No Free Ride for Obama

This is my message to all the other liberals out there. Just because Obama is in office now doesn't mean we can give up. In fact, we need to double our actions. Just because we've got a Democratic Congress and we got Obama in the White House doesn't mean our problems will magically fix themselves. We need to make sure we push our Representatives and Senators and Obama in the right direction. We need to remind them that we voted them in to bring the change we need in Washington. Unfortunately we have had a few set backs. Sure, Obama made the move to close Gitmo, but he still seems willing to try them in military courts where they will not receive all the rights that make America....well America. And though Obama has ordered a stop to torture he is unwilling to put the man who gave the okay to the usage of torture on trial. And while Obama has made a solid commitment to put an end to the war in Iraq he is asking for troops in Afghanistan. The Obama administration wants to sign health care reform into law by then of this year, but we have seen them totally ignore single-payer as a solution. We've made a lot of progress, but we can't stop here. We need to be vigilant. We can't back down now that we are here. We've got to be ready to fight for health care reform, an end to these wars, real solutions to the economic crisis, and human rights. We can not afford to give Obama a free ride; it's not enough to just be better than the Republicans, we need to do what's best for this country.