(2009-03-23) — After announcing last week that President Barack Obama will seed a grass-roots effort urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget by using his 13-million strong campaign email list, the White House today suggested a purported draft of his first such email note, which has gone viral on the internet, was “little more than a scam.”
Below is the full text of the note…
Subject: Awaitting your responce.
My name is Barack Hussein Obama, one of the sons of Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya, and of Ann Dunham Soetoro.
As a result of my recent election to a high government post, I have come into possession of $3,550,000,000,000 ($3.55 trillion of U.S. dollars), that I wish to transfer to various agents in the states and abroad during the years 2009 and 2010.
However, there are many in the U.S. legislative body who want to restrict or encumber these funds. I have spoken with my advisers Messrs. David Plouffe and David Axelrod, also high government officials, on how to distribute this money without hitches, and they advised me to liaise with various U.S. citizens by email who can act as partners to impress upon their representatives that the money in question is urgently needed for important projects.
It is on this basis I am seeking for assistance. Your percentage is negotiable. Please note; your age and profession doesn’t really matter in this transaction. Waiting for your immediate response.
Regards,
Barack Hussein Obama
21 responses so far ↓
1 RedPepper // Mar 23, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Is this guy associated with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, by any chance?
2 debass // Mar 23, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Unlike the Nigerian scam, this one already has all my account info. since I have been scammed for several years. I don’t know why I keep falling for it. Oh yea! Now I remember. The threat of jail.
BO could give the Nigerians some lessons on scamming.
3 MajorDomo // Mar 23, 2009 at 7:05 pm
May I suggest that the money be given to Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd. Such a transfer shall be without condition or “strings”, to dispose of as they see fit. In the event that they use it to enrich themselves, their families or assigns in any way, they shall be subject to a tax of 90% of any and all wealth that they possess.
4 SGT USMC 1ea // Mar 23, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Reminds me of an xanga I posted a while back http://www.xanga.com/Solace_Grub?nextdate=1%2f16%2f2007+13%3a3%3a35.873&direction=n
Of course Scott is much more topical and creative. Pardon me while I catch up on former posts
Deus est Semper Fidelis
SGT USMC 1ea
5 SGT USMC 1ea // Mar 23, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Well checking the backthreads I see that the Henning military legacy is represented reprehensibly and redundantly in the L@Yed in San Fran and Evertinklebell personas. Sorry that is the unchristian “Marine ~vs~ dogface”coming out in me. I really do appreciate all you Army guys who did not turn out effiminate and democrat. I believe Rosie is embarrassed at being their sponsor.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
6 SGT USMC 1ea // Mar 23, 2009 at 8:49 pm
RP appreciate the update
7 RedPepper // Mar 23, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Sarge: You’re quite welcome. Check your email again - just sent you something else.
8 Email Scam or Just a Bad Dream « Responsibility-Freedom Demands It // Mar 23, 2009 at 11:25 pm
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9 camojack // Mar 24, 2009 at 3:22 am
Maybe he’s Nigerian, not Kenyan?
10 Fred Sinclair // Mar 24, 2009 at 5:28 am
L@Y #63 (prior thread)
“The will of the People of the United States has been expressed in a free and fair election!”
Now it’s possible that you do not own or possess a dictionary. From your totally inappropriate use of the word fair. It’s possible you don’t even know what a dictionary is. You possibly have never seen or used one.
Fair? Why don’t you go and ask A.C.O.R.N. about fair? If all of the bogus, fraudulent votes could be counted and voided McCain probably won by a landslide.
I seldom, if ever feel sorry for anyone. Sympathy, yes; empathy, occasionally. In your case however I really feel sorry for you. You are horribly misusing the brain with which God blessed you. (Of course that’s true of all Socialist)
fair 1 |fer|
adjective
1 in accordance with the rules or standards; legitimate.
• just or appropriate in the circumstances, without cheating or trying to achieve unjust advantage: no one could say he played fair.
11 boberinyetagain // Mar 24, 2009 at 7:54 am
Good stuff Scott!
debass, yeah, they got my account info too…maybe it’s lucky that there’s nothing left.
12 Fred Sinclair // Mar 24, 2009 at 7:55 am
I average about a dozen e-mails a week from Nigeria. Various amounts of money are offered to me from $8.5 million (USD) to $20 million (USD). If they weren’t scams and were all real; I could write a check and pay off all of the National Debt (with several trillions left over.) About 80% are from Nigeria, the balance from London, Libya, and even one from Egypt.
They are actually pretty funny in their transparency. What’s not funny is that the Obamanation scam is even more transparent, yet about half of the Americans who voted (plus the bogus, fraudulent votes - including the cemetery votes) bought the Socialistic scam that makes the Nigerian scams seem totally honest by comparison. They actually think they won that election instead being aware that $686 million dollars bought the election! The Obama program makes no sense whatsover, unless the program is to completely destroy the private economy and replace it with a Socialist government economy - then it makes perfect sense.
“It isn’t that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.” - Ronald Reagan
13 Oh no, he di-int! : Pursuing Holiness // Mar 24, 2009 at 8:33 am
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14 gafisher // Mar 24, 2009 at 8:57 am
Aw, c’mon, “Buddy Lists” are so 90’s! Obama’s a Web 2.0 guy; all HIS friends are Twits!
15 Laughing@You // Mar 24, 2009 at 9:55 am
Blowhard,
One time, and you never let me forget it!
Say radar tech, have you ever done anything dangerous enough they couldn’t have easily hired a civilian to do it?
Everthink?
16 Laughing@You // Mar 24, 2009 at 10:32 am
Fred,
“Fair? Why don’t you go and ask A.C.O.R.N. about fair? If all of the bogus, fraudulent votes could be counted and voided McCain probably won by a landslide.”
You raise phony issue after phony issue.
Bad as I hated Dumbyah, I would have resisted the remedies you seem to advocate.
The Supreme Court is the same one that awarded George W. Bush the presidency, except for the changes he made.
Surely, there are enough Right-Wingnuts remaining to cover the cost and enough pandering Republicans to get your case heard quickly.
We are a nation of laws, not of crackpot old men!
Everthink?
17 gafisher // Mar 24, 2009 at 1:08 pm
L@Y, the protracted recount confirmed the Supreme Court’s decision. It’s time to face the facts.
18 Laughing@You // Mar 24, 2009 at 3:41 pm
gafisher,
The Butterfly Ballots were just one issue. Different counties in Florida used different methods of recording votes. The biggest problem was with Diebold Vote Scanning Machines. These machines had proprietary memory cards
which even state officials were not allowed to examine. There was no paper trail, since all votes were recorded in memory a “recount” simply called for re-totaling, and the result would always be the same.
Ion Sancho, supervisor of elections for Leon County, FL allowed a random selection of one memory card to be tested.
An “executable program” was found in the a device which was supposed to be simply a storage card.
This in a state where one of the candidates brother was governor, and his state campaign chairman was Secretary of State.
“Hacking Democracy”
Synopsis:
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/synopsis.html
gafisher, That was a long time ago, I wish I could accept the “recount”.
What would you say if it was ever proven in court, that my concerns have been justified?
For what its worth, if Gore had won, and these same issues remained, I would not be satisfied! It’s not just the result that counts.
Everthink?
19 Newsman // Mar 24, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Hey Fred:
Lock this in your wheels….
“”They say hard work never hurt anybody, but, I figure, why take the chance?” Your Hero - Ronald Reagan
Spent more time sleeping in the White House then working !
20 R.A.M. // Mar 24, 2009 at 11:31 pm
13 million buddies?
How is Obama ever going to find room for that many “under the bus”?
21 Pockets64 // Mar 26, 2009 at 9:51 am
L@Y: What the Supreme Court decided was not so much who won but that Gore could not recount with creative new standards only those counties that were strongly Democrat.
The electronic machines were not part of the story. 100% of the story was the Democrat-designed butterfly ballots. Several newspapers and other organizations have counted the ballots in the manner that Gore wanted and concluded that Bush won.
But that is ancient history. If you want something topical, find the real Certificate of Live Birth for the current president.
I believe the man to be natural-born, but his actions in not coughing the thing up are cause for honest debate.
Semper Fi
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