Posted on 01/17/2009 10:45:01 PM PST by FocusNexus
The network, Organizing for America, will be a tool to press for policy. It reportedly will have an annual budget of $75 million, making it an unprecedented standing political army for a president.
Telling millions of campaign supporters that "what you built can't stop now," President-elect Barack Obama today took his first public steps toward transforming his massive grass-roots political machinery into an unprecedented national network to help pass his policy agenda.
Obama is calling the new network Organizing for America, and while he described it as a tool to press for policies such as fixing the healthcare system, ending the Iraq war and finding new energy sources, he also said the effort would be housed in a distinctly partisan place: the Democratic National Committee.
That means the organization, as it grows, will be well positioned to form the structure of his reelection campaign in four years while also bolstering campaigns of Obama-friendly Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections and putting pressure on those in his party who do not agree with him.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Obama Announces "Organizing for America"
"As President, I will need the help of all Americans to meet the challenges that lie ahead," Obama said ....
The new group will work within the Democratic National Committee -- led by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine -- to advance the Obama agenda.
It's clear that Obama recognizes the power that his email list, which boasts more than 13 million names, represents in American politics and is working to ensure it stays within the control of a small group who are charged with protecting the Obama brand.
We’re gonna be in for a very rough ride.
Commie propaganda.
Liberal Fascism at work.
WTF?
Its already started the e-mail data mining spams.
He won’t get away with it. It won’t be long before the Dems get pissed at him.
Someone has to counter this. There HAS to be an opposing organization to this, to fight against everything they stand for.
And WE are paying for this - why???
My friend, that’s what WE are for...
Can you say Hitler Redux!
a FOURTH - and PRIVATE arm of government.
And so it begins. Fasten your seat belts - and put in your gardens.
How can he legally use our tax money for this?
(Mayhap this is why he is so adament in keeping his blackberry - which is a dangerous security breach...he needs to be able to by-pass the normal channels and get directly to his politburo)
Hopefully we’ve got at least a few insiders on his mailing list so we stay in the know.
barry’s a puppet! However, barry’s puppet masters have studied hitler’s brown shirts’ history well and are attempting to recreate it in of all places America. Good luck to barry and his masters, they will need it against the militias that are forming as we speak.
They'll probably be getting paid top dollar.
“There HAS to be an opposing organization to this”
Well, there WAS the Republican Party, but they seem to have gone out of business, or retired, or something. So actually, no, there is none.
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