Listen To Your Heart, Not Your Advisers. VETO Mr. President.

Simulposted at Daily Kos

You know, there’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit – the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us – the child who’s hungry, the steelworker who’s been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this – when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers – it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.

BARACK OBAMA,

How about a little more empathy for the uninsured?

How about a little more empathy for the unemployed?

How about a little more for the foreclosed?

How about a little more empathy for the victims of torture?

      “And yet I find myself returning again and again to my mother’s simple principle-‘How would that make you feel?’–as a guidepost for my politics. It’s not a question we ask ourselves enough, I think; as a country, we seem to be suffering from an empathy deficit. We wouldn’t tolerate schools that don’t teach, that are chronically under funded and understaffed and under inspired, if we thought that the children in them were like our children. . . . And it’s safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm’s way. I believe a stronger sense of empathy would tilt the balance of our current politics in favor of those people who are struggling in this society. After all, if they are like us, then their struggles are our own. If we fail to help, we diminish ourselves. But that does not mean that those who are struggling-or those of us who claim to speak for those who are struggling-are thereby freed from trying to understand the perspectives of those who are better off. . . . I am obligated to try to see the world through George Bush’s eyes, no matter how much I may disagree with him. That’s what empathy does-it calls us all to task, the conservative and the liberal, the powerful and the powerless, the oppressed and the oppressor. We are all shaken out of our complacency. We are all forced beyond our limited vision.”

How about a little LESS empathy for those who are better off?

How about a little LESS empathy for George Bush?

How about a little LESS empathy for the Ruling Class?

And a little MORE empathy for the people who got you elected, the Working Class and the Middle Class?

It is time Mr. President, for you go beyond your limited vision.

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It is very simple Mr.President.

Eight years of a strong and strong arming President brought us our current toxic political reality.

We need a strong President to change that toxic reality. As you said you would do. As you PROMISED you would do. As you promised US, the People who elected you, that you would do.

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You have saved your political capital for Health Care.

In order to save your political capital for Health care, you shut down torture investigations…

But by late April Obama had vetoed the idea, fearing that it would look vindictive and, possibly, inflame his predecessor. “It was the President who basically said, ‘If I do this, it will look like I’m trying to go after Cheney and Bush,’ ” Panetta said. “He just didn’t think it made sense. And then everybody kind of backed away from it.”

So as not to use up your political capital, to save it to use on Health care. Well NOW is the time to use it.

The health Care debate is raging and, once again, We The People are losing “the Debate” ….on whether we can take our children to the doctor or not..

You can completely change “the debate” with these few words, Mr. President:

I will veto any bill without a Public Option.

72% of us want a Public Option.

WE are you political capital Mr. President.

Do your job, work for US……and we will fight for you.

You gave us HOPE Mr. President. Hope in the face of a corrupt government, a government that nearly all of us have lost faith in. A government that is now going against the clear will of The People. The people it is supposed to represent. The People YOU promised us you would represent. Don’t take that Hope away now, by bending to the will of that corrupt government. Don’t make us abandon hope. Don’t abandon us.

Abandon us, as so many other politicians have done, and we will feel betrayed.

Ask your advisers what a public that feels betrayed means, Mr. President. And ask your heart what it would mean IF you betrayed the people who put ALL of their hope into your hands.

And then STOP listening to your advisers, and listen to us….and to your own heart.

Mr. President, please say these words…

I will veto any bill without a Public Option.

CALL the White House at: 202-456-1111 and E-MAIL them as well!

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And, if you wish, mail exactly these words.

Mr. President, please say these words…

I will veto any bill without a Public Option.