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To: mdittmar
"This process will empower Americans in all 57 states to make their voices heard."

BS.

It pays to read leftist propaganda closely. The article continues,

"The party and campaign of Senator Obama will send policy experts to as many meetings as possible to serve as FACILITATORS."

To those who have studied leftist techniques, this is a prime example. It's a variation of the old liberal "group therapy" technique, where a number of small circles of naive participants are manipulated into correct thinking by a trained leader in each circle. Being in a group stifles independent thinking and negates resistance to pre-ordained conclusions. The naifs always end up thinking the results of the discussion are their own ideas.

(This, incidentally, is precisely how the League of Women Vipers operate in arriving at its left-wing recommendations on public issues).

With the Obama operatives fanning out across the 57 states to conduct these group-think sessions, you can be sure that the recommendations from the "voices of the people" will result in a Democrat convention platform entirely tailored to the goals of the socialist Messiah.

Freepers, to the barricades! Every daily press release about or from Obama must be parsed and dissected. This man is satanically cunning, creatively Machiavellian, continually on the offensive and his slimy tentacles are extending everywhere.

We either suffocate or stay on our toes. Which will it be?

Leni

22 posted on 07/09/2008 6:43:55 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Stay Home or vote Barr for Obamination, more Taxation, Regulation, Litigation and Ginzburgization)
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To: MinuteGal

The Democrat/Socialist propaganda outlet (mainstream media) is going to run with this.


24 posted on 07/09/2008 7:17:50 AM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: MinuteGal
MinuteGal, I have been to meetings like this. One rule is that you can only ask “clarifying questions”, you can't challenge a basic premise at all.

The ones I have been to starts with a general meeting, they take some questions, then break up into groups and surprise! Each group has a facilitator, and likely radicals or malcontents seem to wind up in one group, where they can only influence each other.

After this, back to the big group for more “clarification”. It was at the second all-hands group that they pulled the 3x5 card trick, and each question was set up to make it look like agreement.

When the whole ordeal is over, they announce the “consensus opinions”, which for the left are foregone conclusions anyway.

Most participants can't see the whole process because they keep you busy, isolated, and nudged along.

At the end of the day, the organizers announce that consensus was reached, the group as a whole forged a new platform, policy, or whatever, and it was arrived at democratically.

Watch out, FReepers, for these techniques. If you know about them you can easily counter them mainly by questioning the process at the beginning, while the organizers will swoop on you for speaking out of turn and asking questions other than “clarifying questions”.

28 posted on 07/09/2008 6:16:57 PM PDT by DBrow
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