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Community organizer Saul Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is Zer0's and the Dems' playbook.
Posted on 10/10/2010 6:07:12 PM PDT by freespirited
High-profile liberals say President Obama's attempts to badger Democrats into voting will not work this November.
Jane Hamsher, founder of the blog FireDogLake.com, told The Hill in an email Friday that the strategy being employed by the White House as polls show a Republican landslide looming is the wrong way to go.
“Hectoring your supporters doesn't work, and it never has,” Hamsher said. “And anyone with as much campaign experience as Obama and [Vice President] Biden knows that, which is why you never saw them do it in their own races.”
Obama and Biden have in recent weeks repeatedly pressed the voters who propelled them into office in 2008 to get off the sidelines, with Biden going as far as to jokingly, but repeatedly, insult those voters at his rallies.
But members of the “professional left,” a term coined by Robert Gibbs in an interview with The Hill, said that Obama and Biden's admonitions to Democrats to “stop whining” will not turn the tide in favor of Democrats.
The professional left has been critical of Obama throughout his administration, accusing the president of moving to the middle and ceding on key issues near and dear to Democratic causes like the public health insurance option in the healthcare debate.
That steady drumbeat of criticism led Gibbs to vent his frustration to The Hill last August.
Obama has since acknowledged the frustration being voiced by liberal commentators on TV on a nightly basis, but he has challenged Democrats not to let that frustration keep them at home on Election Day.
“They say that there is an 'enthusiasm gap,' and that the same Republicans and the same policies that left our economy in a shambles and the middle class struggling year after year -- that those folks might all ride back into power,” Obama told a rally in Washington earlier this month. “That's the conventional wisdom in Washington.”
But Obama, in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, has also made clear that he is frustrated with Democrats’ criticisms that his administration has not done enough.
“It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election,” Obama said in the interview.
He added: “The idea that we've got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible. Everybody out there has to be thinking about what's at stake in this election.”
But liberals say it is too late for Obama to cajole voters into fighting for him when they say he has not done enough to fight for them and their ideals.
Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC), said that Obama has only himself to blame for disillusioned voters who provided the winning surge in 2008.
“The 20-year-old kid who voted for Barack Obama and then saw this White House cut backroom deals with special interests instead of truly fighting for big change like the public option doesn't need a public shaming,” Green said.
“He needs to see Democrats acknowledge that the Rahm Emanuel strategy of pre-emptively caving before a fight is a failure -- and that if he trusts Democrats with his vote again, he will be electing a fighting Democratic Party.”
You gotta be bonkers to think Da One has moved to the middle.
I just hope they keep it up. They aren’t known for their brains.
they know it wont work, it a CYA so the RAT that does survive can’t say they didn’t help. Guaranteed to be said over and over by the Obambitards.
Time for the communists to start arresting the opposition - it is the only way they stay in power.
Not every liberal is from the inner city and aren’t susceptible to the community organizing guilt game.
Those direct injections of Hopium are no longer effective.
"Obama's attempts to badger Democrats into voting"
Finegold is toast
"too late for Obama to cajole voters into fighting for him"
A losing LA strategery.
"Obama and Biden's admonitions to Democrats to “stop whining”"
Just lemmingly following the (dear) leader.
I’ve observed enough leftists, liberals, and useful idiots to feel comfortable with this generalization —
They believe that it is their place in the world to lecture, correct, and talk-down-to those (mostly us) they consider inferior — but when they find that they are being lectured, corrected, or talked-down-to, they get surly and sulky....
Keep it up, ZERO!!! ;)
I'll give him this, his base has nothing to complain that he has not done enough. He has done what they wanted. Government takeover of huge sections of the economy and National Health Care. They are obviously too dumb to see that.
I suspect what his base wants to see most is conservatives herded into detention camps. (Which is on the long term agenda/wish list.)
step 1 is to make sure our military can’t vote. I see WI (feingold) and NY have already decided they can’t mail out ballots to our enlisted.
The bullsh1t has already started, and folks are more concerned about their fantasy football.
Its going to get worse.
Does this guy think no one notices his group has just reversed the Cyrillic letters for the old Soviet Union?
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Community organizer Saul Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is Zer0's and the Dems' playbook.
And the day he looses it and uses the "F-bomb" in public, is the day he has to go, i.e. be asked to resign because you are cracking up in public sir.
It’s not an “enthusiasm gap.” It is a “love America gap.”
What experience, he has had his way paved?
Obama is in panic mode.
Probably so many resignations from his administration lately because some of them are afraid Obama will be handing out cyanide capsules for them to use down in the bunker.
What a perverted version of what’s happening.
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Obama is appealing to BLACK democrats ONLY.
They can save him with a record high turnout this election, like last.
The author and the ‘professional left’ aren’t too stupid to see that, they’re intentionally hiding it because it is so disgusting.
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