Obama To Netroots Nation: 'I Need You'

[kentuck]

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- President Barack Obama told a gathering of progressive activists on Thursday that he needs their help in pressuring lawmakers to move his agenda forward.

Obama addressed the crowd at Netroots Nation via a video message. He cited rebuilding the middle class, access to preschool, gun control, comprehensive immigration reform, Internet access in classrooms and Obamacare as areas where progressive pressure is crucial.

"On all these issues, I'll do everything in my power to keep making progress. But I can't do it alone," he said. "I need you to put pressure on members of Congress and make your voices heard, just like you've always done."

"We won't always agree on everything, and I know you'll tell me when we don't," he added. "But if we work together, I'm confident we'll keep moving this country forward."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/obama-netroots-nation_n_3476337.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Why is he even trying?

[darkangel218]

4. "we can all move forward"

Forward to what, turning into zombies from the Monsanto's genetically modified food??

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Move forward

With a Republican house is what I meant.

He for some reason is fair game but no one wants to admit he is entirely crippled by the House of Representatives.

And I'm sorry - but my member of the house in NEW JERSEY is an R who just voted again to send women to back alleys for abortions.


NOTHING is going to get done in America - good, bad, or indifferent with the current House of Representatives.

When Obama - whose wife keeps a fresh garden at the White House - can wave his wand and single handedly work his magic to stop Monsanto - then that will be a good thing.

In the meantime - House Republicans don't care if you eat franken food, die because you are found to be pregnant on the operative table, are homeless, or a slave to debt. They don't care.


Why should Obama? And really - what is the Netroots going to do? Write them (the Republican House) to death?

[Egalitarian Thug]

14. And that republican controlled house is his own damned fault.

At this point, if he said the sky was blue I'm going to find a window before believing him.

[JustAnotherGen]

17. No it's not his fault

There is nothing he could have done in the NJ 7th District to make it so Indies and Republicans people would have voted for Chivukula (Indian) in 2012 or Potosnak (Homosexual) in 2010. Like it or lump it - people are bigots on race and sexuality - all over the country.


At this point - I will believe him before believing anything any inbred, bottom feeding retarded Republican says.

[Egalitarian Thug]

20. Right. Just keep singing that same song. It was the evil republicans that forced

him to appoint the Goldman-Sachs White House. It was the evil republicans that forced him to negotiate the multi-trillion dollar giveaway to Wall Street. It was the evil republicans that forced him to negotiate the multi-billion dollar giveaway to the insurance industry and to specifically exclude all dissenting voices from the debate. It was the evil republicans that prevented him from making the blue dogs pay a price for their obstruction.

And on and on and on...

He had the best chance this nation had seen in 80 years to put this nation back on a sane course and he pissed it away. Everything since then is the result of his own actions.

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Okay

You are right. I didn't get my pony.

Good thing I'm married to an Italian citizen. I have an out.

[truebrit71]

24. ^^This

[Bluenorthwest]

2. 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform' now with no gay stuff and a big giant wall!!!!

Bipartisan goodness!!!!!

[jsr]

3. "I need you to make your voices heard"

[darkangel218]

5. Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

[Catherina]

35. Priceless! Which Field Station is that? Menwith? Hard to differentiate them lol n/t

[jsr]

38. That's the NSA station outside Munich, Germany

[forestpath]

6. Yeah, "rebuilding the middle class" while cutting SS and giving corporations control of

our laws and regulations via the TPP - that'll really do it!

[uponit7771]

7. I support the president, GOPers & FUDrs want progressives to give up a Cadillac cause it has a dent

...underneath it....that hardly anyone can see lest they look REALLY close and claim Obama = Bush

[dawg]

8. And I'm all for giving him the support he asks for on many of these issues.

We can still work together to promote the issues that we agree on.

[uponit7771]

11. Nah, gottah give up on em, he's just like Bush and can't be worked with /sarcasm <-cause

...this is needed in DU these days

[JustAnotherGen]

13. +1

[dawg]

19. I'm all about supporting issues ...

not individual politicians. On some issues we can work together, and on other issues we work in opposition. It's about the issues, not the person.

[Marrah_G]

9. ROFL

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I like irony with my coffee

and this is a good dose of it.

I attended the first Netroots Nation in San Diego in 2004, with my husband. We had lots of fun, and gosh darn it, I still have the backbone T-Shirt (from the backbone campaign) we bought back then. It was fun.

These days, I think the only way I would go to one is to cover it... the dream is dead. I see these things as a way to control people, sorry to be that cynical.

[mazzarro]

18. +100% -- n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

15. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me 48 times and I'm just a fool.

& R

[truebrit71]

25. Damn...I posted essentially the same thing as you...

...Sorry!!

[Egalitarian Thug]

37. Absolutely no apologies required. Great minds and all that...

[Savannahmann]

16. Mr. President

I support you. I support your earlier stated intention to end NSA spying. I am afraid I can not support your more recently stated veneer of propriety in the program.

I support your efforts to help our seniors by increasing SS and the pittance that we provide for their later years. I am afraid I have serious questions about the cutting of said SS.

I support the effort to increase Health Care availability, and while I personally am disappointed in the lack of a true single payer system, I understand that the ACA was drafted as a first step. I am not so comfortable about those of us who must suffer to show that mere reform of the corporate insurance system is not enough, but I understand.

Mr. President. Personally, I find it much easier to support the man you were, when you first came to our notice, when you first burst upon the scene and caught our imaginations and lit them on fire. Your clearly stated progressive values were beautiful to behold, and a joy to imagine in place in our nation.

Mr. President, these days I find it easy to support you as an individual, a person. I find it more difficult to promote your policies as good for our party, our people, or our nation. I find it far too easy to identify corporations, the rich and powerful that would benefit from your policies and initiatives. Perhaps the sandwich we are told to have a bite of is not literally filled with excrement, but it certainly has a bit of a stench to it.

[Egalitarian Thug]

22. Moving forward with no rear view mirror. What could possibly go wrong? n/t

[truebrit71]

23. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me...

...Don't you have another republican to nominate to a government post or something?

[Downtown Hound]

26. Give me a reason, Obama

Until then, fuck off.

[BlueStreak]

28. Well, how about a 10-year term as FBI head to a Republican who supported 99% of Cheney's actions

That's not enough? Well, OK, how about I approve the Keystone pipeline?

Still not enough? Man you liberal types can never be pleased, can you?

OK. This is my best offer. How about I go along with a ridiculous border fence that won't stop anybody, waste billions more on border guards (when in fact almost all of the "illegal" flow is from overstaying legal visas), and then still take 15 years for citizenship? And that's not all. If you act now, I'll also promise not to do anything to close down Gitmo and not prosecute any banksters, not fight to fill NLRB vacancies, not fill the EPA or ATF vacancies, and not try to fill the Court of Appeals vacancies.

If that isn't good enough for you, then I'm afraid we just can't work together.

At least I tried.

[graham4anything]

27. oh, wait, it's another anti-Obama thread. Never mind.

[BlueStreak]

29. If you can identify anything significant he has done positively in the past 18 months

I would certainly welcome a thread on that. I can't think of a thing. The only thing he has done is blocking Rmoney from becoming President.

[RobertEarl]

30. You can't hear us?

Just go over to the NSA. They have all of us in one place.

They can run a scan that picks up everyone who is against for you and freedom and a free and open internet root!

[Prism]

31. I have no idea what his agenda is.

Help the middle class? Great. So, uhm, about this Trans-Pacific abortion. . .

That is one of the emptiest speeches I've ever read from him. He's deflating before our eyes.

[BlueStreak]

36. It really is sad. He seems like a completely different person after reelection.

If he is not a 100% sellout, he is darned close to it.

He needed us to get elected. He doesn't need us now because he isn't actually in favor of any of the things we thought we would be getting from him.

[MrSlayer]

32. Yeah, except we hate your Reaganite agenda.

We needed YOU to be on OUR side Mr. President and you weren't and aren't. 2009 was the time and it was wasted.

More Reagan than Reagan.

[KG]

33. piss on the middle class, they've been voting GOP for decades and now getting their ROI.

[Erose999]

34. Netroots to Obama: "You're just saying that cause you want to fuck us".