4 posts tagged “obama”

I created a new group, inspired by a group called "Rage and Violence Against Conservatives."  (As a general rule, real liberals do not engage in violence. Some do, but only defensively when all other options seem unavailable.)  This new group, "Rage and Violence Against Liberals," ( http://rageandviolenceagainstliberals.groups.vox.com/ )  is for the incense burning, tree-hugging, peace-nic antiwar liberals with flowers in their hair and home-made tie-die clothes that reflect the rainbow of their love for the Earth and its inhabitants.  You really don't need to burn incense, hug trees, or wear flowers in your hair and tie-die clothes to join this group, or to be a liberal.

To prevent it from being hijacked by right-wing extremists and others that hate liberals, or at least, hate most of their views, I set it as public, but by invitation only.  The group is intended to provide members with a place where they can explain how they are attacked. That's not the only reason to post to this group. There are other topics which might be of interest to members (So far, I am the only member. Boo-hoo.). Among them, anything about the various groups that are misunderstood, attacked, defamed, oppressed, etc. and various issues affecting them. (Issues that are adopted, fought for by liberal groups.)

If you are a liberal and have been subjected to maltreatment, including harassment, stalking by trolls that hate you, attempts to defame your character as a liberal, false accusations, or violence attacks, this group is a good place to document your experiences. It is also a place where you can document reports of other liberals experiences.

Please contact me if you wish to join this group. Let me know if you have any trouble accessing the page. I don't know if I must invite everybody or if you can find a link on the group page to request membership.  I thought of emailing an announcement to most people on my friends list that I thought might be interested, but I don't want to spam anybody.

When election season in the United States rolls around modern candidates, their campaign team, and citizen supporters now use public communities to attract and unite their supporters.  Official campaign sites and communities are usually deactivated soon after the campaign ends.  Those assigned to such tasks often place domain names and URL's in semi-, or full retirement.

That is usually not the case for campaign communities and single-owner blogs that permit and display comments by readers, or members.  Most often, the blogs, or communities are abandoned by their creators.  The members that supported those candidates, at least with their votes, also tend to stray, especially when the creators, hosts, and moderators quit hanging around them.

When the candidate (in whose honor the blogs, or communities were created) wins the election, his or her opponents might find the abandoned blog, or community.  If, or when they do, they will likely spread mischief at the candidate's and his or her supporters' expense.

This happened to the Barack Obama Group here on Vox.  Most of the group's hosts and members appear to have lost interest in that group.  Actually, some, perhaps many members (including yours truly) allowed our own blogs at Vox to gather dust for many months.  In the meantime,  President Obama's critics, particularly partisan ones have obviously taken over this Obama group for their own anti-Obama amusements.

That's one way for them to find posts by like-minded bloggers at Vox. They may as well turn that Obama group into a social network for people that hate our current president, his party and its policies.  Give them enough time and the links and opening lines of their anti-Obama posts will outnumber all the positive posts made about him in the past, sporadically since the election, and (if he chooses to run for President again) during the next major elections campaign season. To casual observers, this might look like an anti-Obama group.The occasional post that supports, at least, some of President Obama's ideas and policies then appears to be the exception.

Perhaps, the people that are still mostly pleased with Obama and the job he's doing need to consider the benefits of adding positive content about him in still-active communities, like the group I singled out.  If only they knew that some of us are inclined to explore link after link, page after page to see what people are saying about issues, events, and high profile individuals and groups.  Paid and volunteer researchers would have a field day at this specific group, especially if their hunting for negative content at Obama's expense which might not have been quickly and easily accessed at a search engine site.

President Obama's citizen supporters can bury the links to those anti-Obama posts and surround them with counter-points.  But will they?

First they need to know what is happening over there.  The rest is up to them once they learn about it.

I am so proud of the people in my adopted home state (Florida), including the civil rights activists and lawyers that have been working tirelessly and against great politial and bureaucratic odds to defend the voting rights of all Florida residents.

I still  have moments when I get choked up and my eyes go moist and blurry.  I feel a fluttery sensation rise up my chest and burst in my head, as if every chakra from from my heart, to the crown are havin their own Happy-Happy, Joy-Joy dance. Barak Obama is the first presidential candidate that got my vote and won!

I did a double-take when I first saw the words, "President-elect Barak Obama."  They flashed on the screen right after  I heard, "But it's still too soon to declare a winner..."

Once I was finally convinced that Obama was declared the winner, I sent up a prayer to request that our next president and his loved ones be kept safe and secure.  We pay the Secret Service to ensure it.  We won't accept any "excuses" if something dreadful happens to any of them, to put it mildly.

It feels great to know that we have made a big step to correcting the course of our nation.  But we sure do have our work cut out for us.

I hope, you take the time to read the following essays that were written by one man I've grown to trust -  Michael C. Ruppert Please not the dates.  I can personally verify that the dates are accurate, because I had read the two older ones shortly after they appeared online:

Interregnum (written Nov. 5th)
What Really Happened Today,  Written Sept. 29th, regarding the market crash, where Mr. Ruppert predicted that Obama would win, and includes speculations of what might be in store for us and our new president.
Now is the Time: There is hope, written Sept. 17, with more details of  predictions Ruppert made over the years which have come to pass.

I Voted Today!

Last I heard, Obama was leading in the Texas polls.

I dropped by the Democratic office to see if they needed any help.  While there, a white haired man stopped by, absolutely euphoric.  He picked up a bunch of first-time voters today to get them to the polls and participated in making sure that anybody needing a ride to go vote got transportation.  He said that there was a bus full of people being transported to their polling place and declared,"I haven't felt like this since I participated in the civil rights marches."