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Change We Can Believe In (Obama's Backers Lay Down Their Demands)
The Nation ^ | August 18, 2008 | none listed

Posted on 08/05/2008 6:26:15 AM PDT by chickadee

We urge you, then, to listen to the voices of the people who can lift you to the presidency and beyond.

Since your historic victory in the primary, there have been troubling signs that you are moving away from the core commitments shared by many who have supported your campaign, toward a more cautious and centrist stance--including, most notably, your vote for the FISA legislation granting telecom companies immunity from prosecution for illegal wiretapping, which angered and dismayed so many of your supporters.

We recognize that compromise is necessary in any democracy. We understand that the pressures brought to bear on those seeking the highest office are intense. But retreating from the stands that have been the signature of your campaign will weaken the movement whose vigorous backing you need in order to win and then deliver the change you have promised.


(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; elections; flipflops; leftwing; nobama08; obama; thenation
The article goes on to list their demands and carries a lot of lefty signatures.
1 posted on 08/05/2008 6:26:16 AM PDT by chickadee
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To: chickadee

Kinda reads like a second Communist Manifesto.


2 posted on 08/05/2008 6:33:36 AM PDT by bcsco (Obama: SPINciple in chief!)
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To: chickadee

Obama: Change every 15 minutes! All day Every Day! What’s your position on .....oh never mind


3 posted on 08/05/2008 6:34:52 AM PDT by Rodm (Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
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To: chickadee
...listen to the voices of the people who can lift you to the presidency and beyond.

Beyond?! Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Empire!


4 posted on 08/05/2008 6:35:42 AM PDT by ironwill (I want my daddy's records.)
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To: chickadee
So it seems what has the Obama Zombie Cultists the most concerned is FISA. Their Annoited One is helping the government spy on their dope deals...
5 posted on 08/05/2008 6:37:15 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: chickadee

Uh oh. At the link there is a chance to sign YOUR VERY OWN PERSONAL NAME to this “manifesto.” Ahem.


6 posted on 08/05/2008 6:45:21 AM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: 3AngelaD

Everytime I see Obama, I feel like singing....

When the moon, is in the seventh house
and Jupiter aligns with Mars
and peace will guide the planets
and Love will ...the stars.....

THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS...tHE AGE OF AQUARIUS.......AQUARIUUUUUUUUUSSSSSS


7 posted on 08/05/2008 6:49:48 AM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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To: 3AngelaD

You devil, you :)


8 posted on 08/05/2008 6:52:07 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: chickadee
We urge you, then, to listen to the voices of the people who can lift you to the presidency and beyond.

Seems just being President of the United States is not good enough for this crowd. Man, are they going to be disappointed.

9 posted on 08/05/2008 7:29:28 AM PDT by Captain Rhino ( If we have the WILL to do it, there is nothing built in China that we cannot do without.)
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To: bcsco

“We recognize that compromise is necessary in any democracy.”

What a laugh. If the Nation had its way, the next time we’d be posting to FR, it would be from a Gulag in the ANWR.


10 posted on 08/05/2008 7:31:04 AM PDT by y6162
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“We recognize that compromise is necessary in any democracy.”

That's their frustration. That's why they want "change". They don't want a democracy, they want totalitarianism. That way, compromise isn't necessary.

11 posted on 08/05/2008 7:36:20 AM PDT by bcsco (Obama: SPINciple in chief!)
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To: chickadee

Wow! Studs Terkel, Gore Vidal AND Howard Zinn! It would take a fella all day just to shovel out from behind just those three!


12 posted on 08/05/2008 7:46:16 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: rogue yam

The Nation, Katrina Kommie Chick Van De heuvel’s little rag given her by daddy espouses marxist, socialist anti American rhetoric. We need to constantly observe people like this and watch their moves.


13 posted on 08/05/2008 8:45:41 AM PDT by yorkie01
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To: chickadee

Beyond??? They mean installing him as the new dictator and doing away with the constitution don’t they.

Democracy??? They and too many conservatives on the national stage still use that term. We are NOT A DEMOCRACY!!! Can’t you dimwits get that through your heads? We are a representative republic governed by a constitution. Again, you conservatives who use the term included, we are NOT A DEMOCRACY!


14 posted on 08/05/2008 10:48:11 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: chickadee
GORE VIDAL: You must realize what some of the political issues are here. There are many, even in the United States [who] happen to believe that the United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Viet Cong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically. This happens to be pretty much the opinion of Western Europe and many other parts of the world. If it is a novelty in Chicago, that is too bad, but I assume that the point of the American democracy…

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY: And some people were pro-Nazi, too, some people were pro-Nazi.

GV: …is you can express any point of view you want. Shut up a minute.

WFB: No I won’t. Some people were pro-Nazi, and the answer is they were well-treated by people who ostracized them, and I’m for ostracizing people who egg on other people to shoot American Marines and American soldiers. I know you don’t care, because you don’t have any sense of identification…

GV: As far as I am concerned, the only sort of pro- or crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself. Failing that,…

MODERATOR: Let’s not call names.

GV: …I would only say that we can’t have the right of assembly…

WFB: Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi…

MOD: Let’s stop calling names and let’s get…

WFB: …or I’ll sock you in the goddam face and you’ll stay plastered.

15 posted on 08/05/2008 11:16:58 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Congress would steal the nickels off a dead man's eye's...............)
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