Opinion

Voters choose Obama: what’s in store for US?

The Issue: President Obama’s re-election Tuesday night and what it means for America’s future.

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America has spoken; she is a kind, compassionate, forgiving lady, and she has given President Obama four more years to finish what he said he would do in the first four years (“Obama’s Second Term,” Editorial, Nov. 2).

No excuses and no blaming this time around. The stakes are too high.

Obama must turn this country around or he will leave the White House in four years labeled as the lamest president in history.

Edward Doyle

Wappingers Falls

The election was a disgrace and a huge embarassment for America, leaving gridlock in Washington, the fiscal cliff looming, tax increases for everyone and worse health-care.

Good work, America; we all lose. I am ashamed to be American for the first time ever.

Why does that sound familiar?Rick Meyer

PInehurst, NC

The American electorate has set us on a path not to economic stagnation, but collapse.

We will have suffocating bureaucratic healthcare and a stifling regulatory environment for anyone who wants to start a business.

My nephews and nieces will have diminished opportunities in coming years — assuming they have any future, given that Obama wants to reduce our already inadequate nuclear arsenal and military.

Obama told a crowd that “voting is the best revenge,” but it is on us.

Gideon Isaac

Irvington

When our citizens care more about the Kardashian family than they do about Benghazi, it explains how they can re-elect Obama after the last four years.

D. Snyder

Baiting Hollow

The Post backed Mitt Romney, the transparent, phony, flip-flopping candidate.

Obama’s administration got Osama bin Laden killed, ended the war in Iraq, bailed out the auto industry and will end another war that George W. Bush started in Afghanistan, costing billions.

The Post still chose Romney, who lost the vote in his own state of Massachusetts and in Michigan, where he was born. Even the mayor of New York City got it right.

Four more years of prosperity is on the rise, and thank God the country got it right this time.

Stephen Kolton

Holden, Mass.

It is a sad commentary on our society when the president apparently was re-elected due to the female vote.

If women are more concerned about birth control and abortion than our national security and our economy, their priorities are out of order. So many who voted for Obama have no idea what ObamaCare really is or how it affects our economy.

They don’t have any concept of the damage that socialist leanings will have on our great country.

They don’t understand the ideology of our enemies and what is at stake, because our president wants to portray an image of a cool celebrity and won’t discuss reality.

Kelle Careccia

Wappingers Falls

The major question about Obama’s re-election is whether he will temper his collectivist instincts and accept compromise with almost half of the population that disagrees with his statist approach.

Will he remain a hidebound ideologue who subscribes to progressive dogma that views political opponents as heretics and compromise as sacrilegious?

Or will he attempt to “fundamentally transform America” by actually working constructively with the opposition?Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati

If any liberals complain about not being able to get a job, losing their job because their companies relocated to more business-friendly countries, the effects of out-of-control inflation and enormous prices for fuel, or that they can’t get a good job after graduating from college and have to live with their parents in their 20s and 30s, I will let them know that they had their chance and decided not to take it.

Jim Bitros

Manhattan