PLEASE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA

PLEASE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA - NOW!

Courtesy of irregulartimes.com.

It is not too late to VOTE EARLY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA NOW using an absentee ballot. Details of early voting are at www.barackobama.com

Early voting is critical and gives a greater push to the Obama Campaign - as well as freeing up resources, including perhaps time you might contribute yourself, to get out the vote on November 6.

This election is a turning point for our nation. Either we go forward with President Obama, and give him four more years to bring his policies to bear, or we take a massively backward step with Romney and Ryan, who will tear up so much of the social fabric that protects the less advantaged and less successful in the United States, in favor of major corporations (which Romney likes to call "small businesses" - you know, Exxon, Chevron, etc) and the extremely wealthy.

Please give President Obama a second term in which to support women's rights and the rights of minorities, in which to see the economy continue to grow from the worst economic recession since the Great Depression (caused in no small part by the policies that Romney and Ryan are advocating now), to see the end of ten years of war (at least one them, in Iraq, a total distraction from the aftermath of the tragic events of 9/11), to reelect a president who cares about social justice and the middle class - rather than a candidate who dismisses 47% of Americans as takers - and to see Obamacare, the greatest social legislation since the years of LBJ, come into practice.

VOTE NOW if you can - and if you can't, please make sure to VOTE FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA on November 6.

This election is too important to lose. Don't just vote yourself, but talk to every friend and family member you have across the country and encourage them to vote, too.

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