Politicians love when citizens sign petitions; there's nothing they can ignore more.
Don't believe it?
How many petitions did you sign to impeach Bush-Cheney? I can count seven right off the top of my head, excluding the two times I signed Florida congressman Bob Wexlers's IMPEACH CHENEY petition. Wexler announced that if he got 50,000 signatures he'd begin hearings into impeaching Cheney. Within 8 hours, the petition had more than 100,000 signatures. Wexler backtracked, raised the ante to 500,000 signatures and the petition, the hearings, and impeaching Bush-Cheney were never heard about again.
Then there was Pat Leahy's petition to establish a Truth & Reconciliation Commission to investigate the abuses by the Bush-Cheney administration.
Oh yeah, Obama's going to be moved by a petition. We already handed Obama a 'petition', 'signed' by more citizens than ever in the history of the country. His election to the presidency. Not a day passes when I'm not filled with the same dread as when Bush and Cheney were office, powerless to prevent the mistakes they were making, that Obama is making.
There is no appealing to Obama. There is only appealing to his 'most ardent supporters', to try to get them to take off the blinders, and get Obama and the DLC out of power in 2012.
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