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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is your #1 reason that you'd like to see President Obama re-elected?
For me there are many, but my #1 reason is keeping our military out of Iraq, continuing the withdrawal from Afghanistan and improving Veterans' issues.
I need to see a continuation of programs that have been started to help Servicemembers and Veterans. Along with this reason is that our current team in the White House has a direct connection to someone who is in the military and who knows what it's like to be deployed. I think the Bidens helped give the Obamas insight on what our military is going through and were the beginning of all the changes we see now.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)mzmolly
(51,003 posts)2. Health care reform. I want to keep it.
3. Civil rights.
4. Budget priorities.
5. Regulation/standards for business/environment.
6. SCOTUS.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I might put SCOTUS a little bit higher up. I keep hoping Scalia will kick the bucket.
mzmolly
(51,003 posts)in that order.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)Romney, having no brain or empathy would fill the SCOTUS with wing nuts!
--imm
Loudly
(2,436 posts)It's like attack of the zombies, everywhere you look.
cyclezealot
(4,802 posts)Either being elevated to high office is a scary thought.
treestar
(82,383 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)The Republicans blew it big time. Most people can see they are just the obstruction party. They have no ideas except really bad ones. They got rid of the ones that could reach across the aisle. All the honorable ones have left the party. We need two parties. Not one party and the whatever that thing has become. I don't recognize them anymore. We have gone from disagreeing to one party just being mean and actively trying to make things unbearable ie dangerous for poor people and they want to grow poverty by eliminating the middle class.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)in the Senate and the House.
mick063
(2,424 posts)And we need intelligence in government now, more than ever.
Paladin
(28,268 posts)Quixote1818
(28,955 posts)vanlassie
(5,681 posts)SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)Poiuyt
(18,129 posts)The Court already swings to the right. If it gets any more conservative, it will affect our country for generations (and not in a good way).
nenagh
(1,925 posts)I simply trust Pres Obama to make the best decisions.. & not sell us out to corporations as Romney/Ryan would do.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)I honestly believe his proposals will work if given the chance.
And, of course, to continue nominating Supreme Court Justices.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)but yours will work just as well
imanamerican63
(13,807 posts)Dido!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, make the gop more grief!!!!!!
tawadi
(2,110 posts)standingtall
(2,786 posts)Which is why Obama must win this election.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)eom
spanone
(135,855 posts)SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)This could go on forever.
spanone
(135,855 posts)mojo2012
(290 posts)What damage President Bush did in 8 years can't be fixed in 4 years. We can't let all that's been invested for the last 4 years go down the drain to the right wing radicals and the ELITE who want to take us back to where we started (and worse).
I believe President Obama is on the right track. Sure we'd all like it to be better, but again, as bad as it was when President Obama took over and with the do-nothing Congress who took a vow to block everything President Obama tried to do to make things better, it will take at least another 4 years. Imagine where we would be right now if we had a Congress who was willing to work with President Obama. Instead they had a meeting (which included Paul Ryan) on the night of Obama's inauguration and made their promise to make sure President Obama failed - NO MATTER WHAT - those people do not deserve our loyalty or our vote
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)It's likely some of the older, conservative justices will either retire or kick the bucket, and we need Obama to replace them with more left-leaning justices. Of course, in order to do this, he will need a Senate that will work with him, so we need to make sure to give him a friendly Senate, too.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)and that it would make the teabaggers heads explode.
rrneck
(17,671 posts)If Romney gets elected we will have a fascist as the leader of a declining empire and commander and chief of the greatest war machine in history.
If we don't reelect Obama we are fucked, and the entire planet right along with us.
Romney is Bush on steroids. I don't want to go back to the Bush years, let alone an excessive version of it. The Dumbya administraton has about killed me. The teabagger Congress is preventing any sort of improvement to my situation. I will not survive a Romney presidency. I can't get a whole lot more fucked than I already am. If Obama gets another 4 years, I at least still have somee hope.
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)He would not have to worry about being reelected and will be able to get many of his progressive policies through, but the republicans are relentless, they do not care about America and its citizens, they care more about Obama's race as opposed to what is good for America.
What a pathetic bunch of people who claim they love America!
ballabosh
(330 posts)I don't remember Johnson, but I loved Carter and I loved Clinton and I respect Johnson in retrospect. I just had too much Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush(s). I want to move forward.
Firesidechat
(21 posts)I want them to feel the pain I felt when GW Bullshyt was reelected.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)what is in store this year!
I am hoping that Americans will wake up and realise that Romney could never ever be the effing President of the US. That ahole is business, America is a country plus he is so effing stupid and his side kick too!
marlakay
(11,480 posts)then . Healthcare the environment .saving SS & Medicare .
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)cyclezealot
(4,802 posts)Likely we vote our fears first. Biggest fear would be Mitt's surrounded by Neo Con warmongers. But, close runner ups are fear of another Scalia on the court & continuing Bush's economics.
elleng
(131,028 posts)Submariner
(12,506 posts)For the reasons above, but also to give him a 2nd term, which would prevent the teabilly republicans from trying to pass off the 1st black president as a fluke, or some momentary aberration in the country's history.
I bet if Obama lost, the Fox news talking point would be to dismiss his whole presidency as a failed period in the space-time continuum, or some such bullshit.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)I'd like to leave a world my kids can grow and thrive in. Republicans offer nothing but disdain and despair.
akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)I cannot believe that a group of Americans who call themselves republicans is against values which are normal for progressive people and they hate their own!
charmay
(525 posts)Health care
SS and Medicare
Supreme Court
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Freddie
(9,271 posts)To see it implemented in full. Once the true benefits start--subsidies and exchanges, no pre-existing conditions--people will like it and will fight to keep it. This is precisely what the Repugs are afraid of.
And personal reasons. My 22 year old son has some minor health issues and now I can keep him insured if he can't get a real job the minute he graduates college. My brother and his wife both have serious health issues and knowing they can stay insured if they no longer have employer coverage would be an incredible relief. My parents pay less for their prescriptions.
And to keep Paul Ryan from destroying Medicare.
Mz Pip
(27,452 posts)and sticking it to the baggers. I really don't want those crackpots running our government and I belive Mitwit would just be a rubber stamp for their policies.
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akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)Firesidechat
(21 posts)Wow, all I can say is that I hope you get up early and vote on Novermber the 7th.
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)and actually watch some of Obama's and Biden's speeches on C-Span or youtube (anywhere that you can find them unedited).
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Having a fun weekend, are ya?
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)It's "Red Dawn" all over again!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Or he's starting early for tomorrow.
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)Your grammar is atrocious.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)1991 called, they want their red-baiting back. I guess your thinking justice for the oppressed is racism is an added bonus. Lucky us, enjoy your stay.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Anything else is secondary to what this country looks like a generation from now.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)#2--Supremes.
YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...and would add that Obama's foreign policy is turning in the right direction, IMO, although very slowly.
unblock
(52,279 posts)akbacchus_BC
(5,704 posts)and the progress of all Americans. Too many people have fought, lost their lives to ensure civil rights can be maintained. Voting for the GOP would mean all those rights will get overruled and not to mention that women will become entitiies.
What would be pathetic is if Americans voted for that asswipe Romney!
Deep13
(39,154 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)Now before anyone tells me that I am not thinking clearly let me take you back in time, just a little under 12 years ago. We watched In horror as the SCOTUS chose George Bush as President Of the United States. Every one of you knew things were going to get bad for this country. Now how many of you in your worst nightmares could have predicted things would have gotten THAT BAD?
Yes, I confess that I really like President Obama. I have faith in him to do more wondrous things over the next four years. I am voting for him because I have HOPE.
That said, my number one reason to vote for him has little to do with HOPE, it was everything instead to do with FEAR! There is no way we can predict the depths of the harm a President Romney would cause to this planet.
nuff said
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)with getting more liberals on the Supreme court running a very close second.
rocktivity
Deep13
(39,154 posts)...all of whom are over 70 years old.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)that is the biggest Pro-obama point I have.
formercia
(18,479 posts)that way, they won't have to move and the Girls won't have to make new friends at school.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)I have two reasons. One, potential SCOTUS nominations and two, I want to see if he will take off the kid gloves and create a legacy that goes beyond, hopefully way beyond, being the first black President. He had to be reelected the first time. Now, we'll see what he's really made off. I may be highly disappointed. But it's worth throwing in my chit.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Umbrella response, yes, but true.
deaniac21
(6,747 posts)his amazing ability with foreign policy. We are becoming a partner with the world instead of being warlike.
cleduc
(653 posts)I go back to the Eisenhower years.
From that, I could give many of the reasons mentioned above.
Ishoutandscream2
(6,663 posts)And I'm in red hell, and I want to see a lot of wingnuts absolutely crushed. I know, I shouldn't feel this way. But if you put up with what I put up with...
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)TBF
(32,082 posts)I remain pro-choice and I want my daughter and nieces to be able to obtain and use birth control if they so desire. There are other reasons but that is #1 for me.
drlit
(41 posts)gulliver
(13,186 posts)A win for Obama is a win for honesty, rationality, and humanity.
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)--
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Not just one section or aspect or state, not just economically, foreign policy or social agenda.
ALL of America.
Well, all of it except the 1%.
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)A lot of us need those programs and will need those programs to maintain a minimum level of dignity in our lives.
The other answers on this thread are good--but if you can't eat, or have to live in the street, are you really even going to have time to give a damn about the rest??
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)IMO nothing is more important than assuring that RW nutbags are not elevated to the Court.
Initech
(100,092 posts)It means the Koch dipshit criminals win, it means Bain Capital wins. It means America would rather favor the scumbags criminals at the top rather than the workers.
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)So he can finish some of the things he started.
That being said, if he is elected and goes wimpy on us, you can kiss a Democratic President goodbye for the next eight years minimum.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Since I think a Romney win means Republicans win the Senate and keep the house, they will see it as a mandate to enact as much of Ryan and the right wings radical budget ideas. If you don't like the Tea Party now, wait until they are large, in charge, and enacting an austerity budget.
And don't think that Democrats will use the Filibuster like a hammer in the Senate. Republicans know what can be done with it, and I'd bet they will change the Senate to a majority rules version of the House.
Their foreign policy will suck, but it will be their domestic policy that will kill.
WooWooWoo
(454 posts)Really. Afghanistan was enough. I'm 9 months from getting out and I'd rather not be stop-lossed.
Change has come
(2,372 posts)1. Supreme Court.
1.01 president Rmoney.
girl gone mad
(20,634 posts)If Romney were to win, there's a good chance we would be stuck with him for 8 years.
4 more years of this neo-liberal clusterfuck is enough, tyvm.
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)And women's rights. But that's almost the same thing.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)The Supreme Court, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)jonthebru
(1,034 posts)Yours are very good reasons. I feel the possibility of a Supreme Court seat and the undoing of the Citizen's United decision, the two most current reasons to vote and for the President to get reelected.
catbyte
(34,415 posts)But my actual reason is the SC.
Diane
Anishinaabe in MI
Scuba
(53,475 posts)twins.fan
(310 posts)his administration's support for work visas like the H1B visa that is ruining the lives of US STEM workers all across America.
nopedontlikeitatall
(44 posts)Either Way Fascism Win!