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Message from Community Organizer in Chief to me, re: Community Organizing

...an e-mail from Barack Obama, wanting more and more and more. Why, this, this is....COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!

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"This is the moment"

‏From:President Barack Obama (info@barackobama.com)
Sent:Wed 8/05/09 12:05 PM
To: Serr Serr8d (serr8d@hotmail.com)

Serr --

This is the moment our movement was built for. [Shat you said? you have a movement, and we can't have a movement? you hypocritical bastiche! -ed.]

For one month, the fight for health insurance reform leaves the backrooms of Washington, D.C., and returns to communities across America. Throughout August, members of Congress are back home, where the hands they shake and the voices they hear will not belong to lobbyists, but to people like you. [That's right, people like me, who are sick and tired of LOOTERS taking, taking, taking and we're gonna let 'em know it in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS! -ed.]

Home is where we're strongest. We didn't win last year's election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most. And if you're willing to step up once again, that's exactly where we're going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves. [You won it by vacuous phrases and trickery, not to mention a heaping helping of ACORN Community Organizing. Get ready for some...COMMUNITY ORGANIZING, bub. -ed]

There are those who profit from the status quo, or see this debate as a political game, and they will stop at nothing to block reform. They are filling the airwaves and the internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change. And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous. So we've got to get out there, fight lies with truth, and set the record straight. [Outrageous falsehoods? Does your nose quiver when you say that? Do those elephantine ears waggle? Do you fear lightning strikes? -ed.]

That's why Organizing for America is putting together thousands of events this month where you can reach out to neighbors, show your support, and make certain your members of Congress know that you're counting on them to act. [You're damned straight we are. We are reaching out to our neighbors, telling them what sort of country we have, in the hopes that we can retain what we have. WE ARE NOT SOCIALISTS NOW! -ed.]

But these canvasses, town halls, and gatherings only make a difference if you turn up to knock on doors, share your views, and show your support. So here's what I need from you:

Can you commit to join at least one event in your community this month?  [YES! AGAINST YOUR COUNTRY-DESTROYING FUTURE-LOOTING PROPOSALS! -ed.]

In politics, there's a rule that says when you ask people to get involved, always tell them it'll be easy. Well, let's be honest here: Passing comprehensive health insurance reform will not be easy. Every President since Harry Truman has talked about it, and the most powerful and experienced lobbyists in Washington stand in the way. [Every politician who has tried has failed. You are in line to fail. YOU SHOULD FAIL, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR COUNTRY! -ed.]

But every day we don't act, Americans watch their premiums rise three times faster than wages, small businesses and families are pushed towards bankruptcy, and 14,000 people lose their coverage entirely. The cost of inaction is simply too much for the people of this nation to bear. [The cost of YOUR sort of ACTION is too terrible to contemplate - socializing the nation's health care system. We do not want single-payer, Canadian, British, Euro-Socialist styled Health Reform! Just tweak it around the edges, if you must, but NO LIBERAL-LEFTIST-PROGRESSIVE AGENDA AGGRANDIZING! -ed.]

So yes, fixing this crisis will not be easy. Our opponents will attack us every day for daring to try. It will require time, and hard work, and there will be days when we don't know if we have anything more to give. But there comes a moment when we all have to choose between doing what's easy, and doing what's right. [What's right is you and yours keeping your greedy, looting hands out of the pocketses of those who keep this country moving forward. NO MORE LOOTING! -ed.]

This is one of those times. And moments like this are what this movement was built for. So, are you ready?

Please commit now to taking at least one action in your community this month to build support for health insurance reform:
http://my.barackobama.com/CommitAugust
Let's seize this moment and win this historic victory for our economy, our health and our families.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Yep. This smells #fishy to me.




(Oh. This photo taken by me, September 2006, at Percy Priest Lake. Which is full of lunkers like this one.)

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