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President Obama's campaign team launched a fundraising appeal Thursday night after the revelation that a billionaire conservative donor had commissioned a proposal to attack the president's ties to controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright.

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina says in an e-mail to supporters the proposal "shows in vivid and gruesome detail what the President and all of us are up against."

"The proposal laments that voters 'still aren't ready to hate this president' but lays out a plan to portray him as 'slick' and 'cocky' -- and notes that they need to hire an 'extremely literate conservative African-American' to insulate against charges of racism," Messina continues. "It says the President ran as a 'metrosexual, black Abe Lincoln' and includes plans to spend millions on inflammatory TV ads using everything from Rev. Jeremiah Wright to images of the September 11th attacks to show the truth about Obama's alleged secret plan to destroy! America."

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