Romney Changes Colours but the President Remains Black throughout the Campaign

It is shameful and even pitiful to see how Mr. Romney has changed his colours throughout the campaign. He is like a chameleon. He dances to whatever tune is playing and does so with impunity. Can you trust a President who does not know his own mind? I think not.
President Obama has been consistent. He stood his ground and told people what he believed in and why.
Unfortunately, Mr. Romney appears to want power and will do anything, say anything to get it.  It's all about him.
America you give President Obama four more years to solidify his gain otherwise you are going to be in deep  s...t.
VOTE OBAMA FOR FOUR MORE YEARS. HE IS A PRESIDENT YOU CAN TRUST FOR HE TAKES CARE OF THE WEAKEST LINK IN THE CHAIN WHICH IS WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE THE ECONOMY STRONGER.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/24/1149319/-Romney-s-record-in-Massachusetts



Wed Oct 24, 2012 at 06:42 AM PDT

Romney's record in Massachusetts

by ybrutiFollow
Romney claims that as governor of Massachusetts he was able to work well with a Democratic legislature. To refute this, I have written a short letter to the editor that might be useful for people writing their own letters. The information comes from a column submitted to the Denver Post by a resident of Massachusetts, Marsha Mirkin, whom I've quoted below the squiggle. I received her column as a viral email with the heading: He will say whatever is necessary to get elected.

My letter:

Romney poses as the successful former governor of Massachusetts, but he left office after one term with a 31% approval rating, having entered the office with a 61% approval after seeming to be a fiscal and social moderate. Contrary to his claim that he got along well with the Democratic legislature, he vetoed proposed legislation a record 800 times, and most of his vetoes were overriden, sometimes unanimously. For example, he vetoed a budget amendment to stop contracting with companies that outsourced state work to other countries. He vetoed emergency contraception. He vetoed a bill to fund stem cell research which as a candidate he had favoured. He vetoed bills that would have strengthened preschool education. From his record in Massachusetts, we can expect that as president, Romney would revert to the "severely conservative" he has called himself.

The viral email:

Here I am, a resident of Massachusetts listening to my former Governor speak convincingly and with seeming conviction at the Denver debate. I was startled by my déjà vu experience and by the assumptions held by my out-of-town friends about Mr. Romney’s governorship. So, as an editor and author of articles and texts about social and political contexts, I wanted to reach out to my distant neighbours in Colorado and share my understanding of Mr. Romney’s governorship and the implications for the Presidency. Massachusetts is known as a liberal state, but we often vote for Republican governors, and the three governors who immediately preceded Mr. Romney were Republicans. Mr. Romney was a one term governor who left office with a 31% approval rating, the 3rd lowest in the entire country. What does our experience in Massachusetts say to the country?

Mr. Romney claims to have experience reaching across the aisle. Maybe he did do some reaching, but not much of it went toward the Democrats. In his first two years of office, he vetoed legislation at more than twice the rate of Republican predecessor Governor Weld. Governor Romney had a record 800 vetoes (most of which were overturned, sometimes unanimously). One example is when the legislature provided a budget amendment to stop contracting with companies that outsource state work to other countries. Governor Romney vetoed the provision. This meant that he supported outsourcing jobs at the expense of U.S. workers. He also started a huge campaign to unseat Democratic legislators, but failed and ended up with even fewer Republican seats than before he took office.

Governor Romney correctly claims that Massachusetts rose to #1 in education — but it was based on former Governor Weld’s education reform plan. Governor Romney moved in the opposite direction--he vetoed bills that would have strengthened preschool education.

However, the issue is not so much how he voted, but that Mr. Romney won the governorship by presenting himself in one way, as a social and fiscal moderate (some saw him as a social progressive), and by the end of his single term, he had acted in an entirely different way. He said during his campaign that he favoured stem cell research and then vetoed a bill to fund it. He argued for a lower minimum wage than the state legislature ended up passing (over his veto). He vetoed a bill funding hate crimes prevention, and took back money approved by a former Republican governor for a bullying prevention program. He denied all requests for commutations and pardons, including one from a soldier serving in Iraq whose was convicted at age 13 for a BB gun incident. He vetoed emergency contraception. He raised many fees in my state — even quadrupling the gasoline delivery fees.

Governor Romney certainly approved some pieces of legislation that I did support but that does not change a major problem: Mr. Romney re-created himself and changed his positions during the first Presidential debate in your city because he must sound more moderate in order to win the independent vote. After that, all bets are off. We in Massachusetts know all about that. We elected a governor expecting him to be one thing and then he did something totally different and got on the national stage. He entered the governorship with a 61% approval rating and left with an abysmal 31% and with many of us scratching our heads and wondering whom we elected. The difference between then and now is that you have Mr. Romney’s speeches and positions from this past year and the contradictions during the debate. You can get nonpartisan information from factcheck.org. And, you now know what he was like in Massachusetts. So, I hope the country doesn’t have to go through what Massachusetts went through. Regardless of your political beliefs, this constant turning into something we didn’t vote for is no way to run a state, never mind a country.

Marsha Mirkin, Wellesley, MA

Professor of psychology

Lasell College in MA

Don't let Political Hype lead you astrary - Look at the facts Americans you are intelligent people!

Obama spending binge never happened


Rex NuttingCommentary: Government outlays rising at slowest pace since 1950s

May 22, 2012
Rex Nutting, MarketWatch


PrintWASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Of all the falsehoods told about President Barack Obama, the biggest whopper is the one about his reckless spending spree.

As would-be president Mitt Romney tells it: “I will lead us out of this debt and spending inferno.”
Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an “inferno” of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children’s future. Even Democrats seem to think it’s true.
But it didn’t happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.



Even hapless Herbert Hoover managed to increase spending more than Obama has.



Here are the facts, according to the official government statistics:



• In the 2009 fiscal year — the last of George W. Bush’s presidency — federal spending rose by 17.9% from $2.98 trillion to $3.52 trillion. Check the official numbers at the Office of Management and Budget.
• In fiscal 2010 — the first budget under Obama — spending fell 1.8% to $3.46 trillion.
• In fiscal 2011, spending rose 4.3% to $3.60 trillion.
• In fiscal 2012, spending is set to rise 0.7% to $3.63 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget that was agreed to last August.
• Finally in fiscal 2013 — the final budget of Obama’s term — spending is scheduled to fall 1.3% to $3.58 trillion. Read the CBO’s latest budget outlook.
Over Obama’s four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%.

There has been no huge increase in spending under the current president, despite what you hear.
Why do people think Obama has spent like a drunken sailor? It’s in part because of a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal budget.

What people forget (or never knew) is that the first year of every presidential term starts with a budget approved by the previous administration and Congress. The president only begins to shape the budget in his second year. It takes time to develop a budget and steer it through Congress — especially in these days of congressional gridlock.
The 2009 fiscal year, which Republicans count as part of Obama’s legacy, began four months before Obama moved into the White House. The major spending decisions in the 2009 fiscal year were made by George W. Bush and the previous Congress.
Like a relief pitcher who comes into the game with the bases loaded, Obama came in with a budget in place that called for spending to increase by hundreds of billions of dollars in response to the worst economic and financial calamity in generations.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-05-22/commentary/31802270_1_spending-federal-budget-drunken-sailor

Post Mortem on first Debate

Even though many people want to say Mitt Romney made a better impression because he looked fresher than President Obama, that alone should give President Obama the winning edge. Mitt is not carrying a precarious country on his shoulders, he has every right to be upbeat. He is travelling light. President Obama on the other hand, while criss-crossing the country, trying to explain to the American people what his plans are in crystal clear language, keeping Americans safe in the face of looming war, and  taking care of his own family at the same time, he is in the race for an election. How much can a man take and still be upbeat.
However, the President is youthful and athletic, there's nothing that a good night sleep would not cure.
In fact, I believe that the President won that debate. I believe he was deliberately low key, he did not want to put frills on something that is so important to poor people, old people and people with pre-existing conditions. He wanted to make sure that they heard what he said above the hype. I think I got a better understanding of how important Obamacare is for the middle-class and poor people, sick people. The rich don't care - they have enough money to order plastic surgeries for their dogs, to send their pets to pet hotels, what do they care, what do Mitt Romney care.

Even though Mitt Romney want to fool poor and middle class people he cares for them here his proposal for schools.  He said that people should be able to send their children to the better schools. If you live in a poor area and the school is bad, how could you afford to send your child outside his neighbourhood. Mitt just do not get it. He just does not understand the lives of ordinary people because he is fortunate to have money.  We do not need a president who only seeks to enrich the rich and hope that that money will trickle down to the poor. What does trickle down is just that - a trickle.

I am going to return to the debate again but for now, don't let Mitt Romney deceive you people, give Obama another year, you know what you are getting, you know where you are going. Change course now and America goes underground.

Give President Obama another term he deserves it, he has worked for him, he is an honest man.

Vote for President Obama - He is working hard for Americans

Romney is working for those on Wall Street, big business and rich folks, not like you and me.

Mitt Romney's Real Agenda

If you want to understand Romney's game plan, just look at what Republicans have been doing in Congress

by: Tim Dickinson



Mitt Romney

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It was tempting to dismiss Mitt Romney's hard-right turn during the GOP primaries as calculated pandering. In the general election – as one of his top advisers famously suggested – Romney would simply shake the old Etch A Sketch and recast himself as the centrist who governed Massachusetts. But with the selection of vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan, the shape-shifting Romney has locked into focus – cementing himself as the frontman for the far-right partisans responsible for Washington's gridlock.

There is no longer any ambiguity about the path that Romney would pursue as president, because it's the same trajectory charted by Ryan, the architect of the House GOP's reactionary agenda since the party's takeover in 2010. "Picking Ryan as vice president outlines the future of the next four or eight years of a Romney administration," GOP power broker Grover Norquist exulted in August. "Ryan has outlined a plan that has support in the Republican House and Senate. You have a real sense of where Romney's going." In fact, Norquist told party activists back in February, the true direction of the GOP is being mapped out by congressional hardliners. All the Republicans need to realize their vision, he said, is a president "with enough working digits to handle a pen."

The GOP legislation awaiting Romney's signature isn't simply a return to the era of George W. Bush. From abortion rights and gun laws to tax giveaways and energy policy, it's far worse. Measures that have already sailed through the Republican House would roll back clean-air protections, gut both Medicare and Medicaid, lavish trillions in tax cuts on billionaires while raising taxes on the poor, and slash everything from college aid to veteran benefits. In fact, the tenets of Ryan Republicanism are so extreme that they even offend the pioneers of trickle-down economics. "Ryan takes out the ax and goes after programs for the poor – which is the last thing you ought to cut," says David Stockman, who served as Ronald Reagan's budget director. "It's ideology run amok."

Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital

And Romney has now adopted every letter of the Ryan agenda. Take it from Ed Gillespie, senior adviser to the campaign: "If the Ryan budget had come to his desk as president," Gillespie said of Romney, "he would have signed it, of course."

A look at the bills that Republicans have passed since they took control of the House in 2010 offers a clear blueprint of the agenda that a Romney administration would be primed to establish:

FEWER JOBS

Republicans in Congress have repeatedly put ideology before creating jobs. For more than a year, they've refused to put President Obama's jobs bill up for a vote, even though projections show it would create nearly 2 million jobs without adding a penny to the deficit. The reason? The $447 billion bill would be entirely paid for through a surtax on millionaires.

In addition, the Republicans' signature initiative last year – the debt-ceiling standoff – was a jobs-killer, applying the brakes to the economic recovery. From February through April 2011, the economy had been adding 200,000 jobs a month. But during the uncertainty created by the congressional impasse, job creation was cut in half for every month the standoff continued. And according to the Economic Policy Institute, the immediate spending cuts required by the debt-ceiling compromise are likely to shrink the economy by $43 billion this year, killing nearly 323,000 jobs.

What Ryan markets as his "Path to Prosperity" would make things even worse: The draconian cuts in his latest budget, according to the EPI, would put an additional drag on the economy, destroying another 4.1 million jobs by 2014.

GOD, GUNS AND GAYS

The retrograde social agenda laid out in recent GOP legislation represents a full-scale assault on fundamental American rights. Last year, the House passed a bill that would broadly prohibit women from purchasing insurance plans that cover abortion. The so-called Protect Life Act would also allow hospitals to refuse a dying woman an abortion that would save her life. Ryan himself co-sponsored legislation that would have made it impossible for impoverished victims of rape and incest to receive abortions unless their assault met a narrow definition of "forcible rape." Under the bill's language, for instance, federal abortion coverage would be denied to a 12-year-old girl impregnated by a 40-year-old man, unless she could prove she fought back.

When they weren't trying to force women to birth babies for rapists, the GOP House was voting to make it easier for would-be criminals to carry concealed firearms. In the first major gun legislation passed after their colleague Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, the House sided with her attempted murderer, passing an NRA-backed measure that would have undercut state limits on concealed-carry permits. Under the legislation, authorities in a state that prohibits drunk people from carrying a hidden weapon, for instance, would be barred from arresting an armed inebriate if he had a permit from another state without such a restriction. The bill, said Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, would "make it easier for the Jared Loughners of the world to pack heat on our streets and in our communities."

The GOP's love of guns is rivalled only by its contempt for gay Americans – even those who take up arms in defense of their country. Unable to block the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Republicans in the House approved riders in the Defense appropriations bill to undermine the rights of gays in the armed forces. An amendment introduced by Rep. Todd Akin – Ryan's co-sponsor on "forcible rape" – sought to prohibit military facilities from being used to hold gay weddings, and to bar military chaplains from presiding over such ceremonies. Another House rider banned the military from offering medical, pension and death benefits to the spouses of gay soldiers.

DRILL AND POLLUTE

In thrall to dirty-energy interests, House Republicans have held more than 300 votes to hamstring the EPA, roll back environmental protections and open up sensitive public land to drilling – offering polluters a virtual license to kill. "This is, without doubt, the most anti-environmental Congress in history," said Rep. Henry Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy Committee.

Under the Republicans, the House has voted to ban the EPA from placing limits on climate-warming pollution, to reverse new fuel standards projected to slash dependence on foreign oil and save Americans $1.7 trillion at the pump, and to end standards signed into law by President Bush that would phase out wasteful, high-wattage incandescent light bulbs. Even more reckless, the House voted to block limits on deadly mercury emissions – a move that federal scientists calculate would result in 20,000 premature deaths – and drop safeguards on cement manufacturing that would kill another 12,500 Americans and lead to thousands of avoidable heart attacks.

The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney

In February, over the objections of the State Department, the House voted to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport toxic tar sands from Canada across the Midwest's largest and most vulnerable supply of drinking water. In that same vote, the House returned to the great dream of the Bush era, voting to permit the oil industry to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In an even more sweeping move, the House passed a bill to block all new major regulations until the nation's unemployment rate falls to six percent – a measure that would choke off not only new environmental safeguards, but also the new limits on Wall Street recklessness required under Dodd-Frank.

BASH IMMIGRANTS

In June, the house approved a raft of amendments blocking Obama's executive directives on immigration reform. The legislation would prevent the administration from prioritizing the deportation of violent criminals over law-abiding immigrants, and put Homeland Security back in the business of deporting the undocumented spouses of American citizens. The House even found a way to merge its dirty-energy agenda with its anti-immigrant stance, passing a "border bill" that bars enforcement of 16 key environmental laws – including the Endangered Species Act – on federal land within 100 miles of the Mexican border. The bill is a sop to the Minuteman crowd, who don't want to contend with environmental rules as they erect electrified fences to keep out immigrants. But the measure is so broadly written that it also applies to the Canadian border, opening up places like Glacier National Park in Montana to bulldozers. Rep. Denny Rehberg, a Republican from Montana, calls the bill "absolutely necessary" to secure his state from "drug dealers, human traffickers and terrorists."

In perhaps its most absurd gesture, the House GOP managed to weave together its hatred of immigrants and abortions, passing a rider that bans the government from providing abortions to immigrants in detention. The move is a brave solution in search of an actual problem: Federal agencies have never paid for such a procedure.

ENRICH BILLIONAIRES

House Republicans have voted three times to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts – a move that would blow a $3.8 trillion hole in the budget over the next decade. In fact, the Ryan budget – twice approved by the House – goes even further, doling out another $2.5 trillion to the wealthiest Americans by reducing the tax rate on top earners from 35 to just 25 percent, lowering the corporate rate to 25 percent, and ending the alternative minimum tax, a safeguard against tax cheats.

Romney, in fact, wants to give away even more to the rich than Republicans in the House by permanently eliminating the estate tax – a proposal that alarmsr veterans of the first Bush administration. "Given the vast amounts of wealth that have accumulated at the very, very, very top, it's an odd time to be eliminating this most progressive element of the tax system," says Michael Graetz, a former deputy assistant Treasury secretary under Bush. Over a decade, Romney's gift to the nation's most fortunate families would allow their heirs to pocket at least $1 trillion (including up to $50 million for Mitt's own heirs).

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

Those without family fortunes, meanwhile, would see their taxes soar. Independent tax groups have concluded that the only way to replace the tax revenue lost by the proposed Ryan and Romney tax cuts would be to end tax breaks – like the one for home-mortgage interest – that directly benefit the middle class. And the poor would get the shaft: The Ryan budget slashes the Child Tax Credit, meaning that a single mother of two earning the minimum wage would watch her annual tax bill rise by more than $1,500.

SLASH GOVERNMENT

Under the Ryan blueprint approved by the House and voted for by 40 GOP senators, government spending on everything that's not Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – NASA, highways, education, you name it – would be cut in half by 2022 and nearly in half again by 2050, until it stands at just 3.5 percent of the economy. As the Congressional Budget Service notes, such spending levels would be unprecedented in modern times: Since World War II, the government's discretionary spending has never fallen below eight percent of GDP.

If signed into law by President Romney, the Ryan budget would slash spending on college tuition grants by 42 percent next year and kick 1 million students out of the program. It would also gut funding for public schools, food and drug safety, basic science research, law enforcement and low-income housing. The cuts to food stamps alone would total $134 billion over the next decade. Ripping Ryan for trying to cloak his budget in Catholic doctrine, priests and faculty from Georgetown University wrote, "Your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the gospel of Jesus Christ." There is one place, however, where Republicans want to increase spending: Under the most recent Ryan budget, the Pentagon would receive an extra $29 billion a year, reversing Obama's modest efforts to slow the growth of defense spending. Where would the extra cash come from? In May, the House approved a Ryan bill to replace automatic cuts to the Pentagon under the debt-ceiling agreement with $261 billion in cuts to the federal safety net. The measure would deny food stamps to 1.8 million Americans, leave 280,000 kids without school lunches and cut off health care to 300,000 poor children.

DESTROY HEALTH CARE

Republicans in the House have voted more than 30 times to repeal Obamacare – a move that would deplete the Medicare trust fund eight years early, kick 6.6 million young adults off their parents' health insurance, cost seniors $700 more on average for prescription drugs, and make it legal once again for insurance companies to charge women more than men and to rescind policies when people get sick. At the same time, repealing Obamacare would provide a massive giveback to the rich, handing over nearly $400 billion in tax revenues to those who earn above $250,000 a year.

To further boost the profits of insurance companies, the House passed a Ryan plan to voucherize Medicare, subjecting seniors to the whims of the private market. In the first year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost to seniors would more than double, to $12,500 – and taxpayers would not save a dime, as private insurers pocketed the money. By 2050, as inflation took its toll, buying a policy as good as present-day Medicare would cost an 85-year-old more than $50,000. The Ryan plan would also eviscerate Medicaid by turning federal contributions to the program into lump-sum "block grants" that states can administer as they see fit. The trouble is that the grants, like Medicare vouchers, won't keep pace with soaring health care costs. In the first decade alone, the plan would bilk states out of $810 billion and deny health care to 30 million poor children, disabled Americans and seniors.

The last time a Republican presidential candidate touted an agenda to cut spending, lower taxes, boost defense and balance the budget was Ronald Reagan in 1980. Like Romney and Ryan, Reagan didn't have an actual plan for his spending cuts – they were an accounting fantasy, openly joked about as the "magic asterisk." In the end, as promised, Reagan's tax cuts went through, and the Pentagon's budget soared. But the spending cuts never materialized – so Reagan wound up tripling the debt.

If it didn't work for Reagan, says his former budget director, it would be foolish to assume Romney and Ryan can do better. "The Republican record on spending control is so abysmally bad," Stockman says, "that at this point they don't have a leg to stand on." Indeed, the last GOP administration turned $5 trillion in projected surplus into $5 trillion of new debt.

No one doubts Ryan's determination to slash the social safety net: Of the $5.3 trillion in cuts he has proposed, nearly two-thirds come from programs for the poor. But when it comes time to eviscerate the rest of the federal budget, Stockman says – funding for things like drug enforcement and public schools – Congress will "never cut those programs that deeply." In short, the rich will get their tax cuts. The poor will be left destitute. But America will be driven even deeper into debt.

That, at heart, is the twisted beauty of the plan being championed by Ryan and Romney: The higher Republicans manage to drive up the debt, the more ammunition they have in their fight to slash federal spending for the needy. And the more time they waste trumpeting their "fiscal discipline," the more the nation's infrastructure will continue to crumble around them. Squandering two full workweeks of the congressional calendar on votes to repeal Obamacare has cost taxpayers $48 million. That's nearly the same amount of money now needed to repair cracks in the Capitol itself – spending the House GOP has refused to authorize, out of anti-governmental spite. "If the House wants the dome to fall in," said Senate Appropriations chair Ben Nelson, "I hope it falls on their side." If the Republicans experience a crushing blow as a result of their hard-right agenda, of course, it won't be caused by the laws of physics – it will be delivered by the voters on Election Day.

A principled Obama stands his ground

If America wants a leader whose sole interest in making America work for all and not just the rich, then they will vote for America by voting for Obama. If they want a system where the rich continue getting obscenely rich and the poor eating the scraps off their table, then they will vote for the alternative.
   Remember the deep hole that the last Administration left America, do not be amnesiac now. President Obama is not Jesus Christ or Muhammad, he is a man who has done the impossible of dragging half dead America back to life. Give him credit for that and see him through the other term where he can really build upon his success. If you do not America will fall again and this time it will be beyond repair. America will have to take a back seat to China, India or Venezuela.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153880/obamas_state_of_the_union_plays_to_his_base__but_not_everything_was_worth_cheering

Send Barack Obama back to the White House Again

President Obama the right Leader in the New World Order

Given a fair chance of putting his vision to work, Americans would have been a shining example of a quick comeback but divisive politics got in the way. The kind of politics that say I would rather we all go down instead of one man, especially a black man, make us look like idiots. So the Republicans have dogged President Obama‘s inspired vision for a new America at every turn. They have used the same scare tactics that got American into a war that no one wanted, to keep Americans jittery and second-guessing the man they put in office with the highest majority ever across the board. In their desperation at the devastation that was wrought upon them by the previous administration, ordinary Americans scramble helter skelter to save what’s left of their homes, their livelihoods and their lifestyles that the Bush Administration and Wall Street greed took away from them. It is time for sober thinking and look at the facts.

America has a president who can deliver, he is smart, he is young and he has the genes of both Black and White Americans. In spite of what he says about being black, President Obama is not a black man, is not a white man, he is a new kind of man that America will have to embrace now and in the future. That new kind of man comes from a variety of backgrounds, and understands multicultural thinking, bicultural thinking and how to use that to create synergy – something that either a Black or White person might find more challenging. He is the man to make America great. He looks at policies and principles, philosophy and theories combined with practical know-how, gut feelings instead of people and their race or culture. He understands poverty, discrimination, exclusion and he understands privilege and wealth as well. He has the best interest of Americans with little thought of what’s in it for me. He knows he has to prove he is enough, that he is worthy of the vote and that he is looked at with more scrutiny than any previous President, why would he want to screw up? Think about it. Whatever he is trying to do is what he believes to be in the best interest of the American people. He would not want to incite a war in the hope that his company would benefit and he would become richer than ever. He does not have big business ideas for himself; he is an academic at heart. He does not stand to gain from the spoils and exploits of war; there is no conflict of interest there. Think people. This brings me to the question, why with such a strong war ethics and promoter of war against terrorists the previous government was not able to snag any, not one of the big players. Why since President Obama took office we’ve had some of the biggest gains in terrorist hunting and President Obama is not a war monger. Do you see where this is going?

Americans, I urge to pull your head out of the sand and take a look at President Obama and see the truth behind his policies. He is trying to level the playing field. Those who have do not want the playing field levelled. If the field is levelled, then what will be the advantage of the rich or to the rich? Who will they trample upon? The rich Americans have no interest in the poor but to keep them in their place as second class citizens. The poor and middle class Americans have something in common, they have to pool their resources (their votes) against the rich and powerful and show them that we in America can also have our American Spring at the next election. I urge you to send President Obama back to the White House to finish what he has started. He is the man to do it. This is not the time for sitting on the fence. It is the time for decisive action.

America has been blessed with a winning President, chosen to deliver Americans from the bondage of the rich and powerful. Give him that chance or lose it forever. Do not be fooled by those who are just trying to use you to feather their nests even more comfortable. STOP, THINK, ACT.

These are some of the good things President Obama said he would do and what he has accomplished since taking office – there is more to come, stick with him and his plan:

1. New START. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) that is purposed to reduce the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers by half and to establish a new inspection and verification regime. The treaty was recently ratified by Congress after being signed earlier this year by President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.


2. DADT Appeal. President Obama recently signed the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ (DADT) Repeal Bill into law, which will allow gays to serve openly in America’s military. For the first time in history, gays no longer have to hide their sexual orientation or face dismissal. According to objective statistics, more than 13,000 military personnel were released under the DADT since 1993.

3. Tax Cuts. President Obama recently signed an enormous tax cut bill that will extend the Bush era tax cuts for families at all income levels through 2012. The bill also consisted of a new payroll tax cut for wage earners, numerous tax breaks for businesses and extended jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed.

4. Fair Sentencing Act. Earlier this year, President Obama signed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 to reduce racial inequity that has historically existed relative to the sentencing of people caught with crack cocaine versus powder cocaine. To be charged with a felony, crack users needed to possess only 5 grams of the drug to be sentenced with the same charge that powder cocaine users needed to be caught with (500 grams). Now, to be charged, crack users need to possess 28 grams of crack cocaine to 500 grams of powder cocaine.

5. Childhood Obesity Act. President Obama recently signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was primarily spearheaded by First Lady Michelle Obama. This bill is purposed to subsidize free meals in low-income areas, to ensure that children receive well-balanced and nutritious school meals, to provide free or reduced-price meals to nearly 31 million low-income children and to ultimately reduce childhood obesity.

6. Health Care Reform. Although controversial in nature, President Obama’s historic signing of the health care reform bill (i.e., The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) will result in health care coverage for over 30 million additional Americans, as well as lowered costs for most Americans. Additionally, the health care reform bill will preclude insurance companies from placing lifetime limits on benefits and from denying coverage to individuals and family members with pre-existing health conditions.

7. Improper Payments. President Obama signed the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act, which is purposed to prevent such payments sent by the government to the wrong person or for the wrong reasons or in the wrong amounts. President Obama also established a goal for his administration to reduce improper payments by $50 billion by 2012.

8. Iraq. One of the primary messages of his presidential campaign was the withdrawal of combat troops out of Iraq. President Obama and his National Defense personnel were able to implement this promise, as more than 90,000 combat troops were withdrawn out of Iraq by August 31, 2010.

9. Wall Street Reform. President Obama signed the historic Wall Street Reform Bill, which was established to put an end to taxpayer-funded bailouts, create a new watchdog agency within the Federal Reserve to protect consumers in financial transactions, give the government more power to break up failing companies and create greater congressional oversight over the central bank.

10. HIRE Act. President Obama signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which included $17.5 billion in tax cuts, business credits and subsidies for state and local construction bonds, and moved $20 billion into the highway trust fund for spending on highway and transit programs. The bill also exempts businesses that hire unemployed workers from paying the payroll security tax through December of 2010.

11. HBCU Funding. President Obama signed the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which will include a $98 million funding increase for HBCUs. This Executive Order will also provide funding for the repair, renovation, and construction or acquisition of educational facilities, instructional equipment, research instrumentation, and physical infrastructure.

12. Appointment of Justice Elena Kagen. In addition to appointing Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court in 2009, President Obama similarly appointed former Solicitor General Elena Kagen in 2010.

Return President Obama to the White House - Vote Dermocrats

As Americans, we want peace.. we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. - George Bush

How many young vibrant American lives were lost? This is the double speak of many politicians.

I am urging Americans not to forget the pre-Obama debauchery? Be thankful that President Obama and the Democrats have gotten Americans working again and to a level of economic stability.

The President did not promise to fix America in one term. The hole left by the previous administration has been huge. No American worth their salt can deny that. Yet they expect President Obama to fix America and get everyone back to their big spending, over the top lifestyle.

It’s a new day people. Wake up from your sloth and look around you. The whole world is teetering on a brink of disaster precipitated by the Bush Administration. Things have to change and President Obama is slowly but surely making his mark in the world for Americans. You should be proud of your President – an honest, up front guy with no hidden agenda. His agenda unfortunately is to prove himself as the first Black President and I personally believe he is working way too hard but for him the stakes are high. He has to battle an ailing, damaged economy, fight off racism and the Republican Party who will rather see America fall than a Black man appearing to be victorious.

Obama like the hero brought America Bin Laden whom no one could find for the longest while but like a good hunter he brought home the bacon for Americans to feast upon but yet they’re not satisfied. They want Obama to restore a broken country to its previous form. It takes time and it is time Americans do not have patience with. They have been fed instant pap and trash for so long that they foolishly think that Obama can indeed wave a fairy’s magic wand and bring them cash, jobs, big houses, big cars to flaunt. It is clear many Americans have not learned the lesson in their downfall. To build a good house takes time. There are no shortcuts.

I urge you if you want to have a better life and a better America to return President Obama to the White House and let him do his work. Be patient, see him with your heart the part of you that belongs to God for America projects itself as a God fearing nature. Connect to God and let go of the hatred you have been taught and see president Obama as an instrument of God doing the work he was called to do and America will rise again.

Vote for the Democrats and President Obama. Remember it is the Republicans who led you down the garden path.

                                                                 (How Sweet)