Election 2014

How Will You Remember Meeting the President?

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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is hocking a chance for a free trip to San Francisco to meet President Obama, if you give them money! An email sent out by the DNC in infographic form that leads off with the question in the headline and also includes the gif below:

The subject line: Get your photo with the president.

Earlier this month, Obama advisor Daniel Pfeiffer released into the media wild a story about the White house mulling a ban on selfies when he said as much on the Sunday morning talkies after a photo David Ortiz took of himself and the president was used for Samsung promotions. He has since assured he was joking but White House press secretary Jay Carney did stress an objection to the "commercial use" of the image.

But this is completely different. The product is political