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What Next for Obama's Network?
The Washington Post ^ | 11/21/208 | E. J. Dionne Jr.

Posted on 11/22/2008 8:22:32 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan

While the nation's capital obsesses over Barack Obama's next Cabinet pick, the president-elect's lieutenants are engaged with what may be a more important long-term issue: What will become of Obama's vast grass-roots network?

Electoral campaigns, like circus tents, quickly disappear after the show is over. But Obama is our first community-organizer president, and he sees the way he got elected as being almost as crucial as the fact that he won. Because of the emphasis he put on organizing, barackobama.com might fairly be seen as the most successful high-tech startup of the past two years.

Over and over, Obama has spoken of change coming from "the bottom up," and the organization he built down to the precinct and neighborhood level could be an agent of that change. But how?

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Yet there is only so much distance that Obama either can or wants to keep from his party. He is, in important ways, a loyal Chicago organization Democrat. Plouffe is currently using the Obama fundraising network to help the Democratic National Committee erase its deficit.

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Democrats believe (and many Republicans fear) that Obama allowed his party and its allies to take an enormous leap forward in both technological sophistication and grass-roots activism. Preserving those gains and building on them is a priority for a man who sees organizing not only as instrumental but also as a way of transforming democracy itself.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics
KEYWORDS: communityorganizer; democrats; obama; politicalmachine
"... he sees the way he got elected as being almost as crucial as the fact that he won."

I bet he does.

1 posted on 11/22/2008 8:22:32 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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To: BuckeyeTexan
...but also as a way of transforming democracy itself.

Into what???

2 posted on 11/22/2008 8:24:42 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Obama’s Network - you mean MSNBC?


3 posted on 11/22/2008 8:27:35 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: BuckeyeTexan

From the title, I assumed you meant MSNBC.


4 posted on 11/22/2008 8:28:52 PM PST by bigbob
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I have my own suspicions about “Obama’s” network....and it sure isn’t his....


5 posted on 11/22/2008 8:31:13 PM PST by mo
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To: BuckeyeTexan

And now for their next trick: Excoriation of the Honorable Clarence Thomas starting December 5.


6 posted on 11/22/2008 8:42:07 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
Into Stalinism.

Be prepared to shoot back when the communists come to your door.

7 posted on 11/22/2008 8:53:18 PM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
That's not a network, it's another obama whoreship station. Turn off that black statue of obamanation.

Don't pray at it, and it won't prey on you.

8 posted on 11/22/2008 9:11:56 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (I will stand with the Muslims ~B Hussein Obomunist ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Verito Possumus~Verified Sleeper!)
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