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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not an Michelle Obama fan, nor am I a fan of her husband, because they are politically far to the left of me.  I expect if he gets a second term, Barack will trend further left.

In spite of that, I think Michelle hit it out of the ball park with her speech last night.  It did what it needed to do, it humanized the president, which is hard to do for any president after 4 years of policy fights.   It emphasized that he was the everyman who lived the American dream and became president.

But, I still know Michelle Obama has in her the "first time I have ever felt proud of my country" spirit.  I know that the campaign outside of the convention is highly negative on both sides and that all politicians lie.   Michelle gave a good speech, but she is not nor will she be president in the next few years.  She might make a fine president, but this is about Barack and the Democrats and Romney and the Republicans.

Plain and simple:  "It's the Economy, Stupid."[/quote]

For you, perhaps, but as a woman of child bearing age, the Republicans' obsession with my and every other woman's reproductive capacity is disturbing. Romney wants to cut all funding to Planned Parenthood. I don't know you, obviously, but the anti-choice people in my life are frequently the ones who think sex education teaches kids how to be sluts, believe birth control is a sin, complain about the ungodliness of abortion, and then bitch and moan that there are a [i]certain kind[/i] of people who "keep having kids." And if you haven't met these all-star thinkers, I am very glad for you. The threat to reproductive freedom, even birth control! is at stake.

And if Obama trends left, good! He's been a moderate Republican these past four years.[/quote]

PP here. I am outrageously pro-choice, having protested my fair share over the years and had personal experience with choices.  I have two daughters.  I am not forgetting about the Republican war on women, but that war is irrelevant to my choice for president.  That is a fight at the state level.  You may or may not notice that the fact that there is a Democrat in the White House has not prevented at least two states from regulating abortion into non-existence (Texas and Kansas, with Virginia doing it's level best).  The fight for choice is influenced by the White House, but is not won there.    Letting someone else have a chance to fix the economy, when Obama has proven himself incapable and lacking backbone does not change my stance on choice.  I am realistic and abortion is still legal and only a Supreme Court decision is going to change that (or a Constitutional Amendment).  Just tell Justice Ginsburg to hold on a few more years.....

And don't fool yourself, Obama is a socialist who believes we should all be middle class.  [/quote]

We all believe what we choose to believe, even if the evidence is contrary to that belief.  When the man took office, the US was losing 800,000 jobs month.  The Stock market and my 401 and 457 had lost a shitload of money.  Housing prices were dropping like flies stuck in a barrel of honey.  Michigan was on the brink of sinking into a depression that FDR could not save.  More and more jobs were being outsourced.

Now, jobs have increased ever month except three during the past four years.  I love, love, love my 401k and 457 because the stock market is over 10,000 instead of the dreaded below 8000 in December 2008.  Housing prices are leveling off in many areas, but specifically in some areas they are back, and or better.  Millions of people in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana have jobs because Obama had the balls to save GM and Chrysler.  As I am sure you know as an educated woman, the saving of the auto industry affected all the peripheral jobs that people don't think about, such as window glass maker, car lender, secretary in the steel company, etc.  And, jobs are returning to the United States, albeit not as many as one hoped, but returning nevertheless.

Reproductive rights are not fought on the state level.  If so, why did the SCOTUS get involved with Griswald and Roe in the first place, if it was a state issue.  I doubt Ginsburg can last another four years as she has had serveral rounds of cancer battles.  But no worries for your two daughters, I am sure that you are fortunate enough to send them to Canada, Rio or Mexico if the choice was to abort an otherwise unfortunate pregnancy.   [/quote]

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