Mike Elk: I Am a Former Staffer of the President's and I Want Him To Fight Like He Promised

[DrToast]

I just joined thousands of others, including several hundred former staffers from the campaign, in signing a petition to President Obama, telling him that health care reform without a public option is not "change we can believe in."

As a staffer of the President's working as a community organizer in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in rural Western Pennsylvania, I fought hard for him during the campaign. I worked 16-17 hours a day with no days off for nearly four months working to get the President elected.

I worked in an overwhelmingly Republican area where there had never previously been a full time organizer. I organized over 250 volunteers into five autonomously run neighborhood teams that conducted aggressive door-to-door and over-the-phone voter contacts every day of the week. These were people who had never been involved in Democratic politics because their area was so overwhelming Republican, but they fought with everything they had because they believed in a President who promised to be a fighter against special interests.

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Mr. President, we are here to say that there is only one force in this country more powerful than the insurance industry and its corporate allies - us!

During the campaign, we defeated two of the strongest political machines ever assembled in the primary and the general election. We can beat these guys too.

We are ready to fight, sir. You are the most inspirational leader of our generation, sir, and we will follow to hell and back in this fight.

Therefore, I am asking my fellow campaign staffers, team leaders, and volunteers to sign this pledge promising to fight for the public option and urging President Obama to fight for it. Also, feel free to email me (at [e-mail]) if you are a former staffer and interested in ways you can help organize other staffers to help set the President right, as we promised him we would.

We are the most powerful grassroots army ever assembled in American history, and we want you to fight for a public option. We promise to fight with you every step of the way, just as we did during the campaign.

Mr. President, We are fired up and ready to go!

Are you ready to lead?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-elk/i-am-a-former-staffer-of_b_277135.html?view=print

This article pretty much sums up my feelings of late. I don't hate Obama. I don't think he's worse than Bush.

I just want him to fight more. I've got your back, Mr. President.

[rudy23]

1. Oh, he's fighting alright.

Look at the fight he and Rahm are putting up against the Progressive Caucus, and those of us who worked to put him into office.

[phleshdef]

3. I love this Rahm boogey man bullshit. Its so entertaining.

[bvar22]

4. Everybody knows Rahm isn't the boogey men.

He is a corporate owned DLC Enforcer.
Thats worse than a boogey man.

If you mlook into those eyes,
you will start believing in the "invisible hand of the marketplace".

[rudy23]

5. Actually, you're right. Obama should be held responsible for hiring someone to shout down our

elected representatives who support the progressive causes we thought Obama would.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

2. Mike Elk is clearly a PUMA.