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Michael Moore Pens Open Letter to President Obama: ‘Drive the Rich Right Off Their Fiscal Cliff’

Nov. 19, 2012 6:50pm Erica Ritz

Michael Moore to President Obama: Drive the Rich Off the Fiscal Cliff

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Leftist filmmaker and activist Michael Moore wrote an open letter to President Obama Monday, asking the president to act differently on ten specific issues than he did during his first term.

“It’s not that you didn’t get anything done. You got A LOT done,” he began. “But there are some very huge issues that have been left unresolved and, dammit, we need you to get some fight in you. Wall Street and the uber-rich have been conducting a bloody class war for over 30 years and it’s about time they were stopped.”

Saying he knows it’s not in the president’s nature to be “confrontational,” Moore implored Obama not to move to the center, saying he’s “already there.” (Disregard the “voting is the best revenge” line, or how Obama told Latinos they would “punish” their “enemies” after the 2010 election).

“At your first post-election press conference last Wednesday you were on fire,” Moore gushed. “The way you went all ‘Taxi Driver’ on McCain and company (‘You talkin’ to me?’) was so brilliant and breathtaking I had to play it back a dozen times just to maintain the contact high. Jesus, that look – for a second I thought laser beams would be shooting out of your eyes! MORE OF THAT!! PLEASE!!”

Here is suggestion number one:

1. DRIVE THE RICH RIGHT OFF THEIR FISCAL CLIFF. The “fiscal cliff” is a ruse, an invention by the Right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks. On December 31, let ALL the tax cuts expire. Then, on January 1, put forth a bill that restores the tax cuts for 98% of the public. I dare the Republicans to vote against that! They can’t and they won’t. As for the spending cuts, the 2011 agreement states that, for every domestic program dollar the Republicans want to cut, a Pentagon dollar must also be cut. See, you are a genius! No way will the Right vote against the masters of war. And if by some chance they do, you can immediately put forth legislation to restore all the programs we, the majority, approve of. And for God’s sake, man – declare Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid untouchable. They’re not bankrupt or anywhere near it… [Emphasis added]

Other suggestions include ending the wars, declaring a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions, expanding Obamacare into a single-payer system, and freeing Bradley Manning.

Suggestion number ten recalls Obama’s call for a civilian “national security force” that’s “just as strong, just as powerful, [and] just as well-funded” as the U.S. Military:

10. ASK US TO DO SOMETHING. One thing is clear: none of the above is going to happen if you don’t immediately mobilize the 63,500,000 who voted for you (and the other 40 million who are for you but didn’t vote). You can’t go this alone. You need an army of everyday Americans who will fight alongside you to make this a more just and peaceful nation. In your 2008 campaign, you were a pioneer in using social media to win the election. Over 15 million of us gave you our cell numbers or email addresses so you could send us texts and emails telling us what needed to be done to win the election. Then, as soon as you won, it was as if you hit the delete button. We never heard from you again. (Until this past year when you kept texting us to send you $25. Inspiring.) Whoever your internet and social media people were should have been given their own office in the West Wing – and we should have heard from you. Constantly. Need a bill passed? Text us and we will mobilize! The Republicans are filibustering? We can stop them! They won’t approve your choice for Secretary of State? We’ll see about that! You say you were a community organizer. Please – start acting like one. [Emphasis added]

Moore then asks Obama to consider his legacy, and whether he wants to be known as the man who ended the “s***ting on the poor,” or if he wants to sing “Kumbaya” with Republicans.

“P.S. President Obama,” he candidly concludes, “My cell number to text me at is 810-522-8398 and my email is MMFlint@MichaelMoore.com. I await my first assignment!”

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South Philly Boy
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:13pm
Does that INCLUDE himself?

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:22pm
  No – notice the phrase “drive the rich off of THEIR fiscal cliff.’ In that connotation he clearly means that the rich and 1% who support Obama will clearly be left alone.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:55pm
  No, it doesn’t, Even the “occupy” people gave him a hard time when he showed to express his solidarity.
  
  Mr Moore is a fat fool with a talent for self promotion. His credibility is steadily waning as even his natural constituency begins to see him for who he truly is…
  
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- snooop1e
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:03pm
  Is it just me or is does it seem a little delusional for a rich person to tell the President to drive rich people off the fiscal cliff? Just saying, seems blatantly odd……
  
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- Freedom from liberals
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:07pm
  That should include both of himselves.. This fat POS should be the first to go, nobody will miss his work anyway.
  Go ahead and tax the rich to the point the risk exceeds the reward and have them pull all of their money out of the private sector and watch the economy implode. It may the only way to teach these loons a lesson.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:08pm
  Does this chubby turd realize that once all the money is gone from the wealthy, they will come for the wealthy “friends” of Obama, and once that is gone there will be no one else to steal from. We will be a third world country. Then again, that is what Obama wants, he will have his revenge.
  
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- Gold Coin & Economic News
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:14pm
  Attention ******* Michael Moore, did you forget you were filthy AND rich? What you gonna do when Obama crashes the economy Michael? Got enough Twinkies stored up?
  http://www.isthatbaloney.com/economic-collapse-2012-yes-obama-is-bankrupting-the-united-states/
  
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- booger71
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:20pm
  I dare Barry to include a special 50% tax on movie producers, actors, and directors that make movies that cost over 1 million to make.
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:24pm
  “As greedy as a pig” (Graphic description)…he doesn’t think his rich enough, therefore, he thinks that doesn’t include him!….
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:33pm
  I wanted to comment, but just one look at his picture says so much. What can you say about this guy that his picture doesn’t say so much better? What a joke he is. Does anyone really take anything he says seriously?
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:04pm
  Drive Michael Moore off the cliff first so the rich have a big, bloated, gas-bag at the bottom of the cliff to break their fall.
  
  Moore said he was one of the 99%, but when it was pointed out net worth of $50M puts him in the top 1%, he got all defensive. The truth hurts there, doesn’t it dumpling boy?
  
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- NOTMOHAMMED
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:53pm
  Fat Bastard shouldn’t even be getting air time here. He should be filled with helium, and doing weather research for NOAA.
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:59pm
  This clown needs a ball-peen hammer between the eyes.
  
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- Partygirl
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:01am
  Michael Moore is worth at least 50 million. Why doesn’t he give 75 percent like the wealthy in France now have to do. I wonder if he is willing to go off the Cliff? What a fool!
  
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- Small_Al
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 5:25am
  This is what washed up hasbeens do when they’ve been washed up. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com
  
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- HKS
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:39am
  Oh great, one looser to another.
  
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- CrabbyAzz
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 8:46am
  I wonder if we threw him off the fiscal cliff, if he’d bounce?
  
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- atechgeek
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:08pm
  He wouldn’t bounce .. he’d SPLAT. And I challenge you to pick him up in an effort to throw him off the cliff. If you can, you are a very strong man .. he must be 450 lbs. I think the better strategy would be to roll him off the cliff using physics to your favor and saving your back from injury.
  
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- twbranch
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 3:44pm
  He needs a diet…why don’t you throw yourself off the cliff Mike? Make this world a better place….please!!!!!
  
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ares338
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:07pm
It’s one thing to repeat what he says but do you have to put his picture up at dinner time I almost did a dinner dump…..urp.

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- rickc34
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:20pm
  I still think he is Chris Christie’s uglier twin.
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 10:48pm
  No, he is Jabba the Hut’s fatter twin Sister.
  
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txn4justice
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:06pm
Michael Moore’s self hatred strikes again! As he hyperbolically stabs himself in the neck.

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freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:06pm
http://mooreexposed.com/

“I walk among them. I live on the island of Manhattan, a three-mile-wide strip of land that is luxury home and corporate suite to America’s elite….. Those who run your life live in my neighborhood. I walk in the streets with them each day” (Michael Moore, Stupid White Men, p. 51). For vacations, he keeps another million-dollar beachfront house in Michigan.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:23pm
  Can we just dump Morre off into a valley filled with cannibal’s?
  
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- eek
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 2:11am
  Wait he actually walks?
  
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jmmjr49er
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:06pm
I agree with that Fiscal Cliff is a myth ask Little Dick Trumka, too.

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longknifed
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:06pm
There are more rich leftists than “right rich.” They tax the highest 5-10%, taking far more away from small business owners than BILLIONAIRE hedge funders, speculators an forecasters because 10% from 4 billion leaves a lot more than 10% from 300k

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ginger100
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:04pm
I’ll watch his movies, when they are free. On second thought, naaa

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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:03pm
You first lard @ss over you go and let the parasites feast on your worthless carcass.You stupid SOB YOU are the evil 1% who will be consumed when the SHTF so raise taxes in a recession and you’ll produce a depression. The system needs to be reset so I say go for it,let’s take the plunge and see who comes through on the other side.parasites or producers? I’ll bet on the producers even though a Marxist mulatto POS class warfare artist fraud president caused all of it.

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- truthnstuff
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:09pm
  So true. I hope his arzz is the first to be pulled from his tower and when the dependent class stops getting their stuff.
  
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- TROLLMONGER
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:12pm
  You need to be committed to a insane asylum with your anger issues towards our great president. The FBI is watching you.
  
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- booger71
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:22pm
  You need to be committed to a insane asylum with your anger issues towards our great president. The FBI is watching you.
  =========
  He was talking about lard ass
  
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- GBTVFan_Non_American_Overseas
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 8:41pm
  Trollmonger,
  
  Hahahahahaha this is so funny! How come you were betrayed by your own mind! You directly relate that description with your Dear Leader!!!…. Comrade, you exposed yourself!
  
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Skip63
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:02pm
Oh the hypocrisy.

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bikerdogred1
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:01pm
Why does the press have to write about everything this POS has to say,is he a somebody,he lives in a 5 million dollar house in the middle of no where and just bad mouths everyone.

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- OutOfTheAether
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:07pm
  wait… what??!! isn’t this guy supposed to be one of those RICH GUYS he’s talking about? hmmmm
  
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Thornyrose13
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:00pm
So the fat slob wants a dictator. Too bad for him that those who voted for Obama are a lot less likely to have either military training or their own weapons. That will make it a bit more difficult to “mobilize” people to intimidate those who oppose Obama using the legal and constitutional methods that are our right.
I would suggest we find some way to have Moore sent to North Korea. See how long they put up with his nonsense. Perhaps such an experience might penetrate that thick skull and monocellular brain.

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meisterman41
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:59pm
Ya Fattso, You’ll be the TOOL behind the wheel!

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Bluefish49
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:59pm
How many 15 minutes of fame are we going to give him….Michael…your a fat, old, rich white guy….do you think that in college dorm rooms all over the country there are girls with your poster on the wall…your sir are an idiot.

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Larry E
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:59pm
But leave the rich leftists like Fat Mike totally alone, don’t raise their taxes or do anything they wouldn’t like. Why anyone listens to this pseudo “anyman” totally escapes me, but the rocket scientists on the left seem to love him.

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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:08pm
  It just shows how going to college to get an “Education” ends up. He has a hard time paying his own bills and then sues others when his account gets close to zero…
  
  College financial courses need to be updated from the Keynesian roots they are teaching….
  
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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:58pm
Oh please, do exactly that. I’m serious, I want to see these stuffed suits screw up this country so bad that it makes President Bush look like Abraham Lincoln. The American people don’t listen to reason, so suffering must become their teacher. I’m content to sit back and remind them of their folly.

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oxycontinxx
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:57pm
michael moore…………should jump in front of a bullet.

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- txn4justice
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:09pm
  He is a suicide boy.
  
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Nerzhul
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:57pm
4 years of this, thanks Democrats, thanks.

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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:56pm
Why shoud he worry if that boat includes him? He already is privvy with the oligarchy. They wont let him crash.

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surf0766
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:56pm
Does he realize he is fat and rich?

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- Lord_Frostwind
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:00pm
  There you dealing with the facts again. Haven’t you learned, libs can ignore the truth even as it bites them in the rear.
  
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- kickagrandma
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:01pm
  My thoughts exactly! Are these people so blind they cannot see? Every liberal, leftist-leaning toad in Congress is HUGELY wealthy. What the hell are they thinking??? Have they bought into the lie they’ve been sold that it won’t happen to them???? Ohhhh, puleeze! they will be the first on the left to go.
  
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- OutOfTheAether
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:09pm
  Grandma,
  
  I was thinking the same thing. They didn’t all get an “Ignore I’m rich” card, did they? Makes ya wonder
  
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ResistSocialism
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:56pm
What? Michael out of money? Sorry piece of worthless excrement.

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TROLLMONGER
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:55pm
Good job Mr. Moore.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:05pm
  Your idiocy knows no bounds turdmuncher.
  
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- therealconservative
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:09pm
  Why don’t you ask Mr. Moore, why HE is not paying HIS fair share?
  
  MMFlint@MichaelMoore.com
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:11pm
  Trollmonger lives in one of Moores rolls, feeding of of dead skin and cheeto leftover’s. Slayer, your going to need a shower just for talking to it.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:23pm
  STELEX Aint that the truth,I’ve encountered some idiots on here but that jackass is brain dead,a grade A obamazombie through and through.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:26pm
  @Stelex,
  
  Just like that little creature that lives in Jaba the Hut’s rolls.
  
  Probably sounds the same also….
  
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- Stelex
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:29pm
  It may be Obama himself, or Moochelle
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:33pm
  I think Monger should be ignored. He just likes to annoy people. He must have some serious mental issues and far too much time on his hands.
  
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- Tractorboy
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 9:37pm
  Let us not forget how the good Mr. Moore shared the press box, with Jimmy carter at the 04 dem. convention, they’re just like Goebbels and Hitler in Nazi Germany, Goebbels made propaganda movies, Moore makes propaganda movies……Moore has found a evil use of history to ratchet our system towards national socialism……..his own words can only be read as a desire nothing less.
  
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uncivilized
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:55pm
Drive the rich over the fiscal cliff?
Sure thing.
You first, fat boy.

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 7:11pm
  LikE!
  
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spickard2101
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:54pm
Fool.

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MBA
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:54pm
Uh, what a freaking idiot. MM is one of the rich. hey, obamy go for it. Nothing would be more satisfying than seeing your rich liberal buddies becoming poor liberal buddies.

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DABIGRAGU
Posted on November 19, 2012 at 6:53pm
Open your checkbook, Jabba the Hutt

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