MoveOn announces 'most important campaign ever'

MoveOn announces 'most important campaign ever'

Impressive. MoveOn.org says they're going after the lobbyists. Who would believe this who is not a full-fledged liberal Kool-Aid drinker? I frankly find it hard to believe.

It's obvious, it is true: We need to get rid of myopically motivated, morally questionable corporate-agenda-floggers to achieve legitimate progress and improvements in a wide variety of areas. There are many people seeking sway in Washington, though. MoveOn.org is of course omitting many in this email from their tiny little far-left liberal CentCom in NYC.

I think MoveOn.org is invested in blockading others so that special-interest liberal lobbyists -- those who favor and fund Democrats -- will have more room to proceed. It is that simple, I would gamble. They ought to be called on it.

They are speaking to a pack of amateur activists with little use for in-depth facts, perhaps, but their omission of the more powerful lobbies needs to be brought out, loud and strong. Notice that there is no mention of education lobbies -- which are steadily eroding the value of our public education with the watering down (and filtering all leaders from fed to state to local) with interest to protecting bad teachers and apathetic education leaders, the broad reach and influence of labor lobbies (a wide range, they give members' money to liberal ideals only, and force-feed influence about liberal agendas to their members), and the state and local government employee lobbies (these guys fund more politicians than anyone and are around 98% Democrat-funding, which makes me thoroughly suspicious of every government worker statewide and locally). There's the common joke, for government workers, that they would have to kill their supervisor to lose their job, generally. There's a logical motivation for that absurd comment, and the monstrous lobby machine for gov't workers is clearly party to that problem.

See for yourself at OpenSecrets.org -- the "Heavy Hitters" lists shows who is leading among cash cows for political parties.

When grouped, these labor and employee and teachers' unions are vastly more influential than any energy or medical field lobbying groups. Yet, we moan and groan -- liberals do -- about the industry lobbyists. How is it we are going to change energy and health care, but not teaching and labor, and that is ? That is a clear agenda that is not mindful of everyone, but of liberal groups.

I am for excellent teachers and effective workers. I am one. Or, I have thought so. I.Q. of 130, business educated, helped start three companies and I find myself a bit off the tracks right now. That's unfortunate for me and my wife, but no one else. But the lobbying problem is a bigger, broader problem.

It seems there is a goal with lobbyists to level the playing field not for excellence, but for the mundane and uninspired to excel in teaching, but gaining ridiculously high incomes for very nontechnical jobs, and other offensive things that are ruining education, manufacturing, and more. If the lobbies, all lobbying groups, were at all balanced in their motivations, it would be a good thing. They prove they do not have any balance -- they are not only self-serving, but vacuously so.

Begin forwarded message:

There are literally tens of thousands of lobbyists in Washington, funded by countless millions from corporations and industry groups. The oil and coal companies. The pharmaceutical industry. The HMOs. The telecoms. They're all gearing up right now to stop any bold health care bill or energy plan dead in its tracks.

They're going to fight Obama at every step. We have to be prepared to fight back harder.

That's why we've launched a huge campaign to flood Washington with the voices of real Americans who are crying out for change. On TV, on billboards and buses, in district offices and the halls of Congress, we're going to amplify the voices of MoveOn members and make Barack Obama's progressive mandate impossible to ignore.

Our plan is really ambitious. And it'll take serious money. MoveOn doesn't have Exxon or Pfizer to go to—we only have each other. Can you chip in $15 per month to fund this big campaign? It's easy—we bill your credit card each month, and you can cancel any time. Just click here:

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/gobig.html?id=15164-6281706-tz9M5jx&t=3

After the election, MoveOn members felt strongly that we needed to keep the momentum going and continue organizing for change.

Right now, volunteers are gathering hundreds of thousands of stories and photos and signatures of the real Americans who are hungry for change. We'll deliver them to our representatives in Washington in January, in the biggest day of grassroots action MoveOn has ever organized.

Obama won a powerful mandate, and we're going to make sure nobody forgets that.

Even with volunteers doing almost all the work, we'll still need money to pay organizers, print materials, and run ads. Can you help out with a monthly contribution of $15?

https://pol.moveon.org/donate/gobig.html?id=15164-6281706-tz9M5jx&t=4

Thanks for all you do.

–Peter, Ilyse, Justin, Wes and the rest of the team

MoveOn.org pretends it only wants realistic change (the email)

Want a poster?
This is the message from MoveOn.org that inspired this (linked) post.

From: "Nita Chaudhary, MoveOn.org Political Action" <moveon-help@list.moveon.org>

Date: November 10, 2008 14:03:36 pm EST

Subject: Want a poster?

Victory Poster Can you chip in $20 or more to support our big new campaign to support Obama's progressive agenda? If so, we'll send you we'll send you a full-sized poster of this amazing "Victory" design. Click below: Poster Click here to get a poster

Dear MoveOn member,

As President-elect Obama (isn't that still so fun to say?) reminded us in his speech on election night, this victory itself is not the change we seek—it's a chance to make that change. To win things like clean energy, health care for all Americans, and an end to the war in Iraq, we need to keep fighting alongside Barack Obama.That's why we're launching a massive new campaign to help pass Obama's progressive agenda.

And to raise the money for that campaign, we've decided to offer an amazing Shepard Fairey "Victory" poster to everyone who donates $20 or more.Can you help launch our campaign to back up Obama—and get this beautiful poster to celebrate our win? Click below:

http://pol.moveon.org/shepposters/?id=15094-6281706-gs9Tytx&t=6

We know that change won't be easy. The oil companies won't give up their stranglehold on our economy without a fight. Already, pundits are starting to say that our economic crisis makes real reform impossible—when really, it's more necessary than ever.

Think of all the people who came together to make this amazing victory possible. If we can keep organizing—if we can keep getting stronger—we can win the changes we dream about.But that'll take resources. So please chip in at least $20 to our grassroots campaign. And you'll get to own this little piece of history as well—a beautiful way to remember our victory, and a small token of our thanks. Click here:

http://pol.moveon.org/shepposters/?id=15094-6281706-gs9Tytx&t=7

Thanks for all you do.–Nita, Daniel, Laura, Justin and the rest of the team

Want to support our work?We're entirely funded by our 4.2 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here [de-linked].

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PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to xx xxxxx on November 10, 2008. To change your email address or update your contact info,click here. To remove yourself from this list, click here.

Al Gore: My personal request to you

Al Gore is a buddy of MoveOn.org, and somehow that's OK.
My life currently sucks. This creepy kind of stuff just makes it suck more.

For all of you who thought any of the following:

#1. Al Gore deserves a Nobel Peace Prize

(Granted, he was second-billed, only SHARED it with a U.N. group,

but look who took all the P.R. from it. And media isn't liberal?

Please -- fine example right here of propagandizing for the left in mass media.)

#2. Al Gore cares about the environment, people, and things beyond politics

#3. Al Gore has some shame and/or sense of honor

#4. Al Gore never uses -- least of all, in writing -- wacky, inane scare tactics (See below, "science fiction movie")

#5. Al Gore is generally scary (see "rising up..." and "his vision of ... change")

#6. Al Gore should leave his elitist, expensively endowed, high-carbon-footprint mansion in Tennessee

MoveOn.org are the leftist propagandists of so-called progressive activist groups. Their idea of progress is lying about the enemy to get people not to just not vote for them, but to hate them -- thus, Obama has nothing to do with them (at least, as far as I recall). Thoroughly lying, not even bothering with exaggerating.

Who is their enemy? Conservatives. Republicans. Anyone who disagrees with Al Franken, Bill Maher, Michael Moore (and Bozo the Clown, I think, too -- seeing a pattern?).

And here's Al Gore, like Ted Kennedy before him, and -- funny this -- never Barack Obama, writing on behalf of MoveOn and Obama. Barack can't get his hands too dirty, though, since that would go against the Democratic trend toward protecting him from anything controversial, this professional candidate. Obviously one could never get to become presidential without being out there answering questions, etc., etc., rejecting -- at your leisure -- the paranoid, militarist crazy people who were your pastors, etc.

I wonder how all these people will feel when they recognize, theoretically, that Barack has been using, them like throwaway old dish towels, to get what blind ambition always wants: power. To be the end-all and be-all of -- well, of all. Al Gore has pretty much agreed to that, below.

Well, I hope it hurts very very bad, whenever that is. But, sadly, it is going to hurt for all of us, unless Obama proves to be a puppet and lets actual leaders do the job -- but he won't. Second thought, I doubt it will hurt at all, since they've got a belly full of Obama Kool-Aid already, swilling around, keeping them dopey, happy, sleepy and the rest of us grumpy.

Begin forwarded message: Dear MoveOn member,

I know something about what can happen in close elections. And we've only got 8 days left to make sure this isn't one of them.

We are witnessing history in the making. Millions of young people are getting involved in politics for the first time. A leader named Barack Obama is rising up to unite America behind his vision of progressive change. Yet we know from 2000 that progress is not inevitable. Victory can fall just out of reach. And the difference of a few thousand votes can put our country on a decidedly different path.

That's why I'm writing to you today to personally ask you to volunteer with the Obama campaign to help get out the vote this week. Everything we've worked for together hangs in the balance in these next few days. The Obama office in Orlando still needs more volunteers and I'm hoping you can help. Click here to sign up:

http://pol.moveon.org/obama/volunteer/?office_id=32&id=14722-6281706-wC3RYxx&t=1

I know that MoveOn members have the power to swing elections. In 2006, you made over 7 million calls—I made some myself—and together we won back both houses of Congress. And already this year, nearly 120,000 of you have signed up to volunteer for Obama in battleground states.

But the stakes this year are too great for any of us to sit it out. We're facing two wars and an economic meltdown. The climate crisis, in particular, is worsening more quickly than predicted and without strong leadership from the next president, we could face consequences right out of a science fiction movie.

Barack Obama will provide that leadership. But only if we all make sure he wins. Please sign up to volunteer today.

http://pol.moveon.org/obama/volunteer/?office_id=32&id=14722-6281706-wC3RYxx&t=2

Yes we can,

Al Gore

Want to support our work? We're entirely funded by our 4.2 million members—no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs (yeah, just George Soros). And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. ...

Fight the Smears: The truth about Barack's plane ... is that the paint is not smeared at all

Fight the Smears | The truth about Barack's plane

The truth, also, is that he placed his logo on the tail, not that the plane did not have an American flag anywhere. But this is the nifty message he wants everyone to share, because it is so darned important to correct the kooks claiming his plane has no Stars and Stripes on it. Go figure.

Lie:
Barack Obama has been attacked for not having an American Flag on his campaign airplane.

Truth:
Barack Obama does indeed have an American flag displayed on the outside of this campaign airplane.

He selected Joe Biden, so now I can't be too ticked off if things don't go McCain's way. But I just don't see Obama being our youngest elected president. He's just coming off as too young in substantial ways: like bluster.

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UPDATE, post-conventions (Sept 06 2008):

Well, now Joe Biden, who once claimed he would run on a ticket with McCain, basically defecated on McCain during his speech, so I am just waiting for the election. Obama is obsessed with himself, and theoretically, the masses, and Biden blew it for me. So the whole thing comes down to whether I am miserable for four years, or I will pray that McCain is elected and can manage to be a real leader. I am soooo disappointed in the whining coming from Obama's camp about every little, tiny thing -- like this airplane thing here. Give me a break!

Person Joe Biden

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