Did Obama Just Blow it Big Time on Tax Cuts?

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Friday December 10, 2010 · 6:20 PM PST

2010/12/10 · 18:20

I just watched President Obama share his rationale for supporting the recent bi-partisan "compromise" on tax cuts. I'm pained by what I consider a show of weakness and lack of passion at this value-defining moment (aka "compromise").

I'd like to share my thoughts with the White House and Democratic Leadership, and have a draft message below. I'd love feedback from the KOS community before I send it. Am I missing something, or was this really a big blown opportunity? ...

imishalove

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Thursday October 22, 2009 · 8:07 AM PDT

2009/10/22 · 08:07

My recent note to PA's Arlen Specter to encourage him to step up...

Dear Senator Specter,

I recently left a job (which provided quality health insurance for my family) to join our family's small business in Washington DC. Since then, I've struggled to secure an affordable health insurance plan for my wife, myself and our 10-month old son.

A decent group plan from United Health Care (UHC) listed premiums, initially, at just over $1,000/month. After we applied, they rated us and so our quoted premiums jumped to nearly $2.2k/month (over $26,000/year). Although we couldn't afford it, we picked up this plan anyway (at least for the short-term) just to ensure we had coverage that couldn't be denied.

It's awful to feel pressured to buy a "life essential" that you can't afford because you fear it might be your only option. It's the sort of thing that breaks the back of small business owners and working families who aren't blessed with employer-provided insurance or personal riches.

Since picking up this cost-prohibitive plan, I've tried to apply for some more affordable individual plans...

Please read on for how well that worked. Not!

imishalove

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Thursday January 03, 2008 · 9:57 PM PST

2008/01/03 · 21:57

The thing that struck me the most about tonight was finally seeing Barack Obama not only as a candidate for change in America, but as a living symbol of the change that's possible -- and for which I think majorities are yearning.

imishalove

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Wednesday December 05, 2007 · 8:32 PM PST

2007/12/05 · 20:32

Blinded by ideological fundamentalism, President Bush has taken the recent NIE on Iran, and deemed it a "warning signal". This is precisely the sort of misleading, scare-mongering propaganda that the President used to manipulate the American public and Congress into the Iraq war.

We ALL know (now!) there were no Iraqi WMDs, no threat of a "mushroom cloud", and therefore no justification for squandering America's moral credibility, the common wealth of our nation (now in the $ hundreds of billions) and -- most importantly -- the lives of our honorable soldiers, in this horribly misbegotten Iraq war.

We cannot let President Bush's misleading propaganda lead us down that same destructive path in Iran.

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