To My Fellow Democrats and My Independent Friends

I want to urge you to get out and vote Democratic this year. Why? Number One: we need to support our President. Number Two: after 8 years of the Bush/Cheney "reign of terror" we finally have a President we can be proud of. Think about it: he's made more legislative achievements since anyone named LBJ. Were they controversial? Yes. Were they beneficial to middle class America? A resounding Yes. And he's been subjected to more ridicule, subterfuge and mistruths than any President in my lifetime.

Let's examine the issues. Is govt "taking over" healthcare? No. But today children with pre-existing conditions are covered and soon adults will be. Was the stimulus effective? Not as much as it could be, but the only reason is, is that the tea partiers have been on this crusade to say that deficits are "bad" in general. Are they? No. (someone please study Macroeconomics and, please read Keynes) When you build new infrastructure, you hire construction workers, architects, engineers, surveyors, who, in turn, spend their money at supermarkets and dept stores, who, in turn, need to hire more people and buy more inventory etc etc. The only problem with the stimulus, is it should have been significantly more. (Think about it in simpler terms. When your parents took a mortgage for $40K to buy a $50K house, they were probably nervous; when they sold that house for $150K 20 years later, the now reduced 40K mortgage was not that big a deal)

Has Obama been perfect? No. IMHO he should have held out for the public option and the stimulus should have been bigger. But you know what? With the party of NO saying NO just for the mere sake of saying NO, it wasn't easy. After two years, was Bill Clinton the Bill Clinton most people admire today? No. After two years, was Ronald Reagan the "saint" conservatives revere today? Of course not.

Democrats need to vote this November to give Obama some tailwind. Independents: I ask you this question? Despite the bad economy, do you really think the GOP and tea partiers have real answers. No! Their policies (i.e. reduce the deficit NOW and repeal Healthcare) will only make things harder for the middle class and, therefore, most of America.

Again,finally we have a President we can be proud of. Despite the vengeful rhetoric, we need to support him.