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November 6, 2012
SUPER Tuesday 2012: Today, Americans will exercise their democratic right to choose their President for the next four years (2012-2016). They contingency choose in between the incumbent, President Barack Obama as well as his Republican rival, Mitt Romney. The polls have been indicating the dead heat, though I consider President Obama will take the White House again.
Yes, Obama will have his second term, as well as which will be good, as I have consistently maintained, for the Asia-Pacific.President Obama is the better candidate. That is the reason why The New York Times enthusiastically endorses him (below).Din Merican
The manage to buy is slowly recovering from the 2008 meltdown, as well as the country could humour another retrogression if the wrong policies take hold. The United States is inextricable in unstable regions which could simply explode in to full-blown disaster.
An ideological assault from the right has proposed to criticise the vital illness remodel law passed in 2010. Those forces have been eroding women's access to illness care, as well as their right to carry out their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, all Americans' rights have been cheapened by the right wing's integrity to repudi! ate matr imony benefits to the selected group of us. Astonishingly, even the really right to opinion is being challenged.
That is the context for the Nov 6 election, as well as as sheer as it is, the choice is just as clear.
President Obama has shown the organisation joining to using supervision to help foster growth. He has formed essential check policies which have been not dedicated to protecting the powerful, as well as has worked to save the amicable safety net to strengthen the powerless.
Mr. Obama has considerable achievements despite the implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent upon interlude him which they risked pulling the republic in to depression, held the credit rating hostage, as well as hobbled mercantile recovery.
Mitt Romney, the former administrator of Massachusetts, has gotten this distant with the deception which allows him to contend whatever he thinks an audience wants to hear. But he has scored equally himself to the ultraconservative forces which carry out the Republican Party as well as embraced their policies, together with forward check cuts as well as 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas.
Voters may still be confused about Mr. Romney's true identity, though they know the Republican Party, as well as the Romney administration department department would reflect the agenda. Mr. Romney's choice of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.
We have criticized particular process choices which Mr. Obama has done over the last four years, as well as have been desirous with his rejection to throw himself in to the domestic fight. But he has shaken off the hesitation which price him the initial debate, as well as he approaches the choosing obviously ready for the narrow-minded battles which would follow his victory.
We have been assured he would challenge the Republicans in the "fiscal cliff" conflict even if it meant calling their bluff, letting the Bush taxation c! uts end as well as forcing them to confront the check sequester they created. Electing Mr. Romney would discharge any goal of necessity rebate which enclosed increased revenues.
In the poisonous atmosphere of this campaign, it may be easy to disremember Mr. Obama's most critical achievements, together with carrying out the mercantile stimulus, saving the automobile industry, improving fuel potency standards, as well as creation dual really excellent Supreme Court appointments.
Health Care
Mr. Obama has achieved the most sweeping illness caring reforms given the passage of Medicare as well as Medicaid in 1965. The remodel law takes the large step toward universal illness coverage, the last piece in the amicable contract.
It was astonishing which Mr. Obama as well as the Democrats in Congress were means to get the check past the Republican opposition. But the Republicans' propagandistic distortions of the brand brand brand new law helped them wring back carry out of the House, as well as they have been determined right away to dissolution the law.
That would discharge the most benefits the remodel has already brought: allowing young kids underneath 26 to stay upon their parents' policies; reduce drug costs for people upon Medicare who have been heavy users of medication drugs; free immunizations, mammograms as well as contraceptives; the anathema upon lifetime limits upon word payments. Insurance companies cannot repudiate coverage to young kids with pre-existing conditions. Starting in 2014, insurers contingency accept all applicants. Once entirely in effect, the brand brand brand new law would start to carry out illness caring costs.
Mr. Romney has no devise for covering the uninsured over his callous ! arroganc e which they will make make use of of puncture rooms. He wants to make make use of of voucher programs to change some-more Medicare costs to beneficiaries as well as block grants to change some-more Medicaid costs to the states.
The Economy
Mr. Obama prevented another Great Depression. The manage to buy was cratering when he took office in January 2009. By which Jun it was growing, as well as it has been ever given (although at the rate which disappoints everyone), thanks in large partial to interventions Mr. Obama championed, similar to the $ 840 billion impulse bill. Republicans contend it failed, though it combined as well as preserved 2.5 million jobs as well as prevented unemployment from reaching twelve percent. Poverty would have been much worse though the billions spent upon Medicaid, food stamps as well as jobless benefits.
Last year, Mr. Obama introduced the jobs devise which enclosed spending upon school renovations, correct projects for roads as well as bridges, aid to states, as well as more. It was stymied by Republicans. Contrary to Mr. Romney's claims, Mr. Obama has finished great things for small businesses similar to pulling by some-more taxation write-offs for brand brand brand new apparatus as well as temporary taxation cuts for employing the unemployed.
The Dodd-Frank financial regulation was an critical milestone. It is still the work in progress, though it established the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, instituted remodel of the derivatives market, as well as imposed aloft collateral mandate for banks. Mr. Romney wants to dissolution it.
If re-elected, Mr. Obama would be in position to shape the "grand bargain" which could finally combine impulse similar to the jobs check with long-term necessity rebate which includes letting the high-end Bush-era taxation cuts expire. Stimulus should come first, as well as necessity rebate as the manage to buy strengthens. Mr. Obama has not been as aggressive as you woul! d have l iked in addressing the housing crisis, though he has increased efforts in refinancing as well as loan modifications.
Mr. Romney's mercantile plan, as much as you know about it, is regressive, relying upon large taxation cuts as well as deregulation. That kind of devise was not the answer after the financial crisis, as well as it will not emanate extended prosperity.
Foreign Affairs
Mr. Obama as well as his administration department department have been resolute in aggressive Al Qaeda's leadership, together with the murdering of Osama bin Laden. He has ended the fight in Iraq. Mr. Romney, however, has said he would have insisted upon leaving thousands of American soldiers there. He has surrounded himself with Bush administration department department neocons who helped to engineer the Iraq war, as well as adopted their militaristic talk in the way which makes the Romney administration's foreign policies the frightening prospect.
Mr. Obama negotiated the much tougher regime of multilateral mercantile sanctions upon Iran. Mr. Romney likes to contend the boss was ineffectual upon Iran, though at the last discuss he agreed with Mr. Obama's policies. Mr. Obama deserves credit for his doing of the Arab Spring. The murdering goes upon in Syria, though the administration department department is working to identify as well as await moderate insurgent forces there. At the last debate, Mr. Romney talked about funneling arms by Saudi Arabia as well as Qatar, which have been funneling arms to jihadist groups.
Mr. Obama collected general backing for airstrikes during the Libyan uprising, as well as kept American troops forces in the credentials role. It was intelligent policy.
In the broadest terms, he introduced the magnitude of troops patience after the Bush years as well as helped correct America's badly damaged repute in most countries from the low levels to which it had sunk by 2008.
The Supreme Court
The future of the nation's top court hangs in the balance in this choosing as well as along with it, reproductive freedom for American women as well as voting rights for all, to name just dual issues. Whoever is boss after the choosing will make at slightest one appointment to the court, as well as most some-more to sovereign appeals courts as well as district courts.
Mr. Obama, who allocated the considerable Justices Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, understands how exceedingly damaging regressive activism has been in areas similar to debate spending. He would designate justices as well as judges who understand which landmarks of equivalence similar to the Voting Rights Act contingency be shielded against the steady attack from the right.
Mr. Romney's debate Web site says he will "nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts as well as Justices Scalia, Thomas as well as Alito," between the most regressive justices in the past 75 years. There is no doubt which he would designate justices who would find to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Civil Rights
The unusual actuality of Mr. Obama's 2008 choosing did not usher in the brand brand brand new post-racial era. In fact, the steady undercurrent of injustice in national governing body is truly disturbing. Mr. Obama, however, has topsy-turvy Bush administration department department policies which chipped away at minorities' voting rights as well as has fought laws, similar to the ones in Arizona, which find to spin undocumented immigrants in to the category of criminals.
The military's odious "don't ask, don't tell" rule was finally legislated out of existence, underneath the Obama administration's leadership. There have been still large hurdles to equivalence to be brought down, together with the Defense of Marriage Act, the outrageous sovereign law which undermines the rights of gay men as well as lesbians, even in states which commend those rights.
Though it took Mr. Obam! a the li ttle time to do it, he overcame his hesitation about same-sex matrimony as well as spoken his support. That await has helped spur marriage-equality movements around the country. His Justice Department has additionally stopped defending the Defense of Marriage Act against constitutional challenges.
Mr. Romney opposes same-sex matrimony as well as supports the sovereign act, which not only denies sovereign benefits as well as recognition to same-sex couples though allows states to ignore marriages done in alternative states. His debate spoken which Mr. Romney would not object if states additionally criminialized embracing the cause by same-sex couples as well as limited their rights to sanatorium visitation as well as alternative privileges.
Mr. Romney has been careful to avoid the efforts of the little Republicans to criminalize abortion even in the case of women who had been raped, together with by family members. He says he is not opposed to contraception, though he has promised to repudiate sovereign income to Planned Parenthood, upon which millions of women rely for family planning.
For these as well as most alternative reasons, you enthusiastically endorse President Barack Obama for the second term, as well as express the goal which his feat will be accompanied by the brand brand brand new Congress willing to work for policies which Americans need.
November 6, 2012
SUPER Tuesday 2012:Today, Americans will exercise their democratic right to choose their President for a subsequent four years (2012-2016). They contingency choose in between a incumbent, President Barack Obama as well as his Republican rival, Mitt Romney. The polls have been indicating a passed heat, though you consider President Obama will take a White House again as well as which will be good, as you have consistently maintained, for a Asia-Pacific. President Obama is a better candidate. That is a reason because The New York Times ethusiastically endorses him (below).Din Merican
The manage to buy is slowly recuperating from a 2008 meltdown, as well as a country could humour an additional recession if a wrong policies take hold. The United States is inextricable in inconstant regions which could easily explode in to full-blown disaster.
An ideological assault from a right has proposed to undermine a vital health remodel law passed in 2010. Those forces have been eroding women's entrance to health care, as well as their right to carry out their lives. Nearly 50 years after passage of a Civil Rights Act, all Americans' rights have been cheapened by a right wing's determination to repudiate matrimony benefits to a comparison group of us. Astonishingly, ! even a r eally right to vote is being challenged.
That is a context for a Nov 6 election, as well as as stark as it is, a preference is just as clear.
President Obama has shown a organisation commitment to using government to assistance encourage growth. He has shaped sensible check policies which have been not dedicated to protecting a powerful, as well as has worked to save a amicable safety net to strengthen a powerless. Mr. Obama has considerable achievements despite a implacable wall of refusal erected by Congressional Republicans so intent upon interlude him which they risked pulling a republic in to depression, held a credit rating hostage, as well as hobbled mercantile recovery.
Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, has gotten this far with a deception which allows him to contend whatever he thinks an assembly wants to hear. But he has scored equally himself to a ultraconservative forces which carry out a Republican Party as well as embraced their policies, together with reckless check cuts as well as 30-year-old, discredited trickle-down ideas. Voters might still be confused about Mr. Romney's true identity, though they know a Republican Party, as well as a Romney administration department department would reflect a agenda. Mr. Romney's preference of Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate says volumes about that.
We have criticized individual process choices which Mr. Obama has done over a last four years, as well as have been impatient with his rejection to chuck himself in to a political fight. But he has jarred off a hesitancy which cost him a first debate, as well as he approaches a choosing clearly ready for a partisan battles which would follow his victory.
We have been assured he would plea a Republicans in a "fiscal cliff" conflict even if it meant calling their bluff, vouchsafing a Bush taxation cuts end as well as forcing them to confront a check sequester they created. Electing Mr. Romney would eliminate any hope of necessity reba! te which included increasing revenues.
In a poisonous ambience of this campaign, it might be easy to disremember Mr. Obama's many critical achievements, together with carrying out a mercantile stimulus, saving a auto industry, improving fuel potency standards, as well as creation dual really fine Supreme Court appointments.
Health Care
Mr. Obama has achieved a many unconditional health care reforms since a passage of Medicare as well as Medicaid in 1965. The remodel law takes a large step toward universal health coverage, a last square in a amicable contract.
It was astonishing which Mr. Obama as well as a Democrats in Congress were means to get a check past a Republican opposition. But a Republicans' propagandistic distortions of a new law helped them wring behind carry out of a House, as well as they have been determined right divided to dissolution a law.
That would eliminate a many benefits a remodel has already brought: allowing young kids under twenty-six to stay upon their parents' policies; lower drug costs for people upon Medicare who have been complicated users of prescription drugs; free immunizations, mammograms as well as contraceptives; a anathema upon lifetime limits upon insurance payments. Insurance companies cannot repudiate coverage to young kids with pre-existing conditions. Starting in 2014, insurers contingency accept all applicants. Once entirely in effect, a new law would begin to carry out health care costs.
Mr. Romney has no devise for covering a uninsured over his cruel arrogance which they will use emergency rooms. He wants to use document programs to change some-more Medicare costs to beneficiaries as well as retard grants to change some! -more Me dicaid costs to a states.
The Economy
Mr. Obama prevented an additional Great Depression. The manage to buy was cratering when he took bureau in Jan 2009. By which Jun it was growing, as well as it has been ever since (although during a rate which disappoints everyone), interjection in vast part to interventions Mr. Obama championed, similar to a $ 840 billion impulse bill. Republicans contend it failed, though it created as well as recorded 2.5 million jobs as well as prevented unemployment from reaching 12 percent. Poverty would have been many worse without a billions spent upon Medicaid, food stamps as well as jobless benefits.
Last year, Mr. Obama introduced a jobs devise which included spending upon propagandize renovations, correct projects for roads as well as bridges, aid to states, as well as more. It was stymied by Republicans. Contrary to Mr. Romney's claims, Mr. Obama has finished great things for small businesses similar to pulling by some-more taxation write-offs for new equipment as well as proxy taxation cuts for employing a unemployed.
The Dodd-Frank financial regulation was an critical milestone. It is still a work in progress, though it determined a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, instituted remodel of a derivatives market, as well as imposed higher collateral mandate for banks. Mr. Romney wants to dissolution it.
If re-elected, Mr. Obama would be in position to figure a "grand bargain" which could finally mix impulse similar to a jobs check with long-term necessity rebate which includes vouchsafing a high-end Bush-era taxation cuts expire. Stimulus should come first, as well as necessity rebate as a manage to buy strengthens. Mr. Obama has not been as assertive as you would have favourite in addressing a housing crisis, though he has increasing efforts in refinancing as well as loan modifications.
Mr. Romney's mercantile plan, as many as you know about it, is regressive, relying upon large taxation c! uts as w ell as deregulation. That kind of devise was not a answer after a financial crisis, as well as it will not create broad prosperity.
Foreign Affairs
Mr. Obama as well as his administration department department have been unaffected in attacking Al Qaeda's leadership, together with a killing of Osama garbage bin Laden. He has ended a fight in Iraq. Mr. Romney, however, has pronounced he would have insisted upon withdrawal thousands of American soldiers there. He has surrounded himself with Bush administration department department neocons who helped to operative a Iraq war, as well as adopted their quarrelsome speak in a way which makes a Romney administration's unfamiliar policies a frightening prospect.
Mr. Obama negotiated a many tougher system of administration department of multilateral mercantile sanctions upon Iran. Mr. Romney likes to contend a boss was ineffectual upon Iran, though during a last discuss he concluded with Mr. Obama's policies. Mr. Obama deserves credit for his handling of a Arab Spring. The killing goes upon in Syria, though a administration department department is operative to identify as well as await assuage mutinous forces there. At a last debate, Mr. Romney talked about funneling arms by Saudi Arabia as well as Qatar, which have been funneling arms to jihadist groups.
Mr. Obama collected international subsidy for airstrikes during a Libyan uprising, as well as kept American troops forces in a credentials role. It was smart policy.
In a broadest terms, he introduced a measure of troops patience after a Bush years as well as helped correct America's badly shop-worn reputation in many countries from a low levels to which it had sunk by 2008.
The Supreme Court
The destiny of a nation's top justice hangs in a balance in this choosing as well as along with it, reproductive leisure for American women as well as choosing by casting votes rights for all, to name just du! al issue s. Whoever is boss after a choosing will make during least a single appointment to a court, as well as many some-more to sovereign appeals courts as well as district courts.
Mr. Obama, who allocated a considerable Justices Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, understands how severely deleterious regressive activism has been in areas similar to discuss spending. He would designate justices as well as judges who understand which landmarks of equivalence similar to a Voting Rights Act contingency be defended opposite a solid attack from a right.
Mr. Romney's discuss Web site says he will "nominate judges in a distinctive nature of Chief Justice Roberts as well as Justices Scalia, Thomas as well as Alito," among a many regressive justices in a past 75 years. There is no doubt which he would designate justices who would find to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Civil Rights
The unusual actuality of Mr. Obama's 2008 choosing did not usher in a new post-racial era. In fact, a solid undercurrent of injustice in national politics is truly disturbing. Mr. Obama, however, has topsy-turvy Bush administration department department policies which chipped divided during minorities' choosing by casting votes rights as well as has fought laws, similar to a ones in Arizona, which find to spin undocumented immigrants in to a category of criminals.
The military's unpleasant "don't ask, don't tell" order was finally legislated out of existence, under a Obama administration's leadership. There have been still large hurdles to equivalence to be brought down, together with a Defense of Marriage Act, a vast sovereign law which undermines a rights of gay men as well as lesbians, even in states which recognize those rights.
Though it took Mr. Obama a little time to do it, he overcame his perplexity about same-sex matrimony as well as declared his support. That await has helped spur marriage-equality movements around a country. His Justice Department has additiona! lly stop ped defending a Defense of Marriage Act opposite constitutional challenges.
Mr. Romney opposes same-sex matrimony as well as supports a sovereign act, which not only denies sovereign benefits as well as recognition to same-sex couples though allows states to omit marriages done in alternative states. His discuss declared which Mr. Romney would not intent if states additionally criminialized embracing a cause by same-sex couples as well as limited their rights to hospital visitation as well as alternative privileges.
Mr. Romney has been clever to equivocate a efforts of a little Republicans to criminalize abortion even in a box of women who had been raped, together with by family members. He says he is not against to contraception, though he has betrothed to repudiate sovereign money to Planned Parenthood, upon which millions of women rely for family planning.
For these as well as many alternative reasons, you enthusiastically endorse President Barack Obama for a second term, as well as demonstrate a hope which his feat will be accompanied by a new Congress peaceful to work for policies which Americans need.
In a single of my meetings with Tun Daim Zainudin, he questioned where have been a votes entrance from for BN? Najib wanted to hold elections in Jun 2012 this year. His personal emissary Jamaludin Jaris went over to see Daim to present a briefing. Since 2008, Daim has become roughly a seer for UMNO whose each word is taken to be prophetic. When a wily statesman pronounced it would be suicidal for Najib to hold elections in June, JJ took a reckless shelter to report to a boss.
Najib right away stays as a UMNO boss as well as PM with a longest time but a mandate. That, notwithstanding his a single fingering of this as well as which as well as all a large talk about transformation. What has he essentially transformed? It is only like what a Oracle of Syed Putera said- Najib has not got what it takes to run this country.
Just where have been a votes entrance from? Najib cannot certitude a Malaysianised Indonesians since their idol is Anwar Ibrahim. The Cambodians? The Myanmerese? The Bangladeshis? Are we talking about a Malaysian PM? Can we certitude a Malaysian PM who does not certitude his own people?
Are a Felda settlers entrance in droves to a suffocating welcome of UMNO? we am contemptible to report; there is a groundswell of rejection between felda settlers. The FGV cost is right away RM4.65. That is eleven sen above a listed cost of RM4.54. With 800 units to their name, a Felda settlers have RM88 for a 800 units. If they had taken out a loan where a processing alone was RM200, each settler would have finished a detriment of R112. That would be a single indignant settler. There have been 112,635 of them. And if a felda settler has 5 voting members in his family, which would be 500,000 indignant voters. Now, even if a government lends them a income to buy a 800 units as well as pays RM50 a month, there is no telling what a cost of a FGV would be in a months' time. If a cost drops further, a settler will have to! work ou t what their land cost is. If after 3 months, while he pays RM150, as well as he still makes RM88, he will still upon a losing end. So can a felda settlers upon their considered recommendation of college as well as university going children continue to await UMNO? Hello, a inventory has enriched a political aristocrats as well as a Malay bourgeoisie.
I know there is some terror as well as excitability when it comes to taking votes from a traditional await bottom of UMNO- a farming votes. After carrying traversed a nation you do my ceramahs as well as essentially feeling a pulse, we would say, which excitability as well as misgivings have been somewhat misplaced. The swell as well as groundswell which we have been talking about have widespread even to a traditional reservoir of UMNO support.
The categorical reason for which is a outrageous shame which UMNO has warranted upon its name. UMNO is synonymous with corruption, mismanagement of a country, audacity as well as plain incompetence.
This change in heart is not attained overnight. It is not like; people wake up a single morning as well as decide at a coax of a moment, they do not wish to identify with UMNO any longer. UMNO's restraint as well as all a bad which is associated with a celebration have reached their tipping point.
The principal worth between farming electorate is always religion. PAS has already finished so many inroads in to a farming heartland. That religiosity indispensable only an impetus to be heightened. That impetus was handed over to a opposition when a UMNO president, a Malay as well as a Muslim sat passively when Chua Soi Lek delivered his sardonic libel of Islam as well as Muslim. That is aversion as well as to add insult to a injured feelings, Najib went upon to give Soi Lek an one more RM30million to their RM100 million , when a eremite schools got only RM 100million.
That is a fatal mixture which cannot be acc! epted by a farming voters.
How far reaching have been a promotion as well as a obvious vote shopping which UMNO has dished out? All those culminated in a 2013 bill which is suitably declared as give-me-life bill as well as a best free bill given Adam as well as Eve?
The promotion is a single large inapplicable designation as well as a outrageous overkill. How does a nation take to a promotion which a UMNO owned media industry took to vilify Anwar Ibrahim? For umpteen years, UMNO educate a Malays with a wrong values- creation light of corruption as well as excusing them since a perpetrators have been a single of us, to sully another's repute as well as to interpose a public with dirty as well as outrageous values. All these have been right away producing a opposite enlightenment of rejection. Rejection of UMNO which is.
When womenfolk have been right away dauntless enough to attend ceramahs as well as responded equally vigourously as a menfolk, these have been signs of difficulty for UMNO. It signifies a boldness upon a part of a many critical element of farming votes to not be afraid of a scare tactics as well as a horrific stories which UMNO spreads through their network of Kemas , JASA as well as JKKK apparatchiks.
I mean, which female rubber tapper in her right thoughts will buy a story bandied around by KEMAS operatives which not voting UMNO will meant she will remove her pursuit as rubber tapper? Since when does UMNO own a land belonging to a rubber tapper? That women rubber tapper right away knows she cannot remove her pursuit which she herself gives as well as which is not owned by UMNO!