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Video: Organizing for America’s training program (Invasion of the Obamazombies)
hotair.com ^ | March 23, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 03/23/2009 10:05:44 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

I’ve been mulling over this latest entry from Naked Emperor News since yesterday afternoon, when I first saw it. On one hand, organizing for political change is perfectly fine, and I suppose training videos to make organizing more successful make sense. On the other hand, organizing a door-to-door campaign to support a political leader already elected to office seems to tip over into that cult-of-personality territory, to which Organizing for America seems oblivious:

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: noiwont; obama

1 posted on 03/23/2009 10:05:44 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Read the comments following the Hotair blog and someone posted a link to the Birmingham News with a report on the signup activities.

Found this quote disturbing:

Those who gathered at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham were urged to enlist others who share Obama's vision and to stay away from trying to convert naysayers.

"We're looking for supporters," said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the event's organizers. "We're not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army."

Link to article:

http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/news/1237709752152800.xml&coll=2

Sorry - I am html-challenged.

2 posted on 03/23/2009 11:01:04 AM PDT by 3catsanadog (I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How can “grassroots” be “grassroots” when its funding comes from taxpayers?

Isn’t that called a government employee?


3 posted on 03/23/2009 11:38:43 AM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: 3catsanadog
http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/news/1237709752152800.xml&coll=2
4 posted on 03/23/2009 11:44:38 AM PDT by lowbridge (It's not that liberals are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so - Ronald Reagan)
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