The Heritage Foundation reveals a deeply unsettling project by the campaign to reelect President Obama:
"...This week, on the president’s ominous “Truth Team“ campaign website, his staff listed the names of eight of his likely opponent’s donors.
... After each name, the campaign lists deeds that they find objectionable or “less-than-reputable” that mostly boil down to business transactions that included alleged outsourcing or layoffs and involvement in the oil energy industry.
... This follows a multi-year effort by the ongoing Obama campaign to vilify specific donors to competing philosophical causes and demands that organizations release lawfully protected donor lists or donors reveal lawfully private and personal financial information.
In each of these instances, President Obama has relied on a vast grassroots network to coerce, bully, boycott and vilify individuals lawfully taking part in the political process, just as his own donors and supporters are freely allowed to engage.
... The media has so far given this White House tactic a pass in this administration. What name will elicit a defense of Constitutional freedoms? Must it be one of their own, as was the case under Nixon?
Shouldn’t every American be protected against the heavy hand of governmental intimidation? The President must explain his intimidation of people who have lawfully participated in the political system and have borne no electoral injustice to our nation other than participating in lawful industries the President finds objectionable and supporting organizations and campaigns the President opposes.
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Coupled with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Party recent proposal to repeal the 1st Amendment and replace it with a new amendment that will, in effect, end the right of association for those that oppose their Marxist agenda.
The Left's march to impose tyranny as a viable form of government continues.
Cry me a river, Heritage.
None of what they're complaining about is improper, and the attempted comparison to Nixon -- who was breaking the law -- is ludicrous. These people are just whining because their opponents dare to hit them where they're vulnerable.
The media should take a look around at all the the criminal types Nobama has hired to serve on his staff. But many former media personalities now work for his campaign. It appears they're all auditioning for a job, so of course they can't report the truth.
The quality of our government is only as good as the character, honor, decency, and integrity of those who manage it.
And things are looking pretty rotten.
Yet no one is denying that what is written is true.