Barack Obama urges backers to fight health 'lies'

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Obama urges backers to fight 'lies' By: Mike Allen August 5, 2009 12:31 PM EST

In an unusual e-mail appeal, President Barack Obama is asking millions of his campaign supporters to commit to attending at least one community event on health care this month.

Obama writes that opponents of his health care plan are “filling the airwaves and the Internet with outrageous falsehoods to scare people into opposing change.”

“And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous,” he warns. “So we've got to get out there, fight lies with truth and set the record straight."

The e-mail shows up as being from “President Barack Obama,” with the subject line: “This is the moment.”

“Home is where we're strongest. We didn't win last year's election together at a committee hearing in D.C. We won it on the doorsteps and the phone lines, at the softball games and the town meetings, and in every part of this great country where people gather to talk about what matters most,” Obama says. “And if you're willing to step up once again, that's exactly where we're going to win this historic campaign for the guaranteed, affordable health insurance that every American deserves."

The drive is run by Organizing for America, the new name for the Obama grass-roots organization, now a project of the Democratic National Committee.

The e-mail clicks through to a commitment form, with the notice: “Once you commit to attending an event, we'll be in touch to let you know about upcoming events near you.”

Here is the full text for the e-mail:

[Sub-Driver]

Well for someone who hasn't read the bill..........

[The Great RJ]

Anyone who has read even parts of the bill knows who is lying.

[MuttTheHoople]

Obama urges backers to fight 'lies'

We are, Barry, we are.

[GOP Poet]

Can’t wait to attend a local event myself. That is if my congress critter is not too scared to have one.

[sfvgto]

we now live in a banana republic

[Puppage]

“And some people, not surprisingly, are getting pretty nervous,” he warns. “So we've got to get out there, fight lies with truth and set the record straight."

Are those your final, calibrated words?

[kabar]

Here is the Obama website. Truly frightening. Type in your zip code and see what they are doing around you. We should use it to arrange counter or competing events so that the public has a real choice.

[Spok]

Obama has already admitted he hasn’t read the bill, and we know Congress won’t (or can’t in the case of Rep. John Conyers), so what gives Obama the foundation upon which he asserts that lies are being circulated about the bill?

[RC2]

What he’s asking is for everyone to support “His lies”.

[hosepipe]

Obama fights agaisnt LIES?..
Thats rich..

Barry “KingFish” Obama and the mystic Knights of the Sea running the government would make a good sitcom IF it wasnt REALITY..

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[Puppage]

Can’t wait to attend a local event myself. That is if my congress critter is not too scared to have one

The ConnecticutCreeps found a way around it...a tele-town meeting.

[rod1]

Wow Obama he is such a uniter and leader of all the people for bipartisan solutions(sarc).

[vigilo]

So, when people show up to oppose the bill they are just shills for the insurance companies and therefore are to be ignored. They don’t really exist. But Obama can openly call for people, thus making them genuine shills sent by Obama himself, and that’s not politics? The press won’t even notice the contradiction and certainly won’t report on it. Frauds.

[jveritas]

Have you ever heard of a President who rallies one portion of Americans against another portion of Americans? That is insane.

[rockinqsranch]

“Barack Obama urges backers to fight health ‘lies’”

Soooo.....he’s asking his backers to fight with him?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Saul Alinsky Rule 8: Mb>Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”</b>

[Biggirl]

The truth is that Obamacare is sinking fast and the Dems are getting desperate.

[claymax]

Yes, Camp Obama is back! The organizing tool that was instrumental is catapulting Barack Obama to the Presidency. The campaign successfully turned that hope into...
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Can anyone tell me if there are going to be any Brown shirts for sale at this event? I went into that website, and thankfully I live in a fairly Conservative area just East of Sacramento and this is what popped up in my area. Disgusting, I think I puked in my mouth whenI read this.

[missnry]

Hey Barack, if you want to get the truth out then refer the American people to www.freerepublic.com

[freekitty]

Exactly. The truth is already out there, Obambi, in your bill and you know it.