Barack Obama, you're on notice!

Barack Obama you're on notice. Just as Stephen Colbert does, if you pull this again, I swear, you will be dead to me.

I just had a "fundraising representative" from Integral Resources, Inc. call me for a donation.

First off, the woman on the phone hardly spoke English. Now, for a woman who speaks 4 languages fluently, I don't mind someone with a bit of an accent. I am all for a multilingual United States.

Yet, if this company is basically profiling me with a Spanish-speaking phone operator just based on my last name, they need to be called wankers as well.

I hate that. I hate it so much that I actually have NOT bought from companies that used Spanish-speaking telemarketers just out of principle. Racial or ethnic profiling by telemarketers is not a stroke of demographic genius --it is a bigoted act.

Yet, what jumped the shark was not the fact I could barely understand what this woman was saying. No. What killed me was the scripted pitch :

He's the candidate who need the most help ... you know, due to his background ... He needs $130,000 a day to run his campaign ... The top level is $2300 but today I am asking you only to donate $200.

Oh joy. A discount.

And this days after David Geffen hosted a $1.3 million fundraising party for Obama and showed how gaga he is over the junior Senator of Illinois by dissing the junior Senator of New York.

Seriously 'Bama, pull this again and you're dead to me.


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