Margie Robben

Community Organizer in Chief

What can a President do when your governing is paralyzed by a majority of the opposing party vowing to make you “a one term President”?

What can a President do when every bill you wanted passed in Congress is either not presented, is fillibustered, or is ignored?

What can a President do when the opposing party spends millions of dollars making sure Americans get their message which says you are not one of them, you were not born in America, that you are against Israel, you are a Socialist, and you are against Capitalism?

What can a President do when the opposition does these things as they try to destroy you and your message?

You wanted to say,”yes, we can” but they said, “no, you won’t”. They have a majority in the House of Representatives and they can stop you in your tracks. If they make it impossible for a President to govern, what can you do?

The simple answer is, YOU GO TO THE PEOPLE! You transition from “Commander in Chief”, to “Community Organizer in Chief”.

Besides, you have already succeeded in the Commander in Chief role. Hard to admit, but they loved your taking down Osama bin Laden and your using the drone strikes for U.S. Citizens who became enemy combatants. Now, like you did after finishing college, do the Community Organizing thing. You know how to do that well.

I think the American people are getting your message. As CO, you have about twelve months for all to see and hear. The protests are starting in the New York City area of Wall Street. Take a subway or train down there and you will see it happening. The protests for reform is spreading all across America.  Catch up on what the people were able to do in Wisconsin and in Ohio. Everyone wants “yes we can” and everyone wants “change”.

No one wants change just for the sake of change, though. People want good change. Reform change. Change so the middle class will start coming back to America.

There is lots of work to be done. The message has to get from Wall Street to Main Street, then on to the Supreme Court and to both Houses of Congress.

At the present time, in over fourteen States, there is a major effort to make it more difficult for U.S. Citizens to vote by requiring new identification rules, not sending out ballots unless requested, no early voting, and closing or restricting the places people can register to vote. If the new state laws go through millions of people may be unable to vote when November 2012 rolls around. These new restrictive voting laws may be successful in making the President a one-termer.

If there ever was a time to pay attention to what is going on politically, it is NOW. Later, it may be too late to do anything about it. People are beginning to hear the call and are taking action. They are tired of the race for the leader of our Country to be decided on who has raised the most money. They are tired of the lack of ethics and greed at the top of the political and economic system.

It will be too late to do anything about what happens after the November 2012 elections. We cannot afford to hear people say, “I didn’t know what was going on” or “I was too busy to pay attention”.

Tune in. Get the facts. Check in with the “Community Organizer in Chief” at www.whitehouse.gov

And, check out for accuracy, those crazy e-mails you have been getting. Here are the fact-checking websites to help you get the right information:

www.FactCheck.org   www.snopes.com    www.PolitiFact.com   www.OpenSecrets.org   www.TruthOrFiction.com   www.Hoax-Slayer.com

If you had told me two years ago that I would ever be interested in the health care bill I would have said you were crazy. In the past, when the mail came with a big fat envelope containing car, house, or health insurance I would throw it in some kitchen drawer, never to look at it again. Those insurance contracts were totally boring and I wouldn’t waste a minute looking at them. On the other hand, there were times, when I would spend hours a week on the phone with insurance companies fighting for “injustices” and their unfair practices. But that was the extent of my interest.

So, how did it happen that I played hooky from work on Thursday, February 25th to watch the health care summit on TV, which was being broadcast from the Blair House in Washington, D.C.?  I anxiously waited for the 10 a.m. start, and except for occasionally getting up for some food, getting dinner prepared, etc., I was glued to the T.V.set until after 5 p.m. I became annoyed when a station stopped the debate to show a commercial and I found myself switching channels looking for a commercial-free cable station. I went back and forth from MSNBC to CNN to FOX

The feeling I have inside myself is that I am watching history being made. The lucky part for me is to have the time to experience it. Being present while history is being made is invigorating. The debates, and the difference of opinion going along with the process, are energizing.

The health care decisions being made in our Capital involve much more than what it looks like on the surface. The issue goes to the core of our being. Life or death, sickness or health, what do we want for ourselves and for others? On one side we see people able to understand and empathize with the dilemma who want to do whatever it takes to fix the health care system now. The other side says they understand the problem and want to reform the present system too, but they want to start the debate all over, throw out 13 months of work already done, and start from scratch with a “clean sheet of white paper”. The latter group talks about not raising taxes and letting the private sector fix the problem. It is said that the people in Congress have the best health care system in America and many of them don’t know what it’s like to have what 30,000,000 Americans don’t have. Nothing!

I am not alone participating in history being made.  For over a year now I have seen people all over the Country in heated debates about health care. Like others, I have written articles about what I have seen and gone to town hall meetings on the subject. I have been asking myself, “how come the entire country has gotten involved in such a boring subject?” Hot and boring just doesn’t seem to go together.

So, who is to blame for this nation-wide involvement?  How about blaming President Barack Hussein Obama? President Obama is taking the hit for everything going wrong in America anyway, so let’s just blame him. I think he can handle it. I believe he expects it. More debate, more resistance, more passion, more interest, more action, more change – exactly what he wants. How else could things possibly get done in America?

President Obama has said during his campaign for President and many times after, “I cannot do it alone!” I guess he meant it! He needs the American people to help him. Change needs emotion. Change needs energy. Change needs action. Change needs everyone interested and working. Everyone working toward a more perfect union.

Whatever finally happens to the health care bill, the President has succeeded in getting an entire country worked up over a subject that is intrinsically boring. All Presidents should have in their resumes “community organizer”. So, let’s give President Obama his due. Just blame him for it all.

 I guess I will have to start reading all those boring insurance policies now. Ugh!