Reply #1: Breaks are good. I have been slowing down a bit...

[YvonneCa]

...too. I want you to know you are not alone in your frustration. I share it. Others in my family share it. Even OFA friends share it. This is an email from a local OFA person:

Hello everyone,

It has been awhile since I have seen many of you. Like most of you I have been struggling with time and a lack of enthusiasm towards politics in general. The atmosphere has been toxic and frankly many of the policies that we find important have fallen behind on the presidents agenda.

There have been many things to be frustrated at. The president has been unable to push an agenda that we can get behind with enthusiasm and conviction. Believe me, I understand.

BUT, this next election will not be about just Barack Obama. It is much more. It will be about sanity in government, it will be about the belief in Science, the belief in the care for the environment. It will be about moving forward not backward to segregation in schools, to a belief that America can achieve great things that help all Americans including the middle class.

The policies being pushed by the right are insulting to any intelligent person. I think that is where frustration gets so great. We just can't believe that people running for the highest office can talk this way. It is hard to swallow.

So, I am proposing a few things. One, we all commit to the coming election and make the push to move this country forward. I do not want to hear about Barack and how he is caving in and not fighting enough. I agree he hasn't. But, his next term gives us the option to address and expect more from Barack Obama.

The other option is years of stupidity in our face everyday. All of us know we can't let this happen. All of us need to begin the push for 2012 in the next few months. I will organize a meeting in November, one year from the election. I hope all of us can make it. It will be the kick off for our area and who ever else wants to come.

Second, I will organize a rally to get us going! I am looking to make it big. It will be a rally for all causes, not just to elect Barack Obama. It will be a rally to stop the idiots from getting control of this country. The tea party has had its run. They have shown their true face. Now, it is our turn.

Being passive going into 2012 will not work. There is no holding back. The gloves are off and we will win the 2012 election for all of us, not just Barack Obama. And when he does win, we will hold him to moving this country forward.

Look for more coming soon!

This is a person who can 'rally the troops' no matter what. To hear his disappointment this way is disheartening... :patriot: