OFA runs full-page ad in 'USA Today', "You Fight, We'll Fight!"

[Clio the Leo]

Today, OFA is running an ad in USA Today to highlight the nearly 9 million -- and counting -- hours pledged by supporters to volunteer for candidates and elected officials who fight for health insurance reform.

OFA supporters have repeatedly smashed the goals set for the "You Fight, We'll Fight" volunteer hours pledge bank, showing that they're ready to knock on doors, make phone calls, and do everything they can to fight for candidates working hard for reform this election season.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/ericasagrans/gGGg7T">Volunteer to Help the Fight Here

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Uh, after all the compromises that Obama has given to the Thugs?

No thanks

:boring:

[Cha]

11. That's right..fall asleep while

the rest of us do the work.

[rug]

2. "You Fight, We'll Fold!"

[Arctic Dave]

4. Sadly, very accurate. :(

[emsimon33]

3. Obama already sold us out to Big Pharma & the hospitals

He lied. Everything was not on the table.

[saracat]

5. Really? Who the F**k do they think they are? We have ALREADY fought

How do they think Obama got erlected? On his looks? WE elected him and every democratic volunteer who pounded the pavement, manned the phones and licked the evelopes elected this man and this congess to do a job and by god they should do it! just today, the president sent out a letter detailing his capitualtion to GOP insertions in HCR and OFA has the nerve to tell US to fight????.

[saracat]

6. And I object to my donations being spent that way.How dare they use our donations

to tell us to fight when they refuse to do so themselves?

[ProSense]

8. You fought?

:rofl:

[saracat]

23. I campaigned for the entire Dem slate and was a campaign manager.

Don't you dare condescend to me.And, while he was not my primary choice, I did phone and walk for Obama along with my other candidates. Not a day go by but I am not having to defend myself for persuading my GOP family members to vote for Obama. Don't you DARE patronize me. These little twits have no business lecturing long time activists.

[Jakes Progress]

32. That's a great tactic.

Keep alienating the people who voted for Obama. Keep up your holier-than-thou shit until you have turned off every single one of us who worked like hell to get him elected. You and only you will be the one who gets to be Obama's precious, special person. Not that you care about his legacy or his reelection. Not that you care about a liberal agenda. If you can just manage to keep spewing, you can run everyone off and have O all to yourself.

Just how do you think your attitude and your responses can possibly serve the president or the Democratic party? You do want to help, don't you?

[laughingliberal]

49. Almost seems like a voter suppression effort, does it not?

I've thought for some time now that suppressing the liberal vote will get more Republicans elected and allow the administration cover for continuing their move to the right. I have mentioned that in most of my emails and all of my calls to them.

As one long time activist remarked here a while back, some people on DU think activism is manning phone banks while they watch their 401k accounts grow. I think this is the variety who dare question those of us who have been in the trenches for decades. Well, and the ones who thing posting multiple links to WH talking points is activism.

[inna]

75. That was pretty ugly and completely uncalled for.

:thumbsdown:

[Clio the Leo]

13. yep, and we were DONE on November the 5th weren't we?

Time to put up our feet and let Superman save the world!

[saracat]

25. A great many of us continued to campaign for real health care reform

and union rights, unlike the WH, who we elected to do those things.just today the president outlined his acceptance of yet more GOP concessions.And the Dem's talked of not going to reconciliation.This is to make sure there isn't a PO. The dog and pony show is almost over.And OFA has the nerve to tell us to fight?

[Clio the Leo]

28. Fight sara! Fight!

Dont give up so easily!

the teabaggers haven't

[saracat]

29. I wasn't the one that gave up. OFA can take their message to DC.

And as long as the Admin and the Dems continue to cave to the GOP, it doesn't matter how much we "fight".

[laughingliberal]

50. We were done, all right

As in stick a fork in us. We'd been had.

[Writer]

38. You know, you could KEEP fighting if you want... n/t

[AllentownJake]

7. Biggest volunteer and political email list in history

They are now recruiting?

[Clio the Leo]

14. In any good army, hubris often becomes a problem...

... and vanity leads to indolence.

[AllentownJake]

16. Particularly when the General wages a clueless bad strategy nt.

[ProSense]

18. That leads to the first national health care bill in the history of this country.

Maybe the "General" isn't the one that's clueless.

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. another useless corporate bailout is NOT a "national health care bill"

And no amount of paid spin will make it such.

[ProSense]

20. No amount of hyperbole changes reality. n/t

[saracat]

24. You might apply that statement to yourself.

No amount olf hyperbole will make that Fake HCR a good bill.

[ProSense]

30. Keep telling yourself that.

Denial is the only comfort left for those who can't come to grips with the fact that health care reform will pass.

[saracat]

33. Maybe so but denial is the state in which you currently live.

Defending Arne Duncan and attacking teachers is hard work.And that is addition to all that work on a bogus, GOP leaning HCR.

[ProSense]

34. No, hard work is being

24/7 bitter.

[saracat]

35. you are right. I am angry about a lot lately. I am angry about

the loss of my own state leg. I amm angry that Dems are running anti-choice candidates.I am angry about the way teachers and unions have been treated, I am angry about HCR being mandated and a piece of crap. I am angry that little to nothing is being done about jobs in reality.And there is more and it isn't getting any better. Didn't you read the memo? Bitter? Sure, I worked my butt off for the Democrats and not just for this election either.For many years. I am glad everything is peachy in your world, or you are grateful for some sort of scraps they throw.Not me.I am angry. I expect this kind of thing from the GOP but not Democrats.

[ProSense]

36. Stay bitter. n/t

[laughingliberal]

53. Stay deluded. nt

[Jakes Progress]

67. Who's side are you on?

See post 32.

[waiting for hope]

40. Wow - I admire your stamina ..

How can you continue to have such a sunny disposition? I get it, you must have great health care, job security and no other worries to contend your little head with. Must be nice. :evilgrin:

[saracat]

44. Yeah. No worries at all. Sigh. Must be nice

[waiting for hope]

45. Seriously, unless you are in a coma,

how can one not be outraged?

[saracat]

46. Yeah, remember that old saying"if you are not outraged then you

are not paying attention" ? Still applies. Funny, I was watching Adam lambert sing his song "Sleepwalker" on Leno and wondered who it reminded me of. I guess it was apt for those with no worries.Reality bites.

[laughingliberal]

54. Oh, I saw that, too and had that thought.

Ignorance is bliss, after all. Many here should be really blissful these days.

[laughingliberal]

52. A bill will be passed but naming it health care reform

does not make it health care reform.

[laughingliberal]

51. Nor does any amount of copied and pasted links to WH talking points.

The bill is a corporate bailout.

[inna]

76. +1,000

[ProSense]

9. This is great.

Watch the complainers, though. Anything positive is seen as an affront.

[BlueIdaho]

10. Only on DU...

[saracat]

26. And to some , nothing is an affront.Everything is always acceptable.

Some think we should be grateful for scraps and everything is the best we can do.Teachers and Unions aren't gretful today.Perhaps OFA suggests they should fight more for those who stabbed them in the back?

[treestar]

41. Scraps?

You really expect way too much and think it normal.

[saracat]

43. Better than expecting nothing and think its normal.

[laughingliberal]

55. I consider it an affront to write a corporate bailout bill, name it health care reform, and ask me

to fight for it. If they want to write some real reform, I'll be glad to marshall my forces for them once again. But I'm not fighting to bail out the industry that helped destroy our health care system to begin with.

[depakid]

12. Seems that irony impairment isn't solely a Republican affliction

Still, it's better late than never... and it'll help get support out for Democrats like Halter.

[Clio the Leo]

15. there ya go...

.... I like that attitude.

[depakid]

17. Always important to try to focus on where we go from here...

and how to get it done better than the past go rounds.

[high density]

21. How does my "fighting" stop the corporatists in the Senate from acting like corporatists?

I've written and called my senators. They don't care what I think.

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[laughingliberal]

56. +1000 nt

[burning rain]

22. Looks to me like this is designed for the consumption of Dem reps/senators.

Certainly a legitimate tactic--I really doubt anyone would look to a mushy moderate corporate rag like USA Today as a place to recruit Democratic activists. But it does have a big national circulation, so it's a good place to advertise with an eye to influencing congressional Democrats.

[Clio the Leo]

27. BINGO! nt

[AllentownJake]

71. Washington Post, Washington Times, or New York Times would be smarter

That is what their staff reads.

Either that or local papers. Congressional staffers don't read McPaper.

[Jakes Progress]

31. I sent an email to the adm.

You fight and I'll fight.

[saracat]

48. Bravo Jake. Great response!

[laughingliberal]

57. +1 nt

[asdjrocky]

39. That's some really great PR.

It seems to be the one thing they are really good at.

See it's all about the packaging, you gotta catapult the propaganda.

[TomCADem]

42. K&R! President Healthcare Summit Shows That He Is Willing To Take A Risk...

I know some folks would rather than President Obama demagogue the issue by making demands that would never make it through Congress, but it is clear that President Obama is willing to push for comprehensive health care reform that can pass through Congress.

[saracat]

47. How is endorsing the GOP HCR ideas a "risk'?

[laughingliberal]

58. Exactly! nt

[TomCADem]

62. So, He Has Scrapped The HCR Bill and Started With A Blank Piece of Paper?

Are you suggesting that the GOP is serious about reforming healthcare?

[tsuki]

59. What? Fight to get Blanche Lincoln re-elected. No thanks. nt

[LiberalPC]

60. It's been over a year and no universal health care!

I'm force to still go to the ER whenever I need care because I can't afford it.

[cornermouse]

61. Well,

you're not going to get universal health care from the bill they're pushing either.

[tranche]

70. You do that often?

[Clio the Leo]

63. Well, I'm just glad we dont have any Jim Bunnings in the Democratic party...

... the GOP not conceding any ground even if it means harming the American people = bad

the Democratic party not conceding any ground if it means harming the American people = good!

[AngryAmish]

64. Who reads newspapers?

[xxqqqzme]

65. I pledged hours

when this campaign was announced. I want those hours back. I AM a candidate and I doubt there will be any fight from them for me.

[freddie mertz]

66. I fought for them on healthcare, and got stabbed in the back.

Sorry guys, but you won't fool me twice.

I will fight for REAL progressive change in this country, but through forthright and independent agencies.

DFA, PCCC, MoveOn, etc.

[tranche]

68. After reading most of the comments so far, I've finally realized there's about 10 chronic bitchers

on this site. That's about it. The same small group every minute of every day 365 days a year (well, at least since the primaries where over). I wonder what it would be like to have real discussions about politics and this President (that includes disagreements), without the pollution from these chronic whiners. It really turns EVERY SINGLE thread into a pissing match.

[AllentownJake]

69. Why do you think an organization

that has the biggest political email and volunteer list in history....is now having to us McPaper to recruit?

I would think he's not going to eclipse the interest he got in 2008 when running for office in early 2010.

:shrug:

Of course, logic always fails some.

[tranche]

72. Of course he's not going to eclipse the interest he got in an election year.

Especially one in which the country was looking to replace Bush. And especially since he's now in the business of governing and not campaigning (you know, like you guys like to say, "just words"). So I can see very, very clearly why they would want to recruit and I don't find it at all surprising. Do you? Or do you just find joy in snickering and giggling like a 6 year old?

This is what I'm talking about. You know full well why interest is down. You post shit all day, because what you do best is whine and bitch. That's just your nature.

[AllentownJake]

73. I think the ad was rather silly.

As for the whining and bitching, I think the bill is crap and a corporate handout, and have been more consistent than our President on what I think Health Care reform is, and he isn't governing, very well.

[Bobbie Jo]

74. +1000

:thumbsup:

[politicasista]

78. +1 n/t

[mistertrickster]

77. Fight for what exactly? The right to be fined for not having expensive private insurance?

Give people something to fight FOR, and you won't have a problem getting them to fight.