What a fizzle:
At Democratic National Committee headquarters yesterday morning, party workers were loading minivans with Xerox boxes, each addressed to a different congressional office. It was a classic campaign canvassing operation — except that the next election is 19 months away. “Supporters of President Obama’s Budget to Hand Deliver 642,000 Pledges Gathered from Around the Country to Capitol Hill,” announced the Democrats’ news release.
CNN and the Huffington Post dutifully reported the DNC’s claim of 642,000 pledges. Network cameras and the BBC showed up to film the operation. “We had one of the big printers downstairs smoking last night,” party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
In fact, the canvassing of Obama’s vaunted e-mail list of 13 million people resulted in just 114,000 pledges — a response rate of less than 1 percent. Workers gathered 100,000 more from street canvassing. The DNC got to 642,000 by making three photocopies of each pledge so that each signer’s senators and representative could get one.
I heard a snippet of the training video for this and I was utterly disgusted by it – mindless robots pledging themselves to Obama. Its a pity we can’t strip them of their citizenship – people with the minds of slaves should not be participants in our democratic republic. We expended hundreds of thousands of lives to end slavery in this nation, now we’ve got hundreds of thousands of people eager to have shackles bolted to them, body and soul. At least those who were held to slavery in the past yearned to be free…these slaves are afraid to be free and are seeking a master.
The stunts go on – Obama and his allies seeking to jury-rig popular applause for Obamunism. Fawning media, slick Hollywood productions, endless photo ops and sound bites. Obama is building a fairy tale – and his ardent supporters are falling for it hook, line and sinker.
Well, reality is coming – we’ll see how things look for these robots in November of 2010.
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