i dissent
Posted: August 13, 2008 Filed under: No Obama | Tags: Denver Convention, Loyalty Oath, No Obama EVER 8 CommentsIf there was any false ideal that the folks sitting in the bleachers of Invesco Field were anything but the Hopium-addicted, this should abuse EVERY one of that notion.
Some potential attendees to Barack Obama’s big convention speech say they’re turned off by a demand from the campaign: Volunteer six hours to help the candidate if you want a chance to get seats.
Organizers for Obama’s Aug. 28 acceptance speech are expecting a crowd of some 75,000 supporters at Denver’s Invesco Field at Mile High. The Obama campaign says no one is being forced to volunteer for the campaign in order to put their name in the running to attend the event, according to The (Denver) Rocky Mountain News.
Let’s just assume the Obamanation doesn’t want any possibility of protests and chants of Hillary during the coronation ceremony. I’ve beginning to think my use of 1984 metaphors during this campaign was NOT over the top. Not only do we have Obama collecting folks unlisted cellphone numbers via a hyped announcement of VP pick media campaign, a Hitler Youth like movement that encourages young children to open their own Obama sites and attend trainings, we now have loyalty oath requirements to get a seat to see a supposedly democratically nominated candidates convention’s acceptance speak. What next? Tattoos for those of us that dissent?
No wonder Obama voted for FISA.
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But after putting in the 6 hours, you are still not given a ticket…you are given the ‘chance’ of a ticket. The 0 is very subtle in his wording…it is like dealing with a slippery teen ager.
I’m assuming they’re going to call this part of the GOTV, but it sure smells like big brother to me.
I think we should keep doing everything in our power to help Obama since he seems to be trying so hard to lose. Wonder why the DNC won’t let him. I’m beginning to think he’s an undercover PUMA.
I’m just wondering when the Democratic Party decided that it wasn’t in favor of Democracy any more.
Was it when they decided that ousting the Clintons was more important than anything else?
This is an alert to every free-thinking person in N.Y. state. It is time for you to all register your anger and shock at the tactics of the Democratic Party.
Their latest threat to Hillary is to knock her out of the running in her next Senate bid if she doesn’t release her delegates to Obama before the convention. Most of you probably don’t realize that, with Florida and Michigan back to full-strength, there could be as little as 40 delegates difference between the two candidates. That is out of a total of over 4000!.
So, to get the nomination for their messiah, they are saying that they will deny you the Senator you elected twice. In other words, New York, you really don’t matter. This is a Chicago thing, and they aren’t about to let something as inconsequential as the political honesty of another state stand in their way.
You should contact the DNC, and your local offices of the Dem. party and tell them just what you think about this latest attempt to bully the process we call democracy, in your state. You should also contact Hillary Clinton, through Hillpac, and let them know not to worry about the future, that the people of New York have her back!
Let me tell you right now, I have made my calls, and if she were Florida’s Senator, there would be h— to pay for this.
Please, you don’t think this is too much? The amount of admiration Obama gets from fans is pretty creepy, but it doesn’t warrant Nazi comparisons. There’s no faster way to undermine your point than to make comparisons to Nazi Germany, as if the praise heaped onto a center-right politician by teenagers is comparison to Fascism.
But don’t mind me, I’m not even going to be voting for Obama (probably). I’ll be voting third party: http://tinyurl.com/5w9w9v
I’m very careful about throwing the Hitler comparisons around, believe me, but the programs that the Obama campaign has for young kids goes above and beyond just creepy. So does the request for them to put blogs up on his page to talk about him.
I guess i could make comparisons to the Young Pioneers or something like that instead. The deal is that a number of sites and folks from the PUMA movement have received some really over the top threats and insults. This has included leaving dead rabbits at folks door and threats via phone. You can’t believe what most of us clean out of our troll filters and what is said … I used to get hit by right to lifers all the time for being pro-choice so I’m used to threats and intimidation, but some of the stuff we all get from obama supporters goes WAY beyond that.
I think comparisons to the rise of Hitler and Naziism are no problem, if the comparisons are actually legitimate. Do you remember when that German official said that what George W. Bush was doing (¿wrt Iraq?–don’t remember now) was like what Hitler did before some other thing? Well, all heck broke loose. Now, who would know better than a German? But Bush et al, couldn’t take a friendly warning. Same with Obama–can’t take any advise from people with actual experience.