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Congratulations Mr President!

This is last weekend before one of the most important elections for all of us, future Americans and to some extent for world. I am personally endorsing Mr Barack Obama and congratulating him in advance for winning the election and 2nd term as President for USA. I have nothing against Mr Romney - in fact as person I like him and his values which come from his faith. However I have major differences when it comes to role of Government vs private sector with Mr Romney and his party. This was evident from last weeks effects of mega storm Sandy. If it is up to Romney and his party, they would outsource such responses from Federal government to state/local or even private companies. This is what we heard during earlier debates and we already had a taste of this during Hurricane Katrina response (when we had Republican President). Mr Obama handled response to Sandy very well by stopping his most important election campaign and focused all his energies to make sure that affected people get necessary help from FEMA and other government agencies. At that time, he did not care that his partner in this response is one of his most ardent rival Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
There are many such small day-to-day aspects of Presidential duties where people need to have trust in their President that he would do everything possible for majority of people no matter what is their economic status and religious beliefs or gender, sexual preferences and so on. Mr Obama has earned this trust whereas Mr Romney has not.
So for Americans going to poll on Nov 6, it's simple choice:

  • Who would be able to handle economy better? Obama or Romney?
  • Which years they would like to see? Clinton years or Bush years?
  • Who would most likely fight for them? Obama or Romney?
  • Who would be able to handle foreign policy better when it comes to dealing America's partners or rouge states? Obama or Romney?
  • And finally: Whom do they trust? Obama or Romney?
I already have answers for this and hence I plan to vote for Mr. Obama!
And I congratulate Mr Obama in advance for getting elected as our 45th President!

/Shyam

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