Actually someone in his Nevada office did. If this seems like a cheap trick to get your attention, please indulge me. This very infrequent diary is short, specific, and follows after the fold.
I am nearly 71 years old. I live in South Carolina where I rarely get an opportunity to vote for or do any meaningful work on behalf of the Democratic Party. I did go to Virginia a few years back and worked on the campaign of Senator Webb even though he was much more conservative than me because I saw an opportunity to work for a Democratic majority in the Senate. Then in the last election, I bought into the whole thing! I did not start out as an Obama supporter. I bought and read his book. I became persuaded that this was a once in a life time opportunity to put in place the liberal ideals that I had believed in clear back to my civil rights days in the sixties.
Now this mess with the "mosque" is, I fear, the last straw. Senator if you will not listen maybe others in your own party will convince you that cow towing to the right wing fear mongers in the end will only result in what it has always resulted in, a divided and demoralized Democratic party.
Mr. President you were right! Now you seem to be more polls driven than confident in your own sense of what is proper and good. I wish you would have a summit with the leaders of our party, take them to the woodshed, and have a little talk to them about where we are going, why, and what it will take to regain the ear of a badly frightened country. Ah, the badly frightened American public, Newt’s most predictable ally.
I am tired! My checkbook is empty! Will you stand up and take these people on? Please! Moreover, while you are about it why not look around in the media and enlists the help of a few of our friends. They are there and you know well who they are. I challenge you to slap Mr. Murdock down and call Limbaugh and Beck out for the evil self-promoting jerks that they are. Americans realize in their gut where are problems came from and the thinly disguised attempt to distract them. You won once on principles. You have another chance. Nevertheless, the clock is ticking.
Sign me not the professional left, just a very tired old Stevenson democrat.