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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 925010" data-attributes="member: 1246">| Tuesday, January 10, 2012 @ 9:27 am | Obama Tells His Campaign Donors They Are Modern-Day Minutemen For Supporting Him…And if that wasn’t bad enough, he also told them they were reminiscent of WWII GIs and 1960s civil rights protesters for backing his re-election campaign.Via Daily Caller:President Barack Obama portrayed his campaign donors Monday night as the modern-day equivalent of the 18th-century colonists who fought the British Empire on the battlefields of Concord, Saratoga and Yorktown. “It takes you, ordinary citizens committed to fighting and pushing, inching this country forward bit by bit so we get closer to our highest ideals,” he declared in a tub-thumping campaign speech to seven hundred donors. “That’s how this country was built. That’s how we freed ourselves from an empire,” he told the donors comfortably seated at white-linen tables in Washington D.C.’s Capital Hilton hotel. Their circumstances were markedly more comfortable and safe than those of colonist rebels who risked being shot or hung if caught by the King’s soldiers. Just in case his donors didn’t catch the flattery, Obama laid it on even thicker by comparing their donations to “how the Greatest Generation was able to overcome more than a decade of war and depression.” He also offered his supporters a more plausible and politically correct comparison, comparing their efforts to those of 1950s and 1960s “young people [who] beat back the billy clubs and the dogs and the fire hoses to make sure that race was no longer a barrier to what you can become in this country.” </blockquote>

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