I hope you're ready to work your butt off to get Pres. Obama reelected...

[Drunken Irishman]

You said we needed to hold his feet to the fire...pressure him to make tough decisions.

Well, Pres. Obama's decision to drop the Keystone pipeline is about as tough as it can get in an election season. He's going to be raked over the coals by Republicans and the MSM from here until election day. They're going to blame him for the jobs potentially lost from this and they'll blame this decision on the possible rise of gas prices - even if none of it is directly tied to the decision.

You wanted him to stand his ground on an important issue, well he has. Now you've got to stand up for him and fight the smears, dig in and ready for the onslaught...because it's coming.

I've already heard it. At supposed liberal places like Huffington Post, where Obama has now been deemed purposely destructive to the U.S. economy and the workers of this country.

This is going to play big-time in a swing state Obama will need to win in order to remain president.

Yet he did what you all said you wanted him to do: make the right decision for once.

Well he's made it. But he doesn't have to suffer for it. You wanted him to have your back...and now we've got to have his.

Cause it's going to get ugly.

Please say you stand with Pres. Obama.

[ellisonz]

1. Signed.

Fired up! Ready to go!

[Lionessa]

2. Not yet, but I'll give him credit where credit is due, and it's due on the pipeline.

However, he'll have to show me more before I'll spend one minute or one penny supporting his re-election.

1. He has to have his DOJ go after the banks and stop supporting the lame agreements they're trying to force the state atty generals to accept.

2. He has to find the way to get the tax breaks for the rich ended.

At a bare minimum he has to do these two things to convince this 99%er to support him. IF he continues being enamored by the demands of the 1-10%, he will only be at best the lesser of two evils and I won't spend money or energy for a lesser of evils.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. I'm with you DI

though I've always been behind Obama too. The MSM, Fox News, GOP are going to ballistic about this (and probably already are-I can't stomach listening to them at all). I suppose though it's a good thing that he is getting this out of the way sooner rather than later in the GE.

[Thinkingabout]

4. Our only choice

I think he will do what America needs better when he is sleeping than the other clowns on their best moment. We need him for sanity.

[Historic NY]

5. Time to hit OFA with another donation.

[denbot]

6. Signed, Kicked and Recommended.

In the last eleven years I have never once forgotton that I am a part of the DEMOCRATICunderground.com

[lillypaddle]

7. signed & k&R

nt

[FSogol]

8. K & R. n/t

[grantcart]

9. Only IF he is the nominee, don't want to rush it!

Then a careful examination of the two main candidates will be made and a soul searching examination of minor candidates that could send a searing symbolic ha, ha, message, ha, ha, ha, that will make the masses waken to, ha, ha, ha, throw off their chains and,
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

[denem]

10. Thanks Grantcart. I mightily impressed by Vermin Supreme, I'll hold off,

until Obama sets right his unforgivable broken promise to enact single payer healthcare.

[mistertrickster]

11. I'm going to work just as hard for him as he did to get the public option for health care . . . nt

[SwampG8r]

12. i already

dropped email ot my congressturd(r) and both senators (r)(d?) about how i support the presidents decision to opt out of keystone.
i know we will lose jobs and china will get the oil but let canada sell herself if shes that kind of country
the whole idea is bad from start to finish and obama is right to get away from it.

[GeorgeGist]

13. Not quite as firm as you seem to believe.

Obama blamed congressional Republicans yesterday for imposing a deadline on his decision, which he said left no time to approve the project. His administration invited TransCanada to reapply, an overture the Calgary-based company promptly said it would accept.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-19/keystone-xl-pipeline-seen-moving-ahead-on-alternative-route-1-.html

[JDPriestly]

14. The birth control decision today was a good one.

We are getting a couple of policies that will sell to liberals in California. It's a shame that it is happening so late, but better late than never.

[nanabugg]

15. I'll work my butt off if the administration works theirs off!!

I accept nothing less than a 50 state strategy with ads in the red states that explain how the white working poor will be voting against their own interests if they vote GOP. I really believe that the only voices these people hear are from Rush, Hannity, and Beck. The Dems must buy ad time to follow every Koch ad with facts put in a straight forward way that relates to the issues that directly affect the working poor and middle class voters in the red states. If I say, "You will lose your food stamps if the GOP regains the House and Senate and the WH" that pretty clear to those listening. They know who they are. It would not be talking in abstract terms. And believe me, lots of folks in red states are on food stamps including military families. Dem ads need to address exactly what people will lose not some race-baiting class warfare scowling that has no basis in fact. Even these people know the difference if they ever get to hear it. Problem is they never get to hear another side of the story because they are bombarded by Rush all day and Hannity all night and the Koch Bro ads in between.

[earcandle]

16. When he wins the second term he, like Clinton did, will deliver the democratic changes promised.

this is my hit on it. If we weren't duped at all, and just need to learn patience.