Why Hillary Clinton Wants to Remember Your Birthday

This is a good campaigning strategy. I think with this Hillary Clinton will be able to win votes in support of her presidential campaign. People treasure their birthdays and if they get a card from a presidential hopeful, it can make them vote for her. It is something that will stick to their memories for a long time, that “at one time Hillary Clinton sent me a birthday card.”

Since I already get birthday candles on the Google logo when I wake up on the morning of my birthday, the vast internet databases already know my date of birth. Seems like all a campaign needs is money to buy the appropriate database.

No generic Birthday cards from Mrs. Clinton or other politicians to delete from my email inbox, or discard into the trash. Enough with the junk mail. Happy to see that others who want this from her can have it. I don't want it.

People from Bernie Sanders campaign arent participatint in this kind of generalized, superficial marketing and data gathering, thank goodness. They are working to get the word out about our ridiculously high prison population, while offering ways in which we can create jobs and education for those who wouldn't otherwise have these necessary opportunities in America. Mrs. Clinton doesn't seem to understand the sad circumstances we face in this country, real people, real problems that have nothing to do with generic courtesy cards for data gathering during her campaign. Not interested in who she is "chatty friends" with, or her taste in ice cream flavors either. Bernie Sanders 2016.

Am I alone in not wanting cards, emails (other than from friends, family, key business people), junk mail, or any non-essential snail mail, to read, go through, recycle, or toss? A fake, sentimental birthday card from someone I don't know? Please. However, I'd welcome getting a self-addressed card from Hillary with the promise that any question or suggestion I write on it will be read by her, and not just a staffer.

If anyone on the campaign trail wants to know, this kind of message prompts "delete before reading" and a spasm of annoyance from overburdened recipients. And I like Hillary.

I think that campaigns- political and other kinds of sales- are behind the curve in targeting potential consumer/voters with automated contacts of any kind. I am simply tired of added calls, emails, tweets, whatever there is, and simply want to avoid all of them. Being that I've never been an early adopter type, this might mean most other people got fed up last year. And I'll never rise into the category of donor who gets invited to the Whit House -- so, skip the card.

Hillary Clinton cannot and frankly does not want to remember your birthday. She just wants to win, and her campaign managers obviously see collecting more data to be a good way to help make that happen. This title is so misleading!!!

Well, boys and girls, would you like a great, in-the-flesh example of what Barbara Duck, who calls herself the 'Medical Quack' (with the truly, amazingly informative website and daily newsletter of that title), calls 'algo-duping' (short for 'algorithm'?) Here it is, in a real, live Presidential candidate.
And what will all of this accomplish, in the way of anything constructive, for the rest of us? For that, there's a great old expression in Yiddish: 'Vus helfen vi'af toten bankes.' (It helps like putting fever cups on the dead.)

This marketing ploy is not original to the Clinton campaign. Many stores and internet sites do this as well - by promising a discount for your birthday. As I am well aware of how data can be integrated, I NEVER give my real birthday. I have a fake birthday that I trot out for these occasions.

A smart lady has smart people working for her.

Hillary Clinton did a great job in Libya, China, Russia, and Syria. She'd like to do a great job for the rest of the world too.

This is all a distraction, a feel-good act that doesn't buy my vote.
I'd really want her to remember - and share - a few other things, instead.

This reminds me of being accosted by some self-appointed busybody at work who thinks it's her job to "remember" everyone's birthday and demands your particulars as soon as you've settled in from orientation. Fortunately, it's easier to turn a blind eye to Mrs. Clinton's inappropriate behavior.

That said, I do thank the NYT for revealing that the purpose of the info grab is to "integrate" us yet more insidiously into the Great Database, which is probably housed on an insecure server in upstate NY. I hope the majority of her targets see through sentimental appeals for a key piece of their identifying information and just say no.

This is a perfect opportunity to tell these phony personalized politicians that our birthdays and other vital information should not be abused for benefits of running a campaign. Say NO to Hillary. This government is not By the People, and rarely works For the People (ordinary Americans as we are often labelled).

I appeared in a national television ad for candidate Barack Obama during his first run for office. I was very proud and privileged to do it. That said, Barack has never sent me either a birthday or a holiday card. I'd love to receive one. Yes, the personal touches do matter and I think the Clinton campaign is very clever to come up with this strategy.

And if the White House is reading - I'm ready for that holiday or birthday card anytime Barack wishes to send it!

I don't want a candidate or a president to send me a card, or to take care fo me, I want a president who will govern, someone who is fair to all citizens fo this country and to let me succeed ro fail on my own. CLinton's approach has been that of a grandmother who will cure my ills and take care fo me, that is the problem of the dems, leave your citizenry alone, make laws that are fair for all, not just some segment of society. I want a president who will keep their word and not use tired slogans and who actually does something and who is doing it because they want to help all not to add another line on their to do list. No more government interference and please stop caving to special interests, is there any candidate out there who fits the bill?

I work on campaigns. I run phone banks and when a volunteer gets off a call and tells that the vote just lost someone, or is celebrating something, it is such, we send them a card. I keep a box of assorted cards. The volunteer chooses the card and writes the message and addresses it. They sign their name and put 'volunteer with' whatever campaign I'm working on. I started doing this in '12, it helps the volunteer process what they're feeling, when it's a sad event, and is a good thing to do, and surely doesn't hurt the campaign.

I don't want a birthday card from Clinton or any other politician. That's just a feel good gesture on their part. I want a functioning federal government. I want to know that our needs as citizens take precedence over her big donors' needs. I want to know that as citizens, when we need assistance, we can receive it without hearing about how lazy, shiftless, worthless, etc. we are. I want to know that I can receive the health care I need, not what I can afford. I want to know that if I die before my handicapped brother, that the government will be able to provide for him what I cannot once I'm dead. I want to know that all my years in the workforce aren't going to amount to nothing when it comes time to retire. I'd also like to know that everyone born after the mid 1950s is going to be able to have a decent life which is something that most of us have had a difficult time with since Ronald Reagan was in office.

I'd like to see something like the four freedoms that FDR talked about put into effect for all Americans. It's not just the upper upper classes that are entitled to decent food, shelter, education, and health care. All of us are.

These are the four freedoms FDR proposed:
Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
We preach to other countries about it. Why aren't we doing it here?