| I worked hard for Barack Obama. I was in NH practically every weekend after the convention, canvassing for his campaign. I had my doubts before that. Would he be tough enough? I was impressed with his strong acceptance speech - the one with "Enough!!!" in it. Now it appears that Obama may be what I feared he was before that speech, another Democratic wimp afraid to use his "political capital" to fight against the corporatists and for the middle class. It's my turn to say, "Enough!!"
I remember way back in the spring, in the beginning of this health care "fight," I was asked to go door to door by the Obama for America organization. They wanted me to get people to sign on to Obama's health care plan. I asked the obvious question, "What is Obama's health care plan?" Silence. Our "leader" refused to take any stand whatsoever on what his bottom line was and then proceeded to sell us down the river for the likes of Snowe, Lieberman, Backus, Lincoln and the rest of the bought and paid-for corporate whores. He let Congress throw out single-payer, expanded Medicare, any public option, insurance industry regulation, and lowering the costs of prescription drugs without out even a whimper. Now he is willing to go along with a bill that will mandate high priced, unaffordable, private health insurance without any regulation and will tax the middle class for their work-based plans. It is not a "weak" bill. It is a toxic bill that will enrich insurance and pharmaceutical companies at our expense. And it will cause the Democrats to lose big in the mid-term elections. We have been had.
Obama continues to play nice with the powerful and tells us progressives to shut up and take our "medicine." We are painted as "left wing extremists" and those who are shilling for insurance and big pharma are called "moderates." Obama is forgetting who brought him to this dance.
I had hope for Obama. I worked hard for his election. I am officially losing my religion. |
