Posted on 08/18/2009 12:31:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There's a certain irony here.
The 20th-century community organizer who used 21st-century tools for his people-powered White House campaign now finds himself besieged by citizens airing their grievances at 19th-century-inspired town-hall-style meetings.
Barack Obama's top legislative goal hangs in the balance and his popularity is suffering as critics co-opt his tech-savvy organizing methods, tag him as a boogeyman and disrupt local gatherings on his proposed health care overhaul.
Is the groundbreaking campaigner, whose White House political arm is aptly called Organizing for America, being outmaneuvered?
"That's a fair summary of where things are at the moment," said Sanford Horwitt, a biographer of Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing. "The other side has the anger and the intensity, and Obama's side doesn't."(continued)
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Rather a pity we can’t just make the case on reason (logos), but when forced we too can use ethos and pathos.
Logos: Government health care options will be less efficient.
Ethos: Government health care options will be less free.
Pathos: Less efficent and less free choice will lead to greater pain and suffering.
Political jiu jitsu..
But.... but....What will happen to the “O’Spamalot” he wants to create?
“O’Spamalot”:
One nation controlled by text-messages and spam mail uniting and controlling us all.
You always find the best, otherwise never-to-be-posted articles. Thanks for your efforts.
“tag him as a boogie man”?
Not quite what I call this punk ass socialist magic negroo.
I was atyesterday’s Congressman Carney, (D-PA 10th Dist)Town Hall metting. He styles himself as a blue dog, but got roundly booed when he tried to tell us mandatory end of life counseling was not in HR 3200. This area in Northeast PA is pretty conservative so the turn out and questions were very much like those at the Specter Town Halls - - mostly against HR 3200.
re: Hoist on his own petard
My Mom, who loved words and cliches, would have had a heyday with this!
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
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