Vote!




Are we to let the other side define this president and
 all that he has accomplished? Vote!

  With only a few weeks to go before the 2010 midterm elections, Americans have some important choices to make: The Tea Party, The Republicans, or The Democrats. Thanks to the recent Supreme Court ruling, corporations and unions can contribute unlimited funds under names like “Americans for Progress” to campaigns and they do NOT have to say where their money comes from. Karl Rove and Associates, the Koch brothers, Rupert Murdoch and others are busy raising money hand over fist for Republicans and Tea Party candidates and are targeting those races that will shift control of the U.S. Senate and possibly the House away from the reform minded Democrats that swept Barack Obama into office.


There is no denying the rage among voters in this country toward the negative, back-biting partisanship in our nation’s capitol. The economy’s slow recovery, continued high unemployment, rising national debt and foreclosures have fueled this anger. The Democratic Party’s message of reform pales against the onslaught of Right Wing and Tea Party rhetoric spewing forth from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and others. The government is too big! Privatize or do away with Social Security and Medicare! Repeal the new healthcare legislation! Drill baby, drill! Don’t tie the hands of business with needless taxes and regulations and environmental rules! Keep the tax cuts, especially for the wealthy! Let trickledown economics work! Voters are being bombarded with negative, fear-filled messages and calls to throw the bums out!

After 8 years of Neocon Republican control of this nation, ending in the near financial collapse of this country and the world, two unending wars, being the target of worldwide terrorists and losing the respect of our friends and allies, voters have to make some very important decisions in just a few weeks. Do we return control of our government to the right wing Party of No and assorted Tea Party radicals OR do we stay the course and continue on this path of continued reform and hope that things will improve and get better for the average American?

No, I don’t believe that Democrats have all the answers, but what alternatives do moderate Democrats, Republicans, Independents and those of us calling ourselves Progressives have against this onslaught of negative, fear, smears and lies? Where do we go in just a few weeks, if we don’t want this country to step backward, be dismantled, undone and handed over to big business, banks and power brokers? Under Obama, we have made some progress, not as much as I would like, but progress none the less. It has been a hard won progress against a foe that would rather destroy this once great nation rather than compromise or come up with workable solutions rather than anti-everything Obama rhetoric.

With all the money being raised to defeat Democratic candidates in the mid-term elections, there is one thing to keep in mind. The corporations don’t get to vote. They have millions of dollars to influence voters, but WE the people…get to vote! I urge all American voters to consider all the rhetoric, all the messages and all the claims being bought and sold by those special interests groups. Decide if you want America to go forward or backwards and then go vote. Get your friends and family to vote. What we the people decide will determine what we ALL live with.

Food for THOUGHT…