Bday

I recently received an email about an upcoming political organizing meeting that's timed to coincide with Barack Obama's birthday.

My first thought was that this is a clever way to get his supporters together. I understand that the grassroots type of involvement his reelection campaign is trying to engender is based on small get-togethers like this one and it must be nice to have a theme on which to base it. It's cute, but not over-the-top.

But my second thought was that it's kind of weird. In my mind, celebrating the president's birthday happens in despotic, undemocratic states.

Again, I grasp the idea behind the event, but I think it's slightly off.