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1. Vote Obama – Save the Dream Act!
2. Where are the Women?? I don’t care what your party affiliation is, there is NO REASON for you to be voting for any Republican. I’m 67 years old, do you of the same age remember what it used to be like? Do you remember what it felt like when a friend died from an illegal and dangerous back alley abortion? Do you recall when it was considered perfectly all right to pay women much less than men for doing the same job. Do you know how hard we all struggled to be considered more than just third class citizens? To the younger women out there, try to imagine what it will be like when you no longer have access to legal and affordable birth control. When you no longer have control over your own bodies and therefore your own destiny. Do you really want to see Roe v Wade repealed? If you can’t plan your own pregnancies, you can’t plan your financial future or your very life. If you want to be forced to have transvaginal probes and allow the government, not your doctor, to dictate your medical decisions, than vote Republican. Small government? Not really.
3. It is interesting that the effects of extreme weather have impacted on the political process with Sandy and the RNC earlier. Yet there has been no mention of climate change in the campaign. Four years ago the Republicans and Democrats were both talking about it. John McCain was a coauthor of a carbon limiting cap and trade bill. It was killed in the Senate in an effort involving Ohio Democrats. Ohio has a large coal interest. The issue has not gone away, the science is not uncertain, and something needs to be done.
4. Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) sharply criticized Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Sunday for his refusal to extend early voting hours in the state as individuals waited for hours in lines at the polls. “The only thing that makes any sense as to why this is happening and being done is voter suppression.”
(Note the predominate race of the voters in this Florida line)
5. President Obama, Vice President Biden and the Democratic Party’s position is consistent with what 90 percent of scientists say — that humans significantly cause the world to warm and climates to change and that, in order to slow climate change and eventually control its effects, we must slow down and regulate the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane… and develop clean, alternate forms of energy, like solar, wind, geothermal, tidal and biomass.
Governor Romney, Congressman Ryan and the vast majority of those in the Republican Party, however, strongly disagree and they cite a small number of researchers who say that any warming and any climate change is a natural cyclical phenomenon that has been occurring on Earth for millions of years and that human activity is not a significant factor. Gov. Romney and the Republicans are wrong. It’s just not true.
6. Today, while leaving our “liberal” church in town, we found on our windshield an unwanted and unsolicited Right-wing “Right-to-Lifer,” anti-choice card telling us how to vote in the election! How dare these dimwits presume to tell us how to vote?
And how stooped and stupid are people who follow what these cards say, no matter who placed them, thus allowing some other person to determine what they do with one of their most most precious rights?
We on the ‘liberal side,’ as near as I can tell, did not carpet bomb conservative churches with flyers–and we know that some of the misled were at this very moment being TOLD by the pastor and superiors of the congregation (mostly male) how to vote.
There oughta be a law–one that CAN tell religious or pseudo-religious organizations that there are boundaries they cannot overstep, without penalties for such egregious behavior.
7. Silly ideas advanced as fact at the October 22, 2012 religiously based, discrimination rally: Men will just walk into the ladies room at will based on this ordinance; Churches will be “forced” to rent their church facilities to LGBT individuals; This ordinance will be onerous and lead to big legal settlements. Why are people so afraid of LGBT people having an effective way to have concerns heard and having a community standard for fairness and equality? *See the full opinion at www.joanjerkovich.com
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