It seems Obama is poised to have a grassroots based power base, one which is not dependent on Washington or the traditional party structures or the constitutional framework for bringing about change:
Team Obama reports that 4,252 “Change is Coming” house parties were held in all 50 states — plus Guam and Puerto Rico. At least 1,950 cities had house parties, and Los Angeles had the largest single party, with 400 people in attendance.
All that is nice and good, I mean we are all for democracy isn’t it?
“One of the goals of these house meetings is to come together with friends and neighbors and think about how you will help Barack pass legislation though grassroots acts in your community. In the course of this meting you’ll lay the groundwork for what you can do over the coming months and years.”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to know that a sitting President has a league of supporters working on the grassroots level to do his bidding. We can see what grassroots acts really mean to those who are at the receiving end.
You know who else governed by passing legislation through grassroots acts? Hugo Chavez , Moammar Gadaffi, Chairman Mao, Fidel Castro and the Ayatollahs in Iran…
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