especial when congressional staffers seek to pick fights and then have their boss blame RW extremists... What is interesting is that some LW folks seem to think only the LW can have genuine grassroots movements... Perhaps it due to the fact moveon.org is more of an elitist movement rather than a grassroots movement... Brown Shirts anyone???
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Mr_-President_-Americans-are-not-an-_angry-mob_-8076144-52674832.html >>> The Obama White House has established a health care reform snitch line and >>> encouraged its supporters to turn in critics for allegedly spreading false >>> information about Obamacare. In its effort to intimidate and silence >>> dissenter, the administration is also working hand-in-hand with the >>> Democratic congressional leadership, the Democratic National Committee, >>> Organizing for America (formerly the 2008 Obama campaign committee), >>> friendly journalists in the liberal media, tax-exempt supposedly >>> non-partisan non-profits like AARP, and the AFL-CIO, SEIU, and other labor >>> unions. This campaign is creating the spectacle of Democratic congressmen >>> being shielded from constituents by squads of union goons. We are witnessing something terribly ugly in America this summer. Obama is leading a campaign to shift our peaceful democratic process away from civil discussions of programs and candidates to using the power of the state to bully those who oppose the majority party's policy proposals. The threat may be as subtle as the fear of being reported by a neighborhood informant to the White House, or as overt as stick-wielding union toughs who might not approve of the way you ask your congressman a question. During his campaign last year, the president famously told his supporters to "get in the faces" of those who disagreed with his vision for America. One of his Chicago mentors recalled in a 2007 New Republic profile that Obama, as a community organizer, was "the best student he ever had, a natural, the undisputed master of agitation" to gain political power. Sadly, now that he has it, he is turning it against those who oppose him. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
