A ‘Grassroots’ Group With the Backing of ‘Deep-Pocketed Liberal Groups’? Yes You Can!
President Obama’s 2012 campaign manager and Organizing for Action’s national chairman Jim Messina. (Getty Images).
The Obama administration last week introduced the world to Organizing for Action, a supposedly grassroots-powered political group that would “change politics from outside Washington,” as POLITCO puts it.
But like most things in politics, nothing is what it seems: The group is “closely affiliated” with “insider liberal organizations” funded by people like billionaire philanthropist George Soros and corporations including Lockheed Martin, Citi, and Duke Energy (to name only a few).
OfA “has quietly sought support from the same rich donors who backed Obama’s campaigns, asking for help from Democratic donors and bundlers in town for the Inauguration at a closed-door corporate-sponsored confab that featured Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker,” the report adds.
“Grassroots,” huh?
There’s more:
… invitations for the Saturday meeting at the Newseum where Organizing for Action was unveiled for the liberal big-money set came from Obama’s National Finance Committee … as well as the Presidential Inaugural Committee, the Center for American Progress and Media Matters.
Dubbed the “Road Ahead” meeting, the conference was sponsored by a White House-allied trade association called Business Forward, which is funded by major corporations including Microsoft, Walmart and PG&E – each of which sent senior executives to participate in a panel on how to boost American economic competitiveness.
“We need you. This president needs you,” Obama’s 2012 campaign manager and OfA’s national chairman Jim Messina said in his pitch to potential donors.
Messina also told conference-goers that OfA was “building a national advisory board filled with people in this room.”
For his part, OfA Director Jon Carson said “there’s going to be a place for each and every one of you.”
Now, to be fair, OfA didn’t completely dismiss its grassroots activists.
“They got their own pitch the next day at a bigger, no-invitation-necessary gathering called the ‘Obama Campaign Legacy Conference’ held at the Washington Hilton,” POLITCO notes.
“There, Carson told reporters that OfA would ‘absolutely’ be funded mostly by grassroots donors like those Obama highlighted in his campaign, rather than big corporate donors,” the report adds.
However, a spokeswoman with OfA declined to comment on the über-ritzy Newseum conference and Messina’s promise to surround the group with “deep-pocketed liberal groups.”
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Comments (61)
heidihoneighbor
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:32amDsoros is a scary little rich foreigner.
and Americans need to get him out of their politics.
Locheed, citi and all the others need to be boycotted. Dont let these liberals use your money to commit their evil sins against man
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poorrichard09
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:30am0blama’s new Propaganda Ministry and the new Goebbels.
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:34amAnd how do you propose to DO that?
We’ve been trying to vote them out since Teddy R and Wilson, over a CENTURY, and that’s worked REAL well hasn’t it?
The Collectivist Statist Redistributionists are Flesh Eating Zombies, HN. You can either Burn Em, Blow Em Away or Be Eaten BY them but those are the ONLY 3 Choices THEY leave you.
You want em “out” you got to, TAKE them out, “ALL the way OUT, you know wuhd I mean” as Jim Kirk says in “A Piece of the Action”.
Just like the Nazis and ImperialJaps, until someone kills them all they ain’t going anywhere.
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:36amAdd Tyranny Enabling Tories to the list of folks who couldn’t be gotten “out” until a sufficient number of them were SHOT out and BURNED out, BY THEIR NEIGHBORS.
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 2:26amThis just validates my point, there are no low information voters, they get high amounts of information that distorts reality and creates a fantasy world where they actually are told their civil rights are a danger to them?
They create these organizations so that citizens have no control over the media, you have to create your own web sites, so we have alternatives to the other web sites? As long as jealously and envy is allowed to exist, you don’t have a prayer? In other words, the big web sites can not marginalize the little guys out of fear of competition, they all have to unite?
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kenboo1
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 10:22amTheir civil rights are a danger to them… These civil rights require responsibility. To work in order to make a life (shelter, food, etc…). But they would rather it be taken by the state and given to them hence the term “TAKER”… Anyone who voted for Obama should be termed a TAKER!!! Any Democrat or Republican that believes in taking from the people and giving to the TAKERS should be termed a TAKER!!! The sooner we shut down the TAKERS, the sooner we can pay off the debt and clear things up… But until then, we are going to continue to be at odds with people that feel TAKING is ok as long as the state does so…
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chaplain88
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 12:07amNice to know the Troll Song guy is getting work. TROLOLOLOLOL!!!!
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The-Monk
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:16pmWhat a photo……
Skin (checks and nose) all red…. eyes bloodshot….. looks drunk to me.
That’s his “happy” smile.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:51pmHe has one of those eminently punchable faces doesn’t he? The smarmy snitch in middle school who always ran behind the teacher’s skirt after he’d put a tack on your seat, sniveling how you were being mean to him.
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texasoysterman
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 9:41amHe looks like a real poofter.
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spfoam1
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:02pmI think this guy has some chromosome damage. Is it just me, or do most of these liberals look like their ancestors somehow escaped from Sodom or Gomorrah?
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TAXEVERYONE
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 10:37amIt doesn’t matter what he looks like, how he smells or who he sleeps with. This geek got the job done twice now while we have incompetents and RINOS running our party into the ground, and 3 million morons who refused to vote.
Wake up people!
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fixer
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 3:00pmI think that when you associate with evil,it always leaves it’s mark.
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54smom
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:46pmwatch hannitys boomtown …it will make your blood boil. Rome is burning and these clowns are busy yukking it up in DC. They all have deep pockets now. We have found the 1 percent and it is them.
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garbagecanlogic
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:34pmJim looks like he has had a sex change operation – or badly needs one.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
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Paul_Vincent_Zecchino
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:35pmHe bears a striking resemblance to the Aurora theater killer. Faces can tell us so much about what lies beneath. This one’s is chilling. Fortunately, every crooked scheme carries the seeds of its own unravelling.
They’re having a time of it. Times change.
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crackerone
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:20pmBet all kids in school who beat up on him and made him turn into a millitant liberal….****-sexual, were themselves, millitant liberal…..****-sexual’s. Misery loves company.
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teapartyconservatism
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:12pmIf Beck would just report the truth, public outcry would force Obama’s removal. Pursuant to Article 2, Section 1, Obama is ineligible for not being a “natural born citizen” born in the US to US citizens.[1]
Obama was born British, as his father was a British citizen of colonial Kenya, further precluding eligibility pursuant to 1948 British Nationality Act.[2]
Police uncovered proof of Obama’s fraudulent birth certificate, altered Selective Service Registration, and stolen CT SS# suggesting he isn’t even a U.S. citizen.[3]
Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts scheduled a case regarding Obama’s forged ID to be heard in conference before the full Court on 2/15/2013.
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=375765
Pray Justice Thomas, having admitted they’re evading Obama’s ineligibility, enjoins four others to finally enforce the Constitution![4]
1. M. Apuzzo, Esq., Barack Obama: The De Facto President … Not A “Natural born Citizen”
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2013/01/barack-obama-de-facto-president-of.html (1/21/2013)
2. L. Donofrio, Esq., Why Obama is ineligible – regardless of his birthplace.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134881 (4/01/2010)
3. TPC, Is Barack Hussein Obama II Even a U.S. Citizen?
http://www.obamabirthcertificate.net/2012/06/is-usurper-obama-even-us-citizen.html (6/24/2012)
4. Drew Zahn, WND, Justice Clarence Thomas: “We’re ‘evading’ eligibility”
http://www.wnd.com/2010/04/142101/ (04/17/2010)
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cish60
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:08pmEeeeww! When I scrolled down and saw this guy’s face I was like ‘EEEeeeeeewwww’!
What is up with that? I’m glad this looker isn’t conservative…his mug would make me switch sides!
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jcldwl
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 1:46pmI agree sometimes I just wish The Blaze would leave the pictures off the articles about the communists. It turns my stomach just to look at them. You can see the evil in their eyes.
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:05pmLet’s just say if MessyJim here was a Scout Master I wouldn’t let my 12 year old go camping with him.
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Stelex
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:55pmHere is a simple tune from the 90′s to explain whats being taught and how society is being conditioned to accept it………..so pathetic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Oe5YKhzCE
Just don’t get it, keep it copacetic, learn to accept it ya know your so pathetic.
Welcome to the NWO…..we are all the same. Soon as they get rid of the guns, not so much till then.
Fight like hell folks……..this is for real
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BadDog-NoBiscuit
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:36pmWhat a mug shot! Makes me want to hit him in the face with a pie… ;)
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crackerone
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:43pmJust thinking the same thing. Looks special and ***** as a 3 dollar bill.
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Fubared
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:53pmThey could have gotten a lot of the commie message on his forehead. What a wasted opportunity. Forward would have been such a good fit too.
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cish60
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:02pmYes, this is he UGLIEST mugshot I’ve ever seen!
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:05pmyup, I wouldn’t let my 12 year old go campin with ole MessyJim
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The Big Mick
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:07pmpie my Aunt Fanny.
Baseball bat.
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The-Monk
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:28pmGrassroots looking for the big Greenbacks….
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jman-6
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:20pmWe now have the executive branch with its own PAC! What’s next I guess is the legislative & judicial branches will have there own PACS! While I love Beck and all the other conservative movers n shakers its getting very close to the point that if we sit back like most of them say it will be to late to fight back with any kind of cohesive front! Just an observation from an ole southern fundamentalist preacher but what do I know?
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:32pmHow come the blaze is not reporting on this.http://cavnews.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/obama-to-shut-down-southern-air-defense-systems-it-will-be-open-season-for-terrorists-flying-in-with-nukes-low-altitude-missiles-or-even-full-scale-invasion-of-america/
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jman-6
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:47pmIf I may repeat a famous phrase modified for our current struggle: “The war is coming and there is no retreat in submission or honor in slavery! The president and his cronies are forging our chains and you can hear their clanging in the halls of the West Wing and Capitol hill! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat again, Patriots, let it come!! Is peace in this life so sweet n dear as to be purchased at the price of chains an slavery? I know not which course others may choose, but as for me and fellow patriots, Give us Liberty or Give us Death” GOD SPEED PATRIOTS
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MDECKER
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:59pmI think that this, OfA, KGB, or whatever you call ‘em, should go door to door and try to confiscate all the weapons in the country.
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Dont_eat_me_bro
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:48pmWhat’s that? It’s Pat!
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uselogic
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:46pmJust noticed how Messina looks like he could morph into Dantius Palpatine (Senator to Chancellor to Emporer in Star Wars). Serious jowlage. And the association is a close fit.
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redfish52
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:39pmI have a feeling that this is going to backfire on them….as did their stupid “occupy movement”. That’s the problem with old Democrats…they think they are perpetually young and the college age students will think they are the ********……to funny…makes me giggle.
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civilwarcometh
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:58pmWish we would do this..http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/25/us-russia-gay-idUSBRE90O0QT20130125
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:39pmOf course Grassroots actions for Dems means heavy sponsorship from very wealthy donors, throw in the support from Unions, and of course the rent a mobs they provide, toss in a few welfare recipients, and Voila, you have a genuine grassroots action. Of course if there is a sudden spontaneous conservative movement, it’s called a “Domestic Terror” event. Unless of course, if they bring rocket launchers and machine guns, it’s called a “Demonstration” that got out of hand.
But the good thing is, they have never had all the aborted babies protest, you would have to have a psychic and ouiji board for that.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:55pmThis is more like gold plated Astro Turf!
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:07pmOr Crabgrass.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:18pmLOL DARMOK. I was borrowing part of a phrase from Nancy In The Sky With Diamonds.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 9:26pmNancy’s netherregions are covered with crabgrass, her medusa **** has roots so deep they come out her toes, and has nothing but weeds for brains.
And yes you are correct, she would call this a golden astroturf movement, but the ends justify the means.
Where are the ruffins that would harrass this old lady and say Nee to her?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIV4poUZAQo
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The-Monk
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:08pmOK, where did my post go? : (
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DefyTYRANNY
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:36pmOk cool, lets start some “Grassroots Liberal (front) Organizations” start a front website copy and pasting the talking points, and spend the money to figt them. They have their heads so far up their arses they likely would never notice as long as you put on a good front show.
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ALL4FREEDOM
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:36pmManure by any other name still smells.
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:41pmBut the Dems say fresh manure also keeps you warm, just ask the Sandy survivors.
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Cosmos102
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:35pmGetting donors means everything to Democrats. And they’ll do anything to get the vote. It’s the reason they handed out Obamaphones. Everyone of those people got phone calls reminding them to go vote. After the election, the contracts were allowed to expire. I predict new Obamaphones will be handed out before each election.
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catty
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 8:38pmWrong again. Surely you aren’t that stupid.
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Fubared
Posted on January 26, 2013 at 8:01amCatty, not sure where you were around Nov 6 but buses, church van, vespas, and mules were utilized to bring in all kinds of people; some still sporting crack pipes, Wild English Rose breath, and salsa still drying on their face to vote for your nekkid emperor and English was optional for all. Are you even in the US? Under ADA, with your vision, you can be a seeing eye dog, Catty. Catty the dog, what would your friends not drink or smoke to celebrate that accomplishment?
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woodyee
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:34pmNow we may know where a lot of the “STIMULUS” money went – into yet ANOTHER money-laundering operation of the DemonicRats.
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Stelex
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 7:57pmTarp, stimulus one and two, QE’s ……..all our money is now going to the Dems. Every dime you pay in taxes all the debt. What do you think is holding the stock market up. Our money is about to be used against us. At the right time, riots will occur, the stock market will crash, EBT cards will fail, ATM’s will have no cash, marshal law will be declared and we will have to make some quick decisions. It will be fast, it will be ……… go time.
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