What are we made of?
Can we even organize ourselves?
I say we can and I have a proposition for all of us that will give us immediate results.
For all of our gnashing of teeth and rubbing gravel through our hair over the Rahm, and The Senate, and The Blue Dogs, and Hope Lost...
For all of the frustration over the fact that The President doesn't appear to be hearing us, or remembering where he came from...
For all of the people that are "leaving the Kos" or even leaving the Party.
This is your chance to be productive and bend the President's ear instead of fighting with ourselves.
More below the fold......
The #17 (all time)You Tube Site most subscribed to by Reporters.
The #50th You tube site most viewed overall this week is
Citizen Tube
The State Of The Union Speech will be broadcast live on this You Tube site tonight. During and after the speech, we will be able to submit questions to the President on this site that he will be answering next week in a live interview.
We all have our issues that we think are the most important. Our "issues" range from Healthcare, to Civil Rights, to Campaign Finance, to Media Consolidation, to War, to War Crimes, to DOMA, to the "Drug War", to Messaging, to the Right Wing Media, to Campaign Promises, to The Economy, etc...You guys know what our issues are.
"E pluribus unum"
"Out of Many, One!"
Is it in our ability to exercise Democracy on our own site?
Can we come together with one voice, for one night, to ask the President The same question 200,000 times?
For Emphasis and to make sure it got answered because of the shear number of people that asked the same question?
Can we be an undeniable force for change?
Here is my challenge to all of us to stop bitching and come together to actually DO SOMETHING!
I propose that all of us reply to this diary in the comments with what you would ask the President if you had a chance. One question 40 words or less (so that it get's answered) that if given the chance one on one, you would ask the President.
Whichever question get's the most Recommends by 5:30 PST/8:30 EST, we all will agree that that is THE QUESTION we all will all submit, one at a time, during the course of the speech.
That's right, concensus..Democracy in action, right here on Daily Kos!
We all bitch and moan at the state of the party (superdelegates), Congress, The Senate, etc.
We are all inundated with any number of petitions and requests for money.
Well, here is a chance for us to actually see what we are made of.
No money...
No phone calls...
No knocking on doors...
Just agreement and a 40 words or less email tonight in order for the President of the United States to know how we feel, and what we want to know.
Is this too hard?
I don't think so, I have faith in US.
Can we do it?
YES WE CAN!
So once again, here is the process.
If you have a question for the President, reply in the comments with a question that is 30 words or less.
Whichever question in the comments has the most recommends by 30 minutes before the speech, that is the question we will all submit tonight DURING the speech to:
CITIZEN TUBE
I think that if we do it this way, if we all participate we will get an answer from the President at best, and in the least we will make our voices heard and actually have the opportunity to practice what we preach instead of just bitching from the sidelines.