Obama Tells Dems They Can Be ‘Own Worst Enemies’ And Asks For Health Care Unity – TPMDC (10/20/09)

“There are going to be some disagreements and details to work out … but I want to say to you Democrats, let’s make sure that we keep our eye on the prize,” Obama said during a Webcast for the thousands of Organizing for America volunteers who were gathered for call parties across the country.

“Sometimes Democrats can be their own worst enemies, Democrats are an opinionated bunch … y’all are thinking for yourselves,” he said. “I like that in you, but it’s time for us to make sure that we finish the job here. We are this close and we’ve got to be unified.”

Organizing for America is what Obama created after he dissolved the Democratic Party infrastructure that Howard Dean spent four years running uphill into the wind to create. Obama has used OFA in about the most ineffective manner I could have imagined. Now he’s giving speeches to his own followers and he’s essentially calling them “you people.”

I told you this douchebag wasn’t a Democrat. I told you for four years before the election. No one wanted to listen then, and no one wants to admit it now. There is going to be a terrible policy and political price to pay for all of this.