Sunday, January 18, 2009

"Organizing for America"?

Chris Cillizza, who runs the Washington Post's Politics Blog here here has this on Obama's new political bully boy network called, "Organizing for America."
Posted at 11:33 AM ET, 01/17/2009

Obama Announces "Organizing for America"

President-elect Barack Obama announced the formation of a new group known as "Organizing for America" that aims to continue the grassroots advocacy that the former Illinois Senator began in his presidential campaign.

"As President, I will need the help of all Americans to meet the challenges that lie ahead," Obama said in a video message e-mailed to supporters (and reporters) this morning. "That's why I'm asking people like you who fought for change during the campaign to continue fighting for change in your communities."
The new group will be the flagship of "Obama 2.0" as many people have taken to calling the transformation of the political organization created during the 2008 campaign.

The new group will work within the Democratic National Committee -- led by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine -- to advance the Obama agenda. "President-elect Obama has laid the foundation to meet the great challenges facing our nation, but we can succeed only if we build grassroots support for the administration's agenda," said Kaine in a release announcing the formation of Organizing for America.

The new group had been long expected within Obama's inner circle and, although no details on how it would be staffed were released by the transition office today, it is expected that longtime Obama loyalists will be placed in charge -- following the blueprint set out at the DNC.

It's clear that Obama recognizes the power that his email list, which boasts more than 13 million names, represents in American politics and is working to ensure it stays within the control of a small group who are charged with protecting the Obama brand.


"Organizing for America"? I thought that's what we have been doing at gun shows and in gun shops all over the country since before Barry's election. Must be a different America. Huh.

1 comment:

pdxr13 said...

From Firefly:

The Operative: "We're making a better world. All of them, better worlds."

This is the kind of reality denial I hear from the Obama Campaign, and from Obama True Believers. Like Marxists everywhere, they want people to be what they are not and can not be. The solution is liquidation of non-compliant people and the search/creation of acceptable models (or a close simulation).

Gun shows are how The Real America gets together for an afternoon with the family.

Cheers from pdx.