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"You didn't bake this," reads text on the cake, which is vanilla with vanilla frosting, according to Yahoo! News. It's a reference to Obama's "you didn't build that" remark last month, which he made while talking about the need to maintain investments in domestic infrastructure for the good of businesses.
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Republicans have seized on the comment as proof that the president is against the principles of entrepreneurship and American innovation. RNC spokesman Tim Miller continued to make that argument in explaining the cake.
"Since President Obama's birthday is tomorrow, we actually wish him a happy 50.99726 years with this 'you didn't bake that' cake," said Miller, prodding the White House for its explanation that the unemployment rate was actually a fraction lower than the 8.3 percent figure. "We do know that hard working, smart entrepreneurs across the country join us in wishing the president a happy birthday and hoping that next year he has more time for baking so the country can get back to job creating."
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The cake marked the second effort by the RNC to take advantage of the president's approaching birthday. Earlier in the day on Friday, they unveiled baracksbirthdaycards.com to showcase fake cards featuring pictures of the president with various celebrity supporters and political figures alongside political attacks on a number of issues.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/03/rnc-birthday-cake-to-dnc-obama_n_1739263.html
The GOP disgusts me. The cake is one thing, but their comments and the "Barack's Birthday Cards" website just shows the lack of respect they have for the president. I cannot stand this lunatic party.
Also, President Obama didn't bake that cake, but the Republican Party certainly cooked up this mess we're in right now. And they have a recipe for disaster if they get their man in the White House.
gateley
(62,683 posts)something smilar if the situation were reversed, so I have to grudgingly give them the nod on this. The DNC's resnse was cool, too.
Didn't look at the cards.
inthemiddle2
(59 posts)but then again I didn't read the cards
gateley
(62,683 posts)JI7
(89,250 posts)to whoever made/bought the cake. he would know he got to that age with the help of so many around him.
isn't "childish," it's ridiculously lame.
Morans.
part man all 86
(367 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Maybe the repugs who came up with that are basing this thing out of experience? You bake your own cake when nobody else will.
Marr
(20,317 posts)I think it's already worn thin, personally, but I may be biased. It just seems like desperation now-- like an attention-starved dog that wants to do it's trick for you not once or twice, but over and over and over.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I am sure the nice person at the bakery counter helped.
Other than that I thought it was kind of funny. They had mean intentions I am sure. But, it was a stupid line to put on the cake. So, it was funny but not the way they want it to be funny. It was funny because it shows how stupid they are.
lame54
(35,292 posts)the cake will be shared and not eaten by one person
Archae
(46,328 posts)It's all the RNC has, a fake "issue."
Their "great white hope" will lie about everything.
Even his horse!
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)"vanilla with vanilla frosting", coming from the rnc, why doesn't that surprise me?
Jeffersons Ghost
(15,235 posts)tell me you are not adding racism in this? It is a joke and not a racist joke
malaise
(269,020 posts)Neither did you but you may have poisoned it.