“Imagine what another four years would be like with @BarackObama. He’s already promised more of the same.” This was another one of Romney’s motivating (sarcasm) tweets that his campaign sent out over the weekend.
Well, if you call a stock market up 45% and jobs created at about five million (versus losing 800,000 per month at the nadir the economy’s collapse), I will take another four years of Obama.
The productivity engine of the US economy – venture capital investment, in areas such as social media – is booming. Dictators in the Middle East are dropping like flies, with Obama using words not bombs to sow the seeds of change. For those who don’t remember, where was Obama’s first international speech as president? London? Berlin? Tokyo? No Cairo. The Arab Spring was soon in full bloom.
Just coincidence? I doubt it. A man whose complexion is not too dissimilar to many Egyptians and possessing a Muslim name able to be elected so soon after 9/11 is probably a powerful sign to young Egyptians. The contagion of democracy continues to this day.
A recovering economy, the ending of two wars, the collapse of decades (if not centuries and millennia) of non-democratic rule in many middle-east countries, leads me to believe Obama has done one heck of a job. Especially when considering the mess he was left with. Oh! That’s right! Iran’s economy is in a freefall as a result of peaceful, multilateral efforts to bring its political leadership to its knees as well.
Try and find a candidate who could have done a better job! The only thing that held Obama back was the extremism of the Tea Party members, or the conservative right: Romney’s prime supporters. If Tea Party members are voted out in this election, then this country can really get the reforms in place needed to get this country humming along again. The facts and the actions of the Obama presidency are hard to top, especially when considering where the country had been.
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