Obama votes early in Chicago
President Obama is now the first sitting president to vote early. And he made a point to note that fact at his polling place in his hometown of Chicago Thursday.
"So this is the first time a president has ever early voted," he told election officials as his election paperwork was verified, "it's pretty exciting."
Mr. Obama would not divulge who he voted for in the presidential race, though it's safe to assume it wasn't Mitt Romney. He told those gathered to see him vote and election officials that "it's good to be home."
When asked for his identification upon arrival, the president joked, "I've got my driver's license here, now ignore the fact that there's no gray hair in that picture." An election official responded, "the presidency does something to you."
"It does," Mr. Obama said.
He remarked that he was glad he renewed his driver's license, adding that if he had come prepared with the wrong paperwork, the experience would have been "really embarrassing."
The president spent several minutes voting. When he finished, was helped by an official whose phone happened to ring. "Is that your wife?" the president asked, "because you always take that phone call no matter what."
Before leaving, Mr. Obama took a photo with the polling officials and made an appeal to the public.
"For all of you who have not yet early voted," he said, "I just want everybody to see what an incredibly efficient process this was."
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and knows what's at stake if Romney gets elected.
He knows Obama is a 'centrist' and not some 'commie/socialist' as the growing number of extremists in the GOP continue to espouse. He also has the calm, sharp intellect of a warrior-scholar and knows Obama's economic policies will work and are what's best for the country in the near and long term---if only the Republican House will quit blocking Obama's legislation as they have done throughout the Presidents entire term; wanting him to fail!
Governor Romney....."for the middle class that has suffered under the Obama economic policies for the last four years."
YEAH, THIS HAS BECOME ROMNEY AND THE GOP'S NEW MANTRA AND IT'S CLEARLY A LOAD OF CRAP!!!
The TRUTH:
The middle class has really suffered under Romney's GOP House Republican obstruction / blockage of Obama's economic policy legislation for the last four years!
Not a single piece of significant economic legislation put forth by the President has even been allowed to come to the House floor for a vote due to Republican filibusters----numbering in the 70's during the course of the Presidents term in office, thus far!
To the extent that Obama started to take his own 'Administrative Measures', not requiring Congressional consent, in order to bring some relief to the middle-class and trying to keep the economy moving in the right direction. DOES ANYONE PAY ATTENTION TO THE NEWS ANY MORE?
Now Romney and the GOP have the 'balls' to say it's the Presidents economic policies that are responsible for the suffering middle-class and slow recovery. What a Crock of Lies!!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7405692n&tag=api
I am a life long registered Democrat who voted for Bill Clinton twice and did not vote for George Bush even once, but on November 6th I will be proud to vote for Romney.