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Temple Chima UbochiFriday, November 9, 2012
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BLESSED IS HE WHO HAS BEEN RE-ELECTED THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA) (1)


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(Joyful creation)

Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained him the victory (Psalm 98:1)

o tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere that God created every human being, that Jesus Christ is Lord, and, that Barack Obama is a blessed human being. Just as Bob Marley sang that "who Jah blessed, no one can curse", despite all that the racists and the super rich Americans did to deny Obama a second term, he was still re-elected as the President. Only very few people can survive such onslaught and still brave it to win a re-election.

President Obama did a lot for United States during his first term, but, the racists and the ultra-conservatives swore to kill his agenda and make him a one-term president. That was the reason behind the Tea Party formation, and, that was what the Republicans in the House of Representatives had as their number one agenda. Obama was ready to deliver, but, the Republicans in the Congress blocked him everytime. Thank God that all their scheme to deny Obama a second term has failed.

A man who achieved a lot in four years despite a hostile House of Representatives sabotaging all his efforts, deserved an easy re-election, but, because he's a black man, all his achievements were downplayed and the Republican Party and other racists in the United States tried to devitalise and demean him in many ways. But the heaven was watching over him. What Obama went through these four years mirrors what almost all blacks in the Americas, Europe, and Asia/Australia are going through, although in a microcosmic level. A black in Europe, for instance, would work (twice) harder than his or her white work colleagues and still that wouldn't be enough as he or she is always seen as the "beast of burden". Racism is alive and well, and, the whites have refined it in most heinous way to suit their bloated ego and their ideology that "a black is inferior". But, Obama has proved to them that at a level playing field, a black person can measure up to any person from any other race in any way and can even surpass people of other races due to the resilience (of the black people). What a person of another race sees and gets overwhelmed is what a black person would experience and overcome with ease.

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.

Those against Obama forgot that there's something inexplicable going for him. Looking at how he started and how far he has gone, there's no doubt that he's the anointed one, just as Psalm 20:6 says "Now this I know: The LORD gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from His heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand".

What happened during the first presidential debate, between Obama and Romney, seemed destined. That Obama wasn't his real self during that first debate was, by error or omission, how fate wanted it to be. For the fact that his Republican opponent, Romney, performed well during that debate, the whole campaign scenarios changed and that also made the contest more interesting. It made Obama, his campaign team and his volunteers to work harder. It was that first debate that electrified the Republican Party and injected life into a stagnant Romney campaign. It was after the first debate that Americans started taking Romney serious as a candidate and it changed the perception in Obama's camp that was over-confident. If Romney had underperformed during the first debate, but, over-performed during the second or the last debate, Obama's campaign would have been thrown very much off balance at the eleventh hour and wouldn't have recovered before the election to win it. Romney's first presidential debate performance was the catalyst that brought the best out of Team Obama and his volunteers, and, the victory we just witnessed is as a result of hardwork, because, the Obama's Team was energized after its principal was rattled by Romney at the first debate. In 2008, people voted for Obama out of hope, but, in 2012, they voted for him because of what he has done so far and the things he could do in the future, but, most importantly, people voted out of fear of a Romney presidency. Only the rich and war mongers would have benefitted from Romney's presidency.

When many Americans were doubting Obama's capability as the Commander-in-Chief due to the falsehood Romney's campaign was spewing out in campaign rallies and adverts, and, when it seemed Romney was gaining the upper hand in media coverage and adverts due to his deep pocket and the super rich Americans donating to his campaign or bankrolling its expenses, Mother Nature interceded, in a way, on Obama's behalf. The super storm Sandy lashed the North-East of United States and that shut Romney's campaign off for days; then, President Obama gained the limelight and was all over the news displaying his leadership prowess during a critical period. Then, more than 70% of Americans praised his handling of the crisis. Even a state governor, who was previously his arch political enemy and a surrogate of his opponent, started singing a new tune, praising the President for his leadership quality. This writer commiserates with those who lost loved ones or property or were displaced due to the super storm Sandy.

The Media was always predicting a tight race between Obama and Romney, because, the media controlled by the whites wanted Romney to defeat Obama. They, some of the whites, said they were on a mission to take the White House back, as if somebody stole it in the first place. This writer assured some of his friends and acquaintances that the projected tight race was only the figment of the white Press' imagination. This writer maintained that the race was going to be easier than many pundits, some of them racists, have predicted, and it turned out that way. Many of the polls were wrong!

Thank God that Americans, although politically apathetic and unable to read between the political lines at times, didn't make a 'MITTsake', but, have re-elected Obama; otherwise the damage, disorder and hardship a Romney presidency could have wrought would have been unimaginable. George Bush wrecked America and the extent of the damage Bush wrought wasn't known until he left office, and, since then, Barack Obama, who inherited Bush's mess, has been struggling all along to sort things out, and, still the Republicans, who created the problems, turned around and are blaming Obama for everything that's wrong with America. Who created the deficit in the first place? The Bush's two wars are the culprits, but, no Republican is remembering that.

Bush couldn't win the White House in 2000 without the Florida's electoral votes, but, Obama has won re-election even before the Florida's electoral votes are been tallied. Is that not wonderful?

There's a lot to write about, and, President Obama has his work cut out for him, but, for now, let's celebrate this victory as long as we can. This column congratulates President Obama for this well deserved victory. Most of all, the victory belongs to God!

This column is also thanking the millions of volunteers (himself included) who worked round the clock to make this victory possible, and, all those who voted for Obama. This first song is theirs. Let them see this song's lyrics as if they are Obama's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z0iqpwWOls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_VRSPnupj0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swida4SXjaA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJ1xomdZ6s&feature=related

THE THANX IS ALL YOURS!!!

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