So now, it's not just Obama, but the Democratic Party that's being bashed here?

[frazzled]

24. They may work for a while, but it could end up backfiring

if people get annoyed enough.

Around 11 pm last night (Sunday), I cleared out the emails in my inbox that had come since 6 pm (when I had to go out for the evening). I'd had more than 30 donation requests since Saturday. By 9 am this morning I had 12 more urgent donation requests. And I already made several donations during this past week. It's almost like, if you give something, they will triple the number of emails they send asking for more, and sell your name to ten more organizations and politicians. Then you feel like they don't appreciate you and are taking your support for granted.

It's sort of reminding me of the time we won a year's supply of Oreo cookies--only thing I've ever won in my life (a scratch-off ticket in a bag of cookies). My kids were ecstatic. The first quarterly shipment came and the first bag of Oreos was relished. The second bag lingered for a few weeks, and by the third, we ended up taking 18 bags of cookies to the food shelf. No one in my family ever wanted an Oreo cookie again. Moral: you can OD on too much of a good thing.

I realize that they need to raise money; I'm willing to give to the extent I can. But I wish we could work toward fully public funding of campaigns. It's getting out of control.