From: Robert M. (Mike) Duncan, RNC Chairman <ecampaign@gop.com>
Subject: Good for America -- or Good for Obama?
To: chris@blask.org
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 7:26 AM

Dear Friend,

During his recent speech in Berlin, Barack Obama tried to ingratiate himself to the foreign crowd by claiming loudly that he was "a citizen of the world."

The problem is Obama's self-proclaimed global "citizenship" appears to go well beyond just a rhetorical device to gain favor with a European throng full of pie-in-the-sky utopians.

It seems the Democrats' would-be president of the United States of America really believes that the rest of the world's problems, and approval, trump the interests of Americans when it comes to how we live our lives and where our money is spent.

While stumping for the support of his party's leftist base, Obama proclaimed, "we can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."

And now he's putting your money where his mouth is.

A bill he has sponsored in the U.S. Senate, the so-called Global Poverty Act (S. 2433), would raise the amount of American tax dollars allocated to United Nations' redistribution efforts to $845 billion.  That's $2,500 from every American taxpayer, when many in our country already are struggling to make ends meet.

And if you think taxes and energy costs are high now, wait until Obama's global energy and production taxes are made law by the Nancy Pelosi/Harry Reid-run Democrat Congress.

Is this what Pelosi meant when she said, "I'm trying to save the planet!  I'm trying to save the planet!"?

Senator Obama and the Democrats don't seem to understand that American prosperity is a result of the hard work of American citizens in a free market economy.  And that the American people already are the most generous in the world when it comes to global aid.

Help us show Barack Obama that Americans don't need foreign approval to lead their lives as they see fit, and that he ought to remember that he is running for president of the United States, not the United Nations.

Please make a secure online contribution of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 today to provide Republican candidates with the resources they urgently need to tell voters about the Obama Democrats' plans for America.

The future of an America whose government makes its own citizens its first priority may depend on it.

Sincerely,

Robert M. "Mike" Duncan
Chairman, Republican National Committee

P.S.  Powerful leftist forces will spend whatever it takes to elect Barack Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket to impose their radical utopian agenda on America.  Help us make sure they don't succeed by making a secure online campaign contribution of $2,000, $1,000, $500, $100, $50 or $25 to the RNC today.  Thank you.

You leftists have done enough good already.  Now you have to stop and join us in hastening The End of this mortal coil.  If you keep working and hoping for the best, Armageddon may never come and it will make all the work the GOP has been doing nothing but wasted time and wasted taxpayer money.

The per capita carbon footprint of the US is five times that of China now.  America is always #1, and we'd really like to keep it that way.  All this studying of data about the state of our planet, frankly, is just another sign of the elitism of intellectuals and academics - communists, really - and it makes us uncomfortable.  Here at the GOP we see all that thinking as just so much arrogance, and we want it to stop.

Since 1960 child death rates in developing countries have halved, malnutrition rates have declined by a third, the proportion of children out of primary school has fallen from more than half to less than a quarter, access to safe water has almost doubled, from 36% to nearly 70% and the extension of basic immunisation has saved the lives of three million children.

See, you had your successes!  That's good enough.  Now just stop it.  Grow up, life sucks and the sooner you understand that the sooner we can work on getting everyone to heaven (well, "us", anyway, you Leftist pagans will burn, but that's OK).

So send us that $2,000.  Now, damnit!  We know how to spend it for you.  We need it to keep us going more than the world needs it to keep us all going.

Get off that Hope thing, get used to a dying planet, accept the scorn of the world like Big Kids, build yourself a bunker like mine and start praying.

With utmost scorn.

Robert M. "Mike" Duncan
Chairman, Republican National Committee