MoveOn has a new ad playing on national cable begging Obama to stop getting pushed around. In it, people who voted for Obama ask the President to fight against the extension of the millionaire and billionaire tax cuts.
What's happened to that bold, progressive man we elected President in 2008?"
"The guy who stands for all the people and is not gonna let himself get pushed around?"
MoveOn is asking for more video messages to the Presdient.
Now more than ever, we need the Barack Obama we elected in 2008—the smart, tough, hopeful progressive champion who inspired millions of us—to stand up and say "no" to a millionaire bailout.
So we're asking MoveOn members nationwide to record a video message from the heart to tell President Obama to go to the mat to stop any extension of the millionaire tax giveaways—and to bring back the progressive fighter we all knew and supported in 2008.
Can you record and upload a video today? Check out the example to the right, and just follow the steps below:
We Need the Barack Obama of 2008 Back
Join the over 150,000 people here who added a message as to why the billionaire bailout is wrong:
1 Million Reasons The Millionaire Bailout Is A Bad Idea
It's not just Obama. Too many Democrats are cowardly careerists.
Dems too scared to fight in this media environment? Jonathan Cohn seems to agree with yours truly that Dems tend to decide in advance they can't win protracted struggles once Republicans go on the attack:
The wimp factor is also a problem. Many Democrats are simply too scared to fight right now. They think the merits of arguments don't make a difference -- that, between Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, they just can't win media arguments anymore.
But the truth is, the fix is in, the game is rigged:
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
I cannot lie to myself anymore. This Party is becoming morally bankrupt and we have no leader.
Hope died today. Change is over.
Update I: Obama Promised:
I look forward to receiving emails from OFA asking for people to write letters to the editor about how Obama extended the tax cuts for billionaires and why that is great for America.
Update II:
Yesterday, PCCC announced that the ad -- which you can watch below -- would run only on D.C. cable, which meant it would only be seen by political elites. But Adam Green of the PCCC says that the group has since yesterday raised more than $50,000 from some 3,000 people to fund the ad, allowing the group to put it on the air in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
This means actual voters will see the spot, the first hitting Obama from the left of the new cycle. Iowa has special significance, because it's there that Obama made his 2007 campaign promise to let the tax cuts for the wealthy expire, which is the centerpiece of the ad. The spot demands that Obama stick to his promise and not "cave" to Republicans by extending the tax cuts for the rich.
WaPo, Greg Sargent, The Plum Line: Lefty group running ad slamming Obama -- in Iowa
Update III: Capitulation on tax cuts for the trich is handing the keys back to the drivers who drove us into the ditch WITH THOSE VERY SAME TAX CUTS.