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Thu May 17, 2012, 06:49 PM May 2012

Obama Campaign Manager Counters “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama”

By Jim Messina, Obama Campaign Manager at the Obama campaign blog: http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/the-defeat-of-barack-hussein-obama

May 17, 2012

A 54 page, $10 million proposal by top Republican strategists titled “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama” shows in vivid and gruesome detail what the President and all of us are up against.

The proposal laments that voters “still aren't ready to hate this president” but lays out a plan to portray him as “slick” and “cocky”—and notes that they need to hire an “extremely literate conservative African-American” to insulate against charges of racism.

It says the President ran as a “metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln” and includes plans to spend millions on inflammatory TV ads using everything from Rev. Jeremiah Wright to images of the September 11th attacks to show the truth about Obama's alleged secret plan to destroy America.

In the words of one of these guys, they want to “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do” in the last election. And the plan was for it to be financed by a single billionaire.

This is going to be worse than we could have imagined. President Obama needs your help to stop it before it starts . . .

read: http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/the-defeat-of-barack-hussein-obama


earlier:

Statement: Governor Romney Has Reacted Tepidly In a Moment That Required Moral Leadership

May 17, 2012

CHICAGO, IL – Obama for America Campaign Manager Jim Messina released the following statement on today’s report in The New York Times:

“This morning's story revealed the appalling lengths to which Republican operatives and SuperPacs apparently are willing to go to tear down the President and elect Mitt Romney. The blueprint for a hate-filled, divisive campaign of character assassination speaks for itself. It also reflects how far the party has drifted in four short years since John McCain rejected these very tactics. Once again, Governor Romney has fallen short of the standard that John McCain set, reacting tepidly in a moment that required moral leadership in standing up to the very extreme wing of his own party.”


read: http://www.barackobama.com/press/release/statement-governor-romney-has-reacted-tepidly-in-a-moment-that-required-mor


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