Showing posts with label Organizing for Action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Organizing for Action. Show all posts

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Organizing of Action: Dangerous Group Imperiling the American Republic?

The article below has been circulating all over the Internet, especially on Facebook. A friends have tagged me with posts of this article.

I decided to repost and comment on it.

For the record, I researched whether Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist for the Washington Post, actually wrote the article below, and there is nothing to support that conclusion.



For now, I will recognize Krauthammer as the author for now.

By Charles Krauthammer (Attributed)

I do not understand how living in a country with its democracy established over 200 years ago, and now, for the first time in history, suddenly we have one of our former presidents set up a group called "Organizing for Action" (OFA).

Organizing for Action was designed to push the rigorous, unflinching, progressive agenda of President Barack Obama, and the whole movement dragged down the Democratic Party, since OFA was obsessed with Obama only but paid no attention to future leaders.

OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our current president’s administration is trying to do. This organization goes against our Democracy, and it is an operation that will destroy our way of governing. It goes against our Constitution, our laws, and the processes established over 200 years ago. If it is allowed to proceed then we will be living in chaos very much like third world countries are run. What good is it to have an established government if it is not going to be respected and allowed to follow our laws?
If you had an army some 30,000 strong and a court system stacked over the decades with judges who would allow you to break the laws, how much damage could you do to a country? We are about to find out in America!

There needs to be more evidence of what OFA is doing to destroy our Constitution. I fear that the bigger threat to our constitutional Republic is not a rag-tag group of angry protesters, but the bureaucratic Deep State in Washington DC which does not want to see its power and control over the federal government finished off.

I do not feel that these dire concerns are irreversibly detrimental to our country, either. The bigger concern is the large number of college students who are attracted to socialism, communism, and government command-and-control intervention.

Instead of going after OFA per se, how about conversing with college students and changing their minds on these contentious issues.

Our ex-president said he was going to stay involved through community organizing and speak out on the issues and that appears to be one post-administration promise he intends to keep. He has moved many of his administration's top dogs over to Organizing for Action.

OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for this revolution.

Yes, but let' s not forget George Soros, the Deep State, and the Establishment GOP more interested in holding onto their own power than doing right by the US Constitution.

Looking over the OFA website, it's pretty obvious that their actions and movement is not as strong as other conservative forces fear.

OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for "progressive" change. Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform.

That weasel phrase "immigration reform" is an insult. The Left wants full-blown amnesty and grants of legal status, even citizenship for illegal aliens. There can be no reform when there has been no enforcement in the first place!

Sexual equality is an insane, Marxist agenda, too. Men and women are distinctly, essentially different. No one is going to change that, no matter how much time or effort is forced into the process. All the hormones and surgical procedures in the world cannot turn a man into a woman, and vice versa.

OFA members were propped up by the ex-president's message from the shadows: "Organizing is the building block of everything great we have accomplished Organizers around the country are fighting for change in their communities and OFA is one of the groups on the front lines. Commit to this work in 2017 and beyond."

Here's more reason to hope, actually. All the organizing (and voter fraud, and government handouts) could not get Crooked Hillary elected. There was no way that 

OFA's website says it obtained its "digital" assets from the ex-president's re-election effort and that he inspired the movement. In short, it is the shadow government organization aimed at resisting and tearing down the Constitutional Republic we know as AMERICA.
Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, “The OFA will fight President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House."

Whatever fighting they claim to be accomplishing, it isn't working, especially since his party holds the reins of power in both chambers of Congress.

Sperry writes that, “The ex-president is setting up a shadow government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the operation from their home/ office in Washington DC.
Think about how this works.. For example: Trump issues an immigration executive order; the OFA signals for protests and statements from pro-immigrant groups; the ACLU lawyers file lawsuits in jurisdictions where activist judges obstruct the laws; volunteers are called to protest at airports and Congressional town hall meetings; the leftist media springs to action in support of these activities; the twitter sphere lights up with social media; and violence follows. All of this happens from the ex-president's signal that he is heartened by the protests.

The lawfare waged by the ACLU and the Muslim interest groups should be taken far more seriously. If OFA is the money behind all of this, then indeed we need to pay close attention. Tort reform is a must in our political culture, especially when rogue federal judges announce that they can strike down key portions of President Trump's duly empowered executive orders.



If Barack Obama did not do enough to destroy this country in the 8 years he was in office, it appears his future plans are to destroy the foundation on which this country has operated on for the last 241 years.

I say "Good Luck!" to that!

If this does not scare you, then we are in worse trouble than you know.

So, do your part. You have read it, so at least pass this on so others will know what we are up against. We are losing our country and we are so compliant. We are becoming a "PERFECT TARGET" for our enemy!

Charles Krauthammer

Final Reflection

Yes, I am well-aware that President Obama was going to stay hard and heavy in American politics. Unlike other Presidents, he had no intention of retiring from trying to fundamentally transform the United States.

The good news, however, is that men and women across the country are awake and aware, and they are organizing for action of their own against the disgusting attacks and undermining cult of the Left to take down the United States.

The political correctness and the left-wing agendas which tumbled out of the entertainment, education, and information industries has fallen down, crashing and burning. No one is going to stop the American people, now fully enraged with the disgrace and disregard of the Obama Administration against American citizens.

Organizing for Action is a real force, but they are not a strong force. I suggest Americans spend more time focusing on the Deep State and work with local and independent media to expose corrupt politicians and failing, left-wing agenda makers. We should also thank God for Trump, and that he has willing partners in the United States Senate who have brushed aside the arbitrary dilatory tactics of the Democratic minority against judicial nominees. Trump is going to fill up an unprecedented number of vacancies throughout the federal judiciary. Those appointments will stifle OFA's abusive lawfare.

With Hollywood, Big Labor, and left-wing corporations losing revenue, these left-wing operations will struggle to fundraise and carry on their aggressive progressive agenda, too. Let's not forget that Heritage Foundation has set up their own media and organizing efforts, too, and they are succeeding!


Sunday, November 5, 2017

"Rules for Revolutionaries", aka The Left Has Learned Nothing from Their Loss (Preliminary Reflection)

Now this was an interesting book that I found at my local library.

It's called Rules for Revolutionaries, and I borrowed it in part because I was looking for Saul Alinksy's cult classic Rules for Radicals. The library had the book on file, but apparently it got lost in the archives or misplaced somewhere, so I went with this book instead.

Rules for Revolutionaries (RFR) was written by Becky Bond and Zack Exley, two grassroots organizers who worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign. They talk about the incredible volunteer militia they put together to get Bernie Sanders to run neck-and-neck with presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.



The Sanders campaign had an incredible army of activists and organizers, it's true. It's also pretty alarming, since so many young people are convinced that socialism is that answer to the world's evils. This is really scary stuff, folks, especially when these college-aged youth are supposed to be the future for this country.

We need to combat this!

Anyway, the two authors used the book to outline their views on how the Progressive Left can organizer and coordinate better to win in Election 2020. They are so committed to Bernie Sanders, that they go out of their way to point out what he did well, and they do not spare him criticism--to ensure victory for the future.

The book RFR was even published in Vermont! I wonder what they think of "Vermont Carry" when it comes to the Second Amendment .... (more on that later).

Here are the rules which they write to "Change Everything":

1. You won't get a revolution unless you ask for one.

2. The revolution will not be handed to you on a silver platter.

3. The revolution will not be staffed.

4. Fighting racism must be at teh core of the message to everyone.

5. Get on the phone!

6. The work is distributed. The plan is centralized.

7. The revolution will be funded--by small donations,

8. Barnstorm!

9. Fight the tyranny of the annoying

10. Give away your passwords

11. Don;t let the perfect be the enemy of the big.

12. Learn the basics of good management

13. If there are no nurses, I don't want to be part of the revolution.

14. Grow complexity by solving problems as they arise.

15. Only hire staff who embrace the rule "The revolution will not be staffed"

16. Best practices become worst practices

17. The revolution is not just bottom up; it's peer to peer.

18. Repeat "rinse and repeat".

19. There's no such thing as a single-issue revolution.

20. Get ready for the counterrevolution (to include your friends)

21.Put consumer software at the center.

22. People new to politics make the best revolutionaries.



Already, one can tell that these writers (they are not that young) are trying to bite off far more than they can chew.

Even Alinsky did not have this many rules.

Another problem, which is quite apparent: the two writers are focused on process, and not principles. Men and women are not going to organize for a set of policies of people who do not command any respect. There has to be a mission behind the message.

What are they pushing, these two starry-eyed Bernie-crat revolutionaries? Socialism.

Socialism blows. Socialism sucks. Socialism KILLS!



In the next few posts, I am going to analyze some of their points of discussion and departure, then outline at length how all of this is a total fail.

There will be no revolution because this great country already had an excellent Revolution in 1776, and it is still a success!

Monday, October 23, 2017

Organizing for Failure: Obama Gets into the Redistricting Fight

Please, Barack, just go away!

No one likes you. You ruined the Democratic Party.

You have made it harder and harder for progressives to hold their heads high, to act as if they have anything to be proud of.



Yet here he goes, sticking his nose into another set of "Reforms", when what he is really after is another set of policy frauds to try and increase Democratic power in red states.

Maybe Obama should sit back and realize that he has done just about everything wrong since he entered office, and just go away.

But no ... Organizing for Action is back in the forefront. He refuses to go away.

From: Barack Obama
To: ----------------------------
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 8:37 AM
Subject: Our path forward

 
Organizing for Action

Robin --

When I left office, I asked you to embrace the responsibility of active citizenship -- to get involved in our political process, regardless of which way the pendulum of power swings. And over the course of this year, I've seen millions of people answer that call.

You signed up with OFA to take action, and your efforts made a difference. All summer long, for example, you called your members of Congress, you showed up at their town halls, and you used your voice on social media to protect people's health insurance from partisan politics. And it worked.

Together, you've stood up for science and stood against hate, you've marched for women's rights and protested a divisive immigration agenda.

You're doing the hard work of citizenship. You've inspired me all over again. You remind me of the energy that fueled our campaigns in 2008 and 2012. And I know that once again, we can turn that grassroots energy into real, lasting change.

That's why I'm writing you today.

Soon, our states will be redrawing their Congressional and state legislative district lines. It's called redistricting, and it will take place in 2021, after the next Census takes place. That may seem far off, but the time to get started on this issue is now.

This is our best chance to eliminate the partisan gerrymandering that has blocked progress on so many of the issues we all care about. Simply put, redistricting has the potential to be a major turning point for our democracy. But we need to be prepared.

That's where the National Democratic Redistricting Committee comes in. Led by Eric Holder, my former Attorney General, they're the strategic hub for Democratic activity leading up to redistricting. In partnership with groups like OFA, the NDRC is building the infrastructure Democrats need to ensure a fair outcome. But they need your help.

Sign up on this page, Robin, and let them know that you want in.

The NDRC is providing a comprehensive strategy for the path forward. They're challenging unconstitutional maps in court, and doing the necessary state-by-state electoral work to make sure Democrats have a seat at the table for redistricting.

To support them, OFA volunteers and supporters will provide the grassroots organizing capacity and mobilization that we'll need to win state-level elections and move other initiatives forward ahead of the 2021 redistricting process -- making sure that states are in the best position possible to draw fair maps.

Systemic gerrymandering has favored one side over the other in literally hundreds of congressional and state legislative districts around the country.

If we're ever going to truly achieve our vision of an America that works for everyone, we have to draw our districts so that politicians are encouraged to cater to common sense, not rigid extremes.

Getting that done will require participation. It will require each of us continuing to accept our responsibility to be active, engaged citizens.

This fight matters, and OFA and the NDRC need you to be a part of it. Say that you will be:

https://my.ofa.us/Fair-Democracy

Thank you,

President Barack Obama 

Final Reflection

Barack Obama wants to blame redistricting for why he could not advance his policy agenda.

This is delusion writ large. This man single-handedly got more Republicans elected to higher office than any GOP Presidential candidate or President in recent memory.



His policies were awful. His agenda was anti-American, and the American public were fed up with a political class more interested in insulting the public--and forcing them to pay for it--rather than doing what was right for the community and the country as a whole.

On the other hand, I hope that Obama continues to campaign around the country for Democratic candidates and causes.

The Republicans in Washington need to fight and ensure President Trump's agenda. We cannot have any stalling on the MAGA Agenda!

Monday, July 10, 2017

Organizing for Failure: Obama Acolytes Scrambling to Rescue "The One's" Legacy

The state of California is the last stand for the left-over, no-more legacy Obama Administration.


It's gotten so desperate for the regressive Left still pining for "The One", that former staffers and campaign volunteers are running for office in California, desperate to do whatever they can to hold onto the progressive "victories" of their hero.

Funny, but true.




 What's really sad, though, is that the local paper for my community, The Daily Breeze, published this article, even though it was originally released in the Bay Are News Group, since Southern California News Group belongs to the same larger and yet ineffective corporate media organization that is falling apart all around us.

The press is in a bad state as it is, and the fact that they are promoting Barack Obama and his liberal loony acolytes in a major new item is really sad!

Former Obama staffers say they’re running for office to protect his legacy

OAKLAND >> As one of Barack Obama’s top political organizers, Buffy Wicks plotted national campaign strategy, mobilized support for the Affordable Care Act and helped marshal the thousands of volunteers who carried Obama to the White House.

With the way things are going for Democrats around the country, maybe this young lady will run for office, too:

Early on Thursday evening, Wicks stood in front of a circle of 14 voters in a sun-drenched living room in the Oakland hills, fielding questions about housing costs, charter schools and bicycle safety. This time, she was working on a very different campaign: her own state Assembly race.

Here comes the Dem-on-Dem bloodbath!

Wicks is one of at least 20 former Obama administration staffers who have decided to seek elected office around the country in the eight months since President Donald Trump’s election. From former interns to senior officials, they’re running for everything from school board to city council to Congress to governor.

Part of the inspiration is simply being out of a job. If Democrat Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, many would have been contenders for top White House posts. But most say they also feel a responsibility to protect Obama’s hard-won policies as the Trump administration tries to put them through a wood-chipper.

Wow! Another politically Freudian slip right there! For Democrats, government and elected office is all about having a job. That's it. They don't want to serve the people who elected them. They don't want to protect the rights

“We have to let Trump know that we’re not all standing here watching him dismantle the legacy of President Obama,” said Wicks, 39.

Great. We can watch you run for office and scream in Sacramento will Obama's legacy gets dismantled, destroyed, and interred forever in the political ash-heap of history.

Only a handful of Obama staffers quit their jobs to run for office in the eight years he was in the White House, including Obama’s first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, now Chicago’s mayor. But Trump’s election “accelerated a lot of people’s decision-making about wanting to serve and wanting to lead and get out there,” said Jeremy Bird, another top organizer on Obama’s campaigns. “I don’t know how many would have run without Trump.”

Speaking of Bully Rahm Emmanuel: how's he doing? The city's homicide rate is skyrocketing, the pension crisis will bust the city, and businesses are fleeing so fast, that the exodus out of Illinois exceeds the exodus out of California!

In his farewell address in January, Obama encouraged his fans to run for office. “If you’re disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard, get some signatures and run for office yourself,” he said. “Show up. Dive in. Stay at it.”

Oh brother!


Many have taken that advice to heart.

Assuming that they have a heart!

Wicks, who grew up in a trailer in rural Placer County, joined the Obama campaign in 2007 as employee number 32 after stints on local campaigns and former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s presidential bid in 2004.

Oh No. Just what California needs---another regressive leftist in Sacramento taking from everyone who works for living and giving all the gravy to those who vote for a living.

As the field director for Obama’s California primary race, Wicks is credited with developing a model of grass-roots organizing that became the bedrock of his national campaign strategy. She adopted ideas from social movements, dividing volunteers into local teams and enlisting them to run the campaign neighborhood by neighborhood.

Let's see how that works out going into Election 2018.


In the White House, Wicks organized advocacy groups supporting the passage of the Affordable Care Act. She still remembers sitting in the Roosevelt Room with Obama and other senior staffers watching the final votes come in.

Yes, every single vote that was paid for through treachery, bribery, and outright extortion.

The budget reconciliation from the US Senate to the House was a complete travesty of Democracy. The legislation barely passed!

And it still has not passed muster with the vast majority of voters in the country!

Seeing Trump and Republicans work to repeal Obamacare helped prod her to run, Wicks said. “They are literally trying to defund and take away health care from the most vulnerable in our society in order to give the wealthy tax breaks,” she said.

Yes, we are.


Wicks, who also ran Hillary Clinton’s 2016 California primary campaign, moved to Oakland a year and a half ago. Her campaign to represent the 15th Assembly District — which includes Richmond, Berkeley and north Oakland — has ruffled some feathers among the other candidates: local office holders who have lived here for decades.

Grassroots v. Establishment is now defining the Democratic Party in California, the same way these growing pains overtook then straightened out the Republican Party.

“Voters want people who have been doing the work of standing and fighting alongside the residents … not someone who has lived in a district for just one year,” said Jovanka Beckles, a Richmond City Council member who’s also running for Assembly.

Now that's rich. Democrats who fight for working people? Really? What a joke.

“I get that I’m an unorthodox candidate,” Wicks said, but “I had my daughter in this district. I bought my home in this district. … I’m committed to this district.”

No she isn't. The very idea that a Democrat would be an unorthodox candidate is just nuts. The Obama Administration was the epitome of establishment cronyism

The star of Wicks’ campaign events is Josephine, her rosy-cheeked 7-month-old daughter, whose due date was Nov. 8, 2016. “I thought she would be born the day we elected our first woman president,” Wicks said. Then Trump won, and Josephine waited — she was born two weeks later, on Thanksgiving. “That was her first act of civil disobedience,” Wicks joked.

Democrats who exploit their children for polit

Other Obama staffers running for office in California include Ammar Campa-Najjar, 28, who jumped into a San Diego congressional race this year.

Obama’s 2008 victory was revelatory for Campa-Najjar, the son of a Mexican mother and a Palestinian father, who at the time was “a brooding, biracial kid” struggling to define his identity.

Oh brother! Biracial and pro-Palestinian That's right this boy wants to play the victim card as far as he can. Boring!

Sad too! No more victims, please!

Obama, still lurking behind the scenes

Campa-Najjar organized volunteers as San Diego field director on Obama’s re-election campaign, interned at the White House reading letters sent to the president, and worked in the Labor Department helping develop job-training programs.

Obama had the dubious distinction of winning by fewer electoral and popular votes during his 2008 election bid. It's too bad that Romney wasn't a stronger candidate.

Obama “gave me this ticket to my dreams to serve in Washington,” he said. “But it was always a round-trip ticket — I’d always come back home and serve.”

He’s one of several Democrats challenging Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican in one of the most Republican districts in California. Campa-Najjar said he’s planning to “do the Obama model” of campaigning and focus on a strong ground game.

This shows how delusional the Democrats are in California. They are targeting Duncan Hunter and Devin Nunes, two of the most conservative Congressmen in the most Republican districts in the state of California. They are nuts if they really think that they can knock those two conservative incumbents out of office. Not only that, but the assembly and state senate districts are untouchable too.

Not going to happen. The hope an change rests with the Trump Movement--and it's paying off!

Kelly Gonez [SIC! Gomez!], 29, interned on Obama’s campaign and worked as a policy adviser in the Department of Education before running for and winning a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education earlier this year.

The LAUSD School Board is now pro-reform and pro-charter.

More good news for education advocates. The politics of education is still hurting our kids and Los Angeles County.

“I’m a very introverted person, so being in elected office was not something I pictured for myself,” the former science teacher said. But Trump’s election made her realize that her work for the federal government — helping write handbooks for educators about how to support undocumented students and consulting on policies banning immigration enforcement activity in schools — was under threat.

See what I'm talking about? It's all about making money. Check out how in bondage the Democratic Party is to the textbook industry, desperate to make money at taxpayers' expense.

“Seeing someone try to take away undocumented kids’ opportunity to get a good public education made me think a voice like mine was needed,” she said. Besides, she added, the fact that Trump became president helped alleviate her doubts that she was qualified for school board.

I want to deport Kelly Gomez along with all the illegal aliens. Shameful. Apparently she hasn't been paying attention. LA Unified is losing students, and they are facing massive budget shortfalls. Will the district even survive four more years?

Other Obama administration veterans turned California candidates include Jeff Bleich, a former presidential counsel and ambassador to Australia, who’s running for lieutenant governor; Eleni Kounalakis, Obama’s ambassador to Hungary, who’s also a candidate for lieutenant governor; and Alejandra Campoverdi, the former White House deputy director of Hispanic media, who ran unsuccessfully in the special election for a Los Angeles congressional seat earlier this year.

Californians, wake up! Barack Obama will not go away easily. Please, we need to fight back and win! We cannot allow this liberal lunacy to persist in any part of the country. Stop these Obama successors from taking a stake of any kind in the state of California!

Obama himself isn’t expected to make many endorsements or campaign appearances, but his alumni network is a powerful support group for candidates launching their first campaigns. Candidates such as Wicks can turn to their former colleagues for a leg-up in raising money, recruiting staffers, earning endorsements and fine-tuning campaign strategy.

Sure, that same alumni network called Organizing for Action, which turned into a total dud and ruined the Democratic Party all over the country. Yes, OFA fools, please agitate and organize as hard as you can. Watch them lose all over again. The Democratic Party as a functioning entity will implode much like the state of California.

“It’s not unusual for people who served in presidential administrations or campaigns to run for office in their home states,” said Jim Brulte, chairman of the California Republican Party. But “it seems like with (Obama staffers) it’s more organized than in previous administrations.”

Ya think?


For his part, Obama is watching his former staffers take up the mantle from afar, Kevin Lewis, Obama’s post-presidential spokesman, said in an email:

“It doesn’t surprise him that the staff that joined him on (his) journey, and worked every day on behalf of the American people in the Obama administration, are emerging as the next generation of leaders and elected officials.”

Obama the worst President ever!

Final Reflection

Why won't you die, Obama?

Easy--his whole life has been anti-American hate. His father, a communist from Kenya, taught him rugged, rigid hatred for the United States. He taught like Barry Soetero to hate everything Western, everything Christian. This man will be exposed to be one of the biggest Trojan Horse frauds pushed onto this country.

It's time to make sure that his legacy of spoiled, entitled government politicos don't last long in politics. They do not care about this country. They do not car about Americans. They have no respect for constituents. They only care about themselves and making big money.



Nothing more. Surely, even in California we can take the necessary stands to stop this nonsense.

Sunday, February 19, 2017

The Democratic Party Hates Obama's Organizing for Action

Well, this is welcome news, isn't it?

Apparently, Organizing for Action has turned into a big fat failure.

Who would have guessed? Democrats really believed that a bunch of spoiled, screaming razor-blade snowflakes invading town halls and lecturing people about their Western, white privilege was going to be well-received.

These obnoxious organizers are so out of touch with reality. They don't seem to recognize that working men and women of all backgrounds are barely making ends meet.

Most parents--you know, responsible people who care about the future, want to ensure that their kids are safe, that the trains and the buses move on time, and the roads are safe and secure.

Of course, Democrats across the country are pushing a secular utopia in which the government has all the answers, and everyone answers to the state.



That's not a Utopia, by the way.

That's a discredited tyranny, one which has fallen again and again to the denizens of time and truth, of tradition and life.

Friends of mine and well-connected political operatives have been telling me over and over that Organizing for Action is going to make Trump's Presidency one disaster after another. All these young people and old hippies are going to rebel and fight in the streets, demand socialism at all costs, and harass politicians until they do what the protests and the liberal organizers want.

Here are the problems they are facing:

1. Working people have begun to organize, motivated by deeper beliefs and motivations than whatever OFA can offer.

2. The promises for "marriage equality" and Health Care for All has blown up in their faces. Why? Economics. There is not enough of other people's money to spend.

3. The Democratic Party in red states and throughout the country is chaffing under the arrogant stupidity of the whole OFA aggravated agenda.

Chek out what the Daily Beast reported:

It is difficult to overstate just how enraged state Democratic activists and leaders are with Organizing for Action (OFA), the political and community-organizing army that grew out of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns.

Trouble in paradise!

Get out the popcorn, Republicans, especially in blue states, where OFA had the most impact, since the states were bent on enacting statewide socialism at the outset.

The nonprofit, which functions as a sort of parallel-Democratic National Committee, was founded to mobilize Democratic voters and supporters in defense of President Obama’s, and the Democratic Party’s, agenda. Instead, the organization has drawn the intense ire, both public and private, of grassroots organizers and state parties that are convinced that OFA inadvertently helped decimate Democrats at the state and local level, while Republicans cemented historic levels of power and Donald J. Trump actually became leader of the free world.

Let's never forget that the President is also the de facto leader of his party.

Barack Obama failed miserably in this respect.

The entire state conference for the Democratic was decimated, absolutely wiped out.

It's so bad for Democrats, that there are Republican governors in otherwise reliably Democratic states:

1. Massachusetts (Even though Baker is a total RINO)
2. Maryland
3. New Jersey (for Obama's entire Presidency, Chris Christie was governing the Garden State)
4. Vermont
5. New Hampshire
6. Illinois (and Republicans gained seats in the state legislature in 2016!)

and more

Republicans now have a full trifecta hold on 25 states, and enjoy control.

Nice job there, Barry! His preening arrogance and refusal to listen to American voters has all but assured a weakened if nto entirely decimated Demcoratic Party for the near future.

These intra-party tensions aren’t going away, especially now that OFA “relaunched” itself last week to protect the Affordable Care Act, boost turnout at congressional townhalls, and train grassroots organizers gearing up for the Trump era.

This push is the essence of tone deaf. All American voters, Democratic and Republican, hate Obamacare. This program gets an F on every metric.

The President rammed this terrible law through Congress without one Republican vote. Democratic lawmakers had to be bribe with pork and earmarks to vote for it.

The state exchanges have failed all over the country, even in deep blue states like Massachusetts

“This is some GRADE A Bullshit right here,” Stephen Handwerk, executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party, wrote in a private Democratic-listserv email obtained by The Daily Beast. Handwerk was reacting to news of OFA’s post-election retooling, which was shared “without comment” to the group of state-level Dems by Crystal Kay Perkins, executive director for Texas Democrats.

The Democratic Party has become completely anti-democratic, refusing commentary or appraisal from the Democratic operatives themselves.

“It also to me seems TONE DEAF—we have lost over 1,000 seats in the past 8 years… all because of this crap,” Handwerk continued. “Let’s get through the next two weeks—but then we gotta figure this out and keep the pressure on. WOW.”

Obama lived in his Saul Alinksy bubble, folks. The Democratic Party has itself to blame for electing Barack Obozo in 2008. Who would have believed that Barack Obama would be the best gift ever given to the Republican Party?

Who indeed?

In fact, Democrats look at OFA as a counter-party which actually disrupted their basic affairs!

Such grievances, though expressed privately, are nothing new among state Democratic Party leadership.

“[With] all due respect to President Obama, OFA was created as a shadow party because Obama operatives had no faith in state parties,” Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb told Politico last week.

“I love and adore everything about President Obama except for OFA,” South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison (who is also running to chair the Democratic National Committee) said at a recent DNC “future forum,” according to The Washington Post.

But therein lies the problem. Obama and OFA are one. His whole presidency, his whole political career, has been endless, left-wing activism. Is anyone surprised by this? State Democratic Party leaders are going to keep losing until they recognize that their pre-eminently popular (?) Democratic President was the worst thing to happen to them as well as to the country.

They fact that they are trying to divorce OFA from Obama himself shows that Democrats are further embracing permanent minority status.

President Obama, himself a proud community organizer, had long been credited with leading a savvy, vigorous grassroots campaign to win the White House in 2008. However, it wasn’t long after he first stepped into office before state-level Democrats all around the country began sounding the alarm that his formidable grassroots army was being left to wither and rot.

Obama never cared about his party, just as he never cared about the state of California, Delaware, Rhode Island, as well as the other states of the union. Obama was an anti-American radical from Day One who wanted to fundamentally transform this country. A political party in the American system that becomes dedicated to tearing down the system--is not going to last very long within the system.

Furthermore, just days after the second inauguration of President Obama, DNC members were still loudly expressing fear that OFA ran the risk of denting the national party’s fundraising and (more importantly) diverting much-needed resources and organizing power.

Obama the worst President in history


Too many Democrats started seeing OFA as just another boogeyman. For instance, when reached by The Daily Beast for this story, two Democratic operatives independently referred to OFA as “The Devil.”

Wow! Democratic infighting was in full force just after Obama's re-election?

Then came the floodgate of scandals. Then came the Obamacare rollout. They came the very low Democratic turnout in 2014, and now we have Donald Trump in the White House, while Republicans now control Congress and the Presidency.

OUCH!

“If we were having a conversation about state parties, I would say OFA hurt state parties badly,” Handwerk told The Daily Beast, elaborating on his leaked email. “It certainly had an undercutting effort. And there is a lot of work state parties do that isn’t very sexy… and that becomes incredibly difficult when budgets are cut in half because people are trying to curry favor with the president and his allies.”

What? Barack Obama was not a team player, but a me-player? Really?!

Anyone who was not drinking the kool-aid could tell that former President Barack Obama was a pompous jackass who disdained everyone who did not agree with him. Even fellow Democrats endured this reckless disregard from the Presidency. He mocked Elizabeth Warren and others who did not agree with him on anything, did he not?

Handwerk, who has worked in the red state for years, says his personal experiences with OFA weren’t bad, per se—it’s that they were nonexistent.

“Supposedly, Louisiana has had, on paper, a state director for OFA who has been in the role for what I’m told is multiple years—none of us know who she is,” he said. “She only just followed me on Twitter [four] days ago. That’s how I know who she is.”

Democratic leadership is all on paper.

All of it. Nothing substantive or real ... at all!

This OFA state lead is Carolyn Sawyer, who told The Daily Beast that “I really have not talked with [Handwerk]. I’m sure he’s aware of us. I’m sure they’re aware of what we’re doing but there doesn’t seem to be an interest to come together on what we’re working [on].”
Sawyer, who says she has been in the position since as early as 2013, contended that “we have reached out to the Louisiana Democrat Party [and] would be more than happy to come together to work on issues… But [as to] why he doesn’t know what we’re doing, we haven’t been secret. I can’t speak to that.”

Why do you think that the Louisiana Democratic Party and Organizing for Action never worked together? Because OFA's agenda ran completely contrary to the will and witness of Louisiana voters. The only reason a Democrat won the governor's race in 2015 was that the Republican candidate was morally flawed, and former Governor Bobby Jindal's economic program did not roll out well with enough time.

When asked if she was aware of the tension between the state party and OFA, she said she was “not quite aware, but I do know that it exists.”

After Obama handily won re-election in 2012, Handwerk says that OFA came to town to present Louisiana Dems with a gameplan. The outside group was purportedly ready to send organizers down south, to help prop up and “like-minded people” in deep-red areas.

“They told us this, so many of us didn’t see them as a threat,” Handwerk said.

Obama’s second term passed, and Louisiana Democrats say they saw promises unfulfilled.
“Nothing has really been done here,” the executive director lamented. “I have not seen any real evidence of OFA doing any real work, certainly not here in Louisiana.”

Talk to Democrats across state lines, and you hear similar stories. “I was never a fan of OFA,” Marcel Groen, chairman for Pennsylvania Democrats said, tersely.

The decimation of the Democratic Party during, and leading up to, the Age of Trump is not, however, any single organization’s fault. The DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign raised many times more money than OFA for the 2016 cycle, and that didn’t stop President Trump, either.
To the defeated and angry liberal activists and operatives, OFA is just one of several “devils”—one that is emblematic of large-scale institutional problems.



Yes, like the fact that the Democratic Party has become communistic, atheistic, and tyrannical.

They do not embrace American values and they do not care about the American people.

“We’ve seen over the last eight-plus years a deterioration of permanent state infrastructure,” one red-state Democratic operative, who requested anonymity, said. “And OFA built an alternative infrastructure that was very top-down. OFA’s actions were wasteful, duplicative, and it made no sense… There were these tensions on the ground that we saw that all over the country. Local officials felt tossed aside. A lot of these red states were abandoned. The OFA model was never a 50-state strategy—it was about the president’s agenda.”

Sounds like a government entity: "wasteful, duplicative, and it made no sense".

When asked if there was much confidence in the newly rebooted OFA, the operative simply said, “It’s like seeing an ex-girlfriend show up.”
Members of OFA would, of course, strongly disagree with such assessments, and are quick to point to their track record during presidential races.

Of course they would disagree--they are arrogant and out of touch just like their god Barack Obama.

“OFA is focused on investing in grassroots organizing nationwide—we’re engaging people who have never been involved before, connecting them to others in their communities, and empowering them to realize their own ability to enact change,” Jesse Lehrich, OFA communications director, told The Daily Beast in an email. “Building this kind of well-trained network of volunteers who can mobilize to win fights on key issues boosts the progressive movement in both the short and long term. Just look at Obamacare: OFA volunteers are organizing with their fellow constituents to ensure lawmakers hear exactly what’s at stake for them if the law is repealed, and the tide is rapidly turning.”

Also, OFA isn’t completely without defenders at the state level. David Pepper, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, told The Daily Beast that the best thing a reeling Democratic Party can do right now is not censure OFA, but learn from its victories.

One question: what victories?

“The president created something that did really good organizing—it won states we otherwise would not have won,” Pepper said. “My attitude is learn everything there is to learn from its incredible successes. For state parties, we should mimic what made it so strong… However, the strength of parties has obviously eroded because too much emphasis has been put on building out other organizations. In some ways, I think OFA becomes something of a scapegoat for the erosion of state parties.”

They won states that Democrats had not won before, then Democrats lost a number of states which Republicans had not won in 28 to 32 years:

Wisconsin
Michigan
Pennsylvania

Trump almost won Minnesota, too, and he was very close in New Hampshire, too.

And as Democrats struggle to navigate the uncharted, treacherous terrain of the Trump years, Obama’s one time grassroots juggernaut will be right there fighting alongside them. Now, it’s a matter of the group convincing a host of skeptical progressives that it can still be a worthy ally.
“I don’t know what the mission is with the new OFA, what the purpose is supposed to be,” Jaime Harrison told The Daily Beast. “There are a lot of these various [outside] groups… and if having all these other groups means diminishing the impact of state parties, that’s where I have a problem. We need to figure out the best path forward. Now, that doesn’t necessarily mean a world without OFA, but… we have to focus on rebuilding the party across the board, not just focusing on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

OFA was Obama's baby. They did not care about the state parties. The whole movement was a cult of personality! Of course, Obama refused to prepare a successor for the group.

Now what about Politico? What did they have to report about the broken infighting between the Democratic Party and OFA?




Democratic State Party Leaders: Obama's Organizing For America 'GRADE ABulls***'

At least Politico has slightly better journalistic standards.

Slightly--they did not write the complete word "Bullshit".

Behind closed doors, Democratic state party leaders don’t have a very high opinion of Barack Obama’s group Organizing for America (OFA). We now know this because of emails that were leaked, illuminating the contempt the party leaders had for Obama’s wrecking of their party.

As The Daily Beast documents in a lengthy report, “The organization has drawn the intense ire, both public and private, of grassroots organizers and state parties that are convinced that OFA inadvertently helped decimate Democrats at the state and local level.”

Did I say high journalistic standards? Well, they relied in greater measure on The Daily Beast, for what it's worth ...

Last week, OFA “relaunched” itself to defend Obamacare, increase turnout at congressional townhalls, and train grassroots organizers. NBC News reported, “OFA has hired 14 field organizers in states home to key senators as part of its campaign to defend Obama's signature healthcare law . . . OFA is looking to expand into other issue areas as well, like climate change and gun control.”

Obamacare cannot be defended. Period. For this reason, Organizing for Action is organizing for failure.

But Stephen Handwerk, executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party, wrote in a private Democratic-listserv email, “This is some GRADE A Bulls*** right here . . . It also to me seems TONE DEAF—we have lost over 1,000 seats in the past 8 years… all because of this crap. Let’s get through the next two weeks—but then we gotta figure this out and keep the pressure on. WOW.”

Oh, but there was so much more:

The "so much more" which Politico reports on includes the rantings and ravings of the other state Democratic Parties all mentioned in The Daily Beast.

What's interesting, though, is that the Maine Democratic Party leadership shared their concerns, too.

Maine has been a reliably blue state since 1992, but for the first time in its history, a Republican presidential candidate won an electoral vote!

Incredible! For the first time in over nearly 20 years, a Republican Congressman represents the state of Maine, too.



Democrats are losing ground all over, and worse than what Republicans had lost in 2008. Indiana went Democratic, then shifted back to Republican in 2012, and two years before that Republicans dominated the Hoosier State from Top to Bottom!

OFA is DOA for the Democratic Party, and if they don't get these unprincipled activists under control, the DNC will be DOA next!