Mr President, you put me on the Horns of a Dilemma about my 2012 activity. Thank god that Bernie Sanders valiantly keeps the flame going despite the buckets of water poured by you, your Wall Street and other Conservadems. And thank god for Ralph Nader - sharp intellect, clear thinking and a steady unshakable commitment to the "other 98%". Thanks Ralph for spearheading the project Nader looks for Obama 2012 challengers.
Between these two people they have taken me down from the horns of my Obama dilemma. My plan is to support the candidate picked up by the Nader project. If Ralph fails to bring forth a worthy Populist Progressive I will write in the name of Berni Sanders. My hope is that this would bring you back to the agenda of candidate Obama, an agenda that I work hard to propagate. If the change described in the next paragraph happens before the General this Nader's Raider will be happy to once again put his shoe leather behind your candidacy.
Mr Politics Cleaner shamelessly struts his unparalleled ability to charm Organized Big Money Bosses into pouring gazillion dollars on his imperial campaign. It is plain vulgar to waste obscene amounts on of money on his electioneering, money which could be used to help a large number of the people who can not even put a proper meal on the kitchen table. President would like to con the people one more time with the help of his captive AstroTurf called OFA (Obama for America - deceptively into turned Organizing for America to paint his Astro Turf to look like genuine KBG (no not KGB, but Kentucky Blue Grass) and a boost from fellow beholden Democrats, prominent among them his Blue canine siblings.
Mind you I did not know of this sibling blood connection - until he proudly stated (not in a Big Public Rally, perhaps a pep session for the Dogs) that he himself was essentially[?] a Blue Dog yourself. Perhaps a Bluish one Mr P?
I wish I knew this before I alongside with my fellow Health Care activists started drowning in a sea of confusion as the President hopped from being a Believer in Medicare for All during campaign, to a proponent of Public Insurance Option to provide competitive pressure on the Ins Co to provide better quality at lower costs, to a sponsor of red herrings like Snowe Trigger through his Consiglieri Rahm Emanuel.
Here is my statement to Big O -
Congratulations, Mr President, Your Publishers are eager for you to finish "Story of BO - The Fine Art of Compromise" anticipating it to be your next mega seller in the spirit of "Audacity of Hope". As a byproduct of filling your campaign coffers you would also have met your moral obligation to fulfill the Dreams of your father - in short a twofer.
Mr President, your right to take an obscene amount of money from your Banking and Wall Street drinking buddies is well within the boundaries of the current law (remember Citizen's United which you denounced in your soaring rhetoric), a fact that you as a Constitutional Law celebrity know better than anybody else. Only difference is that they use this blood stained money for personal consumption and insuring that they have a fascistic control over the 98% of us. Instead of personal use, you, to great satisfaction of Big Money Bosses, mount a vulgarly expensive long lasting campaign, using large donations of the same blood money.
IMHO Mr President, as a matter of Truth and Transparency you should not be wearing your friendship with Oligarchs and Plutocrats as "Badges of Honor". You should instead be made to wear them as "Ribbons of Shame" while you hang your head down in shame on the steps of Lincoln Memorial.
Mr President, you put me on the Horns of a Dilemma about my 2012 activity. Thank god that Nader looks for Obama 2012 challengers. Between these two people they took me down from the horns of my Obama dilemma. My plan is to support the candidate picked up by the Nader project. If Ralph fails to bring forth a worthy Populist Progressive I will write in Berni Sanders. My hope is that this would bring you back to the agenda of candidate Obama, an agenda that I work hard to propagate. If the change described in the next paragraph happens before the General this Nader's Raider will be happy to once again put his shoe leather behind your candidacy.
Mr P you must do a 180 to pursue with honesty and vigor the populist Progressive agenda you sold and which we in turn sold beating the streets in the name of "Hope and Change" and abandon the reelection oriented Corporatist policies to prove that you are a Blue Dog who will offering acceptance of the major planks of Republican agenda, before you have started the negotiation and mobilize support for the agenda you sold and masses loved to counter the bull heads in Congress.
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The sharp tone of my message is not native to me and was completely absent in my initial missives to you. It has come about by seeing you and your insular staff of conservadems diligently lay to waste all our efforts to create a platform from which you could have sprung to fulfill your promises to common Americans (the Other 98%) and our commitment to have your back as you mobilized the 98% and invited the wrath of Plutocrats and Oligarch's. Unfortunately as your staff saw your penchant to include every Big Biz stake holder, Republicans and Conservative Dems (your pack of Blue Dogs) and exclude from your table any Progressive. The latter included large Progressive groups, such us MoveOn, PCCC, DFA, PDA et al, representing millions of populist Progressives, your base who busted their butt to put you in office. Even top notch Progressive leaders and experts like Robert Reich, Howard Dean even Nobel Laureates (Nobel given for actual work not for future potential based on soaring speeches) were ignored, even dissed.
My own efforts involved 2 plus years of participating in petitions, rallies, marches as part of the aforementioned large and committed Progressive organizations. I also sent many a missive of to you, starting with hurrays and godspeed, to suggestions for HCR my passion #1, to attempts to keep you making Faustian Bargains which will trash your Presidency and the welfare of common folk, to despair and finally disgust. The following message I wrote as part of a petition on HCR in my judgement elucidates passion, urgency, sincerity and constructiveness that I shared with many a Progressive Comrade.
Petition to members of Congress about the Public Option in HCR Legislation:
Without a Robust Public Option, it is not possible to lower the cost structure with any degree of confidence. No regulation can demand that the Insurance Companies reduce their current premiums from the levels that are bone-crushing for John Q Public. Treasury coffers will continue to deplete as Govt. pays out subsidies at these high rates. The pattern of transferring from taxpayer pockets to corporate pockets will only grow stronger.
SO PLEASE STAND STRONG FOR A ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION. NO COMPROMISES. NO CLEVER TOOLS LIKE CO-OPS OR TRIGGERS DEVISED BY CORPORATE TOOLS FOR THEIR PATRONS. STANDING STRONG MEANS NOT VOTING FOR A SHAM BILL. PRINCIPLES ARE IMPORTANT; DEMS CAN SET AN EXAMPLE WHICH WILL BRING THEM A LONG TERM STANDING WITH VOTERS. BY THE WAY, ALLOWING SOMETHING LIKE A TRIGGER IS TO CONDEMN ANOTHER (45000 * 4 OR 5 = 180,000 OR 225,000) MORE PEOPLE TO DEATH. HOW CAN THIS BE? WHERE IS OUR MORAL COMPASS? DO NOT VOTE FOR A DEATH SENTENCE. SHAME THOSE WHO WANT TO. NO TIME FOR MAFIA STYLE SUPPORT FOR COMRADES. IT IS TIME TO TAKE A MLK/GANDHI STYLE STAND.