Obama summons his army: “This is the moment our movement was built for.”
Hey, no top-down direction here in President Obama’s latest mass e-mailing to his minions. Only thing missing is advice on how to dress like “real” grass-roots activists and instructions on how to snitch on friends and neighbors saying “fishy” things about socialized medicine. Astroturf powers, unite!
from President Barack Obama info@barackobama.com
reply-to info@barackobama.com
date Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM
subject This is the moment
mailed-by bounce.bluestatedigital.com
This is the moment our movement was built for.
For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you.
Home is where we’re strongest. We didn’t win last year’s election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most. And if you’re willing to step up once again, that’s exactly where we’re going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves.
There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we’ve got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight.
That’s why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you’re counting on them to act.
But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here’s what I need from you:
Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?
In politics, there’s a rule that says when you ask people to get involved, always tell them it’ll be easy. Well, let’s be honest here: Passing comprehensive health insurance reform will not be easy. Every President since Harry Truman has talked about it, and the most powerful and experienced lobbyists in Washington stand in the way.
But every day we don’t act, Americans watch their premiums rise three times faster than wages, small businesses and families are pushed towards bankruptcy, and 14,000 people lose their coverage entirely. The cost of inaction is simply too much for the people of this nation to bear.
So yes, fixing this crisis will not be easy. Our opponents will attack us every day for daring to try. It will require time, and hard work, and there will be days when we don’t know if we have anything more to give. But there comes a moment when we all have to choose between doing what’s easy, and doing what’s right.
This is one of those times. And moments like this are what this movement was built for. So, are you ready?
Please commit now to taking at least one action in your community this month to build support for health insurance reform:
http://my.barackobama.com/CommitAugust
Let’s seize this moment and win this historic victory for our economy, our health and our families.
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
***
And from Philip Klein at the American Spectator: Leftist Bloggers Who Get Marching Orders from Obama Attack Protesters as “Astroturf.”
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Obama was in Elkhart Indiana today
From the IndyStar…
“A couple hundred people lined the road leading into the plant, most of them supporting Obama and calling for health care reforms but a significant number there to voice their displeasure not only with what they see as a government take-over of health care but also the president’s handling of the economy.”
Also note the pictures at the link showing the healthcare “supporters” and then read the caption:
“Kim Gooden of South Bend rallies health care reform protesters from the Service Employees International Union as they await the arrival of President Barack Obama in Elkhart. – SAM RICHE / The Star”
Let one of them knock on my door.
Definitely an organized mob…
WHAT ABOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS, Mr. President? Will your Auntie be covered under this socialist program?
http://www.AntiObamaSticker.com
Again, I just need an answer as to why Congress won’t participate in this great program.
Not until that question gets an adequate answer, can have a meaningful discussion on health care.
This part I agree with.
Never mind that the last thing Obama and his cabal of idealogues wanted was for the fight for the bill to ever reach the very people it would affect the most. The gall of this man is breathtaking.
Oh, HELL yeah. Count on it!!!
Remember former infantrymen, there is no such thing as a bad day in the field.
So lets go to the place we love and ROCK!
They won’t participate in ObamaCare anymore than they will SS or Medicare.
These programs are designed for the masses, not the politically elite.
Programs such as these are beneath them.
As long as they have the power to do so, they will always vote themselves provisions for the best of everything.
OT somewhat, but thought this was triple snort worthy.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/obama_solves_other_problems_ov.html
How the Hell does a president who is paid to represent all the people of the USA, get away with something like this?
Gibbs and Boxer want to claim manufactured outrage? Can they point to a email like this from some well-funded group? Isn’t it interesting that they both stayed on script, talking about how we dress? Guess they missed the guy in the Pig suit at the Overland Park protest!
BTW, where the hell is my check? I had to drive 35 miles each way to the Tea Party Protests I went to – where was the bus and when do I get paid? Did we earn extra for that one protest where is was 20 degrees outside?
Just look for the unkempt minions. They should be easy to spot.
Wizard of Oz: You, my friend, are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate impression that just because you run away you have no courage; you’re confusing courage with wisdom.
He’s energizing his “brown shirts” and it will be obvious who they are. Get ready for the confrontations and yield nothing.
Hey Barry, this is for you or one of your minions to read and ask you. You let the cat half out of the back with the”This is the moment our movement was built for.”
Now what movement would that be Barry? Got a name for it?
Me, this movement of yours can Defined with two words,(Bowel Movement).
We should forward this email to flag@whitehouse.gov since it seems fishy to me.
That e-mail should be forwarded to the Snitch Brigade so they can look into a powerful organization leading a mass dis-information campaign.
We need to sign up and then go to their events. Why not?
Just strengthens my resolve.
This President’s policies must fail!
Sounds like a call to open war to me, doesn’t it?
Let the Revolution begin!
But they’ll never think that you have nothing more for them to take!
Ha! That reminds me of when I worked at a hospital many years ago. There was a reminder sign at the nurses’ station that said “Did you mark your BM’s today?”
If they commit to one event, we’ll commit to five.
EXACTLY RIGHT.
Get on their mailing list and when there is an event, infiltrate it with your local tea party.
Protest respectfully and bring your cameras to ensure you have proof that you’re not an unruly mob.
Soon, they will do their damndest to stop our communicating.
Rogue Cheddar said:
If I took the Nurses tack and did score this BM clown show in Washington, I would keep Staples in business for a year lol
Uh,yeah, that’s 14K jobs lost every day, thx to obama big gov spending.
Because obama spent all the money on his ‘friends’ (seiu, acorn, unions, ets) and there isn’t any $$$ left for JOBS and SMALL BUSINESSES.
Obama is the thief here.
Why is our president allowed to do this?
This is really dangerous…like every thing else he has done. We pay our congresscritters major dollars to speak FOR us. Why is no one stopping this dictator? And, actually, is there any doubt anymore that this is exactly what he IS?
Seize the moment = seize total control over every American and force them to do what Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Rahmbo want.
That’s true, that is how you won. Unfortunately for you many of those people have now wised up to the fact that you flat out lied about what you are and what you want in order to get elected.
Hopefully they didn’t wise up too late.
This is hillarious simply because everytime my husband has a, well, you know, he says “I gotta do a Barack.”
Yeah, hope and change sucks dillweed.
I guess when his “Army” tries the above approach, it won’t be long until they revert back to name calling and shout downs. To paraphrase Jack Nicholson, “[They] can’t handle the truth”.
Another crisis he doesn’t want to waste. Our premiums on health insurance will have risen 1000% by Christmas.
Errah, The only thing we have to fear is our next tax bill.
Did you tell him, “Don’t forget to wipe your Pelosi!”?
organized community activists vs unruly mobs. easy to spot the difference. do you work for the gubmint union? do you get your funding from democrat community action grants? do you have a job? versus do you pay taxes.
This is the kind of crap you can expect from a two-bit, low-life thug lawyer who is determined to undermind the establishment.
Bubba Alinsky, President of the United Socialist States of North America.
Is it just me, or has every day been a test of patience since January 20th?
Way To Go Obama!
Crush all of these bigots – crush everything they love.
God Bless that man.
Yes, by all means – BRING IT!
What’s up with the lag-time in approving the comments?
Did Michelle hire some censors?
FIFY.
Or do you have to have the comment approved if it has a URL written in HTML?
Ilovemycountry:
I see a proud member of the BM Brigade has arrived. Are you being Mr. Hinky again?
Now, ILMC, you must be typing that tongue-in-cheek. I have come to the conclusion that you’re appearances here are meant solely to stoke others, without really believing your own words. You can’t possibly be that obtuse.
Can you?
Words have meanings. One must know how to interpret Obama linguistics. For example;
Er, um, the “every American” means anyone living in North, Central, or South America who manages to make it inside the borders of the United States.
Um, it is time for us (the true intelligencia) to get our fair share of the pie. For too long now, the “old money” has reaped profits from their investments. No more! We deserve to be paid, because WE are the best and the brightest! But we need you, the perenially victimized to help us achieve our new wealth.
This is our techniques, and now they are using them against us. Don’t fall for it! It is only truth when WE say it!
You
idiotsum, I mean, fellow Americans just have to believe me…I’m the One. I am transparent! I have nothing to gain from NOT telling you how it is. (I am already the most powerful man in the universe, and I cannot allow anyone to see me in a bad light…it is too painful. Yes, those people…they’re hurting YOUR president! SIC ‘EM!)….would I lie?Which country do you love? Cuba, France, Venezuela perhaps?
I can hardly wait for impassioned logical arguments from the nut root mobs for government health care. What are they going to say?
- Charge me more taxes?
- Take control of the rest of my life?
- Bankrupt the country for my kids?
- Kill me when I start having health problems?
On August 5th, 2009 at 1:02 pm, englishqueen01 said:
“Of course you know, this means war.” {Bugs Bunny, 1948}
http://theconservatives.com/blog/2009/aug/05/study-contrast/
Contrast, indeed.
The difference between CALLING someone a fascist…
and BEING a fascist.
Her country no longer exists. Germany, circa 1939.
Ministry of Truth says the healthcare protesters are radical white wingers and/or paid by insurance companies. It is doubleplus-bellyfeel goodthinkful to repeat this, or you will become an unperson.
Kindle users lost, and can no longer get, the reference.
“This is the moment our movement was built for.”
You don’t have to read any further!!! That says it all and what he plans to do to this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
I can see those words being used a nearly a century ago…Adolph Hitler to his Brownshirts the day of Kristallnacht…
“This is the Moment our Movement was Built for…”
Here’s a simple, straightforward question for you: under what circumstances is one allowed to disagree with Obama and not be considered a bigot?
Followup question: if disagreeing with a non-white person prima facea evidence of bigotry then what have you to say about all the people who have jeered Clarence Thomas and Coni Rice over the years?
Finally, and I know this isn’t an original thought, I have to point out that right wingers tend to revere and exercise our rights under the Second Amendment. Left wingers tend to waive and abridge those rights. So if you truly want to crush “everything we love”, well, good luck with that.
You are soooo right!
That’s the spirit!
So when someone asks if you got your marching orders from some well funded political action group, you can honestly say, ‘Yes, Barack Obama amd Organizing America’
Be prepared to physically defend yourselves from here on out.
The want war, and I think we should give it to them, overwhelmingly, and without mercy.
Can you commit to join at least
onetwo event(s) in your community this month?We must double our own efforts.
That can’t be true. He fixed the economy remember???
Perpetual campaign mode. They can’t govern, so they campaign. This is a good sign.
ROTFLMAO! Misscheryl, please give your husband a big hug and a kiss from me.
As someone said yesterday……START ALINSKY-ING THEM BACK!
1) Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have (Alinsky 1972: 127). In the book he says that if one has mass support, one should flaunt it, if one does not one should make a lot of noise, if one cannot make a big noise, make a big stink. Mark Thomas uses this technique frequently. When complaining about the tube privatization he formed a band of famous names and asked them to perform on the tube singing protest songs about it.
2) Never go outside the experience of your people (Alinsky 1972: 127). Mark Thomas makes extensive use of such techniques as getting the public to ring up their elected representatives or have mass letter writing campaigns. He will also put familiar mechanisms to other uses. When complaining about the use of organophosphates he put up yellow appeals for witness signs to draw attention to the public. When investigating Crown immunity to murder, when a person was run over by an army Landrover he put up tiredness kills signs all over the front of the army base.
3) Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy (Alinsky 1972: 127). Mark Thomas would continually try and dumbfound people. When complaining about the building of a dam that was to displace 15,000 people in Turkey he built an ice sculpture of a dam in front on the headquarters of the company building it.
4) Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules (Alinsky 1972: 128). This is one of Mark Thomas’s favorite tactics. He found out that people who inherited expensive paintings could avoid inheritance tax by allowing the public to have access to the painting. He got the public to ring up numerous people who had done this and request to see the paintings. When they refused, or refused everyone he managed to get the law changed.
5) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon (Alinsky 1972: 128). Mark Thomas was complaining about the exporting of guns to Iran, where the government had claimed that they did not know the pipes were going to be used for that purpose because they had been put down as something else for export terms, despite the fact that they could not have been used for that purpose. He protested by painting a tank pink, put a plastic ice-cream cone on the top of it and tried to export it as an ice cream van.
6) A good tactic is one that your people enjoy (Alinsky 1972: 128). When some pensioners had arranged to have, what could easily have been a boring meeting with a health minister, he got them to ask questions in the form of a dance routine. He also get a group of people to protest against GM crops by wearing radioactive protection gear and running around with Geiger counters.
7) A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag (Alinsky 1972: 128). Mark Thomas confesses to using a series of ‘stunts’, to make his points. He tends to use a lot of small actions, as illustrated about, rather than a prolonged action. This approach leads into the eighth rule.
9) The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself (Alinsky 1972: 129). When Saul Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation. Again, when challenging the avoidance of inheritance tax, Mark threatened to have more and more people requesting to see the paintings if a change did not happen.
10) The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition (Alinsky 1972: 129). Such pressure is necessary, Saul Alinsky argued, in order to get reaction from the opposition. He argued that ‘the action is in the reaction’ (op. cit.).
11) If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside (Alinsky 1972: 129). Essentially, this is to not give up and be afraid to concentrate on the negative aspects. In many cases Mark’s pushing of the negative aspects led to changes, such as a change in the law for the paintings, Nestle reconsidering their production of milk and Channel Four producing a website for posting up MEP’s interests (which is compulsory in other countries). He also succeeded in getting some serious questions asked about corporate killing in Parliament.
12) The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative (Alinsky 1972: 130). This is the other side of the previous rule. If one does push the other party through to changing one has to offer some kind of solution. This would be one of my criticisms of Mark Thomas; he rarely offers solutions to the issues that he raises. It probably highlights the difference between an entertainer and a community organizer. It would also be one of Saul Alinsky’s main criticisms and goes back to the distinction he made between a real and a rhetorical radical. He had little time for some on the ultra left who knew what they were protesting against, but had little idea what they were fighting for. It is noticeable that Mark Thomas does achieve concrete things, when he has concrete demands.
13) Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it (Alinsky 1972: 130). This is perhaps Saul Alinsky’s most controversial rule and is the counter to the common idea that we should not make things personal. When pursuing the changes in the inheritance law for paintings he targets one individual. He will often find out who the CEO is in a company and hound that person. In the organophosphates debate it is one scientist that he targets and the validity of his findings.
off topic but the UK is placing video cams in 20K homes..
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115736/Sin-bins-for-worst-families
I shall do it Wayfaring.
Cornyn ask “O” to take down snitch program website!
http://tinyurl.com/l4ekc6
Unfortunately for the young, idealistic Obamunists the only places they will be canvassing will be their own liberal enclaves in places like Greenwich Village, San Francisco, Hyde Park, college towns etc… Most other places either despise this plan or are crime infested hell holes they wouldn’t dare set foot in. They will be preaching to the choir and manage to convince themselves that everybody in America wants ObamaCare.
I just wrote flag@whitehouse.gov and copy and pasted Obama’s email as something fishy and lies about HC!
Rags, I needed a good laugh today-THANKS!
And I second that Mr. President, I intend to er, “join” as many events as I can.
No worries, I’ve already turned myself in to Flag…
This is simply more solid evidence that Obama and his cabal are subversive enemies of the United States of America.
You’ve heard the expression “nibbled to death by ducks” ???
Well… Obama is nibbling away at America.
Good deal…. now if only 5 million people would do the same thing… right now….
give them something to read for a while.
The left makes full use of Alinsky’s Rules, and has done so with great success!
Now it is our turn. The Joker poster is a great example of rule #5. This has knocked the left back a bit. Now it is up to us to keep them off balance, such as keeping up with the town hall meetings (rule #8). We can make a huge dent in their power in 2010!
No mention of disrupting Republican events. No talk about shouting down opponents in public meetings. Just getting out the message, countering the misinformation, etc.
My issue is not with organizing political activity and getting citizens involved. My issue is with pretending things are what they are not — paying people to act like volunteers, busing people to townhalls for the purpose of disrupting them, astroturf organizations in fact run by public relations firms for health insurance companies.
NJ-Aviator: FIFY
Thanks! And while you’re at it, have him give you a big hug too.
LGM after the events of the last 8 years you and the entire left can SHUT THE F%^K UP about disrespect. I don’t want to hear it.
That was mean in the most disrespectfull way you can think of kapo LGM.
I’d bet that over half the messages to Flag are from conservatives, turning in Oba-mao for ‘fishy stuff’…!!!
We need a good clearinghouse for pro-Oba-mao events, so we can be sure to attend.
lgm: You mean like Code Pink does, like the liberal students do on college campuses, etc, etc.
Like what ACORN does, what the SEIU does, what the AFL/CIO does, what the Democratic party does, etc, etc.
You REALLY need to engage brain before operating keyboard!
Any bets that they’ll resurrect this?
You know…..to inspire his
minionstroops….?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTm5rp8r6fE
Idiots like LGM were all for astroturfing for 8 whole years but once the same tactic is used on them they get all upset so F them.
There’s no need to mention it, the Acorn thugs and their fellow travelers already do it. Regularly.
So, you object to ACORN, A.N.S.W.E.R., Project Vote, the SEIU and a host of other Obama-friendly organizations. Good. Finally you and I agree on something.
You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Show us how the Tea Parties are financed by the insurance companies. Show us how they’re “astroturf”. You can’t just make an assertion like that and expect it to stand on its own.
Hmmm, still can’t seem to get the comment posted.
Weird.
So does Michelle have paid censors? Or volunteer censors?
Or does she do her own censorship?
Snipped “important” message from the Father of Lies…
John Cornyn’s letter to Obama it is GREAT!
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cornynletter.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgL-1Oi2Whw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmy%2Ebarackobama%2Ecom%2Fpage%2Fs%2Fcommitaugust&feature=player_embedded
The link to obamas speach activating his good little drones. Go post a little truth. I already started.
Oh, I see – these townhall meetings are just for democrats? Got it. /sarc.
Obviously you haven’t been paying attention. Quite a few of those speaking out at these townhall meetings – meetings that are supposed to be open to all citizens regardless of party affiliation (that’s how a democratic republic is supposed to work) – have been Democrats.
And they’re not there trying to disrupt anything; they simply want straight answers to their very real concerns about this massive piece of legislation.
Of course lgm and his/her ilk see what they want to see.
Provide documentation…not accusations…documentation that any of that occurred.
Mock up and bring a Futurama Suicide Booth to the townhalls:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth
After all – this will save us healthcare dollars, according to Obama and Kevorkian.
Make sure to offer your congress critter the first use of your booth if this healthcare bill passes.
Done. See you in the camps.
Damn. We are on the same page. Why do you persist puppeting for the corrupt BHO regime that disgraces our nation more fully with each passing day?
Obama speak = Obama lies
Q.E.D.
You want to post some links that support that bull lgm? I dont mean huffpo, I mean some reliable information.
didnt think so
Ach, du lieber Gott!!!
Attention Brownshirts! Der Fuhrer decrees that healthcare reform will henceforth be proclaimed as “health insurance reform.”
They really think we’re stupid, don’t they!
Ilmc, I am not a bigot. I am a member of an angry mob of radical, right-wing extremists, and don’t you forget it, babe!!
LMAO! Hey we didn’t just invest 40 billion into Amtrak for nothing!
Is that like George Soros bussing people into DC during the war protest! And don’t say it didn’t happen I was there on MANY events!
Little Ma: Couldn’t help myself.
Ha! Save me a seat.
I call shotgun!
OK.
LIE: If Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Hawaii, then he is undoubtedly a “natural born citizen” and Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President and Commander in Chief.
TRUTH: The United States Supreme Court, in the 1885 case of Minor v Happersett made it clear that the 14th Amendment (by then part of the Constitution) defines citizenship and does not define “natural born citizen“-ship. The Supreme court had doubts that a person in Obama’s situation (born to a foreign father who was never a U.S. Citizen) could be considered a “natural born citizen”. Therefore they had doubts that a person in Obama’s situation could be Constitutionally eligible to be President and Commander in Chief.
It is now necessary to confirm the details of Obama’s birth and resolve these doubts.
To “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” and put this issue to rest, two very simple, very reasonable things need to happen:
1) Congress must personally inspect a certified copy of Obama’s original birth certificate, sent to them under seal directly from the State of Hawaii. (Just as was done with the certification of the Electoral College vote)
2) Congress must ask the Supreme Court to clarify the meaning of the Constitutional phrase “Natural Born Citizen”, so that it can be clearly seen whether or not Barack Hussein Obama II is Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President and Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.
Ignoring this issue will not make it go away. It has only gotten more serious as time has gone by. Every day, members of our military put their lives on the line to support and defend our Constitution.
How any member of Congress overlook their sworn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States? This is a very serious Constitutional issue, and it must be addressed.
This is the moment our Constitutional movement was built for.
Hello, Nancy?
SHOW ME ONE!
Please forgive the upcoming repost, but this is critical to the preservation of our Constitutional Republic…