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Democrats fear Obama group will siphon money from them
mcclatchydc.com ^ | April 1, 2013 | Anita Kumar

Posted on 04/02/2013 6:30:02 AM PDT by grundle

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s decision to launch his own political organization has some Democrats wondering: Is he just in it for himself?

Obama’s new group, Organizing for Action, will focus on his policy agenda – not on electing Democratic candidates – by raising unlimited amounts of cash and accessing the president’s secret list of 20 million supporters, volunteers and donors.

The operation won’t share money, resources or the priceless Obama email list with the Democratic National Committee or campaign committees that help elect members of Congress, governors and legislators. And it has no plans to coordinate efforts, leading some Democrats to worry that it will take money and manpower away from the party as it heads into the 2014 elections for control of Congress.

“There’s only so much money to go around in Democratic circles. There’s a limited pool of resources,” said Gilda Cobb Hunter, a South Carolina legislator and a member of the Democratic National Committee. “Why can’t we strengthen one entity?”

Several DNC members said in interviews that they weren’t told about Organizing for Action’s formation until it was publicly announced in January. They said that when they’d complained, they were chastised and told by national and state party leaders not to speak publicly. Most spoke to McClatchy only on the condition of anonymity in order to talk candidly about the internal party dispute.

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1 posted on 04/02/2013 6:30:02 AM PDT by grundle
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it’s what’s for dinner


2 posted on 04/02/2013 6:30:35 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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B. Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, is arrogant, does not care about Americans, and needs more supervision.


3 posted on 04/02/2013 6:32:04 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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. . . has some Democrats wondering: Is he just in it for himself?

So, what more will it take for them to figure this out?

4 posted on 04/02/2013 6:33:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: grundle
President Barack Obama’s decision to launch his own political organization has some Democrats wondering: Is he just in it for himself?

Is that a trick question?

5 posted on 04/02/2013 6:33:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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Ah, even the libbies are beginning to see the cracks in the veneer. He IS all about himself; he’ll toss anyone under the bus who is not about HIM; he doesn’t care a fig about the country, the libs, others, the citizens, anyone - he is just about HIM. Duh. Time to grow a spine, you go-alongs.


6 posted on 04/02/2013 6:35:02 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: grundle
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s decision to launch his own political organization has some Democrats wondering: Is he just in it for himself?

What? You thought he was in it for you, you nitwit?


7 posted on 04/02/2013 6:35:32 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: Graewoulf

“...and needs more supervision....”

Like the kind that’s provided for in Leavenworth?


8 posted on 04/02/2013 6:37:03 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)
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To: grundle

Get a throwaway email account and sign up. Maybe do this three times. Inflate that 20 million email list to 30 million. Once a week reply to all their emails, using your junk account. Sort of like ACORN filling voter registration lists with chaff.


9 posted on 04/02/2013 6:38:48 AM PDT by DBrow
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So, what more will it take for them to figure this out?”

...they never will. They’re rule followers. And this action by zero is now “a rule”. They’re zombies. They can’t and don’t want to think for themselves.


10 posted on 04/02/2013 6:39:33 AM PDT by albie (s)
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Obama and his Chicago mob no longer need the democrats. He is a dictator and he does not need the House or the Senate.

We The People can already see what is coming.


11 posted on 04/02/2013 6:40:08 AM PDT by dforest (I have now entered the Twilight Zone.)
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Stupid D’Rats-—they just figuring out now that big O is all about himself? Slow of mind ay?


12 posted on 04/02/2013 6:44:13 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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13 posted on 04/02/2013 6:46:33 AM PDT by Bratch
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Durr!


14 posted on 04/02/2013 6:49:48 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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Why aren't the democrats asking why he needs a political action group in the first place? Maybe some don't know he wants to run again; for a third term. I'm sure that is why he is targeting conservative states. He wants to overturn the 2 term rule for president and he needs more votes to do that.

It amazes me the complacency of people both on the left and the right. So many are assuming life will always stay as it is. They are like teenagers who think they will never die and times will never change. I'm sure people thought Stalin, Po Pot, Hitler, Mussolini......were just making changes for the good of their country. If they wanted to take away peoples guns, let them. There is too much killling anyway. The US could never elect an evil and corrupt dictator wannabe.

15 posted on 04/02/2013 7:03:46 AM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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A NAZI Beer Hall Putsch? Nothing would surprise me with this bunch.


16 posted on 04/02/2013 7:04:34 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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Democrats fear Obama group will siphon money from them

Join the club, buddy. Join the club.

17 posted on 04/02/2013 7:05:45 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Choose one: the yellow and black flag of the Tea Party or the white flag of the Republican Party.)
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To: grundle

Organizing for Action,what type of action?.


18 posted on 04/02/2013 7:16:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: dforest

Yup-it’s the shadow government within a government that “O” is steering in his own direction.

The traditional US political system and the whole illusion of self-government we are permitted is just a facade.


19 posted on 04/02/2013 7:19:58 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: grundle

Because of American movies, Europeans tend to see Americans as either “cowboys” or “gangsters”. They actually have a point there. The Republicans, or at least the conservative Republicans, tend to have “cowboy” values; whereas the Democrats are controlled by big-city machine, mob, and union gangster-types.

The trouble with the gangster mode of government, however, is that in a mafia, everything is done entirely for “the big boss”. All money flows to him, and he parcels it out to his lieutenants and cronies outside the organization to maintain loyalty. And that is the entire, two fold purpose of the Mafia, or the Mafia-government.

To keep and expand power and control, and to reward their friends and punish their enemies. They believe nothing more than that.

Importantly, Obama has realized that he is in a lame duck second term, so he truly does not care about the Democrat party any more, he only cares about getting his agenda forced on everyone. After he leaves office, America can be a smoking crater, for all he cares, as long as he got what he wanted.

So his efforts right now are not to get Democrats elected, but to get *only* Democrats who will mindlessly obey him elected. Harry Reid and his senate has proven able to stalemate the Republicans in congress, so Obama’s only electoral interest is in a critical few senate seats.

The Democrat congressmen are on their own.


20 posted on 04/02/2013 7:34:00 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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