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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/6/2012 1:05:38 PM
From: sm1th	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224705

Turnout in November will exceed turnout for the recall election by at least 300,000 votes. How many of those will be actual living citizens?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/6/2012 1:13:06 PM
From: longnshort	8 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

deaths threats abound on Scott walker, where is Obama denouncing these ? where's wasserman shultz ? where's the calls for civility ? what is wrong with you people ?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/6/2012 3:29:12 PM
From: longnshort	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

First Lady Requires Photo ID for Her Book Signings; Voter ID Law-hating Media Fail to Note Obama Hypocrisy By John Bates \| June 06, 2012 \| 13:11 Read more: newsbusters.org

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/6/2012 4:34:57 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

Moveon.org recognizes that Obama is losing his ass and is out pimping for more cash Dear MoveOn member, Think Obama's a shoo-in? Think again. Romney is ahead in a whole series of recent polls.1 And super PACs are poised to spend huge amounts of money to sway the race—just like they did yesterday in Wisconsin. The good news is that in this election the Internet is giving us whole new ways to fight back at a fraction of the cost of a traditional ad campaign—and we're miles ahead of the right-wing Super PACs figuring out how to take advantage. You see, today a single YouTube video can get more attention than a big-budget TV campaign. And people are far more likely to be persuaded by something shared by a friend than what they see on TV. That's where we come in. With a tiny social media team of just four staff and a few interns, MoveOn.org has figured out how to disseminate powerful messages to millions of people through social media. For instance, just one video we publicized on gay marriage alone reached more than 21 million people. To reach this many eyeballs with TV ads, it could cost almost a million dollars.3 Here's the kicker: We only need to raise $200,000 to fund this entire project for the next few critical months. Can you chip in $5 to help counter the Super PACs using social media? In 8 out of 16 national polls released over the last month, Romney is ahead.4 Anyone who says Obama's a shoo-in just isn't paying attention. But social media is giving us new ways to fight back—and MoveOn.org is on the cutting edge. Research shows that more and more voters are getting news through social media like Facebook and Twitter.5 That's especially true of those under-30 voters. We've spent a year working on the computer software and online tools that let us reach these viewers. Our high-tech platform supports a talented team of volunteer and staff editors who scour the Web for the highest impact progressive videos and graphics. When news breaks, they're ready to toss a wrench into the conservative spin machine. But we need to scale up even more. Fox News reaches more than 2 million people per day. We can match that—we need to match that. We need to reach further into Facebook and other social media realms like Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and Pinterest, where hundreds of millions of Americans are spending huge chunks of time. The war of ideas is happening in short, 8 to 24 hour news cycles on the web, and we're ramping up to be right on the front lines. Chip in $5 to help counter the Super PACs using social media. Sometimes, all we need to counter the right's agenda is the right picture at the right moment. When Republicans in Congress convened a panel on birth control, but didn't bother to invite any women, that image of five middle-aged men said it all. Thousands instantly shared it on Facebook. Other times, it's a gripping personal story that changes minds. When there was controversy about the Susan G. Komen Foundation, we featured a video by a gutsy breast cancer survivor named Linda, who had some no-nonsense words for the people who had let her down. More than 383,000 watched, as we and our allies mobilized phone calls and grassroots pressure—and Komen changed course. It's an entirely new way of communicating, and MoveOn is proud to be a pioneer. We can't stop those right-wing SuperPACs from buying their old-fashioned TV ads. Yet. But we can beat them by investing in people-power and staying ahead of the curve in online campaigning.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/6/2012 5:44:18 PM
From: tonto	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

That will favor the Republicans.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/7/2012 12:50:22 PM
From: longnshort	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224705

Obama’s Third-Party History New documents shed new light on his ties to a leftist party in the 1990s. On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the United States toward European-style social democracy, which was precisely the New Party’s goal. In late October 2008, when I wrote here at National Review Online that Obama had been a member of the New Party, his campaign sharply denied it, calling my claim a “ crackpot smear.” Fight the Smears, an official Obama-campaign website, staunchly maintained that “Barack has been a member of only one political party, the Democratic Party.” I rebutted this, but the debate was never taken up by the mainstream press. Recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society now definitively establishes that Obama was a member of the New Party. He also signed a “contract” promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office. Advertisement [iframe style="border: 0pt none ;" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="about:blank" name="google_ads_iframe_442383" id="google_ads_iframe_442383" frameborder="0" height="250" scrolling="no" width="300"][/iframe] Minutes of the meeting on January 11, 1996, of the New Party’s Chicago chapter read as follows: Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party. Consistent with this, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, with January 11, 1996, indicated as the date he joined. Knowing that Obama disguised his New Party membership helps make sense of his questionable handling of the 2008 controversy over his ties to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). During his third debate with John McCain, Obama said that the “only” involvement he’d had with ACORN was to represent the group in a lawsuit seeking to compel Illinois to implement the National Voter Registration Act, or motor-voter law. The records of Illinois ACORN and its associated union clearly contradict that assertion, as I show in my political biography of the president, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. Why did Obama deny his ties to ACORN? The group was notorious in 2008 for thug tactics, fraudulent voter registrations, and its role in popularizing risky subprime lending. Admitting that he had helped to fund ACORN’s voter-registration efforts and train some of their organizers would doubtless have been an embarrassment but not likely a crippling blow to his campaign. So why not simply confess the tie and make light of it? The problem for Obama was ACORN’s political arm, the New Party. The revelation in 2008 that Obama had joined an ACORN-controlled, leftist third party could have been damaging indeed, and coming clean about his broader work with ACORN might easily have exposed these New Party ties. Because the work of ACORN and the New Party often intersected with Obama’s other alliances, honesty about his ties to either could have laid bare the entire network of his leftist political partnerships. Although Obama is ultimately responsible for deceiving the American people in 2008 about his political background, he got help from his old associates. Each of the two former political allies who helped him to deny his New Party membership during campaign ’08 was in a position to know better. The Fight the Smears website quoted Carol Harwell, who managed Obama’s 1996 campaign for the Illinois senate: “Barack did not solicit or seek the New Party endorsement for state senator in 1995.” Drawing on her testimony, Fight the Smears conceded that the New Party did support Obama in 1996 but denied that Obama had ever joined, adding that “he was the only candidate on the ballot in his race and never solicited the endorsement.” We’ve seen that this is false. Obama formally requested New Party endorsement, signed the candidate contract, and joined the party. Is it conceivable that Obama’s own campaign manager could have been unaware of this? The notion is implausible. And the documents make Harwell’s assertion more remarkable still.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/7/2012 5:27:34 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 224705

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (134549)	6/7/2012 5:56:36 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224705

A Walker win and the slap heard round the world (Video) posted at 12:02 pm on June 6, 2012 by Howard Portnoy In August of 1945, it was a returning sailor planting a kiss on a nurse in Times Square. In February of 1968, it was a bullet fired at point blank range into the head of a Viet Cong member in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. In May of 2010, it was a smugly defiant Nancy Pelosi and fellow House Democrats conducting an impromptu in-your-face parade through the streets around the Capitol. Each of these Kodak moments captured an historical event more eloquently than words ever could. Each marked a turning point. Last night the most recent snapshot was added to the album. It was the moment in this video when a disgruntled voter in Wisconsin walked up to Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett and slapped him in the face. According to Real Clear Politics, the unknown assailant was angry that Barrett had conceded the election while voters in his city continued to cast their ballots. However, ABC News reports that the concession came shortly after 10 p.m. Central Time, which means the polls had already been closed for an hour. Either way, the video and the still from it make for a fascinating commentary. They mark a sea change in the way the American people are likely to think about labor unions going forward. The slap certainly registers a telling blow to public employee unions, which drove the petition to force a recall election. ( Michelle Malkin has a must-read piece on the despicable practices of the Wisconsin teacher’s union during the long battle to collect signatures and enlist support among state voters for Walker’s ouster.) The images also open a revealing window onto the liberal-Democrat temperament. Who doesn’t recall the holier-than-thou posture displayed by members of the mainstream media and political class following the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords? True, the slap last night (or The Slap, as it will henceforth be known) was hardly incapacitating, and according to reports the woman who delivered the blow asked Barrett whether she could slap him. Nevertheless, imagine that Walker had lost and the slap had come from a frustrated Republican. What would the liberal press have done with that?