FLASHBACK JULY 2, 2008 : "We have got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." Barack Hussein Obama... Here it is from Obama's army...... as promised. Now they are bullying and intimidating folks into supporting the bankruptcy and handover of America to our natural enemies.
From The Birmingham News, March 22, 2009: Volunteers fanned out across the Birmingham area and Alabama Saturday to pump up enthusiasm for President Barack Obama's budget proposal in much the same way they did to win over voters during the presidential campaign.
About 30 volunteers in Birmingham canvassed shopping areas and other high-traffic locations to talk about the need for health care reform, an education overhaul and environmentally friendly energy development.
"If we don't change these three things in the next 10 to 15 years, America is over as we know it," Chris DeHaven, told the group of volunteers before they went their separate ways.
Obama's plan faces criticism from Republicans and others who say it's too expensive. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report Friday saying Obama's agenda would cause huge budget deficits, forcing the country to borrow $9.3 trillion in the next decade.
Those who gathered at Kelly Ingram Park in downtown Birmingham were urged to enlist others who share Obama's vision and to stay away from trying to convert naysayers.
"We're looking for supporters," said DeHaven of Hoover, one of the event's organizers. "We're not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army."
The volunteers are part of Organizing for America, the same grassroots, national network credited in large part with Obama's quick rise from obscurity to president. Birmingham and 11 other sites statewide were part of a national push this weekend by Organizing for America to trumpet Obama's spending proposal.
The meaning of DeHaven's remarks should not be mistaken: They are not interested in winning supporters through rational discussion. This campaign is aimed at organizing existing supports into an "army" for "a fight" against "naysayers" once that army has been created.
Of course, one could take it to mean that the "fight" will be merely a war of words. Which is why they need an "army"...
