Micah Sifry

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• Got hope? I debate Micah Sifry on GritTV

  
  odd time signatures — Authority: 553
  I had the opportunity to appear on Laura Flanders’ show today with Micah Sifry and continue the ongoing debate over whether the grassroots are or are not empowered, are or are not unhappy, and are or are not disengaging from the political process overall. I’m not sure we broke any new ground, but it did give us ...
  1 day ago

• Ethics and Believability in Politics: On Sifrys Theory of an Obama Disconnect

  
  techPresident — Authority: 652
  Cross-posted at Huffington Post Micah Sifry has written a widely discussed essay about the denuded Obama grassroots movement, touching on a broad range of issues, from the campaign teams exertion of top-down control to their missteps post-election to the myth-making and marketing of hope and change. There have ...
  2 days ago

• Much-anticipated Obama Transparency Fails to Materialize to Supporters Chagrin

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 813
  The Obama presidential campaign indisputably used new media better than any before it to build a virtual army of grassroots supporters, and to wield that army as a powerful tool for fundraising, rapid response messaging, and boots-on-the-ground campaigning. But the energy that surrounded Obama and his team after the ...
  2 days ago

• Revisiting Sifry and the OfA Withering.

  
  RedState — Authority: 778
  Micah Sifry wrote a follow-up to his post on the withering of Obama Organizing for America , and it’s just as interesting as the first one was. More practically useful, in its way: anybody involved with building/maintaining a local Tea Party group, or other local conservative/libertarian/Republican grassroots ...
  3 days ago

• Revisiting Sifry and the OfA Withering.

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 617
  Micah Sifry wrote a follow-up to his post on the withering of Obama Organizing for America , and it’s just as interesting as the first one was. More practically useful, in its way: anybody involved with building/maintaining a local Tea Party group, or other local conservative/libertarian/Republican grassroots ...
  3 days ago

• Continuing dialogue with Micah Sifry: Hope, health, activism and results

  
  odd time signatures — Authority: 553
  I appreciate it when someone responds to what I’ve written in a thoughtful way, even if they do open the dialogue with “a blogger who calls herself…” Before digging into the debate, I should probably clear up the personal and quite possibly ’sentimental’ items in question. My mother really named me ...
  4 days ago

• Odds and ends for 1/3

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 489
  Cliff May really wishes his penis were bigger. Why it’s important to try Khalid Sheikh Muhammad in a civilian court in New York City, by Cynthia Kouril : “Treat him like what he is, a common criminal. Not a great boogeyman, not an arch criminal, not a martyr, just a guy who could not make a success in life ...
  4 days ago

• Worshipping False Idols

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 139
  Everyone on the left, myself certainly included, saw far more in Barack Obama than was really there. There was the aura, then there was the man. Micah Sifry absolutely, completely, nails this disconnect in an essay not to be missed. the image of Barack Obama as the candidate of “change”, community organizer, ...
  6 days ago

• The Sifry Disconnect: When cynicism kills hope

  
  odd time signatures — Authority: 553
  If you haven’t read Micah Sifry’s latest (very long) post about how liberal disappointment and wilting grassroots, please go read it first before you read this (very long) rebuttal. A short paraphrase: President Obama isn’t a recent sellout. We are seeing the Barack Obama that always was, is, and has been — ...
  6 days ago

• Best Videos of 2009

  
  A. Fine Blog — Authority: 112
  My last post for this year will highlight my choices for the best videos by nonprofits and for causes of 2009.But, first, I’d like to thank a few people who have enriched my life, taught and inspired me, and helped me in myriad ways this year — and hopefully will continue to do so next [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Sunlight in ‘What Matters Now’

  
  Sunlight Foundation — Authority: 606
  Seth Godin, the prolific author and blogger , recently asked a collection of contemporary thinkers to contribute to a project on a word they feel should carry significance in our lives. The anthology of short essays, entitled ‘ What Matters Now ‘, is freely available as an e-book to download and share.  The ...
  3 weeks ago

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