<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every now and again, some people like to claim President Obama doesn't have a record to run on. They're wrong. Here's a taste of why:</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(Just a couple of) the Obama administration's accomplishments:</strong></p><ol style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first bill President Obama signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, to help women fight back when they don't get <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/equal-rights" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">equal pay for equal work</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His Recovery Act supported <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">millions of jobs</a> and helped to stave off a second Great Depression.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He pushed for and won middle class <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/taxes" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">tax cuts</a> that benefited every American worker, and saved the typical family $3,600 in taxes over the last four years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">rescued the auto industry</a>, 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He doubled funding for Pell Grants, helping to <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/education" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">make college more affordable</a>for nearly 10 million families.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His student loan reform ended billions in subsidies to banks serving as middlemen and reinvested those savings directly in <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/education" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">students</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The President established the American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth up to $10,000 over four years of <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/education" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">college</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His Race to the Top Initiative helped spur nearly every state to raise<a href="http://www.barackobama.com/education" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">academic standards</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His tax cuts, social-welfare programs, and <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">economic policies</a> lifted nearly 7 million Americans above the federal poverty line in 2010.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama has signed 18 tax cuts for <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/small-business" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">small businesses</a> since taking office.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We've seen 5.2 million new <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">private sector jobs</a> over the last 31 months.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The unemployment rate is at the <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">lowest level</a> since President Obama took office.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.barackobama.com/health-care" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">Health care reform</a>—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.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.barackobama.com/health-care" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">Obamacare</a> expanded access to lifesaving preventive care such as cancer screenings and immunizations with no out-of-pocket costs for 54 million Americans.</span></font></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Obamacare <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/health-care" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">ends insurance discrimination</a> against the 129 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Because of Obamacare, over 3 million more young adults have <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/health-care" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">health insurance</a> today than would if the new law hadn't passed.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The parents of over 17 million children with <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/health-care" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">pre-existing conditions</a> no longer have to worry that their children will be denied coverage.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama has ordered the overhaul of federal <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team/entry/romneys-record-proves-he-finds-it-difficult-to-tell-the-truth/" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">government regulations</a> to make them smarter, practical, and more efficient. Just a fraction of these common-sense initiatives will help save businesses $10 billion in the next five years alone.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His historic investments in <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/energy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">clean energy</a> 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama is <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/energy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">doubling fuel efficiency standards</a>, which will save drivers more than $8,000 at the gas pump, not to mention lessen the impact of automobiles on our environment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama has taken unprecedented action to <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/environment" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">address climate change</a>, 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He has taken historic action to protect our <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/environment" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">environment</a>—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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama fought for and won landmark <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">Wall Street reform</a> that reins in the abuses that led to the financial crisis and ends the era of taxpayer bailouts and "too big to fail."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Wall Street reform created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the nation's first federal agency focused solely on <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">consumer financial protection</a>—and the Bureau is already protecting families from unfair and abusive financial practices from Wall Street banks and shadowy corners of the financial industry.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As part of President Obama's commitment to transparency, the White House has posted its <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/visitor-records" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">visitor records</a> online for the first time ever.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama's <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/energy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">all-of-the-above approach to energy</a> has helped cut the United States' dependence on foreign oil to its lowest level in 20 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama responsibly <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/national-security" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">ended the war in Iraq</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He announced a plan to <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/national-security" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">end the war in Afghanistan</a> and transition security responsibility to the Afghan people.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama sent the largest <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/national-security" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">security assistance package</a> to Israel in history and funded the Iron Dome system, which is protecting Israeli homes and schools from rocket attacks.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama rallied the <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/national-security" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">international community</a> to implement the toughest sanctions on Iran in history.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Through the President's historic increases in Veterans Affairs funding, he has expanded and improved healthcare and job training access for our returning<a href="http://www.barackobama.com/veterans" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">veterans</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama negotiated the <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/national-security" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">New START Treaty</a> 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His administration naturalized 11,146 military servicemembers as <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/immigration" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">U.S. citizens</a>in 2010; more than in any year since 1955.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama set a bold new plan for the future of <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/truth-team/entry/nasa-and-americas-leading-role-in-space-exploration-the-choice/" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">NASA space exploration</a>, 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Obama recognizes that tourism is one of America's largest<a href="http://www.barackobama.com/economy" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">economic engines</a>; he's worked to encourage international visitors to come here, maintaining our security while keeping millions of Americans in good, paying jobs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He has affirmed his personal support of <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/equal-rights" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">marriage equality</a>, 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He fought for and won the repeal of <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/equal-rights" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"</a>, allowing gay and lesbian members of the military to serve openly for the first time in history.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When Congress failed to fix our broken <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/immigration" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">immigration system</a>, 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh, and he gave the order to <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/national-security" style="text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: color 0.7s; ">send troops in after Osama Bin Laden</a>—and has decimated al Qaeda's senior leadership.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------------------------------------</span></p></li></ol></div><footer style="margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; "><div id="comments" style="margin: 0px; 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