President Obama is asking for our help

This week the President is stepping up the push for health care reform. As noted in the last post, he came out strongly for the public option in his weekend address.

Now, Organizing for America* is asking for our help. There are two actions:

1. declare your support for President Obama's health care reform agenda
2. Ask your friends to do the same; and remember to ask them to ask their friends.

Last week, Republican Senator Jim DeMint made it pretty clear why the opponents of health care reform are fighting so hard. As he told a special interest attack group, "If we're able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." Here's how the President responded:

Think about that. This isn't about me. This isn't about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America's families, breaking America's businesses and breaking America's economy. And we can't afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not this time, not now. There are too many lives and livelihoods at stake.

With Congress only days away from finalizing their plans for reform, it's time to stand with the President and fight back against this disastrous brand of old-style politics. So we need as many people as possible to publicly support the President's principles for health care reform and call on Congress to act.

Before the first full votes in Congress, we'll publish the signatures in newspaper ads across the nation, to make sure your voice is heard.

Declare your support for health care reform.

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* Organizing for America is the grassroots organization developed from the 2008 Obama campaign in an effort to organize support for the President's agenda.