Heh…the buyers’ remose is setting in on Democrats hard.

Folks who put in for tickets to see Barack Obama’s triumphal entry into Invesco Field in Denver got a rude surprise this week when they found that those tickets aren’t exactly free. I mean, they thought they were free since the campaign didn’t exactly attach an explicit cost to them.

So if folks who put their names in want to go, they’re going to have to work for it. It’s going to cost them six hours working for the campaign for one ticket and eight hours for two. Before Friday. This Friday, August 15th.

Oh, it gets better. See, even if you put in your required hours of labor for the Obamessiah, you only qualify for the tickets, according to one e-mail sent by someone who got a call. In other words, “You are required to volunteer”.

Says Stop the ACLU:

This bait-and-switch deal with Obama is the premise of his entire campaign: he lures you in with pretty words and nice-sounding promises, and then once he’s got you hooked, he knocks you over the head with reality.

It’s more than that. This ticket fiasco (well, it’s not a fiasco now, but I’m predicting it will be by Friday) is the progressive world in a nutshell. Progressives promise a utopia where you will be surrounded by happy fellow citizens all sharing one goal and living in harmony under a beneficent leader. And the best thing is that it’s all free!

In reality, you end up putting in a lot of menial and thankless work with no actual guarantee of compensation and you have nothing to say about it because your voice isn’t as important as those in the leader’s inner circle. You’re a mook, a drone, a phone-bank worker.

Ed Morrissey has a great line about this as well:

Obama didn’t require Germans in Berlin to work for him in order to cheer him at the Tiergarten. Why does Obama treat Germans better than Americans?

It seems that voters who were originally sucked in by the shiny trinkets are finding out just how badly they’ve been swindled. The convention ought to be very interesting.