Activists left hoping for change at Obama’s stimulus parties
The Weekly Standard
by Mary Katharine Ham
When Obama supporters gathered this weekend to build support for the first major legislation of the new president’s tenure, those who had campaigned for change found themselves talking about something unexpected — politics as usual. ‘I trust Obama. I’m disappointed in what has been put out here for this meeting today,’ said Ron, an Obama supporter from Alexandria who hosted an ‘economic stimulus house party’ Sunday with five attendees. ‘We were uniformly disappointed.’ When Obama and the Democratic National Committee asked Americans to host such parties, they supplied a 13-minute online video of DNC Chair Tim Kaine answering viewer-submitted questions and one page of talking points. There were as many as 3,000 parties across the nation, but attendees at two parties in the Metro D.C. area didn’t walk away encouraged...
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by Mary Katharine Ham
When Obama supporters gathered this weekend to build support for the first major legislation of the new president’s tenure, those who had campaigned for change found themselves talking about something unexpected — politics as usual. ‘I trust Obama. I’m disappointed in what has been put out here for this meeting today,’ said Ron, an Obama supporter from Alexandria who hosted an ‘economic stimulus house party’ Sunday with five attendees. ‘We were uniformly disappointed.’ When Obama and the Democratic National Committee asked Americans to host such parties, they supplied a 13-minute online video of DNC Chair Tim Kaine answering viewer-submitted questions and one page of talking points. There were as many as 3,000 parties across the nation, but attendees at two parties in the Metro D.C. area didn’t walk away encouraged...
http://itshrunk.com/c5b04e
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=stimulus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mary+Katharine+Ham
rudkla - 11. Feb, 11:18
