This year, I have not made a formal Presidential endorsement for Politics Plus. To be honest, it slipped my mind, considering that figuring out whom I support does not require rocket science. Nevertheless, yesterday I decided that it is time to endorse Barack Obama and Joe Biden now. I’m especially pleased that I can do so in good company.
The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding women’s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans’ rights are cheapened by the right wing’s determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected group of us. Astonishingly, even the very right to vote is being challenged.That is the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear.
President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has tied himself to the ultraconservative forces that control the Republican Party and embraced their policies, including reckless budget cuts and 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney’s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda. Mr. Romney’s choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.
We have criticized individual policy choices that Mr. Obama has made over the last four years, and have been impatient with his unwillingness to throw himself into the political fight. But he has shaken off the hesitancy that cost him the first debate, and he approaches the election clearly ready for the partisan battles that would follow his victory.
We are confident he would challenge the Republicans in the “fiscal cliff” battle even if it meant calling their bluff, letting the Bush tax cuts expire and forcing them to confront the budget sequester they created. Electing Mr. Romney would eliminate any hope of deficit reduction that included increased revenues.
In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to overlook Mr. Obama’s many important achievements, including carrying out the economic stimulus, saving the auto industry, improving fuel efficiency standards, and making two very fine Supreme Court appointments… [emphasis added]
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This article goes on for over two pages listing the Obama’s accomplishments. I strongly urge you to click through, because this is must read material.
In addition to endorsing Obama and Biden, I’m going to do something I have never done before, and I hope to God I never have to do so again. I ask and urge every American voter to vote a straight Democratic ticket for all federal, state and local offices from dog catcher up. In the process, I admit I’m asking you to vote for some people, who do not deserve your vote by any stretch of the imagination. However, that that traitorous, scum sucking, good for nothing DINO, whom you would love so much to vote out, may just be the person whose election, will keep the Republican Party from winning the Senate, or a state legislature. The winning party determines what comes to the floor and controls the agendas for legislative committees. Under no circumstances should that power be subject to Republican abuse and corruption anywhere.
The only exceptions are races where a left-leaning independent has a better chance of beating the Republican than the Democratic candidate, such as Angus King in Maine.
Barack Obama for President!!!
Joe Biden for Vice President!!
Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!
18 Responses to “Re-Elect Barack Obama!”
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Thank you TomCat and I agree…. 🙂
Thanks Richard!
A most resounding "AMEN!" from this corner!
Amen backatcha, Nameless!
We get and deserve what we vote for.
I have learned to live as a political minority for decades.
My fears have come true, the Republicans have almost bankrupted America, continue to push their religious morals on a secular society, wage unnecessary war, and divide the American people.
We will be the first generation to leave an America worse off than it was left to us.
I won't be around to pay the consequences, and I have done what my one voice (more than voting) will allow.
Whether or not Romney wins (a distinct possibility) history will not be kind to the Republican party, their leadership over the last 40 years, and the mess they left America.
Being proven correct, is no substitute for a healthy, progressing society.
I'm thankful to my parents and the rest of the WW II generation who built a great society, which I have lived most of my life.
It has been sad to see it all crumble within my lifetime.
Steve, I agree, and I'm not prepared to let it go.
Obama is preferable to Romney but both men refuse to address the program of White genocide being carried out against the White race. Non-Whites from the "developing world" along with any national "minorities" are being force integrated and force assimilated with the White populations of the West. Every White country must accept forced diversity. This is not required of Japan, or Israel, or Kuwait, or any other non-White country. Only European or European derived countries have to take in millions of non-Whites and be force integrated and force assimilated with them. This will eventually lead to the end of the White race on earth. It's genocide.
Walter, you have a right to your opinion, but your opinion disgusts me. Please support the Republican Party. Your values are in keeping with theirs.
I did not read your comment yesterday otherwise I would have commented then.
You are entitled to your opinions, certainly, but I really wish you would keep them to yourself. There is no room in a civil society for any racism. Racism = anti human being! And claiming 'white genocide' is definitely racism. I say, thank goodness the Creator loves wondrous colour!
Barack Obama for President!!!
Joe Biden for Vice President!!
Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!
Amen Phyllis!
Maybe anti-racist really is just a codeword for anti-White.
Sir, you could not be more wrong. I am an anti-racist, but on more than one occasion, I have publicly challenged black friends for playing the race card. They knew they could not call me a racist, because I was a civil rights activist in the 1960s. Racism, from whatever quarter it comes, is pure evil, but where we are seeing it today is from Republicans toward Blacks and Latinos.
I did not read your comment yesterday otherwise I would have commented then.
You are entitled to your opinions, certainly, but I really wish you would keep them to yourself. There is no room in a civil society for any racism. Racism = anti human being! Funny that your name is catdog. I think that we could learn so much from animals about how to get along — a crow that fosters a kitten, a dog that fosters a group of kittens, a momma cat who fosters nursing squirrels, and the list goes on.
Joe Biden for Vice President!!
Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!
Wish it were that I could vote, but alas, as a Canuck and non resident it is not to be. You know I would vote straight Democrat and then hold their feet to the fire if need be.
Rightly or wrongly, the US refers to itself as the "leader of the free world". In that self proclaimed title, there is a responsibility to not only the American people, but to all the peoples of the world. I said over a year ago that I wanted to learn about US politics because, in my view, it affects more than just the US. One of the things that I have learned in watching US politics over this past year plus, is that I have a civic duty to understand the issues and ask questions, not just in my own country, but others too. I fear that in the US, there are too many that don't do what I do. Will that constitute the theft of personal freedom? I don't know. But what it will most assuredly do, is create a situation that puts personal freedom at risk.
It is, in my mind, ironic that the Republican/Teabaggers talk about taking personal responsibility for one's own life (Romney's 47% speech), but actually prefer welfare of the mind — we'll tell you what to believe so you can vote for us. And of course, the low-effort thinking, low-information thinking people will let the Republican/Teabagger hacks do just that. By the time that these people realise that they have been had, well . . . they may very well have sold their own personal freedoms for 30 pieces of silver!
Awwwww,,,,,, C'mon Lynn. Vote anyway!! 😉
PS to any Republican idiot that sees this…
I'm kidding!
After reading all of your excellent reasons for endorsing President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden for a second term, I feel as though I have to go along with you and give them my endorsement also.
I know no one here knew how I felt about the candidates in the upcoming election.
4 MORE YEARS!
Amen Patty!!