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SaveAmerica

(5,342 posts)
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 07:52 PM Sep 2012

What 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.

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What is your #1 reason that you'd like to see President Obama re-elected? (Original Post) SaveAmerica Sep 2012 OP
Incremental never-ending change and progress, progress, progress. (nt) NYC_SKP Sep 2012 #1
1. Foreign policy. mzmolly Sep 2012 #2
I like your list davidpdx Sep 2012 #106
Me too. I should have said, not necessarily mzmolly Sep 2012 #110
#1 for me is NO BORKS. immoderate Sep 2012 #3
Me too. But a wingnut Senate is going to make it tough for Barack, so need that secured too. Loudly Sep 2012 #7
Robert Bork vs John Bolton cyclezealot Sep 2012 #35
Amen. It's essential, in fact treestar Sep 2012 #96
To Witness The End Of The "Modern" Republican Party As We Know It... WillyT Sep 2012 #4
What you said.. Kalidurga Sep 2012 #9
And What You Said... WillyT Sep 2012 #14
Yes please! I want millions of Republican voters to defect. Vote in 75% Democrats Overseas Sep 2012 #105
He is intelligent. mick063 Sep 2012 #5
Supreme Court Appointments. (nt) Paladin Sep 2012 #6
DITTO Skittles Sep 2012 #27
Yep! nt Quixote1818 Sep 2012 #37
YEP AGAIN. vanlassie Sep 2012 #45
+1 NMDemDist2 Sep 2012 #78
My husband's: To give the economy a chance to continue improving SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #8
To keep the Rethugs out they don't deserve to hold office. nt Raine Sep 2012 #10
Definitely Supreme Court Poiuyt Sep 2012 #11
Trust.. nenagh Sep 2012 #12
To continue what he has started. Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #13
I was trying to figure out how to word mine, kentauros Sep 2012 #15
That's my thinking!!! imanamerican63 Sep 2012 #18
In three words: The Supreme Court tawadi Sep 2012 #16
The Supreme Court standingtall Sep 2012 #17
the supreme court, i have many other reasons but you asked for the number one. arely staircase Sep 2012 #19
mittromneypaulryankarlrovejohnboltondansenormichellebachmanntoddakinantoninscalia....... spanone Sep 2012 #20
Ha Ha! That's one big pile of it there!! SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #74
I would add ericcantorjohnboehnermitchmcconnellnewtgingrich .... Tennessee Gal Sep 2012 #81
the shit stream of republicons is looooooooooooong spanone Sep 2012 #94
Finishing what was started mojo2012 Sep 2012 #21
the Supreme Court. Terra Alta Sep 2012 #22
pretty much what everone else said warrior1 Sep 2012 #23
We'll have a chance. rrneck Sep 2012 #24
Yep. GoCubsGo Sep 2012 #61
Just so that he can continue to make changes inspite of the blocks from the GOP, akbacchus_BC Sep 2012 #25
He's only the 4th Democratic president in my lifetime. ballabosh Sep 2012 #26
Seeing Republicans lose is a gleeful thought Firesidechat Sep 2012 #47
To keep Romney and Ryan out of the White House. n/t Cleita Sep 2012 #28
True but when you remember that the supreme court appointed a president it makes you wonder akbacchus_BC Sep 2012 #36
#1 Supreme court marlakay Sep 2012 #29
Supreme Court. nt ZombieHorde Sep 2012 #30
+1000000000000 It's all about the SC. Period. End of Discussion. Lochloosa Sep 2012 #72
Number 1 is difficult to determine. cyclezealot Sep 2012 #31
The other alternative, naturally. elleng Sep 2012 #32
Obama's re-election will legitimize the presidency of the first black president Submariner Sep 2012 #33
I'm a working mother who cares about the environment abelenkpe Sep 2012 #34
And to top it off, the repugs do not care about preserving the environment! akbacchus_BC Sep 2012 #41
Top three: charmay Sep 2012 #38
So an adult is in charge. n/t Lil Missy Sep 2012 #39
Supreme Court kestrel91316 Sep 2012 #40
The Affordable Care Act Freddie Sep 2012 #42
SCOTUS Mz Pip Sep 2012 #43
This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Sep 2012 #44
Post removed Post removed Sep 2012 #46
Enjoy stay on here! Free Republic is that ways! akbacchus_BC Sep 2012 #48
Vote Nov 7th Firesidechat Sep 2012 #50
My advice: turn off Fox News, log off Free Republic CJCRANE Sep 2012 #51
Ah, yes, the Soviets! jberryhill Sep 2012 #54
Good catch! CJCRANE Sep 2012 #55
I think he just woke up from last night's bender jberryhill Sep 2012 #60
Dude, Ed, you need to go back to school EvolveOrConvolve Sep 2012 #56
The Soviets?? Wow, Obama is a time lord! Starry Messenger Sep 2012 #59
The Supreme Court jberryhill Sep 2012 #49
#1--Because WI was Beta testing for the Repub. agenda on Labor. Starry Messenger Sep 2012 #52
I agree with these two reasons... YvonneCa Sep 2012 #103
because i'm not a complete fucking idiot. unblock Sep 2012 #53
Agree, voting for the mittens would be voting against your own interest akbacchus_BC Sep 2012 #62
Come to think of it, that's my reason too. nt Deep13 Sep 2012 #66
It will mean Romney never becomes POTUS. chknltl Sep 2012 #57
SCOTUS n/t tammywammy Sep 2012 #58
Because he's our only chance of ending the Bush era tax cuts rocktivity Sep 2012 #63
I have four reasons: Ginsberg, Breyer, Scalia, and Kennedy... Deep13 Sep 2012 #64
To keep a Democrat in the White House. n/t RebelOne Sep 2012 #65
He created the program which employs my brother. GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #67
Which program? (if you don't mind me asking) That's awesome! SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #73
HARP program GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #75
That one helped us too, in a very big way! SaveAmerica Sep 2012 #76
Glad to hear it. :^) I know it seems like the ultimate single issue voting scenario, but really GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #80
So Michelle Obama can run for President in 2016 formercia Sep 2012 #68
I was going to say RMoney but that would be flippent. tavalon Sep 2012 #69
To stop America's slide into Theocratic Fascism. xfundy Sep 2012 #70
His great work on the economy and deaniac21 Sep 2012 #71
He's the best president I've ever experienced. cleduc Sep 2012 #77
Supreme Court, uphold Obamacare Ishoutandscream2 Sep 2012 #79
to piss off Repugs MotherPetrie Sep 2012 #82
Women's issues - TBF Sep 2012 #83
SCOTUS, Women's Issues, Marriage Equality, Education... to name a few ... n/t drlit Sep 2012 #84
To see the good guys win gulliver Sep 2012 #85
health care lovemydog Sep 2012 #86
Another Republican administration will destroy America. HughBeaumont Sep 2012 #87
To Preserve Social Security and Medicare tokenlib Sep 2012 #88
Supreme Court nominees Bertha Venation Sep 2012 #89
If Mitt Romney wins, the vulture capitalists win. And that would suck. Initech Sep 2012 #90
So the two repug dipshits don't get in. Arctic Dave Sep 2012 #91
To keep Republicans from sucking what we have as a safety net to the ninth level of hell... Agnosticsherbet Sep 2012 #92
I really don't want to go to Iran WooWooWoo Sep 2012 #93
That's a tough question. Change has come Sep 2012 #95
He can't be re-elected after his second term, so we'll get someone new in 4 years. girl gone mad Sep 2012 #97
Supreme Court. Zoeisright Sep 2012 #98
I have three main reasons. Blue_In_AK Sep 2012 #99
I despise republicans, and everything RW. nt Zorra Sep 2012 #100
So the Republicans don't get the White House. Next: Supreme Court. nt Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #101
Two actually. jonthebru Sep 2012 #102
My gut says so we can give those teabilly fuckheads 4 more years of hell catbyte Sep 2012 #104
SCOTUS Scuba Sep 2012 #107
The best reason is because of the next Supreme Court nomination, the worst is ... twins.fan Sep 2012 #108
Because I want Fascism Lite Instead of Full Blown Fascism! nopedontlikeitatall Sep 2012 #109

mzmolly

(51,003 posts)
2. 1. Foreign policy.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 07:56 PM
Sep 2012

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)
106. I like your list
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 05:52 AM
Sep 2012

I might put SCOTUS a little bit higher up. I keep hoping Scalia will kick the bucket.

 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
7. Me too. But a wingnut Senate is going to make it tough for Barack, so need that secured too.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 07:59 PM
Sep 2012

It's like attack of the zombies, everywhere you look.

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
9. What you said..
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:01 PM
Sep 2012

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.

Overseas

(12,121 posts)
105. Yes please! I want millions of Republican voters to defect. Vote in 75% Democrats
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 04:09 AM
Sep 2012

in the Senate and the House.

Poiuyt

(18,129 posts)
11. Definitely Supreme Court
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:05 PM
Sep 2012

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)
12. Trust..
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:06 PM
Sep 2012

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)
13. To continue what he has started.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:08 PM
Sep 2012

I honestly believe his proposals will work if given the chance.

And, of course, to continue nominating Supreme Court Justices.

mojo2012

(290 posts)
21. Finishing what was started
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:18 PM
Sep 2012

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)
22. the Supreme Court.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:19 PM
Sep 2012

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.

rrneck

(17,671 posts)
24. We'll have a chance.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:19 PM
Sep 2012

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.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
61. Yep.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:50 PM
Sep 2012

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)
25. Just so that he can continue to make changes inspite of the blocks from the GOP,
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:22 PM
Sep 2012

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)
26. He's only the 4th Democratic president in my lifetime.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:22 PM
Sep 2012

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)
47. Seeing Republicans lose is a gleeful thought
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:41 PM
Sep 2012

I want them to feel the pain I felt when GW Bullshyt was reelected.

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
36. True but when you remember that the supreme court appointed a president it makes you wonder
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:31 PM
Sep 2012

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!

cyclezealot

(4,802 posts)
31. Number 1 is difficult to determine.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:28 PM
Sep 2012

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.

Submariner

(12,506 posts)
33. Obama's re-election will legitimize the presidency of the first black president
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:29 PM
Sep 2012

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)
34. I'm a working mother who cares about the environment
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:30 PM
Sep 2012

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)
41. And to top it off, the repugs do not care about preserving the environment!
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:35 PM
Sep 2012

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!

Freddie

(9,271 posts)
42. The Affordable Care Act
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:37 PM
Sep 2012

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)
43. SCOTUS
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:38 PM
Sep 2012

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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CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
51. My advice: turn off Fox News, log off Free Republic
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:46 PM
Sep 2012

and actually watch some of Obama's and Biden's speeches on C-Span or youtube (anywhere that you can find them unedited).

Starry Messenger

(32,342 posts)
59. The Soviets?? Wow, Obama is a time lord!
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:50 PM
Sep 2012

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.

YvonneCa

(10,117 posts)
103. I agree with these two reasons...
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:53 PM
Sep 2012

...and would add that Obama's foreign policy is turning in the right direction, IMO, although very slowly.

akbacchus_BC

(5,704 posts)
62. Agree, voting for the mittens would be voting against your own interest
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:52 PM
Sep 2012

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!

chknltl

(10,558 posts)
57. It will mean Romney never becomes POTUS.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:50 PM
Sep 2012

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

rocktivity

(44,577 posts)
63. Because he's our only chance of ending the Bush era tax cuts
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 08:52 PM
Sep 2012

with getting more liberals on the Supreme court running a very close second.


rocktivity

GreenPartyVoter

(72,381 posts)
80. Glad to hear it. :^) I know it seems like the ultimate single issue voting scenario, but really
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:23 PM
Sep 2012

that is the biggest Pro-obama point I have.

formercia

(18,479 posts)
68. So Michelle Obama can run for President in 2016
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:00 PM
Sep 2012

that way, they won't have to move and the Girls won't have to make new friends at school.

tavalon

(27,985 posts)
69. I was going to say RMoney but that would be flippent.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:01 PM
Sep 2012

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.

deaniac21

(6,747 posts)
71. His great work on the economy and
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:04 PM
Sep 2012

his amazing ability with foreign policy. We are becoming a partner with the world instead of being warlike.

 

cleduc

(653 posts)
77. He's the best president I've ever experienced.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:21 PM
Sep 2012

I go back to the Eisenhower years.

From that, I could give many of the reasons mentioned above.

Ishoutandscream2

(6,663 posts)
79. Supreme Court, uphold Obamacare
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:22 PM
Sep 2012

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...

TBF

(32,082 posts)
83. Women's issues -
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:37 PM
Sep 2012

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.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
87. Another Republican administration will destroy America.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:51 PM
Sep 2012

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)
88. To Preserve Social Security and Medicare
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 09:52 PM
Sep 2012

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)
89. Supreme Court nominees
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:00 PM
Sep 2012

IMO nothing is more important than assuring that RW nutbags are not elevated to the Court.

Initech

(100,092 posts)
90. If Mitt Romney wins, the vulture capitalists win. And that would suck.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:02 PM
Sep 2012

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)
91. So the two repug dipshits don't get in.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:07 PM
Sep 2012

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)
92. To keep Republicans from sucking what we have as a safety net to the ninth level of hell...
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:12 PM
Sep 2012

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)
93. I really don't want to go to Iran
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:14 PM
Sep 2012

Really. Afghanistan was enough. I'm 9 months from getting out and I'd rather not be stop-lossed.

girl gone mad

(20,634 posts)
97. He can't be re-elected after his second term, so we'll get someone new in 4 years.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:30 PM
Sep 2012

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.

jonthebru

(1,034 posts)
102. Two actually.
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:48 PM
Sep 2012

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)
104. My gut says so we can give those teabilly fuckheads 4 more years of hell
Sun Sep 2, 2012, 10:54 PM
Sep 2012


But my actual reason is the SC.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI
 

twins.fan

(310 posts)
108. The best reason is because of the next Supreme Court nomination, the worst is ...
Mon Sep 3, 2012, 06:56 AM
Sep 2012

his administration's support for work visas like the H1B visa that is ruining the lives of US STEM workers all across America.

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