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How will President Obama deploy his Internet army?
McClatchy ^ | November 5, 2008 | Frank Greve

Posted on 11/05/2008 10:28:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

WASHINGTON — A powerful new lobbying force is coming to town: Barack Obama's triumphant army of 3.1 million Internet-linked donors and volunteers.

In a mass e-mail thanking them, written moments before his Grant Park victory speech, Obama put them on notice. "We have a lot to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next," he wrote.

Many are eager. "I'm going to be sitting at the phone, asking, 'What do you want me to do next? I'm ready,' " said volunteer Courtney Hood, 37, a mother of three from Owings, Md.

How Obama will use his ardent laptop-armed cadres is unclear. So is the extent to which they'll rally behind his priorities, press him for their own or both.

Joe Trippi, the Internet politics guru whose computer geeks made Howard Dean a contender in 2004 and who went on to design Obama's socially networked campaign machine, offers a provocative and educated guess.

Trippi predicted that Obama would use his forces, first and foremost, to intimidate congressional foes of his agenda, rally his allies and forge "one of the most powerful presidencies in American history."

Certainly, Obama reaches the White House with the biggest, best organized, fastest-acting grass-roots army in the history of presidential campaigning.

Moreover, because his Internet operation was miles ahead of Republican John McCain's, Obama's liberal-to-libertarian electronic activists are in a position to dominate the new political medium much as conservative Republicans dominate talk radio.

As for political utility, many thousands of volunteers such as Hood will be deployable within hours, with great precision and at almost no cost, thanks to the campaign's state-of-the-art information-management systems.

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KEYWORDS: activists; congress; democrats; digitalbrownshirts; internet; nutroots; obama; obamatruthfile
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How indeed.
1 posted on 11/05/2008 10:28:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obviously they’ll be deployed to spy on the likes of you and me...for the good of the country, of course.


2 posted on 11/05/2008 10:31:25 PM PST by Scothia ( When something important is going on, silence is a lie.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...army of 3.1 million Internet-linked donors and volunteers”

That it?

Come get some.


3 posted on 11/05/2008 10:31:32 PM PST by Names Ash Housewares (Refusing to kneel before the socialist messiah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ever hear of Hitler’s Brown Shirts????


4 posted on 11/05/2008 10:32:37 PM PST by dalereed
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama's liberal-to-libertarian electronic activists

Excuse me? Libertarian? In what bizarro world are libertarians confused with socialists?

5 posted on 11/05/2008 10:32:56 PM PST by PressurePoint
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’ll all raise their right hands and be sworn in as the Domestic Security Force and be provided Obama-Issue Uzis.


6 posted on 11/05/2008 10:33:27 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Makes me wonder how many “newbies” will be trustworthy going forward.


7 posted on 11/05/2008 10:33:30 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

We need to employ the same tactics . We need to get nasty and vicious just like the left is. It’s a new type of war and a new type of culture and politics . An old fart like McCain calling everyone” my friend” and being a gentleman is going to get trampled to death in an aggressive political landscape.


8 posted on 11/05/2008 10:36:49 PM PST by sonic109
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To: sonic109

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30tyaXv6EI


9 posted on 11/05/2008 10:43:51 PM PST by Salamander (http://theuniversalseduction.com/articles/?c=Obama)
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To: Scothia
"Obama would use his forces, first and foremost, to intimidate congressional foes of his agenda, rally his allies and forge "one of the most powerful presidencies in American history."

Fascists, all.

America is about to become a very, very dangerous place to live.

10 posted on 11/05/2008 10:44:42 PM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Scothia

I hope that the potential 2010/2012 GOP candidates area learning. Obama changed the face of politics.


11 posted on 11/05/2008 10:50:37 PM PST by bluejay
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is NOT President and he will never become President.
http://end-times-reductionism.blogspot.com/2008/10/barack-obama-alias-barry-soetoro-alias.html


12 posted on 11/05/2008 10:51:48 PM PST by VlPu
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s Chairborne Infantry.


13 posted on 11/05/2008 10:52:36 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: Prole

I must be dumb but I don’t get what these three million people will be doing with their laptops. Send emails? Check ip addresses? Will they be spying on us? Grass roots what??


14 posted on 11/05/2008 10:52:57 PM PST by bergmeid
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just for fun, Jim Robinson should add a Terms and Conditions of Use to this site that bans those who voted for Obama from becoming FR members...Ditto for MSM journalists.

PLUS include a $10,000 liquidated damages clause for each daily violation of the provision.  ;-)

15 posted on 11/05/2008 10:54:40 PM PST by peyton randolph (Idiocracy: The Obama Nation...coming to your country in 2009)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As for political utility, many thousands of volunteers such as Hood will be deployable within hours, with great precision and at almost no cost, thanks to the campaign's state-of-the-art information-management systems.

OMG, like what email? My grandma has email. Save me the hyperbole.
16 posted on 11/05/2008 11:07:28 PM PST by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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To: Salamander
i've said it before and i'll say it again...

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 PALIN / SCHWARZENEGGER
          2012 
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sarah can go for the right and arnold can take the middle-right.

after that... let Crom count the dead

17 posted on 11/05/2008 11:12:14 PM PST by sten
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Trippi, the Internet politics guru whose computer geeks made Howard Dean a contender in 2004 and who went on to design Obama’s socially networked campaign machine, offers a provocative and educated guess.

Trippi predicted that Obama would use his forces, first and foremost, to intimidate congressional foes of his agenda, rally his allies and forge “one of the most powerful presidencies in American history.”

Certainly, Obama reaches the White House with the biggest, best organized, fastest-acting grass-roots army in the history of presidential campaigning.

Moreover, because his Internet operation was miles ahead of Republican John McCain’s, Obama’s liberal-to-libertarian electronic activists are in a position to dominate the new political medium much as conservative Republicans dominate talk radio.

As for political utility, many thousands of volunteers such as Hood will be deployable within hours, with great precision and at almost no cost, thanks to the campaign’s state-of-the-art information-management systems.

Oh I am so scared! Geesh, sounds like a veiled threat like that’s supposed to shake me up or something. Anyone can start a yahoo group and make postings and start internet lies and can be sued too. And this is the kind of quote that needs to be saved for the next election cycle for commercials and also for the civilian gendarmes/brownshirts that his highness wants to create. The thing about the next election, a well coordinated well documented campaign will be needed with campaigning needing to start soon with speeches, comedy, books etc before it blows up to the public level for voting. It takes awhile for the masses to get what is going on. Most Americans truly resent spying and privacy intrusions—something that was not brought up in this election cycle and the Emperor’s vote on this issue is damming. And with people beng hypnotized, it will take extreme documentation to get them to snap out of it. This is one of those quotes that can be later used against his highness to show he is crossing the line into facism. But it has to start now, like where is the RNC chair yelling in the press on something like this—what is the RNC chair doing? Waiting until the last minute when people are oversaturated with TV commercials when they won’t listen is too late.


18 posted on 11/05/2008 11:14:43 PM PST by volslover
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To: bergmeid
I don't know, but Americans are going to be facing 3 million Jonestown people who are dedicated to the destruction of America.

The question is how bad will it get before we have to start shooting?

19 posted on 11/05/2008 11:32:01 PM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: PressurePoint
The kind of Libertarians they refer to aren't the fiscal ones but rather the ones whose pet issue is, like that of Soros, the legalization of drugs and the elimination of conventional Christianity.

Obama's admitted to taking cocaine- don't think for a minute he's free of the stuff if he cannot even get off of cigarettes.

He's backed by CAIR a Hamas front, and by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and both of those tie into the little island off Venezuela's coast and a bigger one off of Florida's. Soros has invested in companies which would set him and his son up well to capitalize on a legalized pleasure-drug trade.

Al Qaeda and the Taliban fed off of opium and heroin. So does the Chicago mob. Funny how they pushed the myth that a secular society like Baathist Irraq could not work with islamic terrorists when we can see by his own campaign and career that secular marxists be they jew, liberation theologists, white or black, can mingle with heretical human-worshipping wannabe muslims as well as true fundamentalist jihadists.

If you read about Soros' past man made disasters in other countries you'll recognize what has happened to us with the mortgage thing and what will come next. His cohorts have wanted 4 dollar a gallon gas since the seventies, and they want to reduce everyone but themselves to dependency on the state either by impoverishing them, by hooking them on drugs they will profit from, and through the control of medicine. He's a believer in using total destruction to create his so-called open societies, his version of "tough love" is designed to gut a country. And we are in the crosshairs, "my friend."

20 posted on 11/05/2008 11:32:14 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: sten

Arnold isn’t eligible and would not be welcome even if he were due to his ultra-RINO liberalism.


21 posted on 11/05/2008 11:35:42 PM PST by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82

of course he is eligible.
as was proven yesterday, being a natural born citizen of the US is no longer a requirement.

as for his liberal views, once pelosi and ‘the one’ are done with us, arnold will look like a far right extremist in comparison


22 posted on 11/05/2008 11:41:50 PM PST by sten
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
  I'm going to be sitting at the phone, asking, 'What do you want me to do next?'




   This is Barack Obama. In the upcoming weeks, you will receive the following items:

(1) A secret decoder ring

(2) 3 quarts of motor oil

(3) a compass

(4) 17 helium balloons

(5) a comic book

(6) and a deck of vintage playing cards...


23 posted on 11/05/2008 11:44:28 PM PST by Maurice Tift (You can't stop the signal, Mal. You can never stop the signal.)
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To: Prole

Kinda like one of those zombie movies. You know? The ones that are all bloodied up and come after you. Creeps.


24 posted on 11/05/2008 11:46:41 PM PST by bergmeid
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Three million illiterate spam trolls. Ick.
25 posted on 11/06/2008 12:01:09 AM PST by Mojave (http://www.americanbacklash.com/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My little black pointy friend at the ready...


26 posted on 11/06/2008 12:01:57 AM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

***That it?

Come get some***

Seconded


27 posted on 11/06/2008 12:03:06 AM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: Scothia

They’ll have to find me first.


28 posted on 11/06/2008 12:03:19 AM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Honestly, I’d say 2/10, Carolyn.


29 posted on 11/06/2008 12:05:55 AM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: VlPu

Let’s hope so, but you won’t find anybody to carry the story except for our usual guys and gals.


30 posted on 11/06/2008 12:09:07 AM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: sten

If Palin were to become unable to execute her duties as President, Ahnuld is not eligible to be President as he was not born here.


31 posted on 11/06/2008 12:10:23 AM PST by wastedyears (Every FReeper is on Obama's Black List. He will try to have us all "taken care of." Mark my words)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am willing to bet a lot of these volunteers were college students. They are going to be singing a different tune when they graduate in 4 years when reality hits and there are no jobs for them - except of course in the “Civilian Security Forvce”


32 posted on 11/06/2008 12:19:58 AM PST by TheCipher
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To: sten

schwarz is a liberal, and he is not eligable because he is not a natural born citizen, but then agian neither is barry sotero.


33 posted on 11/06/2008 12:26:15 AM PST by 09Patriot (I am a MILITANT Conservative, compassionate conservativism got us NOWHERE)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I’m relatively new, but have to wonder the same thing. A rash of new signups now would be a bit suspicious.


34 posted on 11/06/2008 12:56:43 AM PST by whatshotandwhatsnot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is already building a cadre to lead his own “army” — and he’s got a ton of money — more than $75 million.

Obama has, through his nonprofit group, “Public Allies,” a pun on Alinsky’s “people’s organizations,” has been organizing and training a political cadre since 1993. There are fifteen fully-staffed and populated chapters, operating under the watchful eye of Michelle Obama.

The Obama Campaign is also conducting, at the state level, a “national program for social change,” called “Camp Obama,” and there’s no marshmallows at Camp Obama. Here’s their sign-up page — you too can be a “Deputy Field Organizer.”

Obama Campaign’s website promises that “you’ll get the kind of experience that Barack got as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago,” and “Camp Obama is your chance to step up and become a leader in this movement.”

Movement? What movement?

Public Allies and Camp Obama are Alinsky training programs designed to build a core group of “community organizers” dedicated to “social change” in their communities.

Their charter will be to bring about “Change.” They’ll do this through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — getting people “pissed off” — the tactics of Alinsky.

Obama is cloning thousands of baby Obamas — a “people’s organization” — and on our dime.

A “movement” — dedicated to social change by getting people “pissed off” — and there will be thousands of them.

If Obama should sit in the Oval Office, just what do you think he has planned for these guys?

And — if Obama shouldn’t sit in the Oval Office, just what do you think he has planned for these guys?

Remember this?

On July 2nd, 2008, Obama spoke in Colorado Springs and hit themes of national service, foreign policy, and national security. In that vein, Obama proposed a rather extraordinary idea — that the US should spend as much money on a civilian national security force as it does on the military. (video)

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

And what color shirts will they wear?

Lenin said this about socialism: “The goal of socialism is communism.”

None of this is good.

LInks/sources: http://www.theobamafile.com/BarackObama.htm


35 posted on 11/06/2008 1:29:18 AM PST by Beckwith (Typical white person)
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To: Prole

There is always a way to get a sheep to go down the other road without them knowing they have turned. What % of the 3 mill are actually going to do something. When I think of the brown shirts I see Ralph blowing his whistle in the cemetery. Make sure they don’t take your gun, first.


36 posted on 11/06/2008 1:33:03 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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To: Beckwith

Hello Beckwith, TWP, why don’t we infiltrate them? Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.


37 posted on 11/06/2008 1:35:59 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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To: volslover

The RNC chair isn’t the only one who needs to know, we could join forces with the Libertarians and the new Constitution party. Just to expose this. The biggest problem I see is the MSM again. Most of the sheople get their “facts” from CNN or Oprah. We need our own conservative MSM outlet, besides talk radio. Most talk radio listeners are doing something else while listening. Sheople watch SNL and the news for entertainment and think they are learning something.


38 posted on 11/06/2008 1:42:38 AM PST by huldah1776 ( Worthy is the Lamb)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I’ve already wondered about a few are currently here.


39 posted on 11/06/2008 1:50:51 AM PST by Girlene (Wolverines!!)
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To: dalereed

These are Obama’s Blue Shirts.


40 posted on 11/06/2008 2:02:36 AM PST by Nickname
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To: sonic109
How about Bush awarding the Medal of Freedom to Democrat George tenet who blundered us into a war? Or sharing popcorn at the movies with Teddy Kennedy? Or pandering to the Clintons at the unveiling of portraits?

Until we have a party leader who embraces the idea that partisanship is good and necessary for the health of the Republic, we will have a sick party and a sick republic.

41 posted on 11/06/2008 2:04:15 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

3,100,000 of them...all ready to do der Fuehrer's bidding...
42 posted on 11/06/2008 2:28:19 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: piasa; PressurePoint

That’s a good analysis of the libertarian support. Whenever there is a Communist takeover, as we are witnessing now, there is usually a sort of wild-card group that supports them and often does some of the initial dirty work for the Communists. In Spain, for example, the Communists were supported by the anarchists and in fact the anarchists carried out many of the political assassinations, church burnings, etc. that helped the Communists get power.

Interestingly enough, as soon as the Communists consolidated their power, the anarchists were put on the chopping block, too. The Communist leaders considered them too unstable and “politically immature” to be of any further help in building the glorious Communist society and they were liquidated.

I hope the army of Christian-hating (hatred of Christianity was a big feature of the anarchists, too) doper libertarians that Barry has recruited to do his dirty work are prepared for the moment when he decides they’re expendable.


43 posted on 11/06/2008 3:16:26 AM PST by livius
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To: Beckwith
There are fifteen fully-staffed and populated chapters, operating under the watchful eye of Michelle Obama.

I have been saying all along that Michelle is the Madame Dufarge of Obama's Terror.

44 posted on 11/06/2008 3:19:16 AM PST by livius
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To: huldah1776
Exactly, well said. We need to join forces and for conservatives to have an additional TV station (FNC is starting to decline), a newspaper or two bought by true conservatives, etc. We also need an all new spokesman for the RNC and for the conservative principles. We can't keep the same- McCain's loss proved this. So many missed opportunities in what was said and left unsaid....we need bold brave fresh conservatives to lead.
45 posted on 11/06/2008 3:34:12 AM PST by Faithfull
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are the RONALD REAGAN ARMY who have been deployed since
1981 fighting Communism,Throughout the freeworld!

We will know use the tactics our friends on the left have used.

Yes the new cold war is upon us.


46 posted on 11/06/2008 3:48:15 AM PST by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!Jesus is Lord!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bttt


47 posted on 11/06/2008 5:16:47 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: wastedyears

I’d prefer Palin / Jindal myself, but I’m bitterly clinging to my guns and religion.


48 posted on 11/06/2008 5:20:12 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama: Satan's Counterfeit Christ)
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To: Maurice Tift
[7] a carton of 'K00L filta kings

[8] a coupon good for a FRee 1/2 pint of Ripple

cue the Sanford and Son theme...

49 posted on 11/06/2008 5:44:36 AM PST by Gilbo_3 ("JesusChrist 08"...Trust in the Lord......=...LiveFReeOr Die...)
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To: bergmeid
Much of it will be joining sites like FR and "contributing" to the conversation where they will inject doubt and exploit uneasiness. If done properly, the posts will not be outwardly offensive, like some idiot from DU mouthing off, but instead will be done with accounts that are not new and will sound like credible responses from conservative leaning people who are changing their minds. (Something to look out for will be new accounts created between now and January '09 as an indicator.)

One thing the left does very well is change the way people perceive the reality of the way something is. The media contributes by repeating the claims and the public perception follows right along. Add in educators who parrot the same lines and it makes for a very formidable method of getting what they want.

What we have on our side is human nature where some desire to know a little more than what we are simply told. If that were not the case then the world would still be flat.
50 posted on 11/06/2008 5:46:23 AM PST by cameraman
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