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In reply to the discussion: To us non-Americans, Obama is Doing a Pretty Good Job! [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)voting for mitty or newty. Nor will it get better if we just stay home. I have lived in poverty for 60 of the 70 years of my life. I will be voting for Obama and the Democrats on the ticket because I know that if I do not it can only get worse. They are also not suggesting that we should be satisfied with the progress we have made so far. In Canada they got their health care system one province at a time - not through some perfect bill that was voted in all at one time. That is also how we got Social Security as it is known today. It started by covering certain persons and then others were added in later years. That is what I am hoping we can do in the next four years IF we are lucky enough to have a Congress that thinks progressive and if necessary we will pressure Obama to LEAD like he campaigns.