Obama's OFA Chief: Global warming skeptics are “crazy” purveyors of “far-fetched conspiracy theories.”

Jim Messina should learn how to read a chart...

Via Washington Secrets:

The president’s recently formed grass-roots campaign operation revealed Thursday that it plans to attack Republicans who question radical global warming hype, dubbing them
“crazy” purveyors of “far-fetched conspiracy theories.”

In a fundraising memo from President Obama’s re-election campaign manager, Organizing for Action slammed “climate deniers” and their doubts, which Jim Messina compared to the nutty things a crazy uncle would say at Thanksgiving dinner.

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Obama’s 2012 campaign manager and OFA chairman stops selling access to Obama long enough to sell access to himself...

Go figure...

Via Politico:

Jim Messina, campaign manager for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection bid and one of the most influential figures in Obama world, is opening a consulting firm to represent progressive groups and Democratic campaigns.

Messina will also remain chairman of Organizing for Action, the nonprofit successor to Obama for America, which was the president’s campaign committee.

Messina told POLITICO that he will only be a consultant — not a lobbyist. The White House, which has tried to limit the role of lobbyists in the administration, has also tried to avoid the potentially embarrassing specter of former aides moving to K Street to cash in on their ties to top officials.

“I am going to advise political campaigns and organizations that want to build on the lessons we learned in the Obama campaign — digital savvy and grass-roots focus. These are the things I want to do,” Messina said in an interview on Tuesday. Read more here...

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina called Tuesday’s WI recall outcome: A “terrifying experiment.”

Team Obama should be afraid. they should be very afraid.

(The Hill) — President Obama will need to double down on his efforts to keep Wisconsin safely in his column after Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) resounding victory in Tuesday’s recall election.

Every Democratic presidential candidate since Walter Mondale in 1984 has won Wisconsin, but the Obama campaign “can’t view Wisconsin as being in the bank for them,” said Barry Burden, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “They’re definitely going to have to put more effort here than they were initially planning.”

Political observers say Obama remains the odds-on favorite to win Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, a sentiment reflected in exit polls showing the president leading Mitt Romney by a healthy margin.

In an email to supporters, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina called Tuesday’s outcome — and, more specifically, the super-PAC money spent on Walker — a “terrifying experiment.”
Messina said the money “swung the election.”

“This kind of corporate and special-interest spending is exactly what we could be up against this fall,” he said before asking supporters to donate $3 or more to the president’s reelection campaign.