In Debt Address, Obama Asks Americans to Raise The Roof

[babylonsister]

In Debt Address, Obama Asks Americans to Raise The Roof
Ari Melber
July 25, 2011


President Obama did not say anything particularly new in his unprecedented deficit address to the Nation on Monday night. The most significant moment came not in an original announcement or last-minute proposal, but in the President's request that Americans actually get up, get involved, and ask Congress to lay off the insanity.

"I’m asking you all to make your voice heard," the President said near the end of the address.

"If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know," Obama continued, "If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise -- send that message."

Even for a politician who ran on his (brief) history as a grassroots organizer, that is unusual. It may really help - there were reports of Congressional websites crashing from traffic spikes on Monday night, according to Huffington Post's Howard Fineman.

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/162284/debt-address-obama-asks-americans-raise-roof

[Fearless]

1. Why should we do what he asks if it will only lead to him cutting social programs?

If he can assure us that there will be no cuts, then I'm very game. Otherwise, I am not supporting his ideas. I will support my own and "raise the roof" as such.

[unblock]

2. how will this help? republicans have never cared about what people think

and they certainly won't care when they're being roused by obama.

[CakeGrrl]

6. Hence the reason for "Debt Ceiling 101" tonight - educating the R's CONSTITUENTS

Why people hang onto this notion that the President thinks the Republicans are reasonable, I don't know. He knows better than anyone here who he's dealing with.

The R's probably don't care about anything except being voted out of office.

If some of the people who sent the R's to Washington get wise to the fact that the R's want to kick them to the curb, it might get their attention.

[defendandprotect]

3. What balls ... Obama is asking us to help him destroy SS and Medicare ... ??? Who's nuts here???

[Lifelong Protester]

4. Regardless. I have been trying to get through. I did get a message

to the White House and both of my senators. One of them is a teabagger. I told him who we'd hold responsible if this whole thing blows up, and that the American people are not so stupid as to not know who drove up the deficit (and didn't give squat about it at the time).

Still can't reach my Congressman.

[larwdem]

5. DU

stop just stop I am going to call my repiglacan con man
thats who I am fighting