http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/us/pol...ed=all&_r=3&;

The GOP is doomed for eternity. As usual, they have no counter to this new 24/7 Liberal campaign/indoctrination machine. The GOP will be on perpetual defense.

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President Obama’s political team is fanning out across the country in pursuit of an ambitious goal: raising $50 million to convert his re-election campaign into a powerhouse national advocacy network, a sum that would rank the new group as one of Washington’s biggest lobbying operations.

But the rebooted campaign, known as Organizing for Action, has plunged the president and his aides into a campaign finance limbo with few clear rules, ample potential for influence-peddling, and no real precedent in national politics.

In private meetings and phone calls, Mr. Obama’s aides have made clear that the new organization will rely heavily on a small number of deep-pocketed donors, not unlike the “super PACs” whose influence on political campaigns Mr. Obama once deplored.

At least half of the group’s budget will come from a select group of donors who will each contribute or raise $500,000 or more, according to donors and strategists involved in the effort.

Unlike a presidential campaign, Organizing for Action has been set up as a tax-exempt “social welfare group.” That means it is not bound by federal contribution limits, laws that bar White House officials from soliciting contributions, or the stringent reporting requirements for campaigns. In their place, the new group will self-regulate.

Officials said it would voluntarily disclose the names of large donors every few months and would not ask administration personnel to solicit money, though Obama aides will probably appear at some events.

The money will pay for salaries, rent and advertising, and will also be used to maintain the expensive voter database and technological infrastructure that knits together Mr. Obama’s 2 million volunteers, 17 million e-mail subscribers and 22 million Twitter followers.

The goal is to harness those resources in support of Mr. Obama’s second-term policy priorities, including efforts to curb gun violence and climate change and overhaul immigration procedures. Those efforts began Friday, when thousands of Obama supporters were deployed through more than 80 Congressional districts around the country to rally outside lawmakers’ offices, hold vigils and bombard Congress with e-mails and phone calls urging members to support stricter background checks for gun buyers.

“There are wins we can have on guns and immigration,” Jon Carson, the group’s new executive director, told prospective donors on a conference call on Wednesday, according to people who participated. “We have to change the conventional wisdom on those issues.”

But those contributions will also translate into access, according to donors courted by the president’s aides. Next month, Organizing for Action will hold a “founders summit” at a hotel near the White House, where donors paying $50,000 each will mingle with Mr. Obama’s former campaign manager, Jim Messina, and Mr. Carson, who previously led the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Giving or raising $500,000 or more puts donors on a national advisory board for Mr. Obama’s group and the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the White House. Moreover, the new cash demands on Mr. Obama’s top donors and bundlers come as many of them are angling for appointments to administration jobs or ambassadorships.

“It just smells,” said Bob Edgar, the president of Common Cause, which advocates tighter regulation of campaign money. “The president is setting a very bad model setting up this organization.”

Mr. Obama’s new organization has drawn rebukes in recent days from watchdog groups, which view it as another step away from the tighter campaign regulation Mr. Obama once championed. Over the past two years, he has reversed course on several campaign finance issues, by blessing a super PAC created by former aides and accepting large corporate contributions for his second inauguration.

Many traditional advocacy organizations, including the Sierra Club and the National Rifle Association, are set up as social welfare groups, or 501(c)(4)’s in tax parlance. But unlike those groups, Organizing for Action appears to be an extension of the administration, stocked with alumni of Mr. Obama’s White House and campaign teams and devoted solely to the president’s second-term agenda.

Robert K. Kelner, a Republican election lawyer who works with other outside groups, said the arrangement “presents a rather simple loophole in the otherwise incredibly complex web of government ethics regulations that are intended to insulate government officials from outside influence.”

The closest precedents for Organizing for Action exist at the state level. In New Jersey, a 501(c)(4) called the Committee for Our Children’s Future, set up by friends of Gov. Chris Christie, has run hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of advertising praising Mr. Christie’s proposals.

In New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo encouraged the formation of a nonprofit group, the Committee to Save New York, that is run by business leaders allied with him, and it has raised millions of dollars from corporations, private sector unions, and individuals. The group supported Mr. Cuomo’s agenda — but it also thrust him into controversy when The New York Times revealed that gambling interests poured $2 million into the group as Mr. Cuomo was developing a proposal to expand casino gambling.

Organizing for Action said it would accept unlimited personal and corporate contributions, but no money from political action committees, lobbyists or foreign citizens. Officials said they would focus — for now — on grass-roots organizing, amplified by Internet advertising. Friday’s “day of action” involved half a million dollars’ worth of targeted Internet ads and events in Florida, Maine, Pennsylvania and California, among other states.

“O.F.A.’s first day of action was about bringing the issue of closing background-check loopholes into communities across the country that feel very strongly about supporting the president’s plan to reduce gun violence,” said Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for the group.

Organizing for Action has also promised to steer clear of electoral politics, unlike the politically active nonprofit groups like the right-leaning Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies and Americans for Prosperity. Such groups spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising during the recent election campaign season, ostensibly for issue advocacy, spurring a wave of lawsuits, ethics complaints from campaign watchdogs and criticism from Mr. Obama himself.

But the distinction between campaigning and issue advocacy may be hard for Organizing for Action to maintain in the prelude to the 2014 elections, especially if it continues its emphasis on pressing lawmakers on delicate issues like immigration and guns.

In Wednesday’s conference call, Mr. Carson said the group hoped to form partnerships with other 501(c)(4) groups on the left, including America Votes, which was at the center of Democratic efforts to defeat President George W. Bush in 2004 and now serves as a coordinator for progressive advocacy organizations. He also said Organizing for Action wanted to be a counterweight to grass-roots organizations on the right, like the N.R.A., according to people who took part in the call.

There should be “as much of a price to pay if you tick off the gun violence people” as there is for angering the N.R.A., Mr. Carson said, according to those people. “Let’s build an organization that means that Republicans are embarrassed to have climate change deniers running for office.”

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We twice elected a POS who cannot LEAD or RUN A COUNTRY .............but he sure as hell can COMMUNITY ORGANIZE !!

So let him put all his energy and resources into "Organize for Action", I believe, it will FAIL just like ACORN and his misguided Occupy Movement ...only on a bigger and more publicized scale. The "third time" is always a charm !!

"Organize for Action" is nothing more than a head start on the 2014 mid-term elections because the POS NEEDS another Congress like his first that rubber stamps his bad policies to transform (aka: destroy) America in the image and likeness of “his father’s dream” (that Super Daddy POS – drunkard womanizer and ultimate Marxist freeloader). You see, the POS has serious ARROGANCE and other character flaws whereby he cannot sit down and compromise with the opposition like other Presidents. The very essence of his “destroy” mentality will ultimately destroy him ....in another repeat of the Nixsonian legacy. The POS is only buying time till the 2014 mid-terms WHY ELSE would he delay his signature legislation for full implementation from 2014 to 2015 (besides the fact that it will NOT WORK and be a complete failure).

There will be backlash for the perpetual Campaigner In Chief when the Country faces its next financial crisis and it is coming before 2014 because the Country cannot continue to sustain his uncontrolled spending and unchallenged hikes in the debt ceiling. And when the POS has no solutions other than to throw more FAKE MONEY at it and SPEECHIFY it to death there will be anger from the very base of freeloaders who support the POS the most. Because, in the end, it will be the trickle down free phone crowd that will suffer the burden and will rise up against the HOUSE OF CARDS built by the POS when all HIS promises cannot be kept.

Don’t worry “the Powers that be” in this Country are bigger than the POS. The POS may think he is invincible but his very ARROGANCE will be his undoing. He will take one step too many for his own good and it will all come tumbling down and he will be left holding only his private parts !!

I am glad the POS got a second term because HE DESERVES TO FAIL on the world stage and hopefully his failed policies and agenda will ultimately be the Country’s salvation !!

My message is don’t be afraid of “Organize for Action” !! It’s very over reach and creation is a symbol of a POS who is desperate, clueless and over his head in a job he was ill prepared for in experience, integrity and character. HE WILL FAIL when his lies don’t pan out and there is no one else to BLAME !!

He will be remembered for the FRAUD he is ........a Community Organizer and NOT Presidental Material !!

He HATES America and America will come to HATE HIM !!

Mark my 2 cents and words !!

Jimmy Carter is still trying to ruin America many,many years later.

He hasn't learned one thing since leaving office, in fact he has added to the woes of America many fold, supporting Hamas of all things?

I look for this relatively young Bozo [Obama] to inflict himself on the USA for the rest of his life and the influence he has to continue in those communities that support him for his image alone. No brains.

Quote: W-Girl wrote in post #3

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We twice elected a POS who cannot LEAD or RUN A COUNTRY .............but he sure as hell can COMMUNITY ORGANIZE !!

So let him put all his energy and resources into "Organize for Action", I believe, it will FAIL just like ACORN and his misguided Occupy Movement ...only on a bigger and more publicized scale. The "third time" is always a charm !!

"Organize for Action" is nothing more than a head start on the 2014 mid-term elections because the POS NEEDS another Congress like his first that rubber stamps his bad policies to transform (aka: destroy) America in the image and likeness of “his father’s dream” (that Super Daddy POS – drunkard womanizer and ultimate Marxist freeloader). You see, the POS has serious ARROGANCE and other character flaws whereby he cannot sit down and compromise with the opposition like other Presidents. The very essence of his “destroy” mentality will ultimately destroy him ....in another repeat of the Nixsonian legacy. The POS is only buying time till the 2014 mid-terms WHY ELSE would he delay his signature legislation for full implementation from 2014 to 2015 (besides the fact that it will NOT WORK and be a complete failure).

There will be backlash for the perpetual Campaigner In Chief when the Country faces its next financial crisis and it is coming before 2014 because the Country cannot continue to sustain his uncontrolled spending and unchallenged hikes in the debt ceiling. And when the POS has no solutions other than to throw more FAKE MONEY at it and SPEECHIFY it to death there will be anger from the very base of freeloaders who support the POS the most. Because, in the end, it will be the trickle down free phone crowd that will suffer the burden and will rise up against the HOUSE OF CARDS built by the POS when all HIS promises cannot be kept.

Don’t worry “the Powers that be” in this Country are bigger than the POS. The POS may think he is invincible but his very ARROGANCE will be his undoing. He will take one step too many for his own good and it will all come tumbling down and he will be left holding only his private parts !!

I am glad the POS got a second term because HE DESERVES TO FAIL on the world stage and hopefully his failed policies and agenda will ultimately be the Country’s salvation !!

My message is don’t be afraid of “Organize for Action” !! It’s very over reach and creation is a symbol of a POS who is desperate, clueless and over his head in a job he was ill prepared for in experience, integrity and character. HE WILL FAIL when his lies don’t pan out and there is no one else to BLAME !!

He will be remembered for the FRAUD he is ........a Community Organizer and NOT Presidental Material !!

He HATES America and America will come to HATE HIM !!

Mark my 2 cents and words !!

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Quote: nerd wrote in post #2

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When Tokyo Rove was ask about this development, his reply was can't we all just get along, and then he said the witch in delware cause this , let's burn her. More moola, more moola.

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Stay on topic or leave the thread. This thread is not about Rove but 0bama.

Back on topic, watch out for the paid 0bot forum trolls.

Quote: W-Girl wrote in post #3

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"Organize for Action" is nothing more than a head start on the 2014 mid-term elections because the POS NEEDS another Congress like his first that rubber stamps his bad policies to transform (aka: destroy) America in the image and likeness of “his father’s dream” (that Super Daddy POS – drunkard womanizer and ultimate Marxist freeloader). You see, the POS has serious ARROGANCE and other character flaws whereby he cannot sit down and compromise with the opposition like other Presidents. The very essence of his “destroy” mentality will ultimately destroy him ....in another repeat of the Nixsonian legacy. The POS is only buying time till the 2014 mid-terms WHY ELSE would he delay his signature legislation for full implementation from 2014 to 2015 (besides the fact that it will NOT WORK and be a complete failure).

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