I know this is a boring waste of cyber-ink, but many of our readers may not be on the emailing list and perhaps Dr. Mercury might enjoy the game:
Friend --
If you've been able to sit through any of the Republican presidential debates so far, I commend you for your patience and commitment to the President.
With all the talk about "class warfare," "Obamacare," "9-9-9," and how Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme," the Republican candidates have tended to leave very little time to discuss constructive solutions to the actual challenges facing our country.
Well, there's another Republican debate tonight in Las Vegas. And if we can't convince the candidates to talk about jobs or how to provide economic security for the middle class, we can hold them accountable for what they choose to talk about instead.
The campaign has put together a debate watch game to make sure there's a real cost to all the attacks and nonsense. Here's how it works: You pick a word or phrase from the list below to sponsor, and pledge to give $3 or $5 (or however much you'd like) for each mention. So tonight, as the Republican candidates prattle on about defunding Social Security, ending Medicare as we know it, and everything else they support, they will literally be building this campaign.
Check it out, and get your guesses in now before the debate starts at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.
Don't worry, you can set a cap on how much you want to give, in case someone (not saying who) says "9-9-9" two dozen times.
-- Class warfare
-- Repeal
-- Obamacare
-- Fence
-- (De)regulation
-- Amnesty
-- Socialism
-- Romneycare
-- 9-9-9
We have to assume that the Republicans in this race are sincere about wanting to be President. But when so much of the discussion is about rolling back protections put in place by the Affordable Care Act and Wall Street reform, and instituting a tax plan that would mean middle-class families pay thousands more every year, we can question how sincere they are about helping to solve the very real problems millions of people confront every day.
Americans deserve a leader who takes the job seriously.
So I'm looking forward to seeing what you think they'll say this time. We should have some fun with this -- it's Vegas, after all.
But we're not just doing this for our own entertainment. We're building a campaign that can withstand a barrage of special-interest funded attacks from the other side, and make sure President Obama can continue the important work we have left to do.
Any donation you end up making tonight will be put to work right away to that end.
So what do you think? Class warfare? Socialism?
Make your best guesses here:
www.gopdebatewatch.com
Thanks for playing,
Matthew
Matthew Barzun
National Finance Chair
Obama for America
Guess these people want to keep their jobs. Unemployment sucks.
