The insanity, injustice and yes depravity of giving billionaires a tax cut during the worst economic times in decades should force anyone to question the judgment of the man we elected President.
In the end, however, if that were the only thing Obama did, he would not deserve a primary.
However, we have learned today that Obama has agreed to defund our Social Security programs.
He has declared open season on the American people.
In my opinion, we have only two options: impeachment or primary.
Since we couldn't get the Congress to impeach Bush for torturing people and starting illegal wars, it is unlikely we are going to get them to impeach Obama for throwing our future overboard.
So we are left with the primary. This diary is written to begin the process of creating a netroots primary challenge to a President who today abandoned his party and the American people. Please join in comments with constructive thoughts about how to begin a movement to cultivate, select and campaign for a 2012 primary challenger to President Obama.
MISSION STATEMENT
When in the course of human events, the American people get thrown under the bus for the umpteeth time by their elected officials, it is time to get busy. Because the President has made it clear he is out to destroy the safety net of the American people and our way of life by continuing the transfer begun by George W. Bush of our tax dollars upward to the wealthiest one (1) percent of Americans, (not to mention the fact that he is also destroying the Democratic Party as we have known it), we have formed the intent and purpose to create a primary movement to cultivate, select and elect a new Democratic candidate for the office of President of the United States.
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FIRST PRINCIPLES
- We will work together to draft a progressive platform that will help the American people and strengthen the safety net for all Americans.
- We will first develop a primary movement that will attract the support of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who oppose the destruction of the safety net first championed and then built by the Democratic Party as we remember it.
- We will then interview people to be the netroots primary challenger for President on the Democratic Party ticket.
- We will then select our Presidential candidate using technology and/or other secure and valid means that reflects the will of the netroots.
- We will then work to elect that Presidential candidate first by winning the primary against the sitting President and then by winning the general election against the Republican candidate and all other candidates.
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FIRST STEPS
A. Create political infrastructure. We will require an organizing committee that will take responsibility for seeing that our short and long-term objectives are realized and that will work to set up teams to complete various tasks.
B. Create an online system and procedure for developing a platform and process to select a candidate.
C. Begin to raise funds in support of our efforts.
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I presume that we will be able to use DailyKos to facilitate A, B and C initially and then at some point we can spin off a website that would be more independent (while retaining close ties to this community).
This list is of course simply a first draft. I welcome comments and further thoughts below and hope that this will become the primary movement that we need to move our country forward.