So what next the Obama Thought police?

WaveCameCrashin

Just who is paying for this? and furthermore are we suppose to report co-workers,friends,and family members?
:roll: what a joke...


http://news.yahoo.com/obama-campaign-la ... -news.html


The Obama campaign is today beginning a new effort to enlist and educate at least 2 million supporters for a "grassroots communications team" they're calling the Truth Team.
"The goal is to ensure that when Republicans attack President Obama's record, grassroots supporters can take ownership of the campaign and share the facts with the undecided voters in their lives," the campaign said in a statement.
The teams will be first launched in 13 "swing states," including Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.
The rollout also includes a social media blitz, directing supporters to three new websites:  KeepingHisWord.com, which highlights Obama's record and "promises kept";  KeepingGOPHonest.com, which highlights GOP policy positions; and  AttackWatch.com, which fact-checks claims made against Obama on the campaign trail.
"If the other guys are going to run a campaign based on misrepresenting the president's record - and their own - we have two options: sit back and let these lies go unchallenged, or fight back with the truth," deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said in an email. "We're fighting back."
So far, the "other guys" mentioned on the three websites are almost exclusively limited to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. There is one mention of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and one mention of the pro-Republican super PAC Americans for Prosperity.
Obama organized a similar grassroots effort in 2008 - Fight the Smears - that involved more than 1 million supporters, campaign aides said.
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SweetChildofMine

Obama supporters online pass the new just like any other type of activism lately. What is the difference? Who cares?



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Prince Of Dorkness

how dare those godless democrats actually try to spread the facts about what that commie socialist fascist Kenyan guy did in the white house?

I mean... just two years ago we were all up in that Tea Party Grassroots® movement funded by a couple billionaires and a TV network and we had the whole country believing that he was on welfare and junk.

and on the INTERNET which was invented by that hippie stoner Al Gore, too!!

wait, what?

SweetChildofMine

This made me so angry... I just bought coffee for all people protesting the GOP today on the corner.

lukin2006

Any of theses threads...the democrats are better than the republicans or vice versa make me laugh. I wouldn't waste mt time voting...there both the same...imo.

Go Beavers

I guess the grammar police aren't watching you.

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Oh my God! They want to tell the TRUTH!?!? :shock: How unAmerican!! Fucking communists. :x

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Also....

WaveCameCrashin wrote:

Just who is paying for this? and furthermore are we suppose to report co-workers,friends,and family members?

What the hell are you talking about?? :?

SweetChildofMine

lukin2006 wrote:

Any of theses threads...the democrats are better than the republicans or vice versa make me laugh. I wouldn't waste mt time voting...there both the same...imo.

You still have to work within them at this point in time and some of us from 3rd parties have joined with the main stream to shift middle of the roaders or party thinking . As if you see what are some of the arguments are about.

lukin2006

SweetChildofMine wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

Any of theses threads...the democrats are better than the republicans or vice versa make me laugh. I wouldn't waste mt time voting...there both the same...imo.

You still have to work within them at this point in time and some of us from 3rd parties have joined with the main stream to shift middle of the roaders or party thinking . As if you see what are some of the arguments are about.

We got 5 parties currently sitting in our house of commons...it doesn't matter to me how many parties are available to choose from until it can figured out how to get them to work for everyone...not just 1 group or the other.

Step 1 ban lobbying completely...

go from there....

petejm043

lukin2006 wrote:

SweetChildofMine wrote:

lukin2006 wrote:

Any of theses threads...the democrats are better than the republicans or vice versa make me laugh. I wouldn't waste mt time voting...there both the same...imo.

You still have to work within them at this point in time and some of us from 3rd parties have joined with the main stream to shift middle of the roaders or party thinking . As if you see what are some of the arguments are about.

We got 5 parties currently sitting in our house of commons...it doesn't matter to me how many parties are available to choose from until it can figured out how to get them to work for everyone...not just 1 group or the other.

Step 1 ban lobbying completely...

go from there....

Indeed lobbying needs to end.

petejm043

George Washington in his farewell letter stated the following:

"The unity of government...is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence...of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize."

Today the government is torn. Corporations and special interests rule DC.

Washington also warned us about the party system stating "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

He also went on to write and warn us about credit, foreign alliances and an over powerful military. Check out what he said about those topics.

On stable public credit. "...cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt....it is essential that you...bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not...inconvenient and unpleasant..."

Warns against permanent foreign alliances. "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world..."

On an over-powerful military establishment. "...avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty."

It seems to me that everything that Washington wrote about we have completely ignored and will continue to ignore no matter who we vote for. What Washington wrote about over 200 years ago applies even more to todays America than the one he lived in.

lukin2006

petejm043 wrote:

George Washington in his farewell letter stated the following:

"The unity of government...is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence...of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize."

Today the government is torn. Corporations and special interests rule DC.

Washington also warned us about the party system stating "It serves to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration....agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one....against another....it opens the door to foreign influence and corruption...thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."

He also went on to write and warn us about credit, foreign alliances and an over powerful military. Check out what he said about those topics.

On stable public credit. "...cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible...avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt....it is essential that you...bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not...inconvenient and unpleasant..."

Warns against permanent foreign alliances. "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world..."

On an over-powerful military establishment. "...avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty."

It seems to me that everything that Washington wrote about we have completely ignored and will continue to ignore no matter who we vote for. What Washington wrote about over 200 years ago applies even more to todays America than the one he lived in.

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Couldn't agree more...it now seems politicians are far too selfish...

brianlux

Some very funny replies here! I'm in stitches POD, SweetChild and unnamed

But seriously... this all seems like normal campaign work to me. I'm glad Obama's doing it. Like many others, I've felt let down by him in some ways but, well, we've certainly had worse (!) and who want's to hear those tired old smears all over again- you know, the Marxist, Kenyan, Soc... I can't do it...

SweetChildofMine

How dare we try to stop the nasty smear campaign at every turn!

Honestly?

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I was sent a picture yesterday of a tea party rally outside our state GAB... like two people ...vs a million plus signatures sitting inside ready to appeal puppet self interest politicians and bad legislation. Thats the real story.

Pondering if anyone would get in AET in my "top 5" if I put Russ Feingold?

SweetChildofMine

I agree all this money and lobbying has to go. It is not doing any service for anyone except those who are lobbying. Essentially is only supporting people with money and perpetually keeping those with money in power which is the reverse train of thought to any true democracy.




I found it important and interesting that the President set up @ whitehouse.gov a place to petition him and send your ideas. Great idea in theory if the people actually wanted to participate but we have a bunch of mindwashed zombies on our hands....