An insider look at the Obama campaign – we’re really screwed!
Posted by: The BoBo // Category: A Nation at Risk, America, Congress, Constitution, Democrats, Media Bias, Obama, Pelosi, Politics, President, Socialism, US Constitution, communism, government, marxism
Before I get to the discussion – I received this in my e-mail from “M.F.” – it’s titled “Obama is taking this country in a “hole” new direction.”
Now – on to the real story – Journalist regales Wednesday Club with tales from the Obama campaign
The journalist is Charlie Hurt – a reporter for the New York Post. He was one of the first reporters that got thrown off the Obama campaign plane after months of following him around the world. He got kicked off the plane because he wrote a piece about Obama and stated “that Obama didn’t care about winning or losing in Iraq but just getting out.”
But – there are some VERY disturbing things in this piece. It is essentially an article covering Charlie Hurt giving a speech regarding his days with Obama. Once you get through all the fluff-n-stuff – we uncover some real nuggets that shows us not just how smart a political operator Obama is – but – just how dangerous he is:
“Obama ran such a brilliant campaign so full of hope and promise in these dreary times that it was hard for anyone not to see some light there. And the folks in my business rushed towards that light as if it were the only hope to be found.
“And it certainly didn’t hurt their cause that every reporter covering Obama knew exactly what they faced if they crossed the campaign’s propaganda police.”
From the cornfields of Iowa to the sands of the Middle East, Hurt followed Obama during the presidential primaries, giving Hurt a unique position to comment on the political tsunami that swept Obama into the White House.
Note the second paragraph there. The Obama campaign intentionally quashed dissenting opinion. Those who didn’t play the game were not going to get access. Despite what Obama has said about not bringing up the Fairness Doctrine again – the fact is – he has several Congressmen and Senators drafting legislation right now. Only – they aren’t going to call it the Fairness Doctrine – it’s a backdoor attempt around the FCC they are calling “localism.” Do you honestly think Obama won’t sign it in to law considering the way he treated reporters?
The rest of this piece is very chilling – it shows just how shrewd a man Obama is and how brilliantly his campaign “played” the masses. I’ll just post the rest here without any additional comment – you have to read it all for yourselves to grasp the full meaning of it. I have highlighted some sections to draw them to your attention.
On the campaign road
Enter a future president.
“Two years ago, Barack Obama was nothing more than a freshman senator from Illinois with two years in national office and some experience as a community organizer,” Hurt said. “And he had one very strange name, especially the middle one that we’re not allowed to utter.
“But it’s important to note what no one — especially Hillary Clinton — realized at that time. He was a gifted speaker, sure. But he was also a very shrewd political operator, very smart, very disciplined, very driven and very organized.
“We all had some great laughs listening to Sarah Palin ridicule this community organizer, but it was just that experience, magnified a thousand-fold by the Internet, that made Obama’s campaign the most brilliant in modern political history.”
Hurt said the first hint that things might not go as expected was “amid the vast cornfields of Iowa” as he trekked along with Clinton, Edwards and Obama.
Contrasting Clinton’s disorganized campaign with Obama’s “cool, hopeful and meticulously organized” campaign, Hurt related how Obama would spend 20 minutes at diners throughout the state, chatting with people, but leave in his wake “a smart political machine.”
“Long after Obama had left, campaign volunteers remained, talking to every person in Obama’s wake, vacuuming up names, phone numbers and email addresses of every person there,” Hurt said. “This information — pure gold for a smart political machine — was put into a massive and growing database and became the foundation of their grassroots organization.
“And he was doing the very same thing in every state across the country.”
Hurt followed Obama’s first world tour to Amman, Jordan, where Obama suddenly became shy about speaking in front of crowds, Hurt said sarcastically. “He wasn’t about to get seen in a cheering crowd of Muslims in Amman. Something about his middle name.”
After “tiptoeing through the minefields of the Middle East,” it was on to Europe, where Obama regained his “avowed love of speaking before huge crowds.”
“People traveled from all over Europe to see this man who wanted to be America’s president,” Hurt said. “And, just like American voters here, they filled the empty vessels of ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ with their own ideas.
“An end to the Bush regime. An end to ugly American Imperialism. An end to this idea that radical Islamic Fascism is to be crushed with might.
“Obama really had put political magic in a bottle — the kind that every cheap politician dreams of: effortlessly being all things to all people.”
At an Obama speech at the Victory Column in Berlin, Hurt answered the invitation to go past heavily armed American commandos, up winding stone steps and onto the balcony underneath the Victory statue to look down on the crowd of 200,000.
It was there Hurt observed an eerie historical parallel.
“I walked to the railing and could see Obama’s little head,” Hurt said. “The crowd swelled around him, and as I looked more than a mile down the wide boulevard to the Brandenburg Gates, it was a sea of faces, standing in slack-jawed amazement of the One (sic) they had come to see.
“Now I don’t readily believe that Obama is some kind of Manchurian candidate, groomed to sneak in and dismantle the American Constitution. I think he honestly believes in what he says.
“But at that moment I was struck by the obvious: This was not the first time in this city that so many had assembled to hear — unquestioning — the hopeful, pleasing words of a great orator.”
Playing serious gamesThe well-oiled campaign continued, even as Obama accepted his party’s nomination in Denver, never leaving anything to chance and never failing to maximize an opportunity, Hurt said.
Sitting at the top of the Denver Broncos’ stadium, Hurt watched as a game hatched by the campaigners stretched Obama’s grasp, unbeknownst to the players.
“They put up on the JumboTrons huge maps of the United States and told everyone in the audience to use their cell phones to text the campaign,” Hurt said. “Each time a text came through, a little light popped up on the screen signifying where the person was from. Then they told the audience to text or call all their friends and family to do the same.
“It became a great game where everyone from New York was trying to outshine San Francisco, while people from Florida tried outshining the people from Chicago.”
But for the Obama team, it was no game.
“Just like the volunteers at the diner in Iowa, the Obama team was downloading the cell phone number of every person — the 80,000 there in the stadium and tens of thousands across the country — who were texting in as part of this little game,” Hurt said.
“Even as Obama was accepting the Democratic nomination, his campaign machine was still building the unstoppable force of volunteers, foot soldiers and voters that would carry him to historic victory.”
Just as Obama couldn’t seem to do anything wrong, the Republicans didn’t seem to do anything right.
Hurt admitted that the Republicans not only faced an uphill battle but also waged a “terrible campaign” as the “daily barrage of fawning coverage” the press supplied Obama played a major role in his win.
“What will be interesting to see is how Obama — notoriously thin-skinned — handles the press coverage when it turns — and it always turns — if things continue to muddle along the disturbing path we’re on,” Hurt concluded.
I just hope whoever comes up against him in 2012 gets a grasp of the technology as well. This country is screwed if we can’t find a way to compete and combat this tactic. He wants to control the media and the messages in the media, your healthcare, and your money – all of which he appears to be doing. What harm can that do? Read this article over at Did I miss something? and see if you see the parallels now!
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March 9th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Jeez this guy is scary. Well, it’s more scary that so many people fall for his pretty words. *sigh*
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Reply to megscole64
March 10th, 2009 at 2:07 am
There is nothing scary about Obama. There is something scary about a “journalist” who thinks that because he was kicked off a campaign that there is something wrong with that. Any candidate can kick anyone off the campaign plane. And yes, they carefully control their message. That isn’t quashing dissent, that’s managing the message. Look how they did that with Sarah Palin — a know-nothing governor of a nearly population-less state, bordering on moron. They didn’t even let her talk to the press unless it was super-managed. When she talked to the press one day on her own they called it “going rogue”.
I can’t believe anyone believes that a well-run campaign is somehow sinister. It’s how they all do it on the federal level. There is nothing even remotely scary about Obama. Really truly scary was George Bush, who set aside entire chunks of the Constitution — and spied on us — and tortured people — and started ridiculous wars that we didn’t even need to start. Obama is a HUGE improvement over the brainless Bush.
Reply to Shelly
March 10th, 2009 at 4:18 am
I used to think Obama was a great speaker. But I have come to realize that his is a good speaker, not great. Look what happens to Obama when he doesn’t have the teleprompter. He stutters and stumbles all over himself. He is nowhere near the class of speaker Ronald Wilson Reagan was.
@Shelly,
You sound very much like one of Obama’s sheeple. Obama cannot handle anyone who disagrees with him, that is why the reporter was kicked off the campaign. Look at how they handle Limbaugh and Cramer now. Just so you know, Cramer is a democrat.
Obama is a scary person. He wants to change everything that made this country great. He wants to change the American spirit. Where a person can go as far as he wants based in his own hard work and his ideas. He wants to replace that with cradle to grave government. He want to punish success with higher taxes, so he can buy votes by giving it to those who have made it their jobs to live off government assistance. Notice I said made it their job to live off government assistance. That does not include those who really need help, which are far fewer than those who made it their jobs.
Tyypical Obama sheeple statement about Sarah Palin. That statement you made was part of Obama’s “managed message”. Don’t blame Palin for not talking to the press, blame the McCain campaign. It is one of the reasons they lost. She has more Chief Executive experience than all of the Presidential and VP candidates combined. The Obama sheeple think she is stupid because they disagree with her beliefs. You see, Obama sheeple in particular and democrats in gerneral, think they are smarter than everyone. That is why they know better than the individual how to live each person’s life and how to spend each person’s money.
You know, I am no fan of Obama but I will say this, I hope he is treated with more respect than people like you treated President Bush. I can only imagine how badly the Obama sheeple would lose their minds if Obama was treated exactly as President Buash was treated. I am sure you all would have Stalin like death squads roaming the streets killing those who spoke ill of the saviour.
Now could you please give me any part of the Constitution that President Bush set aside? Please be specific by providing an Article or Ammendment. I would like to look up your claim in the Constitution. Can you name one person who was spied on? Can you tell me who was tortured? Again be specific. What was the torture. I ask these questions and for specificity because your statements sound like more of the “managed message”.
I will stop here and wait for your answers. Believe me, I have many more questions for the Obama sheeple.
Reply to Raider Steve
March 10th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Hi Bobo,
The tactic the Obama people used to collect cell phone numbers, is that ethical or lawful? That’s like stealing personal information to me. Isn’t it? That’s scary.
Hi Steve Raider,
You got me chuckling of the way you addressed our friend Miss Shelly there as an Obama sheeple. I think there’s no point discussing with her and others like her. They’re deciples of the president and no amount of talking sense into them will ever change their minds.
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Reply to tashabud
March 10th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
@Shelly – you scare me! What the Obama campaign did is brilliant. I’m not stating that it was unethical or anything other than great marketing. THAT is the scary part. We could find ourselves with another 4 years of the worst presidency in history if the other party doesn’t figure out how to combat such bold marketing tactics.
Regarding your other assertions – Raider Steve pretty much covered it. I read your blog about the so-called torture of that terrorist that Obama released from GITMO. Laughable at most – sad that you buy in to it. First – he was tortured by Morroccans – not Americans. Second – listening to eminem blaring for 24 hours while being shackled is torture? Puhleeze! Well – if you don’t like eminem I could see how it could seem tortuous. Considering it was murdering scumbag like him that beheaded our soldiers and innocent civilians – I’m sorry – a little discomfort is not torture.
As for spying on us? Are you talking about the phone taps of known or suspected terrorists receiving phone calls from known or suspected terrorists from out of country? Apparently, you don’t understand how that surveillance works. There is no one actively listening on to any phone conversations in the beginning. This is controlled entirely by keyword algorithms and only select phones are being keyed in on. If one of those key words or combination of keywords comes up – then the tapes roll automatically. Later on – a transcriber will listen and transcribe the conversation to be analyzed later. There is no ACTIVE monitoring of your phone calls going on in this country. I’m with Steve – please come up with known examples that have been reported where a normal law-abiding citizen has been actively “spied” upon or detained as a result of the “wire-taps” or because of the patriot act.
@Raider Steve – good follow-up. We’ll see if she has a response.
@Tashabud – you’re right on the mark with that. If these people did not sign something stating their cell phone numbers would be collected for future use – it is an invasion of their privacy and is illegal. Considering how brilliantly the Obama campaign operated – they probably covered these bases somehow. There are Federal laws on the books that explicitly state that no information (cell phone numbers, telephone numbers, health information, e-mail addresses, etc.) may be collected without informed consent.
Reply to The BoBo
March 10th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Tashabud,
Thank you but I really didn’t mean it as an insult or anything like that. It is people like Shelly who claim conservatives only watch Fox News. Us conservative are fed our information from Fox according to them. But as The Bobo can attest, and me for him, I happen to know a little about communications surveillance. Shelly just happened to pick the wrong site to make her “spy” claims. There are laws that detail very sprecifically what can and cannot be done with reference to communications recordings on which US citizens can be heard.
The Bobo is absolutely right about how it is done. First of all, Shelly’s claim doesn’t pass the smell test. I wonder if she understands just how many phone calls are made in a single day in the US. I mean those originating in the US to foreign countries, those originating in foreign countries to the US, and those solely within the US. It is not even possible with today’s technology to listen to all of those phone calls. So, to cut down the time spent on listening to phone calls of no intelligence value, parameters are set up just as The Bobo described. These are very narrow and targeted numbers and conversations. Her claim leads me to believe she has no experience in this activity and thus must be repeating part of what she called the “managed message” and if all she is doing is parrotting the “managed message” that would thereby make her the definition of a Obama Sheeple. Again, no offense intended.
I still hope she answers so I can check out the Constitution and where this so called torture took place. I need a definition of torture. Because the way some people define torture, yelling at an enemy combatant would constitute torture.
You know I went to the USAF Survival School, I wonder if people like Shelly would consider the training I received as my being tortured. I saw a classmate of mine actually get water boarded. That was over 25 years ago. To this day, my classmate and I are friends and he is perfectly fine and has no ill affects. We were all grateful for the training and the knowledge we received and knowing what to expect to a small extent.
Are there such things as torture, sure there are. I think Daniel Pearle’s widow would consider what they did to him as torture. I think the widows of the four contractors in Iraq who were mutilated, burned, and hung from a bridge would say their husbands were tortured. But where is the outcry from people like Shelly for those people? The truth of the matter on torture; it is very effective in the short term only. It is counter productive in the long term. Someone using torture has about two weeks to a month then it becomes counter productive.
But, I am sure Obama and his sheeple are much smarter on communications surviellence and interrogation methods than anyone who might have training and/or 20 years of actual on the job experience.
Sorry for rambling on for a while.
Reply to Raider Steve
March 24th, 2009 at 9:41 am
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