Urgent message from Joe Biden (this guy doesn't kid around)

[ProfessionalLeftist]

Received via email this morning (no idea why they're asking for only $3 but I'd say if you want Obama to win and you've got a dollar to spare - send it!):

Dear XXXX:

This isn't hyperbole or exaggeration:

If we don't win this election, it will be because we didn't close the spending gap when we could.

Because right now we're seeing that voters have a choice between two very different men.

And the only way someone like Mitt Romney -- who's asking Americans to put him in charge of their taxes while refusing to come clean about his own, who wants to repeal Obamacare, end Medicare as we know it and give more tax breaks to billionaires who don't need them -- defeats someone like Barack Obama, is if the other side spends us into oblivion.

Tomorrow is the most urgent fundraising deadline of this campaign so far. Will you make a donation of $3 or more today to make sure we can keep this close over the last 100 days?

It's already starting on TVs and radios in swing states, and it's not going to stop.

In the last two weeks of this month, Romney and his allies had an almost 2:1 spending advantage in Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, North Carolina, and Virginia -- and that could be the election right there.

We've got more than 2.4 million grassroots donors building this the right way.

But we're running out of time to close the money gap when it really matters.

Please donate $3 today, and help make sure our message can get through to as many voters as Mitt Romney's does:

https://donate.barackobama.com/July-Deadline

Barack and I honestly wish we could thank everyone who contributes to this campaign personally. You're our second family, you know.

Thanks,

Joe

[CJCRANE]

1. K&R

[HopeHoops]

2. K&R. I'll see what I can do.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. "asking Americans to put him in charge of their taxes while refusing to come clean about his own"

Great framing, OFA team!

[woodsprite]

4. Gotta pay a few bills tonight, but this will be my first priority after that.

We cannot let Romney and his sugar daddies buy the election.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. I agree. I set up a monthly until the election

It ain't much but it's something.

[jillan]

6. When Joe asks, I answer.

Done

[one_voice]

7. I send a monthly amount...

till the election...but will send a little xtra.

KnR

[Gregorian]

8. Just sent 20 bucks to avoid the Mittastrophe

[smirkymonkey]

12. Mittastrophe - I like it!

I predict that after four years of a Mitt presidency, the US goes third world.

[Jamaal510]

18. It's incredible that many hardcore conservatives still don't think

he's one of them. From what I've seen, his stances seem to be in line with what they like; lower corporate taxes, cuts to the safety net, cuts to education, hawkish foreign policy, opposition to gay marriage, opposition to socialized health care, etc.

[Wait Wut]

9. I'll send more next week.

Gotta save up for my eye exam/stuff this week. Blech.

[Change has come]

10. K&R

Done

[spanone]

11. k&r...

[Jessy169]

13. I'm sending another C-Note when I get home from work

It hurts, but not as much as letting Romney win on money alone. Remember, evil thrives when good people do nothing.

[SnowCritter]

14. Just paid off a loan last month,

so I've got a little money that isn't spoken for already.

Sent $25.

Gotta send some to the local candidates!

[bayareaboy]

16. 25 is good

Sounds nice and it worked for me too.

[chknltl]

15. KnR Yes We Can.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

17. Kick

I hear ya, Joe!

[TreasonousBastard]

19. You do realize these emails go out asking for 3 bucks...

just about every day.

You should see the ones I get from Gillibrand claiming the world will end if I don't send her 5 bucks. But, she's running 62-25 over Wendy Long, her unknown Republican opponent. and already has $13 million in the bank vs a few hundred thousand for said unkown opponent.

OK, the few hundred thousand was from a month or so ago before the primary, but unknown opponent is still going down.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

30. Yes but Obama IS being way outspent by Kochs, PACs, Citizens United money

It's us or them.

[TreasonousBastard]

32. I guess I didn't make myself clear, but...

that's ok.

I was getting at the idea that the mass emailing of begging letters on a regular basis can bring in quite a haul, even at just 3--5 bucks a shot. Takes a lot of those $3 donations to add up to one Adelson check, thoough, but, yeah, every penny counts.

[xtraxritical]

20. I just sent $25, all I can spare now.

[tosh]

21. K&R!

[tclambert]

22. Okay, okay, don't nag!

I sent $100. So a million people like me can make up for one Koch brother.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

23. Thank you!!!

[Tarheel_Dem]

24. Monthy donor, but I chipped in an extra $50.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

29. I'm gonna do the same

The thought of a "Mittastrophe" White House is a great motivator. -_-

[Tarheel_Dem]

33. As you say, a "great motivator".

[slackmaster]

25. When I saw that in my email this morning this image from 39 years ago came into my mind...

[elleng]

26. Done.

Thanks, all.

[patrice]

27. I'm broke . . . .

Family moved back in: double groceries, double gas, double water, double electricity . . .

[slackmaster]

31. Me too. I had to have a tooth extracted two weeks ago. $1,610 and counting.

$105 for an endodontist to tell me the tooth couldn't be saved, and $1,505 for an oral surgeon to pull it and do a bone graft.

The implant is going to be the expensive part.

[lamp_shade]

28. Done.

[Stuart G]

34. K and R..nt.