email from MoveOn.org: Barack We Miss You

[playstation]

Anyone else get the email?


I want my president back

Right now, we need the Barack Obama of 2008 - a smart, tough progressive - to stand up to the GOP tax bailout for millionaires. But instead, he's talking about giving in. So we're asking those who fought hardest to elect him to send a message to the White House.

# Share a video message » http://pol.moveon.org/obamavideo/

We Need the Barack Obama of 2008 Back

Now more than ever, we need the Barack Obama we elected in 2008—the smart, tough, hopeful progressive champion who inspired millions of us—to stand up and say "no" to a millionaire bailout.

So we're asking MoveOn members nationwide to record a video message from the heart to tell President Obama to go to the mat to stop any extension of the millionaire tax giveaways—and to bring back the progressive fighter we all knew and supported in 2008.

Can you record and upload a video today? Check out the example to the right, and just follow the steps below:
http://pol.moveon.org/obamavideo/



My wife and I are gonna do it.

[Windy]

1. thats just ridiculous.... no I won't be complying with their request.

wow..and the nuttery goes on

[Skittles]

2. there will be a LOT of messages

and no, they will not be from NUTS but from people who CARE DEEPLY about how FUCKED UP everything is right now

[dflprincess]

4. It's just a way of "holding his feet to the fire"

didn't he say he wanted us to do that?

[impik]

6. Oh yea, you held his feet on fire since January 21 2009. No wonder that he's half burned already

[dflprincess]

7. If he's been burned it's been by the Republicans he keeps trying to play nice with

while ignoring the people who elected him.

And, again, he's the one who told us to hold him to his promises. Just singing back up for him doesn't to anyone any good.

[_ed_]

10. LEAVE BARACK ALONE!

.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Another slap at an individual poster

and another excuse lodged for the President. Slanders and excuses, that is the whole of the message. Drive by one line slams, no discussion, ever. Just come in, fart loudly, and exit.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. Saying that he's basically lost his way

and advocating for him (NOT) to do something (in this, case extend Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy) are two different things IMHO. Obama hasn't ever wavered from his position that he won't extend the upper-class tax cuts- or at the very least he's demanding that the Republicans explain to him how they're going to be paid for (which he surely knows they won't). Move On and a lot of other people act like he has already caved when he hasn't.

[egoclothes]

27. Yes, he did say that. And I intend to do just that.

[Arkana]

3. You saw what you chose to see, heard what you chose to hear, and believed

what you chose to believe.

Obama never struck me as a guy who'd break necks. Apparently he did for other people.

[playstation]

9. I heard this

"There's no doubt that the tax system has been skewed and, the Bush tax cuts, people didn't need them and they weren't even asking for them and that's why they need to be lapsed so we can pay for universal health care and other initiatives. But I think this goes to a broader question and that is, are we willing to make the investments in genuine equal opportunity in this country?

People aren't looking for charity and one of the stressing things sometimes when we have a conversation about race in America is that we talk about welfare and we talk about poverty, but what people really want is fairness. They want people paying their fair share of taxes. They want that money allocated fairly.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/special/forums/candidates/obama.html

Are you suggesting that we shouldn't believe his words?

[polichick]

13. Well, he definitely campaigns as a strong Dem (even recently) but...

...governs as a Republican suck-up.

[Hawkowl]

26. +100 .nt

[impik]

5. "those who fought hardest to elect him". The audacity of ownership. Amazing

[brownsugar]

15. Moveon fought extremely hard

To elect Obama.

[catgirl]

23. MoveOn loves to take all the credit

The fact of the matter is, millions of people worked hard for Obama, and will work hard again, with
or without MoveOn and their little threats.

[quiller4]

25. MoveOn is happy to take credit derserved or not.

I block all MoveOn emails and have for months.

[Clio the Leo]

8. he is OUR President....

... and some of us are quite satisfied.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Blessed are the smug, for they shall inherit the center.

The Book of Monty, chapter 3, verse 6.

[CreekDog]

11. K&R

:applause:

[polichick]

12. That's assuming the Barack of 2008 wasn't a con man. nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

19. My father recently said that about Obama. He's a con man. Note that my Dad

worked and campaigned hard for Obama.

I think the president is steadily losing supporters and it's very scary, seeing how the Corporate Media is doing their very best to promote Sarah Palin.

[polichick]

20. My whole family - three generations - worked hard for him...

None of us trusts him now, and all are saddened by the situation. But, that's what happens when actions don't match rhetoric.

Of course, the powers that be are pulling for Palin - she makes their puppet, GW, look like a genius. Whatever corporate America doesn't run by election day 2012, they'd run in a hurry with a Palin administration. Truth is, they run most everything now anyway - which is the reason Obama's rhetoric doesn't match his actions. A lot of people think the country will have to crash and burn before enough voters wake up to stop the corporate power grab.

[brownsugar]

14. k & r nt

[old mark]

21. I got it, too - I emailed them back that I am so disgusted with Mr. Obama, that

I have given up on him completely and expect nothing positive from his administration for the next 6 years.

He is a fake liberal - he DID run as a progressive, turned out to be a closet republican, and I am sorry I supported him - his presidency will be another waste of precious time for the left.

mark

[bertman]

22. I emailed that exact request to the White House numerous times for 16 months, then gave up.

I'm not wasting any more of my time talking to the DLC wall surrounding the President.

[whistler162]

24. Where did MoveOn go or do they have a eyesight problem?

I do wonder about the brightness of these idiots!