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The Obama campaign was a massive grassroots mobilization, but a year later, has the organization that grew out of it failed to keep up the momentum? Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Forum says yes and furthermore that the campaign was never as grassroots as billed; Karoli of the blog Odd Time Signatures says no, Organizing for America is keeping up the good work. We'll also be speaking to Geoff Berman, New York Deputy Field Director for OFA.
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We mobilized because we thought that Obama would take on the corporations (military and other).
Instead he appointed Goldman Sachs to finance, Monsanto to ag and FDA.
In looking at him and the way he relates to his wife and kids, and knowing how he must have been influenced for good by his time living in Hawai’i, I still believe this is a good man.
I can only think that the power of the corporations is so entrenched that NO ONE can fight them. Or more ominously, in the view of Russ Baker and John Perkins that presidents who buck the corporations don’t live long: http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/2009/11/12/russ-baker-john-perkins/
By paiagirl on January 6th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Yeh, I think, too, part of it is how the President is informed: not only is he surrounded by wolves in sheeps clothing, but the way he gets information can only be an abstract of reality from a source which picks and selects what parts of reality the President will read/interpret. The Gaza strip is a great example. Instead of travelling to Gaza and visiting the hospitals and interviewing families torn apart by the war in person, the President simply reads reports and watches the news–which can never be honest representations of the reality itself. I think this is the problem with many good people: they never really know a reality itself,like the war in Palestine; but, at the same time, they try to draw conclusions which are founded on abstractions reported by people not even trying to answer the most important questions. Anyway, enjoying Hawaii with the family is good; he’s being a good family man.
By gordsd on January 7th, 2010 at 6:01 pm