The End-Game: It's Time for Al Pacino to Give the Dems a Pep Talk

[FourScore]

"HISTORY IS NEVER MADE FROM THE SIDELINES"

...Right now, and for the next 72 hours, the only thing that matters is the ground game: Which side generates more phone calls, faxes, visits, emails and other creative pressures on members of Congress.
Which brings us, once again, to this locker room speech from Al Pacino...Life is a game of inches:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4RQH-KjJdw&feature=player_embedded#

..."We can climb out of hell, one inch at a time... Life is this game of inches... The margin of error is so small, I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One second too slow or too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They’re in every break in the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know, when we add up all those inches, that’s what makes the fuckin’ difference between winnin’ and losin’, between living and dying... That’s what livin’ is: the six inches in front of your face."

Spend four minutes watching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4RQH-KjJdw&feature=player_embedded# Then go grab every last inch that appears for the next seventy-two hours. In the case of Health Care, for millions, this "game" really is a matter of living or dying.

History is never made from the sidelines. It is made on the field, by those who claw with our fingernails for that every last inch...


Thanks to blackwaterdog: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/3/19/847729/-Dont-ever,-ever-call-Barack-Obama-a-wimp.-%28Just-look-at-this!!%29

[Lifelong Protester]

1. If I give you a 'rec' how come it is only at 0???

[DFLforever]

3. One of the team unrecced it before you recced it.

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[OhioBlue]

4. k&r n/t

[Blue_Tires]

5. I'd MUCH rather see Obama give this speech to the Senate leaders:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TROhlThs9qY&feature=related

Well, let's be honest -- Rahm probably opens EVERY meeting with this one...He probably murmurs it in his sleep

[jtrockville]

7. I'd prefer this one:

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/364

[Lil Missy]

6. "Say hello to my little friend"

[tularetom]

8. Or how about this inspirational appeal from Bluto

"Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the German's bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no! And it ain't over now! Cause when the going gets tough.. The tough get goin'. Who's with me?"

[FourScore]

9. Now that's a classic. n/t