Republicans shower Obama with fake birthday gifts

The RNC sent this gag cake to the DNC for President Obama's birthday.

/ Sean Spicer, RNC/Twitter

(CBS News) As he hit the golf course at Joint Base Andrews for his 104th round since being elected, President Obama wasn't the only one taking swings on his 51st birthday Saturday.

"Happy Birthday, Mr. President. You Didn't Bake This," read frosted blue and yellow words on a cake bearing the president's face, delivered to the Democratic National Committee headquarters by its Republican counterpart Friday - a reference to Mr. Obama's now-famous "you didn't build that" line, which Republicans have seized on.

After responding with a photo of DNC staffers holding a sign next to the cake that read, "Mitt Romney's approach to the middle class: Let them eat cake," DNC communications director Brad Woodhouse sent a message on Twitter to RNC communications director Sean Spicer, "looks like you have too much time on your hands." Spicer quipped back, "Wish i had enough to play a round of golf - or 10."

The DNC responded with this photo after the RNC delivered to its headquarters a gag birthday cake for President Obama.

/ DNC/Twitter,Brad Woodhouse

The tennis match continued. Drawing from this weekend's RNC messaging memo, which alleged lobbyists had been meeting with Obama staffers at a Caribou Coffee to avoid having their names recorded on White House logs, Spicer wrote on Twitter, "Maybe it would have been better to get some pastry from Caribou Coffee - WH staff loves that place." Recalling a Romney gaffe in April when the presumptive GOP nominee told a local bakery its cookies looked like something from 7/11, Woodhouse retorted, "maybe we could have gotten it from the bakery @MittRomney insulted."

Cake wasn't the only birthday "gift" Republicans offered the president on his special day. Earlier this week, the RNC blasted out a website called "Barack's Birthday Cards," where its supporters could select e-cards with gag messages featuring famous Obama backers like George Clooney. One card "from Solyndra" read: "You gave us half a billion taxpayer dollars and all you got was this stupid card."

But it wasn't all birthday gags and puns for the president. On Saturday morning, first lady Michelle Obama sent around a "last call" for supporters to sign a real card for Mr. Obama. And on Thursday, a Winter Park, Fla., crowd sang "Happy Birthday" to him during a campaign stop.

[nearl451]

Why is it that everytime some image is shopped to show the President by the Tea Partier and GOP advertisements, they choose to follow either a (1) fun loving child "Sambo" or a (2) reconstructionist style frightening Negro stereotypical image?

This one follows the former example. But I have noticed that the coded images seem to be used quite frequently at political rally's and now directly by the RNC.

Even if you just don't like his policies or philosophy, can't you show some repsect fo the office and that the man was legitimately elected President of the USA?

[TimeToEvolve]

The Republiclowns and conservatives of America are simply racist pigs. You know that because they have no plans of their own but simply criticize and tear down America and it's people.

[Verascity]

More proof - as if any was needed - that conservatives are childish, ignorant and mean spirited. Freedom of speech allows even the lowest of the low to reveal themselves.

[OBAMA4ALLAH-]

More proof of how think skinned and shrill the left is.
Fake gifts for a fake president.

[OBAMA4ALLAH-]

I'm getting a tummy ache, I got to go take and Obama!
I'll be back

[OBAMA4ALLAH-]

Americans work harder, Obama and Moochelle needs another vaction.
Let's all hope Obama doesn't make it past 51 so America can make it to 251 someday!

[OBAMA4ALLAH-]

Birthday Wishes To you socialist fake president who never built anything but division and destruction.
Buck Ofama!

[retmw1]

Seems it's you on the right that are dividing the country and are bent on it's destroying it.

[OBAMA4ALLAH-]

Republicans shower Obama with fake birthday gifts
Gays already have showered with Obama and you and "on" you two!
(hehehehe)

[catmomtx]

I have spent this morning listening to Republicans come out whining about Harry Reid and the "lie" he told about Mitt Romney not paying taxes. It is absolutely amazing that they are whining like stuck pigs. Where were all of these people over the past three years as elected republican officials repeatedly insulted our President and the First Lady? Where have they been as Romney distorts what the President says and his record? Romney can resolve the tax situation simply by showing his tax returns but instead Republicans come out with all the righteous indignation they can muster to whine and blame the President and beg for apologies. How about republicans apologise for what they have put our country through for the past three years in their attempt todestroy President Obama.

Show the tax returns Romney because guess what? The American people do care.

[tvwatcher5345]

so the republicans are funny and are taunting the president over his mistakes/gaffes, and mother nature is funny and taunting the red states, (see US drought monitor), over their inability to use the brain God gave them

[tvwatcher5345]

joe, we all have to suffer (including CA) because of republican decissions, we are all suffering thru the global warming drought including red and blue states, we all have to suffer thru the iraq war which pat buchannan calls one of the worst military blunders, which the republicans got us into (iraq had nothing to do with 9/11)

[skeezix06]

Washington insiders playing with Washington insiders. Not a cute sight. Meanwhile in the real world people are still losing their jobs and homes and being ignored by these same Washington insiders.

[biblerox]

This is retarded. They couldn't just wish the man well on his birthday? HE IS JUST A MAN......like any other person in the America. It would have been nice to see GOP show good sportsmanship on his Birthday.

[catmomtx]

And they claim that it is President Obama who is dividing our country.

[andrewjsacks]

Morons and losers. OBAMA 2012!