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RNC Birthday Cake To DNC Jabs Obama With 'You Didn't Bake This' Frosting
The Republican National Committee mocked President Barack Obama on Friday, sending a cake to the Democratic National Committee with a backhanded message commemorating Obama's upcoming birthday.
"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.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," Obama said. "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. ... The point is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
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."
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.
Obama will celebrate his 51st birthday on Saturday, August 4.
UPDATE -- 6:35 p.m -- DNC spokeswoman Melanie Roussell has responded to the RNC's move, attempting to draw a parallel between it and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's politics.
“This is typical of Mitt Romney’s approach to the middle class," she said. "He wants to ‘Let them eat cake!’ while robbing them blind. We sent the cake back to the RNC, along with a copy of the Tax Center’s report on Mitt Romney’s tax plan.”
I wonder whose preteen child or grandchild gave them the idea?
Of course a cake ordered ('cause you know they didn't bake it either) by Republicans would be vanilla with vanilla frosting. It was probably the closest they could get to making the cake look like a white sheet and hood. Klan KKKake!
"You didn't bake this"? Obviously. Who bakes their own birthday cake? Idiots.
I hope no one ate any of it. They probably laced it with poison or at least spit in it.
I wish Obama would be able to get away with cutting the cake into pieces, marching into the RNC with a bunch of Secret Service agents, each with a piece, and smashing a piece into each RNC member's face.
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RNC Birthday Cake To DNC Jabs Obama With 'You Didn't Bake This' Frosting
The Republican National Committee mocked President Barack Obama on Friday, sending a cake to the Democratic National Committee with a backhanded message commemorating Obama's upcoming birthday.
"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.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," Obama said. "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. ... The point is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
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."
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.
Obama will celebrate his 51st birthday on Saturday, August 4.
UPDATE -- 6:35 p.m -- DNC spokeswoman Melanie Roussell has responded to the RNC's move, attempting to draw a parallel between it and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's politics.
“This is typical of Mitt Romney’s approach to the middle class," she said. "He wants to ‘Let them eat cake!’ while robbing them blind. We sent the cake back to the RNC, along with a copy of the Tax Center’s report on Mitt Romney’s tax plan.”
I wonder whose preteen child or grandchild gave them the idea?
Of course a cake ordered ('cause you know they didn't bake it either) by Republicans would be vanilla with vanilla frosting. It was probably the closest they could get to making the cake look like a white sheet and hood. Klan KKKake!
"You didn't bake this"? Obviously. Who bakes their own birthday cake? Idiots.
I hope no one ate any of it. They probably laced it with poison or at least spit in it.
I wish Obama would be able to get away with cutting the cake into pieces, marching into the RNC with a bunch of Secret Service agents, each with a piece, and smashing a piece into each RNC member's face.
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I do. :( lol
Seriously, though, how old are our freaking politicians? Is this really acceptable behavior for the people we trust to make decisions about the future of this country? FFS. It's just embarrassing. "LOL WE SENT HIM CAKE." Oh, good job - now what about the economy?
Not the worst Cake Wreck, but this definitely belongs.
Also, of course it's white cake with vanilla frosting :-/
Mittens would break down within two days if he even had to deal with 5% of the crap Obama has to take.
It makes me sad how low the Republicans will stoop these days...it appears they have no limit. And people wonder why I say that I absolutely refuse to vote Republican, because aside from the fact that I am a liberal Democrat I could never in good conscience vote for someone who was representing a party that does stuff like this.
ZING.
I want to hurt something now.
For context, since it's been a while, the left photo is one of many of Obama sitting down to chat with citizens in diners and restaurants in 2008 while taking every opportunity to enjoy the hell out of some pie. He really likes pie.
The right picture was taken while New Orleans was drowning and still waiting for help, or even some kind of acknowledgement of their dire situation. It is of Bush stopping at an Arizona airport, in between playing guitar and being otherwise useless, to pose with McCain for his birthday. After serving its purpose as a prop, the ice cream cake was left behind on the tarmac to melt.
#2 - What are they, 8? I think even regular 8 year olds are more intelligent and mature than the way they're behaving.
#3 - He won the election. He's PRESIDENT. Get over it.
$4 - Grow the fuck up already. You're only embarrassing yourselves and, believe it or not, the entire country. The fact that we have politicians like yourselves really doesn't speak well for us on the international stage.
#5 - You wouldn't have done this to Clinton. Not in Clinton's time anyway. Can't say the same in today's political climate, where we have a supposed OMG-he's-a-sekrit-Black-Muslim-Socialist President.
And honestly, it wouldn't matter what flavor of cake or frosting they used, we would've read meaning into it.
"Oh of COURSE it's chocolate with vanilla frosting, because he's _________ , AMIRITE??"
"Oh, of COURSE it's chocolate with chocolate frosting, because he's ________, AMIRITE??"
"Oh, of COURSE it's red velvet cake with tamarind frosting, because he's _______, AMIRITE??"