Post-Rush: Obama's message war

[bijou]

Beginning Sunday, the White House will harness every part of the Democratic Party’s machinery to defend President Obama’s budget and portray Republicans as reflexively political, according to party strategists.

A participant in the planning meetings described the push as a successor to Democrats’ message that Rush Limbaugh is the Republican Party leader. “We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter,” the official said.

David Plouffe, manager of Obama’s presidential race, helped design the strategy, which includes the most extensive activation since November of the campaign’s grassroots network. The database—which includes information for at least 10 million donors, supporters and volunteers—will now be used as a unique tool for governing, with former canvassers now being enlisted to mobilize support for the president’s legislative agenda.
 ...  The plan follows the private complaints of some Democrats that Obama let the GOP get the better of him during the debate over pork in the budget bill he just signed, and growing concerns among some Democrats that charges of big spending could stick to the president.
... The Obama grassroots network—now known as Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee—has launched an e-mail pledge drive on MyBarackObama.com in which supporters sign their e-mail address to the statement: “I support President Obama's bold approach for renewing America's economy.”


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Wow an email pledge, online petitions are such a successful tactic what could go wrong?

[Crazy Horse]

“We have exhausted the use of Rush as an attention-getter,” the official said.

Translation................"That really backfired on us"

[DumbAss Tanker]

There is an old Army saying that "Arguing with an infantryman is like wrestling with a pig, you both get dirty and the pig loves it."  Of course very, very few of the people around Obama have ever served in the military.

[Bluesuiter-Retired]

All obama and his merry lemmings did was make RUSH that much more popular.

[Baruch Menachem]

Worked so well for Clinton, they decided to do it again.