Obama: I Will Consider It An Insult To My Legacy If You Do Not Vote; Want to Give Me A Good Send Off? Go Vote

http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/obama-urges-black-voters-to-vote-for-clinton-768958531893

Let’s take a look at Obama’s legacy… and its effect on the chronic pain community

The war on drugs took a turn toward a war on prescribers/pts

Hydrocodone products were rescheduled to C-II

Naloxone is now pretty much now a OTC drug and the “catch & release” prgm has been started.

Kratom products were rescheduled to C-I

The CDC published their opiate dosing guidelines

The Surgeon General sent a letter to every prescriber to lower opiate dosing to pts – first time a Surgeon General has done this.

Obama declared the week of Sept 18,2016 as Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week

AG Loretta Lynch is sending a letter to EVERY GOVERNOR to “get on board” with fighting the opiate epidemic

So… if your pain management is as good or better than it was 8 yrs ago… voting for the person that Obama is endorsing… will probably work out for you…  otherwise… you may wish to vote for one of the three alternatives running for President…. or you can just stay home and NOT VOTE … and take your chances… it would appear obvious that the Obama administration does not feel/share your pain… and is probably just considering you another person suffering from a “opiate use disorder”…formerly known as a junkie/addict.

 

President Obama made a strong sell for a candidate to succeed his legacy at the Congressional Black Caucus dinner Saturday night. The president invoked slavery and the Jim Crow era and preached that if they wanted to give him a good send off then register people to vote because his legacy is at stake.

Although he did not name Hillary Clinton, the president said he would consider it a personal insult from the African-American community if they did not for her.

“My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot,” President Obama said Saturday night. “And there is one candidate who will advance those things. And there is another candidate who’s defining principal, the central theme of his candidacy is opposition to all that we have done.”

“There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter,” Obama said. “It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down it’s guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good send off? Go vote!”

Remarks:

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Our work’s not done. But if we are going to advance the cause of justice, and equality, and prosperity, and freedom, then we also have to acknowledge that even if we eliminated every restriction on voters, we would still have one of the lowest voting rates among free peoples. That’s not good, that is on us.

And I am reminded of all those folks who had to count bubbles in a bar of soap, beaten trying to register voters in Mississippi. Risked everything so that they could pull that lever. So, if I hear anybody saying their vote does not matter, that it doesn’t matter who we elect, read up on your history. It matters. We’ve got to get people to vote.

In fact, if you want to give Michelle and me a good sendoff, and that was a beautiful video, but don’t just watch us walk off into the sunset now, get people registered to vote. If you care about our legacy, realize everything we stand for is at stake, on the progress we have made is at stake in this election.

My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot. Tolerance is on the ballot. Democracy is on the ballot. Justice is on the ballot. Good schools are on the ballot. Ending mass incarceration, that’s on the ballot right now.

And there is one candidate who will advance those things. And there is another candidate who’s defining principal, the central theme of his candidacy is opposition to all that we have done.

There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter. It all matters. And after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2012, especially in the African-American community, I will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy, if this community lets down it’s guard and fails to activate itself in this election. You want to give me a good send off? Go vote! And iI’m going to be working as hard as I can these next seven weeks to make sure folks do.

Hope is on the ballot. And fear is on the ballot too. Hope is on the ballot and fear is on the ballot too.

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