tangent4ronpaul
03-16-2009, 06:11 AM
Obama is about to unleash his e-mail list to influence passage of legislation. 13 Million addresses. Representative democracy just got thrown out the window.
He wants his followers to flood congress with messages calling for the approval of his 3.5 Trillion budget (remember, he's already blown 4 Trillion), and this is "for a start"...
So, brainstorm please - how do we counter this? - any ideas?
Obama, DNC to unleash campaign pressing Congress to pass his budget
Washington Post
Last update: March 15, 2009 - 9:45 PM
WASHINGTON - President Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort today urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign apparatus he built during his successful 2008 candidacy for the first time since taking office.
The campaign, which will be run under the aegis of the Democratic National Committee, will rely heavily on the 13 million-strong e-mail list put together during the campaign and now under the control of Organizing for America (OFA), a group overseen by the DNC. Aides familiar with the plan said it is an unprecedented attempt to transfer the grass-roots energy built during the presidential campaign into an effort to sway Congress.
David Plouffe, who was Obama's campaign manager and is now an adviser to OFA, called this effort the "first major engagement" of the group in the legislative process and said in a statement that it will call on supporters "to help the president win the debate between those who marched in lockstep with the failed Bush economic policies and now have no new ideas versus the Obama agenda which will help us manage the short-term economic crisis and puts us on the path to long-term prosperity."
Plouffe, who passed up a formal role in the White House but remains a conduit to the army of Obama volunteers, sent an e-mail to the OFA mailing list over the weekend signaling the ramping up of the campaign for the president's budget. "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," he wrote.
That push begins today with an e-mail asking volunteers to go door to door Saturday to urge neighbors to sign a pledge in support of Obama's budget plan.
A new online tool, to be unveiled this week on the DNC/OFA website, will help constituents find their congressional representatives' contact information so they can call the offices to voice approval of the proposal. A midweek follow-up message to the mailing list will ask volunteers to call Capitol Hill -- the first time the OFA e-mail database has been used to urge direct contact with Congress in support of legislation.
"Members are going to be surrounded by this, and this is going to carry on for the next several weeks on this budget fight," said one source familiar with the strategy.
Several people closely involved in this campaign's planning made it clear that they believe this is the moment Democrats have been waiting for since Obama's election -- the deployment of the volunteer army that helped catapult a freshman senator to the presidency.
few of the comments:
Let the droids out
the Obama droids... No real, original thought, just do as the Messiah commands. No thinking allowed. Thinking makes you realize he is tripling the so called "Bush debt"... in office less than two months and he is doing more damage to our future than any other president, thanks to the brain dead voters who believe in his words, not his actions.
Obama
Is in way over his head.
The Deployment of the Obama Civilian Army Should Scare Normal People
Obama Youth Movement/ Hitler Youth Movement. ''He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!'' Adolf Hitler. -- O-bam-UH! O-bam-UH! O-bam-UH! O-bam-UH! If any of his Brown Shirts show up at my door step, they will get a big surprise.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/41294827.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_ Yyc:aUU
-t
He wants his followers to flood congress with messages calling for the approval of his 3.5 Trillion budget (remember, he's already blown 4 Trillion), and this is "for a start"...
So, brainstorm please - how do we counter this? - any ideas?
Obama, DNC to unleash campaign pressing Congress to pass his budget
Washington Post
Last update: March 15, 2009 - 9:45 PM
WASHINGTON - President Obama will kick off an all-out grass-roots effort today urging Congress to pass his $3.55 trillion budget, activating the extensive campaign apparatus he built during his successful 2008 candidacy for the first time since taking office.
The campaign, which will be run under the aegis of the Democratic National Committee, will rely heavily on the 13 million-strong e-mail list put together during the campaign and now under the control of Organizing for America (OFA), a group overseen by the DNC. Aides familiar with the plan said it is an unprecedented attempt to transfer the grass-roots energy built during the presidential campaign into an effort to sway Congress.
David Plouffe, who was Obama's campaign manager and is now an adviser to OFA, called this effort the "first major engagement" of the group in the legislative process and said in a statement that it will call on supporters "to help the president win the debate between those who marched in lockstep with the failed Bush economic policies and now have no new ideas versus the Obama agenda which will help us manage the short-term economic crisis and puts us on the path to long-term prosperity."
Plouffe, who passed up a formal role in the White House but remains a conduit to the army of Obama volunteers, sent an e-mail to the OFA mailing list over the weekend signaling the ramping up of the campaign for the president's budget. "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," he wrote.
That push begins today with an e-mail asking volunteers to go door to door Saturday to urge neighbors to sign a pledge in support of Obama's budget plan.
A new online tool, to be unveiled this week on the DNC/OFA website, will help constituents find their congressional representatives' contact information so they can call the offices to voice approval of the proposal. A midweek follow-up message to the mailing list will ask volunteers to call Capitol Hill -- the first time the OFA e-mail database has been used to urge direct contact with Congress in support of legislation.
"Members are going to be surrounded by this, and this is going to carry on for the next several weeks on this budget fight," said one source familiar with the strategy.
Several people closely involved in this campaign's planning made it clear that they believe this is the moment Democrats have been waiting for since Obama's election -- the deployment of the volunteer army that helped catapult a freshman senator to the presidency.
few of the comments:
Let the droids out
the Obama droids... No real, original thought, just do as the Messiah commands. No thinking allowed. Thinking makes you realize he is tripling the so called "Bush debt"... in office less than two months and he is doing more damage to our future than any other president, thanks to the brain dead voters who believe in his words, not his actions.
Obama
Is in way over his head.
The Deployment of the Obama Civilian Army Should Scare Normal People
Obama Youth Movement/ Hitler Youth Movement. ''He alone, who owns the youth, gains the Future!'' Adolf Hitler. -- O-bam-UH! O-bam-UH! O-bam-UH! O-bam-UH! If any of his Brown Shirts show up at my door step, they will get a big surprise.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/41294827.html?elr=KArks:DCiUHc3E7_V_nDaycUiD3aPc:_ Yyc:aUU
-t