1. Passed Health Care Reform: After five presidents over a century failed to create universal health insurance, signed the Affordable Care Act (2010). It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America’s long-term fiscal problems.
2. Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.
3. Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies.
There is an incredible dichotomy at work in the Republican Party these days.
Mitt Romney’s campaign has gone out and hired political strategist, and famed black female Conservative Tara Wall to head up its outreach efforts, in particular outreach to African American voters, in an attempt to…do something. Let’s save what for later.
It wouldn’t be particularly illuminating at this juncture to point out that the Republican Party and their “trickle-down-economics-‘til-we-die-fool” policies haven’t been exactly, well, good for the average black American. As deregulated financial institutions and barely taxed mega corporations gathered up their profits during the Bush years and shipped them off shore (that would be to the Cayman Islands I guess for Mr. Romney), our economy bled jobs in apocalyptic proportions, and the resulting financial carnage hit African Americans harder than any other ethnic group in the country.
Congratulations, and WELCOME to BWFO’s newest State Chapter Director:
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Chapter Director
Ersula Odom-McClemore
Florida
We still need YOU or someone you know! There are still a number of states without a Chapter Director, and time is running out! Please contact us at 770.596.1252 if you’re interested in serving in your state, or if you know someone who is, or email us at statechapters@blackwomenforobama.org, or click ‘JOIN BWFO’ and fill out the form to let us know you’re interested!!!
Don’t forget…tonight is our “Weekly Strategy Call!” If you’re new to BWFO, join us for our strategy call and listen in to learn more about the work we’re doing around the country to help re-elect President Obama in 2012!
These young men wrote a song and designed a t-shirt to help President Obama get re-elected. Proceeds from t-shirt sales will help purchase band equipment needed to perform at campaign rallies across the country. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the campaign. To purchase a shirt, visit http://www.LetsDoItAgainObama.org, and thanks to Melissa Prescott-Crawford for telling about these amazing young men!
By now, unless your address is 1234 Under A Rock Way, you know that America is in an epic moral battle over the rights of the lesbian and gay among us to wed, and that the current head resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue recently declared his support of those rights in an interview with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts.
The reaction to his declaration was swift, and uncharacteristically dramatic, especially among African American bible-brandishing, church-going believers. Even my closest relatives, once staunch Obama supporters, have threatened to turn their backs on him this next election cycle.
Black Women For Obama is dedicated to the re-election of President Barack Obama in 2012 and in doing so we are committed to educating everyone who joins this organization as well as anyone who visit our website.
It’s important that we all understand a very basic point about the structure of government; the three branches that comprise our democracy.
Don’t forget…tonight is our “Weekly Strategy Call!” If you’re new to BWFO, join us for our strategy call and listen in to learn more about the work we’re doing around the country to help re-elect President Obama in 2012!
IMPORTANT: Tonight, BWFO will discuss our official response to President Obama’s announcement last week regarding gay marriage. Join us to have your opportunity to weigh in!
Congratulations, and WELCOME to BWFO’s newest State Chapter Director:
State
Chapter Director
Tracey Jones
Tennessee
We still need YOU or someone you know! There are still a number of states without a Chapter Director, and time is running out! Please contact us at 770.596.1252 if you’re interested in serving in your state, or if you know someone who is, or email us at statechapters@blackwomenforobama.org, or click ‘JOIN BWFO’ and fill out the form to let us know you’re interested!!!
Atlanta, GA (May 20, 2012) – (http://www.blackwomenforobama.org) Black Women for Obama, a professional grass-roots organization of Barack Obama supporters today announced that Tamika Morrison has joined the organization as its National Director of Media & Public Relations.“The organization is working to re-build our network of African-American women that worked so hard during the last election cycle, and getting the word out about the organization is going to be critical to that effort”, says Patricia Wilson-Smith, the organization’s Executive Director. “Tamika is a media and publicity expert with years of experience as a brand consultant, so we’re thrilled to have her as part of Black Women for Obama”.
Need a ride to the polls? On October 27th early voting begins in Georgia, and Black Women for Obama is helping to get voters to the polls! To request a ride, click the link below, or call us at (678) 856-5512.
"Believing In Obama", Available Now!
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 –- historic and controversial. But what was it like for the legions of volunteers drawn into the political fray for the very first time? In Believing in Obama, a new book by Patricia Wilson-Smith, you will relive the history of the 2008 election through the eyes of a citizen activist and volunteer.
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Black Women for Obama is a grass roots organization dedicated to the re-election of Barack Obama in 2012. In the 2008 election, we played a pivotal role, especially in the southeast, canvassing and volunteering, and we plan to do so nation-wide in the months leading up to the 2012 election as well.
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We are the voice of black women around the nation, who believe that America needs President Obama to stay right where he is.
By Paul Glastris, Ryan Cooper, and Siyu Hu
Congratulations, and WELCOME to BWFO’s newest State Chapter Director:
Don’t forget…tonight is our “Weekly Strategy Call!” If you’re new to BWFO, join us for our strategy call and listen in to learn more about the work we’re doing around the country to help re-elect President Obama in 2012!
Black Women For Obama is dedicated to the re-election of President Barack Obama in 2012 and in doing so we are committed to educating everyone who joins this organization as well as anyone who visit our website.
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