Subject: You should forward this:
From: "Obama for America" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 02:04:12 -0400

Friend --

Every now and again, the other side likes to claim
President Obama doesn't have a record to run on. They're
wrong. Here's a taste of why:

(Just a couple of) the Obama Administration's
accomplishments:

1. The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to help women fight back when they
don't get equal pay for equal work.

2. His Recovery Act supported millions of jobs and helped to
stave off a second Great Depression.

3. He pushed for and won middle-class tax cuts that benefitted
every American worker, and saved the typical family $3,600
in taxes over the last four years.

4. President Obama rescued the auto industry, and now GM and
Chrysler are healthier than they've ever been. The American
auto industry has added nearly a quarter of a million jobs
since June 2009 -- and they most likely wouldn't exist
right now without President Obama's leadership.

5. He doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping to make college
more affordable for nearly 10 million families.

6. His student loan reform ended billions in subsidies to
banks serving as middlemen and reinvested those savings
directly into students.

7. The President established the American Opportunity Tax
Credit, worth up to $10,000 over four years of college.

8. His Race to the Top Initiative helped spur nearly every
state to raise academic standards.

9. His tax cuts, social-welfare programs, and economic
policies lifted nearly 7 million Americans above the
federal poverty line in 2010. 

10. President Obama has signed 18 tax cuts for small businesses
since taking office.

11. We've seen 5.2 million new private-sector jobs over the
last 31 months.

12. The unemployment rate is at the lowest level since
President Obama took office.

13. Health care reform -- passed after decades of failed attempts by
every previous President -- provides affordable health
coverage to every American and will lower premiums by an
average of $2,000 per family by 2019.

14. Obamacare expanded access to lifesaving preventive care
such as cancer screenings and immunizations with no out-of
-pocket costs for 54 million Americans.

15. Obamacare ends insurance discrimination against the 129
million Americans with pre-existing conditions. 

16. Because of Obamacare, over 3 million more young adults have
health insurance today than would if the new law hadn't
passed.

17. The parents of over 17 million children with pre-existing
conditions no longer have to worry that their children will
be denied coverage.

18. President Obama has ordered the overhaul of federal
government regulations to make them smarter, practical, and
more efficient. Just a fraction of these commonsense
initiatives will help save businesses $10 billion in the
next five years alone.

19. His historic investments in clean energy have helped more
than double the amount of electricity we obtain from wind
and solar sources and helped increase biofuel production to
its highest level in history.

20. President Obama is doubling fuel efficiency standards,
which will save drivers more than $8,000 at the gas pump,
not to mention lessen the impact of automobiles on our
environment.

21. President Obama has taken unprecedented action to address
climate change, reaching historic international agreements
to curb carbon emissions, and taking action here at home to
reduce carbon pollution from our vehicles and promote clean
energy production.

22. He has taken historic action to protect our environment --
signing one of the largest expansions of protected
wilderness in a generation and putting in place standards
to reduce toxic air pollution that will save thousands of
lives.

23. President Obama fought for and won landmark Wall Street
reform that reins in the abuses that led to the financial
crisis and ends the era of taxpayer bailouts and "too big
to fail."

24. Wall Street reform created the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, the nation's first federal agency
focused solely on consumer financial protection -- and the
Bureau is already protecting families from unfair and
abusive financial practices from Wall Street banks and
shadowy corners of the financial industry.

25. As part of President Obama's commitment to transparency,
the White House has posted its visitor records online for
the first time ever.

26. President Obama's all-of-the-above approach to energy has
helped cut the United States' dependence on foreign oil to
its lowest level in 20 years. 

27. President Obama responsibly ended the war in Iraq.

28. He announced a plan to end the war in Afghanistan and
transition security responsibility to the Afghan people.

29. President Obama sent the largest security assistance
package to Israel in history and funded the Iron Dome
system, which is protecting Israeli homes and schools from
rocket attacks.

30. President Obama rallied the international community to
implement the toughest sanctions on Iran in history.

31. Through the President's historic increases in Veterans
Affairs funding, he has expanded and improved healthcare
and job training access for our returning veterans.

32. President Obama negotiated the New START Treaty with Russia
to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in both countries.
At the same time, he also secured commitments from dozens
of other countries to lock down nuclear materials.

33. His administration naturalized 11,146 military service
members as U.S. citizens in 2010; more than in any year
since 1955.

34. President Obama set a bold new plan for the future of NASA
space exploration, using the skill and ability of the
private sector for short trips to the International Space
Station, while building a new vehicle for exploration of
distant space, and doing everything in his power to support
the economy on Florida's Space Coast.

35. President Obama recognizes that tourism is one of America's
largest economic engines; he's worked to encourage
international visitors to come here, maintaining our
security while keeping millions of Americans in good,
paying jobs.

36. He has affirmed his personal support of marriage equality,
directed the Justice Department to stop defending DOMA in
federal courts, and took the practical and compassionate
step of extending hospital visitation rights to same-sex
partners.

37. He fought for and won the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell,
allowing gay and lesbian members of the military to serve
openly for the first time in history.

38. When Congress failed to fix our broken immigration system,
his administration did everything in its power to improve
it, streamlining the legal immigration process and
announcing a policy that lifts the shadow of deportation
from hard working young immigrants brought to the U.S. as
children.

39. Oh, and he gave the order to send troops in after Osama Bin
Laden -- and has decimated al-Qaeda's senior leadership.

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