CREEPY! Obama's "Pledge Project" Operation Canvass!
What a brave new world Mr. Obama is bringing us.
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Update from David Plouffe
By Christopher Hass - Mar 13th, 2009
By Christopher Hass - Mar 13th, 2009
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From ‘Obama Over For America,’ which is yet another one of the administration’s endless campaign websites.
Davd Plouffe sent out an update today, reminding supporters to take a moment to sign their pledge of support for the three broad goals outlined in President Obama’s budget: health care reform, education reform, and investing in renewable energy. Meanwhile, grassroots activists across the country are already gearing up for the first Pledge Project Canvass.
[Here is the email:]
Davd Plouffe sent out an update today, reminding supporters to take a moment to sign their pledge of support for the three broad goals outlined in President Obama’s budget: health care reform, education reform, and investing in renewable energy. Meanwhile, grassroots activists across the country are already gearing up for the first Pledge Project Canvass.
[Here is the email:]
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The next few weeks will be some of the most important our movement for change has encountered yet.
Mitch wrote to you earlier this week about Organizing for America’s Pledge Project — an effort to identify and mobilize support across the country for the economic vision President Obama has outlined in his budget.
If you haven’t yet done so, pledge your support now and ask your friends, family, and neighbors to do the same.
The budget that passes Congress has the potential to take our country in a truly new direction — the kind of change we all worked so hard for. We didn’t fight to shy away from the tough long-term decisions Washington has ducked for far too long.
President Obama knows, as you do, that our future strength and prosperity depends on Washington finally taking the hard and smart steps in energy, health care, and education that will make sure America and its families are strong for decades to come.
And while his budget reflects those important values and priorities, the President also understands the government has to cut spending like so many families and businesses are being forced to do now. He invests where we need to and cuts where we must.
In the next few weeks we’ll be asking you to do some of the same things we asked of you during the campaign — talking directly to people in your communities about the President’s ideas for long-term prosperity. But first, start with your own pledge of support, and the support of your friends, family, and neighbors: Pledge your support now.
We know this fight won’t be easy. But important battles never are. Together, we have the opportunity to shape our country’s future. We believed in the power of people to win an improbable election victory. And we believe in the power of people to drown out the cynics and entrenched interests in Washington to bring lasting, meaningful change we can all be proud we played a role in.
Thanks,
David Plouffe
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Anyone who is a student of totalitarian regimes, especially Nazi Germany, should recognize this tactic. Mr. Obama has organized his own cadre of Brown Shirts (or, if you prefer, Red Shirts) to agitate for his agenda.
Mr. Alinsky would be proud. And rightly so. For this is simply the continuation of Mr. Obama’s perpetual campaign. A campaign, as we noted at the time, that was modeled on Saul Alinsky’s organizing principles.
Of course, Alinsky, had modeled his methods on the great communist and/or fascist agitators of the past. Hence, the unsettling resemblance to Soviet-style and Nazi Germany agit-prop.
What a brave new world Mr. Obama is bringing us.
And we thought it couldn’t happen here.
The next few weeks will be some of the most important our movement for change has encountered yet.
Mitch wrote to you earlier this week about Organizing for America’s Pledge Project — an effort to identify and mobilize support across the country for the economic vision President Obama has outlined in his budget.
If you haven’t yet done so, pledge your support now and ask your friends, family, and neighbors to do the same.
The budget that passes Congress has the potential to take our country in a truly new direction — the kind of change we all worked so hard for. We didn’t fight to shy away from the tough long-term decisions Washington has ducked for far too long.
President Obama knows, as you do, that our future strength and prosperity depends on Washington finally taking the hard and smart steps in energy, health care, and education that will make sure America and its families are strong for decades to come.
And while his budget reflects those important values and priorities, the President also understands the government has to cut spending like so many families and businesses are being forced to do now. He invests where we need to and cuts where we must.
In the next few weeks we’ll be asking you to do some of the same things we asked of you during the campaign — talking directly to people in your communities about the President’s ideas for long-term prosperity. But first, start with your own pledge of support, and the support of your friends, family, and neighbors: Pledge your support now.
We know this fight won’t be easy. But important battles never are. Together, we have the opportunity to shape our country’s future. We believed in the power of people to win an improbable election victory. And we believe in the power of people to drown out the cynics and entrenched interests in Washington to bring lasting, meaningful change we can all be proud we played a role in.
Thanks,
David Plouffe
...
Anyone who is a student of totalitarian regimes, especially Nazi Germany, should recognize this tactic. Mr. Obama has organized his own cadre of Brown Shirts (or, if you prefer, Red Shirts) to agitate for his agenda.
Mr. Alinsky would be proud. And rightly so. For this is simply the continuation of Mr. Obama’s perpetual campaign. A campaign, as we noted at the time, that was modeled on Saul Alinsky’s organizing principles.
Of course, Alinsky, had modeled his methods on the great communist and/or fascist agitators of the past. Hence, the unsettling resemblance to Soviet-style and Nazi Germany agit-prop.
What a brave new world Mr. Obama is bringing us.
And we thought it couldn’t happen here.
posted by jillosophy at 3/19/2009 04:52:00 PM
1 Comments:
While I've been an Obama "supporter" from the start, I do agree this step is a bit "creepy".
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