Posted by
Gabrielle Cusumano on Friday, March 20, 2009 10:45:29 AM
"Un-American is a term of US political discourse which is sometimes applied to
people or institutions in the United States in an attempt to deny the targets the identity of American.
It implies a substantial deviation from US norms and may extend to internal subversion, espionage or treason." Wikipedia
Looking at all the actions of the President and Congress in the last three months, "ALL" should be declared "mentally incompeted".
The budget deficit is overnight corrected to be $2.6 TRILLION*. Americans are angry and getting angrier. We can't trust them to act in good faith on our behalf. Either they get kicked out under the LAW or the alternative is a "French Revolution" carnage! It will be you and your families against THEM **!!!
Posted by jgrantswankjr at 9:00 AM on 3/20/2009 and (They have taken a pledge of loyalty to Obama. Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee)
Reasons for Impeachments to Begin
U.S. law-making is riddled with slapdash, incompetence and gamesmanship
Terence Corcoran: Is this the end of America?
When America Is Not America Anymore
And Recent Articles In The American Thinker Gives Some Of The Reasons
March 20, 2009
They have taken a pledge of loyalty to Obama, and they say they are coming tomorrow for yours. Organizing for America, the Obama-for-President campaign morphed into
Obama-for-Maximum-Leader army, will hit the streets for their "
Pledge Project Canvass," knocking on doors and accosting folks in parking lots and sidewalks to ask them to sign a pledge to support Obama's policies for health care, energy and education reform.
Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee, is variously described in the media as [President Obama's] "own version of a lobbying firm", "a parallel organization to the Democratic National Committee" and "an independent force to lobby for Obama's goals" (Houston Chronicle); "an independent group" (Dayton Daily News); Obama's "citizen army," and a way of building public opinion" (The Bergen County Record); "a grass-roots lobbying group," (Roll Call), "Obama 2.0" (Newark Star-Ledger), "a joint partnership," (DNC press release), and as a "political bully," (AP).
According to Mitch Stewart, Director of OFA, the organization will be "getting out in front of Washington and asking our elected officials to lead the charge on energy, education and health care this year."
So one might suppose that all the names and emails collected this weekend will be sent to our lawmakers in Washington in the form of a petition. Except that David Plouffe, Obama's former campaign director and an "advisor" to OFA, has emphatically stated that they will do no such thing.
Plouffe "stressed that Organizing for America is not aimed at twisting the arms of members of Congress but meant to keep activists engaged on issues such as health care, energy and the economy."
Syndicated columnist Dick Polman
reported on January 29 that:
"Mr. Obama's aides emphasized that the effort was not created to lobby directly or pressure members of Congress to support Mr. Obama's programs... ‘This is not a political campaign,'' Mr. Plouffe said. ''This is not a 'call or e-mail your member of Congress' organization.''"
Whoops! Looks like Plouffe is out of the loop on that one. The OFA website prominently
asks people to call Congress and helps them look up their representative's name and number. It even provides a script.
Now, it is confusing to see the Democratic National Committee asking for help to persuade the Democrat-led Congress and the Democrat-led Senate.
But according to OFA Director Stewart, ordinary folks like you are needed to combat "a Washington establishment that doesn't welcome change.... It's up to you to show Washington that Americans are demanding this new direction."
Okay, so who in Washington, exactly? Is the DNC going to give the names and emails to lobbyists? To Washington bureaucrats? That's doubtful. The
sign-up sheet to be used for the pledge drive does not mention
any privacy policy.
It does reveal (at the very bottom) that OFA is a project of the DNC. This might come as a surprise to dedicated Obama supporter Janine Poppa, who
told the
Dayton Daily News, "It is a nonpartisan effort, and I hope people believe it's nonpartisan, because we truly do need each other to move it forward."
Poor Ms. Poppa might be disillusioned to learn that the Florida Democratic State machine unabashedly bragged to the St. Petersburg Times that they were "preparing to tap into Barack Obama's grass roots machine to build the biggest political operation ever seen from the state party."
"The million-dollar question is how to translate the activism and enthusiasm that Barack Obama was able to create and translate it down the line,'' said Steve Schale, a Democratic consultant who managed Obama's Florida campaign. "That's the challenge, but fundamentally the state is better for Democrats than ever before because of what Barack Obama was able to do. It's still up to candidates to have compelling messages and drive up enthusiasm."
at March 20, 2009 - 10:36:36 AM EDT