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. [1] 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 [2] 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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