December 11, 2010 09:35 AM UTC

Colo Progressives can get Obama back into the fold.

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• by: Barron X

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The once progressive chief executive is battered on all sides, the ship of state adrift, with no safe harbor in sight.  

He could sure use a friend right about now.  

And the progressives right here in River City could provide him with just the tonic he needs,

if they can find the time.  

All it would take would be about 1,800 Colorado activists, each giving about 60 hours of time, on average, each spending less than $200 of their own money, a small team to manage the campaign, plus about $450,000 from an “angel investor” for media coverage.

President Obama needs a victory right about now.  

He needs to win a battle to deliver on one of his signature issues.  I don’t think it really matters which one.  

You Colorado Progressives have the power to deliver that for him.  

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Peons like us don’t have much power in our political system anymore, but we can still march, carry signs, sign petitions and wear T-shirts (unless Obama outlawed some of those in his expanded Patriot Act, and I just haven’t heard about it yet.)

It just so happens that this opportunity to help Obama is also in support of a burning issue with conservatives, who are fighting the fearmongering GOP on this.  Thus my helpful suggestion.

You committed Progressives can rally the state, and especially Fremont County, to support the transfer of the Bogey Monsters at Guantanamo to the Florence SuperMax.  

Frame it as a jobs issue, not as a way to get back closer to the Rule of Law, which is the angle conservatives have over-fixated on.  “Rule of Law” and “constitutionality” don’t play very well with low-info voters.  

No need to thank me.

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