Barack Obama

Happy Birthday President Obama! Thank you for helping strengthen the economy and keeping us out of stupid wars. Thank you for refocusing attention on the middle class and working poor. Thank you for helping pass, seemingly against all odds and with nearly everyone complaining, the most significant health care reform of our generation. Thank you for being a leading voice in expanding rights to include more and more people who in the recent past suffered horrendous legal discrimination. Thank you for bringing your brilliant, generous wife Michelle to the world stage, and for her work with veterans and kids. Thank you for inspiring me to actually care about local politics, enough to get involved, for the first time in my life. Keep fighting till the end of your term. It is very much appreciated.