Posted on 01/17/2009 1:51:17 PM PST by FocusNexus
He added, "And yet while our problems may be new, what is required to overcome them is not. What is required is the same perseverance and idealism that our founders displayed.
"What is required is a new declaration of independence, not just in our nation, but in our own lives -- from ideology and small thinking, prejudice and bigotry -- an appeal not to our easy instincts but to our 'better angels,' " he said, using a phrase from President Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address in 1861.
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Is this for real?
I don’t think anything can shock me anymore...
Nothing wrong with the old one....
Independance from oppressive government.
So I’ll stick with that one, sorry BO.
CHANGE you can surely believe in - the REMAKING OF AMERIKA.
A psychiatrist would have a field day with this egomaniac.
“He wants people to “declare independence from prejudice and bigotry””
sounds like standard marxist “cross-the-line” stuff
Willing to bet one can find Bill Ayers writings that are similar to this.
N0bambi:
ES&D2
“a new declaration of independence”??????? I don’t think so. Nothing wrong with the one we have if he would just follow it.
Monday, January 19th, is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Dr. King taught us to live a life of service, and he led by example. He once said:
"If you want to be important -- wonderful. If you want to be recognized -- wonderful. If you want to be great -- wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness."
Barack and I will be volunteering in Washington, D.C., our new home. I hope you'll join us by taking part in this national call to service in your community:
It will take ordinary citizens working together with a common purpose to get this country back on track. This national day of service is an important first step in our continuing commitment.
Now is the time to remind all Americans what ordinary people can accomplish when we stand together.
Thank you,
Michelle Obama
I find it interesting that Michelle, who is "volunteering" in Washington, is clearly in charge of the organizing effort.
Has anyone asked, "what are the Obama's organizing for?"
Has anyone asked, "how long have they been organizing?"
The Obama's have been organizing and training a political cadre since 1993 in their nonprofit group, "Public Allies," modeled after Alinsky's "people’s organizations,"
"People's Organizations" were to be composed largely of discontented individuals who believed that society was replete with injustices that prevented them from being able to live satisfying lives (). Such organizations, Alinsky advised, ought not be imported from the outside into a community, but rather should be staffed by locals who, with some guidance from trained radical organizers, could set their own agendas.
Right now, there are fifteen fully-staffed and populated community chapters, operating under the watchful eye of Michelle Obama, and they've got a ton of money -- more than $75 million -- and an impressive list of donors. Naturally, they also receive grants from federal, state and municipal sources. Their mission is to produce "community organizers." Their process is repeatable -- continually producing more community organizers.
During the campaign, Obama also ran, at the state level, a "national program for social change," called "Camp Obama." Here is their sign-up page -- you too can be a "Deputy Field Organizer."
The Obama campaign's website promised 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? The Obama's keep using that word.
The Movement is populated by thousands of apparatchiks and growing. They answer to Obama -- in the "community." These are people who are perceived of as leaders.
These "organizers" have constituencies that can be mobilized, at the touch of a button, into political actions to influence public opinion and the political process -- real visual stuff that Obama's friends in the media will have on 24/7.
In addition to these shock troops, Obama has an army of 13 million-plus in his political database that Obama is actively expanding. This pool of Internet-savvy people can be used to promote or attack any issue. Obama can get tons of emotional emails, phone calls and letters on any target.
Remember, in September, when Chicago radio station WGN-AM twice came under attack from the Obama Campaign for offering airtime to a controversial author. As the result of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters, the Tribune-owned station was flooded with phone calls and e-mails about an hour before an Aug. 27 interview with Stanley Kurtz, a conservative writer who examined Obama’s ties to former 1960's radical William Ayers.
The phone calls effectively shut the station down.
And, 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."
What color shirts will they wear?
“Nothing wrong with the old one....
Independance from oppressive government.
So I’ll stick with that one, sorry BO.”
AMEN!!!
Combine that with the bill introduced in the House to remove limits from a person serving as president, and voila! US becomes another 3rd world poor african country ruled by a despot.
See House Bill Introduced to Repeal Constitutional Limit on Terms Obama can Serve..
WeaselZippers ^ | 1/16/09
Posted on Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:59:32 PM by Sammy67
It can’t be real! It can’t! It can’t! It can’t! Please tell me it’s not true.
This guy thinks he’s George Washington and Abraham Lincoln rolled into one. You gotta love it.
When exactly did it become accepted that ideology is a bad thing, and on what basis?
This has to be a joke right, haha very funny, Obama wants to change the Declaration of Independence, if he does this I mind as well leave the country
It won’t pass.. It would take at least 2/3 of Congress to pass and 3/4 of the states to pass..
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