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President Obama's presidential campaign's newest incarnation, a nonprofit intended to mobilize volunteers and use their donations to prop up his bully pulpit, raised a paltry $4.8 million, constrained by its reversal under criticism of its intention to collect money from corporations.
"Republicans are much less likely to say the United Nations is doing a good job, and to believe the U.N. has a necessary role in the world, than are Democrats," points out a Gallup poll.
The talk is a call to arms — and a cultural indicator that Republicans and conservatives should note. Democrats are borrowing a page from the tea party playbook, using dramatic language and historic reference. But this message is not from heartland folk. It is a contrivance from the most loyal of President Obama's loyalists.
The White House is strenuously denying that Organizing for Action, President Obama's former re-election campaign that morphed into a nonprofit group, is selling access to the president despite the group's own coy implications and his cooperation with it.
The White House refuted a report Monday that President Obama's former campaign team is selling access to him for wealthy donors who contribute at least $500,000 to a newly organized advocacy group pushing his liberal agenda.
The White House refuted a report Monday that President Obama's former campaign team is selling access to him for wealthy donors who contribute at least $500,000 to a newly organized advocacy group pushing his liberal agenda.
The White House refuted a report Monday that President Obama's former campaign team is selling access to him for wealthy donors who contribute at least $500,000 to a newly organized advocacy group pushing his liberal agenda.
It did not take long for agenda to muscle in on a historical moment.
The constitutional right to petition the government for a redress of citizens' grievances, from deporting CNN anchor Piers Morgan to building a U.S. Death Star to seceding from the Union, just got a little more burdensome.
The White House has responded to last year's rash of secession petitions, and no, President Obama has not agreed to allow any of the states to secede.
Why is an affiliate of the disgraced group ACORN lobbying the White House?
"Those senators who decided that not crossing the gun lobby was more important than making our kids and communities safer — OFA supporters will call them out and hold them accountable to their constituents," Executive Director Jon Carson wrote in an email Thursday.
Reid shelves expanded gun-purchase background check legislation →
"A minority of senators stood with the gun lobby and blocked a proposal to expand background checks for gun sales something that more than 90 percent of Americans support. But that was just round one. We outnumber them, and we can win this if we're as passionate and as organized as the special interests standing in the way," says Executive Director Jon Carson, promoting a public petition to the organization's membership.
