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Sandy

So...

Right now I am in my home in NJ, listening to the wind and the rain.  Hurricaine Sandy is coming and it looks like it is going to be big. 

I might be incommunicado for a bit but I will try to post after the storm so ya'll know that we made it--in whatever shape that may be. 

All other readers in Sandy's path--stay safe and I'll see you on the flip side. 

Thirteen Reasons I do not want Mitt Romney as my president

Yes, I said I'd be back last week with this, but work got crazy. 

Anyway..here we go. 

1) I don't trust him.

2) When he was Governor of MA, he was pro choice--now he supports a personhood amendment to the constitution.  This would outlaw in-vitro fertilization, without which his son would not have children. That he's willing to sacrifice his family on the altar of political expediency troubles me. 

3) I think you can learn a great deal of someone by watching how they treat their pets.  Seriously, he drove to Canada with the dog on top of his car?  Come on!  This is disgusting.  And he thinks it was funny!

4) I have had to show more financial information to buy my house than he has shown for the presidency. 

5) When Americans were dying in Libya, he took the time to try to score political points.  Politics end at the waters edge, and a person who doesn't understand that is not someone who would get my vote. 

6) He gives the impression of someone who feels that he is entitled to the presidency, not that he has to earn it. 

7) By choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, he chooses a person who doesn't care about the elderly. This is abhorrant to me. 

8) 47%.  enough said. 

9) The one thing that he should be running on--Romneycare, he's running away from because he would dismantle Obamacare--which is the same thing.  It is beyond hypocritcial. 

10) He treated the President of the United states with disrespect.  If you don't respect the man, respect the office. 

11) He would not allow my gay friends to be married.  That's just cruel. 

12) He thinks corporations are people.

13) I believe he views women as beneath him, or in a servile role. 

 

There's more, but this is a good start. 

Thirteen reasons I will be voting for President Obama

I finished watching the debate.  I would have liked President Obama to be more agressive.  That being said, I would have liked Governor Romney to tell the truth a bit more and smirk less.  That being said, I believe that I am not alone in the fact that my mind was made up before I watched the debate.  My mind was made up before the convention.  I will be voting for President Obama and here are thirteen reasons why. 

1) My neighbor, a soldier, came home from Iraq and won't have to go back.  President Obama, as he promised, ended the war in Iraq. 

2) My husband's student, a young gay man, can realize his dream of attending the United States Naval Academy since Don't Ask, Don't Tell has been reprieved. 

3) President Obama appointed two women to serve on the US Supreme Court. Now at least there are three women who will be looking at womens issues instead of one or two. 

4) President Obama is against a personhood amendment that will make IVF illegal. 

5) President Obama puts the United States and the welfare of same above the welfare of Isreal.  I say this as a Jewish woman who is committed to the welfare of Isreal.  That being said, I never want to hear my President say he'll go to war to protect Isreal.  The anti-semitism that would result from such an action makes me shudder. 

6) President Obama proposed an excellent jobs plan that was voted down by the Republican congress who voted against everything he proposed no matter if it was good for the country or not. 

7) President Obama inheirited a horrific economy and somehow we're not totally effed up. In fact we're getting back to where we need to be. 

8) Due to the affordable care act, my niece can remain on my sister-in-law and brother's health plan after college until she finds a job. 

9) Due to Obamacare, being a woman doesn't have to be a preexisting condition. 

10) Thanks to Obamacare, my husband, the diabetic, doesn't have to worry about having a preexisting condition. 

11) Thanks to Obamacare, my friend who was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 39, doesn't have to worrry that there will be a cap on her insurance. 

12) I like the fact that people of color can see that anyone can be president--it doesn't matter what your skin color is. 

13) I believe that he cares about me, my family, and this country.  

 

Next week, thirteen reasons why I won't vote for Governor Romney.