{"id":4526,"date":"2009-12-29T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2009-12-29T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:21:38","slug":"obamas-grass-roots-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4526","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s Grass-Roots Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks, leader of the tea party “conservatives”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We’ve been studying everything about the Obama primary strategy, and I happen to think the tea party movement could make even the Obama grass-roots machine look obsolete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This could be interpreted two ways that I see. Either it is yet another example<\/a> of right wingers demonstrating their reactionary nature<\/a> (“What ends up happening in many of these reactionary groups is that they construct themselves on a model based on their worst fears of their enemy.”) or proof that Obama’s grass-roots “machine” was a startling innovation that remade campaigning.<\/p>\n

[Image by Andrew Aliferis<\/a> licensed under Creative Commons.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks, leader of the tea party “conservatives”: We’ve been studying everything about the Obama primary strategy, and I happen to think the tea party movement could make even the Obama grass-roots machine look obsolete. This could be interpreted two ways that I see. Either it is yet another example of right wingers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,4],"tags":[2389,2497,1741],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","tag-freedom-works","tag-matt-kibbe","tag-reactionary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1b0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}