From: my.barackobama.com

One year ago, we made history by electing President Barack Obama the 44th President of the United States.  Today, we celebrate and remember the journey of getting where we are today -- on the brink of making health insurance reform a reality. All of our successes and milestones along the way are owed to the hard work that staff, volunteers, and individuals put in day-to-day, again and again. Throughout the day today, we want to highlight the stories of these people and showcase their hard work...and truth is, they're just getting started.

It’s hard to believe that it has been a year since the historic election of Barack Obama as our 44th President. This time last year, I was working as a regional field director on the campaign in Gainesville, Florida, alongside my amazing field staff, neighborhood teams and activists trying to turn out as many votes as we could to ensure that change would come to our country. 

Over the past year, we have seen exactly how important the election of 2008 truly was. The challenges that President Obama inherited were some of the most profound in our nation’s history. We stood on the brink of complete economic collapse, millions of American’s were losing their jobs and their homes and the road ahead looked more and more difficult by the day. Over the course of the last year, however, our President has stepped up to the challenge.  Right there, alongside the President, volunteers and activists alike have also stepped up to the plate.

When our President needed help and support to pass health insurance reform, volunteers just like yourselves came out and called Members of Congress and collected declarations of support. You organized health insurance reform kick-off events, bringing folks out to learn how they can become active, and turned their support into a nationwide day of action.

Today, we are at a milestone in the fight to make health insurance reform a reality. Because of that, we must not only keep up our efforts, but we have to increase our intensity to ensure that we can give the President’s legislative agenda the grassroots support it needs to pass.