The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

An oil painting of Barack Obama riding up to the Capitol on his unicorn named Rahm to save the day when the time is right-

http://www.faithmouse.com/obam…..nicorn.jpg

Thank you.

There’s only one thing that can fight back against big lobbying money, and that is popular support. The failure of the President and his support organizations to inspire and mobilize those who want to support health care reform well in advance of this moment is short sighted almost beyond belief.

65% [give or take] of the population supports single payer. 60% of doctors support single payer. many ofa members want single payer [and said so in the ofa house parties last december], or at least a public option that is explicitly set up to morph into single payer in their lifetimes.

the short-sightedness on the administration’s part, if they wanted public support, was in deciding to go with forcing us to buy an expensive product we don’t like from companies that we hate.

The focus is on the president instead of listening to people.

OFA’s operation in Louisiana has violated the first rule of democratic politics — “all politics is local” — and refused to put healthcare in the context of what it means to people here. They a set of marching orders that they are following, regardless of whether ordered tasks work or not.

They have been trying to recruit 2008 workers to phone bank and door-to-door canvass while leaving the public space open to the deluge of distortion.

This in the face of evidence that there is a significant segment of the population here (Yes! Here!) that is still open to suasion by facts on this issue.

OFA is not the 2008 campaign in a lot of ways, most disappointingly in its tone-deaf approach to the local political environment and how their core issue can play here.

Everyone except for the OFA people leading the meeting was over 40, most well over 40.

When people were asked to sign a petition for Obama’s plan, the immediate reaction was to ask what it was; few wanted to sign on to something that was unknown.

Obama and the WH staff have to have known that people were extremely worried that there was no clarity about what Obama really wants to accomplish.

BTW, does it bother any here that Obama continues to say that people don’t have to worry about losing their doctors? If their employers change plans, they may very lose their doctors. Why is Obama saying this? It’s not realistic and undercuts other things he says. I cringe when I hear him say it.

The rahmbama team got their all-important photo-ops and soundbites today with obama “fighting” for the little guy by performing his empathy act in eloquently articulating what is in the minds of the american people … with the flag waving in the background. Meanwhile, behind the scenes they’ve made sure that none of these token efforts that the pope of hope is belatedly making will have any effect on the corporate friendly bill that they will very likely pass. It’s enough to make you throw up.

He’s a disgrace. We probably would have been better off with clinton. We may have gotten better legislation … at least she wouldn’t be kissing the republicans’ asses and we would have very likely gotten a better stimulus package. And the progressives may have begun to the hard work of building the infrastructure necessary to go around the corrupted democratic party becoz we already knew what clinton was about. Instead, they got doped up on hope and we’ve wasted 6 months trying to work with him when he is not on our side at all and we actually have to work against him to gain representation.

Z