Steelworker In OH: Something To Think About...

[Hissyspit]

New DUer Steelworker In OH posted this in a thread of mine about the increased Democratic voter registration. He only has seven posts, so is unable to start new threads. I thought his post rated a separate thread. I hope he doesn't mind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3475010&mesg_id=3475144

Steelworker In OH (7 posts) Sun Sep-07-08 02:13 AM
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11. Something to think about

Since I don't have enough posts to start a thread, I've been looking for a place to post this, here goes...

I'm a little concerned about not only the state of this election, but also the state of the next election as well... Maybe the repub's have given up on 08' (short of cheating) and are looking to 2012. Think about it... Obama/Biden have around 3 years before hard campaigning begins for the 2012 election (at best 3 years), now no one, and I mean NO ONE can turn everything around by then. At best Obama will be able to make a dent and steer us in the right direction to being a well respected and more economically stable democracy again. How can we be sure the repub's aren't laying in the weeds, waiting to use this against our party and its elected leadership? A lot of Americans are sheep, face it, they will listen to anyone who steps up to the mic and spews a bunch of crap about how this person and that person didn't turn us around, but they can, yada yada yada.

We need to be on the defensive here people. This isn't just about the next 2 months, it isn't just about the next 4 years, We need to fight for the next decade and beyond. Undoing everything Dubya and his cronies have managed to do over the last 7+ years is going to take a very long time, and a lot of hard work by more than just one determined leader (if everything can even be "undone"). We need to educate people of this, and let them know we're going to need the chance and the time to do it.

I am a firm supporter of Obama/Biden. I am a proud Steelworker from Ohio. I've been dragged through the mud of the failing Auto Industry. I want to see this country succeed, I want to see Obama and Biden become our leaders and show us the way through leadership and policy changes that we do have a better tomorrow. I just don't want that chance stolen away from them now or in 4 years. Lets be in this for the long haul. it's not just 08', its 12', and 16' and so on and so forth. Be ready, the fight is long from over.

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1. That is what it's about

Thanks for posting - this needed a kick!

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[rosesaylavee]

3. I think, as someone who has posted here, just a measly three years

compared to many many others who have been here the whole 8 years, I can say that the majority of us know that this is going to a long long road back to a viable democracy again. Many here are working on campaigns now and volunteer imbetween on the causes that made this country a beacon of hope in the past and what it can be again.

I am in for the long haul and optimistically hope to tell my grandkids some day that I worked for the reversal of this fascist state on their behalf. We will be working to undo this * administration's damage for the next 20 years. And the only way it will be done is if we ALL stay involved and help the Obama Administration and then the Biden Administration to get that to happen.

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[DemocracyInaction]

5. I think a lot can be done faster than usual

..in that if Obama wins he will have a Dem Congress that hopefully will shut up their internal stupid ass fighting (as they are wont to do)and get some concrete things done quite fast. What is important are those things that people can, in essence, hold in their hand. Like middle class tax breaks, health insurance, protecting retirement plans, standing up for workers, helping the Vets and the VA hospitals....and getting us out of this fucking, money pit of a war. I think we can make some fast progress and then other things, yes, will go at a slower pace.