latimes.com - 1/18/2009
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Reporting from Washington -- Telling millions of campaign supporters that "what you built can't stop now," President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday took his first public steps toward transforming his massive grass-roots political machinery into an unprecedented national network to help pass his ...
latimes.com - 1/24/2009
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Google's executives and employees overwhelmingly supported Obama's candidacy,
contributing more money than all but three companies or...
universities. And only DreamWorks employees gave more toward inauguration festivities. Google Chief Executive Eric ...
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latimes.com - 1/22/2009
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Reporting from Washington -- In a grinding first
full day as president, Barack Obama moved decisively to...
distance himself from the previous administration, pushing top military leaders for a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq and issuing a ...
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President Obama swiftly sets course on Day One - Los ...
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How to Serve Americans [Darleen Click]
protein wisdom —
... Obamessiah organizes the Permanent Campaign . Telling millions of campaign supporters that “what you built can’t stop now,” President-elect Barack Obama today took his first public steps toward transforming his massive grass-roots political machinery into an unprecedented national network to help pass his policy agenda. Obama is calling the new network Organizing for America, and while he described it as a tool to press for policies such as fixing the healthcare system, ending the Iraq war and finding new energy sources, he also said the effort would be housed in a distinctly ...
$75 Million Budget for Obamunist Brownshirts
Moonbattery —
... La Times describes "Organizing for America" as "an unprecedented standing political army for a president." Ben Smith agrees:
It's a potentially hugely, uniquely powerful tool, enhancing the muscle of the official who is already the most powerful man in America.
As noted at Ace of Spades HQ, Obama is already building "a shadow bureaucracy answerable not to the taxpayer but only to himself."
The fools who voted for this egomaniac deserve to live in a police state based on a cheesy cult of personality. The ...
$75 Million Budget for Obamunist Brownshirts
Stop The ACLU —
The Ascension of The One isn’t until tomorrow, but the permanent reelection campaign is already underway. “Organizing for America,” a brownshirt army that The One promises will “continue fighting for change in your communities,” will have a budget of $75 million , apparently funded from outside the government.. Via Politico : La Times describes “Organizing for America” as “an unprecedented standing political army for a president.” Ben Smith agrees: It’s a potentially hugely, uniquely powerful tool, enhancing the muscle of the official who is already the ...
Obama's "Organizing for America" group: Alinsky's Rule #10
Doug Ross @ Journal —
Peter Wallsten, writing in The Los Angeles Times : [image] Organizing for America, the new group, will be a tool to press for policy. It reportedly will have an annual budget of $75 million, making it an unprecedented standing political army for a president... Telling millions of campaign supporters that "what you built can't stop now," President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday took his first public steps toward transforming his massive grass-roots political machinery into an unprecedented national network to help pass his policy agenda... ...Obama said ...
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First Read 1/18/2009
From NBC's Athena Jones
PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON, Del., BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama often invokes another statesman from Illinois who became president, Abraham Lincoln .
The president-elect has studied the Civil War-era leader ...
Obama’s Refurbished Ride to Washington —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/18/2009
As if the dire economic warnings arent enough to keep the Great Depression in the front of Barack Obamas mind, he kicked off his inaugural ceremonies amid the trappings of that era, aboard a 70-year-old train car bound for the capital Saturday.
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