The latest fundraising stunt takes the arrogance of the Obama re-election campaign to a new level. This week, the campaign launched a new fundraising strategy: the use of wedding registries. Basically, the Obama campaign website provides a way for couples about to wed to use their wedding registries as donation vehicles to the Obama campaign. When Jane and Joe create their wedding registry, they can include Obama campaign donations amongst their gifts, so their closest friends and family may donate to Obama instead of giving the newlywed couple a gift.
If there is one day that is entirely about two people's joining together forming a lifetime covenant between one another, their wedding day is it. It's all about them, and that's the entire point of the event. The idea that the Obama campaign would propose this means that it sees its role not as to insert itself into a couple's most special day. While the fundraising stunt itself on its own merit holds only a trivial significance, the plausible thought process behind its creation raises a deeper concern. It begs the question of how far the Obama administration will go to involve itself in US citizens' private lives. If they have your wedding day on their mind for money, then what will they consider next? Should we as citizens take this as a cue as to what will come, or should we just wait until an Obama administration has become so invasive in our private lives that we no longer have the ability to resist it?
