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Many reasons to vote for Obama

Claudia Shapiro Waterford

Publication: The Day

Published 09/27/2012 12:00 AM
Updated 09/26/2012 05:12 PM

After reading negative letters regarding President Obama, I would like to state his following achievements, based on facts.

The president ended the war in Iraq and set an end date for the war in Afghanistan. Osama bin Ladin is dead. President Obama saved the auto industry, and consequently saved thousands of jobs.

He ended Don't Ask Don't Tell (you can now marry whom you love), and passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act for Women.

The Affordable Health Care Act was another achievement allowing millions of young people between 21 and 26 to be covered on their parents' policies.

He expanded the Pell Grant, making college more affordable. He initiated expansion of Medicare and would never turn it into a voucher system.

The Republicans have fought against every initiative of the president, their goal being to make his presidency fail. The thought of comprise or reaching across the aisle is foreign to them.

The days of moderate Republicans such as Sen. Olympia Snowe, the late Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, and Sen. Jacob Javits are gone.

Please vote for President Obama. He offers a new inclusive agenda in making our country a better place.

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