tomorrow is election day(although 27,000,000 people have already voted early, so i guess
tomorrow is actually the end of ‘election week’).
by this point you know where i stand. i heartily support the obama/biden ticket, and i strongly believe
that barack ‘steve’ obama and joe ‘amtrak’ biden will do a great job as president and vice-president of the united states.
we’ve now had 8 years of republican rule(please remember: john mccain voted with president bush over 90% of the time), and the united
states is in terrible shape. our standing internationally is in the toilet(our enthusiastic allies at this point being guam and albania).
under bush and mccain and the republicans we’ve seen our economy fall apart. we’ve spent a trillion dollars in iraq in a war that never should’ve started and that has mainly
served to increase iran’s standing in the middle east. we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing oil
companies, even as gas and oil prices have been at all time highs and the oil companies have made record profits. we have opposed and cut funding for good science(stem cell research, climate
change research, bio-tech, alternative energy development, etc). we have illegally detained and tortured
many innocent people. we have given welfare to corporations while cutting funding to schools, the police, and fire departments.
the wealthiest 1% in america have seen their incomes soar in the last 8 years, while the middle class have actually seen their net worths
decline.
perhaps the last 8 years of republican rule are best summed up with the quote:
“We Republicans have done a miserable job of managing the affairs of government.”
-former Republican Party chairman Tom Slade
barack obama is a pragmatist, and he and joe biden will govern as democratic centrists. john mccain was once a pragmatist, but he has
become enslaved to the extreme right of the republican party. in the past john mccain opposed president bush’s tax
cuts for wealthy americans. in the past john mccain opposed increased off-shore drilling. in the past john mccain even
called the leaders of the religious right ‘agents of intolerance’. to quote the economist, ‘what happened to the real john mccain?’
john mccain has reversed himself and contradicted himself on almost every position he used to hold. he has run a dishonest
and vicious campaign. he has campaigned on fear and divisiveness, while doing everything in his power to avoid
talking about the issues that actually matter to people. and, most disturbingly, he picked a vice-presidential running
mate who is probably the least qualified person to ever run for vice-president(when recently asked by AN EIGHT YEAR OLD what
the vice-president actually did Sarah Palin got the answer wrong…).
Barack Obama has the same or more federal experience as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton did
when they were first elected.
i urge you to vote, and i urge you to vote for barack obama and joe biden.
we need change. we need steady, responsible leadership. we need leaders who will be respected by our allies overseas. we need
leaders who understand the workings of the economy and how to fix it. we need leaders who are in touch with the needs
of the middle class. we need leaders who will reform education and health-care. we need leaders who represent people and not
oil companies.
i strongly believe that after 8 years of the arrogance and ineptitude of bush, cheney, and mccain that we desperately need barack obama to be president of the united states.
thanks,
moby