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NEWS ABOUT: Organizing for America

Organizing for America stories: 6 news summaries
OPINION

 Obama Site Calls 
 Conservatives 
 'Terrorists' 

Apparently user-generated posting sent to supporters

Sep 2, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A message posted on President Obama’s “Organizing for America” website and sent to its supporters “likens conservatives to al-Qaeda terrorists,” writes Rory Cooper for the Heritage Foundation. The posting, which Cooper notes “may have been user-generated,” calls for a phone campaign to Senators on... More »

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email • conservative • terrorist • website • President Obama • Organizing for America

 Health Battle Tests 
 Obama Grassroots Group 

Organizing for America struggles to become force for policy activism

Aug 23, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - For Jeremy Bird, deputy director of Organizing for America, the battle for health care reform takes the shape of the numerous meetings he’s had with discouraged volunteers across Wisconsin this weekend. The OFA network is smaller and underfunded compared with its campaign-era version, and volunteers feel “outshouted” by... More »

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health care • Wisconsin • political activism • grassroots • health care reform • Obama administration • Organizing for America

 Obama Urges 
 Activists to
 Retake Health 
 Care Debate 

White House struggles to regain message control

Aug 20, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama urged the grassroots activists who helped him so much in the presidential campaign to do the same in the health care debate, Politico reports. “Now come on," the president told members of Organizing for America in a conference call today. "The best ambassadors for true... More »

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health care • White House • conservative • grassroots • health care reform • Obama administration • Organizing for America

Obama, House Dems Dig In, Push Back on Health Care

Website, 'war room' target misinformation

Aug 10, 09 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are lurching into action to fight for health care reform, Politico reports. The Obama administration today launched a new viral “Reality Check” website to combat health care myths, modeled on the “Fight the Smears” site it used to get elected. Among other claims, the videos debunk rumors... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrat • website • health care reform • viral video • women's issues • Organizing for America

(Newser) - Now that he’s in office, President Obama is having a lot of trouble mobilizing the grassroots network that helped put him there, the Los Angeles Times reports. With Republican health care opponents operating like a well-oiled, talk-show-fueled machine, Organizing for America (aka Obama for America) is stuttering—in... More »

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health care • grassroots • health care reform • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • activists • Obama administration • President Obama • Organizing for America

White House Gets Tough on Congress' Critics, Skeptics 

Obama defends stimulus, pushes health reform

Jul 16, 09 10:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House is cracking down on its critics—and on laggards within the Democratic Party, too. Republican naysayers on the economic stimulus and health care are getting the roughest treatment, Politico reports. After Kentucky Sen. Jon Kyl railed against the efficacy of stimulus spending, four Cabinet secretaries wrote to... More »

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Barack Obama • Republican • Senate • White House • Jon Kyl • Democrat • health care reform • economic stimulus package • economy • Obama administration • television advertising • Organizing for America

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