Here's an interesting piece that just appeared in Politico entitled, "President Obama's troops break ranks on health care." It begins with a report on how Organizing for America got a lukewarm response to a recent appeal for its supporters to call their Senators and ask them to support the health care and then goes on to include quotes from several of the disaffected members on the list: 

The foot soldiers of Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, organized to go into action when key elements of his agenda are at stake, aren’t universally enthusiastic about fighting for the health care compromise now before the Senate.

On Wednesday morning, Organizing for America, as Obama’s reconstituted campaign organization is now known, emailed its list of 13 million Obama supporters asking them to “call your senators now and help us ‘ring in reform.’”

The campaign yielded 150,000 calls – less than half the number of a similar effort in October – and it prompted a backlash among online and local activists who had logged countless volunteer supporting Obama’s campaign and legislative agenda, but who felt betrayed by recent Democratic concessions in the healthcare reform fight.

The article concludes with these anecdotes:

That’s what Susan Smith, an OFA activist from Tampa, did. She also fired off an email urging members of the Florida Progressives listserv to “say NO if (OFA staffers) ask you to participate” in the phone banking.

“If this bill passes, it will be because Joe Lieberman threw a hissy fit and was allowed to control what went into the bill,” she wrote. “That means that in the end, he had more power with President Obama and Senator Reid than we do. If he is rewarded, this tactic will be used over and over again to kill the progressive agenda.” She also urged members not to donate to the DNC or the Party’s congressional campaign committees.

In an interview, Smith said her listserv message prompted an outpouring of similar sentiments.

“People are frustrated because we have done our part,” she said. “We put these people in the position to make change and they’re not doing it.”

That kind of disappointment has already diminished the power of OFA, asserted Adam Green, a former official with the liberal online juggernaut MoveOn.org, who now helps run the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which supports the public option.

In September, the group collected signatures from more than 100,000 former Obama campaign staffers, volunteers and donors on a letter urging him to support the public option.

“We heard story after story from current Organizing for America volunteers about how they were getting disillusioned with Obama because he wasn’t fighting for the public option,” Green said. “Obama’s email list may soon become a hollow shell if he does not fight Joe Lieberman and insist that there be a public option.”

I know we have a lot of Obama supporters who worked and volunteered for the campaign. What say you?