VOTE for Mitt Romney!!

[monnee]

Because he's an unemploy millionaire.

[quietpal]

Vote for Mitt? No thank you!

[momoney555]

   
Published in the Winston-Salem Journal, October 31, 2012 (They endorsed John McCain in 2008)

Americans have a clear choice between two presidential candidates with starkly different ideas for spurring the economy, providing for the health of our people, defending our interests abroad, educating our children and protecting our environment. We believe that President Barack Obama’s progress on these issues merits him a second term in the White House.

Four years ago on this page, we endorsed Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona over Obama. We wrote that we were impressed with Obama, but McCain would “bring the Iraq war to a successful conclusion, work to end American dependence on foreign oil, reduce America's output of climate-changing gases and begin the rebuilding of our economy.”

The Democratic president has done all those things and more. He is calm under pressure and courageous in standing up for the rights of all Americans, including the poor, veterans, the elderly, women, gays and immigrants. In contrast, we’ve sometimes found it hard in the last few weeks to tell just what Obama’s challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, really stands for.

Obama is not always as gregarious as many Americans might like him to be, but he is committed to his country and candid with it — to the point of releasing far more of his tax returns than Romney. While Obama commits the occasional gaffe, we can’t imagine him ever dismissing 47 percent of his fellow Americans — as Romney did, and later apologized for doing.

After weeks of challenges, Romney’s campaign was on an upswing last week after a decisive victory in the first debate. But Obama has had a generally strong four years. He and Vice President Joe Biden form a seasoned, consistent ticket, one much more promising and reliable than that of Romney and his running mate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

Under Obama’s policies, including the successful bailout of General Motors, the country averted what could have been a far worse economic disaster, maybe even a depression. The economy is slowly recovering — the national unemployment rate has finally fallen below 8 percent — and the president’s policies of continued government investment in infrastructure and education offer the best hope that the recovery will accelerate. Obama promises to cut spending and raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, but keep taxes where they are for the vast majority.

Romney’s policies — warmed-over trickle-down economics — will make matters worse. We say that with a caveat, however, because Romney’s plans are ever-changing and it is hard to know just where his policies would end and those of the much more conservative Ryan would begin.

On national security, Obama has gotten American combat troops out of Iraq while winding down the American presence in Afghanistan. He has used American military might to fight international terrorism to a degree that no one anticipated in 2008. He showed strong leadership in ordering the successful raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The Obama foreign policy — as seen in Libya — requires our allies to handle a great share of our common defense burden, especially when the interests at stake are dearer to those allies.

We like the president’s stand on Iran, slowly but steadily undermining the Iranian economy rather than launching a premature military strike and setting off another Middle East war.

In contrast, Romney and his supporters have rattled the saber at Iran. Despite Romney’s efforts in the last few days to tone it down as he tacks to the middle, his foreign policy seems to come straight from George W. Bush. Some of Romney’s foreign-policy advisers are the former Bush neo-conservatives who got us into the unnecessary Iraq war.

We like Obama’s health-care plan, finding it far better than that offered by Romney, even if it is largely based on Romney’s own Massachusetts program. We see no sign that Romney, should he succeed in repealing “Obamacare,” would succeed in balancing the many competing health-care interests that Obama worked into a compromise.

We fear that Romney would turn Medicare into a voucher program that would not match the full cost of private insurance for the seniors. His hybrid plan would drive the sickest Americans into a government plan and let the insurance companies cherry-pick the healthiest clients.

On education, Romney, just as Republican leaders here, seems to believe that if we continue to cut public education, we will somehow educate our young well enough.

And on the environment, we’re concerned that Romney would gut protections Obama has restored.

Obama has a keen vision that he has worked hard to achieve, against considerable obstacles and often courageously. But the goal is in sight: An America respected worldwide as much for its prosperity as its defense of liberty and justice.

The Journal editorial board endorses Barack Obama for president.

[Phx0808]

I don't believe it's God's will that I vote for Romney since I have already voted.

[falcon9]

I don't believe it's God's will that I vote for Romney since I have already voted.

I don't believe that anything is the "will" of a hypothetical supernatural egregore because there's no evidence to support opposite contentions so, vote as you will and not as some "pixie-sprite" would have it.

[lena3018]

i WILL NOT be voting for romney 100% obama

I am with you 100% Obama all the way

[momoney555]

So many times people just say. "well I like Obama because he supports abortion and gay marriage." Thing is Obama changes his, "view," based on what group he is around. He did pass the bill three times that supported killing babies after they where born healthy and alive. This bill says that after a baby is born you lock him or her in a closet and let him or her starve to death and cry until he or she passes away. Obama is a sick sick person. He is a supporter of murder. When it comes to gay marriage I don't support it, but that is the bussiness of those who are involved in it. Abortion makes me want to get involved and protect innocent children. When I look at my new born baby its hard to imagine the sick cruel ways of Obama. I would gladly sacrifice a limb just to be able to vote for Mitt Romney. These children need to be protected and rescued before more of this happens. If you vote for Obama, I hate to say this because I know it sounds cruel, but shame on you if you know he does this and still vote for him. These babies are on all our hands. We have to do all we can to protect these precious children.

I will vote for Obama and I am very much against abortion.  I think it is horrible.  No one wants abortion to be practiced on the large scale that it is in the U.S.  I'm sure President Obama wishes we could find an alternative to abortion that would not result in the murdering of innocent little babies. Any one who is a loving parent cannot possibly agree with abortion being O.K.  The fact of the matter is that before Roe vs Wade was passed the horror in America was that hundreds of young girls and women from all levels of society, were being found dead in back allies. from botched illegal abortions carried out by sleazy. unlicensed medical quacks who were out to make money.  This was murder also.  Romney says he will overturn Roe vs Wade but he will not say what he will replace it with so that America does not return to finding scores of young girls and women dead in dirty back allies.  Even the person who is responsible for initiating Roe vs. Wade feels it was a mistake and wants to repeal it.  As a nation we need to work on finding a better way to prevent unwanted pregnancies in this country by doing a better job of educating young people about sex or by making contraception more easily available to all those who need it (Romney is against that - Obama is for it). 

[Falconer02]

No one wants abortion to be practiced on the large scale that it is in the U.S.  I'm sure President Obama wishes we could find an alternative to abortion that would not result in the murdering of innocent little babies.

I agree with you, though one could argue a fetus is not a fully-functional human yet and therefore one would not be killing a baby.

Any one who is a loving parent cannot possibly agree with abortion being O.K.  

Rape victim? Incest? Share your POV please as I'm curious to know what you think.

The fact of the matter is that before Roe vs Wade was passed the horror in America was that hundreds of young girls and women from all levels of society, were being found dead in back allies

Agreed. People need to realize that if a woman really wants to get an abortion, she WILL get an abortion.

As a nation we need to work on finding a better way to prevent unwanted pregnancies in this country by doing a better job of educating young people about sex or by making contraception more easily available to all those who need it (Romney is against that - Obama is for it).  

My thoughts run fairly parallel to your own. Education is dire. In a lot of other first-world countries, the gov't usually stays out of these issues as they understand that these instances are personal matters. This is why I find republicans so hypocritical nowadays-- they've always stood for less gov't in people's lives in the past, and yet they want to govern what a woman can and can't do with their bodies.

I will also say that those who picket abortion clinics or place "VOTE PRO-LIFE" signs in their yards-- if they haven't adopted a child into their own loving family, they're dispicably hypocritical.

[momoney555]

I agree with you, though one could argue a fetus is not a fully-functional human yet and therefore one would not be killing a baby. 

Medical studies have shown that the heartbeat of a fetus can be detected within approximately 7 to 8 weeks after conception.  I personally feel that a heartbeat would indicate that a vital life exists.

Rape victim? Incest? Share your POV please as I'm curious to know what you think. 

Abortion in cases of rape, incest or when the mother's life or health are at risk, that is one of those things where although abortion may not be right, it may be necessary due to the possible psychological and physical damage that the mother and child could suffer.

I will also say that those who picket abortion clinics or place "VOTE PRO-LIFE" signs in their yards-- if they haven't adopted a child into their own loving family, they're dispicably hypocritical.

I thoroughly agree with that.  I have worked with unwanted youth from dysfunctional homes who have been placed in child welfare systems and believe me the child welfare system is as big a crime as the abortion issue.

[graveyardshawty]

they both blow

[tammypete]

Great job on the info!!!   Its time for a change!!!!!!!!!!!!

[heroftimes]

Vote 3rd party.  If a third party candidate gets 5% of the votes they become eligible for federal funding next election cycle.

they both blow

[Falconer02]

Medical studies have shown that the heartbeat of a fetus can be detected within approximately 7 to 8 weeks after conception.  I personally feel that a heartbeat would indicate that a vital life exists

Fair enough. I notice this isn't a black + white debate usually. The problem lies within what step the fetus is in to define it as a human being. Some believe sperm is sacred and it's genocide to be wasted, others believe the baby isn't fully human until it breathes it's first breath outside the womb. Personally I don't know at what step that would be.

I thoroughly agree with that.  I have worked with unwanted youth from dysfunctional homes who have been placed in child welfare systems and believe me the child welfare system is as big a crime as the abortion issue.

I keep hearing this from random people I know so thanks for solidifying it further. Hopefully people will read this.

[JediJohnnie]

I will also say that those who picket abortion clinics or place "VOTE PRO-LIFE" signs in their yards-- if they haven't adopted a child into their own loving family, they're dispicably hypocritical.

I gotta admit that is the dumbest thing I've read on here in a loooooong time.

[falcon9]

I gotta admit that is the dumbest thing I've read on here in a loooooong time.

If so, you should consider not reading your own posts anymore ... put them on "ignore"?