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Obama's Liberal Shock Troops (Important read)
WSJ ^ | July 12, 2008

Posted on 07/12/2008 7:07:58 AM PDT by nuconvert

Obama's Liberal Shock Troops

By JOHN FUND

July 12, 2008

While he is a skilled candidate, Barack Obama's ability to surprise, stun and sweep over the vaunted Clinton Machine to capture the Democratic nomination was rooted in his background as a community organizer. He's now turning those skills to the general election.

But liberals aren't just on the march on the presidential level. This year, liberal activists are spending parts of the fortunes of their wealthy donors to transform politics at the state and local level.

In 2005, billionaire investor George Soros convened a group of 70 super-rich liberal donors in Phoenix to evaluate why their efforts to defeat President Bush had failed. One conclusion was that they needed to step up their long-term efforts to dominate key battleground states. The donors formed a group called Democracy Alliance to make grants in four areas: media, ideas, leadership and civic engagement. Since then, Democracy Alliance partners have donated over $100 million to key progressive organizations.

Take Colorado, which has voted Republican for president in nine of the last 10 presidential elections. But in 2006, Colorado elected a Democratic governor and legislature for the first time in over 30 years. Denver will be the site for the party's 2008 presidential convention. Polls show Barack Obama would carry the state today. This hasn't happened by chance. The Democracy Alliance poured money into Colorado to make it a proving ground for how progressives can take over a state.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 2008; acorn; bho; billionaires; co2008; colorado; communists; corruption; democracyalliance; democrats; democratscheat; donors; electionpresident; fundingtheleft; fundraising; johnfund; leftists; liberals; mi2008; obama; soros; stealingelections; stuffingtheballotbox; wakeup
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1 posted on 07/12/2008 7:14:14 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert

What has Obama ever run? Nothing. He has not even run a Boy Scout troop. And the Obamunists want him to run the country?!? That’s like hiring a stripper to do brain surgery.


2 posted on 07/12/2008 7:20:46 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: advance_copy

Part of the problem is that the GOP hasnt really helped their cause lately.
McCain is the lesser of two evils, the GOP should have picked a stronger person.


3 posted on 07/12/2008 7:22:51 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (RIGHT: Wots all this then?)
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To: nuconvert
A taxpayer voting for Obama or any Democrat/Liberal is like a chicken voting for Colonel Saunders.
4 posted on 07/12/2008 7:24:38 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: nuconvert

To Hell in a handbasket we go.


5 posted on 07/12/2008 7:30:04 AM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: nuconvert

The bottom line: big government benefits the marxists. And our success as a nation is being used to create a bloated government on all levels.

Which is why the GOP’s strategy to move toward the left and support big government is a mistake. Conservatives are being shut out by both parties, and our nation is suffering because of it.


6 posted on 07/12/2008 7:30:11 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: nuconvert
billionaire investor George Soros convened a group of 70 super-rich liberal donors in Phoenix

CLEAR and PRESANT DANGER ALERT!

7 posted on 07/12/2008 7:30:50 AM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: nuconvert
Next step in the plan:

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." -Barack Obama July 2, 2008

8 posted on 07/12/2008 7:32:47 AM PDT by Popman (McCain as POTUS is odious, Obama as POTUS is unthinkable.)
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To: advance_copy

And at least with a stripper, I’d get a LITTLE satisfaction.

With the Obamessiah. . . .it’s going to be pain, pain, pain: the death by a thousand cuts. . .


9 posted on 07/12/2008 7:35:24 AM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: Popman
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." -Barack Obama July 2, 2008

So, this means that the government is going to buy each of us a gun?

/sarc

10 posted on 07/12/2008 7:38:08 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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Everyone needs to take another long hard look at Obama. There was a story yesterday (Fri. 7/11/08) in the AMERICAN FREE PRESS about three members of Obama’s church, Trinity United Church, who were murdered, the last in Nov. 07. Another man, a good friend of Obama, a Larry Sinclair, told the story. Another friend of Obama, Lawrence Lessig, also has the story out. Look it up and read it...Do we really need this guy runnig the country, Obama, who has such questionable friends??


11 posted on 07/12/2008 7:38:21 AM PDT by cousair
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To: advance_copy

I’d rather have a stripper do brain surgery on me, than have Obummer as Pres.


12 posted on 07/12/2008 7:43:11 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: nuconvert

Obama.....out Alinski’d Hillary


13 posted on 07/12/2008 7:49:07 AM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: nuconvert

“The Democracy Alliance poured money into Colorado to make it a proving ground for how progressives can take over a state.”

“progressives” ?


14 posted on 07/12/2008 7:53:11 AM PDT by Western Phil
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To: advance_copy
With the first line of the article being "While he is a skilled candidate" I had to suppress the gag reflex. I see no evidence justifying that statement.
15 posted on 07/12/2008 7:54:23 AM PDT by WHBates
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To: Western Phil

They support the progress of the socialist state, ergo “Progressives”.


16 posted on 07/12/2008 7:58:23 AM PDT by Don W (To write with a broken pencil is pointless.)
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To: advance_copy

He ran the Dhimmitude booth at his junior high’s annual festival.


17 posted on 07/12/2008 8:05:21 AM PDT by ClaudiusI
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To: nuconvert

This is the biggest crock of Horse Scoot I’ve read in a long time. John Fund no less!

So, allegedly in three years time the Democrats with Super Hero George Soros as backing and cheerleader have turned Colorado into a Democrat enclave. BS.

Liberals started taking over Colorado at least twenty years ago if not longer. Liberals=Democrats. Primarily Entertainment moguls began buying up property, and building their mansions years ago. Liberals begit Liberals like disease spreads, and Voila Colorado today. Same thing happened in California, and spread to Oregon etc.

Their claim to the successful Liberal domination of Colorado as result of their efforts as “Democracy Alliance” is blowing smoke up their own rear ends. It’s BS.

Years ago a friend of mine, now passed on set a World Flight Record with a buddy of his. After 64 days of flying their single engined aircraft, setting a World Record unbroken to this day, upon landing they were approached by a producer of engine oil product to claim they used it during their historic flight. They refused to do so, but that isn’t my point.

For Democracy Alliance to claim success of the Liberalization of Colorado is similar to that oil product producer attempting to ride the fame of my friends flight record when in fact they had nothing to do with it period.


18 posted on 07/12/2008 8:07:29 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Popman
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we have set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." -Barack Obama July 2, 2008

This is a very good recipe for all-out civil war.

19 posted on 07/12/2008 8:08:43 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: nuconvert
Software businessman Tim Gill, homosexual activist based in Colorado.
20 posted on 07/12/2008 8:17:07 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Alaska has the oil. The Senate has the dipsticks.)
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