Letter to Rahm - from the F*cking Retarded Base

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 · 10:15 AM PDT

2010/04/14 · 10:15

Dear Rahm,

Over the last year, you worked tirelessly to create the enthusiasm gap. Your hard work to the destroy the progressive base, or as you call us "f*cking retards," has been a huge success. You got almost everything you wanted.

WanderMan

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Friday March 19, 2010 · 12:15 PM PDT

2010/03/19 · 12:15

Power is neutral. Power can be used for good or evil. Power itself is not good or evil. It just is. If you want to change the way the world works, or change your own life, you need power.

One of the most important kinds of power is the ability to make people do what you want them to do, to influence people, to persuade people. If you want to make the world a better place, you have to be persuasive. You have to figure out what people like and what can make them like and trust you.

Many liberals are afraid of this idea. They say "Oh people will just do what they want, and I won't try to influence them." So who are the only ones doing the influencing? The Televangelists, the Republicans, the liars... so of course they are the ones usually in control.

WanderMan

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Friday March 12, 2010 · 4:56 PM PST

2010/03/12 · 16:56

I am a professional campaign manager. I have managed multiple Democratic Campaigns, all victories.

In the course of managing my most recent campaign, I had to create a message. As I went through this basic step of any campaign, I realized the Democratic Party itself had not created a Message for the 2010 election cycle. Thats a pretty serious problem. So I crafted one for us to use.

More below the fold:

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Overall, what do you think of the message?

23 votes Vote Now!

Overall, what do you think of the message?

I think the message is great! I will print it off and use it when i talk to all my friends!

13 votes

I like the idea of having us having a unified message, but I don't like the one you created.

5 votes

Your whole post was dumb, I am not going to have an easy to understand message when i talk about politics. Instead I will go into all the facts and minutia of every issue when I talk politics with my non-political friends

5 votes

Rahm is Telling Obama to Ignore Lakoff

WanderMan

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Saturday January 30, 2010 · 9:05 PM PST

2010/01/30 · 21:05

Anyone active in Progressive politics knows George Lakoff as one of the main men who finally helped the Democrats understand how average voters think. Lakoff told Democrats to stop giving boring laundry lists of programs, and instead learn how to frame issues in terms of our values.

A lot of us listened to Lakoff, especially Howard Dean.

But it seems that a certain some one who has the presidents ear is telling Democrats to turn away from the guy with the proven method of winning votes.

You guessed it. Rahm Emmanuel, the man who tried to kill the 50 state strategy before it started, the man who insisted with the DLC that we should ignore the progressive base to try and win moderates, the man is probably the reason Dean got fired from the DNC... is yet again leading Democrats astray.

Why did Obama ever hire this guy?
Details below the fold.

WanderMan

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Tuesday January 19, 2010 · 4:54 PM PST

2010/01/19 · 16:54

I have heard a lot of talk about how 2010 could be a bad year for Democrats.

I want us to step back a second and ask one question: Are all of the Democrats worth saving?

Hear me out on this.

WanderMan

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Tuesday December 22, 2009 · 7:25 PM PST

2009/12/22 · 19:25

Hi guys!

Im a former intern for Obama and I wrote this letter telling his team to shape up.

I thought I'd post it here, where probably more people would end up reading it anyways. I think it might sum up the way a lot of us feel right now. Tell me what you think!

I will incorporate changes you suggest before I submit the final version.

Keep up the good work guys. ;-)

WanderMan

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Wednesday March 25, 2009 · 3:57 PM PDT

2009/03/25 · 15:57

Obama seems to have finally led the Democrats to the Promised Land in terms of language use. Here, at last, is a leader of the Democratic Party who gets framing.

I've notice that almost every time the Obama administration talks about their programs they use the expression "Laying a Foundation." Whether it's the stimulus or the budget or any of the priorities, that phrase shows up.

Here's why this is important, and why I plan to copy it:

WanderMan

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Thursday February 26, 2009 · 10:22 AM PST

2009/02/26 · 10:22

Just for fun,

I put together this brief list of what the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress have accomplished since he was sworn in (the first 37 days.)

I mostly use this list when my conservative friends try to say Obama is "all rhetoric, but I'm waiting for some results" lol.

What do you guys think?

WanderMan

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Tuesday February 10, 2009 · 6:53 PM PST

2009/02/10 · 18:53

UPDATE: Moveon.org is getting involved!!! Moveon.org has a petition to help get a "progressive" appointed to HHS. That certainly helps Dean at least a bit.

The Petition can be signed here.

Here are a few of the quick things you can personally do to help get Dr. Howard Dean appointed as Secretary of Health and Human services. I have many links and phone number below the fold. Why not take a minute to help get the right guy in the job?

I hope most everyone would support Dean for HHS. As Governor of Vermont Dean secured universal healthcare for all children and pregnant women in the state. He is a doctor who understands healthcare in and out. In addition to that, he was also the best chairman we ever had of the DNC; Dean pioneered the use of the Internet and built a strong relationship with the netroots (us).

For anyone who agrees with me, lets take action! Lots to do below the fold. If you don't agree, well, you should probably just move on to the next diary. ☺

WanderMan

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Sunday February 08, 2009 · 1:53 PM PST

2009/02/08 · 13:53

I'm ready to take this to the next level. A comment in another diary inspired me to write this piece.

Frankly, it' time to kick some ass.

WanderMan

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Saturday February 07, 2009 · 8:49 AM PST

2009/02/07 · 08:49

I'm still hopeful we can get some of the help to Clean Energy, Education, and the States back into this bill. I haven't given up. But regardless, I don't think this turned out the way we planned.

So am asking: What do you think we should learn from this, so we do better next time? I've posted 2 of the major lessons that I think we should take forward, but I want to hear what other people think.

btw please abstain from ranting things like "Nothing works, this is hopeless, it's stupid to try, this is a dumb diary/ you are a dumb person. etc... Say that stuff somewhere else. I am trying to ask for METHODS, not insults. I am curious about specific ideas you may have of what we can do differently next time.

WanderMan

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 8:38 PM PST

2009/02/06 · 20:38

Obviously we are in the middle of a huge showdown over the recovery package, so we should devote the majority of our energy to the task at hand. We should not start eating each other as the plane is going down. Maybe we can still salvage this thing (not looking good, but we should try).

But if this does end soon, with a crappy bill being passed. A bill that has more tax cuts than anything else. Well there is one and only one thing that I hope happens. There is one and only one lesson we should draw from this pathetic debacle.

I plan to call both my Democratic Senators and say...

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