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In reply to the discussion: President Obama: “Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election” [View all]mike_c
(36,279 posts)....an end to corporate personhood, meaningful campaign finance reform, economic policies that create equitable wealth distribution, a strong middle class, and diminish the number of Americans in poverty, strengthened labor unions and other organizations that represent workers, an IMMEDIATE end to the unnecessary wars against Iraq and Afghanistan (three years later-- and counting in Afghanistan-- just doesn't have any moral authority), an end to indefinite detention without trial and a return to the principles embodied by the Nuremburg Protocols and the United Nations Charter, investigation and prosecution of former elected officials who lied the nation into two disastrous wars, investigation and prosecution of Wall Street banksters whose greed brought the world's economy to it's knees-- and a purging of their representatives from White House economic policy creation, an end to the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, and an end to the erosion of civil rights in the name of "anti-terrorism?"
You mean all those things that we've fought for so hard are now at stake in this election?
Oh no!