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by WARNER TODD HUSTON (/COLUMNISTS/WAR NER-TO DD-HUS TON) 20 Dec 2012, 5:42 PM PDT POST A COMMENT You may think that after winning the ele ction, the Obama team should be done raising money for its campaign fund. But Sandy Hook apparently presents a crisis too good to go to waste, so with a new email from David Axelrod, team Obama is using the President's remarks about the Sandy Hook massacre to raise more money. The new campaign email carrying the approval of Obama campaign chief David Axelrod urges campaign supporters to watch Obama's address made at Newton, Connecticut and also features a "donate now" button. "The next chapter begins today. Stand with President Obama for the next four years," the email is headlined. Axelrod doesn't urge donations in the text of the email, but the "donate now" buttons are both in the email and at the MyBarackObama.co m (http://www.barackobama.com /news/entry/president-obama-in-newtown-connecticut) page where team Obama is hosting the video of the speech. Says Jeryl Bier (http://speakwithauthority-jsm.blogspot.com/2012/12/never- let-crisis.html): Not one, but two buttons -- two opportunities to donate to the Obama campaign. Not to the Red Cross, or to a memorial fund for the children and adults killed in Newtown. How hard would it have been to shift the focus, disable the buttons, for just one email, just one blog post? But the s how must go on. The fact that any donate now button appears on any messages about the tragedy at Sandy Hook elementary is quite crass, indeed. CAMPAIGN DONATION LINK IN OBAMA EMAIL ABOUT SANDY HOOK MOST POPULAR Core of Opposition Building to Plan B (http://www.breitbart.com /Big-Government/2012/12/20/Core- of-Opposition-to-Plan-B) 330 comments 0 minutes ago Gallup: Americans Want Police, Mental Health Laws, Not Banning Guns (http://www.breitbart.com /Big-Government/2012/12/19/Gallup- To-Stop-Shootings-Americans-Focus- On-Police-Mental-Health- Not-Banning-Guns) 675 comments 1 minute ago A Real Public Opinion Poll: 8,000 People a Day Join NRA After Sandy Hook (http://www.breitbart.com /Big-Government/2012/12/20/A- Real-Public-Opinion-Poll-8-000- People-A-Day-Join-NRA-Since- Dec-14) 387 comme nts 0 minutes ag o CA Tax Revenues Continue to Drop Despite Voter-Approved Tax Increases (http://www.breitbart.com /Big-Government/2012/12/20/CA- Tax-Revenues-Continue-To-Drop- Precipitously-After-Residents-Voted- To-Increase-Taxes) 94 comments 7 minutes ago Obama Comes After The Guns (http://www.breitbart.com /Big-Government/2012/12/19/Obama- pushes-gun-control) 887 comments 1 minute ago BREITBART VIDEO PICKS 5 Ca mpa ign Do na ti on Li nk in Ob ama Emai l Ab out Sa nd y Hoo k ht tp:/ /www .b re it ba rt.c om/Big-Government/ 20 12/1 2/ 20 /Oba ma-Rai si ng... 1 of 2 12/20/2012 9:20 PM
