Obama To Netroots Nation: 'I Need You'

[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.