President Obama Webcast on "Time to Deliver Health Care Reform"

What better than the words of Mitch Stewart, Organizing For America's Director, to let you know the feeling of accomplishment shared by thousands of volunteers who gathered in livingrooms across the country to make calls to Congress requesting to deliver on Health Care Reform:

"It's late; I know you've gotten a lot of messages from us recently, and everyone here at OFA headquarters is pretty tired. But the last reports of calls and commitments are just coming in from events on the West Coast, and I wanted to share the news with you.

As you know, we set a big goal: 100,000 calls to Congress placed or committed to in a single day by OFA supporters and allied organizations. By 2:30 p.m., you had crushed it. So, we gulped and said let's go for 200,000, not knowing what would happen. But the calls just kept pouring in -- keeping phones ringing off the hook in congressional offices in D.C. and your representatives' district offices around the country.

Then, OFA supporters gathered in over 1,000 living rooms and community centers from Macon, Georgia to Missoula, Montana. You called hundreds of thousands of key voters in your community and got them to agree to call Congress and speak out for reform, too. President Obama joined in at a call party in New York -- and he had some amazing words of support for the folks like you who make this movement possible.

I'm looking at the numbers, and with almost all of the reports now in, the tally wasn't 200,000 calls placed or pledged -- it was 315,023. You did it.

Your voice was overwhelming -- with reports in the media of congressional offices "completely crushed with calls." CBS News described your effort as an "onslaught." And a congressional aide was quoted with a common response, saying their office was deluged by "pretty much non-stop health care calls from OFA."

You set a new OFA record, you caught the national media's attention, and you certainly put Congress on notice. But you know that's not what really matters.

The message I sent earlier talked about a woman, Jenny U., whose insurance company cut off her coverage because they decided her kidney donation to her sick daughter counted as a "pre-existing condition." What really matters is that today you brought America one giant, irreversible step closer to being a place where no one will ever have to suffer that kind of injustice again. That's what all the messages, late nights, and phone calls ultimately add up to. It's what makes everything we do together worthwhile -- and it's why we'll keep fighting together until the job is done.

Thank you, so much, for being part of the team.

Sincerely,

Mitch

Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America"

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[Trekker531]

obamas healthcare is going to kill this country

[baysideful]

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WE WANT the SAME health care YOU have!

The American Cancer Society is AGAINST this plan.

makes me wonder about U ethics Mr. President..of the people????????????

bull!!!

U lied!!!

U R a con artist!!!

we want our war ended & Jobs back!!

[MrDLivA]

its time to D-LivA

[geofiles]

Like the video is named, It's Time To Deliver.

Well Obama did delivered us a killer, for now we know why Obama said not to jump to conclusions about Nidal Hasan.

The gunman who killed 12 people at Ft. Hood is Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, and he is listed last years as a participant in Obamas Homeland Security Policy Institutes presidential transition task force.

[Diogeneselfilosofo]

djoyrly, I couldn't say it better.

GOD bless Obama.

Long live America!!!!!!!

[djoy4ly]

Thank you Mitch and all the volunteers Organizing for America. Your work is appreciated and even those limbaugh-led critics have benefited from your efforts to evolve a better America. Keep it up and I now have a second wind and join you in your fact based campaign. Look what we have done in short 9 months. Yes We Can! God bless Obama, OFA and all Americans. May we see the light of Love and serve to help all children of God. LLBO!