Presidential Slam Dunk Obama wins electoral landslide re-election For the second time Justspeak
By Irma McClaurin, PhD, Culture and Education Editor
in this 21st century Barack Hussein Obama, the first Black President of the United States of America, has made history. He won his re-election by an electoral landslide. He beat the odds that predicted he would win the electoral vote but not the popular vote, and thereby further polarizing America. Well, they were wrong. This incumbent president has won reelection with 50% of the people claiming President Barrack Hussein Obama as the person to lead them over the next four years. But the road ahead is a tough one.
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We Need an ObamaDeal America is in trouble, and it is not only the middle class who has suffered. We have always been a country of the “haves” and “have not’s.” The economic divide has deepened, and we are moving again to a more economically segregated country. We need a series of government sponsored programs that help the people not the corporations or businesses. The government has bailed out and distributed support to these entities over the last four years, and it didn’t work as effectively as it should have. We now need bold government initiatives and some Presidential Executive Orders along the lines of Roosevelt’s New Deal, which established the Social Security Act; the WPA (Works Progress Administration) that put artists, writers, and others to work; the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Farm Security Administration, and the United States Housing Authority. We need an ObamaDeal to carry us forward.
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Barack Obama made history … again. The nation’s 44th president and its first African-American to be elected to the office was re-elected on Nov. 6 by beating Gov. Mitt Romney; winning in virtually every battleground state. Pres. Obama won in battleground states of Ohio, Virginia, Colorado,
Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and most likely Florida. Florida’s vote favors Obama, but is still considered too close to call. The only battleground state the president did not carry was North Carolina. Pres. Obama handily defeated Romney in Minnesota outpacing his Republican challenger by nearly 220,000 votes. “We believe in a generous America, in a compassionate America, in a tolerant America,
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open to the dreams of an immigrant’s daughter who studies in our schools and pledges to our flag,” said the president in his victory speech. He continued, “To the young boy on the south side of Chicago who sees a life beyond the nearest street corner. To the furniture worker’s child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or
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