"Together We Thrive" Coming to a Campaign Trail Near You?

In honor of MLK Day, I propose that we start judging people on the content of their character. Happy Holiday!


This thing is unfolding and it is not getting prettier. Perhaps it is not scandalous that a memorial service was hijacked by a political campaign. But in my not so humble opinion it reveals a lot about the opportunists who run our country. Viva Rahm!

This first link actually tries to debunk the politication of the memorial service.

Among attempts by some conservatives to cast last night’s “Together We Thrive” memorial for victims of the massacre in Tucson in a negative light were suggestions that the White House was involved in designing and distributing t-shirts at the event. While that notion has already been partially debunked, we looked into the rumors, and besides a frank denial from the White House, we’ve uncovered some relevant details about the shirts, which were, infact, distributed by the University of Arizona.

This type of smear is nothing new, and despite the apparent absurdity of the claim, I checked with the White House, anyway. A senior administration official confirmed the widely-reported fact that the administration had nothing to do with the shirts.



http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-truth-about-the-together-we-thrive-t-shirts-at-the-tucson-memorial/

From the same source:

A focal point of the effort, by some, to cast Wednesday’s “Together We Thrive” memorial to the victims of the Tucson mass shooting in a negative light has been the t-shirts that were distributed to the crowd. Businessman Kevin Wright, owner of Florida-based Thundershirts, sees the shirts in a different light, though. He’s selling copies of the “Together We Thrive: Tucson and America” shirts in an attempt to raise money for the victims, and getting hate mail for his trouble.

When I first saw Wright’s listing on eBay, I had the same cynical thought that many others obviously did, that the “portion of the proceeds” was probably a token sum, donated simply as a pretext to capitalize on the tragedy. The fact that Wright’s politically-themed shirts have a decidedly conservative slant seemed to add irony to the mix, as some conservatives have twisted themselves in knots to manufacture controversy over the real t-shirts.


http://www.mediaite.com/online/business-selling-tucson-memorial-together-we-thrive-t-shirts-for-charity-gets-hate-mail/

But not everyone is an apologist:

Even after nearly a week of the Left’s vitriolic and unwarranted public lynching of the Right over last Saturday’s massacre by a left-wing lunatic in Tuscon, I was willing to give the President the benefit of the doubt after (by most accounts) doing well in delivering Cody Keenan’s well-drafted speech on Wednesday. Heck, even his teleprompter performed without flaw, the pauses built in right at the appropriate applause lines.

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/01/14/together-we-thrive-a-manufactured-memorial-with-a-marxist-message/

The View of The Unsanctioned Canadian Press:

The “Together We Thrive” T-shirts that starred at Wednesday’s Arizona `Memorial’ originated from Organizing for America (here), a sad fact unearthed by The Drumbeat of Liberty and the Preservation of Freedom editor and Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Robert Rohlfing.



In the controversy of the pep rally/rock concert style Memorial for those who lost their lives in Saturday’s Arizona tragedy, the mainstream media reported that the “Together We Thrive: Tucson & America” T-shirt given to mourners as they entered McKale Center was the idea of University of Arizona brass, not the Obama administration.

Yet the “Together We Thrive” slogan dates back to a post to Obama’s own Organizing for America in a Feb. 11, 2008 post by self-described “globalist” John Berry IV.


http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/32138


AOLNEWS is as lazy as any blogger: An article that just replays tweets. Dig it!

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/13/together-we-thrive-conservatives-slam-tucson-memorial-brand-o/

"Together We Thrive" WTF?

How dare they. Even when the president delivers the perfect speech, those people villify him. [Insert racist innuendo here]

Even the so-called attack dogs at Fox and talk radio and the blogosphere got kissy kissy over this speech. This time it was not the usual apologists who said stuff like "Even the president was surprised by the thunderous applause." Was he?

I think this memorial service/pep rally will be talked about for a long time to come. First, Let's see what advice Jonathan Alter of "Newsweek" fame is giving the president. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/10/the-impact-on-obama-s-presidency.html
Seriously, you might read this one and download it before it gets scrubbed. This is shameless stuff. Even "Newsweek" might find this one embarrassing. It is advice to the president on maximizing the political capital of the Tucson shooting. The adviser-at-large even references the patron saint of opportunism without a hint of irony

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel famously said in 2008. The same goes for a shooting spree that gravely wounds a beloved congresswoman.

I recognize that it is not leftism per se that turns a human being into a hyper-political animal. Rush Limbaugh sidetracked a football broadcast, the ultimate escapist politics-free entertainment vehicle, to editorialize about media favoritism and race. But the left has a knack for politicizing everything. Everything.

PAUL WELLSTONE MEMORIAL SERVICE

So the president was taken aback at the hooting and hollering and the general boisterous tone? Maybe not. Before the masses entered the arena, chairs were draped with "Together We Thrive" t-shirts. Huh?

WHAT? NO POM POMS?

GET YOUR GRIEVE ON


Who distributed thousands of t-shirts to mourners? Who funded this exercise? Where does this slogan come from? What exactly does it mean? Don't ask the mainstream media. Don't ask the Gray Lady or MSNBC or AP or the Alphabet Soup. They are too busy attacking Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.

This is one of the few investigative pieces out there (and I got the pics from them btw) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2656595/posts


Freerepublic links to my.barackobama.com to trace the origin of this slogan. It was on the table in 2008 but apparently got pushed aside for "Yes We Can" and "Hope and Change."

You might want to view this before it gets scrubbed.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/johnberry_iv/C94H

This is taken from an Organize For America post in February 2008. (my.barackobama.com)

For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society. How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.

What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution. A chance for every group to participate and be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many. Together we can and will change the world and return America to the shining beacon of Hope and Prosperity that we were and that we can be again. Only when we work together do we accomplish feats that rival any ever accomplished in the history of mankind. Diversity is our strength, that is what this campaign brings us a promise of. For many this is a scary prospect and thought, getting to know someone different from myself. We all want the same basic things for example a safe place to live, health and a quality education for our kids.

In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!





I hate to always be the cynic but it appears that the Re-Elect Obama campaign was kicked off in Tucson January 12, 2011. Together We Thrive!