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This Made Me Cry

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Why I will be voting for the incumbant.

"In an effort to cool the situation down, it didn't come from me, it didn't come from Secretary Clinton. It came from people on the ground who are potentially in danger," Obama said. "And my tendency is to cut folks a little bit of slack when they're in that circumstance, rather than try to question their judgment from the comfort of a campaign office."  [Here] Between living in the Republican South, and wishing to keep peace with a beloved  member of my family, I learned to temper my approval.  Here on my blog that no one reads, allow me to say, "I love our President."   And from the Vanity Fair article by Michael Lewis:  That evening he sat down at his desk in the White House residence, in the Treaty Room, and pulled out a yellow legal pad and a No. 2 ­ ­pencil. When we think of a presidential speech we think of the bully pulpit—the president trying to persuade the rest of us to think or feel in a certain way. We do not think ...