Like many of you, my fiancee and i donated to the campaign prior to the june deadline and were promised t-shirts for doing so. We managed to scrap together the $60 because we thought we were doing our part to get change in the white house..yet now we are left feeling cheated, like its business as usual, just with a different facade.
$60 may not be much to some people, but to an umemployed father of 4 whose household is running on less than half of the income from last year, $60 is food, is gasoline, is diapers, is a trip to the doctors, is enough to keep the water on for another month..
I have made several attempts to get in contact with someone via email, yet all i get is an autoresponder that says "we arent answering individual emails, but here's a link to donate more money" - INSANE! So we are left with little choice. After September 8th, i will have no alternative left but to contact the credit company and stop payment on the donation. We have been betrayed and ignored by the campaign that was supposed to be on the side of the lower class. If they cant even get simple t-shirts out, how can we trust them to come through on the real issues liek healthcare and jobs?
Sometimes the truth matters!
Here's the link to the Terre Haute town hall meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc9PepjyDow
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA – At a town hall meeting in Indiana, U.S. Senator Barack Obama made the following comments in response to the Clinton and McCain campaign’s attacks:
“When I go around and I talk to people there is frustration and there is anger and there is bitterness. And what’s worse is when people are expressing their anger then politicians try to say what are you angry about? This just happened – I want to make a point here today.
“I was in San Francisco talking to a group at a fundraiser and somebody asked how’re you going to get votes in Pennsylvania? What’s going on there? We hear that’s its hard for some working class people to get behind you’re campaign. I said, “Well look, they’re frustrated and for good reason. Because for the last 25 years they’ve seen jobs shipped overseas. They’ve seen their economies collapse. They have lost their jobs. They have lost their pensions. They have lost their healthcare.
“And for 25, 30 years Democrats and Republicans have come before them and said we’re going to make your community better. We’re going to make it right and nothing ever happens. And of course they’re bitter. Of course they’re frustrated. You would be too. In fact many of you are. Because the same thing has happened here in Indiana. The same thing happened across the border in Decatur. The same thing has happened all across the country. Nobody is looking out for you. Nobody is thinking about you. And so people end up- they don’t vote on economic issues because they don’t expect anybody’s going to help them. So people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage. And they take refuge in their faith and their community and their families and things they can count on. But they don’t believe they can count on Washington. So I made this statement-- so, here’s what rich. Senator Clinton says ‘No, I don’t think that people are bitter in Pennsylvania. You know, I think Barack’s being condescending.’ John McCain says, ‘Oh, how could he say that? How could he say people are bitter? You know, he’s obviously out of touch with people.’
“Out of touch? Out of touch? I mean, John McCain—it took him three tries to finally figure out that the home foreclosure crisis was a problem and to come up with a plan for it, and he’s saying I’m out of touch? Senator Clinton voted for a credit card-sponsored bankruptcy bill that made it harder for people to get out of debt after taking money from the financial services companies, and she says I’m out of touch? No, I’m in touch. I know exactly what’s going on. I know what’s going on in Pennsylvania. I know what’s going on in Indiana. I know what’s going on in Illinois. People are fed-up. They’re angry and they’re frustrated and they’re bitter. And they want to see a change in Washington and that’s why I’m running for President of the United States of America.”
