Instead, he left us with some kind of Organize for America website I never visit because it looks like old Obama graphics. He left his Populist movement in a serious lurch of sorts --quite a lot of phone calls he never made to the real Liberal money directing them to figure out a way for the youngest, savviest Liberal organizers in the country to each get a huge pile of cash. You want a Liberal movement in a corporate world, but you refuse to water it? Obama, I thought you were smarter than that.
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Barack took a dive off the deep end to swim or sink in shark-infested political waters when he became leader of this highly advanced 2010 corporate nation. What is amazing is how genuine he had been until that moment, and how genuine he has remained since, given the circumstances. He appears to remain human and compassionate despite it all, which is in itself amazing. But Obama no longer is "the man." We are "the man." But...amazingly...the Left continues to be pathologically unable to fund the movement it absolutely, inarguably needs to compete for the "hearts and minds" of the American people. Is it a money problem? Really?
There could have beena friendly call from Obama to a few friends in the Left establishment some time around November of 2008 --or right now -- since that is the best outcome to hope for, about some promising people in his campaign who have some interesting ideas he's heard about. He can't remember what the projects are -- just that they're worthwhile. And Obama could also mention how underfunded these amazing people with amazing ideas are! How surprised he is that the team that got him elected, the most effective political messaging force the Left has, quite possibly, ever assembled, just can't seem to get funded!
They should be out here, outside the beltway, on the cultural battlefield where Obama can no longer be. They should be empowered with confidence and money from the Democratic establishment. They should be armed to the teeth, full to overflowing with gear, radio towers, rack servers, offices in weird places, programmers, microphones, video projectors, stadium events, musicians and whatever else we need to win this culture war we still haven't even begun fighting. They should be finding millions of struggling and poor Americans and making friends.
Are we gonna build a culture or are we gonna sit around and whine about what got built while our boss explains to us the next PR strategy for Monsanto?
You can't build a culture on the cheap, and you can't build it fast. My question is this: Why aren't the Democrats building it? The idea that this party doesn't have the money, or is unable to find money for establishing nationwide radio is laughable. The more the Left claims poverty, the more I agree with the Right Wingers: You are full of it. This is a corporate party. Is this party going to do what it needs to do, or will the Left continue to send the message non-coastal Americans have been getting implicitly for years: That they are hopeless idiots, or simply not important enough to launch a radio station for?
Over dinner, an intelligent couple and devotees of Right Wing Talk Radio told me, "We know the radio hosts find people to fit their points, but so do the Liberals." Maybe that is or is not true, but either way this couple will never hear a peep from the Liberals. They will hear exclusively what Right Wing talk radio says Liberals do. Even if they wanted to get a differing opinion in the manner they get their opinions, nothing on the dial in this well-off northern suburb of Atlanta offers it. The Liberals, "Just don't want to spend the money or make the effort," they tell me. They are absolutely right. And I hope we can change that starting today -- March 12, 2010.
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