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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 03:25:38 2008 Stop giving money to Barack Obama! Don't volunteer for him! That's the biting message from some unhappy precincts of Obama Nation. A New York Obama backerdisenchanted with the Democratic candidate's post-primary lurch to the Centre Thursday launched an Internet campaign urging the likeminded to withhold campaign donations until Obama lives up to his promises."He shouldn't take us for granted - he shouldn't just assume we're just an ATM machine," said Bob Fertik, founder of Democrats.com, a group of self-described progressive activists. "We're enthusiastic about him, but our level of financial commitment is going to depend on his level of leadership on the issues that we care about," The New York Daily News quoted him, as saying. Fertik is fired up over Obama's decision to support counter-terrorism legislation granting legal immunity to telecommunications companies that complied with President Bush's warrant-less wiretapping program. While that issue tops many supporters' complaint lists, Obama's comments on gun rights, capital punishment and Israeli-Palestinian policy have also shaken his fan base. Jake Barlow of San Francisco, who donated 2,000 dollars to Obama and travelled to Texas to campaign for him, said he has called off plans to give 2,600 dollars more and work as a volunteer in a fall battleground state. His reason for sitting on his hands and wallet is the wiretapping flap. "I thought Barack Obama was different," Barlow, 40, said. "He's now starting to look like a vacillating, flip-flopping politician, and I just can't in good conscience support that." Glenn Greenwald, a writer for Salon.com, said, he, too, won't donate a dime to Obama. "Obama is jeopardizing himself by fundamentally abandoning his values and positions and angering his supporters," he said. Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for Obama, did not respond Thursday to an inquiry from the Daily News. (ANI) |
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Posted by RonInBayside on Sun Jul 6 03:48:06 2008, in response to `No money till you keep your word,' fans tell Obama, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 03:25:38 2008. Obama's job, (and McCain's) is to get elected, not serve ideologue purists on the left and right. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 03:50:35 2008, in response to Re: `No money till you keep your word,' fans tell Obama, posted by RonInBayside on Sun Jul 6 03:48:06 2008. I guess to get elected, is to have as many views and conflicting promises as possible, to cast a wide dragnet fooling some or most of the people all the timeapparently |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Jul 6 05:15:44 2008, in response to `No money till you keep your word,' fans tell Obama, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Sun Jul 6 03:25:38 2008. Heh. Awwwww ... ideologues cheesed off? I say GOOD for Obama! Last thing we need is another whackjob running for office, and frankly I'm not impressed with the Pelosi nation either. Obama will have one HELL of a mess to clean up, and ideology has NO place in what needs to be done. And the more he asks people to get OFF their lazy asses and DO something, the more impressed I am with him. "Bring it on!" :) |
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Re: `No money till you keep your word,' fans tell Obama |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Jul 6 12:35:17 2008, in response to Re: `No money till you keep your word,' fans tell Obama, posted by RonInBayside on Sun Jul 6 03:48:06 2008. Problem is, you can't do one without the other.Likely voters are usually passionate partisans. |
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