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Obama’s cashier’s window?
Washington Post, by Editorial

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Posted By:Pluperfect, 1/28/2013 5:47:03 AM

FOR EVIDENCE that the permanent campaign has become embedded in our national life, look no further than President Obama’s recent announcement that he is setting up a group to keep his supporters energized and enrolled for action in a second term. To be called Organizing for Action, the group will harvest the rich data — e-mails and names — of the Obama foot soldiers who knocked on doors and got out the vote. (Snip)Certainly, there’s something bigger going on here — a mix of technical prowess and grass-roots smarts. But there is also a whiff of something fishy.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Fiesta del sol, 1/28/2013 6:35:56 AM     (No. 9143539)

FTA "What’s most troubling is that President Obama seems to have developed a tin ear about shadow money in politics."

As if. Sure WaPo, y´all didn´t see this coming?


Reply 2 - Posted by: Country Boy, 1/28/2013 6:45:28 AM     (No. 9143543)

I thought at this point in a POTUS career (year #5) he´s supposed to be raising money for his library. Something is fishy indeed.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Pearson365, 1/28/2013 7:42:01 AM     (No. 9143583)

An Obama voter´s comment to the WaPo editorial says it best:

Mathonwy
2:34 AM EST
This, coupled with the president´s lack of interest in appointing FEC commissioners and his historic rejection of matching funds, clearly demonstrates his hostility to the lessons of Watergate. Could this be the return of the slush fund? I voted for the president twice and this worries me greatly. Did I unknowingly vote for the 21st century Richard Nixon?!?


Reply 4 - Posted by: wtm, 1/28/2013 7:53:57 AM     (No. 9143595)

NO,
This means that he is STILL campaigning, and intends to run again in 2016, AND FOREVER !!!!

Damn the Constitution !!!!


Reply 5 - Posted by: Crosscut, 1/28/2013 8:05:13 AM     (No. 9143605)

Obama is the most domestically dangerous president in all American history. Even the DNC should stay alert to any secret agenda Obama may have.


Reply 6 - Posted by: NorthernDog, 1/28/2013 8:08:39 AM     (No. 9143612)

The campaigning never stops, which was apparently A-OK with 51% of the voting public. What else is he going to do for the next 4 years?


Reply 7 - Posted by: Daisymae, 1/28/2013 8:12:16 AM     (No. 9143617)

I don´t think he wants to run again but would relish the role of king maker.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: M2, 1/28/2013 8:28:09 AM     (No. 9143645)

Let no one forget Obama´s promise to form a "civilian national security force with the power of the military".

Since every city in America (almost) has its own police force, and every State has its own law enforcement procedures, and since the country already has a military and a National Guard, what on earth is the need for Obama´s civilian force unless it is to keep the People´s uprising in line when our guns are confiscated so we cannot protect ourselves from our own government?

Shall we begin peeking beneath the unturned pages and find out what he is really up to?


Reply 9 - Posted by: EnsignO´Toole, 1/28/2013 8:37:35 AM     (No. 9143668)

#4 I´m afraid has seen into the future. As I posted on this subject a day or so ago, the 22nd Amendment would need to be repealed and replaced by a new Amendment that would allow Obama to seek more terms.

The 22nd Amendment was passed by Congress in March 1947, but it wasn´t ratified until February 1951. The 22nd Amendment came about because of the 4-term strangle hold FDR had on the presidency.

Please be aware that efforts have gone on for the last sixteen years to repeal the 22nd Amendment. From the website Ask.com, it says: On January 4, 2013, Rep. José Serrano once again introduced H.J.Res. 15 proposing an Amendment to repeal the 22nd Amendment, as he has done every two years since 1997.

To be successful this bill would first have to be passed by Congress and then be ratified by 38 states. For Obama to even run in 2016 the above mentioned bill now only has 47 months left to be in place for Obama. Actually, less time when you consider the party conventions take place in either August or September.

Readers must stay on their toes regarding this subject and be alert to Democrat machinations - what else is new where Dems are concerned?


Reply 10 - Posted by: JAN, 1/28/2013 8:44:32 AM     (No. 9143690)

Just following Bubba´s example.

Why so surprised!!!


Reply 11 - Posted by: starsNstripes, 1/28/2013 8:49:28 AM     (No. 9143699)

While I´m not sure yet what they huge bankroll will eventually be used for, I am certain of how the huge bankroll will be grown.

Think PUSH/Rainbow Coalition and Jesse Jackson and their corporate diversity shakedowns. In case you are not familiar, the Rev would go to a large, rich corporation and meet with them. His pitch was basically to say "Either hire my friend/relative for your newly created Corp Diversity Executive and ´contibute´ greatly to the PUSH/Rainbow Coalition or we´ll picket and boycott your racist corporation."

Voila! Instant slush fund of millions of corporate dollars and a diversity mole/cancer in every major corporation in America.

Obama has already started this. I saw where his first donors to this new OFA fund are Lockheed Martin and Wal-mart.


Reply 12 - Posted by: krause, 1/28/2013 8:56:33 AM     (No. 9143711)

I´m not sure the Founders envisioned that politicians´ primary job was to continually have their hand out for money.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Udanja99, 1/28/2013 9:00:15 AM     (No. 9143717)

No need to ratify anything, #9. 0bama has been circumventing the constitution for over four years now and has gotten away with it. If he wants another term he will simply announce that he´s running and the parasites of society will flock to vote for him. Who would stop him? Congress? The Supreme Court? No one will stop him because that would be RACIST.


Reply 14 - Posted by: RoosterBob, 1/28/2013 9:06:08 AM     (No. 9143731)

"It´s elementary, Mr. Watson, First we have to confiscate any means by which Patriots can ´take up arms´ when they realize what we´re up to."


Reply 15 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 1/28/2013 9:13:17 AM     (No. 9143750)

Why don´t you flat out ask the question instead of tiptoeing through the tulips with it WaPo? Maybe then you can get started on the road back to credibilityville.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Sanspeur, 1/28/2013 9:30:23 AM     (No. 9143789)

Why use "fishy" when words like criminal and illegal , dictatorial, suffice.. No inter species slurs, please...


Reply 17 - Posted by: earlybird, 1/28/2013 9:36:31 AM     (No. 9143801)

This isn´t "coming". It has been here since the first "Organizing" campaign in 2007-08 when they used every trick in the book - giveaways, dinners with Barack, the works - to glean email addresses for their data bank. They bragged that they had millions.

That organization has morphed along through two campaigns and the first term and is now renamed (again) and rolling through the second term.

This is Axelrod´s Astroturf, the faux grassroots setup intended to change the country. Obie gets the small people stirred up, tells them how miserable they are, puts pressure on them to pressure their congresspersons to pass his legislation. Mooch sends emails to the database, urging them on. Revolution. Go and have another look at Van Jones (top down-bottom up) and Saul Alinsky.

The WaPo appears to be waking up. Finally. After six years of this same strategy. The only slightly new thing is the name.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Cinwasp, 1/28/2013 9:49:29 AM     (No. 9143828)

Grant amnesty, excuse student loans, then have Michelle Obama run for Potus.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Rumblehog, 1/28/2013 9:50:26 AM     (No. 9143830)

This man-child is reaching the point of Biblical evil. I wouldn´t want to be in his Guccis.


Reply 20 - Posted by: TruthAndJustice, 1/28/2013 10:10:11 AM     (No. 9143879)

#9 ensign, you´ve just revealed the reason the DEMONizing Dems are trying to destroyed the GOP in Congress. They want Congress and need it to destroy the 22nd Amendment and install Obama as the front piece for those who have seized control of the USA ...permantly ...

Please understand that the Washington Post was the benefactor, the mouthpiece, the public relations arm for the Satan admiring....Saul ALINSKY....they are proponents of and for Communism


Reply 21 - Posted by: privateer, 1/28/2013 10:24:58 AM     (No. 9143927)

Even if the 22nd were repealed, wouldn´t 3rd term eligibility begin with newly elected presidents, not current? Otherwise, Bill Klintoon would still be president.


Reply 22 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 1/28/2013 10:29:08 AM     (No. 9143935)

If he did decide to run for a third time, how would we stop him?


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Felixcat, 1/28/2013 10:49:45 AM     (No. 9144008)

# 13 beat me to it. As stated before, all these challenges to the Constitution and supposedly limitations on his Executive powers are just leading to the biggest challenge of all, a third term, and a do nothing response from a do nothing Congress.


Reply 24 - Posted by: dlb703, 1/28/2013 10:55:16 AM     (No. 9144031)

Don´t be fooled. During the entire eight-year Clinton nightmare WaPo threw in the occasional critical opinion. Ultimately it meant nothing. WaPo will never...NEVER abondon any leftist politician. They´ll continue to support, cover-up, censor whatever it takes to protect Barack Obama.


Reply 25 - Posted by: Flyball dogs, 1/28/2013 12:34:22 PM     (No. 9144314)

No. 9, I am afraid, is spot-on. However, what to do about The Clinton(s) Problem -- their desired return to power. Will a SCOTUS appt satisfy them (her)?


Reply 26 - Posted by: chicodon, 1/28/2013 12:39:32 PM     (No. 9144324)

Beck should get out his blackboard. Line diagram on who is directing and funding this shell organization (that could morph into anything, BTW). I smell Soros.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Rubinski, 1/28/2013 12:43:27 PM     (No. 9144333)

#8, perhaps that is why the government is buying all those bullets. As well, yesterday on Drudge I saw that homeland security ordered 7,000 assault rifles.

Building a private army?


Reply 28 - Posted by: smcchk, 1/28/2013 1:03:44 PM     (No. 9144374)

What is more unbelievable, that Te´o had a non-existent girlfriend or that America elected this grifter twice? Talk about fooled.


Reply 29 - Posted by: lakerman1, 1/28/2013 1:58:04 PM     (No. 9144505)

#28, don´t forget that in Dreams From My Father, he wrote about ´composite´ girlfriends.
To me, that is more dishonest than te´o´s one imaginary girlfriend.


Reply 30 - Posted by: safesword, 1/28/2013 2:23:04 PM     (No. 9144576)

regarding #27..those rifles they purchased are,get ready for this,FULLY AUTOMATIC!..not screaming,just stressing they are that way...


Reply 31 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 1/28/2013 3:12:37 PM     (No. 9144692)

Obama´s campaign woman, that Stephanie person, said as much in an interview.

Will the people doing the Obama´s work be issued brown shirts?


Reply 32 - Posted by: larryp, 1/28/2013 4:17:32 PM     (No. 9144806)

One time,only, on the regular news this reporter said that the largest peacetime movement of troops was occurring and that was the airlift of the entire National Guard of guam to the mainland as Guam is part of USA, a territory.It was for manuevers, training
I never saw the reporter again and the story just died. Did they return? Are they here still, and what for?
Both Red China nd IRan does this type of thing --bring in troops from another far-away area to put dn insurrections. Itis like stepping on cockroaches to them. the Iranian ones and the red chinese ones do not know anyone in the cities.
Nope. the one way we can get some pressure is entertainment, the low hanging fruit.
On our own, each of us, make a decision to not partake of offerings: cds dvds,cinema-going,no leader ,no boycott. Just spend family time w family and what the heck, with all the taxes we heed to spend time on earning too. After 6 mos, callswill be made, visits effected


Reply 33 - Posted by: alto, 1/28/2013 4:36:53 PM     (No. 9144845)

WaPo is standing up to their necks in the sewer that is Obama and Co. A sewer they helped create and, they smell a ´whiff of something´ ? The last 4 years would gag a sinus-infected North Korean


Reply 34 - Posted by: wsdiego, 1/28/2013 5:21:25 PM     (No. 9144960)

If, I think the faze is killing the dollar, is his plan, hang on for hyper inflation! It didn´t work for old Jimmy because it´s like chasing your tail! You are never going to get there! With each cycle the burden just get heaver and heaver until collapse!


Reply 35 - Posted by: Attercliffe, 1/28/2013 5:44:45 PM     (No. 9145010)

Perhaps the funds and people are being collected to support a Mooch run for the presidency. She´s still very popular, according to polls.

Once again I draw your attention to the company that set up, or guided the creation of, the blueprint for collecting those democrat funds and volunteers, beginning (apparently) with the democrat convention. Please see:

http://tinyurl.com/9qfmvmo

Note that the website created by the company for the dems drew 400 hits per second at its height. How can Republicans compete with this?

Please read more about the company (whose name I am deliberately not typing but appears when you click on the tinyurl above) which has gobbled up almost all, if not absolutely all, its competition in the nonprofit fundraising business. Click on "Donor Management" (read "manipulation" for "management") to get an idea of how this all works.

If you´re a cat lover and you receive an animal welfare .org solicitation, showing cute cats, it´s probably from this company´s incredible database. If you´re a ferret lover, then you´ll get that same solicitation with a cute ferrets photo and verbiage. It´s why I quit sending checks to charitable organizations a long time ago, but I´ll give them cash. This company´s database gets bigger and more sophisticated as time goes on and it often takes days to integrate a new batch of data to the database software when another competitor has been consumed.

Robots troll the internet for more information on donors via social sites like Facebook. The database has enough information to enable the software to generate a solicitation tailored specifically to a subject or group of subjects. Do you realize the significance of all this to the permanent Obama campaign? Even George Orwell would be taken aback.


Reply 36 - Posted by: mizzmac, 1/28/2013 6:04:23 PM     (No. 9145036)

Why? Because the man has no moral center. None. No fixed sense of right, wrong, or even of direction. "Whichever way the wind blows, man. And if I do it, it´s gotta be right, right? Anyone gonna question me? Anyone? I didn´t think so."


Reply 37 - Posted by: ArtieC, 1/28/2013 7:50:12 PM     (No. 9145182)

So. The Washington Post finally smells the four year old fish in the room.


Reply 38 - Posted by: chance_232, 1/28/2013 9:35:48 PM     (No. 9145299)

" Did I unknowingly vote for the 21st century Richard Nixon?!?"

Number one, the person that wrote this at WAPO is a complete moron. Who and what Obama is has been on full display for anyone willing to see it.

Number two: Richard Nixon was no Obama, and any comparisons is insulting to the memory of Nixon. No one died as a result of Nixon´s indiscretions.

Number three: Were Nixon a democrat today, the press would ignore Watergate as a nothing burger.


Reply 39 - Posted by: FormerDem, 1/29/2013 12:00:35 AM     (No. 9145462)

Well here´s what I think. Next time Obama wants to ask whether so and so has contriuted or not, obviously aiming to intimidate, the GOP should by all means point out that this is a bad idea. But could we not also get someone to step forward and say that he personally on behalf of the GOP would be very interested in the same information. What we don´t want, is Obama interested and the GOP disarming in advance, saying they´d never look. I mean. Let Obama find out this is a two-edged sword and the rest of us know if he doesn´t that his time in office is limited.



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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from

Special ops veterans’ group
calls for select probe of
Benghazi attack

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Fox News, by Catherine Herridge    Original Article
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public

Chelsea Clinton doesn´t close
door to public office

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USA Today, by Catalina Camia    Original Article
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary

The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
they can back gun control in person

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Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an


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