Thursday, September 4, 2008

David Plouffe's $10 Million Dollar Donation Letter

Usually i don't read these, but i had just read this Yahoo! News piece that says Sarah Palin's speech on Wednesday had raised over $10 million dollars for Obama as of today, Thursday, the day after. . In any event, i decided to read one of the donation emails and figured i'd share this in case nobody reads them like me. If anyone hasn't watched Sarah Palin's speech, or at least some of it, you should do that too. It's pretty funny when crowds start heavily cheering points that seem pretty unapplausable, if that's even a word. I mean i guess it's not really fair because I didn't have this blog when the Democratic convention started. That had some fucking hilarious moments.. perhaps a follow up post with a Democratic Convention recap is in line. anyway, read David Plouffe's donation email that is in response to what was said:

Auger--

I wasn't planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

I saw John McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.

But worst of all -- and this deserves to be noted -- they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Will you make a donation of $25 or more right now to remind them?

Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

Let's clarify something for them right now.

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

Meanwhile, we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.

But you can send a crystal clear message.

Enough is enough. Make your voice heard loud and clear by making a $25 donation right now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/fightback

Thank you for joining more than 2 million ordinary Americans who refuse to be silenced.

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America


Oh shit i think i just threw them another $25'er

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