A swing and a miss.

With support for new gun-control legislation fizzling and Congress duking it out on immigration reform, President Obama’s campaign-turned-’advocacy’ group Organizing for Action has been putting together a new campaign to keep supporters riled up about the next-in-line, low-priority-to-most-Americans, non-economic, holy-grail progressive issue: Climate change, obviously. When I saw this ad in passing last week, I [...]

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He's just not that into you.

Alternate title: Self-realization can take years in coming.  One might have thought Democrats understood this after the 2010 midterms, when Barack Obama could barely be bothered to lend his organizational might to protect the House majority he wound up losing in spectacular fashion.  Instead, Democrats now shut out of Obama’s Organizing for America once again [...]

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Flip. Flop. Flip.

Oh, what next? OFA for the War Powers Act? The reorganized Obama campaign, now called Organizing for Action, is jumping into the New York state legislative effort, pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), to pass campaign finance reform that would include public financing of candidates. As first reported by Politico, the nonprofit OFA will send [...]

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Failing the duck test.

It isn’t merely conservatives griping about the dubious nature of the Obama campaign outfit’s metamorphosis from election machinery to advocacy group. The president’s lieutenants have been busily fielding a defense of the group’s intentions since they announced its new designation, with indignant questions flying at them from both the right and left. In yet another [...]

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...but actually, we do.

…but while we’re on the subject, we just wanted to send our Organizing for Action supporters this quick update about how your child is probably going to be less safe and not as well cared for at his or her public school now that the cuts are kicking in. Just a casual e-mail between friends: [...]

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Accountability.

The last twenty-four hours have been rather remarkable for those interested in politics and media.  Journalists often speak of the need to impose accountability on public officials, and to “speak truth to power,” especially when it comes to corruption and favoritism.  The New York Times dropped a bombshell into their laps two days ago in [...]

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"This just looks bad."

“This just looks bad,” says MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, and that’s an understatement.  Todd worries that the White House is “ceding the moral high ground” by having Barack Obama’s presidential-campaign-turned-activist-network pledge to provide access to the President in exchange for big bucks, as the New York Times reported over the weekend: Finally, The New York Times reported over [...]

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Super geniuses.

This week, the Entity Formerly Known As The Obama Campaign transformed itself into a lobbying/grassroots activist group, intending on leveraging its microtargeting and marketing success into generating a groundswell of support for Obama’s political agenda.  Their first project — frighten legislators into backing Obama’s gun-control proposals by touching off a deluge of phone calls and [...]

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