Tories hire Obama campaign chief Jim Messina

BBC ^ | August 3, 2013 | Allegra Stratton

[Gorilla44]

The Conservative Party has hired Barack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina for its general election campaign team, BBC Newsnight has learned.

Sources confirmed that he would act as a campaign strategy adviser to the Conservative party.

A lifelong Democrat, Mr Messina masterminded the US president's successful 2012 re-election campaign.

The political parties in Westminster are readying themselves for the general election, now under two years away.

[Gorilla44]

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict a record turnout in the 2015 general election.

[Viennacon]

Yeah, a record turnout of dead people.

A communist helping communists. Nothing strange here. I hope the tories go down in flames.

[Gorilla44]

Can't get this nagging feeling out of the back of my head that his "hiring" is really a payback for giving team Obama backdoor access to data. Project Tempora: How the British GCHQ Helps the NSA Spy on US Citizens (clip) So what were the NSA doing in Bude? Well, what else could they be doing but gathering data on US citizens? As we have constantly been reassured, the NSA is only allowed to spy on US citizens if it obtains a warrant from the FISA court first, but according to Alex Abdo, staff attorney at the ACLU’s National Security Project, these restrictions almost certainly don’t apply to data collected in foreign countries.

[Hardraade]

There’s this newish cyber warfare group I’ve wangled my way into. I’ll have my work cut out trying to correct these peeps thinking - they feel the Internet must be much more heavily regulated and licensed. Trying to show them the error of their ways, but some of them smell profit already.

And that’s what’s coming. Internet totalitarianism up the wazoo.

[JohnBovenmyer]

record UKIP turnout for certain

[Moltke]

The reasoning must be that if he got one turd reelected, he can get another turd reelected.