{"id":9260,"date":"2012-10-28T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2012-10-28T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T17:57:22","slug":"re-elect-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/re-elect-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Elect Barack Obama!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019m especially pleased that I can do so in good company.<\/font><\/p>\n

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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\u2019s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans\u2019 rights are cheapened by the right wing\u2019s 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<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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<\/strong>. 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\u2019s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda. Mr. Romney\u2019s choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

We are confident he would challenge the Republicans in the \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d 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. <\/p>\n

In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to overlook Mr. Obama\u2019s 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<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This article goes on for over two pages listing the Obama\u2019s accomplishments.  I strongly urge you to click through, because this is must read material.<\/font><\/p>\n

In addition to endorsing Obama and Biden, I\u2019m 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\u2019m 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

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.<\/font><\/p>\n

Barack Obama for President!!!<\/font><\/h1>\n

Joe Biden for Vice President!!<\/font><\/h1>\n

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!<\/font><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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