[Dialogue] 39 Reasons for Obama

[John Cock]

VOTE:

1. The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay
Act, to help women fight back when they don't get equal pay for equal work.

2. His Recovery Act supported millions of jobs and helped to stave off a
second Great Depression.

3. He pushed for and won middle-class tax cuts that benefitted every
American worker, and saved the typical family $3,600 in taxes over the last
four years.

4. President Obama rescued the auto industry, and now GM and Chrysler are
healthier than they've ever been. The American auto industry has added
nearly a quarter of a million jobs since June 2009 -- and they most likely
wouldn't exist right now without President Obama's leadership.

5. He doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping to make college more
affordable for nearly 10 million families.

6. His student loan reform ended billions in subsidies to banks serving as
middlemen and reinvested those savings directly into students.

7. The President established the American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth up
to $10,000 over four years of college.

8. His Race to the Top Initiative helped spur nearly every state to raise
academic standards.

9. His tax cuts, social-welfare programs, and economic policies lifted
nearly 7 million Americans above the federal poverty line in 2010. 

10. President Obama has signed 18 tax cuts for small businesses since taking
office.

11. We've seen 5.2 million new private-sector jobs over the last 31 months.

12. The unemployment rate is at the lowest level since President Obama took
office.

13. Health care reform -- passed after decades of failed attempts by every
previous President -- provides affordable health coverage to every American
and will lower premiums by an average of $2,000 per family by 2019.

14. Obamacare expanded access to lifesaving preventive care such as cancer
screenings and immunizations with no out-of-pocket costs for 54 million
Americans.

15. Obamacare ends insurance discrimination against the 129 million
Americans with pre-existing conditions. 

16. Because of Obamacare, over 3 million more young adults have health
insurance today than would if the new law hadn't passed.

17. The parents of over 17 million children with pre-existing conditions no
longer have to worry that their children will be denied coverage.

18. President Obama has ordered the overhaul of federal government
regulations to make them smarter, practical, and more efficient. Just a
fraction of these commonsense initiatives will help save businesses $10
billion in the next five years alone.

19. His historic investments in clean energy have helped more than double
the amount of electricity we obtain from wind and solar sources and helped
increase biofuel production to its highest level in history.

20. President Obama is doubling fuel efficiency standards, which will save
drivers more than $8,000 at the gas pump, not to mention lessen the impact
of automobiles on our environment.

21. President Obama has taken unprecedented action to address climate
change, reaching historic international agreements to curb carbon emissions,
and taking action here at home to reduce carbon pollution from our vehicles
and promote clean energy production.

22. He has taken historic action to protect our environment -- signing one
of the largest expansions of protected wilderness in a generation and
putting in place standards to reduce toxic air pollution that will save
thousands of lives.

23. President Obama fought for and won landmark Wall Street reform that
reins in the abuses that led to the financial crisis and ends the era of
taxpayer bailouts and "too big to fail."

24. Wall Street reform created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the
nation's first federal agency focused solely on consumer financial
protection -- and the Bureau is already protecting families from unfair and
abusive financial practices from Wall Street banks and shadowy corners of
the financial industry.

25. As part of President Obama's commitment to transparency, the White House
has posted its visitor records online for the first time ever.

26. President Obama's all-of-the-above approach to energy has helped cut the
United States' dependence on foreign oil to its lowest level in 20 years.

27. President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq.

28. He announced a plan to end the war in Afghanistan and transition
security responsibility to the Afghan people.

29. President Obama sent the largest security assistance package to Israel
in history and funded the Iron Dome system, which is protecting Israeli
homes and schools from rocket attacks.

30. President Obama rallied the international community to implement the
toughest sanctions on Iran in history.

31. Through the President's historic increases in Veterans Affairs funding,
he has expanded and improved healthcare and job training access for our
returning veterans.

32. President Obama negotiated the New START Treaty with Russia to reduce
the number of nuclear weapons in both countries. At the same time, he also
secured commitments from dozens of other countries to lock down nuclear
materials.

33. His administration naturalized 11,146 military service members as U.S.
citizens in 2010; more than in any year since 1955.

34. President Obama set a bold new plan for the future of NASA space
exploration, using the skill and ability of the private sector for short
trips to the International Space Station, while building a new vehicle for
exploration of distant space, and doing everything in his power to support
the economy on Florida's Space Coast.

35. President Obama recognizes that tourism is one of America's largest
economic engines; he's worked to encourage international visitors to come
here, maintaining our security while keeping millions of Americans in good,
paying jobs.

36. He has affirmed his personal support of marriage equality, directed the
Justice Department to stop defending DOMA in federal courts, and took the
practical and compassionate step of extending hospital visitation rights to
same-sex partners.

37. He fought for and won the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, allowing gay
and lesbian members of the military to serve openly for the first time in
history.

38. When Congress failed to fix our broken immigration system, his
administration did everything in its power to improve it, streamlining the
legal immigration process and announcing a policy that lifts the shadow of
deportation from hard working young immigrants brought to the U.S. as
children.

39. Oh, and he gave the order to send troops in after Osama Bin Laden -- and
has decimated al-Qaeda's senior leadership. 
 
--From Obama team 



 
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