By: Victoria

Victoria — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 10:33:15 +0000

Overall, this is excellent adcvie regarding dealing with campaigns and office-holders.Sorry, but for me, the so-called meaningful public option just isn’t enough. I believe in an expanded and improved no-gaps-no-loopholes Medicare for All single-payer plan. I refuse to settle for less. And Obama has promised to be an advocate for LGBT Americans. He isn’t. His work on the economy (housing, employment, financial regulation), on energy independence, on environmental regulation and protection has been just as underwhelming. These areas must also improve dramatically so or I won’t be volunteering for Obama again.I held my nose and voted for him in spite of his often-stated stance on Afghanistan. I do not understand why people are ever surprised by Obama’s Afghanistan policies. He was very plain about them during the campaign.Thank you for the links. It never hurts to make it painfully clear that ones financial and physical support are contingent upon the office-holder delivering the goods on the issues that matter. I do so at every chance I get.There aren’t enough like Lee. like Kucinich, like Weiner, like Grayson, like Feingold, like Boxer, like Sanders reliably left-of-center and populist. (AFAIK; please correct me if I am wrong.)As I posted to another article I do not think that there has been enough pressure brought to bear, repeatedly and consistently, upon Obama. To quote Franklin Delano Roosevelt, I agree with you. I want to do it. Now make me do it. (to organizers presenting him with a list of demands.) During the Great Depression, it was only the concerted pressure of activist citizens, often including civil disobedience, that allowed Roosevelt to make the changes we now take for granted. It will take that same sort of pressure on our Representatives, our Senators and Obama to get the changes in health care, financial regulation, foreign and war policy, energy policy and environmental regulation that we so desperately need.We must make then do it. And only repeated pressure, consistent pressure, unremitting pressure will make enough of an impression. Absent that pressure from the left, almost every political office-holder will tack to the right. Which of your elected officials did you call/email/fax today? Who is on the receiving end of your unremitting pressure? I contact at least 3 office-holders daily.If not us, who? If not now, when?

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:58:29 +0000

This is really unbelievable; it’s worse than keeping Gates on as sec of defense. What is Obama thinking??? Apparently, he’s not….

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