MoveOn Backs Obama For President

We get it, Obama-Hilliary is the ticket. Where’s the story???

This is no surprise—–they are ultra-liberal. I’m for more conserative-liberal Hillary. If Obama is ultra-liberal, then he must be for Gay marriage. Does anyone know if he is?

Hmm… I may have to rethink my certainty that the Clintons would win the nomination again. If Obama gets the endorsement of MoveOn.org, that will be huge. MoveOn.org is the democrat party’s political machine of hypersensitivity to political correctness. The National Organization for Women is going to have a fit about this sexists betrayal of women by MoveOn.

How many folks are familiar with the expression “the kiss of death”?Sorry about that, Barack.

This is BIG. Moveon is an energized group, and they will certainly raise Obama’s voter recognition through their organization, plus they can boost turnout on primary day. They can also run independent ads highlighting Obama’s strengths. Also, it is another building block denied to Clinton. Lastly, Moveon might be able to pressure some superdelegates to move if it comes down to some sort of pre-convention deal.

“The group says it has 1.7 members in the states that vote Feb. 5.”
1.7 members? That 7/10 of a person might explain some of MoveOn’s more obnoxious positions.

The Petreus ad was disgraceful. It angered me and I am as liberal as they come. (I’m pro-choice, pro gay rights, pro-Universal Healthcare etc.) But Moveon.org is the kind of people that you would love to have on your side rather than against you.
yes we can!!!!
Go Obama!!!

Thank you, Courtney, for your response.
I have another question: in researching what “MOVEON.ORG” is all about, I went to their website to investigate…….in the organization description it says that they are a PAC, as in Political Action Committee…..now, my question is: Obama has said that he does not take PAC money from organizations trying to gain favors to get their agenda noticed…….is this true, and what are the chances that Obama will take money from this PAC?

How many people voted? When was polling opened and closed? Does Obama benefit from people being reminded of the MoveOn.org ad on General Petraus?

any endorsement from a group that has 3.2 million memebers can’t be called a bad one. Both candidates are lobbying hard for a AFL-CIO endorsement and they can only boast a few hundred thousand. At the very least there are 3 million people out there that will have a realtionship with an advocate of Obama’s campaign. That can’t be all bad.
Also…… Isn’t it weird how the left is moving steadilly into Obama’s corner and the right is moving steadilly (granted its slower) to Romney and ditching the frontrunners. This race is amazing. I don’t care who you like, if you are a political junkie (I was recently outed as one) this race is awesome. It seems like everyday there is something unprecedented that transpires. I spoke with an old college buddy living in London now and she says that this election is big time news accross the pond. Not for the obvious reasons alone (No Bush on the ballot, Black man and a woman both with solid chances of being the first of their kind in the Oval office) They were in awe of our process. How we elect our leaders. I am so proud of my country. This is what a true democracy has evolved to and its awesome.
BTW—yes we can!!!! Go Obama Go!!!

To respond to Courtney,
Obama and Clinton have a lot of big differences in the way they would deal with the big issues of the Iraq War, health insurance coverage for all, the economy, etc.
Read their websites under issues. Obama’a ideas make a lot more sense. And he hasn’t taken big corporate money for his campaign while Clinton has. She can’t really change the system if she owes favors!
I’m glad Obama was chosen by moveon.org members. They make it very easy to be involved politically even if you are busy. If you chose they send e-mails about different votes coming up in the house and senate with quick links and phone numbers to contact your representatives. It is a terrific way to know what is going on in Congress if you don’t have the time for c-span.

Being voted most liberal by the National Journal is like being voted ugliest boy by your sister. The National Journal isn’t exactly an objective source. All you have to do to be on the list is be a Democrat with a voting record.
Also please take note….All these people that say this endorsement will hurt Obama are either Republicans or Hillary supporters. The only peoeple that will actually care about this endorsement are members of Moveon.org. With 3.2 million memebers that is still important. And any of them that supported Hillary before won’t change their mind and any of them who supported Obama before will feel emboldened. But the rest who haven’t made up their mind will take this endorsement seriosly.

Let’s look at the details. 3.2 million members – but Move On sends a note (I’m a member so I got one yesterday) with less than 24 hours to vote to their members. I had read that they sent a note to all members on a site that heavily favors Obama – but had not received mine. I sent a note to them – then about 2 hours later – I received my “vote” note. This was very late afternoon yesterday & voting ended at 11am. Why not take the entire weekend & let their full membership vote? Why was the information about the vote only on an Obama supportor site? The story indicates that only 300,000 people responded & according to Move On – 70% supported Obama – so that is 210,000 members out of 3.2 million – that 7% of their membership. So, 7% decides how all of us feel & we will all now just start making calls for Obama – I don’t think so. Move on prides itself in listening to it’s members & making sure all voices are heard – but they cannot leave the voting open all weekend & make sure at least more than 10% of their membership votes? They should not have counted it unless they reached a certain level of participation. They had already made up their minds. I saw their data from past surveys & it was really fractured – between all candidates. I think they see some polls & saw the debate & wanted to give Obama a boost. Bottom line – the voters are going to make up their own minds & so aren’t the Move on members. I don’t agree with everything they do – they provide a lot of information & I have supported many of their efforts & candidates – but this member is voting for Clinton.

I am a staunch Democrat, and I border on conservative-liberal….this MoveOn.Org is, in my opinion, TOO liberal and will not bode well for Obama. I also intellectually argue that this organization does not have THAT many members. I know of MANY, MANY Democrats, and not but one has excitedly told me that she is a member….I would also argue that many of these members are radical groups of the Democratic party, groups that want specific rights of some type or another and have to band together to become radical and LOUD to demand change. This lends to the argument that these members may be younger folks, maybe college-age. When I was younger and college-age, I was also radically democratic, but now that I am 20 years older, I have more conservative views and believe that change doesn’t have to be demanded, but can be worked for and negotiated. Change can happen without demonstrating and fighting others to get your side heard.

Get America…there is no fight between us as there is far more trouble in the USA than your top concern. Take a seat and we will get there after more pressing problems are tackled…

Sand, my invitation to vote came in my e-mail, like my friends did? Are you sure you are a registered member or have changed your e-mail address recently?
And Tammy, please don’t lie about Obama. He never wanted to vote for the war, he spoke out against it publicly before it was voted on. He and lots of other senators, including Clinton have voted to continue funding it because they don’t want to leave our troops high and dry. And Obama’s healthcare plan doesn’t leave millions without healthcare unless they choose to. Hillary’s plan FORCES people to buy government insurance whether they can afford it or not. She says there will be subsidies but won’t give details. And with health insurance companies giving big buck to her campaign I’m sure no one is going to like the amount they have to pay for it, except those companies.

Obama is for civil unions, not gay marriage.

The REAL truth that I have heard in a videotape of Obama discussing his stance on this question is that Obama is actually FOR GAY MARRIAGE, but he realizes that this won’t “fly with the American people”, so he opts for the less-radical “Civil Unions”, because he feels that this can be passed instead of Gay Marriage. It has been a while since I saw the video, but I can provide the link if you want…..it would take me a few minutes…..

I think this is huge and is indicative of the values Americans are looking for in a leader, one who puts the interest of the hard working American people above that of the special interests. Every piece of legislation Barack Obama has written and introduced since entering politics has been to the benefit of all the people, not just a particular group. While Hillary spouts some good proposals and speaks of her past record as being supportive of the issues concerning the masses, her legislative record since officially entering politics in 2000 speaks otherwise. If anyone has spent time to actually examine these candidates legislative records, not just their proposals, I think you would agree.

This endorsement will just prove that he is super ultra liberal and will move the main stream voters to Hillary. Go Hillary!!!!

Obama is full of special intrest skeltons in his closet. How can this clown serve the American people when he took Rezko’s money meant for poor people so he could campaign with it. OBAMA knew about this to..

I was an Obama fan , but now with this endorsement, its the last straw. I am definitely voting for Clinton now. There is no way I am siding with radicals.

The New York Post is owned by Rupert Murdock! The man who owns Fox News. The question becomes why would the conservatives want Obama to win the nomination. Ummm…..

I do not know if Obama has not taken corporate money for his Campaign – he has a lobbist on his team. Yet he does not influence his thinking… I doubt that …how do you think he was able to get so much money in such a short time …I am thinking maybe he does have some corporate funds.. Change …same old same old especially with the backing of some not so new people…Kennedy..

I’m just about as liberal as they come, but MoveOn has it all wrong. I support probably 90% of their stances on issues, but I quit them when it became obvious to me that they were merely contributing to the partisan divisiveness that is ruining our nation. It strikes me as ironic that they’re endorsing Barack, given that he’s all about breaking through the sort of divisiveness they foster. Nevertheless, I’m all for Barack. He’s an inspiring, idealistic figure who isn’t hopelessly tainted by the foul stain of Washington insiderism, and that’s exactly what we need in a leader at this crucial point in our history.
As for Hillary, I find it hard to believe that any Democratic-leaning person who lived through her husband’s presidency would want her back in the White House! Astute observers as diverse as Alan Greenspan and Michael Moore have rightly called Bill Clinton one of the best Republican presidents we’ve ever had — and Hillary would be no different. C’mon, Dems — let’s get a clue and actually nominate a friggin’ *Democrat* for once, not another Joe Lieberman clone like Hillarybilly!
As Harry Truman correctly observed, if you give the people a choice between a Republican and a Republican, they’ll vote for the Republican every time. And as for the so-called “Clinton magic,” that “magic” has a name — Ross Perot! Without Perot siphoning votes from Dubya’s daddy in ’92 and Dole in ’96, Bill Clinton would’ve gone down in flames in both elections and gone down in history as Mike Dukakis Junior! If you’ll pardon the pun, it’s high time to move on! The sooner we put both the Clintons and the Bushes in our national rear-view mirror, the better off we’ll all be.

I think an endorsement of either candidate in the Demo. race for president should not have been a necessary position. Demo. should endorse all in the party and let the process produce the candidate.

My guess is that Move-on’s endorsement would have helped Hillary, had she gotten it. It would have countered the spreading-like-wildfire perception around the country that she is a has-been, with core support only from older Democratic women, and is using mean-spirited, divisive campaign tactics straight out of the 90′s. I don’t think strident, public campaigning by Move-on will help Obama as much, since it is an extreme-wing type group, and Obama wants to be a uniter. I think the main advantage for Obama here is two-fold. First, they didn’t endorse Hillary. Second, they have numbers–people who can phone, post, and vote. Hillary’s poll leads are still there, but shrinking fast. A Move-on endorsement for her might have stopped the bleeding. As it is, she looks like she is on her way to the political hospital—if not the morgue.

So what. Just because MoveOn backs Obama does not mean that I will vote for him. Because I won’t. It is time for change. Time to change and have a woman as our president. Time to let a little more caring and nurturing give America back the respect it deserves for all the other countries we have helped and asked nothing in return – but their friendship and that they live in freedom and have a democracy.
Obama who used cocaine as a youth, who will let illegals have driver’s license and who does not give a damm about our country, our flag, our honor, who wouldn’t wear a flag on his lapel, who won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance, who has no respect for the poor. But associates with a slum landlord. Yeah, like I care about Obama. Just like I care about having a hole in my heart. He has no merits to run on. Not one thing of real importance has he accomplished since he has been in politics. He only cares about filling his own pockets and having a very beautiful place to live that was supplied to him by that slum landlord. No I will not be voting for him. I live in Illinois and Obama has not done a thing here to help us have better lives.

I am a Moveon.org member and I will not vote for Obama.

I agree with voteforme008. I was feeling like a fish out of water since as a Move On member I find I cannot vote for Obama. I had supported him since last July but recent remarks he has made have made me not trust him. I just got a call from a Move On member asking me to vote tomorrow for Obama. (too late I already mailed in my ballot)
But, I find it interesting that a left-wing organization like Move On is supporting a candidate who involks Ronald Reagan in his campaign speeches.

The emails keep coming from associates and Friends from across the County , I have to tell them , I had nothing to do with MovOn’s decision to shoot themselves in the foot .
I get the same question every time:Who in the presidential race got what money donated to MoveOn ? Along Carl Rove , The Bush Brain , Fraud comparison. Well Bush has lost his Brain and we all need to Move on from MoveOn. Obmama is a compelling speaker but who is really Ready to jump in and tackle the job , I believe Hillary is, Obama would make a great VP but so would Richardson . Now this is the next big question , who will there Running Mates be ? If MovOn is the Puppet Master,They should know,so what are they hiding ? We just went threw 7 years of a learning curve , with W ,we can not afford another Leaning Curve and that is what we will get with Obama. Hillary is ready !
MoveON=Fraud . I did see $450K Given to Obama by MoveOn ,So there should be a large sum of unaccountable Money held by MoveON , how Much Goes to Clinton ?
That is if they have not misled us on there membership ,now I wonder, has the Bush Brain secretly Moved over to MoveOn,Deception is his forte, along with fraud and misleading the voters .

well, I wouldn’t trust MoveON’s #’s much as I know of a few people who voted in their presidential poll and whil eonly voting once, received several emails from MoveON afterwards saying they had just voted for Obama 4 times and Clinton 1 time and sometimes vice versa. So, go figure.