Donna --
I will be the first president in modern history to be outspent in his re-election campaign, if things continue as they have so far.
I'm not just talking about the super PACs and anonymous outside groups -- I'm talking about the Romney campaign itself. Those outside groups just add even more to the underlying problem.
The Romney campaign raises more than we do, and the math isn't hard to understand: Through the primaries, we raised almost three-quarters of our money from donors giving less than $1,000, while Mitt Romney's campaign raised more than three-quarters of its money from individuals giving $1,000 or more.
And, again, that's not including the massive outside spending by super PACs and front groups funneling up to an additional billion dollars into ads trashing me, you, and everything we believe in.
We can be outspent and still win -- but we can't be outspent 10 to 1 and still win.
More than 2.2 million Americans have already chipped in for us, and I'm so grateful for it. As we face this week's fundraising deadline, can you make a donation of $3 or more today?
Every donation you make today automatically enters you to join Michelle and me for one of the last grassroots dinners of this campaign -- today is your last chance to get your name in.
These dinners represent how we do things differently. My opponent spent this past weekend at a secretive retreat for the biggest donors to both his campaign and the super PACs that support him.
I've got other responsibilities I'm attending to.
Donate today to stand for our kind of politics:
https://donate.barackobama.
Thank you,
Barack
Friends, here is my response:
Dear President Obama and Members of the DNC,
Please do not complain about the financial abilities of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party in comparison to your own financial abilities for the 2012 election. I am pleased Republicans have the ability to outspend the Democrats. I want the Republican Party to do everything possible to outsell and outvote you, Mr. President, and all Democrats currently running for office.
I have always voted for Democrats for the past thirty plus years. Unfortunately, for the past four years I have been very disappointed and even ashamed by the "accomplishments" of Democrats. I am particularly disappointed with you, President Obama, and Nancy Pelosi.
The two of you and many other Democratic politicians made a lot of campaign promises prior to the 2008 election. I erroneously believed in your willingness to keep the promises you made, and then I had to watch all of you backpedal on those promises. Even worse the promises you "kept" resulted in unbelievable debt and negative effects on the citizens of the United States of America.
During the first year of your presidency, President Obama, my husband was laid-off twice. The final lay-off has continued for over three years now. It appears unlikely to change in the near future.
My husband is an Air Force Veteran of the first gulf war and also served in Columbia when our military went after Noriega. When he finished serving his country, he was unable to take advantage of his military benefits to attend college because he was needed at home. His mother was dying from cancer and his sister found herself in the role of a single mother with a son who had a biological father who left them stranded. My husband had to assume the role of caregiver of his mother and father figure to his nephew.
We voted for Democrats in 2008 because we believed campaign promises. There were many campaign promises about putting unemployed individuals into the status of working Americans by making it possible for them to obtain a college education tuition free if they attended a community college. Those campaign promises also included the promise laid-off workers would be able to continue receiving unemployment benefits while going to college.
This was another campaign promise which was quickly evacuated by every Democrat who offered it during their 2008 campaigns, including you, Mr. President. If only Democratic leaders like yourself had possessed the foresight to see how keeping the promise about tuition free community college degrees could change the rate of unemployment in our country! Instead, Democrats chose to say this promise was impossible to keep, and as a result even more individuals have found themselves in line for unemployment benefits.
Another promise made by you, Mr. President, and Democrat politicians around the country was health insurance for everyone. This promise was supposed to benefit the American people. Democrats kept this promise, but instead of "Obama care" helping Americans it made quality health care even more difficult to obtain and more expensive; therefore, people like my husband who have been laid-off find it impossible to purchase health insurance. Like so many other people questioned concerning "Obama care" stated in today's newly announced poll, I am also hoping the Supreme Care announces it to be unconstitutional.
Since October 2011 my husband has suffered from grand mal and other smaller seizures. In the beginning he was unable to get treatment, except from our local hospital's emergency room. He only received regular care when the physician an hour away from us who employed his sister offered to see him for free. This same caring physician found a neurologist willing to care for my husband even though he had no health insurance.
After much trial and error, the neurologist finally found an anti-seizure medicare which has begun to reduce the number of seizures he has. The week before this medication began to treat his symptoms my husband had multiple grand mal seizures four days in a row. Unfortunately, this medication cost $575 per month for people like my husband who do not have health insurance.
Our pharmacist told my husband this drug is so expensive the drug store does not even carry it. He was willing to order the drug if we wanted to obtain and pay the exorbitant price for it. Since this medication is the only one which brought about a decrease in the number of seizures, particularly grand mal seizures, suffered by my husband the neurologist is trying to find a way to make it obtainable for our budget.
His neurologist learned the company manufacturing the drug had a plan to reduce the cost of this drug. Unfortunately, the best the company could offer was to reduce the cost of the medication by $45. Sadly, this reduction in payment is less than 10% which means the drug is still impossible for us to purchase.
Not being able to afford the only medication to show a reduction in the number of grand mal seizures my husband suffers has other negative effect besides the obvious negative health effect. If the seizures cannot be controlled, my husband cannot drive or find employment. Because he worked in manufacturing and shipping in the past, he had to drive a forklift and/or operate heavy equipment. Obviously, if he is suffering uncontrollable grand mal seizures, he cannot complete these tasks which means his unemployment appears to be unending.
My displeasure with Democrat politicians reaches beyond my husband's unemployment and health. We lost our home and almost all of our belongings because of my husband's ongoing unemployment. We are currently living in a "cheap" motel because the price of the single room which, of course, includes electricity and telephone, cable television, clean sheets and towels, as well as maid service is less than a small apartment.
I have been and continue to be a recipient of full social security disability benefits because I suffer from Multiple Sclerosis and Multiple Auto-immune Syndrome (MAS). My diagnosis of MAS means not only do I have MS, but I have also been diagnosed with Auto-immune Hepatitis, Crohn's Disease, Colitis, Asthma, Eczema, Carpal Tunnel and an ever increasing list of food, environment and drug allergies. The allergies make treating my diseases very difficult, and I have been told I suffer from more auto-immune diseases than any other individual with MAS.
I was finally able to receive social security disability benefits after the late Republican Senator Jesse Helms assisted with my case. Social security benefits allow me to have medicare benefits. It would be impossible for me to receive medical attention and medications without medicare. Also my social security benefits are our consistent financial benefits.
I hesitated writing the word, consistent, because of the ongoing discussions about social security and medicare running out of money and/or decreasing benefits. If my social security benefits or medicare were cancelled or reduced, I would not be able to receive the medical care I need. I would also be unable to obtain my medication, and my husband and I would not be able to pay for our motel room or food.
President Obama, like many other Americans I had great optimism when you took office in January 2009. I also looked forward to the promises you and other then newly elected Democrats were about to keep. Then like so many voters I disappointed, frustrated and eventually angry as one after another campaign promises were broken. My disappointment, frustration and anger has reached the point where I no longer trust or believe in any promise or claim made by any Democrat.
Your broken promises, President Obama, along with the ones broken by other Democrats are only a part of my distrust of the party. The actions of Nancy Pelosi and her husband, which have been reported twice on Sixty Minutes were in essence insider trading even if they did just barely fell on the side of being legal. If any American who was not a senator or a member of the house had gained from the stock market based on the information to which she was privy, charges would have been filed.
If the stock profiteering was not enough, there are the aggressive statements and blame game which Ms. Pelosi and you, Mr. President, constantly make. It is as if the two of you are the school bullies. The two of you mistakenly believe you can claim the breaking of most of your campaign promises upon uncooperative Democrats; and thereby, release yourselves from all blame.
What the two of you, other Democrats and the DNC do not seem to understand is this behavior only reflects badly upon Democrats. Every time I hear Ms. Pelosi open her mouth in anger and aggression about actions taken by Congress or hear you blame Congress because they refuse to do what you want, I am embarrassed to have ever been a Democrat. The two of you appear to waffle between playing a bully and sounding like a kindergartener. Kindergarteners are expected to say, "I want my way and I want it now!" and "Mommy and Daddy, look what they did to me!" I expect and desire better behavior from my president and key Democrats.
When you were seeking election in 2008, there was a great deal of conversation about the minister at the church to which you and Mrs. Obama were members. While I found the views of your minister to be alarming, I was happy to see the two of you were Christians. Now I wonder what kind of Christian you are. Your recent comments about same sex marriage are offensive to anyone who truly believes the Bible is the Word of God. They are also offensive in almost all major world religions.
Finally, your very recent policy announcement concerning illegal immigrants is thoughtless and displays bad judgment. Given our country's economic situation and the high unemployment rate should have prevented you from adopting this policy. I will be very happy when Mr. Romney takes office and throws out your ridiculous policy.
I am also alarmed by your comment, "The private sector is doing fine." Mr. President, are you really that out of touch with what is actually happening in our country? Do you really not understand how devastating the American economy and employment situations are?
Perhaps you need to take another look at unemployment figures. This time don't just look at the number of newly unemployed filings, look at how many continued unemployment filings exist as well. The private sector in not fine!
The private sector is in dire shape. If the private sector was a hospital patient, the doctor, chaplain and hospital social worker would be meeting with the family to make decisions concerning whether a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order should be put into place. As a past hospital chaplain, I know how bad the patient's prognosis must be for this type of conversation to take place. Believe me, Mr. President, that is how bad the private sector, economy and employment situation is!
I will not under any circumstance vote for you, President Obama, or any other Democrat in November 2008. I do not trust or believe in Democrats. After thirty-some years of being a proud Democrat when my family and friends were all Republicans, I have now switched my allegiance and have chosen to become a Republican. I will vote for Mitt Romney for President, and I will also vote for any Republican running against a Democrat this November.
I truly hope Mr. Romney wins the election and replaces you as President of the United States. I want Republicans up for election to win over ever Democrat running for office. I am tired of being embarrassed, frustrated, disappointed and angered by the behavior of the Democrats I helped to elect.
Mr. President, do not ask me to vote for you, to campaign for you, make telephone calls for you, to donate money to your campaign or to do anything else to aid in your re-election. I absolutely will not be voting for you or any other Democrat this November. I am repulsed by members of the party to which I was associated for more than thirty years.
I cannot and will not vote for any politician or party which has apparently moved away from what first drew me to them. Making the decision to leave the Democratic party and become a Republican was not an easy one. It was, however, the correct and appropriate one.
I sincerely hope there are many other Democrats who have come to this same revelation. I do not believe the American economy, work force and health care can survive another four years with you, Mr. Obama, as our president. I was concerned four years ago with the amount of money spent on bailouts under former President Bush, but today I am even more concerned with the amount of debt our country has acquired under your leadership.
The combination of debt, unemployment, health care and misjudgement in policies concerning illegal immigrants has proven you were not the best choice for President for the last four years. It also demonstrates you have no business being President for another four years. The United States of American does not need another four years of misguided leadership.
I hope you will take my words to heart. Should voters outnumber my opinion my one hope would be you have carefully read this message and rethink how you would proceed as President of the United States of America. Even so, I am hoping many voters who have always been pro Democrat will now join me in leaving the party and voting for Mitt Romney for President.
Please do not complain about the financial abilities of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party in comparison to your own financial abilities for the 2012 election. I am pleased Republicans have the ability to outspend the Democrats. I want the Republican Party to do everything possible to outsell and outvote you, Mr. President, and all Democrats currently running for office.
I have always voted for Democrats for the past thirty plus years. Unfortunately, for the past four years I have been very disappointed and even ashamed by the "accomplishments" of Democrats. I am particularly disappointed with you, President Obama, and Nancy Pelosi.
The two of you and many other Democratic politicians made a lot of campaign promises prior to the 2008 election. I erroneously believed in your willingness to keep the promises you made, and then I had to watch all of you backpedal on those promises. Even worse the promises you "kept" resulted in unbelievable debt and negative effects on the citizens of the United States of America.
During the first year of your presidency, President Obama, my husband was laid-off twice. The final lay-off has continued for over three years now. It appears unlikely to change in the near future.
My husband is an Air Force Veteran of the first gulf war and also served in Columbia when our military went after Noriega. When he finished serving his country, he was unable to take advantage of his military benefits to attend college because he was needed at home. His mother was dying from cancer and his sister found herself in the role of a single mother with a son who had a biological father who left them stranded. My husband had to assume the role of caregiver of his mother and father figure to his nephew.
We voted for Democrats in 2008 because we believed campaign promises. There were many campaign promises about putting unemployed individuals into the status of working Americans by making it possible for them to obtain a college education tuition free if they attended a community college. Those campaign promises also included the promise laid-off workers would be able to continue receiving unemployment benefits while going to college.
This was another campaign promise which was quickly evacuated by every Democrat who offered it during their 2008 campaigns, including you, Mr. President. If only Democratic leaders like yourself had possessed the foresight to see how keeping the promise about tuition free community college degrees could change the rate of unemployment in our country! Instead, Democrats chose to say this promise was impossible to keep, and as a result even more individuals have found themselves in line for unemployment benefits.
Another promise made by you, Mr. President, and Democrat politicians around the country was health insurance for everyone. This promise was supposed to benefit the American people. Democrats kept this promise, but instead of "Obama care" helping Americans it made quality health care even more difficult to obtain and more expensive; therefore, people like my husband who have been laid-off find it impossible to purchase health insurance. Like so many other people questioned concerning "Obama care" stated in today's newly announced poll, I am also hoping the Supreme Care announces it to be unconstitutional.
Since October 2011 my husband has suffered from grand mal and other smaller seizures. In the beginning he was unable to get treatment, except from our local hospital's emergency room. He only received regular care when the physician an hour away from us who employed his sister offered to see him for free. This same caring physician found a neurologist willing to care for my husband even though he had no health insurance.
After much trial and error, the neurologist finally found an anti-seizure medicare which has begun to reduce the number of seizures he has. The week before this medication began to treat his symptoms my husband had multiple grand mal seizures four days in a row. Unfortunately, this medication cost $575 per month for people like my husband who do not have health insurance.
Our pharmacist told my husband this drug is so expensive the drug store does not even carry it. He was willing to order the drug if we wanted to obtain and pay the exorbitant price for it. Since this medication is the only one which brought about a decrease in the number of seizures, particularly grand mal seizures, suffered by my husband the neurologist is trying to find a way to make it obtainable for our budget.
His neurologist learned the company manufacturing the drug had a plan to reduce the cost of this drug. Unfortunately, the best the company could offer was to reduce the cost of the medication by $45. Sadly, this reduction in payment is less than 10% which means the drug is still impossible for us to purchase.
Not being able to afford the only medication to show a reduction in the number of grand mal seizures my husband suffers has other negative effect besides the obvious negative health effect. If the seizures cannot be controlled, my husband cannot drive or find employment. Because he worked in manufacturing and shipping in the past, he had to drive a forklift and/or operate heavy equipment. Obviously, if he is suffering uncontrollable grand mal seizures, he cannot complete these tasks which means his unemployment appears to be unending.
My displeasure with Democrat politicians reaches beyond my husband's unemployment and health. We lost our home and almost all of our belongings because of my husband's ongoing unemployment. We are currently living in a "cheap" motel because the price of the single room which, of course, includes electricity and telephone, cable television, clean sheets and towels, as well as maid service is less than a small apartment.
I have been and continue to be a recipient of full social security disability benefits because I suffer from Multiple Sclerosis and Multiple Auto-immune Syndrome (MAS). My diagnosis of MAS means not only do I have MS, but I have also been diagnosed with Auto-immune Hepatitis, Crohn's Disease, Colitis, Asthma, Eczema, Carpal Tunnel and an ever increasing list of food, environment and drug allergies. The allergies make treating my diseases very difficult, and I have been told I suffer from more auto-immune diseases than any other individual with MAS.
I was finally able to receive social security disability benefits after the late Republican Senator Jesse Helms assisted with my case. Social security benefits allow me to have medicare benefits. It would be impossible for me to receive medical attention and medications without medicare. Also my social security benefits are our consistent financial benefits.
I hesitated writing the word, consistent, because of the ongoing discussions about social security and medicare running out of money and/or decreasing benefits. If my social security benefits or medicare were cancelled or reduced, I would not be able to receive the medical care I need. I would also be unable to obtain my medication, and my husband and I would not be able to pay for our motel room or food.
President Obama, like many other Americans I had great optimism when you took office in January 2009. I also looked forward to the promises you and other then newly elected Democrats were about to keep. Then like so many voters I disappointed, frustrated and eventually angry as one after another campaign promises were broken. My disappointment, frustration and anger has reached the point where I no longer trust or believe in any promise or claim made by any Democrat.
Your broken promises, President Obama, along with the ones broken by other Democrats are only a part of my distrust of the party. The actions of Nancy Pelosi and her husband, which have been reported twice on Sixty Minutes were in essence insider trading even if they did just barely fell on the side of being legal. If any American who was not a senator or a member of the house had gained from the stock market based on the information to which she was privy, charges would have been filed.
If the stock profiteering was not enough, there are the aggressive statements and blame game which Ms. Pelosi and you, Mr. President, constantly make. It is as if the two of you are the school bullies. The two of you mistakenly believe you can claim the breaking of most of your campaign promises upon uncooperative Democrats; and thereby, release yourselves from all blame.
What the two of you, other Democrats and the DNC do not seem to understand is this behavior only reflects badly upon Democrats. Every time I hear Ms. Pelosi open her mouth in anger and aggression about actions taken by Congress or hear you blame Congress because they refuse to do what you want, I am embarrassed to have ever been a Democrat. The two of you appear to waffle between playing a bully and sounding like a kindergartener. Kindergarteners are expected to say, "I want my way and I want it now!" and "Mommy and Daddy, look what they did to me!" I expect and desire better behavior from my president and key Democrats.
When you were seeking election in 2008, there was a great deal of conversation about the minister at the church to which you and Mrs. Obama were members. While I found the views of your minister to be alarming, I was happy to see the two of you were Christians. Now I wonder what kind of Christian you are. Your recent comments about same sex marriage are offensive to anyone who truly believes the Bible is the Word of God. They are also offensive in almost all major world religions.
Finally, your very recent policy announcement concerning illegal immigrants is thoughtless and displays bad judgment. Given our country's economic situation and the high unemployment rate should have prevented you from adopting this policy. I will be very happy when Mr. Romney takes office and throws out your ridiculous policy.
I am also alarmed by your comment, "The private sector is doing fine." Mr. President, are you really that out of touch with what is actually happening in our country? Do you really not understand how devastating the American economy and employment situations are?
Perhaps you need to take another look at unemployment figures. This time don't just look at the number of newly unemployed filings, look at how many continued unemployment filings exist as well. The private sector in not fine!
The private sector is in dire shape. If the private sector was a hospital patient, the doctor, chaplain and hospital social worker would be meeting with the family to make decisions concerning whether a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order should be put into place. As a past hospital chaplain, I know how bad the patient's prognosis must be for this type of conversation to take place. Believe me, Mr. President, that is how bad the private sector, economy and employment situation is!
I will not under any circumstance vote for you, President Obama, or any other Democrat in November 2008. I do not trust or believe in Democrats. After thirty-some years of being a proud Democrat when my family and friends were all Republicans, I have now switched my allegiance and have chosen to become a Republican. I will vote for Mitt Romney for President, and I will also vote for any Republican running against a Democrat this November.
I truly hope Mr. Romney wins the election and replaces you as President of the United States. I want Republicans up for election to win over ever Democrat running for office. I am tired of being embarrassed, frustrated, disappointed and angered by the behavior of the Democrats I helped to elect.
Mr. President, do not ask me to vote for you, to campaign for you, make telephone calls for you, to donate money to your campaign or to do anything else to aid in your re-election. I absolutely will not be voting for you or any other Democrat this November. I am repulsed by members of the party to which I was associated for more than thirty years.
I cannot and will not vote for any politician or party which has apparently moved away from what first drew me to them. Making the decision to leave the Democratic party and become a Republican was not an easy one. It was, however, the correct and appropriate one.
I sincerely hope there are many other Democrats who have come to this same revelation. I do not believe the American economy, work force and health care can survive another four years with you, Mr. Obama, as our president. I was concerned four years ago with the amount of money spent on bailouts under former President Bush, but today I am even more concerned with the amount of debt our country has acquired under your leadership.
The combination of debt, unemployment, health care and misjudgement in policies concerning illegal immigrants has proven you were not the best choice for President for the last four years. It also demonstrates you have no business being President for another four years. The United States of American does not need another four years of misguided leadership.
I hope you will take my words to heart. Should voters outnumber my opinion my one hope would be you have carefully read this message and rethink how you would proceed as President of the United States of America. Even so, I am hoping many voters who have always been pro Democrat will now join me in leaving the party and voting for Mitt Romney for President.
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