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Dear Friends:
The election is coming up on all of us and we all have strong feelings about it. Ive 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.
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Right now, there is a choice going on in America, and Im 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. Were 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.
Thats 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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Ed Schultz ?
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Bruce Springsteen goes all in for President Obama, explains why he's getting off the sidelines
Elizabeth Warren:
Wow - I'm so proud to have the support of The Boss!!! Thank you
https://twitter.com/elizabethforma
Tutonic
(2,522 posts)to help defeat Eric (I think I'm constipated) Cantor. He really deserves special attention.
I wish he would too
nolabear
(41,984 posts)BRUUUUUUUCE!!