President Obama, you have spoken many times how much you admire Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, but I ask you this:

Now that you have your party in firm control of both houses in Congress, now that you hold the highest position among all of our citizens, after you promised that you would deliver a government option -- not a corporate co-op -- to us, what will you do? What would Lincoln have done? What would Roosevelt have done?

Ask yourself that, President Obama.

You have a chance to do the right thing for the American people, perhaps the only chance we'll have for a generation.

Show us that you are the leader that we have so hoped you would be.

Show us that you have the spine that we believed you had.

Show us that you, like Lincoln and Roosevelt, can buck up and push back and stand firmly for what you know is right, what you know American women, men and children need today, what you promised us that you would do when you became President.

Your own words, Mr. President: You told us that you would not sign a bill that did not have a government option. Will you hold to that, President Obama? Will you resist the corporate, so-called "co-op"? Can you veto a bill that doesn't include the government option? Can you tell your own party that you will veto such a bill?

As you walk through the residence where John and Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison lived, where John and Jackie Kennedy lived, where Franklin and Abraham lived, I hope you remember us, the American People who believed in you.

We are counting on you, President Obama. Show us the audacity of hope. And show us leadership. You'll never have this chance again. You are coming to a historic fork in the road. Take the high road.

Because that's the road that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt would take. Take the high road.