An Inside Look at Obama’s Organizing for America

hotair.com ^ | 2/1/2010 | Anita MonCrief

[mojitojoe]

Blogger and activist Carol Greenberg approached me recently with an exclusive look at her work investigating Organizing for America. I was impressed with Carol’s investigative reporting initiative and realized that America needed to see the “Obama Machine” in action. I began working with her on unraveling the truth behind OFA.

Obama’s “permanent campaign” Organizing for America has managed to skirt campaign finance laws while continually providing the unprecedented “opportunity to help the president.” Countless emails fill boxes across America with the sender name President Barack Obama. Organizing for America has kept a high profile and played a key role in the healthcare debate. Obama’s managed to turn his extraordinary campaign model into a post-election campaign/organizing website where OFA honed their method of using the internet to reach progressives to push through his increasingly unpopular agenda.

During Barack Obama’s campaign he used a similar tool and website called “Obama for America.” Utilizing the skills he learned at ACORN as a community organizer, Obama was able to acquire the “highest office in the land”. In an election night quote from November of 2008, Obama addresses a crowd who voted for “Hope” and “Change.”

[mojitojoe]

Here’s some more info on what they do:

One of the many ways that the election of Barack Obama as president has echoed that of John F. Kennedy is his use of a new medium that will forever change politics. For Mr. Kennedy, it was television. For Mr. Obama, it is the Internet.

“Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be president. Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not have been the nominee,” said Arianna Huffington, editor in chief of The Huffington Post.

Mr. Obama used the Internet to organize his supporters in a way that would have in the past required an army of volunteers and paid organizers on the ground, Mr. Trippi said.

“The tools changed between 2004 and 2008. Barack Obama won every single caucus state that matters, and he did it because of those tools, because he was able to move thousands of people to organize.”

Mr. Obama’s campaign took advantage of YouTube for free advertising. Mr. Trippi argued that those videos were more effective than television ads because viewers chose to watch them or received them from a friend instead of having their television shows interrupted.

“The campaign’s official stuff they created for YouTube was watched for 14.5 million hours,” Mr. Trippi said. “To buy 14.5 million hours on broadcast TV is $47 million.”

There has also been a sea change in fact-checking, with citizens using the Internet to find past speeches that prove a politician wrong and then using the Web to alert their fellow citizens.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/us/politics/04memo.html

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/world_wide_webbed_12862

http://www.tapmag.net/wordpress/2008/10/08/politics-2-0-how-the-obama-campaign-won-the-internet/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2308332/posts?page=9#9

[mojitojoe]

Thanks for posting that. I went to look for it one day and was unable to find it. I guess I deleted it. Freaky, isn’t it?

[mojitojoe]

They’re gearing up again. They didn’t get this far, only to lose control in November. The race is on.

[onyx]

Yep, and the Marxist has already gone “racial” and he did it again on May 5 at the WH while celebrating Mexican beer day. The war is *on*.

[STARWISE]

Their planning and scheming has NEVER stopped;
they’re relentless .. which is why Rove et al
are going to attempt to duplicate the activist,
grass roots.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sacramento FReepers Alert!
SPREAD THE WORD FOR ANTI-PINKOS!

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CODEPINK Activists to Protest Karl Rove Appearance

When Karl Rove comes to Sacramento to promote his new book Monday, May 10, Sacramento area activists, including CODEPINK, will be ready with an outside protest demanding accountability and justice for the lies Rove told the American people during his time with the Bush Administration.

WHEN: Monday, May 10, 2010 2:30PM
WHERE: Book signing, Borders Book Store,
2339 Fair Oaks Blvd, Sacramento

http://newsblaze.com/story/20100508055843zzzz.nb/topstory.html

[onyx]

I hope Karl Rove has plenty of security this time.

[STARWISE]

He better !!

[Liz]

Ohaha has already socked away huge slush funds:

(a) 80% of the trillion dollar stim is unspent and under his control......that he is hoarding to finance endangered Dems.

(b) June 9, 2009 Obama announced, "Several financial institutions are set to pay back $68B to taxpayers." Taxpayers assumed that would be returned to the general funds from whence it had come .......in order to pay down the debt. The truth, however, is that the money returned is finding new life as what amounts to a Treasury Dept-controlled slush fund....to finance candidates.

NOTE COS Rahm Emanuel also controls Treasury activites. Emanuel---the one behind Ohaha's win and the Dem takeover of Congress---has a lot riding on the 2010-12 elections. I would also conjecture that ex-Wall Streeter Emanuel was behind the $$$Billion Dow glitch last week that was traced to Chicago.

(c) The first four years of ObamaCare is to amass $$billions. Healthcare does not kick in til 2014. (Another gimmick pushes much of the legislation’s costs off the federal budget and onto the private sector by requiring individuals and employers to purchase health insurance....or pay a hefty fine or go to jail. Only illegals are exempt from this provision.

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Obama's early ties and connections: A picture is worth a thousand words.

Candidate Obama at fund-raiser April 9, 2007.
George Soros is seated to the right of the stairs. (Photo: Michael Edwards)

[Cyber Liberty]

One of the big players in OFA is Joan Axelrod Lehrich, the sister of David Axelrod. She is a self-employed learning disabilities consultant.

Should I be surprised that a big-wig at OFA is in charge of short-buses?

[onyx]

You betcha it’s worth a thousand words! Look who’s sitting there in the blue shirt.... George $Soros$!!!!!

[JimRed]

OFA? i’ll bet they pronounce it O-FAY!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Hiding by the stairwell.....how fitting ;-)

[Nachum]

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