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Dear Friend,
You've got to see this exchange from last night's AFL-CIO
debate. It's about how the Iraq war has made us less safe, how Barack would
get us on the right battlefield, and how we need to challenge the insiders'
conventional thinking about our foreign policy:
Responding to an attack on his common-sense approach
to fighting terrorism, Barack said:
I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize
and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are
now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield
and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.
Watch the full exchange, share the video, and ask someone
you know to join our movement:
http://my.barackobama.com/AFLCIOforum
Barack said it was the biggest strategic mistake in
a generation for the Bush administration and its enablers to let Osama bin
Laden and al Qaeda slip away while they rushed to invade Iraq, a country that
had nothing to do with the attacks of 9/11.
You know it, I know it, and the rest of the world knows
it -- everyone, it seems, except the inside-the-beltway establishment who
helped George Bush create this mess in the first place.
In response to his honest assessment, Barack was told
that presidents aren't supposed to tell the American people what they think.
That's exactly the kind of don't-ask-questions politics
that led to the disaster in Iraq. The American people deserve a president
who respects them enough to tell them what he thinks and how he’ll keep them
safe from the most urgent threats to our national security.
The conventional thinking of Washington insiders is
part of a pattern of denial -- it's the same kind of alternate reality we
saw just this weekend at the YearlyKos debate during a discussion of the role
of Washington lobbyists in our political process.
Watch the video:
http://my.barackobama.com/YearlyKosDebate
On Saturday, Barack challenged the ridiculous assertion
that Washington lobbyists and the millions of dollars they use to distort
the political process represent real people. Barack said:
I disagree with the notion that lobbyists
don’t have disproportionate influence. The insurance and drug companies
spent one billion dollars in lobbying over the past ten years... You cannot
tell me that that money did not make a difference. They are not spending
that just because they are contributing to the public interest.
Watch the exchange and ask someone you know to join
our campaign to change the way Washington does business:
http://my.barackobama.com/YearlyKosDebate
Barack will continue to speak the truth, but it's
up to us to build this movement.
Send one of these videos to your friends and show
them why Barack Obama is the candidate who will bring the kind of change
we need.
Thank you,
David
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
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