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January 25, 2008
THEY ARE RELENTLESS (Americans United for Change V. President Bush)
by Tina Grazier
“A Bush Rally,” by William Kristol – The Weekly Standard
The Associated Press reported last week that a left-wing group, Americans United for Change, plans to spend $8.5 million to ensure that President Bush's public approval rating doesn't improve in his final year in office. The group points out that President Reagan recovered politically in 1988. "All of a sudden he became a rallying cry for conservatives and their ideology," Brad Woodhouse, the group's president, lamented. "Progressives are still living with that."
Americans United For Change is a powerful movement bringing together independent voices for new policy priorities and real leadership - to focus our elected officials on the issues that really matter to the lives of everyday Americans and get America moving in the right direction again. *** Americans United For Change is building on a foundation of success laid over the past two years. In 2005, Americans United For Change was founded to fend off President Bush's top policy priority at the time: privatizing Social Security.
Americans United For Change beat back President Bush, his allies in Congress and the special interests who sought to break the solemn promise America made to its senior citizens by dismantling Social Security with an expensive and risky privatization scheme. In 2006, Americans United For Change broadened its scope to build broad public and congressional support for action on a wide range of long-stalled policy issues.
This organization’s webpage references the visitor back to this site where pages (829 in all) where sites concerning the environment, women’s rights, animal rights, homlessness and other social change issues are linked:
Social Change Websites is designed to encourage creative and innovative use of technology. Our goal is to create a central resource for organizations and causes using the best practices of online advocacy to support their mission. We strive to make this directory as useful as possible for organizations, volunteers, educators, constituents, and donors by making it easier for them to see what other organizations are doing.
Progressives use language designed to sound mainstream and sensible ("independent voices for new policy priorities" & "broad public and congressional support" are examples) when they describe their favorite "causes" but they give little information regarding their proposed solutions. Progressives dress their appeals in terms of feeling better or doing good and offer nothing of substance as to the impact their solutions might have on the economy, our pocketbooks, or quality of life. When describing their competition, republicans, they use negative language designed to disparage or destroy rather than pointing to differences or rebutting policy based on facts and results.
In one of the paragraphs above the following words are used when describing president Bush's ideas for reforming social security: dismantling, expensive, risky and scheme. None of these words even remotely describe the presidents plan or it's impact but theese words were repeated over and over and gave the public a negative, inaccurate impression that colored the perception of the president and his idea for reforming saving) social security. We the people never got to hear a ral, honest debate on the subject. The idea was killed with sensational, loud, inaccurate adjectives.
It’s unfortunate that politics in America has become a war between ideologies, rather than which individuals are best suited to lead in a free and united nation, but that’s where we are. Until we win this social battle, the tug of war for the heart and soul of America will continue. America is not a Marxist nation. It is not a fascist nation. It is not a communist nation. It is not a socialist nation. It is not a progressive nation. None of these is compatible with our founding documents and none offers the promise of freedom that is the hallmark of our nation. Yet, these are exactly what the democrats have to offer the people... and sadly too often the people don’t seem to notice or care.
If you are reading this and you love America and what she stands for, if you value your freedom and the opportunity to pursue happiness in your own way and by your own strength, if you value the freedom and responsibility to make personal choices for your future, you will vigorously seek to discover the differences in the candidate’s ideals and grounding. Pay attention, not just to sound bites and sensational headlines, but to the underlying ideology of each party and each candidate.
FREEDOM is a precious thing…please vote wisely in November
Posted by Post Scripts at January 25, 2008 08:57 PM