OFA: The Organizing of America

Other than the obvious initials "OFA" and a now-familiar circular logo, what do Obama for America 2008, Organizing for America (2009), Obama for America 2012, and now Organizing for Action all share -- and why should we care?

The Democratic National Committee is likely paying very close attention. Back in 2009, a "highly placed Democrat" took note. According to Esquire's Lisa Taddeo, in her comprehensive article on David Plouffe and his creation of Organizing for America, that unnamed Democrat declared:

"Architect" Karl Rove may have maintained the blueprint of the Bush campaign, but according to Taddeo: David Plouffe, Obama's 2008 campaign manager, has a list.

That contact list -- thirteen-million-Obama-supporters-long at the time -- made Plouffe the master of a "many million-mouthed dog." And, wrote Taddeo, Obama "has instructed him to make that list a new lever of government."

The "fulsome pulsing beast" 2009 version of OFA was to be unleashed by Plouffe, according to Taddeo, whenever Obama had a policy initiative he wanted to push, a message he needed to disseminate, or a gaffe he wanted to bat down.

As summed up in Esquire: "In the new DNC -- in Organizing for America -- you will work full-time for the DNC and Obama's goals, or you will not work for them at all."(continued)

I am heartily sick of this SOB ... all the mental and social misfits who sponsored him AND all the miscreants he drags around behind him.

He whines about the ‘cuts’ which are forced on his administration yet knows NOTHING about working for a living.

Here I am... I've been handed (over the last year and a half) the work of a retired co worker, along with my OWN work... there has been and will be NO mention of additional compensation for this added effort and responsibility. Now we hear talk of furloughs for many of us here.

My brother has been working his job for the last three years at a 50% reduction in pay.

Of course, we're happy to BE employed but when “O” and his half wit friends call Conservatives the greedy rich, it's really too much coming from such an ill-educated and inexperienced clown with an ax to grind against ALL working America!

WE have obviously retrenched and continue to function with a much reduced income... AND we have to listen to this moron in the WH whine about this 2% ‘cut’ in spending...AS IF it will even matter given the abjectly irresponsible way tax increases and spending will continue AS USUAL! WE have learned to live with less, why can't the government?

“Other than the obvious initials “OFA” and a now-familiar circular logo, what do Obama for America 2008, Organizing for America (2009), Obama for America 2012, and now Organizing for Action all share”

they are all pronounced “OFAY”, of course!

The lessons of the 20s and 30s in pre-WW2 Germany are lost.. again.

History is a wicked taskmaster.. especially for those who show up for class or elections and votes cast that don’t matter anyway..

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