Since Senator Barack Obama made that incredible "race" speech last week, the press, both Black and white, has been praising and condemning it. White, in the main, saying "well it was a good speech," while condemning Obama for being involved with the church and its pastor for 20 years. Prior to Obama having made the speech, whites in America weren't looking very hard at what Obama was doing. Some fairly bright correspondents did. What they saw was something that they had never seen before; that was a significant number of white people and Black people in America coming together behind the words and efforts of a single, charismatic Black guy who had gone far enough after super Tuesday to command at least respect. Many years ago when we were organizing the Cooper Square community in the lo...
AS a political junkie who was born and raised in conservative southern Ohio, I was acutely interested in a post-election study by the liberal group America Coming Together of why President Bush beat Sen. John Kerry in the Buckeye State. The answer, according to their poll, sends a message that is conveniently flattering to grass-roots organizing groups like America Coming Together as Democrats prepare to choose a new party chairman and assess where they go from here.
Sometimes it was really good to get the answer to these questions" on the League survey, he says. "Sometimes you could see the candidates struggling with it." And sometimes, he adds, they came up with "creative answers" that made him look at an issue in a different way. "You get a real sense of the range of human capability, human compassion," he concludes. "There were people who weren't with us but who were really honorable people." He thinks in particular of older politicians for whom gay anything, let alone gay marriage, was terra incognito. "They would talk with me and ask questions," he marvels. "You shouldn't just give up on people. [Chris Young] isn't exactly giving up on politics, just changing his focus: "The methods that we were working with in the League" -- concentrating o...
...In April, Young will begin working with America Coming Together, a progressive group focused on el...
For the record, Pope did win, flat out. Once again, the First Amendment was held to guarantee that rich and poor alike can spend unlimited sums of money communicating their political views. This "free speech" right extends not just to people but to corporations, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is why Variety Wholesalers Inc., the chain of 500 stores owned by the Pope family, is allowed to contribute unlimited sums to nonprofit "527" groups like "Republican legislative Majority," Art Pope's creation, and why RLM is allowed to carpet-bomb Republican primaries with as much political literature as it can afford. [Richard Morgan] maintained that the RLM brochures telling voters to "Call Morgan Out" were patently intended to advocate his election defeat, and thus should've been sub...
..." George Bush's defeat in 2004 via America Coming Together, another so-called "527" group, we...
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BUDAPEST, Hungary - Billionaire investor George Soros has come to his birthplace to meet with his global network of political action groups, but his mind is half a world away on his new passion: the defeat of President Bush in November. So far, the man admired and feared the world over for his investing prowess has committed more than $15 million to that pursuit, serving as the benefactor in chief for two new Democratic political organizations, America Coming Together and MoveOn.Org. And he has vowed, perhaps only jokingly, that he would dedicate his $7 billion fortune if it guaranteed Bush's defeat.
A failed ACT A few days after the 2004 election, America Coming Together, the giant pro-Democratic voter turnout group that had raised about $200 million from George Soros, Peter Lewis, and a variety of Hollywood moguls, released a list of its accomplishments," Byron York writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).
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