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The Cult of Obama Continues

November 28th, 2008 at 06:41 by MsUnderestimated

Okay, now this is just getting ridiculous – or, should I say, MORE ridiculous.

According to an AP article, an Iowa cafe named “Baby Boomers” that makes a chocolate chunk cookie, is getting overwhelmed for orders for their “Obama” cookie:

Ever since word spread about the president-elect and his family’s fondness for Baby Boomers’ chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown restaurant can’t bake them fast enough.

“Two months ago I was giving these cookies away,” said co-owner Rodney Maxfield. “Now, it’s like ‘I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.’”

The Obamas became frequent visitors to the cafe last summer when the Illinois senator devoted much of his time to Iowa, where the state’s precinct caucuses kick off the presidential nominating process. Obama’s main office was next door to Boomers, and his staff made the cafe a second home.

But wait…there’s more:

Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75 cents a cookie to make up for the time it takes to make more each day.

“I think everybody just … thought, ‘Oh, great cookie, great president—the world is a happy place. Barack’s going to fix all the problems and if I have a bite of this cookie it’s going to make me feel good,’” Maxfield said.

Are you seriously kidding me? Somebody please slap this country and wake it up. This is seriously so wrong in so many ways.

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EricTheRed

"Suddenly, sales of 400 cookies in a good week soared to more than 1,000 a week, with requests coming from as far away as Mexico. Alas, the price is going up, from 50 cents to 75 cents a cookie to make up for the time it takes to make more each day."

What!?!? They jacked up the price because there was more of a demand for a product? And by 50%??? That's PRICE GOUGING!!! Obama-induced price gouging, no less. Remember when Obama was concerned about how quickly gas prices went up. But not even evil ExxonMobil would dare raise their price by 50% in so short a time. Will Obama stand up to this cafe who jacked up their price so quickly and by so much? Shouldn't Schmuck Schumer be organizing a Stalinist "windfall profit" show trial right about now?

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BigGator5

Hey, as long as they make a profit, who cares? It's the American way, don't you know?

MsUnderestimated

It's not the profit that I was really posting about.. it was the last phrase in the article that I was highlighting (emphasis mine). I applaud their profit-making, but the "I'll feel better if I eat an Obama cookie" sentiment borders on the edge of frightening.