The Obama Bolshevik Mentality: Coup, Purge, Purify. Obama, not Democratic, Party
By Bud White on May 15, 2008 at 9:10 AM in Advertising, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Current Affairs, David Axelrod, Democrats, Electability, George McGovern, Infrastructure, John Kerry, MoveOn.org, Swift Boat Veterans For Truth
Obama is attempting to take control of the progressive infrastructure built over the last 15 years. Ben Smith reports that Obama is seeking to essentially shutdown outside progressive groups and funnel their funding to his campaign:
Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is steering the candidate’s wealthy supporters away from independent Democratic groups, calling into question what had been expected to be the groups’ central role in this year’s Democratic offensive against Senator John McCain.
Obama’s national finance chairwoman, Chicago hotel mogul Penny Pritzker, told supporters at a national finance committee meeting in Indianapolis May 2, and in other conversations, not to give money to the groups, people familiar with her comments said.
“From the beginning of this race Obama has told supporters that if they want to help his effort, they should do so through his campaign,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton, who confirmed that Pritzker has told donors not to give to the groups. “And he means exactly what he says.”
Many of these progressive groups were established to counter movement conservatives’ dominate infrastructure. In 1971, in a reaction against the New Left, Lewis F. Powell drafted a memo for business groups and the Nixon administration on building a conservative infrastruture to counter what he saw as an anti-capitalist, anti-freedom movement of the New Left. This plan was followed and we have had a third of a century of conservative governance, interrupted by 4 years of Carter and 8 years of Clinton.
Similarly, after what many progressives saw as an attempted coup d’état by movement conservatives against President Clinton, the left began building its own infrastructure to counter the Rush Limbaugh/American Spectator magazine/Newt Gingrich assault on our first progressive president in a generation. MoveOn.org was born as a muscular defensive of Clinton in a era where the left consisted of stale periodically like The Nation and Mother Jones.
Now Obama is seeking to use the fragile progressive infrastructure for his own electoral gain:
But in recent days, major donors have begun to conclude that Obama is serious in trying to cut off funds to the outside groups.
“It’s given donors pause,” said one prominent Democratic donor of Pritzker’s words.
Obama’s remarkably swift and complete consolidation of Democratic Party power. It’s an unprecedented seizure of control that has built him, over the course of a year, the most powerful field organization and the largest financial network in American politics, leaving many existing structures – traditional party organizations in many states, the Clintons’ long-nurtured national network – in the dust.
Outside groups, of course, can alter the electoral landscape. Just ask Michael Dukakis and John Kerry, both victims of brutal attack ads run by groups more affiliated with movement conservatives than with the campaigns themselves.
But some liberal activists argue that Obama is making a big mistake by consolidating all the power and money into his campaign:
But Democrats who support the work of the media 527s say Obama’s making a mistake. Progressive Media USA has aired anti-McCain television ads and developed a website intended to be a hub for negative information about McCain.
As I wrote previously, the Republicans and their conservative shock troops have prepared their plan to dismantle Obama, assuming he becomes the nominee. Obama may be disarming himself in his attempt to deny Hillary the nomination, and consequently we can look forward to Obama joining the pantheon of defeated Democrats: McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore [updated], and Kerry.
A bit off topic, but I’m still steaming:
“GUTSY Elizabeth Edwards Not Part of Endorsement–Outshines Husband in “Courage of Convictions” Department (only a week after couple tells “People” they won’t endorse)”
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/
Nope, Liz wasn’t happy. But John endorsed anyway.
I guess we know who wears the pants in that household.
Elizabeth, particularly if she comes out against her husband.
But you dont understand marriage, given the shit stain IQ you carry.
Why do I feel like I’m in the movie “Zorro, the Gay Blade?”
Zorro’s got a knife, everyone!
Well, when a man with a small penis needs to fight…
She’s done her part to make it pretty clear her feelings about the two health care plans. One is real. The other isn’t going to do squat. “free market” and “states” my foot. In the end, Mccain’s plan is even better than Obama’s. At least you get a 5k writeoff to defray the cost of single pay. I plan to do a post on that one day soon when I catch up.
This is one reason I have no guilt whatsoever in ditching Barack Obama. Corporate whore in the end. Leave it to the states tells me he has no idea what he’s talking about. Many state legislators are OWNED by the health insurers. Oh yeah, they will reduce cost. And the fork ran away with the spoon. They will just increase the premiums AND keep the supplement. I am so sick of politicians who blow it out of their asses. I will be paying more taxes to help health insurers make even more money, and get nothing useful in return.
Oh and one more thing. There are states that make it illegal to buy health insurance out of state. So his offer of allowing me to buy into the congressional health care plan is hollow.
unless they repeal the MCCarran Ferguson Act which makes insurance state to state still state business, and prevented Federal regulation, and allows self funded plans to evade state mandates……
this cant happen
oy! Barack has no intention of getting us to UHC none IMHO
its another empty WORD FOG
Thanks…the next article down was even more interesting. It was about Elizabeth’s reaction to John’s leaning toward Obama.
They are a nice couple, even though I wish he hadn’t endorsed Obama. I like it that they are open about their own differing opinions about this.
Ann - I like it too.
Even though I lean toward Obama, I certainly acknowledge that each candidate represents what Edwards fought for in different ways - Hillary with her (slightly) more progressive health-care policy, and Obama with his (slightly) more progressive foreign policy statements.
And notice how the Obama supporters cite words and not deeds when they explain why they support the puppet.
I would also say that eight years of work as a community organizer and leading voter registration drives in poor communities qualifies as “deeds,” and definitely accords with both Edwards’ concerns about poverty as one of the foremost obstacles to our greatness as a nation.
All that was exaggerated. And it does not qualify him for President.
Does serving on the Woods Fund with a terrorist qualify him for the Presidency? And what of the abortive Annenberg Foundation? I notice these aspects of his community service background are not listed on his resume.
He is unelectable and unqualified.
From TNR:
http://www.pickensdemocrats.org/info/TheAgitator_070319.htm
Listen, people who want to help poor people mobilize for change always have to deal with some associations that aren’t politically smart. Ask Martin Luther King, who was harassed by the FBI for his entire career because a few of his organizers were ex-Communists.
Yes, let’s ask MLK. I bet his vote will count in Chicago style politics.
Please do not ever again mention MLK in the same context as Obama. Obama, who’s political guru is slumlord Rezko, where at least 11 of those slumlord “housing” projects were in Obama’s State Senate District. MLK would be marching against Obama for just this despicable corruption on the back of poor blacks. So, this great “community organizer” didn’t know about these projects in his own District? Sure.
People were freezing in Chicago winters with no heat. Those buildings were totally broken down - and Rezko and friends got millions from taxpayer. Obama the fraud, the corrupt and the bamboozler. He is no community activist, he cares nothing for others, he cares only for himself. Arrogant, elitist prigs - sums up the Obamas.
yeah he’s qualified to do a ‘voter registration’ drive signing up the deceased and homeless the better to try and steal a GE with……
who is the better thief? Chicago style politickin or Rove 3.0
I hope to Gawd we never need to learn
HILLARY ALL THE WAY TO DENVER AND THE WHITE HOUSE BABY!!!
BOOYAH!!!
HILLYEAH!!!
If Obama truly cared about poverty, he would have intervened when African-Americans in his district lacked heating and sanitation services as a result of the dereliction of Antion “Tony” Rezko, the indicted slumlord who bankrolled Obama’s campaigns. But Obama said nothing, as he needed Rezko’s cash.
35 years ago Hillary Clinton was registering AA’s to vote while Obama was stil in short pants.
She worked to give voting rights to all long before she EVER asked anyone for their vote.
Obama’s actions were strictly calculated and do not span decades…he couldn’t wait to get what he thinks is due him!
Leading voter registration drives!
DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!!!!! This from the person turning his haughty nose up at plans to revote in Michigan and in Florida. I guess he’s only interested in registering people WHO WILL VOTE FOR HIM and FUCK everyone else …. right?
Name one thing that he accomplished as a community organizer. Omit the asbestos bs because I already have an answer to that.
Please do tell… This AA wants to know.
Cut him some slack. You can’t expect him to be hard-working like Hillary’s white supporters.
I guess that’s as close to “uncle tom” as you have the nerve to get. Classy people like mimi are used to that crap coming out of mouths like yours.
If you want to get porky on this board, be aware that you are going to get some on you.
Are you obtuse or legitimately disabled?
I suspect the former, but if it’s the latter I’ll cut you some slack.
Flo,
Hard-working people only vote for other hard-working people. That’s why they are overwhelmingly voting for Hillary.
How did you miss that?
Way to go the Unity route - Obama follower. Love your empathic responses and cogent arguments. Obama followers just keep right on making friends left and right. Pathetic!
kiss my grits ‘flo’
This is one of the dirty little secret in Chicago. The first was Rev. Wright and the second is the whole community activities claim(many more). It’s Bullshit! He did it for a couple of months along with hundreds of others that had been recruited and paid by a Foundation. Someone should really get an interview with Alice Palmer.
This is why HRC is losing, because she really will not bring him down.
Too ladylike for politics, I guess.
Maybe she should reconsider her “I don’t bake cookies” position.
We have people like you to bake the cookies.
Uppity … what do you think of this?
http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/more-controversy-for-the-gore-campaign/
beebop, I think i’m glad donna’s helping barry out. lol. Her batting average is dismal. Good think Bill Clinton gave her a job so she could be a “consultant” with such a dismal record and still get away with it.
Wow, you are on a roll - typical Obama follower. Such insightful and thought provoking remarks - you have a real gift in putting people in their place with these witty comebacks. LOL.
Flo
While we’re at it, why don’t we bake your ass right here on No Quarter.
waffle lovin beach laying Obama who doesnt know how many states we have and thinks they speak Arabic in Afghanistan is in your opinion tougher than Hillary!!!
BWAAAHHHAAAAAA!!!
cry all the way home little piggy, no Dem base for you!
no GOP crossover for you!
no Indies for you!
all the Huckabee-esque cross bearing mailers on Earth will not Obama with the ‘workers’ you know, working class, the people this party was supposed to speak for? good luck with the evangelicals after Wright, BWAHHHAAAAA!!!!!
WE ARE SOLID
S-O-L-I-D
HILLARYS’ BASE IS WITH HER ALL THE WAY TO DENVER AND THE WHITE HOUSE BABY!!
AND OUR ‘GIRL’ IS THE STRONGEST ‘MAN’ STANDING IN THE DEMOCRATIC RACE
BOOYAH!!!
HILLYEAH!!!
Do you really want her to do that flo?
Remember she could have roasted your candidate’s hind quarters in January with your Rev. Wright if she wanted to and wasn’t such a true democrat. But no, all the while she turned the other cheek while you people call her and her husband racist, her a liar, insulting her family, trashing her reputation and everything she has worked for, everything both her and President Clinton did to help black people. That is the measure of the person you people continuously are trying to insult.
IS IT ANY WONDER THE PEOPLE LOVE HER?
You and your little freak show come up way short, way short. Go knash your teeth.
What happens when a building collapses, like the north twin tower?
Debris scatters everywhere, quantum mechanics in action, right, reactions most of us can’t even begin to account for, reactions science hasn’t even discovered?
It’s not as simple as “bringing him down,” particularly if she doesn’t want to further hurt the US political process, the US government, and it’s infrastructure.
It’s the difference between winners, and losers, us and them.
When I say the US Constitution is the best method of governance, I mean it. The thinking behind it was highly reasoned, understanding the principles behind governments, success, men, and the simple minded shifts to tyranny. Jefferson, and Madison, were brilliant, certainly more intelligent than David Addington, Rumsfeld, Cheney or the donut Axlerod.
Or Tim Russert.
And just because those donuts like Rummy, or Rove, or Axlkerod are too stupid to get it, doesn’t mean Clinton isn’t.
And she’s putting the future of the US ahead of her personal ambitions.
Get it?
Perfect example of you talking out your ass.
Its not quantum mechanics in action AT ALL.
Its classical physics in action. You almost can’t get any more classical. Nothing unusual at all occurred at the quantum level.
Further, how is Clinton possibly putting the future of the US ahead of her personal ambitions?
Her ambition is to be president. She is still running.
Or is there something else going on at the quantum level?
Did you say Clinton’s ‘personal ambitions’ with a straight face????
As if BO has none???
Oh no you did’ent!!!!
Lot of laughs on the board this morning.
You no what they say:
NO FOOLS, NO FUN!!!!
You’re an idiot. Go reread my post.
I never said BO didn’t have personal ambitions.
Obviously he does, he wants to be president too. So does McCain.
Everyone in politics has personal ambitions.
I was refuting the point that Hillary was somehow putting the good of the nation ahead of her personal ambitions.
Selling out those same people Obama organized, to the Rezko slumlord, the minute he got power, proves who he really is.
Why do people excuse this? This is among the most telling and vile parts of this man’s character.
Especially, when it looks like his kids were warm as a direct result of someone else’s kids freezing.
That was a deal breaker for me. He used those people just like he used the church to get black cred. YUCK! He is in fact THE Uncle Tom that he insults, browbeats, and threatens SDs with.
I’ve lives in GA, I know what real racism looks like and how dangerous it is when it is everywhere. I’m frankly offended that Obama hurls it out as a weapon. That proves he had no interest in coming together.
He is a greedy divider not a uniter…..same as Bush.
Bush browbeat people as unpatriotic to achieve his goals….Obama browbeats people as racist.
Bingo! I have been appalled by the careless tossing around of that term.
The recent dust-up really has given a lot of people pause. Brazile is offended by the term working class because it leaves out the AA working class members. OK. Then the boys jump on Hillary when she qualified it by saying white working class.
This type of “gotcha” stuff is offensive. True racism and true sexism should be confronted immediately, along with true ageism, etc.
But calling people racists when there’s no evidence to support it?
That’s wrong, and it diminishes the real deal.
He was a church organizer. He did do diddly squat.
Would that be Trinity? The Trumpet? Rev Meeks?
These progressive groups include Moveon.Org, too. I wonder how they will feel about the directive to block donations?
EXACTLY what I was thinking.
Thanks for saying it.
Pardon me a moment of Schadenfreude while I contemplate Moveon’s reaction.
pardon me Doppich..while i go giggle in the corner about Move on getting the axe by sparky!
LOL.
karma baby!!
they deserve every kick they get. welcome to the under the bus hillary movement.
Linda Pritzker and the billionaire club are floating Move ON.
Here’s a link abou their new “merger” 527 of Progressive groups:
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/03997125.asp
According to the Rev Manning, who claims he hsa proof Obama and Wright were lovers, Move On is funded by Soros, too.
There is also Larry Sinclair, Rev. Manning, a private pilot, and a former chef from a Chicago restaurant who all alledge that Obama is on the “down low” and has done crack as recently as 1999. Why hasn’t the MSM reported this story?
Penny Pritzker is the front woman and muscle for this stunt to end all progressive movements. She is one of the creators of subprime mortgages and the failure of Superior Bank which cost the taxpayers $700 mil. Now this bank failure is threatening people. This is Chicago politics down and dirty. It is just a big rats nest of wealthy frauds and creeps. Linda is another part of the secretive takeover of the Dem party.
Look how well they worked out for Kerry.
Somebody posted on the another thread last night that she laughed in Kerry’s face when he came asking for his usual 200 reliable signatures from her.
I laughed so hard then logged off.
That was better than Ambiens.
They deserve every thing that happens to them. They should never have endorsed any candidate until after the primary. Since George Soros started Moveon we now no why Move on endorsed Obama.
Senator Obama(D-Manchuria) and his campaign are the most UNDemocratic of all God’s creations.
But are we surprised. I haven’t heard him once say he was a Democrat or anything about the Party.
WHO’S GOD CINDY ?…..just wonderin….
OMG ROFL!
The way I see it… Obama is going to further split the party and when he loses in November, we will have a whole lot of work ahead of us to put the pieces back together or form a viable centrist third party. Leave the extremists to their own devices.
I’m not sure he will get the nomination.
Since Indiana, the superdelegate endorsements [not including add-ons, which were decided by election results earlier] have gone 32 to 0. For Obama.
Are you this delusional outside the Internet?
You haven’t been in politics very long have you?
Justin it’s happened before. And each time, the moderates prevail. All these fringe radicals serve to do is keep us from electing more Democratic presidents. They are like a Pox upon the house.
This is good old Chicago politics going on here…
the Daley’s ran Chicago like this for years, controlling all the money.
Agree completely, Karen. This is Daley machine Chicago politics: control the money, control the results.
Sure puts the LIE to Obama’s claim to be building a consensus from grassroots and bottom-up, doesn’t it?
Same ole, same ole.
I DO hope those MoveOn.org people understand EXACTLY what they’re dealing with, now.
I haven’t sensed that they are terribly aware of much besides how they hate Hillary. LOL* They picked the least progressive candidate in terms of policies and then used all of their energy, essentially, to back the unvetted Obama. They apparently did not mind that he blocked all bloggers from his own strategy calls, while Hillary invited them in. They still went along with the BS that Obama is “transparent.”
They also never once defended Hillary or any of her supporters for the slime behavior from the media.
They seem, to me, to be much more a “regressive” rather than “progressive” group.
Just my take…
What I find interesting, too, is that much of the left (moveon.org, Air America, The Nation, MSNBC, etc.) are backing the LESS
progressive candidate.
I find that interesting, too, and disgraceful.
However, I don’t know where you get the idea that MSNBC is progressive. It is GE, the second largest corporation in the world, makes weapons and war products, advertises pharmaceuticals and insurance companies, pollutes Hudson River and refuses to clean it up, head of special interest groups. They are not progressive, no way, no how.
Some of their newscasters, like Olbermann pretend to be, but no true progressive would preach Hillary hatred the way he does. He’s just one more corporate shill, like the rest of the Obama campaign, lying and fooling the populace.
Now I am almost placing Edwards in that group, too. At the very least he’s not as smart as I thought he was. But I was beginning to suspect that before he dropped out, when he showed his ignorance of who Obama really was, and ignored Obama’s plagiarism of his words.(Happened many times). And ignored Obama stealing Iowa caucuses (as reported by many of his supporters on his own blog).
this morning in the paper were articles opining on how stupid obama’s campaign is regarding hillary and her supporters. broder says obama is no jfk. hehehe now the pundits are reflecting what we have been saying for weeks. but i think the obama campaign and hence the hapless dims are on a one way projectory over the cliff. why edwards felt he needed to reserve a seat offends me. do we really want people this stupid running the country?
I guess Edwards isn’t as politically savvy as you.
You wonder how he ever got elected Senator that way.
yeah he is so saavy that must be why he keeps losing….
The mistake about Hillary’s supporters was made by Dean, Pelosi, and the suits from the East Coast. They underestimated her support.
I know that the blogging world took time to catch on. Many Hillary supporters would “fan” me on one site but never post. They didn’t want to be attacked constantly. So it was misleading to look at the comments and draw conclusions. Ditto for the petition stuff, etc. Many Hillary supporters are simply not the type to participate in bully tactics.
So the conclusion was wrong-headed that her supporters would go like sheep over to the Obama trough.
What I never could grasp is why they didn’t pay attention to the exit polls earlier. Her supporters have consistently polled higher than his on their willingness to vote Republican if she’s not the candidate. It’s not a mystery, never has been.
But they ignored it.
I’m positive that WVA surprised them. The turn-out was high. Obviously, her base is sending a message loudly. They will turn out in KY, too, I think.
I think they underestimate us bigtime because she is a woman, and so many of us are.
This election so clearly shows all the sexism and misogyny still rampant in this country.
Because of the female association they assume we are “soft” and that they can bully us, take us for granted, that we’ll come back, like many abused women, because we have nowhere to go. AA people have been fighting back for decades, so they have respect, and much white guilt.
The women’s movement folded a while back. Reasons for all this are important and deserve many long discussions. I think Hillary made a mistake by not having a big discussion about gender politics when O announced speech about race.
To me, she has been entirely too nice and laidback in this campaign, allowed them to intimidate her not to go negative, when going negative always works.
And fuck Dem party if they don’t like this. They’re not my party anymore, anyway.
Problem is McCain is so pathetic I have no party at all, no one to represent me. He’s still talking about winning Iraq war.
I really don’t see this from the sexism framework. I saw some hideous examples of sexism being used to dismiss Hillary. Don’t get me wrong.
But my perspective has been all along that this was a case of the Eastern suits trying to wrestle control away from the Clintons, not about her sex.
They used heavy-handed tactics to the point that they galvanized her supporters in protest, which was stupid thinking.
They imagined it would be OK to do so against her because she’s Hillary, the evil one. They demonized her.
And they, in the end, helped her a lot. People rallied to her defense, or at least the true liberals did.
The progressives are now outted for what they truly are….faux liberals. They said nary a word and, in fact, were some of the worst abusers.
But I never did think this was a sexist deal. It was political. Ditto for his race, btw. There’s no racial issue.
He has the same number of true racists whom he’ll never win as she had of sexists whom she probably wouldn’t ever convince.
But she did a great job of pulling in the “reluctant” male vote, I say. They really admire her spunk and steely character. She won them over.
Obama has failed to win over anyone. He’s been losing ground since January.
Odd that he’ll probably be the nominee. He’s got momentum, but it’s carrying him nowwhere.
One thing that amazed my husband was the intelligence of Hillary. The debates did it for him. He was amazed at her mastery of the issues. I never thought we would ever agree on a candidate. We are in our 60s and this is the first time in 40 years. Hooray!
“This election so clearly shows all the sexism and misogyny still rampant in this country.”
You all really need to pay more attention to pop culture. There’s been a determined push in the entertainment media, and the whole msm to objectify, sexualize, and marginalize young women. This has been going on for years. The result is what you see among young women today.
There’s a saying that was used in the AA community:
“The best slave is the one who whips himself.”
A lot of the young women have turned and gone to Hillary after seeing how their male friends went on a rampage with the sexist comments about Hillary.
I think those young women learned a lot in this primary. *haha
Never underestimate the real challenge.
This is what started the “old” women’s liberation movement of the late 60s early 70s. The boys-club anti-war group told women to shut up and let the men make the decisions. At that time women were making about 50 cents to men’s $1.00.
The sexism and misogyny was extreme — jokes, pictures etc. All the text books used “he” only — in fact the authors and editors went out of their way to use the pronoun HE — when they or she should have bee used. In English classes — NO poems by women were found in text books. History — a handful of women as foot notes or side bars.
As mimi notes, there has been an increase in misogyny in popular culture — and this makes its way to the subconscious. That’s why snObama felt he could get away with flipping Clinton the bird — etc. It’s cool to disrespect women in popular culture.
Yesterday there was a comment by a lawyer who has worked the front lines and she found that as the disrespect for women in song and words increase — so does violence toward women.
So I’d say as an observer of current events — Obama is very dangerous to the health and well being of women of
America and the world. He and Mrs. Obama have a very harmful, hateful attitude that should NOT be tolerated by real Liberals and caring human beings.
And yes….McCain’s war stuff is hard to get past.
But Obama can really say bye if there’s good war news around the time of the election.
People are ambivalant about the war even today.
(Boy, this is my opinion alone, mind you.)
They want to see some pull-out, but they also don’t want to abandon Iraq. Hillary’s plan was the best.
Another one of the big lies. He started off with big donors. The Commowealth Edison and Jenner and Block money. That’s how it started. Another lie is they don’t do direct mail. I go a big green envelope the other day asking from money.
The SOB believes his own Hype.
How deeply into this IS Daley?
I remember the civic center, with the Picasso, renamed the Daley Center, after Dick Jr’s father died. It’s the federal center now, right?
The heartbeat.
Dad wasn’t a traitor, and the son never struck me as particularly intelligent, good enough, but not brilliant, kind of like meat loaf, in an old Swanson’s TV dinner, Dick Jr is…
But he seems to be at the center of this, too, not only the IL “business as usual,” but the middle eastern shenanigans, too.
Maybe it was his chance to hit the big time…
LOL
MoveOn is funded by Soros and Pritzer. They know exactly what is going on. They (Obama) probably wants to direct the additional dollars to the 527 of choice.
Mmmmmmnnn…..
This is beginning to assume marvelous aspects!
Go to
http://savagepolitics.com/?p=410
for a scathing piece on Edwards and his endorsement. You’ll love it.
Not just one, but two references to “Barack Hussein Obama”! I love it!
I don’t care about the Democratic Party anymore. I don’t recognize it.
Ted Kennedy called Bill and Hillary Clinton and told him he was taking his Party back. Read the 70 and 80’s playbook and you will know what they want the party to be.