feh..
Posted on 10/21/2012 9:00:51 AM PDT by dennisw
Dear Friends:
The election is coming up on all of us and we all have strong feelings about it. I’ve been getting asked a lot about where I stand, so for those who are interested, here goes.
This presidential election is different than the last one because President Obama has a four year record to run on. Last time around, he carried with him a tremendous amount of hope and expectations. Unfortunately, due to the economic chaos the previous administration left him with, and the extraordinary intensity of the opposition, it turned into a really rough ride. But through grit, determination, and focus, the President has been able to do a great many things that many of us deeply support.
Domestically, that record includes working to increase and expand employment for all, protecting our all important social safety net, passing guaranteed health care for most of our citizens, with important new protections for all of the insured, rescuing the auto industry and so many of the American jobs that go with it, protecting and enhancing the rights of women, and bringing us closer to full acceptance of our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters.
In foreign affairs, that record includes following through on the removal of troops from the misguided and deceptive war in Iraq, and vigorously pursuing our real foreign enemies, especially the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Right now the opposition’s resort to voter suppression in so many states is not receiving as much attention as it deserves. I believe that all of us, of whatever views, should be opposing these anti-voter, anti-citizen efforts.
Right now, for the President to be effective in his next term he needs our increased support and he needs support in the Congress, where some sterling candidates, such as current Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, challenger Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, and so many others, are fighting to make their constructive voices heard.
Right now, there is an ever increasing division of wealth in this country, with the benefits going more and more to the 1 percent. For me, President Obama is our best choice to begin to reverse this harmful development.
Right now, there is a fight going on to help make this a fairer and more equitable nation. For me, President Obama is our best choice to get us and keep us moving in the right direction.
Right now, we need a President who has a vision that includes all of our citizens, not just some, whether they are our devastated poor, our pressured middle class, and yes, the wealthy too; whether they are male or female, black, white, brown, or yellow, straight or gay, civilian or military.
Right now, there is a choice going on in America, and I’m happy that we live in a country where we all participate in that process. For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together. We’re still living through very hard times but justice, equality and real freedom are not always a tide rushing in. They are more often a slow march, inch by inch, day after long day. I believe President Obama feels these days in his bones and has the strength to live them with us and to lead us to a country “…where no one crowds you and no one goes it alone.”
That’s why I plan to be in Ohio and Iowa supporting the re-election of President Obama to lead our country for the next four years.
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To your five points: GREAT STUFF!!!
Can you tell us true or false ---
That Ohio has 30 days of pre-voting and that outside the Bruce/Obama rallies there were voting machines. Or they were very nearby at a church school etc where people could get immediate transportation to
When the Democrat Congress replaced the Republican Congress in Jan. 2007, unemployment was at 4.5% and dropping, the deficit was at a 911 induced $165 billion and shrinking, and the DOW was at 14,000.
The GOP made an attempt to prevent the housing mess with a bill to establish an over site committee over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was the Democrats including then Senator Obama who blocked it. That's right, President Obama inherited the housing mess from Senator Obama.
And as for the US auto industry, it wasn't Bush's fault that Americans chose foreign makes over their own.
And speaking of leaving messes for the next administration, "Bill Clinton’s failure on terrorism".
But through grit, determination, and focus, the President has been able to do a great many things that many of us deeply support.
Like increasing our deficit 10 fold since Jan, 2007, and the policies it was spent on failed to keep unemployment below 7.8%? If the workforce participation rate was the same as it was in 2009 - in other words, if everyone wasn't so disgusted with not being able to find a job - unemployment would be at 10.7%.
In foreign affairs, that record includes following through on the removal of troops from the misguided and deceptive war in Iraq, and vigorously pursuing our real foreign enemies, especially the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
Which is a contradiction, since much of the intelligence that led to getting Bin Laden was found in Iraq.
However, I will give Obama credit for continuing Bush's policies, taking much flack from his own side in the process, and seeing it through until he got Bin Laden.
Right now the opposition’s resort to voter suppression in so many states is not receiving as much attention as it deserves.
That's because there is no such effort. What they're working for is the prevention of voter fraud, which as we know always favors the Dems.
Right now, there is an ever increasing division of wealth in this country, with the benefits going more and more to the 1 percent. For me, President Obama is our best choice to begin to reverse this harmful development.
So walk the walk, and redistribute your wealth.
Right now, there is a fight going on to help make this a fairer and more equitable nation.
True. At this rate, we'll all be broke before long.
Uh, that was all I could take.
feh..
What a well thought out piece of crap from a brain dead moron. Would anyone care to debate this idiot on the soundness of his superficial arguements? The Boss has always been a communist and a Russian sympathizer, probably Castro also.
a tax-dodging farmer in New Jersey.
Easy for you to say Bruce, as a limosine liberal you don’t have to experience the economic pain this administration has caused.
Ditto!
What really ticks me off is MLB using Springsteen for their post season ads etc.
Selig should have used a little thought on that one.
"You can sing, too, but please try to avoid whining."
His initials say it all...BS.
“...adopted the persona of the disaffected left wing working man. Bruce is now a phony looking for redemption not underneath a dirty hood, but in the socialism of a rich man.”
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Well put. A $200 million dollar entertainer taking on the persona of a blue collar working man. Its phoney to the max; a charade that he employs to promote an “common man” image for the sole purpose of collecting high ticket prices from a gullible and nostalgic audience.
“Right now, for the President to be effective in his next term he needs our increased support and he needs support in the Congress, where some sterling candidates, such as current Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, challenger Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts, and so many others, are fighting to make their constructive voices heard.”
He backs Lie-a-watha in Boston. The Boss is a loss.
He copied off of Bob Seger.
Except Bob isn't very political.
Bruce Springsteen is dead to me.
I never could quite figure out why he was so popular. The East Coast, Joursey' posturing, trading turns with the angst?
But Clarence Clemon's sax solo on Jungleland was a thing of beauty. Which leaves the best Springsteen ever did, was done by another. Hey Bruce, you didn't build that.
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