Posted on 10/27/2012 4:48:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Barack Obama for Re-Election
The economy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, and the country could suffer another recession if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is embroiled in unstable regions that could easily explode into full-blown disaster. An ideological assault from the right has started to undermine the vital health reform law passed in 2010. Those forces are eroding women’s access to health care, and their right to control their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans’ rights are cheapened by the right wing’s determination to deny marriage benefits to a selected group of us. Astonishingly, even the very right to vote is being challenged.
That is the context for the Nov. 6 election, and as stark as it is, the choice is just as clear.
President Obama has shown a firm commitment to using government to help foster growth. He has formed sensible budget policies that are not dedicated to protecting the powerful, and has worked to save the social safety net to protect the powerless. Mr. Obama has impressive achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent on stopping him that they risked pushing the nation into depression, held its credit rating hostage, and hobbled economic recovery.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a guile that allows him to say whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has tied himself to the ultraconservative forces that control the Republican Party and embraced their policies, including reckless budget cuts and 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney’s true identity, but they know the Republican Party, and a Romney administration would reflect its agenda.
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They all live on the Upper West Side (where I grew up and lived much of my life), think they’re intellectually superior, and talk only to people who are like them and who also think they’re intellectually superior.
Most of them work in publishing, TV, law (but only at lower levels) or in the arts. A lot of them have vague government connections, such as family members working in the schools or state offices, or perhaps grants they have gotten or projects they are working on for one or another level of government. They are quite charming and fun to be with, but they have not a thought that doesn’t pass through their acceptability screening: i.e., is this what I, an incredibly enlightened Upper West Sider, should be thinking?
And I guess they’ve decided to throw it all away, give one last kiss to their beloveds, and go down with the Socialist Ship Obama.
Got to be satire. I'll prove it: He has formed sensible budget policies... Not one of 0bama's budgets have passed the Senate in three years, and it's been controlled by democRATS.
Yep, satire.
5.56mm
That last cartoon is classic...lol
...like a moth to the flame...or a dog to its vomit...
LSM death spiral continues...
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