Public Option Supporters Greet Obama at DNC Headquarters in DC

ThirdChoice

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Thu Aug-20-09 04:53 PM
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Public Option Supporters Greet Obama at DNC Headquarters in DC

Edited on Thu Aug-20-09 04:55 PM by ThirdChoice

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We wanted to urge Obama to not back down...support the public option! We have to get louder than the town hall disruptors!

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stlsaxman

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:07 PM
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1. What a beautiful day for a rally!

wish i was there!

:yourock:

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Historic NY

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:37 PM
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2. Shock no visible gun toters..come folks bring'em if you got them...

:sarcasm:

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lovelyrita

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:50 PM
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3. Nice to see protesters that are respectful and sane.

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ThirdChoice

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Thu Aug-20-09 05:52 PM
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4. They were no protesters against health care reform

We thought maybe some would show up, but only public option supporters were there.

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lovelyrita

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Thu Aug-20-09 06:15 PM
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5. So that explains the lack of crazy people.

I think the video put next to some of the recent town halls is a very telling example of the difference between the tea baggers and the vast majority that wants at least some kind of reform.

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brooksfb

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Thu Aug-20-09 07:02 PM
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6. Public Option Day September 2nd

The inclusion of a public option in health care reform is
absolutely essential to ensuring that this change serves the
people and not the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. 
The delivery of the country into the hands of the democratic
party came with the responsibility to change the way
Washington does business and the democratic party has much to
lose if it appears to sell out the interests of the common
good for big business and small victories.  I hear this
sentiment everywhere and not just in blue Massachusetts. The
majority of this country supports the public option and it is
important that this majority becomes a visible entity.  

In this spirit, I propose a Public Option Day with your
support.  I will be holding an event at the Massachusetts
State House in Boston on September 2nd from noon-2pm and also
encouraging those who cannot attend the event but support the
inclusion of a public option to wear a unifying color (blue,
of course...) to show our majority status.  If you are in the
Boston Area, please come out!  And if you are elsewhere, make
Public Option Day happen in your own city and we can become a
unified voice.  Please show us your support in this effort and
we can win the reform that we and future generations require. 
Thank you.

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ThirdChoice

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Thu Aug-20-09 09:49 PM
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7. We should make this a National Day of Public Option

This is the line in the sand. We already gave up single payer, and now they want to bargain down again? NO!

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ThirdChoice

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Fri Aug-21-09 10:33 AM
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8. No mention of this in Wash Po today!!

Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 10:33 AM by ThirdChoice

In the article about the President going to the DNC for the forum, there was not one word about the hundreds of people outside demanding a public option. People, we need to turn the heat up. Eugene Robinson says it eloquently today in his OP-ED:

A LTTLE MORE HEAT PLEASE
By Eugene Robinson
Friday, August 21, 2009

Here's the least surprising news of the week: Americans are souring on the Democratic Party. The wonder is that it's taken so long for public opinion to curdle. There's nothing agreeable about watching a determined attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

....Republican efforts to obstruct, delay, confuse, stall, distort and otherwise impede the reform agenda that Americans voted for last November have had measurable success. And it means that Democrats, having been given a mandate -- one as comprehensive as either party is likely to enjoy in this era of red-vs.-blue polarization -- don't really know how to use it.

That the Democratic Party is no paragon of organization and discipline is almost axiomatic. That's not the problem. The Pew poll suggests that the Democrats' weakness is neither strategic nor tactical but emotional. To quote the poet William Butler Yeats: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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There's not enough passion on the Democratic side, not enough heat. There's some radiating from the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, too little emanating from the Democratic majority in the Senate, and not nearly enough coming from President Obama. Republicans, by contrast, have little going for them except passion -- but they're using it to impressive effect.

FULL OP-ED:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR2009082003038.html

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