RNC Raising Money Off Of Schoolchildren Singing About Obama, Comparing It To Stalin And Kim Jong Il

Eric Kleefeld | September 30, 2009, 4:14PM

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In a new fundraising e-mail sent out by the RNC, chairman Michael Steele attacks the Democrats over the video that has circulated of a small group of schoolchildren singing about President Obama:

In the video, impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey, most of whom are no more than six or seven years old, have been instructed to sing the praises of "Barack Hussein Obama." One song is even set to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

This is the type of propaganda you would see in Stalin's Russia or Kim Jong Il's North Korea. I never thought the day would come when I'd see it here in America.

This is the type of fanaticism Republicans are up against as we fight to stop the Obama Democrats' radical leftist transformation of America.

Check out the full e-mail after the jump.

Dear Fellow Conservative,

This video just came to my attention. I'm so outraged and stunned by its content that I had to share it with you.

Watch the video now and see the indoctrination of our nation's greatest treasure -- our children.

In the video, impressionable youngsters at a public school in New Jersey, most of whom are no more than six or seven years old, have been instructed to sing the praises of "Barack Hussein Obama." One song is even set to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

This is the type of propaganda you would see in Stalin's Russia or Kim Jong Il's North Korea. I never thought the day would come when I'd see it here in America.

This is the type of fanaticism Republicans are up against as we fight to stop the Obama Democrats' radical leftist transformation of America. The only way our Party can defeat their liberal ambitions is by electing more Republicans in the upcoming 2009 state elections and the critical 2010 mid-term elections.

Do your part today by making a secure online contribution of $10, $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can right now to the RNC. Your gift will provide the resources we need to reveal the Obama Democrats' true leftist intentions for our country and carry our Republican candidates to victory this fall and beyond. Please help us win this fight for the future of America.

Sincerely,

Michael Steele
Chairman, Republican National Committee

P.S. The indoctrinating of the most impressionable members of our society is unbelievable unless you see it with your own eyes. Please watch the video of young school children literally singing the praises of Barack Obama that their teachers have taught them. Share it with your friends, family, neighbors or anyone you think may be concerned by this. Then make a donation of $10, $25, $50 or $100 to support the RNC's efforts to fight this leftist propaganda and elect more Republicans this year and next. Thank you.

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mk3872

September 30, 2009 4:32 PM

Huh? Are they fundraising against the principal of a public school? Because kids sang about the president?

I recall seeing quite a few statues of St. Ronnie Reagan.

But I guess it's okie-dokie to worship a Republican president ... IOKIYAR

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Schmed

September 30, 2009 4:35 PM in reply to mk3872

Ms. Rachel pointed out last night that some kids in New Orleans were actually made (I'd like to say "forced," but I can't verify that. I have standards.) to sing the praises of Bush and his wonderful FEMA heroics after Katrina. More IOKIYAR at its finest.

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Stroszek

September 30, 2009 6:32 PM in reply to Schmed

Speaking of IOKIYAR, remember when the GOP and a slew of media pundits demanded an apology from Democrats because some anonymous guy on the internet compared Bush to Hitler?

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slb

September 30, 2009 9:19 PM in reply to Schmed

HuffPo had a post on that last Friday: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/flashback-students-sang-b_n_300372.html

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mcc

September 30, 2009 4:46 PM in reply to mk3872

That and ACORN. When the Republicans think of important, relevant issues facing the country, this is what comes to mind.

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Schmed

September 30, 2009 4:33 PM

"This video just came to my attention."

The video has been around since February when it captured a Black History Month event. Yes, it is pretty nefarious that African American kids would sing the praises of the first African American president during the first Black History Month of his presidency.

Steele might have become aware of this wickedness sooner if his head wasn't quite so far up his ass.

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plan69

September 30, 2009 4:37 PM

I guess all's I can say is:
Fuck Michael Steele
Fuck Right wing Christians
Fuck stupid Racists
Fuck Red State.com
Fuck Fox "News"
Fuck Republican Congressmen-everyone of them
Fuck the people that killed the census worker
Fuck Michelle Bachmann for inciting them to do it
and finally Fuck Republicans because you stand for all of the above.
I'm through with rational responses.

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CityGuy

September 30, 2009 5:40 PM in reply to plan69

Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!! But seriously, I second your thoughts. The GOP has become a nattering nabob of negativism. Just a rump (in more ways than one) party really. Made up of wing nuts and dingbats. Where is a real opposition party in America? One with it own ideas and programs? Not the Repukes!

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shooter242

September 30, 2009 6:24 PM in reply to plan69

I feel your pain. Heh.

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CT Voter

September 30, 2009 4:49 PM

Sigh. At this point, you could just save time and post "Republicans raising money because Democrats did something", and skip the details.

Rock on, Republicans! Get outraged! Get crazy! And get all tuckered out from all that rage.

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foodchain11

September 30, 2009 5:18 PM in reply to CT Voter

If only they would get tuckered out but they are getting more energy. They are bleieving their own press. And, I'm so afraid that some of their kool-aid drinkers will do something terrible.

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CT Voter

September 30, 2009 5:52 PM in reply to foodchain11

Look at it this way. August was high season for craziness from Republicans. They vented. They yelled. It culminated in eleventy million people showing up in DC on September 12, or so they claim. But public opinion on most issues hasn't really budged, even after all that kicking and screaming. And at some point, they're going to run out of things to say that can still pass the sanity test. And out will come something so stupid, so vile, and so reprehensible that even the most uninterested in politics average citizen is going to say "Man. Those people are nuts!"

It may take a while, but it will happen. And it's going to be ugly along the way. But I think reason will eventually prevail.

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traitorjoe

September 30, 2009 5:01 PM

The RNC wouldn't know Kim Jong Il from King Kong.

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Avvocato

September 30, 2009 11:12 PM in reply to traitorjoe

or Erica Jong for that matter!

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ru4862

September 30, 2009 5:04 PM

Michael Steele,

You will never be President Obama. You are not on his level. Get over yourself...please!

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_jonny_5_

September 30, 2009 5:35 PM

I do however take comfort in the fact that the thinly-veiled racism will be called exactly that when our Children/Grandchildren and so on read about this time in history.

Regardless of Obama's successes or failures he will always be the first Black President and that signifigance will always be put into context. From the the landslid '08 election and the reaction of the opposition, the dispicable behavior of the racist tea baggers will be on display in the history books juxtaposed with the fast approaching shift in demographics of what's considered the majority of this country.

This historical era will be aptly compared to the backlashes associated w/ the civil right era and the political allies of these teabaggers and their ilk will be in the historical record w/ the likes of Wallace, Thurmond, and McCarthy.

Repukes... This is your chance at history, this is your chance to buck this racist trend and stand w/ what is right or rightly be tucked away in history with these foul and hate-filled figures who's playbook you are recycling

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_agave_

September 30, 2009 5:44 PM

I'm sorry, not sure exactly why, but I find kids being taught and made to sing praises to ANY president, creepy.

I'd have been pissed if my son at 6 years old came home from school and told me of such a thing.

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wickning1

September 30, 2009 7:15 PM in reply to _agave_

I agree, it's weird. However it has nothing to do with Obama. It's not like he instructed anyone to sing his praises.

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Bravo_Kilo

September 30, 2009 10:26 PM in reply to _agave_

I agree. This appears to be a little "out there" in my opinion. I admit I would be pissed if one of those kids were my own, but I would direct my anger at the school not at the president.

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fitley

September 30, 2009 6:11 PM

I'm sure Mr. Steele receives the utmost respect from all his insanely racist fellow RepubliKKKans. It's like he's out there doing a minstrel show for the inbred. What a buffoon. Yassah Obama bees like dat Kim Dong Ill. Yassah he show is. Like dat Stalin dude too. Yassah.

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shooter242

September 30, 2009 6:40 PM

Yes, I'd like to say Mr. Steele is wrong as well. The video is something more like Cuba's Communist Union product. All they need now is uniforms and a name like the Young Pioneers.

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Avvocato

September 30, 2009 11:15 PM in reply to shooter242

Jeez, Do you understand the DIFFERENCE between the Federal State organizing and sanctioning this (IT DID NOT) and some local yokel elementary school teacher?
Apparently NOT!

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publius3

October 1, 2009 12:23 AM

When you think about it, Obama really is a lot like stalin. He's white and overweight. He has a big black moustache. He's a communist (or at least pretends to be one for political reasons). He beat the nazis. And he's killed millions of his countrymen and imprisoned millions more.

Really, the likeness is striki

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fitley

October 1, 2009 2:45 AM

They wanted to say he was like Idi Amin but in Racist test groups the inbredheads had trouble remembering a black man's name. "Shucks, there's really people named EEDEE, what kind of damn N****R name is that?" They couldn't read it let alone spell it.

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Texas Aggie

October 1, 2009 9:00 PM

Actually Mikey is correct. The Republican party IS up against some of the most virulent fanaticism that has ever slithered the face of the earth. You can see it at Redstate.com and similar blogs or you can see it in videos of the tea parties. This is the kind of fanaticism that is bringing the Republican party down as decent folk who have the ability to think rationally and evaluate evidence become more and more alienated from what was once (Nelson Rockefeller, Dwight Eisenhower) a reasonable political party that cared as much about the country as it did for its donors. As it is, the extreme right wing has purged the GOP of any sense of rationality and they are now flying on pure, uncontrolled, thoughtless emotion. This bodes ill for the country.

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