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Is Obama Awakening His Base?
Mother Jones ^ | 3/9/09 | David Corn

Posted on 03/09/2009 5:33:43 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun

Weeks ago, I obsessed on a political point: would President Barack Obama mobilize his millions of voters to apply political pressure on Washington to pass his policy initiatives. At that time, the stimulus package was the top item on his agenda, and the White House was not doing much to activate the Obama millions to boost support for the legislation in Congress. As the stimulus fight proceeded, Organizing for America, the spin-off of the Obama presidential campaign, did zap out an email to its list of 13 million and asked those supporters to hold house parties to discuss the recovery package. But discussing something is not quite the same as fighting for it.

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To: anniegetyourgun
The cost of Obama’s social and energy policies, the tax hikes, his cavalier attitude toward Wall Street and the U.S. economy, and his rhetorical stoking of class warfare should begin alienating the affluent liberal class—big advocates for “change” until it affects their material comfort. These monied “progressives” may discover too late that when the mob is at your gate they won't ask who you voted for but how much you will pay them not to ransack your house before burning it down.
21 posted on 03/09/2009 6:07:48 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: anniegetyourgun

This is what Biden was calling for when he said that Obama would be tested


22 posted on 03/09/2009 6:09:23 PM PDT by aynrandfreak (Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
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To: anniegetyourgun

After the 1st 100 days, I question whether he or the other RATS even have a large base anymore.


23 posted on 03/09/2009 6:16:11 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: potlatch

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Government cheese is not Wagya steak!

Lots of Hussein II’s voters are now collecting unemployment and on food stamps.

- CHANGE -

They got it!


24 posted on 03/09/2009 6:18:40 PM PDT by devolve (-- When Hussein II goes to the john - It is a "summit" --)
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To: DJ MacWoW
The Feds raised cigarette taxes

Yep, the Obama tobacco tax starts April Fools Day. Something to point out to the poor people addicted to nicotine.

25 posted on 03/09/2009 6:19:53 PM PDT by Need4Truth
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To: devolve

Whoops, they removed my post! Guess the next time the guys post a bikini babe I’ll have to push abuse!


26 posted on 03/09/2009 6:23:42 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: potlatch

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I’m calling the FBI!


27 posted on 03/09/2009 6:28:03 PM PDT by devolve (-- When Hussein II goes to the john - It is a "summit" --)
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To: devolve

Combine racial politics, illegals, vote fraud, and wealth transfers and Baraq is scary close to a permanent majority I’m afraid.


28 posted on 03/09/2009 6:30:59 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: devolve

LOL, yeah, it’s a serious issue!
I can recall when it happened to you.......snicker


29 posted on 03/09/2009 6:31:38 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: anniegetyourgun

David Corn is an idiot, IMO!


30 posted on 03/09/2009 6:33:45 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama has turned a crisis into a catastrophe.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

Wait until these idots who voted for him feel the painnnnnn, because they will feel the pain. At this time he will not be the first black president but the half white president. Spike Lee’s comment that if you have one drop of black blood in your viens that makes you black will not hold true. PREPARE TO RUN THESE GUYS OUT OF TOWN BFORE IT’S TO LATE!


31 posted on 03/09/2009 6:41:15 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Government is the problem!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

You cant wake up zombies. They are mindless, they have no will of their own, they . . . Here let me let someone you all know and love, Bob Hope explain it better than I can..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWpU8sX10_4

True in 1940 - - and much more so today...


32 posted on 03/09/2009 6:46:30 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Need4Truth
Yup. And that's only the start.

Thomas Jefferson warned about taxing our meat in our drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labors and in our amusements and that the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering... And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in it's train wretchedness and oppression

33 posted on 03/09/2009 6:51:32 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: cayuga
We are looking at a nasty uphill fight.

8 posted on Monday, March 09, 2009 8:42:54 PM by cayuga

You got that right! Actually, we are a fight for our lives. If we want to win we have to fight to win.

34 posted on 03/09/2009 6:53:48 PM PDT by sport
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To: devolve

2,700 of them that worked for Gulfstream in Savannah , GA voted themselves right out of a job. Actually all2,700 of them probably did not vote for obama but a good porporation of them probably did.


35 posted on 03/09/2009 6:58:17 PM PDT by sport
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To: Patrick1
I wouldn't lie awake nights worrying about the "Obama millions." They think they have done their part, now it is up to wonder-boy to spoon-feed them. Besides, "Dancing with the Stars" is on.

Only a "community organizer" could believe he can rub raw the resentments of the privileged class...dumb shitz.

36 posted on 03/09/2009 6:59:04 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His supporters will never be next to me. I despise them more than I despise obama.


37 posted on 03/09/2009 7:00:46 PM PDT by sport
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To: Patrick1

How do you awaken something that spends most of its time in a coma ? You could reanimate it i suppose ?


38 posted on 03/09/2009 7:05:11 PM PDT by dbrew2u
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To: sport
If we want to win we have to fight to win.

The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.--Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher

That pretty much sums it up.

39 posted on 03/09/2009 7:06:22 PM PDT by cayuga (Not all morons voted for 0bama, but all 0bama voters are morons.)
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To: Patrick1
Only way to get these Obama voters fired up would be a massive bailout for them to pay their cable bill and get dad out of jail. FREE DRUGS!
40 posted on 03/09/2009 7:06:54 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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