Posted on 11/22/2008 11:39:23 AM PST by mgist
How will President Obama deploy his Internet army?
| WASHINGTON —
Campaign manager David Plouffe, in a mass e-mail sent Wednesday to former workers, asked how much time they can spare for four missions integral to Obama's effort to transform his victory into a broader political movement.
The volunteers' options are, Plouffe wrote: Campaign for progressive state and local candidates Undertake grassroots local efforts to advance Obama's agenda
Train others in Obama's organizing techniques
Focus on local political issues.
"Obama's building a political machine," said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution, a center-left Washington research group.
"These people have just opened up a new world for politics," added Hess, the author of "What Do We Do Now?: A Workbook for the President-Elect."
Pre-Internet presidents, he said, lacked the ability to communicate in real time with masses of their volunteers. In addition, the social networks such as MySpace and Facebook that link Obama's army together didn't exist.
The net effect was that pre-Obama political machines grew out of local politics and remained rooted there. Statewide or presidential candidates relied largely on local leaders' support.
Not so Obama, who, at least for now, has the allegiance of thousands of volunteers in most if not all congressional districts.
"Your hard work built this movement," Plouffe wrote them. "Now it's up to you to decide how we move forward."
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The Permanent Campaign
Call to arms for the Brownshirts! Keep your powder dry!
Wow - talk about organized crime!
e) Mount DOS attacks on conservative websites that mention the birth certificate issue.
IMO, the zeal for Obama is already wearing off. A couple of Obamaniacs I know have already crashed from their high, because all the problems were not all gone away on Nov. 5th.
This isn’t America anymore. These little SOB’s have nothing BUT time to do all of BO’s dirty work. Most stay in their parents’ basements. Unemployed, unwashed, unshaven.
“The volunteers’ options are, Plouffe wrote:
- Undertake grassroots local efforts to advance Obama’s agenda.
- Train others in Obama’s organizing techniques.”
These are quite scary.
Bwhahaha!! Oh boy we’re really punishing those RINO’s now. Surely the repubs in office will take this as a sign to move further right...
Interesting but for the first time in 6 weeks I’ve not gotten an email from the Obama campaign for 3 or 4 days? Perhaps it’s because when I do get one (almost always asking for donations) I’ve been responding with this: “My check will be in the mail just as soon as Obama has cleaned up the ACORN voter registration fraud issue. I’m sure he’s as concerned as I am about these serious abuses creating an unprecedented threat to our voting rights.”
His followers are probably way too lazy to keep this up. They’ll be back to bitching on forums and collecting unemployment in no time.
They're in for a nasty shock when Mommy and Daddy get foreclosed on because of the Depression.
THE RE-EDUCATION PROCESS HAS BEGUN
I don't know but the Pentagon was under a huge cyber attack yeaterday.
(As I put on my tinfoil beanie.
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The Communist takeover of America. Once a strong and proud country.
Soon to be “home of the slaves, the land of the free lunch.”
Note to good conservative patriotic hackers: Get to work! This is a two way field.
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