let's talk about the selection you know it's been it's been months
we've been going through the ins and out of the candidates have been going
through so many uh... different stories all sorts of minutiae
everything up and down haven't we lewis
minutiae of the newer whatever you want to call it
we're at a point where
let me backtrack in two thousand four many people always try to argued this is
an incredible particularly important election
back in two thousand four
uh...
with george w_ bush and uh... a a john kerry not everybody really believe that
that was a particularly important election some people that some people
didn't in two thousand eight same thing
if you are progressive right now we are really at a potential turning point let
me explain why
if president obama wins
he will likely go down in history as one of the most effective and accomplished
president just looking at the magnitude a number of things he's accomplished
all bamaca
the huge stimulus
stopping a straight down recession brought on by the previous president
ending to wars
getting terrorist responsible for one of the biggest foreign terrorist attacks on
american soil
and if we see continued success for 'em
the american auto industry that as well rescuing one of the
most important industries in the united states
if president obama loses tonight
he will likely be regarded as
another one term president just wasn't able to get himself reelected
let's talk about mit romney
if mit romney wins that means
you can lie your way to the top you can't hide your blatantly
anti-american pack
of hiding money offshore
shipping jobs overseas and making money off of the backs of the middle class u
claim to care about
that's not good
we can't have that
and beyond what this means about the specific candidates president obama or
mit romney for forget about them for anything either case this is both of
their last campaign as we've heard
beyond what it means about the candidates
this election could be a turning point
in pushing out the right wing conservative ideas that we've been
working for so long to eliminate the militant anti chile's anti-gay ideas the
world view that rejects are skeptical of science the ruled that the the site of
politics that believes that the only government spending we should ever
increases defense weapons and wars
we have a chance to push that out we've made progress
because and inspite of president obama's first term on health care
on gay marriage
in so many other areas
if president obama wins he will appoint one or two supreme court justices that
are going to look to overturn roe v_ wade
we will lock it in obama care if president obama is reelect that we will
read reelected we will protect it
from republican threats to overturn it a repeal it a replace it or whatever it is
they want to do
and by twenty sixteen
the demographics of this country will have shifted into a ways that will make
it even more difficult
for right wing insanity to continue number one hispanic voters will make up
even more of the population such that the republican failsafe of relying on
white male voters will mathematically be so difficult that it's not going to be
viable it will force the republican party change
number two
the aging out
of many of these regressive ideas
is going to be replaced by young liberal voters who grew up in a world where
a black president and same-sex parents
are so left week that they're barely even worth discussing gay marriage
education health care foreign policy reasonable drug policy
these are all on the table
as moving in the progressive direction if president obama is re-elected note
mit romney wins
his supreme court appointments are gonna open up the door to overturning roe v_
wade
they're gonna continue to stifle gay-rights staple spending on education
going back to the george w_ bush times where the world
laughed at us
we know those policies don't work
today's the day
we are hours away from the first results
the way i see this is as progressives were pushing a boulder up a mountain
and we have to push the boulder whether if president obama or mit romney or
george bush or whoever but do we get closer to pushing it over the edge in
starting the downhill role within the next four years
or do we let it roll back even further that's really the question here
your thoughts louis theory inspirational speech david
nicely done
uh... we're not just carry on a presidential election of course a
a democratic majority in congress would be
uh... just as good as uh... as a barackobama wind and insanely important
because
with all the opposition if if it's a republican throw congress i mean
who knows what will be able to accomplish netanya thoughts
uh... yeah just about
old bomb a second term i mean he has the possibility here to as the economy
improves
to really um...
tamped down the deficit which will be another lasting legacy maybe tried at
set the country on the past two where bill clinton was when he left his
presidency obviously we're not gonna be the plate there
and then maybe have a comprehensive immigration uh... reform that would be
huge and then if you really wanted to go
for the double touchdown i don't think there's going to happen but if he
actually tackled campaign finance reform on in a bipartisan basis that would be
truly the story that weight that would require
democratic majority