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What Do You Think President Obama Needs to Know?
What do you think President Barack Obama needs to know about America's moms?
What do you think most needs to be fixed in our nation? Which problems would you like to see the presidential candidates address? And which issues do you believe are better left off the table this election cycle?
Now's your chance to let the President know your thoughts as he campaigns for reelection, and to share with the Obama campaign the issues that you think matter most. Tomorrow at 11 am Central time, I'll be chatting with key Obama campaign officials David Axelrod, Stephanie Cutter, and Kate Chapek, as well as a few very well-known public figures. Find out who else will be part of this intimate round table discussion on women's issues -- and leave your questions and and thoughts for President Obama in the comments -- after the jump!
Also in attendance: fair pay activist Lilly Ledbetter (who we interviewed recently for our Moms Matter YouTube Channel) and actresses Elizabeth Banks and Nia Long.
Interesting factoid about Elizabeth Banks: She has a son named Felix, born in March of last year, and went back to work when he was two months old to play Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games.
Interesting factoid about Nia Long: She has two sons, one born in 2000 and one born in 2011. Back in the 90s, she played Will Smith's girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire. Jada Pinkett Smith was originally supposed to have played the role, but was deemed too short to play the part!
Campaign officials are hoping for an open, interactive discussion on topics ranging from health care reform to economic security to affordable education-- They want to hear what matters most to readers of The Stir and members of CafeMom, so don't miss this opportunity to let your voice be heard in the comments of this post. I'll be checking it periodically between now and my meeting tomorrow, and will try to bring as many of your concerns to the table as possible.
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KBW2
Fun factoid: I used to work w Lilly Ledbetters son and he married a girl I've known my whole life!
LindsayFerrier
I love Lilly Ledbetter! She's so down to earth. I'm glad she'll be there. :)
jiblet
We need him to stand strong on his changes to health care. We need a mandate for everyone to pay their share. I pay an ever increasing amount of money, with an ever decreasing level of coverage. Healthcare should not be a profit business.
Also we need help with childcare- some people's wages don't even cover their childcare. Good quality childcare is so important for increasing our productivity and helping to raise good citizens. We know what an incredible impact early childhood education has on later learning and adjustment- this is not a womans issue but a societal issue.
billsfan1104
Susan Shannon
Mrs. Clark
Nancy D
MomIWant
I would like an honest answer to how he ran his last election on bi-partisinship and transparency, but yet has only accomplished a more prominent divide and no real transparency - how did his values on this "evolve"? I would like to know when free birth control became a right? I would like to know how he feels the campaign for war on women is helping this country move forward? If he feels that student loans should be forgiven, how will the taxpayers pay for it or is this just another campaign ploy? Does he really believe promoting the 99% will join Americans together and what will it create by believing in "my fair share" without 49% of Americans paying taxes? I would like to know when he will actually set and follow a foreign policy? I would like to know what "more room to maneuver after the election" meant and if he really believes Putin may not be a threat to the Western World? I would like to know how he justifies Eric Holder's behavior? Why does he feel it is unreasonable to provide proof of identify and citizenship to vote?
PonyChaser
The Economy. None of this other stuff matters - the government paying for contraception, for example (which it shouldn't anyway, but that's another topic) - if the government does not have the money.
He said that Bush's deficit of something like $4 trillion was "unpatriotic" and unacceptable. Now HIS deficit is up around $14 trillion. That is absolutely abhorrent, and if we dont' get the economy under control, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS, because America as we know her will cease to exist.
Once the economy is actually moving, flourishing, and the ACTUAL unemployment rate returns to the "ideal" of around 5%, THEN we can start talking about 'free healthcare for all' and everything else. But until that happens, none of it matters.
How does he plan to FIX the economy, get people back to work in the private sector? And "raise taxes on the rich" is a BS answer and unacceptable.
Regina