Why Voting for Obama Is Important and Necessary

Charles M. Blow  has an important piece to read on the important and decisive differences between President Obama and Governor Romney.

Romney and the Republicans are running a campaign of opposition and retrenchment. They want to repeal, restrict, restructure, reclaim and restore. They want to take the country back to a reality that exists only in their imaginations — and to a world that will never exist again — and freeze us there.

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I have no personal gripe with Romney. I don’t believe him to be an evil man. Quite the opposite: he appears to be a loving husband and father. Besides, evil requires conviction, which Romney lacks. But he is a dangerous man. Unprincipled ambition always is. Infinite malleability is its own vice because it’s infinitely corruptible by others of ignoble intentions.

Please go read the entire article. Also, if you don’t already follow Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) on the new fangled Twitter, you really should.