President Obama will remake his presidential campaign into a massive new movement devoted to supporting his agenda, an unprecedented move that creates a brand new political organization devoted not to a Party, not to an idea – but to one leader, according to Keith Koffler at White House Dossier.
The group, to be called Organizing for Action, opens Sunday, the day Obama is officially inaugurated.
"There are excellent reasons why we haven’t had mass groups devoted to powerful leaders in this country," says Koffler. "Our whole system of government is designed to provide checks to protect against the accretion of too much power, to forestall mob rule. A mass organization that does the bidding of a single individual who also happens to be the president of the United States undermines such intentions." Read it all.
The group, to be called Organizing for Action, opens Sunday, the day Obama is officially inaugurated.
"There are excellent reasons why we haven’t had mass groups devoted to powerful leaders in this country," says Koffler. "Our whole system of government is designed to provide checks to protect against the accretion of too much power, to forestall mob rule. A mass organization that does the bidding of a single individual who also happens to be the president of the United States undermines such intentions." Read it all.
