Email the White House & let President Obama

[caty]

know what you expect of him.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Let's tell him we want him to fight those hateful repubs.

Let's tell him we want him to stand up, put his chin up, and tell them that he is the President and they are just congressmen.

Let's tell him that we want him to get as many bills passed that will help the middle class (97% of the country) before the next congress is seated.

If he is feeling a little beat up now, perhaps enough of us showing that we stand behind him will buck him up, so to speak, and let him know that we don't want a compromising president. We want a president who will come out swinging to get things done for us.

If we can contact people because Keith Olbermann was suspended, why can't we do the same thing to fight for President Obama and give him the support he needs right now?

[Patchuli]

1. That's true but I frankly don't know

if he gives a shit what we think. He hasn't listened to us for the past two years. I knew we were in trouble when he picked Rahm Emanuel for his adviser. He made horrible choices and what was it he told us a few months ago? Suck it up or some such thing?! I know that I would have voted Hilary if I had known he was going to be spineless.

[abelenkpe]

2. Yeah...

I'm not sure she would have been any better but right now I gotta admit I'm pretty pissed at Obama. Not so pissed I'd ever vote for a stupid republican but yeah....disappointed.

[Slit Skirt]

3. i think he thinks were "retards"

[Patchuli]

5. If he's interested in keeping his job

he better realize that we're sick of the inaction and he better start producing for the middle class. I don't give a damn what party people(except the teahadists) are in; everyone I know has had it with the shitty economy, no jobs, the health care rip-off (before and after the so-called reform) and the whole mess. We want leaders who will get us out of the tailspin, bring jobs back to U.S., tax the toys of the rich and let them pay their share, actually fix health care by putting the insurance companies in their places and put the leash back on Wall Street. Until this is done, we are screwed. While I'm on a roll, I am mad as hell at the pres for not prosecuting BP and protecting our Gulf better!!!!! Damn all the bastards that clusterf'ed us in the Gulf! ggggggrrrrrrrrrrr

Sorry for the rant! :banghead:

[Slit Skirt]

8. hey rant on...I couldn't agree with you more

did you see Ratigan the other day with Cenk and Glenn Greenwald...it was great! check msnbc for the video..it will do your heart good!

[caty]

9. What gets me is

that repub voters are not afraid to speak up. Hell, they are not even afraid to wear guns on their hips at rallies. But for some reason, we Dem voters just mumble to ourselves or on forums like this and we bitch and complain where the ones who really can make a difference can't hear us. Do you think that repubs don't email or phone their senators and congressmen? Why are we so afraid to shout out what we want? Apparently the squeaky wheel gets the grease, even in politics. We need to be squeaky wheels with a really loud squeak.

[Slit Skirt]

11. absolutely...but this time I am not giving up.....

We get what we need, what was promised or eluded too.
we need : campaign finance reform...not something watered down either. Get rid of the deficit commission or put more liberals on it now. Don't put 14 conservatives out of 18 in the commission and tell me we need to cut back on Social Security UNACCEPTABLE Don't tell us we can't afford this that and the next thing but the rich get gigantic tax breaks and we stay with 2 wars. UNACCEPTABLE.
we need: reform on gerrymandering, lobbying, financial reform that isn't some friggin-watered-down-means-nothing version

Obama is not fighting for the progressive base..he isn't even trying. His fundamental error is that we asked him to change HOW the system runs.....not what is done. we thought that he might be the one,
that we might have a chance with him...but it is the same old wars, the same old corporate run government, the same old financial fraud...look how many people have gotten screwed out of their money, how many people died in the mining disaster, bp oil spill....

How come no one ever goes to jail?

[Patchuli]

12. I've been squeaking for years now!! And not just here on DU!

our congressman is a little bit of a blue dog but he is basically a good guy. He has always been opposed to the wars. Mike Thompson, CA

[caty]

4. I think that

one problem is that he did not have enough experience dealing with these hard core politicians. That's not his fault. I would have liked to see Hilary as president and Obama as vice president. Then, after 4 to 8 years, he would have had enough experience to deal with the repubs. BUT, that's not how it is. I think that he could still end up being a great president if he could just get the confidence he needs to face off with these people.

Here is the message I sent:

"Please tell the President that we, the people, want him to fight those hateful Republicans.

Tell him we want him to stand up, put his chin up, and tell them that HE is the President and they are just congressmen.

Tell him that we want him to get as many bills passed that will help the middle class (97% of the country) before the next congress is seated.

If he is feeling a little beat up now, perhaps enough of us showing that we stand behind him will buck him up, so to speak, and let him know that we don't want a compromising president. We want a president who will come out swinging to get things done for us.

Ask him if President Lincoln would take this meekly, or come out like a raging tiger to protect his country and it's citizens.

I voted for President Obama because I had every confidence that he could do a history making job at becoming one of our best presidents."



Now, I don't know if messages like this will help him or not. But at least I have the opportunity to try to let him know how I, and I believe, most Americans feel.

[grahamhgreen]

6. Will do. This is our last chance to lobby for the people.

[auntsue]

7. I e-mailed the white house the other day

I said some people mistake civility for weakness and when confronted with bullies you can not play chess. Ya have to do some defensive shin-kicking. You can talk about it later, but you first have to stop the bully from beating the crap out of you by whatever (legal) means necessary. That's what I said.

[caty]

10. Good for you.

We only get to vote once every two years. That's when we sound off. But I'm starting to believe that we need to sound off a lot more often. We are privy to some email addresses. They are there for us to use to voice our opinions between elections. We might as well take advantage of them and let it be known what we want and what we expect.

[readmoreoften]

13. I don't think the middle class is 97% of the country.

40 million Americans are on food stamps. We need help for the poor who need our help and working peoples who create the wealth (and lets not forget that sometimes those categories cross.) It's time to drop this cold war notion of "the middle class." That was just a temporary thing to make us look good to fight the commies. We're in the neoliberal era now. It's all rich and poor as far as the eye can see. And today's "middle class" is just tomorrow's poor.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Here is what I just sent him

and for the record 97% is NOT Middle Class... I am working class and PROUD OF IT.

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Mr. President it is time to deal with the economy in an effective manner and long term. One reason we are in the hole we are is structural and it has to do with "free trade" and the deindustrialization of the country. We are no longer producing things in the United States.

As Professor Kennedy pointed out in his book the Fall of the Great Powers it is in Steel Production, and other industrial goods, which China overtook us. It is time to go back to a NATIONAL Industrial Policy. We don't have one, and until we do the employment situation will remain volatile at best.

In the short term a WPA type program and infrastructure is what is needed. Long term, companies need both a carrot and a stick to keep jobs in the US. Yes the republicans will fight you. But they will fight you if you sneeze and hold investigations. We are not stupid and we know this.

Time to fight back.

Nadin.

[caty]

15. Excellent

One thing that irks me the most is giving tax cuts to American companies who have sent our jobs to other countries and caused this huge problem of unemployment in the first place. These companies are un American as far as I'm concerned. They see what they have caused and have not brought the jobs back. They should lose their tax cuts and then have their taxes doubled to pay the unemployed until they DO bring the jobs back. The rich are no longer aiming to become millionairs, now they want to be billionaires at our expense.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. They are not unamerican, they are corporations

different thing.

They have been encouraged to do what's best for the bottom line. Well they need to be encouraged to do something different for the bottom line.

Yes, sadly it is that simple... the problem is that doing what is best for their bottom lime, (moving jobs back to the US) is easier said than done, especially with the 111th House... it is always crazy... now will be insane.,