It's time to play our pocket ace.

What is the single most glaring thing about Obama's campaign? Answer, the way it was funded mostly by small private donations. He, unlike all that came before him, is beholden to those that brung im. Not the typical lobbyist payback. How can this be capitalized on? By demagoguing the little businessman. How health insurance reform, will allow the smaller firms, to compete comparably, with the big boys. They can offer world class packages, and get world class help. The small business theme, is potent. Help small business, as if they had their own lobbyist all this time. They would be thrilled to be considered after all.

This is no joke! Most of those that set their hair on fire, are sole proprietors, in provincial districts. They fear any upset of the applecart, as they dont even get afforded any unemployment relief. I think Obama should relentlessly hammer on the small business help theme. Noone gives a fuck after all about the CEO's, but the watercarrying republican base. A broad base of support could be extracted by a perception of leveling the playing field for all those littel guys. They really are scared. And rightly so. Use that. They will become at least ambivalent, if not supporters.

The MEME of helping the small business, should be a talking point for Obama, no matter where he goes. This is the fastest way to fuller employment to boot. Lines of credit could be extended. They could skip half the HR dept practically. We could be talking about the opportunity of workers comp radical reform. It could be commuted to gross negligence insurance, at drastically reduced rates. Then, those that are responsible, will prosper. That meme appeals to repubs.

Obama is dropping the ball in my eyes. There are exciting possibilities here, that he should be able to sell. And peel the small businessman away from the lock step with multinationals. What is good for multi's is not necessarily good for samllfry. But smallfry thought that was as close to representation as they were going to get. If Obama courted them directly, they would succuumb.

Cmon big guy. This could be your finest hour. Your amatuer is showing, as you are being turned to their agenda. Forge your own. The small businessman is under attack right now. Show them some love. They really are frightened. It will pay large.

In the long run it might put some human resource people in the large corporations out of work, but it would provide tremendous opportunity on the other end. There would be a collective sigh of relief when it takes effect. There will always be a decent niche for private insurance, but the mega bucks will be gone for the corporate officers. This is America. We want individuality (private insurance) and a measure of security (public option). I think people should be able to access both and even pay out of pocket if they want. But quality needs to be assured, but we don't have that even now.

Many of the small business owners I know are republicans, and they think the republicans are supposed to be the party of business. But it's huge corporations that republicans support, in reality.

Besides, traditionally 75% of employment was due to small business. This would put folks back to work, and lift all boats, as they say.

I hope Obama stops dancing to the republican organ grinder, to use an i=nappropriate analogy? He is the ideas man. Do that thing you do. This answering crazy, has to stop. Ignore crazy. tell your tale. The nuts and bolts of this are very exciting in their potential. Why do they make it droll?

University of California $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs $994,795
Harvard University $854,747
Microsoft Corp $833,617
Google Inc $803,436
Citigroup Inc $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co $695,132
Time Warner $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP $588,598
Stanford University $586,557
National Amusements Inc $551,683
UBS AG $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al $530,839
IBM Corp $528,822
Columbia University $528,302
Morgan Stanley $514,881
General Electric $499,130
US Government $494,820
Latham & Watkins $493,835

All that "funded by regular Joes" crap was propaganda.

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what the OP points out that the sum of all the small donors was HUGE. Your list adds to maybe $15M; the full campaign cost a LOT more than that, and an unprecedented amount of the total was from small donors.

Small business really is a great "card" to play... think of how much more innovation there would be if people didn't hang on to dead-end (or at least "safe") jobs for the health benefits. Unleashing the nation's creativity should be a leading argument for meaningful alternatives to the current private insurance system.

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By allowing domestic businesses, big and small, to lower personnell costs, it helps keep jobs here in America.

Small businesses and American jobs are both very strong motivators in our country.

targetting the small business person.

I went store to store last weekend spreading the word with DFA materials.

Check it out:

Sign the pledge

Give America a choice. I am a small business owner and I support healthcare reform that allows individual Americans to choose either a universally available public healthcare option like Medicare or for-profit private insurance. A public option is the best way to provide guaranteed healthcare for all Americans.

http://standwithdrdean.com/business

He may very well be dancing with the one that brung him..:shrug: