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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: thundley4 on March 18, 2010, 02:25:49 PM

Title: President Obama Promotes OFA Astroturf Campaign
Post by: thundley4 on March 18, 2010, 02:25:49 PM
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Organizing for America (formerly Organizing for Obama) has a Health Reform Action page which encourages members to write a letter to the editor. After typing in your zip code you get a list of local news outlets with radio buttons you can click:

(http://www.verumserum.com/media/2010/03/OfA-outlets.jpg)

The next page gives you a large comment box to compose your letter and in the sidebar are a list of suggested talking points:

(http://www.verumserum.com/media/2010/03/OfA-talking-points.jpg)

Lest you think this is some minor effort, Barack Obama himself put out the call for people to use this tool on his Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=6815841748&share_id=485680685121&comments=1#s485680685121).
Breitbart's BigJournalism (http://bigjournalism.com/richmondsexton/2010/03/18/president-obama-promotes-ofa-astroturf-campaign-with-bonus-plagiarism/)

Bad enough we had that one person writing to various newspapers sending the LTTE from fake local addresses.
Title: Re: President Obama Promotes OFA Astroturf Campaign
Post by: The Village Idiot on March 18, 2010, 02:29:42 PM
The OFA is his never ending campaign organization.

Has a Prez ever done that before?? Sounds like Hugo or some commie.