Apr
23
Open Letter to the Obama Campaign:
After a disappointing ten point loss in Pennsylvania and a lackluster speech this evening, I believe that Senator Obama needs a new strategy to simplify his message and present it in a way that everyone can understand the difference between his candidacy and Senator Clintons. Two points he needs to make:
- The economy is bad, lost jobs, weak dollar, huge national debt and mortgage crisis that is affecting the financial markets.
- The war is bad, people dying, reducing our ability to get Bin Laden and costing us billions of dollars that could have been used to solve (or would have prevented financial crisis) instead these billions go to large corporations.
Politicians have been manipulating the american people with fear tactics to keep our attention away from these two issues, but the fact remains that we are where we are because of special interests in politics.
Explain in no uncertain terms that the fundamental issue with our government is that in order to get elected and stay elected that you need to raise millions of dollars to run your campaign. The easiest way to get access to this kind of money is to use the lobbyists to find/organize campaign donors. Because of this the politicians that take this special interest money must then act to the benefit of the special interest or risk losing that donation for their next campaign.
The DIFFERENCE between Obama and Clinton is not lapel pins or nuances of the healthcare plan, but where the money to run her campaign came from and how that will affect her judgement to do something right for the american people or something that benefits the campaign donor. Because Obama has a donation base of 20MM people, large corporations will not have any special influence on an Obama presidency, and hopefully the clear mandate that he will be elected on will allow him to enact sweeping campaign finance reform as well.
Finally, make the connection that once we take the large corporate money out of politics, there will be no reason/benefit for legislators on either side of the aisle (with the exception of corruption) to enact laws that benefit corporations over the general people. That freedom will then allow the government to fix healthcare, education, the mortgage crisis and yes even the war.
So simply follow the money. It is unfortunate but people need a common enemy, the enemy in this case should be Large Corporations that take jobs out of the country and who pour money into lobbyists and special interests in order to bias the tax code and other laws/policies. Tell people in detail how the money of politics effects legislation (really tell people how bad it is). The best part about this, is that the same arguments will also work against McCain, so in essence you will be showcasing to Democrats that may have doubts about Obama’s electability a blueprint to beat McCain in the fall.
I know that Obama has been talking about these issues, but he speaks of them at a 50,000 foot level. He needs to connect the dots (follow the money issue to the individuals pocket) and show how big business is the enemy we need to be paying attention to.
Eddie
p.s. One more thing, either get rid of the Teleprompter or practice it more, your starting to come off a little robotic.
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