calmconservative

..........go back to your cell knucklehead !

Really? That's all the defense you have for Flipper? LOL

Finally a voice of reason

I love the way Bill engaged the audience as well with the "No's"

The choice is ours and the choice is obvious

Obama/Biden 2012 - where your voice and body count.

Wow!!! What a powerful Speech President Clinton gave for President Obama tonight. President Clinton brought the house down.

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It was a real treat to see President Obama come from behind the stage and see the two embrace each other. ♥ ♥ ♥ ed it.

4 more years 4 44

Obama/Biden 2012

WOW, what a speech.

I wasn't actually watching but my wife was screaming from the bedroom and I thought she was having a heart attack.

So.... I watched and was amazed. About the only thing I found at fault was now Obama needs to do as well as Bill did. :D

I fully expect it.

Actually, I saw a great many white people receive TV coverage. Do you suppose the reason you mention "blacks, hispanics and the elderly" is that you fear their influence? Your statement is very telling.

blueinnm

Yeah, Bill, you tell it like it is! Tell them about the 16 trillion in debt! Tell them about the deficit that's 104% of GDP! Tell them about the unemployment that's been over 8% for 43 months! Tell them about the doubling in the number of people on food stamps! Tell them . . . wait, that wouldn't make a very good reelection speech, would it?

Unfortunately for Obama, there's a very important thing called "your record" when you're an incumbent seeking reelection.

President Clinton delivered the FACTS the GOP pretends don't exist.

GOP question: Are we better off?

American's answer: YES, and here's why..............................

Thank you, President Clinton.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!

papabran-3513727

The way the cameras were panning the audiance it would seem the only people in attendance were blacks, hispanics and the elderly.

A. It's spelled audience.

B. I take it you have a problem with blacks, hispanics and the elderly? Why is that?

papabran ...

Clinton Hates Obama and so does his wife

Yeah right, and that was so demonstrated tonight. Love it when a former President actually speaks up and makes sense and engages the delegates. Where on earth do I find one of the Bush's doing the same for Romney????

President Clinton:

"It's the arithmetic, stupid."

Obama/Biden 2012

Hillary/? 2016

Did you see how bad clintons hands were shaking when he spoke.He is just paving the way for hillary for 2016 because they fought obama hard when he was chosen in 2008 democrat nominee.The clintons hate obama watch some of the older videos of obama and hillary on youtube they are very comical.

Competition and jealousy are always there among politicians ... we still have to laud Clinton for coming out and batting for Obama. 4 years from now for Hillary? Who knows? No way you can argue Bill does this...only for Hillary.

Actually, if you have to argue, 2008 was golden opportunity for Hillary who was hurt by her own over-confidence...no one else to blame.

It's crazy that people argue Bill comes out today to support Obama in order for Hillary to get it in 4 years.

What if another rising star shows up, just like Obama in 2008. Hillary is not getting any younger

Boy, the fact checkers will have a ball with ALL of this by tomorrow. Alot of rhetoric, baseless facts, class warfare from a man who was impeached for perjuring himself in front of a federal judge.

Also... did I just see the mysogenic president follow a liberal feminist? Wow. Democrats you are going to get your arse handed to you in this election.

I can not wait until Mitt Romney has to stand up in front his supporters on election night and admit defeat. As someone once said, there will be a huge sucking sound. It will be coming from deep within the guts of every republican on earth. You will see stretch marks around Mitt Romney's mouth as he once again has to pull his foot out.

Great speechs by everyone tonight, some powerful stuff !

Obama/Biden win easy 2012 ~

Highest poverty level in over 40 years but Americans are doing better? okaaaay lol

you are SOOO wrong. I heard facts in this speech and NONE last week.

"It's the arithmetic, stupid"?

Here's some simple arithmetic for you all.

16 trillion (our current debt) minus a bit over 10 trillion (our debt when Obama took office) equals nearly 6 trillion (the money Obama's spent in 3 and a half years).

104% (the current deficit to GDP ratio) minus 70% (the ratio when Bush left office) equals 34% (the increase in the deficit under Obama).

Make no mistake, the speech tonight by President Clinton will put the GOP/Tea Party on defense as they struggle to answer the very specific details that were outlined in their platform. There wasn't a single speech during the GOP convention that can hold a candle to the specifics and the detail that was put forth tonight by President Clinton. The battle is on and the GOP are going to have to come up with more substantive content if they want to play hardball in this election. So far the GOP has offered nothing but outright lies, misinformation, and rhetoric on talking points based on sound bytes. Nothing substantive - no details. That's because the details are George W. Part 2 and a return to the pre 2008 market crash. We cannot go back there. Obama/Biden 2012.

Oh my god, Clinton droned on almost as long as he did at the 1988 convention...blah, blah, blah, "I love myself", "I'm great", blah, blah, blah. The only problem is, nobody was listening....they were all tuned into NBC's coverage of one hell of a season opener between Dallas and the Giants (I switched over to Bubba during the commercials).

Apparently, you all didn't pay attention when he said... everything can't be fixed by ANYONE in only 4 years. We had the greatest economy after Clinton left office and it took 8 years. Things don't change overnight people!

GOP 1) Don't want us to see Romney's Tax Returns, 2) Don't want us to know who's contribution to their campaigns, 3) Don't' report ANY of this on Faux News. 4) Grover Norquist was NOT elected! 5) Now voMITT won't tell us where he disagrees with Ryan on his budget!!! GOP, why don't you believe in the America people?

Poor W J Clinton. Has to lie for B H Obama just so his wife can run in 2016. Obummer!!!

GOP, please listen to Mittens!

"I’m proud of [Massachusetts' Mandate]. If Massachusetts succeeds in implementing it, then that will be a model for the nation."

"Using tax penalties, as we did . encourages 'free riders' to take responsibility for themselves."

"I think [Mandate is] the ultimate conservative plan."

"...if people can afford to buy it, either buy the insurance or pay your own way...Don’t be free-riders."

King hypcrite of the world - Mittens Romney.

Obama must cringe that he is not the center of attention at his own nominating convention. Clinton sucks up all the oxygen and Obama looks like a lackey next to Clinton. Comparing Clinton to Obama is like saying Jimmy Carter was like Ronald Reagan. Obama can only hope to accomplish what Clinton did and be half the population.

Yeah, Bill, you tell it like it is!

And boy, did he ever. After watching that speech, anyone voting Romney/Ryan is out of their mind, or just plain and simply enjoys having the wool pulled over their eyes.

derek rants and has no ref for his rant. Clinton shut down repubs lies ...Fact.

Derek rants about women....typical repub war on women!

Obama/Biden 2012

As a republican, I admit that Bill Clinton rocked this convention. I feel severely embarrassed about myself. When I woke up this morning, I was confident that all of my lies, prejudices, hatreds, and unpatriotic designs were well camouflaged. Now, I am exposed for all to see, naked before the world. I must resolve, therefore, to double down on the deception, so that I may continue to help destroy this country.

Cain/Palin 2012

Tish, if no one could have fixed it in four years, tell me WHY Obama promised to do it in three or be a one term President?

WOWWWWWWW!!!!!

Thank God the Cowboys vs Giants game was on. Now that was entertainment.

Not the long winded, lie laden babbling of an embarrassment of a president who disgraced the highest office in the land.

I kept flipping back during the commercials and Billy "Blue Dress" Clinton just kept blathering, lying, self aggrandizing and finally I had to just turn him off.

How can anyone believe someone whose only defense of his pathetic behavior in the Whine House was what the "definition of is, is"?

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans

Bravo Bill!!!! Bravo

That was perhaps one of the most powerful speeches I've ever heard. Definitely, during the 2012 run.

It's ashame that the Repubes couldn't wouldn't even invite the previous POTUS even as a spectator. That is the ultimate in disrespect. I can't see how anyone could vote for those Repube losers, except other losers.....

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O&joe 2012

Too bad Clinton isn't running for re-election. He puts Obama to shame.

Obama is an affirmative action mistake who has no clue what role government should play for wealth to be created. He has taken a fragile economy and destroyed it. He is a closet racist who has exacerbated racial relations, not healed them. He's destroyed the private sector, ignored the ecological and personal disaster on the southern border, embraced a loony energy plan, and killed the space program. We now have 28 million out of work, quite looking for work, or part-timers. He's added nearly 20 million to the food stamp program, increased the national debt by 5 trillion - a remarkable achievement! - and destabilized the Middle East. He has no American values. None. He will go down historically as the worst president in the history of the United States. It's hardly a surprise that his nominating speech was given by an impeached president who spent more time in the Oval (Oral?) office receiving oral sex from a chubby, moon-struck intern than dignitaries from other countries. It's time for Obama to go - and take Wilile boy and Michelle with him.

Amazes me how Clinton can still lie with the best of them and actually believe it himself. Depends on what "is" means. Government figures show that only 300,00 jobs were created in the private sector over Obama's 4 years in office while at the same time 300,000 jobs were lost. I believe that adds up to ZERO, NADA, NIL, NOTHING, ZILCH. CLINTON YOU CAN STILL LIE WITH THE BEST OF THEM. In the meantime, $16 Trillion in debt with nearly $6 Trillion created by Obama in one term of office. Hope and Change. Hope it is his last term and we get a change.

No SPider... obviously YOU were watching President Clinton speak based on your comments. Some other Republicans were tuned in to the ballgame because a game is more important than our nation to so many Republicans and they are simply close-minded bigots. They cannot handle the truth!!! As President Clinton said, "there they go again..." with the Republicans campaigning on lies and scare tactics!

This is not the Clinton that I loved in 1996. How can Clinton lie and cover up the 4 Trillion dollar "Cut Bomb" that was signed by Obama. Everyone forgot that Obama said he wanted to cut Medicare and Social Security with this "Cut Bomb". If these civilian programs are not cut this January it will only be because the Federal Reserve ordered that the Military be cut instead. Not that that is good either. Being an FDR style Democrat I am highly disappointed in Obama. If Obama really cared for the poor why did he not copy FDR and have something like the WPA or the Conservation Core these two such programs Obama could have started in his First term. He did nothing his first term so now presto-chango I am supposed to believe a slick convention with No past action to back it.

OneOfTheSane ...

LMAO. I knew my post would get collapsed by the idiots that can't handle the truth.

Thank you. Collapsed posts only get read that much more. LOL

I'm sure mine will be as well and it only cites Bill's points ..... seriously.... the WRNJs have nothing better to say and/or do then be mad at the world!

Obama/Biden 2012 - where we invite all Democrat Presidents to speak!

16 trillion (our current debt) minus a bit over 10 trillion (our debt when Obama took office) equals nearly 6 trillion (the money Obama's spent in 3 and a half years).

And how much of that 6 trillion went to pay off the war pledges made by the previous administration which would total almost half that six trillion with the rest going to actual real businesses and communities in this country to help them get over the shell shock the previous administration left this country with? Horrible to think we have a President that would actually consider those little people and businesses in this country huh?

Only a racist woul call another human being an "affirmative action mistake". Check yourself! You may be wearing a white hood!

Gosh people how much CLEARER could one person make the statement of what is really going on in this country. Thanks President Clinton! I am so damn tired of these idiot people who can't see that BUSH spent three trillion surplus, started two wars and left the next guy to pay for them, deregulated Wall street and the banks and came real close to destroying this country. Everytime I hear a Republican speak lately I feel like they have all had some kind of brain fart and can't find a way to speak the truth. I really wish someone would do the math and tell the people how many Rep. govenors took the stimuls money and spent it on their own budget deficiets and not on creating jobs. ERHHHHH wake up people.

Layton,

I guess the Bushes told Romney, "You're on your own."

Bill Clinton said everything I've been wishing somebody would say to rebuke Romney/Ryan. Things

like all the money taken from Medicare was not taken from the beneficeraries, but from the

providers. People should learn what they're talking about before they rant.

Why would people want to live with Romney/Ryan philosophies (no government, you're on your own.)

when you could live in inclusion with Democratics leading the way?

Way to go President Clinton... spelled out EXACTLY each and every lie and all the B.S. thrown out by Romney/Ryan. I cannot believe the stupidity of the Republican party! I hope EACH AND EVERY REPUBLICAN is voted out of office in every political office possible! The republican party is nothing but a bunch of liars who care absolutely NOTHING about the working American people, much less the poor. We do not need more George W Bush policies to further destroy this country!!!

Obomney 2012! You'll have: More wars, more Unconstitutional Health Care Mandates (Thanks to out Corrupt Supreme court Ruling it as "Constitutional", more debt, more Unconstitutional Laws. Then Hillary Clinton in 2016! Lets get Marxism (a Form of communism) in America! Maybe we'll have a North American Union at that Time and have a Currency for all Three Country. They would allow even though it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

GOP - should we vote for the SAME policies again with Romney that we had with Bush? Bush the guy that put us in the mess in the first place! Are you THAT stupid? YES, I GUESS YOU ARE.

Make no mistake, the speech tonight by President Clinton will put the GOP/Tea Party on defense as they struggle to answer the very specific details that were outlined in their platform. There wasn't a single speech during the GOP convention that can hold a candle to the specifics and the detail that was put forth tonight by President Clinton. The battle is on and the GOP are going to have to come up with more substantive content if they want to play hardball in this election. So far the GOP has offered nothing but outright lies, misinformation, and rhetoric on talking points based on sound bytes. Nothing substantive - no details. That's because the details are George W. Part 2 and a return to the pre 2008 market crash. We cannot go back there. Obama/Biden 2012.

It's been very frustrating hearing all the GOP lies and seemingly never hearing the truth. America is uneducated and brainwashed by Faux News. Debates should give independents what they need...

Obama 2012

Sandra Fluke ... amazing speech ... her words ...

"he didn't listen to his delegates, his donors, he listened to his daughters"

Now that is a man I can believe in!

Clinton was masterful presenting his speech, explaining to all watching, the convention goers making great points and great strides to get President Obama elected again.

Clinton, the man and Politician, is the most extraordinary man of wisdom, the truth, and intelligence. President Obama has a great teacher, and he has learned well..

Obama will win this 2nd Term. Thank You Bill Clinton for engaging all of us to vote for Obama.

You made the difference for those "sitting on the fence"..

Die-hard republican voters only hear what they want to hear, as Clinton said, this country is in debt for Romney and Ryan to give 5 billion dollar tax break to the wealthy will only increase that debt. Once elected and they give the tax break then the things the poor and middle class need has to be cut. The money to replace the billions in tax cuts must come from somewhere, and since they just gave the money to the rich they don't want the money back from them. Republicans are outright lying about everything, and I do mean everything. For some unknown reason die-hard republican voters refuse to believe the real republicans are talking to them and treating them like they're stupid. they lie to them constantly, they totally ignore the true facts because they know their own die-hard voters are dumb enough to believe whatever they say, and stupid enough to vote for them anyway.

And so many tea baggers said; wha.. uh, what the hell is Arithmetic????????????????????????????

@Bob-2711464

Did you read post #1.41? The author could have simply said that the president was a mistake but, noooooo! The author of that post chose to call the president an affirmative action mistake. That tells me the author of that post has an issue with affirmative action itself AND those that the author perceives as recipients of affirmative action. Why don't you find yourself a nice comic book to read and let the adults talk?

Repukes just loved the doddering Clint Eastwood though. The party of family values had a man who has 7 kids by 5 women nominating their idiot candidate.

@CubsFan

LOL,you decrying Obama as not being able to run on his record may be the most unintentionally funny thing I've read in a while. Not for the content so much as the source.

A CUBS fan obsessed with records? LMAO

Bartman and the Goat FTW!!!!

Amazing speech, President Clinton! Finally, someone spoke the truth!

Obama/Biden 2012

IEven if obama wins the "sharing" that Clinton referred to in his speech is not going to happen.

Poor Republicans instead of sound policies all they can give us is hatred.

Thank you President Clinton for reaffirming why I became a Democrat and why I will always be a Democrat.....because we work for the common good of all Americans and our nations economy and always seek to allow for opportunities for any who desire to strive for a better life and we believe that we take care of Americans.
I am proud to have voted for you twice and I am proud to have voted for President Obama once and soon to vote for President Obama again.
We the people means a cooperative union of ideas, efforts and compromise...something that President Obama continues to try to instill in the work place attitudes of Washington DC.
The Republican Party eminates the concept that their party is Entitiled to the White House and the Democrats stole it from them.....no one is Entitiled to the White House....unless of course you are of the mind that the White House is property for sale to the highest bidder...and we all know the money flows fast, furious and endlessly (thanks to the Supreme Courts decision on money in politics) for the Republicans...
Let's get real.....Americans are not stupid nor are we ignorant....we are informed and savvy and we want the truth...we deserve the truth....
Thank you President Clinton for the truth...and for your service to our nation and the world and for your fervent support of President Obama and the first Lady and Vice President Biden and Mrs Biden....
Let's do this!!!

----16 trillion (our current debt) minus a bit over 10 trillion (our debt when Obama took office) equals nearly 6 trillion (the money Obama's spent in 3 and a half years). -----

1.5 trillion in bailouts organized by Bush in the last year of his administration

2 trillion + a year on defense spending for wars started by Bush (during the Bush administration, they only 'budgeted' less than one trillion of that, the rest was hidden away in shady accounting. Obama admin at least admits to spending) - that's about 4.5 trillion

Add in another 400 billion for auto bail outs and there is your 6 + trillion dollars.

Word to the wise - you can't go to war and cut taxes and not expect to go deep into debt.

Another word to the wise - when only one group of people has any money, the economy stops working.

Bush Admin put us in a terrible spot and Romney wants to do the same. Since no one wants real change (Ron Paul), looks like we have to go with survival in Obama / Biden

Bubba schooled the GOP:

on why the GOP numbers are lies:" it's about Arithmetic, Stupid"

On the economy:"we can't afford to double down on trickle down"

On the GOP vs DEM: " in the last 52 years, 66 millions jobs have been created in the private sector: 24 Millions by the GOP, 42 by Democrats"

The GOP Tampa's ideology: "after 8 years, we left a big mess, and the President has not been able to clean it in 3 1/2 years, therefore we have to fire him and put us back on"

On the Debt:" the GOP presidents before me quadruple the debt, and the one after me doubled it" and not counting the 2 trillion surplus Bubba left, and the two wars bills Dubya left to Obama.

On Ryan's Medicare lie: " it takes some Brass to accuse a guy for doing the same thing you did"

Will the poor voters who count themselves among the Tea/Republican Party/religious right even realize that:

... they've been manipulated into wanting exactly what American billionaires want!

Forget the 1%; we're talking about the 0.1%, the 400 people who really run the United States.

After the Ryan/Romney speeches at their convention, their deliberate lies were able to be printed out one by one and logically proven false (not that they offered any specifics on their proposed policies, but mostly false attacks on Obama). After witnessing a powerful, fact-driven counterpoint by President Clinton, the only remarks from republicans are that "he lied!" or some other attack on his personal life.

I ask you this republicans...instead of slinging hate and generalizations, why don't you back up your accusations with specifics on where you felt that Clinton was disingenuous? Why do you feel the need to throw a temper tantrum instead of having a reasonable discussion on the issues and how they affect you? Until this happens, we will never be able to have reasoned debates or any sort of bi-partisanship.

Lastly, if you would like to gain some respect back for your party, I'd say it's about time to drop the bigotry from your platform. Comments like "affirmative action mistake" are extremely divisive (and racist), and this rhetoric is what drives the current division we see in our government. If Obama really is such a failure as a President and such a divisive figure, would the republicans really need to lie as much as they have? If everything was going so smoothly for our country before Obama, why was their previous 2 term President not invited to speak or even attend the convention? Hopefully after November, having failed to beat Obama, a sense of humility will develop in the republican party and they will at very least tone things down and work together for the sake of our country. The thing we really can't stand 4 more years of is obstruction and failure to compromise for the common good of the country.

Layton,

Romney doesn't need help from an ex-president, he has enough experience to turn the economy around, without the help of a guy like Clinton. Obama is a story teller and Clinton leaves him in the dust in that respect. Had Clinton not had a republican congress, we would have had all of his leftwing ideas to deal with, including govt. run healthcare, and this country would have been in trouble 20 years ago. Clinton is a more accomplished storyteller, and if you think Clinton likes Obama, you are a dreamer, which is what all liberals do.

Bill is inhaling again! Nothing but LIES! 23 MILLION people are unemployed, we now have a 16 TRILLION dollar debt and NO, we are NOT better off than we were 4 years ago!

Bill....do you REALLY want to talk about matters of national security....ask BARRY how many LEAKS he gave...makes Julian look like a boy scout!

"It's the arithmetic, stupid"?

Here's some simple arithmetic for you all.

16 trillion (our current debt) minus a bit over 10 trillion (our debt when Obama took office) equals nearly 6 trillion (the money Obama's spent in 3 and a half years).

You just proved how poor conservatives are at arithmetic!

When Obama took office he was still working with Bush's last budget - you know, the one that projected $1.3T deficit before Obama even took office! It ran until Oct, 2009. The debt at the end of that budget was $11.9T.

So the right math is: 16 trillion (our current debt) minus a bit under 12 trillion equals nearly 4 trillion. And it wouldn't have been that high except for the horrible mess that George W. Bush, Dick "deficits don't matter" Cheney and the Republican majority in both houses of Congress for 6 years left this country's economy in.

I leave it for you to figure the actual numbers of debt as % GDP that George W. Bush really left this country with.

Do the math! Your party certainly has! Why else would they NOT have Bush or Cheney speak at their national convention. I mean, really, the last sitting Republican president and vice-president, and they didn't give any speeches? Why is that? Because even their own party cannot stand the stench of failure! Unmitigated, outright, economic failure!

Now they hope that nobody will do the math again! You do realize that the Romney/Ryan plan (what little they have actually detailed, anyway) actually increases the debt over Obama's current spending out to 2022, don't you? Have you worked that math yet?

At their convention, Republicans hide their former presidents. George W. Bush was nowhere to be seen and not even mentioned. Bill Clinton takes center stage at the Democratic convention. The reasoning is simple. If Bill Clinton could run again, he would win in a landslide. If George W. Bush could run again, he would have a hard time carrying Texas.

Beverly in Chicago

Wow!!! What a powerful Speech President Clinton gave for President Obama tonight. President Clinton brought the house down.

LOL That's kind of what I thought. Tuesday night Michelle burned the house down, they rebuilt it, and Bill knocked it down last night!!!!

What a speech!!

OBAMA/BIDEN....2012!!!!

The fact of the matter is , Clinton is not Obama , Obama divide the country , and Clinton united, Clinton work with Republicans in Congress , Obama refuse deal with Republicans , he wants his way or the highway. Clinton is a moderate, Obama is a leftest radical. If Clinton spoke for Obama is because he is a Democrat. Hillary could be a much better President than Obama.

Like the "Cross of Gold" speech of William Jennings Bryan in 1896, this speech will be known as the "Arithmetic" speech of William Jefferson Clinton. The issues were similar, the Gold standard was good for the rich but devastating for the poor, much like the fiscal policies put in place by the GOP which has pummeled the middle class for the past 12 years. It is called "Starve the Beast" and it intentionally drove deficits with the intent of taking the US back to the WJB years, before social security and medicare. They even have some die-hards who want a return to the gold standard. Read the "Cross of Gold" speech, it is an eye opener.

papabran-3513727

Clinton Hates Obama and so does his wife.

Not true. Competition? Of course. Hate? No way. I have personal knowledge that refutes your statement.

The way the cameras were panning the audiance it would seem the only people in attendance were blacks, hispanics and the elderly.

I hadn't noticed. I guess it depends on what you're looking for and what crowds you're used to being around... I just saw people.

Lets bring the comparisons down to a personal level... STORY LINE:

The Company I work for (USA) has a CEO (Bush) he mismanages the Co. and it goes into Bankruptcy (Recession). A new CEO (Obama) comes in and wants to install new measures to bring the company out of Bankruptcy but the Board of Directors (Rep. House) will not approve the measures. The people who lost their jobs to layoffs when the Company started to decline cannot be rehired because the Company still struggles to improve and can't rebound fast enough because there is no cooperation from the Board. The Board blames the CEO and he blames the Board. There are no winners here, the Company suffers and soon the remaining few employees will be hurt.

Sound familiar?

If undecided voters are watching both conventions, as I hope they are, they can't help but notice the enthusiasm Democrats have for President Obama, his programs and accomplishments, and his vision for the future of our country.

Love him or hate him, but go vote for him! Vote for yourselves, vote for your families, vote for your country!

If Republicans were to take control again, we'd be in serious trouble. They have nothing new to offer, just a stale re-hash of failure to create jobs, despite all the tax breaks they have enjoyed for over a decade.

As one of the speakers so aptly put it: trickle-down is a dirty trick. HONESTY MATTERS!

OBAMA/ BIDEN 2012

The fact that the dems and liberals would glorify a man who treats women like they are nothing more than objects put on this earth for his enjoyment is rather scary. The fact that obama would need to use that same man to try and bolster his bid for reelection due to his non-existent record is telling.

Romney/Ryan 2012

Biden might want to rethink his RANT on GM

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo

Obama's auto bailout went to CHINA!

FACTS don't lie! Democrats do!

@cubsfan

I see you like backing losers. Everyone knows the real winners come from the southside.

@justice, is that the best you have? Both Bush's, Romney and Ryan wish they could be 1/2 the President Clinton was. Do you really have room to talk? you are going to vote for a man who has yet to come up with a plan, and when asked about it always says, "after I'm elected I'll tell you my plans." I'd rather stick with what we have then risk the future of this country who has made a living off of other peoples hardship.

To the rest who say Clintons speech had no facts, first stop looking at Beck, Rush and Fox news for facts, that is the LAST place you will find them, do some searches for credible sources(again sites with an agenda are not credible)and you will see that he was not lying. I know it's hard for you, after all you're used to being lied to so much by Ryan and all the talking heads, but the truth is there you just have to look for it.

Ahh the poor widdle teabaggers. Your criminals heros lies were exposed last night and all you can do is cry in your moonshine and come on here and continue to lie to yourselves. I especially enjoy those that said "I only peeked a little while the football game was on" L.O.L. Face it, you have a man crush on President Clinton and you're confused L.O.L.

OneOfTheSane

Clinton did great with his speech as he always does. But despite the speech there is one thing you can be certain of is that Obama is not nor never will be Clinton. NEVER!!!

Now of course I wouldn't expect Clinton to mention the fact that before he left office the Stock market crashed and the dot.com bubble burst. Manufacturing jobs losses were the worst they had been in decades. But despite all of this Bush Jr turned that around in less than 18 mos even with the 9/11 Attacks on this country. And no President has taken 4 years after inheriting a slow economy to get things moving forward again. Even Clinton inherited a slow economy and was able to turn it around in 18 mos. So, at a point, one has to accept that Obama does not have the know how or the maturity to get this job done. Its time to lay off this POTUS from his job and let the country move on.

Come on, people! All you need to do to understand how our economy collapsed, is look at the Clinton administration and their revision of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Google it, go on YouTube, and do some research. Those changes he made is what caused the housing bubble and collapse, the banking failures, then the business failures and a loss of millions of jobs. The Democrats are too stupid to realize it, and the following administrations paid, and are paying the price for it, Bush and Obama. Bush tried to fix the problems caused by the CRA revisions but was BLOCKED BY THE DEMOCRATS. Now, Clinton has the nerve to get up and blame Bush? What a total joke. He just spewed a bunch of crap. Our government has a SPENDING PROBLEM, you idiot, not a revenue problem.
I wonder when the Democrat party is going to change its name to the Communist party, because that is what they are looking more and more like, starting with their communist leader, Barack Hussein Obama, and from what I am hearing from people at this convention.
My strong advise: Vote Republican or watch this great republic go downhill.

spot on Alan! Clinton and the CRA....which Obama used to sue Citibank.....looks like Karma is a bitch for Barry!

DSmith-1497218 If all you can do is sling insults to people stay out of the conversation.

My question is if Obama knew in 2008 that he could not clean up this mess, why did he make so many "promises" that he would? Was he thinking he would be crowned king and stay in the presidency forever> Did he have a premonition he would automatically win a second term?

If you all would like to see what Obama has done since taking office and to the future of our country and children, take a look at heritage.org/federalbudget/growth-federal-spending

Also take a look at Forbes. He is dubbed the largest spending president in World History. That's WORLD, not American History.

Just Like a Democrat always Excuses NEVER Solutions.... Waaaa It's All Bush's Fault....6.2 Trillions Dollars in 3.5 years Wasted on Whiners!

Come on Mr Bill We're not talking about A Snoots Full of Cocaine Or Molesting Interns ( Your Area Of Expertize) We Are Talking About the Future of American and Odumba is not it!

We Refuse To Live In Your Drug Induced, Wall Street Controlled, Gray State Forced To Eat Your Soylent Green While Finger Pointing People Like You Make Nothing But More Excuses To US!

America.... Barry Benny & Timmy's Quantitative Easement III is coming soon and once again they will be Devaluing Our Dollar to save their Wall Street Banksters by Destroying Main Street Workers!

QEI & QEII Worked Out So Well For The Wall Street Banksters After All!

No Amount of Wall Street Generated False Enthusiasm is going to make up for Obama's Hope & Change Lies and His Broken Promises To America!

We can not and will not make ANY exceptions to these Same Party Different Wing Politicians for they have proven over and over they all work for WALL STREET and NOT FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE!

America..... Make a REAL Choice For Once....Refuse To Re-Elect ANYONE....One Term & Out They Go Until Once Again ALL Incumbents Have PROVEN They Work For We The People!

NO EXCEPTIONS........

JimSpencer

How can anyone believe someone whose only defense of his pathetic behavior in the Whine House was what the "definition of is, is"?

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans

i must ask you what is a real american. i though if you are born here, pay taxs and obey the law you are a real american no matter what you look like or where you live here in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!.

please tell us what a real american is??????

CubsFan2012 #1.11,

Why does anyone think that Bill Clinton was such a great president ? Look to his activities associated with the derivatives debacle. It was that activity that brought us to where we are today (financial problems).

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warning/view/

@DCC70

"I see you like backing losers"

If either one of these idiots is elected WE'RE all going to be losers, nobody out there seems to realize that. I plan on voting for a third party who has no hope of winning. Not only have I exercised my right to vote, but I also reserve the right to complain about whatever aforementioned idiot does get elected. You zealots out there on both sides of the aisle don't realize what fools you're being played for...all to the enjoyment of elected officials who don't give a damn about you.

Bill just DESTROYED every talking point the Tea Party have been selling and their lies.

According to factcheck.org - his "destroying" was with Half truths!

Obama may still be able to save Democratic control of the White House, by giving an executive order that Bill Clinton is no longer ineligible and will be candidate for President, and Hillary will be the Vice Presidential candidate. In exchange Obama will be promised a job as lawyer to the President.

CPAUL

The US Constitution tells us that the President is responsible to send to Congress a budget requesting spending. Congress is the one that determines what policy is, not the president. The President I an Advisor to congress, too lead Congress, If congress will let him lead.

Take your chart to destroy Republican Presidents and add who was in charge of each house of Congress.

What you will see is that the economy, Jobs, and deficits are more dependent upon congress, not the president.

Because I did this, I support the Republicans, not the Democrats. Because I listen to what small business is saying, I support the Republicans, not the Democrats. Because I don't easily accept what the news media spews daily, I research events. I find that although you cannot fully trust the republicans, they are more trustworthy than the Democrats.

Kaybee

I listened to a number of independent callers call in in disgust in a local radio show. They said that the Democrat convention sounded more like the republican convention than a democrat convention.

Me thinks they smell a fake. And they should. If the were tuned in before prime time, they convention sounded like they were steering far left, especially the part where adding God, and Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel sounded like it was voted down and booed when the moderator declared 2/3's of the delegates were for it.

Sorry Curve Ahead

Obama got everything he asked for from January 21, 2009 - January 3, 2011 except Card Check and the Carbon Credit Market scam.

Card Check was instituted in 1937 and caused unemployment to turn downward from the improvements it had made since 1934. Owners who didn't want to deal with unions simply closed their doors to live in a wealthy retirment. This downturn was not corrected until late 1939 when Europeans finally said regardless of the tariffs installed from 1931 - 1933, we have to buy products to defend against Hitler.

The Carbon Credit Market of Europe caused industries to leave to places like Saudi Arabia. Al Gore and Obama were involve in a carbon trading exchange set up in Chicago. A number of Republicans actually supported a carbon market, but the killer was democrats who had coal, natural gas, and petroleum industries realized jobs would be lost, they rebelled, killing the carbon credit scam.

What republicans are blocking are measures that aren't paid for from savings, unused funds, or increase taxes. Raising taxes kills as many jobs as raising taxes saves and can actually cost more jobs than saved. Unpaid measures means more money borrowed which puts us in a worse fiancial position.

Obama has most of what he asked for. Much of what he didn't get he is using executive orders to get. The bottom line is, this is Obama's policy work, not the republicans.

The stage has been set - the foundation has been laid. Now we only need to find out if Obama will build on it.

Key messages so far - 'man of the middle class' - 'man of deep conviction' - 'willing to do the right thing' - 'cooperation'.

If Joe Biden gives the 'foreign affairs' speech - that he should - then we might know what Obama will say.

If Obama lays out the challenges our country faces, specifics about the hard choices we will need to make, and that we must cooperate to make those choices -- the election is his. Romney will be mute since he has no acceptable alternatives.

If Obama pivots his campaign after the convention to talking about Obama's record, Obama's accomplishments, and specifics on what Obama plans to do -- the election is his.

That is what the DNC convention has been about so far - preparing for a contrast of ideas and plans. That was the ground that Bill Clinton prepared - Republicans are basing their ideas and plans on voodoo math instead of ARITHMETIC.

If the Obama campaign is really smart - they will stop talking so much about Romney's past.

The Obama campaign should begin talking about OUR future.

" If George W. Bush could run again, he would have a hard time carrying Texas." -You underestimate the Texans!

23 million Americans struggling for work? Take it from Bill Clinton – “give me a break” http://mi.tt/Qfxq5B

"Double down on trickle down" made a great sound bite. It also ignored reality.

In 1990, the Dems put in a 10% excise tax on luxury boats and private jets. The rich could afford it, right? Didn't work. In less than a year, those two manufacturing segments were flat on their backs, and thousands of jobs were lost before wisdom prevailed and the tax was repealed.

The Repubs are more right on economic reality than the Dems. If only the Repubs weren't trying to convince us America was better when the only abortion options were unliicensed doctors, crochet hooks, and bent coat hangers.

@Anakin Skywalker

WOW! There are so many ignorant statements and outright lies in your post, I honestly don't know where to begin. One thing I DO know for sure --- based on the dishonesty and total lack of intelligence you demonstrate in your comments --- you are SO ill-informed you clearly must be a loyal viewer of Faux "News". You claim to be a democrat but perhaps you should consider changing your party affiliation and becoming a republican since you already possess the two primary characteristics of members of the GOP: being factually-challenged and intellectually BANKRUPT!

"How can Clinton lie and cover up the 4 Trillion dollar "Cut Bomb" that was signed by Obama. Everyone forgot that Obama said he wanted to cut Medicare and Social Security with this "Cut Bomb"."

What the heck is a "cut bomb"? I have NEVER heard this term in my entire life. If you are talking about the grand bargain President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had worked together on last summer to increase the debt ceiling, this was never "signed by Obama" because it was never passed by Congress. Boehner walked away from the bargaining table after he had tentatively agreed to the proposal because he was unable to deliver enough Republican votes to pass it. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and the Tea Party Caucus refused to support the plan because it would have minimally raised taxes on millionaires and billionaires by closing tax loopholes, such as the deduction for corporate jets. Also, you should know that this compromise would have been $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in revenue. Basically the obstructionist Republican party would not agree to ANY deficit reduction plan that included raising any tax revenues whatsoever (during the republican primary debates ALL of the GOP presidential candidates said they wouldn't even accept a plan that contained $10 dollars in spending cuts for every $1 in new revenue).

Or perhaps you are using the term "cut bomb" to refer to sequestrations (automatic spending cuts to the defense budget and discretionary spending that would be triggered by the failure of the bi-partisan Super Committee to present AND PASS a deficit cutting plan) included in the debt ceiling negotiations. The sequestrations were demanded by and agreed to by the republican party and to absolutely NO ONE'S surprise, the obstructionists in the GOP refused to even consider a balanced approach (cutting spending AND increasing tax revenues). As a result, no deal was reached on a deficit reduction plan and these automatic cuts are set to take effect on January 1, 2013. Since republicans do not want defense spending (their "sacred cow") to be cut, they have done everything in their power to prevent the sequestrations from taking effect. Apparently the GOP's stated top priority of reducing the deficit isn't nearly as important as funding and starting new wars. Again, President Obama was NOT responsible for the sequestrations attached to the bill to increase the debt ceiling, that was brought to you by the same people who brought us "The Great (Republican) Recession."

If these civilian programs are not cut this January it will only be because the Federal Reserve ordered that the Military be cut instead. Not that that is good either."

Clearly you have absolutely NO IDEA what the Federal Reserve is, what its responsibilities are, and what they can and can not do. The Federal Reserve is charged with two primary responsibilities -- regulating inflation and making sure our nation's monetary policy is most conducive to increasing jobs. As you should have learned in elementary school, the House of Representatives has the "power of the purse". ONLY the House of Representatives can "order" the federal government to spend (or not spend) its money in a particular fashion. Contrary to what republicans say, the Federal Reserve NOR the POTUS have control over how much our country spends and what it spends the money on. For Willard, Lyin' Ryan, and the rest of the republican party to continue to blame President Obama for our debt and deficit is epically dishonest and the height of hypocrisy, considering it was democrats AND republicans in Congress, first during the Bush 43 administration and then during the Obama administration, that voted on AND PASSED each and EVERY ONE of the bills that contributed to the debt and deficits republicans whine and cry about (when a democrat is president...NOT so much when a republican is in the White House).

"Being an FDR style Democrat I am highly disappointed in Obama. If Obama really cared for the poor why did he not copy FDR and have something like the WPA or the Conservation Core these two such programs Obama could have started in his First term."

For starters, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as "the stimulus" (which was passed by BOTH houses of Congress) shortly after taking office. Again, despite republicans' insistence to the contrary this act saved and/or created MILLIONS of jobs (per the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office). President Obama and most democrats would have preferred a larger stimulus package but had to settle for what republicans were willing to vote for. Conservatives would like people to believe that President Obama was the first and ONLY president in the history of the United States to use stimulus money to jump start economic recovery following a recession. However, this is simply not the case. Reagan and BOTH Presidents Bush enacted stimulus plans in an effort to bring the country out of recessions. The primary differences between what these republican presidents and President Obama did are: first (and MOST important), the economic conditions President Obama inherited from Bush 43 were FAR WORSE than the economic downturns the republican presidents presided over; and second, while President Obama has been forced to CUT public sector jobs, Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43 all INCREASED the number of government jobs following their respective recessions.

Second, if you will recall, President Obama intervened to save the American auto industry through the "auto bailout" (government loans) to Chrysler and GM. While Mitt Romney favored "let(ting) Detroit go bankrupt", President Obama took action, unpopular as it was, and as VP Biden likes to say, "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!" Again, according to the non-partisan CBO, the auto rescue saved or created over 1.1 million jobs.

One other note on this issue -- last September, President Obama REPEATEDLY called for Congress to enact the American Jobs Act, which would have created millions of jobs by investing in our nation's infrastructure (building/repairing roads, bridges, airports, railways, schools, etc.) While this Jobs Act would admittedly have been much smaller than the CCC and WPA programs you mention, it would have created millions of good-paying jobs AND repaired/modernized our crumbling infrastructure. Once again republicans' determination to make President Obama a one-term president was more important to them than doing what was best for the country (creating jobs for the unemployed and improving our nation's economy AND infrastructure) and the President's Jobs Act was voted down by republican obstructionists. It isn't true that President Obama hasn't TRIED to create jobs and fix the economy -- HE HAS. However, for the President to do these things requires honorable men and women in the House and Senate to serve as partners, which this president has NOT had in the republican party.

"He did nothing his first term so now presto-chango I am supposed to believe a slick convention with No past action to back it."

Did NOTHING in his first term you say??? Come on now! He reversed our anemic economy and set it on a path to stability, he saved the automobile industry, he worked to regulate banks and wall street to prevent another great recession, he killed bin Laden and DECIMATED al Queda, he passed the Affordable Care Act, he ended the war in Iraq, he is winding down the war in Afghanistan, he repealed Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and the list goes on and on. President Obama has done FAR MORE for our country and the middle class in one term than DUH-bya did in two.

CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MUCH BETTER OFF OUR COUNTRY WOULD BE TODAY IF REPUBLICANS HAD WORKED WITH INSTEAD OF AGAINST THIS PRESIDENT?????

FOUR MORE YEARS!!! OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

Yeah, I'm speechless as well. It's probably the best and most well-organized powerful oratory of any political convention I've seen in 35 years as a voter.

Keeter, That ain't no lie. He made any of the speakers at the RNC Conv. look like 5 year olds, especially Mitten's......

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O&Joe 2012

Willard had no bounce, was tied at best 5 days after his sad sack convention in Tampa. Last night Mayor Castro and Michelle Obama rocked the house. Tonight it was President Clinton. Meanwhile, warming up in the bullpen to close the deal tomorrow is none other than President Obama. This will be like watching Trevor Hoffman or Mariano Rivera in their prime coming in the 9th with a 3 run lead. What it means is GAME OVER!

mygirl1...

I'll make you a deal... Quit acting like you never attacked anyone personally and I'll back off.

But before you answer... remember that people can click on your name and pull up your previous posts.

OK, mygirl, your "y'" was directed to either me or GT. I'll be happy to debate you. I ain't afraid of no longhorns. They're actually kinda skittish.

This is why people keep falling for the Democrats. They are great speech makers. What you fail to notice is that they rarely live up to the things they talk about. What happened to Obama's big CHANGE campaign? Do you like the CHANGE you got? 1) Recession. People are out of work, foreclosed on, etc. 2) Continued war. Didn't he say four years ago that he would bring the troops home? Last I checked they are still in the Middle East. Learn to think for yourself and see BEHIND the rhetoric. Anyone can make a good speech. It is the person of integrity who can actually follow through on what he says. Obama certainly has not followed through on his last campaign promises and now you are all falling for his news ones. People did the same thing with Clinton and what we got was a sex scandal and a demoralization of the Presidency. Yet you are all falling for this liar and applaud him for endorsing our current liar. Amazing.

And Vomitt and Eddie Munster are not lying? PLEASE! ALL they talk about are lies and none of their speeches are even factual. At least Democrats all of their facts and figures checks out and is not a lie. Vomitt and Eddie Munster won't show taxes, have Swiss Bank Accounts, said Let Auto Industry go BK then later say they "saved it" such BS beyond lies I can go on and on but won't bother....

So, what do you want to discuss, mygirl?

a contrast to earlier speeches featuring unrelenting and aggressive attacks on the GOP

And of course, the Republicans will see that as a "weakness" They only know how to attack and smear people. And then, they talk about the "diving" President, and the "attack"President. Never mind that they acted like CANNIBALS, eating each other's guts during their sorry, asinine "debates"

Between Bohener and Ryan, the BS is enough to drown someone. PFFFT!!!!

Clearly, the dominant party was strutting its stuff this evening and eclipsing the sad, feeble efforts of the Party of No at last week's dog-and-pony show. Clinton, Warrren, Obama and the rest of the speakers were strong, intelligent, and they had a firm grasp of the issues, quite unlike the Republicans' losers who dithered, lied, or argued with empty furniture. The only thing more embarrassing than Mitt's pathetic attempts to pretend to be presidential will be the weak excuses given by teabaggers the morning after President Obama is reelected.

President Obama in November! He is our only rational choice!

Samantha-1783461....

Your logic is why people elected Bush W to office the first time and were moronic enough to elect him a second time. It takes brains and planning to give a good speech and no not anyone can do it. If the Republicans can't give a good speech it means they ain't got the brains and they are not planning properly.

Clinton's demoralization of the presidency by his sex scandal was a drop in the bucket compared to how Bush W demoralized the presidency with his non-existent weapons of mass destruction excuse to start a war and all of the other crap he did. No president could correct in one term the damage Bush W spent 8 years doing to the country.

Also by the way, Clinton's sex scandal happened during his first term and the people choose to re-elect him anyway. What a president or anybody else does in bed is their business and is not a concern of mine.

Great Post. Agree with you totally. Oh but the tea-Baggers, for them a cigar that existed over 12 years ago seems to be of the same category as far as relevancy to our country's situation is concerned, as Dubya's "imaginary" WMS and that unwanted war and all the lives that lost and all the respect the country lost in the international community. The Fools.

Obama/Biden 2012

Clinton screwed one person, bush screwed us all.

I do not think I could have done a better job myself, nice work there Bill.

I still am not a fan of nafta, gafta, and the repealing of the glass steagall act, but hey nobody is perfect :).

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"The way the cameras were panning the audiance it would seem the only people in attendance were blacks, hispanics and the elderly."

Really, that's what you saw? I just saw Americans.

Maybe you should just spend your time looking at your own reflection in the mirror. Then you won't need to waste so much energy looking down on others.

Under employed Teacher - I need to correct one thing you said.

GWB wasn't "elected" into office in 2000, he was "ushered" in thanks to his brother down here in Florida through hanging chads and "lost" ballots.

We must all remember that Clinton could have destroyed Saddam Hussein during his administration when Hussein's people were willing to rise up against him. But Clinton "chickened out" and Saddam destroyed the plot against him along with their families.

Clinton also BETRAYED the American people when Operation Casablanca uncovered how corrupt Mexico's banks were in money laudering for the drug cartels. Mexico SCREAMED at how the United States violated the soveriegnty of Mexico by putting a few US agents in their wonderful country. They wanted the US agents arrested and tried as SPIES. But Clinton THE RAT made an agreement with them to ask before ever doing an undercover operation in Mexico again.

SIXTEEN TRILLION IN DEBT!!!

And they want to tell us that Republicans will increase the debt more???

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ONE TRLLION DEFICITS EVERY YEAR FOR FOUR YEARS!

And they want to tell us that Republicans can't balance the budget!

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The Congressional Budget Office is saying that UNEMPLOYMENT WILL RISE TO 9% NEXT YEAR!

AND THAT AMERICA IS HEADING FOR A SECOND RECESSION!

And they want to tell us that they know how to do a better job than the Republicans!

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OBAMA HAD HIS CHANCE! HE FAILED!

IT'S TIME TO SEND HIM BACK TO CHICAGO!

You notice how democrats proudly display Clinton is TV ads and make him a key speaker at the convention and how Bush is hardly ever mentioned by republicans and not invited to speak at the republican convention. Since democrats are proud of Bill Clinton and his eight years as president and republicans are clearly ashamed or embarrassed by Bush's eight years that should tell people a lot. Obama's priorities are similar to Clinton's and Romney's to Bush. Why would they be any less ashamed of Romney if he was elected. Time for republicans to quit looking to the far right and their corporate sponsors when choosing candidates and get one that represents the mainstream of their party.

Bill Clinton along with Obama are both very good LIARS...I mean Bill can look America right in the face and say..." I did NOT have sexual relations with that woman." and people believed him....hahahaha...and that is what makes a great politician I guess for the Dems is a great LIAR.....Now he looks you straight in the eye...the unemployed, the hungry, the homeless, The Catholic church, the gold star mother,The military member being threatened not to get paid,the person pumping $4.00 a gallon gas into their car, the person going through foreclosure, the tax payer whose taxes are going up, the business owner who is having to down size their business or even shut down,......and tell you " Yes you are better off than you were 4 years ago."

Duqu: Interesting you cite congressional budget office statistics but choose not to cite them when assiging blame for the deficit. A CBO breakdown blames Bush's tax cuts, 2 unfunded wars and the 300 billion dollar unfunded drug plan as reposible for most of our deficit.

As for the deficit’s cause, the single most important factor is the legacy of President George W. Bush’s legislative agenda. Overall, changes in federal law during the Bush administration are responsible for 40 percent of the short-term fiscal problem. For example, we estimate that the tax cuts passed during the Bush presidency are reducing government revenue collections by $231 billion in 2009. Also, because of the additions to the federal debt due to Bush administration policies, the government will be paying $218 billion more in interest payments in 2009.

Had President Bush not cut taxes while simultaneously prosecuting two foreign wars and adopting other programs without paying for them, the current deficit would be only 4.7 percent of gross domestic product this year, instead of the eye-catching 11.2 percent—despite the weak economy and the costly efforts taken to restore it. In 2010, the deficit would be 3.2 percent instead of 9.6 percent.

The weak economy also plays a major role in the deficit picture. The failure of Bush economic policies—fiscal irresponsibility, regulatory indifference, fueling of an asset and credit bubble, a failure to focus on jobs and incomes, and inaction as the economy started slipping—contributed mightily to the nation’s current economic situation. When the economy contracts, tax revenues decline and outlays increase for programs designed to keep people from falling deep into poverty (with the tax impact much larger than the spending impact). All told, the weak economy is responsible for 20 percent of the fiscal problems we face in 2009 and 2010.

President Obama’s policies have also contributed to the federal deficit—but only 16 percent of the projected budget deterioration for 2009 and 2010 are attributable to those policies. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, designed to help bring the economy out of the recession is, by far, the largest single additional public spending under this administration.

The cumulative cost of the financial sector rescue, mostly initiated under President Bush in response to the financial markets collapse, is also significant—contributing to 12 percent of the problem. A variety of other changes, described in the methodology section, are also contributors.

And of course, Paul Ryan's numbers don't add up. That is the math of the Republicans: aimed to confuse THE IGNORANT GOP BASE. Paul Ryan can throw a bunch of numbers and the Republicans would not know the difference between a cooking recipe and the Paul Ryan "miracle plan" thaT is just aiming to help him and all the other wealthy.

They are counting ON THE IGNORANCE OF THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS.

Speaking of nice tries,Duqu...bushco started this mess and yet you want to blame Obama for not saving the plane when the crash occurred before he was captain??Pitiful,butch.Pitiful. Bushco lost nealy 1,ooo,ooo jobs his last month alone and yet it's Obama's fault? Are you really this stupid or just hate Obama so much that you won't let facts get in your way?

It's now oficially game on. We'll soon see if blue blood is red.

Top 12 Reasons to Vote Democrat

Something to think about:

1. I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my German Shepherd.
2. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.
3. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
4. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as no-one is offended by it.
5. I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
6. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.

Clinton: we believe that 'we're all in this together' is a far better philosophy than 'you're on your own'.

Makes Ayn Rand seem a bit small, doesn't it?

The DEMOCRATIC PARTY 2050:

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"In Tampa, the argument against the President's reelection was actually quite simple. It went something like this:

We left him a total mess, he hasn't cleaned it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in."

-Bill Clinton

Nice one Larry.

Keep blaming Bush for everything, since you can't point to any successful policy by Obama,

I guess that's the only option you have left.

But since you're into metaphors, how about this one:

I don't think America is like a plane that's already crashed, since everybody would already be dead.

But how about a sinking ship metaphor? The ship was already taking on water when Bush came into office, let's not fool ourselves. Even though Clinton did a good job of reducing the amount of water coming in, and maybe even stopped it for a while and managed to dump a few buckets of sea water out of the ship, the ship was already carrying 6 TRILLION BUCKETS of water.

Obama's policies have caused TWICE as much water coming in compared to Bush!

Obama has actually been making more holes in the hull, and taking on twice as much sea water, and he's just pointing at Bush and saying it's his fault.

I DON'T WANT A LEADER WHO ONLY POINTS FINGERS BUT WHOSE POLICIES ARE CAUSING THE SHIP U.S.S AMERICA TO SINK!!!

WHAT AMERICA NEEDS IS TO STOP WHATEVER OBAMA HAS BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS CAUSE IT HASN'T WORKED!!!

And again, if you insist on comparing Obama to W.:

Bush had 450 Billion Dollar deficit! OBAMA is the one who had

ONE TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS FOR FOUR YEARS IN A ROW!

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And what about unemployment not going under 8% FOR 42 MONTHS?

And the CBO is saying that it will get worse NOT BETTER the way things are going right now!

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And 15% of Americans living on food stamps, thanks to Obama's amazing policies!

He wants to make Americans a country of people living on food stamps!

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And you know who will suffer the most when the government can't pay its bills anymore,

THE POOR PEOPLE WHO RELY ON WELL-FAIR AND ON GOVERNMENT CHECKS!

THE ELDERLY AND THE UNEMPLOYED WILL GO HUNGRY!

OBAMA HAS FAILED.

TIME TO KICK HIM OUT!

Our economic problems didn't happen overnight. It's been happening over the past 15-20 years, but the economy was kept going by middle class Americans tapping into the equity on their homes until they were completely tapped out.

It shouldn't be all about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about doing the right thing for our country and the majority of its citizens. I consider myself an independent voter, but going back to the Reagan days and with the only exception having been Perot, I’ve always voted Republican. But all this single-minded, left versus right, ideological one dimensional bull has got to go! This is the problem with our country. It shouldn't be about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about Americans, especially our elected officials, doing the right thing for our country and its citizens.

Both parties have sold out the bulk of the American citizens, who they're supposed to represent, by allowing the "out-sourcing" floodgates to open wider and wider without taking any sensible measures to stem the tide. (Under Clinton jobs to China, Under Bush I & II influx of illegals or cheap easily abused labor into the US and jobs to Mexico/NAFTA) Our leaders are elected by the Citizens of the United States of America to represent the interests of those citizens and the country itself. They are NOT elected by the Global Market Place or foreign citizens!

We need whoever wins the next election to Start Protecting American Jobs and do whatever it takes to bring back the jobs they let go. They've got to give us somebody who will stand up for the American people.

We need to bring manufacturing back to the United States of America and both parties are ignoring tariffs as a way to level the playing field, raise money and bring jobs back home. Let's guess why. Oh that's right, tariff is a dirty word. Hum, maybe it’s that our so called leaders (political leaders) are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.

I guess we should keep letting Corp Boards, Wall Street, CEOs and Foreign Lobbyists promote sending US jobs to countries where they work for slave wages, no benefits, no OSHA safety standards or no real environment regulations. How's that been working for us?

The so called “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field. Companies may have made higher profits by "out sourcing", but they've been putting middle class Americans who are a good part of the world’s customer base out of work. I’m not a lefty or member of any union. I run a business that employs over 20 people and produces products that are purchased by customers that do manufacturing and packaging. I’m just an average Joe, but I've been saying this for more than 10 years now. If I can see it, so can our so called leaders (political leaders) who are beholden to the same people who are exporting our jobs.

We need to add tariffs that are proportionate to the inequities in wages and regulations in the country where the goods were produced and or where we’re importing them from. We could then use the money raised by these tariffs to help companies build state of the art manufacturing plants here in the USA, which would create more jobs here at home for US citizens, which would then in turn increase our income tax revenue.

The people with all of the excuses as to why we can’t or aren’t willing to manufacture products here in the US are the same people who have provided us with the thinking that’s gotten us into this mess in the first place.

Over the past 15-20 years, I've seen too many of our customer's close manufacturing plants here in the USA and move those plants to different countries, decimating entire areas here in OUR COUNTRY. And I'm not alone. Returning jobs to American Citizens will provide income tax revenue to OUR Government versus our government having to pay unemployment benefits to those who would be jobless instead.

Bringing manufacturing back to the US not only gives jobs to the US citizens who would be working in those manufacturing facilities, but to the people that would be working in the businesses that would spring up all around them. This should also include the safe harvesting, production and distribution of our own natural energy here in the USA, rather than paying for fuel from countries where they hate us. Let’s keep that money and those jobs here in the US.

These so-called “free trade agreements” have to go. It was obvious when they were passing these agreements as to what was going to happen and sure enough it did. Our leaders had to have known this as well when they were passing these bills. It’s just common sense. We also need to bring customer support services back to the United States of America and staff them with employees who are US Citizens.

The “Global Market Place” is not a level playing field! The whole idea of the tariffs is so we can pay our factory workers a decent wage and not be blown out by these other countries where they don’t play by the same rules.

We may have to pay a bit more for products made here in the USA by US citizens, but at least we'll still have jobs and a future for our children.

The bottom line is that “Our Government” has to protect American industry and the jobs that those industries provide. If they do that, the rest will take care of itself.

I have to admit that Clinton is still the best liar out there.

But republican numbers do add up. Cuts in taxes for corporations and businesses, the cuts for the millionaires and billionaires and then all the cuts for those in need!

But how about a sinking ship metaphor? The ship was already taking on water when Bush came into office, let's not fool ourselves. Even though Clinton did a good job of reducing the amount of water coming in, and maybe even stopped it for a while and managed to dump a few buckets of sea water out of the ship, the ship was already carrying 6 TRILLION BUCKETS of water.

Duqu: Could you prove our point any more? You realise most of that 6 trillion Clinton had when he left as president he inherited from another republican named Reagan?

In 1981, the supply siders commandeered the Reagan Presidency and employed their Voodoo economics, as Bush senior had called it in 1980. He was saying that tax cuts would not increase government revenues. As you can see on the graph above (or get the update and more with this New App), the Voodoo failed just as Bush predicted, and the supply siders turned a 32-year winning streak into a debt disaster that continues to this day. For 20-years, under Reagan and the Bushes, the national debt increased compared to GDP every single year. In most other years it decreased. Twenty years in a row can't be just an accident, but to understand you need to learn the voodoo strategy.

what would have happened to the national debt if Reagan and the Bushes had balanced their budgets as Reagan claimed he would. G.W. Bush, in all modesty, claimed he would "retire nearly $1 trillion in debt over the next four years. This will be the largest debt reduction ever achieved by any nation at any time."

Conservatives are quite embarrassed by this performance, so they have invented a cover story: The Democratic Congress did it. Nice try. But for 12 of the 20 years the Congress was not Democratic. Also, presidents can veto, and when it was Democratic, Congress passed smaller budgets on average than the Republican Presidents asked for. Presidents propose the budget, and they have the most influence.

Dream on.

Will Haas

The poor President did not inherit anything. He campaigned for and won the Presidency after Bush. He said that he could fix the economy.

I'm sorry, I wasn't aware the the economy STOPPED spiriling out of control in Nov. of 2008 after Obama got elected. I was under the impression that the sh*t continue to pile on into 2009.

Clinton speech is not going to change anything, after a couple of days from those two conventions, people will go back to reality. No money in their pocket, on Friday will see more negative unemployment numbers, Obama will continue adding more debt, price gas will continue going high, cost of living going high and we will continue in the wrong direction. We need a change of course , not to the policies from Democrats to easy loans that create the housing collapse and our economy, no to more debt, more job, welcome to investors millionaires and billionaires who are waiting for policies that incentives business. We need a real change

Romney Ryan 2012

These rightwingnuts are out of their minds.

They are doing everything to distance themselves from their President that wreaked havoc on the world's economy. They blast Democrats whenever the toxic former President is mentioned and they don't even invite him to their own convention. You can hide him and his evil partner in crime Cheney, but America remembers.

We proudly support President Clinton for his leadership in prosperity and peace.

We proudly support President Obama for his leadership out of financial collapse.

What are Republicans proud of, their ability to obstruct and take our country to back to the 1950's?

Only Mexicans are better off today!

mn

menoseeno< Clinton was talking about you when he spoke about arithmetic. The simple fact we have said here for a decade at least. Republicans can ADD. But it's nice to see Clinton rocked your world, that you now sit there trying SO HARD not to absorb the truth, that your emotions are in rage mode trying to hang on to lies. that anger you feel is your sub conscious trying to break out and tell you the truth that you refuse to accept.

One thing's for sure, when it comes to Clinton, nothing changes. His speech reminds me of the comments dems would make to me when he was President and gave speeches: "Sure, I know he's a liar, but I like what he has to say!"

Heck, Reagan inherited an economy in a heck of a lot worse shape than Obama did and he straightened it out in 4 years. So much for Clinton's claim.

witchrunner

Heck, Reagan inherited an economy in a heck of a lot worse shape than Obama did

show me the numbers to prove your claim. I guess YOU know more than the economists do.

Also, Reagan borrowed heavily, increased government jobs, increased spending, and increased the debt ceiling EIGHTEEN TIMES!

Reagan also put tariffs on foreign auto manufacturers to make American cars more competitive - not very FREE MARKET-like.

Larry,

I saw you blaming Bush again, and then Reagan! Wow!

But I must have missed the part where you explained what if ANY successful policies Obama has introduced in the last FOUR YEARS he's been in office.

I mean, sure we can go down memory lane and talk about 2004, or 1996, or even 1980!!!!!

But we're living in 2012!

We're not talking about Clinton, or Bush, or Reagan! We're talking about Obama's record!

So how successful has Obama been in reducing the deficit?

ONE TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR, FOUR YEARS IN A ROW!!!

Doesn't seem very successful to me.

And unemployment above 8% for 42 months!

Looks like his policies simply haven't worked!

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OBAMA HAS FAILED!!!

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TIME TO KICK HIM OUT!!!

"Clinton, one of the most popular figures in American politics today" .. Ya, for getting oral sex in the oval office, and giving mediocre speeches.. Big Deal.. Like I said yesterday.. The proof is in the pudding, not in the speeches.. Half the time they don't even write their own.. On the matter of the oral sex, you can't hump your way outta debt, so with the same administration we have now, we're screwed..

Biden might want to rethink his RANT on GM

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo

Obama's auto bailout went to CHINA!

FACTS don't lie! Democrats do!

Come on, people! All you need to do to understand how our economy collapsed, is look at the Clinton administration and their revision of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). Google it, go on YouTube, and do some research. Those changes he made is what caused the housing bubble and collapse, the banking failures, then the business failures and a loss of millions of jobs. The Democrats are too stupid to realize it, and the following administrations paid, and are paying the price for it, Bush and Obama. Bush tried to fix the problems caused by the CRA revisions but was BLOCKED BY THE DEMOCRATS. Now, Clinton has the nerve to get up and blame Bush? What a total joke. He just spewed a bunch of crap. Our government has a SPENDING PROBLEM, you idiot, not a revenue problem.
I wonder when the Democrat party is going to change its name to the Communist party, because that is what they are looking more and more like, starting with their communist leader, Barack Hussein Obama, and from what I am hearing from people at this convention.
My strong advise: Vote Republican or watch this great republic go downhill.

Laulaus...........repubs put up 3 time loser Newt Gingrich as a candidiate and led the field of repub losers ....Newt was cheating on his first wife the whole time he was trying to impeach Clinton. Newt dumps his first wife publicly when she is in the hospital, Newt dumps skank number two his second wife when she gets sick. Then Newt marries skank number 3 and repubs want Newt the skank and skank woman as president and as first skank lady in the White House?....What is wrong with that picture?

Duqu

I mean, sure we can go down memory lane and talk about 2004, or 1996, or even 1980!!!!!

But we're living in 2012!

We're not talking about Clinton, or Bush, or Reagan! We're talking about Obama's record!

So how successful has Obama been in reducing the deficit?

Are you so narrow minded to not realize that the past 30 years in our country have had and still does have a very direct affect on what were doing today? Do you always view life in such a compartmentalized obtuse fashion?

Obama put forth a plan to reduce the deficit by 4 trillion over ten years. It was transparent, concrete and across the board regarding sacrifice. What was the GOP response to that bill? A redrafted trojan horse that repealed the ACA.

Soooo, that's how it's gonna go? Every bill the Dems submit (whether good or bad) will be met with a redraft including a repeal of the ACA? Apparently this is the type of elected official you want representing you. One who adds negative value, and accomplishes nothing.

YOU ARE the type of person who thinks McCain would have this mess cleaned up by now. It only symbolizes how small minded you are. If Paul Ryan told you a chair was a hat, you'd be wearing one within the hour. Sad, but very very true.

Bill Clinton says..."No one could repair all the damage he found." I prefer to think of it as, no one can repair all of the damage he himself has already caused! So much for that hope and change thing!

Keeter got one thing right....Bill has been known for oral

Larry-367607

You notice how democrats proudly display Clinton is TV ads and make him a key speaker at the convention and how Bush is hardly ever mentioned by republicans and not invited to speak at the republican convention. Since democrats are proud of Bill Clinton and his eight years as president and republicans are clearly ashamed or embarrassed by Bush's eight years that should tell people a lot...

Let's take it a step further. The Republicans want America to elect a man who has hired Bush's Neo-Conservative foreign affairs and economic advisers. So, if you liked George W. Bush...you'll love Willard Romney and his boy Ryan. Not good enough to appear at their conversion, but good enough to run the country again...amazing.

Poor liberals......

You saw Clinton promote Obama, but never mentioned specifics about what Obama has done. Ask Clinton this question. If you were elected as president 4 years ago with the economy, would Americans be better off than they are today in an Obama presidency?

What do you think his answer would be? Now you can all see the ads comming out where you have Bill Clinton praising Romney and his work with Bain Capital. You will see Clinton saying that Mitt Romney would make a good president. You might even see Bill Clinton advising to extend the tax cuts until after the election across the board. Or you might see Bill Clinton pissed off with the Obama administration for using the race card on Hillary.

Libs all of the facts listed above from Clintons own mouth, how does that make you feel? Honestly, I get why Clinton spoke last night. He enjoys the limelight and being the center of attention, but from a liberal perspective are you more excited about Clinton or Obama?

Silly LIBS..... Think about it and look up Bill Clintons remarks in the last 6 months about Romney. Sending mixed signals for sure. He loves his democratic party, but it is tough for him to go off on positives with Obama.

Ed-NavDoc

Bill Clinton says..."No one could repair all the damage he found." I prefer to think of it as, no one can repair all of the damage he himself has already caused! So much for that hope and change thing!

When the Clinton administration took office in January 1993, the federal budget deficit for that year was projected to top $300 billion. When Clinton left office there was a budget surplus of $236.2 billion.

Thank you for demonstrating the core problem with Republican talking points. Your words have to actually mean something (verifiable, ie...facts).

James-2110694

Poor liberals......

You saw Clinton promote Obama, but never mentioned specifics about what Obama has done. Ask Clinton this question. If you were elected as president 4 years ago with the economy, would Americans be better off than they are today in an Obama presidency?

Silly Neo-Con...
He answered that question last night. "No president, not me or any of my predecessors, could have repaired all the damage in just four years," Clinton said in a rapturously received speech that capped the second night of the Democratic National Convention.

In addition to policies based on denied failure (30 years of supply side economics), which you as party want the American people to embrace, your party has acquired a odd "difficulty" discerning fact from propaganda. And as with your comment above, when you a ask question and that question is answered you ignore the answer and keep asking the question. It's a tactic a little like shouting down the opponent's answer to your question.

You, as a party, clearly have a very low opinion of the American people.

Ol_Doc, you missed my point. I was referring to the damage Obama has already caused, not Clinton! Perhaps I should have clarified for those unable to determine that.

Ol_DOc, by the way, I forgot to mention above that I am neither Republican nor Democrat so spare yourself the political party barbs as they a wasted effort and totally meaningless to me. I vote Independent, as both of the aforementioned parties are pale shadows of what they once were and stood for. I vote for the person I consider best suited and qualified for the job, not the party, as so many other people do.

Sorry Bill........... YOUR TEAM could not have saved the economy in four years.....

Not sure if McCain could have either......... he's too much of a Maverick...........

Deuteronomy 28:

⁴³ “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

⁴⁴ He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

⁴⁵ “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

⁴⁶ And they shall be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants
forever.

Aiding an illegal is worse than being an illegal because they betray God to look good in the eyes of man.

LAUGHABLE MOMENT:

Romney had a bunch of character witnesses that knew him a long time and spoke of his kindness and charity and of spending HIS OWN money and time on helping others. Lots of witnesses (ok, exclude Clint Eastwood).

Obama had three character witnesses, none who could speak of him from years ago, and all three - Perv-In-Chief Clinton, Moochelle, and Doh Biden all depend on saying nice things in order to get a paycheck from Obama. How are those true character witnesses?

What has Obama done for others? Name ONE THING that he did with HIS money for anyone. One thing? Anybody?

Active Chief, please don't use truth, logic, and common sense on liberal Democrats. It just confuses them even more and they cannot handle it!