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The Knock on the Door
The American Thinker ^ | March 18, 2009 | Lona Manning

Posted on 03/17/2009 11:51:13 PM PDT by Scanian

A sitting President of the United States is "organizing a political organization loyal to him, bound by a pledge, outside the government and existing party apparatus. The historical precedents are ominous."

What is so ominous about an organization? Americans, Alexis de Tocqueville famously observed, "constantly form associations.... If it is proposed to inculcate some truth or to foster some feeling by the encouragement of a great example, they form a society."

Certainly, thousands of organizations seek to influence the political debate. There's Newt Gingrich's American Solutions or the left-wing People for the American Way, for instance.

Political parties are another example of an association, of course. Before, during and after political campaigns, the Democrats and Republicans promote their agendas. As legal entities, they have their own constitutions, their rules of business, their chairmen and officers. They have to be accountable to both the government and their members.

But there is a new organization on the political scene -- "Organizing for America," announced by President Barack Obama in late January but officially unfurled last weekend.

Obama describes OFA as a "grass-roots movement" but OFA is a "project" of the Democratic Party of America.

As Politico reported, OFA will take the 10 million person database built up by the Obama campaign "to mobilize support for the president's legislative agenda."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dnc; obama; obamunism; ofa; oshirts; socialistblitzkrieg; totalitarianism
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1 posted on 03/17/2009 11:51:13 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Scanian
"OFA will take the 10 million person database built up by the Obama campaign to mobilize support for el presidente's COMMUNIST agenda."

There, fixed it.

2 posted on 03/17/2009 11:54:29 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Scanian

“Did Mitch Stewart, youthful director of OFA, who asks Obama’s acolytes to organize “neighborhood by neighborhood” study anything at school about Mao’s “Red Guards?

How about Fidel Castro’s “widespread system of neighborhood informers”?

Or Hugo Chavez’s use of “neighborhood committees”?
Did Stewart learn anything about democracy at all?

Do any of Obama’s pledged servants understand why a sitting president has no business creating and deploying his own supporters to help organize their neighbors?”

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Little Red Books, anyone? Armbands? Dress daggers?


3 posted on 03/17/2009 11:58:13 PM PDT by sinanju
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Absolutely outrageous.
How is Obama getting away with all he has done/is doing to our country? Have Americans gone stark raving mad?


4 posted on 03/18/2009 12:00:49 AM PDT by patriot08
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To: Scanian
Did not we live (and almost perish) through scenes and organizations like the one above?

One of the many reasons I laughed at the leftists who called conservatives “NAZIs”. Laughed and reminded them that projectionism is a mental disorder they should seek help for.

The bad part is that the laughter was not from a humor perspective, but from the historical knowledge that what the left really is will destroy America and freedom. We are seeing this national socialist tyranny now, daily. This is not the left's stuipid, ignorant "Bush-Hitler" garbage, this is reality and I am watiching it unfold as I sit in Afghanistan fighting barbarians Obama now wants to negotiate with!

Obama’s little logo in the story also looks ominously familiar.

Leftists, for the love of all that is just and good, read my tagline and FIX yourselves before it is too late!!

5 posted on 03/18/2009 12:04:57 AM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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To: Scanian

It’s Unfortunate for Obama this isn’t Germany, Cuba, Russia, Nicaragua, China or Vietnam. Noone voted for any of this shit, and a good part of his voters are waking up.


6 posted on 03/18/2009 12:11:17 AM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: Scanian

Obama ‘Army’ Begins 2010 Budget Push http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-enlists-army-for-budget-push


7 posted on 03/18/2009 12:11:42 AM PDT by anglian
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To: patriot08
How is Obama getting away with all he has done/is doing to our country?

how will he not get away with it?

8 posted on 03/18/2009 12:21:34 AM PDT by GeronL (....and I won't let it happen again!)
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To: patriot08
How is Obama getting away with all he has done/is doing to our country?
Have Americans gone stark raving mad?

No, Americans haven't gone mad yet. The Congress and Senate are Obama' puppet masters.

The RAT's are using Obama as a shill, and enjoying every party he holds in the WhiteHouse (Laughing behind his back).
While at the same time, plotting for his destruction through their own agendas, and bills.


Obama is nothing but a useful idiot to the educated, lifetime RATs.

9 posted on 03/18/2009 12:25:10 AM PDT by MaxMax (RINO=RAT!)
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To: MaxMax

They should watch that their “monster” doesn’t turn the tables on them.

Lots of historical precedent for that too. Those young skulls full of mush may have more loyalty to him than to Pelosi and Reid, those dried-up old folks.


10 posted on 03/18/2009 12:31:57 AM PDT by coydog (Proud to have slept through the Obama coronation!)
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To: sinanju
Looking at the pictures taken by zombietime.com and protestwarrior.com of leftists “anti-war” protests, we should have seen this coming. They had the books on prominent display.

I am sure as soon as Obama declares war on Israel (or “peacekeeping”) that these same leftists, who erroneously call us “NAZIs”, will gleefully support him.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obamas-very-creepy-pledge-project

Here is the oath to Obama: "I support President Obama's bold approach for renewing America's economy. I will ask friends, family, and neighbors to pledge their support for this plan"

The form has a first/last name, email, and zipcode field. All data is required. The underwriting states that the signer's name will be used in a "powerful display of support for our agenda"

A notice in the comments section states that this Brownshirt group will have their first canvasing action on the 21st of March. I am sure that all who oppose Obama's minions will be noted and tracked. I am soo ready for this deployment to be done and get home to my family to help defend them.

11 posted on 03/18/2009 12:32:09 AM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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To: M1Tanker

My own theory is that far too many otherwise devoted liberals have skin in the capitalist game, in the form of their own jobs, investments, pension funds, etc., to follow their Pied Piper off the cliff. Even State/Municipal employees and public schoolteachers are starting to find out they’re not recession-proof either. I believe that when it sinks in that the Messiah really does mean to beggar all of us in his glorious Brave New World, 98% of otherwise true-believing Kool-Aid drinkers will suddenly feel the cold terror that we are already feeling when they contemplate their beloved coffee-shop/faculty lounge/student union vaporous theorizings taking brutal solid form that they won’t be able to pull him off his throne fast enough. Just think, for instance, what will happen when the various sacred cows of the welfare state realize that the money to support them just isn’t going to be there and can no longer be conjured? Smiling promises and reassuring sonorous speeches aside?

How many Democrat pols do you think are going to stand by their man when their limos start getting swarmed Rostenkowski-style (Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act, 1989)? That “Slobbering Love Affair” of Bernie Goldberg’s description is already starting to show a few cracks. Unless The One can promise to preserve THEIR jobs in the New Order, I can’t see the MSM sticking to him to the bitter end. Jimmy Carter was going to be their golden boy once upon a time, but they turned on him for a lot less.

If worst comes to worst, considering this latest gratuitous slap in the face from the Big “O” (i.e., charging wounded veterans for the cost of their treatment) do you think you and your comrades-in-arms will do a Tiannenmen and fire cannister at your fellow citizens when the Maximum Leader orders you to defend him and his regime? I smell burning Ceaucescu.

Mark my words, I’ll say it again, Barack Hussein Obama is going to go down as America’s Salvador Allende.

The only question is: just how much suffering is it going to take?


12 posted on 03/18/2009 1:18:36 AM PDT by sinanju
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13 posted on 03/18/2009 1:23:06 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Scanian

OFA = Obama ***** America


14 posted on 03/18/2009 1:34:43 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey, Obama! Where's my check?)
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To: M1Tanker
You better get back soon, our country is changing faster then you can possibly imagine by this Roman Senator who calls himself the New Caesar. For example look below, the Legio VI Ferrata has reformed in New Rome ! (Sixth Ironclad Roman Legion).

Yikes... Just trying to add some levity to a national situation going south fast. Appreciate the heavy lifting our troops our doing for us internationally, but we may need you back soon. A little less then 2,000 years ago the chants probably were, who cares about Britannia or Syria when the Barbarians are over running Rome ! Bring the Legions home !
15 posted on 03/18/2009 1:39:56 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape
Here are some progresso volunteers training for one of the Caesars new Legions.

16 posted on 03/18/2009 2:00:06 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: GeronL

The magic negro will be stopped. And if he is it will cause blood to flow in the streets.
Just my opinion.


17 posted on 03/18/2009 3:47:00 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Scanian

Heil to the chief!


18 posted on 03/18/2009 4:04:13 AM PDT by stefeb
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To: Scanian

First they came for the derivatives-traders,
And I didn’t complain because I wasn’t a derivatives-trader.

Then they came for the capitalists...


19 posted on 03/18/2009 5:06:35 AM PDT by Piranha
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To: Scanian; M1Tanker
“If worst comes to worst.....”

If I am reading right here, M1Tanker is a serving member of our armed forces, & should NOT answer this question.

Prying eyes!

20 posted on 03/18/2009 5:07:02 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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