Obama Sold Us Out...

Seems like I've missed quite a bit this weekend. Specifically, that the White House is ready to abandon the public option as a part of heath care reform.

This is it. We've been double-crossed. We've been betrayed. This isn't the change I, or anyone else voted for.

President Obama, how dare you sell us out to the Republicans. How dare you let a party of dangerous obstructionists who are completely out of touch with reality dictate what you do. You let 1993 happen all over again because you were too cowardly to tackle all the lies and misinformation about the public option.

In addition, how dare you let conservative Democrats who represent a disproportionately small part of the population (Max Baucus is from Montana, for example) dictate to the rest of us what our party is capable of getting done. The party platform supports comprehensive reform with a public option. These people have betrayed the party and America.

How dare you become part of the problem with getting health care reform done. Reform hasn't happened because no one has had the cojones to show any kind of real leadership on the issue. Instead of using the mandate for change that we gave you, you let a bunch of kicking and screaming children hijack the issue of reform, spin it and give us "death panels", "rationing" (which we already have, might I add) and rent-a-mobs at what are supposed to be constructive town hall meetings about health care.

I'm sure in personally and in private, you know that a public health care option is what we need. Unfortunately, you don't have the guile to turn a really damn good idea into reality. All I have left to say is, President Obama, fuck you for fucking me and the rest of my generation.

On the other hand, all is not lost! Get on the phone right now and call your Senators and Congressman and tell them that despite what cowardice the White House shows, we're still demanding a strong public option in whatever bill comes out of the House and Senate. Even if Obama abandons us, we will not give up! Give me health care or give me death!