Obama Campaign versus The Koch Brothers - The Battle Continues!

Photo - Jim Messina

The battle rages on in the email sphere between the Obama campaign and the Koch brothers. In the latest email from Jim Messina, Campaign Manager - Obama for America, he notified those of us on the official Obama campaign email list that the emails are flying between the representative for the Koch brothers and himself.

Messina is `demanding`that the Koch brothers disclose who the donors are who have contributed the a PAC, AFP, which is backed by the Koch brothers and is promoting a republican challenge to Obama`s re-election.

The Koch representative responded with "... it has tens of thousands of members and contributors from across the country and from all walks of life." Messina wants them to "prove" it. He writes:

"I'd like them to prove it. So I wrote back, challenging the Koch brothers -- the same guys who recently called the 2012 election "the mother of all wars" -- to disclose for the public exactly who's behind the millions of dollars they're spending on attack ads."

Messina then goes on to provide a link to a petition which demands the following:

"Americans for Prosperity, the special-interest front group run by the oil billionaire Koch brothers, is claiming that its donors are "tens of thousands" of folks "from all walks of life."

We're asking them to prove it by disclosing their donors to the public.

Demand the truth by adding your name."

Well, Mr. Messina, we`ve got a few demands of our own. We demand to see the President`s REAL birth certificate. We demand to know why Barack Obama has a Connecticut Social Security Number. We demand an apology for his recent racist remarks asking all blacks to vote for him specifically. Let`s talk about those demands, Mr. Messina. Until then we suspect you have no right demanding anything from anyone else.

Please see our first blog entry on this topic for the back story... and stay tuned!

Obama Campaign Attacks American Job Producer Koch Brothers

In today's email from the official campaign to re-elect Barack Obama, Julianna Smoot - Deputy Campaign Manager for Obama for America attacked one of the largest tax payers and philanthropists in the country, namely, the Koch Brothers.

The Koch family of industrialists and businessmen is most notable for their control of Koch Industries, the second largest privately owned company in the United States. The family business was started by Fred C. Koch, who developed a new cracking method for the refinement of heavy oil into gasoline. Fred's four sons became involved in litigation against each other in the 1980s and 1990s. According to the Koch Family Foundations and Philanthropy website, "the foundations and the individual giving of Koch family members" have financially supported organizations "fostering entrepreneurship, education, human services, at-risk youth, arts and culture, and medical research."

And these guys are the target in today's email from Obama's campaign HQ. Here is the pertinent text from the email:

Tomorrow Mitt Romney is hanging out with the billionaire Koch brothers at a Tea Party forum. I imagine they'll get along. When Romney set up his "One-Term Fund," he reminded his supporters "what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama." One week earlier, at a private retreat, the Koch brothers and 300 of their allies pledged to pitch in at least 100 million dollars toward that same goal. A source present at the Koch brothers' retreat last month told a journalist that the Kochs' annual secret meeting "used to be about 'conservative strategy' and building a movement, but now it was mostly an 'alpha male' spectacle focused on fundraising to beat Obama." After previously calling the election the "mother of all wars," they've now pledged to spend $200 million.

I imagine they'll get along? What's that supposed to mean? Let' face it: while the Koch Brothers may be gunning for Obama it is only because Obama has been gunning for them since the beginning. The Koch family knows how to be successful in life. They know what what invention, effort, and reward look like as a package also known as capitalism; a strategy which works every time it is implemented. Want to eradicate poverty, lift a culture out of depravity, or see the prosperity index rise in any situation? Implement capitalism mixed with conservatism and you've got yourself a wining combination.

Yet the Obama group hates it when private enterprise has the answers instead of big government. He wants to be the savior, the messiah people turn to for the answers. He hates self determination and he despises the great examples which America has produced over the centuries.

The attack is not limited to the Koch family but included Romney as well. That is to be expected. But attacking private firms the government is supposed to be safeguarding for jobs and financial security is a line no president should cross. Yet another one of many lines this president is happy to ignore.