Regarding the Public Option, it's worth watching this Frontline episode to understand how...

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9. Obama has to take responsibility for this insurance give-away.

1. He refused to mobilize the 2 million experienced activists who got him elected. He had an e-mail list with 13 MILLION PEOPLE on it.

Candidate Obama told us that "change doesn't come FROM Washington, it comes TO Washington," and we cheered him on and busted our hump for him.

President Obama told us to "shut up and sit down."

Meanwhile, the Right fought back hard with their own "grassroots" TeaBag movement--they got all the headlines and captured the momentum.

2. Rahm Emanuel. You hire Rahm Emanuel and you get Rahm Emanuel. If you want real change, you don't hire Rahm Emanuel, Chicago politician from the scum-bag Tammany Hall insider deal-cutting school. You hire someone who believes in the goals you say you believe in.

Emanuel doesn't.