What Barack Obama’s Election To A Second Term As President Means

The second term victory of Barack Obama has many meanings, including:

ObamaCare is here to stay, although there will be tinkering and fine tuning of the program. Who would have thought that Chief Justice John Roberts would save it, and that the ability of the Republican Party to smash it would be a total failure?

The Supreme Court is safe from a right wing tilt, as it is now Barack Obama and a stronger Democratic Senate who will have control over future Court appointments, and lower court nominees as well, and therefore, Obama’s effect on constitutional law will be massive.

The advance of gay rights and gay marriage is now guaranteed, and expect that the Supreme Court will rule on it soon, very likely favorably, and that never again will any state or any religious group be able to deny a basic human right to anyone, the right to marry a person you love.

The environment will be advanced greatly, and likely, often by executive order. Expect that Barack Obama will accomplish enough reform, that he will rank with Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter as an environmentalist.

The labor movement, in deep trouble for a long time, will now have a champion who will help to revive it, and gain the respect of the American people for the importance of unions.

There will be attempts to deal with the problem of poverty, and expect that Obama will attempt to do what Al Gore planned, had he been inaugurated as President in 2001— a War on Poverty.

Wall Street knows it will have a President who intends to fight them on the subject of regulation, as the voters made clear they wanted government oversight of the financial industry in the public interest.

The right of women to control their reproductive lives, and to have equal pay and respect, will be championed by Barack Obama. No more disrespect for women will become part of the agenda.

The ability to help Latinos and Hispanics achieve advancement in America will be promoted, as they made a dramatic difference in this election, and a plan for immigration reform will move forward, as even sane people in the Republican Party, such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, know it is essential for political survival, as well as being what is moral and ethical.

Taxes will go up to make up for past irresponsibility on paying for two wars, and is essential to make budget cuts less onerous, and the rich will go back to paying the rates they paid under Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and they will simply have to understand we are all going to have to sacrifice for the good of the nation and its future.

The possibility of engagement in foreign wars, including against Iran, will be lessened dramatically, although there can never be a certainty that America can avoid foreign conflict, but at least we have a President who will make every effort to avert it.

America will have a President who does not dismiss any percentage of the population, but instead a President who is sincere, genuine, caring, decent, and will work as hard as he can for our advancement. And if he makes mistakes, he will be accountable for them, and will always come across as someone who dedicates every waking moment to our success as a nation.

Barack Obama will have our back, and we will come to appreciate him in the long run of history!

3 comments on “What Barack Obama’s Election To A Second Term As President Means

  1. Paul Doyle November 8, 2012 8:22 am

    The counter argument is that Obama with no further elections to run will move further toward the center-right in order to address the deficit, fiscal cliff, etc. He still has to deal with the House for at least two more years with their GOP majority.

    After the mid-term elections of ’14, “lame duck” syndrome becomes more pronounced regardless of what parties are controlling the legislature.

    Good article in today’s Boston Globe on the immediate horizon issues that are facing the President:

    http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2012/11/08/president-obama-looks-ahead-second-term/O6Zh3lgqlp37N2VX6oT4zI/story.html

  2. Ronald November 8, 2012 10:16 am

    I tend to think that Obama will veer to the left, due to the election results, to insure his legacy as a President who will be mentioned with Wilson, FDR, and LBJ as a great domestic President. His key time for action is before the midterm, because, as you have said, he will be a “lame duck” in the last two years, and would only be able to do much by executive order in 2015-2016, if the GOP still controls the House.

    At the same time, he will have to make some compromise deals with the GOP in the House, but they will be running scared, and could, very likely, face the danger of losing their slim majority in the House in 2014, if they go too extreme.

    Thanks for the article, Paul!

  3. Maggie November 8, 2012 8:51 pm

    This reelection of this great man and thoughts of the next four years bring to mind the second line in the poem, “Rabbi Ben Ezra” by Robert Browning:

    The best is yet to be…..

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