March 2012
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A personal appeal to the Obama team tumblrers →
thinkprogress:
joshsternberg:
apsies:
Hi! Remember me? At the end of last year I led a successful campaign to get you guys to follow me. I don’t need to re-hash that tale. You know it already. Apparently you even love telling about it.
That campaign was not successful without the help of some lovely fellow tumblrers. Namely imwithkanye, who screencapped my post, the one that got your...
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Watchazizisbored:
I discussed meeting President Obama and other stuff on Jimmy Fallon last night. Here’s a clip if you missed it. Part 2 of the interview is here.
Points for the POTUS impression.
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“Right now, the biggest oil companies are raking in record profits—profits that...”
– President Obama this morning on why we’ve got to end subsidies for Big Oil
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Jennifer wrote in:
The new health care law caused my health care plan to start waiving the deductible for preventative care. Formerly, I would have had to shell out 3,000 before I got a dime covered. Now, I am able to have one physical a year as well as prenatal care.
If it were not for the change in my insurance, I would not have been able to afford prenatal care. I am now expecting my first...
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Thank you, Obamacare.
musthavebeentheweather:
I got scared today when I got a hospital bill in the mail, only to remember that since I’m covered on my parents’ insurance until I’m 26, I could get the bill taken care of without emptying my bank account (not exaggerating on that one) to do so.
Things like this are really important to a 19 year old college student who works part time and has to save every penny for...
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ihopebarackobama:
I hope Barack Obama finds this blog and it makes his day.
We can’t speak for the man himself, but it made ours.
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distractedbyshinyobjects:
I’m 28. My parents’ corporate employer covered me until I was 25 even without the mandate to do so. I went from that to my own employer-provided coverage, had a year of nothing when I left that job, and now I’m on my husband’s employer-provided insurance. All of those had no problem covering everything needed or that I can imagine needing. Not that they were perfect,...
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Thank you, Obamacare.
Adrianne wrote in:
Because of Obamacare, I can stay on my mom’s health insurance for a few years. This helps cover my prescription coverage which pays for my birth control.
Without the pill, I get huge ovarian cysts. Before Obama got his plan through, I wasn’t covered, and ended up missing two days of work when the last one erupted. I almost missed my final exam while in the ER for it. Great...
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Romney's communications director on CNN this...
Host: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force [Gov. Romney] to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
Eric Fehrnstrom: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.
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Stephon stood just a few feet away from Barack Obama. The president, busy shaking hands, looked right at him. “It was like he was waiting for me to say something,” he said later.
So the 26-year-old Prince George’s Community College student took his cue and spoke to President Obama in his first language: American Sign Language.
“I am proud of you,” Stephon signed. The president, almost...
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I support Obama because...
call-it-kizmet:
…my family owes our futures to him.
His health insurance reforms saved my dad’s life when he had an untimely stroke after he was unemployed, and without health insurance. We were able to extend his coverage because of his work on COBRA. He’s going to college now on financial aid, also an Obama investment. My mother had two degrees, but after having children, she found that she...
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I'm voting for Obama
graceyu:
Because I was horrified to discover that when you said “small government”, you meant “small enough to fit in your uterus.”
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Young Parent for Obama
Andy:
As a young parent whose child will be attending public school for the next decade, I am going to vote for someone who knows public education is important for our communities and our country. Private education is great for those who can afford it, but it doesn’t give conservatives the right to dismantle our school systems.
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Someone who submitted via email with the username “YAY! WOMEN!” said:
To quote the always gracious Leslie Knope….
“Uterusses before Duderusses.” I’m an Obama supporter because he doesn’t say things like “Planned Parenthood … yeah, we’ll get rid of that.”
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Mitt catch this!
Stacey Y.:
I’m voting for Obama because he a man of the future and you’re a man of the past.
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Dear Romney
i-knew-i-was-not-magnificent:
I’m 17 and this is the first election where I will be able to vote. Here’s why I’m voting for Obama:
He understands that in order for our economy and country as whole to get back on track, you need to make difficult and sometimes unpopular decisions. He also isn’t discriminatory against any group of people, unlike some current Republican candidates. He’s...
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Veterans' health care
Terry:
One thing that has gone largely unmentioned in the discussion of health care is the importance of the VA, which Mitt Romney has suggested privatizing. I was in my first year of graduate school when I broke my leg.
I saw the hospital bill before the VA paid it, and having been unemployed and uninsured at the time, the $3,000 would have pushed me under, forcing me to quit school and move...
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Cyndi Ann:
I will vote for President Obama (again) because, through his unemployment reform, my mom was able to get an extension on her benefits after she lost her job through no fault of her own (her company downsized due to the economy). Without this extension, my mom would have lost her home and her vehicle, leaving her with nothing, and no way of rebuilding. Thank you, President Obama, for...
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Why I'm voting for Obama.
makemyheartsigh:
I’m a 20 year old GAY member of the NAVY and I happen to be on BIRTH CONTROL. I’d like to be able to keep all 3.
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Why Obama?
bistrowen:
To quote Bill Clinton: “If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is trying to get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”
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Dear Mitt Romney,
David Ryan:
I’m an 18-year old college student, and I’m voting for Barack Obama because he is not completely out of touch with the rest of the American population. He understands the financial struggles that are afflicting our nation and is seeking ways to restore equal opportunity to its people, rather than make jokes out of it or throw $10,000 around like its pocket change.
Also, he found the...
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hilarity:
I’m voting for President Obama again because four years isn’t enough to undo eight years of mistakes.
And Romney? I’d rather those four years not be a mere interlude between eight more, thank you very much.
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Oh, Mittens.
smoot-it-and-boot-it:
Why am I a young voter voting for Obama in November? My dad has been unemployed for months and he hadn’t able to get health care. Fortunately, over the weekend, my dad was able to get what the right wing calls “Obamacare.”
It’s fitting that you let something similar pass in Massachusetts, Mittens. Your framework may have ironically saved the life of my dad, who is a...
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Mitt Who?
strengthofthepeople:
I’m voting for Obama because I’ve seen the affects of not having good healthcare. I’ve seen people avoid hospitals because they know they cannot afford it even though it would be wise for them to go.
I’m voting for Obama because too many people had to drop out of school because of educational costs. I’m voting for Obama because he knows how to pray and not force his beliefs...
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Steve:
I’m voting for Obama in 2012 because corporations AREN’T people.
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Dear Mitt Romney,
sramman92:
Many young people support President Obama because he will defend our rights as college students and citizens of this country. I support President Obama because it literally breaks my heart to see competent students not be able to even join us in fighting for these rights because of a faulty education system.
I came to the United States ten years ago not knowing or speaking single...
Dear Mitt
niqbailey:
As a young person, I will vote for Barack Obama, because he recognizes that actions have consequences, and that it is young people that will have to deal with those consequences. I will vote for Barack Obama because he is responsible, and we need a lot more responsible people calling the shots.
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why am I voting for Obama
Lissa:
I’m a 25-year-old college graduate, with student loans, who’s about to lose my parents’ health insurance when I turn 26 this summer, and will graduate with my PhD next summer. I’d like to be able to afford to be healthy, and I’d like to be able to find a job and pay off my student loans.
I’d like to teach at a college and having a President who actually values education (instead of...
