You are a Democratic Senator. When Democratic Senators and House members and house members start to jump ship, especially when there is a great President, is when they don't think they have our support.
In a Democracy, the real bottom line, and you know this, is that we are to blame for what happens to the country. The people speak and they must be listened to. But we cannot send idiots to the Senate and expect the President to overcome our mistake, or our lack of concentration on our elected officials. We have been fighting the wrong person. We must fight the people who obstruct our will and then we can blame the President for what he does or does not get done.
I am not absolving him of all responsibility, but we cannot absolve ourselves of ours.
We have to call out everyone who doesn't help him. You know, Evan Bayh has gone on fixed news and said over and over that he thinks it is his job to be the wall the President cannot break. We should all take Senators and if they stand in the way of saving our nation, we need to write a thousand letters to CNN and copy ABC, and NBC. We should shun everything on CBS. We need to stop watching every show and here is why...
The can get anything done, but not without us. We have to call out everyone who doesn't help him. You know, Evan Bayh has gone on fixed news and said over and over that he thinks it is his job to be the wall the President cannot break. We should all take Senators and if they stand in the way of saving our nation, we need to write a thousand letters to CNN and copy ABC, and NBC. We should shun everything on CBS. We need to stop watching every show and here is why... they have slapped Progressives in the face with the anti-abortion ad on CBS. We must write them thousands of letters.
But what this shows is desperation. Under Bush the fundamentalists almost took this nation over. They had four Supreme Court Justices in their pocket. Two spoke out blatantly against the Constitution. Those two spoke blatantly about tearing down the wall between separation of church and state. Now they have put America on the auction block... any church or corporation can buy our Congress.
But the funny thing, the thing that makes freedom so wonderful, is that we don't have to raise billions of dollars to defeat them, we don't have to buy a Congressperson. We simply need to find good candidates to run and then convince people to vote for them. We are the new framers of our Constitution. We are the founding fathers and mothers of our age. And we can defeat billions of dollars with one simple thing, that is free... our vote.
The pen is still mightier than the sword. The pen is mightier than it has ever been. Today we can reach around the world with a word. Win. But time is short. We are on the auction block. We must elect a Senate in 2010 who would stop the George W. Bush, GHW Bush and Reagan Court. The Supreme Court of the wealthy. We can render them useless. We can take their football ad and slap them right back in the face.
James Dobson. The king of pain. The leader of the largest church in America (at least at one time) and certainly the largest seller of pain books. His theory is that you must hit a child until you break their will. You must create a Stepford child, a zombie who will do anything that Dobson says. And what does this have to do with the speech tonight and what does it have to do with our backing this President...
We cannot leave our children to this man. He is a sadist of the first order. He trolls for children. He trolls for adults who would beat children.
It's human nature to be frustrated or to want to point to the person at fault when something isn't done. Especially when it needs to be done very badly. So let's start to punish the bad behavior that deserves it... the Democrats who stand in our way. The truth is that it's not just up to Obama-- whether or not things get things done. He can lead, he can bully, he can threaten, but without us behind him, without the threat of Congress people losing our vote, he cannot carry through on the threat. He needs to walk up to Evan Bayh and say "I control a lot more votes in your state that you do and if I say so, you are out". Can you imagine what it will be like if we give him that?
Have you heard of Organizing for America? It's President Obama's phone arm, we volunteer to phone people to drum up support for what the President wants. I live in a big City. We just elected an African American Mayor, and an almost 100% Democratic city council. Guess where we live. I live just 7 miles out of South Carolina. I live in North Carolina, Charlotte, right at the line. It's like living on the moon when you cross that line. The stories I could tell you.
The first thing you see when you cross that line, driving down 49 into South Carolina, is church after church after church. And not your standard Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, none of the churches that are still at least partially not fundamentalist. The church after church... names like "Rod of God" (what is that about, ugh), Assemblies of God, The Lord is My Shepherd, Army of God, Gospel Way, and on and on.
The thing is that people think these churches are dying out and they were. But it made them desperate, they plan harder, and they are working the plan. Even today the state of SC and Texas stand a good chance of teaching the Bible in school. The mayor of Fort Mill South Carolina sent his entire city an email saying that candidate Obama was a Muslim trying to take over the U.S.
Under Bush, so many federal circuit courts had judges who wanted the church to run the state. So, if they got a challenge in court, they could easily win. So they thought they had us. They were going to take over everything our children learned and, for women, all birth control. That's right birth control. Already these people had permission not to sell birth control because of "religious beliefs, but not to even produce it?
So then they got the shock of their lives. Bush has four Supreme Court Justices who are ready to turn us over to the church. And then we do the simplest thing... we elect one man. We stop everything they are trying to do. But the problem is we need to give that one man a few more to work with.
When President Obama got elected, they were in shock. How dare we. But then along comes the Hillary film and they see their glimmer of hope. Do you know that the people's attorney made a tactical error. He made it about freedom of speech. If he had made it about money the court could not have ruled in favor of pure greed. They ruled for greed, cloaked in free speech. Sickening.
Our job is not over. But one more election, two at the most and we have them forever. They are gone. The Congress can make laws to protect us against this terrible court. We have our glimmer of hope. Two terms and this President can force them to accept his Justices. Gay people, marry in church if you like!
But we cannot be distracted. If someone writes something to make you angry, see that for what it is... a way to steal your life. This President will make more mistakes, he is human. He has to placate the fearful, and fixed news has made so many fearful. But we cannot be afraid. We just need to believe in ourselves. We can be the framers of our life. Let's shove it down their throats.