Ok I am writing this post because I am royally annoyed by the "I got your back Mr President diary" by Mr Lars Thorwald.
Mr Thorwald, the idea that any criticism of Barack Obama is typical Kossack Hand-Wringing is not only condescending but is false.Many of us worked for Obama.
But lets see what Mr. Obama said when he launched his campaign:
Because I will never forget that the only reason that I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.
Mr Thorwald this issue is the defining moment of Barack Obama's presidency.
Because if the insurance companies defeat the public option then the millions of Americans without voice, the ones most in need, will have suffered the most humiliating defeat in the hands of a massive democratic majority in congress and a democratic president who demolished the naysayers earning the most votes any first-term president has in two generations.
This is the Barack Obama I remember:
Triangulating and poll-driven positions because we're worried about what Mitt or Rudy might say about us just won't do. If we are really serious about wining this election Democrats, we can't live in fear of losing it...I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called "the fierce urgency of now." Because I believe that there's such a thing as being too late. And that hour is almost upon us.
I don't want to wake up four years from now and find out that millions of Americans still lack health care, because we couldn't take on the insurance industry.
This is not the fight to cave or to stop questioning Obama. He has surrounded himself with Wall street executives who before entering his administration oversaw a massive redistribution of wealth to the rich. We accepted that.
But in the richest country in the world dying of a tooth abscess at 12 just won't do.
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. If his mother had been insured. If his family had not lost its Medicaid. If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Not for the couple Stephanie and I met at a remote Fort Dodge, Iowa home where the retired husband had just been dropped after been diagnosed with colon cancer. I had to sell Mr. Obama's plan to the woman who was pleading with us about her situation. I had to put all my trust and soul in Mr. Obama that day.
Mr Thorwald, nothing personal, but your excuses just won't do. Not on health care. Not on this moment. We are not whining. We are demanding. No public option means death to those who need help the most. From more tooth abscesses. It means the loss of human dignity and life. And it is a loss of my personal dignity. And the loss of faith those who supported you instead of the alternatives back when few did.
Under a democratic president and congress with vast mandates in the year 2009.
Triangulation just won't do.