MARLBORO — Thank you, President Obama. Your accomplishments in health care have been huge. With federal agreement, Vermonters want to go even further. Your opponent wanted to decimate the new law and to reduce Medicaid as well. That's moving backward. Society and the states simply cannot handle that.
The stimulus was huge around here; the busy highway repair activity felt especially good.
Dodd-Frank finance improvements, an easily implemented change in “don't ask, don't tell,” fair pay for women, student loan attention and anti-deportation measures for young immigrants, no more Iraq, Afghanistan to follow, a renewed American automobile industry: this is quite a bit in four years, especially with the legislative opposition you encountered.
Civilian employment and housing starts are back to 2008 levels, and consumer confidence is higher than that.
In a global BBC survey, 20 of 21 countries preferred Obama to Romney. (The nay sayer was Pakistan.) Cayman Islands tax havens have been condemned around the world.
The Occupy folks are on target. American inequality is at an all-time high. Equal opportunity is at an all-time low.
You and I know that more than 95 percent of Americans benefit from government programs, not 47 percent.
Latino support for your reelection was over 70 percent. African-American support for the GOP was near zero.
There is still a lot to do. Climate and jobs rank number one. Black poverty, incarceration, and educational improvements are essential. There will be one to three Supreme Court appointments in the next four years.
Not only do we need you, but we need change-makers all across the line, especially Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch, Peter Shumlin, Doug Hoffer, Beth Pearce, Ed Stanak, Mollie Burke, and Tristan Toleno.
May God be with us all.