Is there anyone who didn’t see this coming?

Students’ Obama Song Used For GOP Fundraising

The Republican National Committee has sent a fundraising email to supporters tied to what it calls the “fanaticism” displayed in a video of New Jersey elementary-school students singing a song praising President Obama. (Watch it at left.)

RNC Chair Michael Steele writes that the video shows “the indoctrination of our nation’s greatest treasure — our children.”

“Friend, this is the type of propaganda you would see in Stalin’s Russia or Kim Jong Il’s North Korea,” Steele writes. “I never thought the day would come when I’d see it here in America.

Obviously, I find the video ludicrous and disturbing but generalizing it into some kind of statement about the administration is pretty far around the bend itself. If we had caught the White House press office producing and distributing this to thousands, it would be a different story but that isn’t what happened here.