Reagan affirms solidarity with Wisconsin workers

Meanwhile, back in the 21st century ...

... the Obama White House scrambles to prevent its plutocratic astroturf propaganda machine from accidentally becoming what it pretends to be: a legitimate grassroots pro-democracy movement:

... When West Wing officials discovered that the Democratic National Committee had mobilized Mr. Obama's national network to support the protests, they angrily reined in the staff at the party headquarters.

Administration officials said they saw such events beyond Washington as distractions from the optimistic "win the future" message Mr. Obama introduced with his State of the Union Address.

In other words, the White House would prefer to endlessly repeat a lame slogan rather than get involved in one of the most consequential political fights of the present day. It seems like the new White House team, the subject of the Times article, isn't much different from the old; still more than willing to throw grassroots Obama supporters under the bus.

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"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that." --- Britney Spears, September 2003

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by: Mucius Scaevola @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 19:15:23 PM UTC

Honestly,

I think we should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that.

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by: Fong @ Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 20:13:39 PM UTC

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