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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:16 PM
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Bush makes underdog, grassroots appeal for donations
email from his campaign:

The pace of the Presidential campaign is picking up and we will soon know who the Democrat nominee will be. Whoever wins the nomination will have done so by energizing their party's left wing with angry attacks.

A strong foundation has been laid for victory in 2004, but I need your help to win what could be a close election.

Would you send my campaign a special contribution of $100 or $50 today at http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/Grassroots? And will you help identify and get out the vote? As we saw so clearly in 2000, every vote matters. The strength of our grassroots team -- friends like you who make the phone calls, mail the brochures, put up signs, and knock on doors -- will make the winning difference.

Elections involve much more than ads and rallies. To win, we need people talking with their relatives and friends at work, at the coffee shop or over the back yard fence about the tremendous issues at stake. That's why I need your help.

http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/Grassroots

I have set big goals for our country. My Administration is making America safer, more prosperous, and better. We are meeting the challenges of our time.

Our armed forces, joined by our allies, are on the offensive against terrorist enemies around the world. Saddam Hussein is no longer in power and we are hunting down al Qaeda leaders and al Qaeda terrorist cells and bringing them to justice. Fifty million people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been liberated from tyranny and our homeland has been made more secure.

So people could find work, I proposed an economic stimulus package. Our tax cuts returned money to the people who earned it. They have put it to work in our economy, which is growing again and beginning to generate new jobs, but we won't rest until everybody who wants to work can find a stable, productive job.

The country is better off because we passed historic education reforms that will provide all our children a quality education, beginning with teaching every child to read. We took on a tough issue and fulfilled a promise to seniors by providing prescription drug coverage and more choices in a stronger Medicare system.

I have worked to remove obstacles to the full involvement of faith-based groups in confronting suffering in our communities and pressed for important new reforms in welfare.

The Democrats running for President have opposed many of these policies. That's their right in a free country like ours. And in this campaign, we will pit our optimistic, compassionate conservative philosophy which is making a positive difference in so many lives against their anger and attacks.

http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/Grassroots

During the course of the campaign, I will lay out a positive and hopeful agenda to make our country stronger, safer, more prosperous and better for every single person fortunate enough to call themselves an American.

I've got an important job to do that limits my time on the campaign trail. I take seriously my responsibilities as your President. I'm focused on the people's business, and there's a lot to do. The political season will come in its own time.

And when it does, I will need your help. The other side says it will raise $500 million or more. To help overcome their intense opposition, will you send your contribution for either of the amounts I mentioned earlier or more if you can?
Federal law limits donations to $2,000 a person or $4,000 a couple.

You can call my campaign at 1-800-531-6789 or go to http://www.GeorgeWBush.com/Grassroots and make your gift using the campaign's secure Internet server. Whatever method you choose, please let me hear from you today. It would mean a lot to me to know I had your active support.

I am honored to serve as your President in these challenging times. The world has seen our country's resolve and courage. And I've been privileged to see the compassion and character of the American people.

All the tests of the last three years have come to the right nation. We're a strong country, and we use that strength to defend the peace and protect the weak. We're an optimistic country, confident in ourselves and in ideals bigger than ourselves.

Abroad, we seek to lift whole nations by spreading freedom. At home, we seek to lift up lives by spreading opportunity to every corner of America. This is the work history has set before us and we welcome it. And we know for our country, the best days lie ahead.

Thank you for your friendship and may God continue to bless America.

Sincerely,




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drb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:24 PM
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1. I wonder how much it costs them to process a donation....
...and I wonder if it would put them in the hole if everyone sent them one dollar..... ? :P

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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:24 PM
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2. This is my favorite part..
"I've got an important job to do that limits my time on the campaign trail. I take seriously my responsibilities as your President."


Then why the hell are in taking so many vacation days?????
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:33 PM
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5. not to mention fundraising
not to mention using every power of the government, including war, for politics.

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revcarol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:26 PM
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3. ROFLMAO!!
soooo funny if it weren't so sick....pathologically sick...guess he doesn't like the impression that only fat cats contribute to his campaign..let's KEEP THE PRESSURE UP. HE'S FEELING IT, ALL RIGHT.
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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:27 PM
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4. We're raising $500K
Yeah right!
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Demobrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:51 PM
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8. Could happen.
Between Dean, Soros and organizations like MoveOn and the DNC. What I wanna know (to paraphrase a certain well-known Dr) is how W's little freeper supporters will feel about actually being asked to pony up for him. Sitting around enjoying the war on reality TV and flying a cheap plastic flag are one thing. Reaching in your pocket is something else.
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Q3JR4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:48 PM
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6. Oh My God.
So many lies, where to begin?

:puke:
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impeach the gop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 12:48 PM
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7. Barf
shoot me and put me out of my misery. What is it about him that has so many people thinking he's anything other than a fuck up. He's fucked up everything he has touched. I don't get it. I can see the robber barons sucking up to him. They know they are rewarded for their mutual Greed with the bushtista regime. But what the hell do regular working yahoos get for their obedience to the Cowardly wimp?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-31-03 01:19 PM
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9. sorry Dubya
your pillaging of America has sucked the "grassroots people" F***ING DRY.
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