we didn't. And so I want to make sure that I don't -- I don't make the same mistake twice," Obama said.
Eleven days -- Leave everything on the road!
UPDATE: I think this is the best link to send your post-donation note. (h/t Pippa70 for the comment)