Really Looking at Our Choices a Question of Integrity

It seems to me that this election is bringing up some basic differences between the two men that are competing for the presidency. You could say there are many similarities. President Obama, and Governor Romney are both men who believe in God, they both are family orientated men who love their families. Both are well educated in the finest schools. They are both men who seem to care about this country. They are both men.

But beyond that, their character and what they represent are quite different. Mr. Romney seems to think that whatever he has to say to get elected is what he will say, while President Obama has set an agenda, one that is the beginning of change towards steady progress of more jobs, an improved economy, more access to health care for more people, and women’s right to choose. He trusts women to make the right choices for their families and their own health care and their bodies. He is working towards a sustainable economy with the Earth in mind. President Obama has what has been forgotten in politics for a long time, it is called integrity. Mr. Romney has demonstrated none what so every changing to please the broadest audience he can reach for a glorified popularity contest. He is not a serious presidential candidate.

Barack Obama has the best interest of all the people at heart. He is turning our country towards sustainability, which we must do in order to stop the free ride that we have taken on the back of the Earth. While Mitt Romney only really cares about what he can take and make money from with regards to nature he is the one trashing the future of children who will not know the wild, not know this earth beyond a resources for exploitation.  He will only increase exploitation to get the economy moving. But he is an exploiter and doesn’t take into consideration the long term effects of what his policies might render. He takes credit for things that he has little or nothing to do with as in the last presidential debate where he took credit for things in Massachusetts .  

Now there are some things that I feel president Obama has done that I do not agree with, like fracking, drones and other issues. However, he has done what he said he would do, he has saved our economy from policies that ruined us, that the republicans set in place under 8 awful years of George W. Bush. Obama has actually reduced the deficit, even though the stimulus was necessary and deficit increased for a time, he reduced it as soon as he could. Some say too soon.

Yet after three presidential debates, Mr. Romney has not offered one solution beyond what the republicans have done before, which got us into this economic mess in the first place. What he has offered is nothing that supports the people. Trickle down does not work. We have seen this folly before only making the rich richer and the middle class paying for their mistakes. He says he will create jobs but has he really done this? It seems from his record that he has cut jobs, fired people and made money from failing companies.  And what about sustainability? What about the environment? He has offered nothing towards sustainability. He wants to open up public lands, lands that are preserved for future generations.
Romney has not given a straight answer since he started campaigning. In fact I would compare him to the story of Dorian Gray, a tall handsome entrepreneur who was a lying cheating man with no integrity whatsoever.  There is a painting of he and his wife in the Art Institute of Chicago. How can anyone vote for him? I am shocked at his apparent popularity.

I am also shocked that no one has checked the electronic voting machines that are so easily manipulated in Ohio and other parts of the country. Who is checking these? These are another folly of the Republicans under George Bush.

It is my opinion that much of the rhetoric against President Obama is due to racism. He won’t say this but I will. The Republican “conspiracies” that they have floated with no factual back-up about Obama’s past, the birthers who remain obsessed about his birth certificate, those who think he has secret ties to the Taliban, etc., are not looking at him beyond the skin color.  What they see is an African American that has questionable ancestry. This is the most insidious kind of racism there is. If anyone cares to look beyond appearances, they will see the truth of these two men and what they actually offer the American people.  Two men, one African American with integrity, and who has a will to assist the people and who HAS demonstrated this to all Americans, and white man who has known nothing but privilege, who cannot know one iota of what most people need. Mitt Romney is a man who wants to undo women’s rights to choose and a health care plan (based on his own plan in Massachusetts) that he wants to now undermine just because the democrats proposed it. He really only wants to claim glory for himself and redo the legislation to say he “saved” the American economy by destroying health care. He will increase the deficit if he increases unneeded military spending by trillions that he intends with nonsensical ways of not paying for the increase in spending.

Please America, wake up to really look at these two men beyond skin color. Look carefully at their hearts. If you look at their hearts, you will see that Obama has been true in helping Americans with a selflessness that is steady and true to the needs of the people The other, Mitt Romney, just helps himself to what he wants, and lies his way with questionable tactics in the process to get elected.

It is time we as a people woke up and really looked at these two candidates for the good of all especially the Earth.

America please wake up.