Yes it might be petty and insignificant but Obama and the DC establishment cherishes their email list that got built up on their false promises of "hope." I can't remember how many times I heard about the whatever 2 million strong email list from whom Obama and Democrats could extract money in news reports during the 2008 campaign....
If we could drop a few hundred thousand supporters from their prized email list, that would cause some angst. Maybe it would even cause them to reverse course. That list = $: Some of those thousands of supporters USED to give money.... before 95% of Americans who depend on social security and medicare and medicaid and the overall social saftety net got sold out with this Bush tax cut payback, to those who fund US political campaigns.
With Obama selling out on the tax cuts, whether congressional dems go along (they will) or not, this was the last straw for me. Those latest unemployment extensions will run out in a few months but the billions of dollars in borrowed money going to the millionaires and billionaires will go on for years!
What a deal the rich get on their campaign contributions!
Here's more reasont to unsubscribe: it has evolved into a neo-liberal , bluedog's wet dream of a propaganda machine.
Organizing for America, the online community of campaigners for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential run that evolved into a Democratic National Committee-aligned "activist" network is undermining its own credibility -- and, ultimately, harming the president-- by attempting to gin up support for Obama administration initiatives that Obama backers did not support in 2008 and do not support now.
While OFA, the succesor organization to the "Obama for America" campaign organization, was a disappointing player during the health care and banking reform debates, it has now begun to inflict actual harm – not just to progressive ideals but to the long-term prospects of maintaining what remains of Obama's political base.
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