Good for you!

The right loves to make the claim that Obama lied and kept none of his promises. Yet no one can dispute this record below (Yo Layton, you can take this one to the bank : ) )

Promises Kept 190 37%

Compromised 72 14%

Stalled 49 10%

In the Works 112 22%

Promise Broken 83 16%

No Yet Rated 2 0%

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

Now tell us all you Obama haters, is their a president with a better record, worse record, matching record? Tick, tock, tick, tock .. this question has been asked so many times without any sort of answer, I won't be holding my breath.

Considering Obama started his campaign under a sound economy that crashed shortly before the election, that he could keep one promise is truly astounding.

kitty . . .

you will think "blessed" if he gets in again. you will think a big club just hit you in the head! He is not telling you the truth,

I will not think "blessed" if Mitt Romney and Lyin Ryan represent me! I am all for a decent opponent. But Mitt and his lying sidekick are nowhere near that.

JimSpence

Hmmmmmm, do you mean Barrack Husseins trickle-down that poured $863 billion of stimulus into the top of our government and expected it to trickle-down to all those "shovel-ready" jobs?

You mean, the TRICKLE Down economics from BUSH for 8 years did so much to stop the rise of unemployment, higher gas prices, the housing bubble, and the exportation of american JOBS to other countries. The GOP economic plan is FAILURE.

Oh wait, silly me, there never were any "shovel-ready" jobs were there?

Oh wait, silly me, I thought that the GOP told us that if we lowered corporate taxes, we would have more jobs... were are they?

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 for real Americans For the continued redistribution of wealth from the lower and middle class to the RICH and Corporations

Here ya go, CubsFan:

Red States Gobble Up Omnibus Earmarks

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran led his colleagues by raking in more than $470 million in 204 earmarks. Mississippi's junior Republican, Roger Wicker, pulled in more than $390 million. The totals can't be added together because the figure includes earmarks each received solo and with others, so the same earmark could be in both senators' column. Cochran, on his own, pulled in roughly $76 million and Wicker brought home $4 million.

Cochran's $76 million ranks him sixth among solo earmarkers. (Earmarks can be requested individually, with other members of Congress or along with the president.)

For solo earmarks, nobody beat out Sen. Bob Byrd (D-W.Va.), last year's appropriations committee chairman. The defender of earmarks took home $123 million. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) came in second, with $114 million. Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.) rounded out the top three, bringing home $86 million by himself.

Republican leader Mitch McConnell is bringing $51 million back to Kentucky and Democratic leader Harry Reid earmarked $27 million for Nevada. They ranked tenth and seventeenth, respectively.

Louisiana did well, too. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu took in the third-most joint and solo earmarks, bringing home $332 million for local projects. Her Republican colleague, Sen. David Vitter, pulled down the fifth-most at $249 million.

The Louisianans straddled Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin, the chairman of the agriculture committee, who brought back $292 million.

Rural and small-state voters were the big winners on an absolute and on a per capita basis, even though it was big states and urban areas that have delivered Congress and the White House to Democrats. Of the top ten earmarking senators, only Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.; $77 million solo; $235 combined), represents a large state and only three of the top ten are blue states. In the top 20, only six blue states are represented.

Cubsfan, if you honestly don't know which party is which, what are doing posting here?

ROMNEY GAVE UP TONIGHT ON HIS CHANCE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE, HE HAS HIS FUTURE SET FOR SPENDING TIME IN THE BIG HOUSE!

BAIN BEING INVESTIGATED ON TAXES!

From Forbes.com 9/1/12

The New York Times is reporting that Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is among a number of firms being investigated by New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, for failing to pay taxes.

The New York AG's Taxpayer Protection Bureau has issued subpoenas to at least twelve financial firms, including Bain, looking into whether the companies converted management fees (taxed as ordinary income) paid by investors into fund investments which are taxed at a dramatically lower rate.

The controversial tax avoidance scheme came to light last month when Bain Capital internal financial information was published online by Gawker.com , however the investigation had reportedly commenced prior to the publication and is not believed to be tied to the document dump.

According to the Times

The tax strategy — which is viewed as perfectly legal by some tax experts, aggressive by others and potentially illegal by some — came to light last month when hundreds of pages of Bain's internal financial documents were made available online. The financial statements show that at least $1 billion in accumulated fees that otherwise would have been taxed as ordinary income for Bain executives had been converted into investments producing capital gains, which are subject to a federal tax of 15 percent, versus a top rate of 35 percent for ordinary income. That means the Bain partners saved more than $200 million in federal income taxes and more than $20 million in Medicare taxes.

While Governor Romney has not been active at Bain Capital for quite some time, he does continue to receive profits from the company and held investments in some of the funds that utilized the tax avoidance strategy.

Wait a minute remember the wall between Church and state. The main reason we became a country at all. Freedom of religion. James Madison and Jefferson. Conservatives claim they want to stay true to the forefathers. Yet I ask why the issue with abortion. Is that not an issue between ones God and family.

Why is the republican party a Conservative Christian Party attempting to control the Rights of the state with Big government over religious views? Jesus would not be doing this. Any true believer of GOD would know that each Man woman and child has a personal connection with GOD that no Government should mess with.

I can see all the newly converted MORONS now. Leave your GOD out of MY STATE and my Government. I choose to believe that GOD is Bigger than the Republicant party.

JimSpence ..

Funny how the shovel ready jobs were asked for by Ryan ....

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/paul-ryan-explains-why-he-didnt-recall-requesting-stimulus-funds/

Awesome speech! Was very proud of my President tonight. He will be my choice for a 2nd term!

sutter99 -

RealAmericansFirst Why didn't you mention the fact that President Bill Clinton signed the repeal of the Glass Steagal Act?

Why don't you mention that the Rebublicans had a complete stranglehold on both houses of Congress when it was repealed?

After the House Banking Committee approved a bill repealing Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32, Representative Dingell again stopped House action. He reached agreement with Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Gonzalez (D-TX) to insert into the bill “firewalls” that banks claimed would prevent real competition between banks and securities firms.^[265] The banking industry strongly opposed the bill in that form, and the House rejected it.

He gets my vote because the choices are very clear in the election and the GOP offers No hope or any path forward except a repeat of the same mindless greed that just about killed us. It was a great speech and a great convention and I'm proud that he will be serving 4 more years. For those on here who are calling him a liar - have you ever heard of a website called Politifact? I suggest you go check it and just see how wrong you are about the real facts.

Romney says...corporations are people.......Birthers should be all over this one....Protect the country from Citizens United allowing Foreigners to buy an American republican politician. ...Republicans allowing Foreigners to buy the republican candidate of their choice. Meanwhile, real Americans were dying and getting wounded In Iraq fake WMD war. Did a corporation get blown up by IED? Did a corporation get wounded, or serve 3 terms in Iraq? Did a corporation come home in a coffin?

Don't forget ever what Bush/Cheney/ repubs did to economy and to our soldiers. Romney wants to do it all over again.

Corporations are NOT PEOPLE! Vote President Obama/Biden 2012

If you research Glass Steagal, you will find that just about every Republican had tried to repeal the law for many years. Clinton signed the repeal that that the Republicans wanted repealed and many Democrats went along with also to appease the banks. Are you saying that Clinton should have vetoed what the Republicans pushed through? Here again, is a twisting of the truth by Republicans who care little about telling the truth. Clinton tried to get along with Republicans to his great chagrin.

Sutter,

you got 30% because of credit card reform

-made raising interest on credit cards pretty much illegal after it became law

-many fees, so interest went up to replace that revenue.

-because of the housing bubble burst, raising interest is a way to discourage the use of promised credit card limits at a time when credit lines were large and unused. By insuring the available balance was not used, banks lowered their debt to loan ratioes to acceptable levels. If your Bank wiped out your available balance, but that would hurt credit scores. Banks in the worst shape raise interest and cut the credit lines.

notacommie-1732574

They all lie...

but my liars won't appoint socialists with leftist agendas to the SCOTUS,

No, they'll appoint more of the same corporate hacks that gave us "Citizens United".

That's why we're not going to elect them.

It is a clear choice. Voters must decide and choose wisely, at this rate what will we be like if we have the same leadership four years from now?

Jan, 2009 (O's first day on the job)....now

Unemployment 7.8%...8.3%

Median Income (a.k.a. middle class) $54,983....$50,964

Gasoline/Gallon $1.84....$3.82

National Debt $10.6Trillion.....$16 Trillion

Source: BLS: Sentier Research; Dept of Energy; Dept of Treasury

RedDevPS ....

Biden has Obama's back, and you my wonderful friend, always have mine.

Story ... I met RedDevPS on the FR posts and after a lot of mutual comments, we found out that we went to the same school.

For all of the haters out there, sometimes life is just about that. LIFE. It is what our President believes in. Our common good and our lives. We have children that go to college, children that get pregnant before they would like to, and children that struggle with the day to day.

THAT is why I will vote for President Obama. . . He understands the day-to-day struggles that we all face.

Obama/Biden 2012 - They understand that asking your parents for tuition just isn't an option.

Notice how rt wingers hope for bad things to happen to America?

Notice how rt wingers cheer if there is bad news for America?

Notice how rt wingers try and pass laws that are bad for America?

You know like screaming how they love the constitution then create laws to prevent Americans from voting?

Ann screams "I love women." Repubs daily pass laws against women with their war on women's rights!

Yeah those kind of laws...rt winger laws that hate Americans!

Obama/Biden 2012

Harley Chic - even if you didn't tell us you were a GNoP'er, we'd know by how badly you lie.

From Politifact:

If you take the numbers from January 2003 to January 2007 -- Romney’s first and last months in office -- you find a drop of 1.2 percentage points nationally (from 5.8 percent to 4.6 percent) and 1.0 points in Massachusetts (from 5.6 percent to 4.6 percent). That's not much of a difference.

"At the end of his term, Romney could claim a small net job gain and a lower unemployment rate, but the pace of job growth lagged the nation badly and only a huge outflow of Massachusetts workers to faster growing states kept the unemployment rate from climbing higher.

Repubs want to simplify and make people forget the damage they have caused and will cause. So they simply say are you better off then you were 4 years ago?

We all know the economy was crashing and losing over 700,000 jobs per month because of greedy rich. Dems and President Obama stopped it.

We all know repubs on the night Obama took office promised to obstruct every bill that would make President Obama look good in 2012, and they tried, even blocking health care for 911 responders. Record amount of blocking bills to take the economy down.

Repubs are waging social war against women on health care, equal pay, and control over their own bodies, with laws which will turn the clock back over a hundred years.

Repubs are creating voter suppression laws all over the country to prevent the elderly from voting to protect Social Security, Medicare, medicaid, ACA care, the Poast office, etc. Voter suppression laws to stop the young from same day registration to keep them from voting democratic party, voter suppression laws to keep the poor and middle class from voting...

Yes the repubs want you to forget how they want the greedy rich taking all of the rest of your money they didn't get when they crashed the economy.

Repubs don't want you to remember what Bush/Cheney did when they lied nation into war killing thousands of our troops and wounding and killing thousands more.

Repubs want to to forget the debt they caused with the two unfunded wars etc.

So they simply say are you better off?.......Why don't they ask... How good are repubs doing at obstructing recovery from the damage they caused? That is the question you should be asking!

Yes the repubs don't want you to remember how they obstruct you from recovering the economy crash.....

Remember what the repubs have done and what they will do to you if elected again. Destroy the nation even more.

Vote Obama/Biden and Democratic Party, and finish the recovery for the middle class.

@Layton-3733410#1.42: I'm with you. We can't allow these 2 Corporatist's to turn this country into "the worlds money changing hole" with the only wage earners toting their buckets at $2.00 a day. Romney is nothing but a thief and a liar. The little man running with him, while not yet accomplished, is well on His way to becoming an olympic grade liar.

Obama/Biden 2012!

Notacommie..... You sound like a communist, but at the very least socially paranoid about a reality only scared, under-educated, white males fear when they turn on the TV and see a black man exemplify real leadership values.

I'm really tired of repeating this, so please get it straight;

The Democrats had 60 votes in the Senate for a total of 24 days between 2008 and 2010.

The rest of the time, either Teddy Kennedy or Robert Byrd was out because they were ill or had died.

You really think everything that needed to be done to bring this nation back from its knees could have been accomplished in 24 days?

Or should the GOP have gotten off it's a$$ and helped?

Stating facts to the rightwing lemming base is like talking to a BRICKWALL or wind up talking toys. They just keep repeating the same LIES fed in their pea noggins by their Rethug overlords.

But the left must keep hammering the facts just the same! On Lyin' Ryan:

On August 16, CAP noted that “since 2001 [Ryan] has voted for at least 65 separate pieces of deficit and debt-increasing legislation, with the total tab for all those votes a whopping $6.8 trillion in cumulative deficits.”

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/187865/no-bull@!$%#-paul-ryans-votes-created-6-8-trillion-in-deficits-under-bush/

Then the lying hypocrite DID THIS!!

Lyin’ Paul Ryan Applied For Obamacare Funds To Help A Family Planning Facility

The money Paul Ryan applied for was made available by Obamacare, and he wanted the funds to be used for the Kenosha Community Health Center’s expansion called the Belle City Neighborhood Health Center.

Here is the shocker. This community health center provides family planning. So not only is Paul Ryan hypocritically denouncing ObamaCare while dipping his hands trying to extract the benefits of it for his constituency, but he is also funding a family planning facility.

After speaking with the facility, they told me they do not perform abortion services, but they do provide birth control, like the pill and all other family planning services.

http://www.politicususa.com/paul-ryan-applied-obamacare-funds-family-planning-facility.html

Obama/Biden 2012!!

The republicans pledge to america 4 years ago."1. To make this a one term President if we cannot find a way to impeach him in any way we can. 2. To bash all hope for americans so they will be more brain dead and willing to give up any and all rights to the religious right and eventually live under the flag of the ten so called commandments and trash that worthless piece of paper they call the constitution."

Well so far they have failed miserably and not succeeded in any of their endeavors but don't count them out yet. Patriotism tossed aside, they are already initiating the tealiban into their party which brings them a step further in bashing all hope and replacing our constitution with thier self written bible. Kind of like the Taliban has done with the muslims koran even.

MUW I am sorry but if President Obama did not keep ANY of his Promises Over The Last 3.5 Years

The kindest remark I can make to that, MUW, is that you are "misinformed".

Who keeps their promises? And who just obstructs and then blames the other side?

From PolitiFact.com:

A scorecard on President Obama's campaign promises

Four years ago, Barack Obama made an extraordinary array of campaign promises -- 508 pledges on everything from taxing the rich to ending the Iraq war.

He vowed to get health coverage for the uninsured and to safeguard the environment by capping carbon emissions. He pledged to push for comprehensive immigration reform and help homeowners after the housing market crashed.

Above all, he would change the tenor of the debate in Washington.

"We have a chance to bring the country together in a new majority — to finally tackle problems that Washington has ignored for too long. And that is why the same old Washington textbook campaigns just won't do in this election," he said in Blueprint for Change, a campaign document that became his presidential to-do list.

PolitiFact has been tracking all 508 promises and keeping tally on the Obameter throughout his presidency.

Our scorecard shows Obama kept 37 percent of his promises. He brought the war in Iraq to a close and finally achieved the Democratic dream of a universal health care program. When the United States had Osama bin Laden in its sights, Obama issued the order to kill.

Sixteen percent are rated Broken, often because they hit a brick wall in Congress. Global warming legislation passed the House but died in the Senate. He didn't even push for comprehensive immigration reform. His program to help homeowners facing foreclosure didn't even meet its own benchmarks. (PolitiFact rates campaign promises based on outcomes, not intentions.)

With four months left in Obama's term, PolitiFact has rated Obama's remaining promises Compromise (14 percent), Stalled (10 percent) or In the Works (22 percent).

One stands out as not only his biggest broken promise, but as an explanation for many others that have fizzled or failed: his pledge to bring people together for a bipartisan agenda.

"That, it seems to me, is the most important promise that the president has not been able to keep," said William Galston, a former Clinton administration aide who now is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and studies political polarization. "It will long be debated by historians whether he tried and failed, or didn't really try at all."

This is an accounting of the promises Obama kept and failed to keep, and how bipartisanship eluded him at nearly every turn.

A scorecard on President Obama's campaign promises

PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter.

We rate their status as Not Yet Rated, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken.

The report card provides an up-to-the-minute tally of all the promises.

The Obameter Scorecard

• Promise Kept 190 (37%)

• Compromise 72 (14%)

• Promise Broken 83 (16%)

• Stalled 49 (10%)

• In the Works 112 (22%)

• Not yet rated 2 (0%)

GOP Pledge-O-Meter: Tracking the promises of the GOP Leadership in Congress

PolitiFact has compiled promises that Republican congressional leaders made during the 2010 campaign and is tracking their progress on our GOP Pledge-O-Meter.

We rate their status as Not Yet Rated, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken. (See our About the Pledge-O-Meter page for definitions of the ratings.)

The report card provides an up-to-the-minute tally of all the promises.

GOP Pledge-O-Meter Scorecard

• Promise Kept 11 (19%)

• Compromise 4 (7%)

• Promise Broken 11 (19%)

• Stalled 3 (5%)

• In the Works 11 (19%)

• Not yet rated 17 (30%)

There's your choice, folks.

262 kept or compromised promises by Obama, 15 by the GOP.

Who lies? Who tells the truth? You decide.

President Obama and TEAM AMERICA KILLED BIN LADEN.

Bush quit trying.

Romney thought of corporate profits and said he would not go after Bin Laden because it was too expensive.

TEAM AMERICA AND PRESIDENT OBAMA .......PROTECTING AMERICA from the enemies and rt wingers.

James Taylor: "I'm an old white guy, and I love Barack Obama."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfZmBJ3aWVg

Yep, all the greatest song writers ALLOWS the DNC to play their songs, if they aren't playing for Obama events!

As Tom Petty would say I won't back down! And played last night's convention. Tonight U2.

First let me say, Im a Republican...but I will be voting for Obama.

For my fellow Republicans, all is I can say is i hope you are all independantly wealthy and each of you own an underground bunker....and Im almost positive none of you are/do.

Romney will strip every dime from each one of you that he can, strip the rights that each one of us are guaranteed, and then he'll declare war so he can pilfer the funds while claiming its the patriotic thing to do. Didnt any of you learn a lesson from the Bush era ? (I'll answer for you...no you didnt because you are the very people who re-elected Bush after all his lies were exposed and then cried when everyone got screwed ) The Republican party isnt what it was 20 years ago...now its all about the $$$ while banging a patriotic drum so the masses will follow blindly because its the patriotic thing to do. Shame on each and every one of you for falling for the thinly vieled BS over and over again. They dont care about us...and havent for years.

My "hope" is for the Obama's to leave Washington, D.C. permanently with them never returning as President, Senator or anything else.

Go ahead and hold you're breath on that. That will be one less vote for the kings of obstructionism.

talktothe hand is going to bed to...talk to his hand.....nity nite!

And not a drop of rain in Charlotte tonight.

President Obama knew exactly what Americans needed to hear tonight. We didn't need to hear more doom and gloom and cynicism and doubt and fear-mongering. We heard plenty of that during the RNC last week. What we needed was to feel empowered by a strong leader who not only believes in himself, but believes in us, the American people. Clinton and Obama's speeches were a perfect pairing. Clinton debunked many of the Republican myths, and then Obama uplifted and inspired us.

I can tell you that I've had a few supervisors in my lifetime, and the ones I have enjoyed working with the most were the ones who focused on the positive, who believed in me and who inspired me. The most difficult ones were the naysayers and those who focused on the negative.

For me, the choice is clear. President Obama is the man I want to work with to re-build America. President Obama is the man that I trust. President Obama has my vote.

Obama/Biden 2012

When the media arm of the Obama administration -- MSNBC -- is calling the speech "workman-like", it's wasn't exactly inspiring for anybody other than the most over-the-top Obama fanatics.

Here's the orginal story on Obama's brother & how poor he is and how our GREAT President hasnt even offered to help him have a better life..... Amazing how someone can talk about how much they want to help this nation and wont help their own family.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/22/bts.obama.brother/

@oy-vay "Tax cuts don't cost anybody ANYTHING. In case you didn't realize, paying taxes is giving up what's ALREADY YOURS to the govt. If I hear the LIE that tax cuts are subsidized one more time.... It's only a subsidy when the govt actually cuts a check."

WHAT IF IT REDUCES THE SIZE OF THE CHECK THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY TO THE GOVENRMENT IN TAXES? HOW CAN YOU REDUCE THE SIZE OF THAT CHECK, AND THAT MONEY NOT COME FROM SOMEWHERE? SINCE I AM LYING PLEASE BACK UP YOUR CLAIMS WITH MATH.

Please explain to me how you can make and earn money in "America" and not owe the government anything? Did you actually print out the money or did the government? Did you attend public school, who paid for that, who taught you? Did you pave those roads? Did you lay the electric wire? How about the plumbing? Who paid the police to PROTECT your sorry a$$ from people beating you up as a kid or even as an adult? How about the military, firefighters, coast guard, etc.? Let me guess you do not owe those people ANYTHING?

Just like those 5 trillion in tax cuts you all want, that will not make our debt go up even more huh? I take it you cheated or failed at math class huh?

BTW good speech there Mr. President, raise those taxes. "Raise baby raise"

And republicans have been obstructing for 4 straight years. Not once have they offered anything to help repair their mess unless it had tax cuts, more deductions/incentives for the top tier and a line in the bill that would make those permanent while at the same time taking away deductions for the middle class and giving them tax hikes to pay for the cuts they said the near broke corporations they work for need in order to survive even though they absolutely do not plan on creating jobs in this country ever again, it surely will help their profit margins as they ship more machinery into third world nations and create 10s of millions of less than a dollar an hour wages with the only benefits being they won't slap your back with a wet towel if you keep your legs crossed and not expect bathroom breaks for the next eight hours.

I feel sorry for you Mike that youre so easily manipulated.....You didnt hear the Dems warmongering against China and Russia and IRAN the way Mitt and McCain did...Do you honesstly believe the Repubs wont start another war ? Theyre already planning it and haave stated it numerouss times on national TV...You must only watch Fox News....seriously

rt wingers whining that they didn't get their diaper changed by President Obama yet. You know how a baby cries with a mess it made in it's diaper, then when you want to change the baby they take off running and crawling away?...yeah.....well you may like sitting in your mess, but it stinks for the rest of us!

Obama/Biden 2012

Mike, they obstructed for 4 years??? How??? The Dems had complete control for 2 years of those years and could -- and did -- do whatever they wanted. Were that not true Obamacare could never have gotten passed out of Congress to Obama's desk.

Sound and fury, signifying ......NOTHING! Mr. Obama , You were given the opportunity tonight to dazzle us with Your brilliance, to explain what You would do differently,to correct Your mistakes and failures , IF We were to decide to renew Your contract for four more years, and once again, You failed,....... miserably. Instead of laying out a plan, ANY PLAN!, You chose to insult Us by trying to baffle Us with Your rah, rah, BS,very disappointing ,but, Thank You for Your time, You will be notified of Our decision in November. (P.S. Have You ever considered going into used car sales? I think You and Willie demonstrate a real talent for that line of work).

Harley , MUW, CubFan and all the other knuckledraggers,,,,,,,,,your convention image was a senile bed-head has been celebrity speaking incoherently to an empty seat for an empty suit carrying an empty briefcase of ideas.

Your speakers were dull and spouting lies since proven as such. Your delegates and America at home were bored ,,,,,and no bounce, Your convention and your party were a failure last week

The DNC kicked your azz this week and we look forward to Romneys incessant whining and flip-flopping as he plays defense til November

Romney has No Core, Ryan is a liar and they have NO SOLUTIONS. All you have left is your hateful declinist base. Romney just lost the independent vote tonight. The right is going down in defeat AGAIN and the stench of their desperation and hate is turning off America

Your move Core-less Wonder

Obama/Biden 2012

This was basically the type of speech you hear at the State of the Union. A shopping list of wishes but no plan on how to get to the store or pay for anything once you get there. Mr. Obama chided the RNC for not setting out plans, but this speech contained absolutely no substance and no details. Not even the outlines of a road map. And for a guy that says he is so concerned about the poor, he didn't talk at all about getting people out of poverty and off of welfare and food stamps. And he didn't explain how legalizing millions of illegals will help Americans struggling to find jobs when they have to compete against millions of legalized illegals. As the nation has come to know, all too well, Obama is long on rhetoric and woefully short on substance.

Jim...I am a republican...Ive voted republican in every election since the 70s except the last 2.....The minute Bush 2 lied to our faces and the party defended him and covered up his mess, I voted against him. I would vote Repub again...and probably will at some point...But Romney is not the way to go...its the same story with a differnt player.

JediPastorYoda . . . (I so hope you are a programmer to have such a name!)

Too bad for you Layton that your mind is already closed. A true liberal will always keep their mind and hearts open until the very end. You are as closed off as those whose intentions you judge while refusing to uphold those in office to their misdeeds and actions

Who are you to judge me and my mind? I welcome a civil discourse and you have already judged me so that isn't going to happen.

There is nothing "too bad" about me. I live my life, I post my thoughts and I don't call out others on their posts because they make me afraid. You, sir, have done just that. Own it.

The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney

Government documents prove the candidate's mythology is just that

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-federal-bailout-that-saved-mitt-romney-20120829#ixzz2542ZJRd2

Mitt Romney likes to say he won't "apologize" for his success in business. But what he never says is "thank you" – to the American people – for the federal bailout of Bain & Company that made so much of his outsize wealth possible.

According to the candidate's mythology, Romney took leave of his duties at the private equity firm Bain Capital in 1990 and rode in on a white horse to lead a swift restructuring of Bain & Company, preventing the collapse of the consulting firm where his career began. When The Boston Globe reported on the rescue at the time of his Senate run against Ted Kennedy, campaign aides spun Romney as the wizard behind a "long-shot miracle," bragging that he had "saved bank depositors all over the country $30 million when he saved Bain & Company."

In fact, government documents on the bailout obtained by Rolling Stone show that the legend crafted by Romney is basically a lie. The federal records, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that Romney's initial rescue attempt at Bain & Company was actually a disaster – leaving the firm so financially strapped that it had "no value as a going concern." Even worse, the federal bailout ultimately engineered by Romney screwed the FDIC – the bank insurance system backed by taxpayers – out of at least $10 million. And in an added insult, Romney rewarded top executives at Bain with hefty bonuses at the very moment that he was demanding his handout from the feds.

Nice to see JimSpencehas come over to the side of the rest of us Real Americans. :-)

Now he just needs to figure out which party stands on this side and which on the other.

Mike in SA

BTW...multiple studies show that conservatives get their news and information from a much wider array of the political spectrum than liberals like you do, so you can save that tired "Fox News" dogma.

Too bad they're not smart enough to understand what they're watching:

From the Christian Science Monitor

The survey found that "substantial levels of misinformation were present in the daily consumers of all news sources." But Fox News viewers were significantly more likely to be misinformed than those who get their news from other sources. And, greater exposure to Fox News increased the degree to which viewers were misinformed.

This is not simply a matter of partisan bias. People who vote Democratic and watched Fox News were also more likely to be misinformed than those who did not watch it – though by a lesser margin than those who vote Republican. Those who got their news from NPR, CNN, or MSNBC were better informed on most – but not all – of the issues in the survey.

Im loving Harley as representative of the Teabagger 'Declinists'.

Sorry Harley, we won tonight. Your pessimism just isn't working anymore. We are moving forward. Pessimism is for cowards. Your a coward and a chronic malcontent. After awhile the Debby Downer routine gets old...your there. I find the Teabaggers cheering for bad job numbers even more evidence of this point.

If your candidate doesn't have any solutions besides tax breaks, then you will be a LOSER...throwing rocks at the quarterback...from the bench

Romney has NO CORE and NO SOLUTIONS. He cant even give respect to the military....not even mentioning Afhghanistan. Shame. The GOP has lost the national security mantle. Obama owns it.

Obama/Biden 2012

I see all the people shouting that "Obama has lied! Throw his butt out on the street" line, so I won't add any farther to that.

The fact here kids, is that whether it's Obama or Romney, they are professional politicians and therefore professional liers. You can throw some web site up there with that "Obama Promisses meter", but it's easy enough to juggle numbers around and make them come out the way you want them to. That's just propaganda. Want some truth? Try searching the last four years of Taxes. How much you as a working person (or non working person..doesn't matter) have been paying. The middle class? Our taxes have gone up at a steady rate. Not the rate mind you, the amount that you pay. 2008 filing single rate based on a salary of $36,000 to 57,657, 25% of the amount over $36,000 + 4481.25 (marginal). 2012 filing single rate based on a salary of $34,000 to 57,657, 25% of the amount over $34,000 +$4,867.50. How about you you Mister or Miss lower to lower middle class? Based on a salary range of $22,000 to $29,000 and range of $$29,001 to $36,000, 2006 single 15% of the amount over $22,00 or $29,000 (depending on your bracket)+$802.50 (that tax bracket has not changed since 2006...but wait) 2012 based on the same salary ranges, 15% of the amount over $22,000 or $34,000 +870. The Lower Middle class tax bracket did increase in 2009, The last time it changed was 2006. These are amounts that you should expect to pay. No, your rate did not change but your marginal did!

Oh, by the way...How about you Mister or Miss Upper class? Salary range $164,550 to $357,700, $40,052.25 of the amount over $164,550 + 33% in 2008 (Not too bad, but most of your income is capital gains and I really did not want to go there. This is for the working Upper Class slob). As opposed to (and get this kids, their bracket changed) $178,650 to $388,350, $43,482.50 + 33% of the amount over $178,650.

Where was the tax cut you spoke about in your speech? Was it for the Upper Class wage earner when you moved the tax bracket up? At least the ones on the top had to pay $3,430.25 while us middle class only went up $386.25 and the lower and lower middle went up $67.50...but there's more of us then there are of them, isn't there? Well, good on you (I suppose)

Did the Repubs have any real answers? No! They don't have any real plans except how to make us afraid of it and keep us blaming someone else for it (Iraq? Anyone?)

That's just one of many things that I saw in our President's speech. But again, professional politician...they lie. It's just the nature of the beast. Best advice I ever got and can give? Write in your vote for your favorite cab driver or wait staff. They're the people who should be running this country, not some lawyer.

Right-wingers are less intelligent than left wingers, says study

Right-wingers tend to be less intelligent than left-wingers, and people with low childhood intelligence tend to grow up to have racist and anti-gay views, says a controversial new study.

Conservative politics work almost as a 'gateway' into prejudice against others, say the Canadian academics.

Crucially, people's educational level is not what determines whether they are racist or not - it's innate intelligence, according to the academics.

Social status also appears to play no part.

The study, published in Psychological Science, claims that right-wing ideology forms a 'pathway' for people with low reasoning ability to become prejudiced against groups such as other races and gay people.

Left-wingers tend to be more open-minded says the survey - Democrats voted in first black U.S. president Barack Obama. But right-wing ideology forms a pathway for prejudice - Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, pictured right, was glitter-bombed yesterday by gay-rights activists because of his views

'Cognitive abilities are critical in forming impressions of other people and in being open minded,' say the researchers.

'Individuals with lower cognitive abilities may gravitate towards more socially conservative right-wing ideologies that maintain the status quo.

'It provides a sense of order.'

The study, by academics at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, used information from two UK studies from 1958 and 1970 , where several thousand children were assessed for intelligence at age 10 and 11, and then asked political questions aged 33.

The 1958 National Child Development involved 4,267 men and 4,537 women born in 1958.

The British Cohort Study involved 3,412 men and 3,658 women born in 1970.

The paper analysed large UK studies which compared childhood intelligence with political views in adulthood across more than 15,000 people.

The authors claim that people with low intelligence gravitate towards right-wing views because they make them feel safe.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2095549/Right-wingers-intelligent-left-wingers-says-controversial-study--conservative-politics-lead-people-racist.html#ixzz25l1ECPQZ

mygirl1 - What you call 'obstructing' is what they were elected to do.

Uh, no. In a democratic system, majority rule is the law of the land.

In other words, "elections have consequences".

The problem is that the GOP decided to co-opt the government for themselves, be damned to the consequences.

That's treason, not democracy.

@Maw

You might want to do more research on SCYTL before sounding like you know something big and mysterious. The states determine how votes are tallied. And while some states have contracts with SCYTL, it's not a federal deal. SCYTL's subsidiary that some jurisdictions use makes software that aids in vote counting. It's hardly outsourcing. Certainly no more than calling your driving outsourced because you drive a foreign brand of transportation.

Also please show the federal source that lists a SCYTL principal as a contributor to the Obama campaign.

I'd bet you became an expert on SCYTL through a bogus (hoax) email you received.

RealAmericansFirst, good thing I don't watch Fox then.

BTW, I took the sample test and got all 11 correct. I'll note though that it looked like it was written directly by an Obama administration official. I'm not surprised there were no questions like "The 2009 stimulus was sold as a shovel-ready infrastructure bill. What percentage of the money was spent on the nation's infrastructure: A) 70%, B) 40%, C) less than 15%." The results may have been a bit different if they had asked a more balanced set of questions.

The only logical conclusion is that libs have the same dream as Obama's dad, to destroy America and bring it to it's knees

Hate is not going to win the election. Neither is your desperate and impotent insults. The conservative 'Declinists' are turning off the political middle. The Debbie Downer Teabuggerers are upset that their core-less candidate has nothing but an empty chair, an empty suit and an empty briefcase of ideas.

I know it sucks that the DNC just kicked your ass this week. I know it sucks for you that your candidate is a flip-flopper and his running mate is a liar. I know it sucks that with NO SOLUTIONS, your party is relegated to lying buying the election,, birther banter and disenfranchising voters.

But that's YOUR problem .........my path is clear, I'm voting for Obama. I don't want to go back to the 1950s.

Or the 1860's!

Vote for America's future - not its past.

Obama/Biden 2012

@RealAmericansFirst

I have been waiting on that Rolling Stone article to gain some traction....

Romney was bailed out and told the FDIC (money owed to taxpayers BTW...) to go screw themselves is a story that needs to be told far and wide...

Republicans who blame Democrats for all the countries ills really need to see for themselves how Romney and his slimy cronies work

I really enjoy reading some of these posts and the apparent memory loss or selective memory over the course of the last 20 years. I can't believe people twist, distort, or flat out have it wrong when it comes to dates and events. It makes today's problems all the more clear because politicians see the same misinformation as well and figure it into their plan to fool as many people as possible. They succeed in doing it. Now after RNC and the DNC I have to say the DNC seemed to touch more on looking forward and the RNC kept looking backwards, why? I don't have that answer. I do remember the past 4 yrs as being the worst performance from congress that I can recall and I can't hold the President responsible for Congres and the school ground antics that took place and I don't mean any one thing in particular, but the one thing that sticks out the most is holding the people who needed an unemployment check to eat, pay a utility bill, make a rent or mortgage payment hostage for a tax break extension. Like after 10 years of GWB tax breaks meant more than helping Americans who lost their job of no fault of their own. We really sunk to a new all time low in America. I will still wait till the very last day to make up my mind before I vote in Nov. but I will remember why we elected Obama and what has gone on in the past 4 yrs. and who did the most damage and who really wants the best for America.

Peace to all and God Bless America

MoonWolf99

President Obama knew exactly what Americans needed to hear tonight. We didn't need to hear more doom and gloom and cynicism and doubt and fear-mongering. We heard plenty of that during the RNC last week. What we needed was to feel empowered by a strong leader who not only believes in himself, but believes in us, the American people. Clinton and Obama's speeches were a perfect pairing. Clinton debunked many of the Republican myths, and then Obama uplifted and inspired us.

I can tell you that I've had a few supervisors in my lifetime, and the ones I have enjoyed working with the most were the ones who focused on the positive, who believed in me and who inspired me. The most difficult ones were the naysayers and those who focused on the negative.

For me, the choice is clear. President Obama is the man I want to work with to re-build America. President Obama is the man that I trust. President Obama has my vote.

Obama/Biden 2012

Exactly.

Things are better than they were 4 years ago and are going to get even better in the future. I'm proud to be an American with a strong leader who is respected in the rest of the world.

...

it wont matter how much you dislike Republicans, or how much you love the annointed " o". If something is not done to stop the trillions of dollars (what- 16+ now) the idiot in charge NOW... promised 4 years ago to stop, middle, lower, or upper class won't matter, this whole country will be third world

..... you don't have to be a smart democrat to figure that out, just one without their head stuck up their A$$. thank you very little.

I just realized, republicans are intent on fighting the civil war all over again, wow

Samantha,

Talking about records. Just what kind of record are republicans running on, the wonderous Bush years ?

Kornfed,

I think the ammo will be money this time, starving a man to death is just as effective as bullets, but a whole lot more degrading.

Yeah, if you think the rich need more money vote:

Romney/Ryan for 2012!

Greedy government is the root of all our problems. High property taxes, high sales taxes, high corporate taxes, high resale taxes, captial gains taxes, luxury taxes, gas guzzler taxes

Harley - higher taxes than where? Please, do tell. Higher than Somalia? Germany? Antarctica? Santa Clause in the North Pole. Antigua? Please explain how these crushing taxes are the root of your problems compared to any of these countries. Please tell us how these crushing taxes are making us less than any of these countries.

One has to love the GOP/TP outlook .. they want to be the most powerful country in the world, and then skip out on the payments to be there - right Harley? Oops, that question will go unanswered, that Biker Chic is out enjoying her Harley on the road ways WE payed for to build and maintain.

Kornfed-Are you an idiot or do you just play one on forums? Give you a scenario? Are you freakin' kidding me?

Here is something for you to think about. This is something you'll never hear a Republican say, "Well, trickle down didn't work. Lets try trickle up!"

Tax breaks to the wealthy. What is it you don't understand?

Again:

If you think the rich need more money vote:

Romney/Ryan 2012! :)

I'd like to share a few excerpts from an essay written for the Daily KOS called "A Voice from the 1%":

"The [idea] that the rich are getting ever richer while everyone else suffers - was confirmed by a recent report from the Social Security Administration showing that while total employment and average wages remained stagnant, the number of people earning $1 million or more grew by 18% from 2009 to 2010. yet Republicans continue to insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that if anything those "job creators" deserve an even greater share of our national income."

"The one group rarely heard from in this rancorous debate is the 1%, whose incomes and taxes are its focus. I am one of them, and here is my perspective, which may surprise you."

"imagine my amazement this summer when I watched the Republicans in Congress push the United States to the brink of default - and the world to the brink of ruin - over whether to repeal a portion of the Bush tax cuts and raise my taxes by 3.5%."

"Here is a secret about rich people: we wouldn't have noticed a 3.5% tax increase. That is not only because there isn't a material difference between having $1 million and $965,000, which is obvious, but also because most of us don't actually know how much money we are going to make in a given year. Most income at that level is the result of profits rather than salary, whether it comes in the form of bonuses, stock options, partnership distributions, dividends or capital gains. Profits are unpredictable and they tend to vary wildly. At my own firm, the general rule of thumb is that if we are within 5% of our budget for the year, everyone is happy and no one complains. A variation of 3.5% is merely a random blip."

"I was not amazed but disgusted when John Boehner and his crew tried to justify the extremity of their position by rebranding the wealthy as "job creators." While true in a very basic sense, it obscures the fact that jobs are a cost that is voluntarily incurred only as a result of demand. Hiring has no correlation at all to profits or to income - none. Let me keep more of my money without increasing customer demand and I will do just that - keep it. Perhaps I will spend a little more of it, though probably not, but even if I do it won't help the economy very much. Here is another secret of the well-to-do: we don't really buy much more stuff than everyone else. It may be more expensive stuff, sure, but I don't buy cars, or appliances, or furniture, or anything else more frequently than the average consumer. The things I do spend more money on are services such as travel, entertainment, restaurants and landscaping, none of which generate well-paying middle class jobs. There, in a nutshell, is the sad explanation of what has happened to the American economy over the last 25 years of "trickle down" economics."

"there is no question that the increasing income inequality in our society is a bad thing, in the short-term and the long-term, for both workers and for business. It is bad in every way and for everyone, with the sole exception of Wall Street itself."

"My family is from one of the poorest counties in the country, in rural Appalachia. My grandfather was a coal miner who left school after 5th grade to help support his impoverished family. My grandmother wasn't allowed to attend high school because according to her parents women didn't need an education. I never knew my father. My mother and I subsisted on food stamps for several years. I got my first job at 13, working as a bus boy for $2 an hour, and I have never been unemployed in the 37 years since. I worked my way through college, which I paid for myself. When I started my career I worked 60+ hour weeks every week for nearly 15 years before that effort began to pay off. I employ nearly 20 people, I have no debts, and I have no doubt that I have earned every penny I have."

"And yet, I am living proof of Elizabeth Warren's maxim that no one gets rich on their own. If not for the UMWA helping to secure a living wage for my grandfather, I would probably have had to leave school to help support my family, as he had done. If not for my grandmother's passionate belief in the value of the education she was denied I would never have aspired to go to college at all, and if not for my mother teaching me to love books, I would never have been able to succeed there. If not for my wife I would never have been inspired to work as hard as I did to see what I could become in life. How many smart, talented children don't have those positive influences? How many have exactly the opposite?"

"I understand too that but for food stamps, I would have gone hungry as a child, that but for public subsidies and federally guaranteed loans I could never have afforded college. I know that without the internet and airports, both of which were developed with federal taxes, I could not earn an income even close to what I make today. That all seems so obvious to me that I don't understand how anyone could question it, and those are just a few of the many reasons I am happy to pay my fair share of taxes, whatever that share maybe. Paying a lot of taxes just means you make a lot of money, and it is hard, frankly, to complain about that."

"Many of the [Tea Party] crowd seem quite proud of their Christian faith. I am not religious myself, but I am reasonably certain that Jesus would not respond to the poor and unemployed with shouts of "Get a job!"

Gosh Korn - you wanted it .. here it is. Are you following your candidates platform? That is just one of many. Are you going to continue your dispute that Romney isn't giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

Cut the corporate rate to 25 percent

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/tax

Asimplicity1...

OK, I'll bite...yes, I think the rich need more money...LOL!

ABO 2012!

-Well there you go :)

Vote Romney/Ryan for 2012!

ASimplicity1...

Boring! Try again...LOL!

BTW...

-Well there you go :)

Vote Romney/Ryan for 2012!

Thank you, I will. And I'll talk quite a few to as well...

Just remember...most important!

ABO 2012!

ASimplicity1...

Boring! Try again...LOL!

ABO 2012!

-That's it? That's all you got?

-Funny how this answer matches Romney's huh? LOL :)

-The real funny thing about that is, I don't think Romney can do much better.

Talk about boring. Ever watch him give a speech? It's like watching paint dry.

I don't really care who wins the white house. That said, as a betting man, the odds need to be closer for any good wagering man to make a substantial profit. As of tonight Obama went well OVER the 2:1 favorite. Come on, GOP! DO SOMETHING!... LIE SOME MORE!... EVEN BIGGER ONES!

Homer:

Every single federal income tax bracket reduction in the USA's (since 1913) history of national income taxes, has resulted in the highest brackets paying MORE than they did before the reductions. Why? They have more of their money to spend and/or invest. The Y2001 and Y2003 reductions saw the IRS collecting almost 85% more tax revenue from the top bracket. My source for that fact? The USA IRS.

Your statement is true yet false. Inflation and population growth insures that in a few years revenues and taxes paid increase for all tax groups but revenue grows much slower for those on the top if they were left alone. There's a reason Reagan had to implement tax increases that recovered half of what his 70% to 50% top rate cost. Clearly if it increased revenue he wouldn't have needed to. If the 1% paid 20% more at the end of 8 years after the rate was cut from 50% to 28% the gullible like to pretend the tax cut caused it but without the cut they might have paid 35% to 40% or more.

I couldn’t have asked for a better example of why it’s important to correct for inflation and population growth, both of which tend to make revenues grow regardless of tax policy.

Actually, federal revenues rose 80 percent in dollar terms from 1980 to 1988. And numbers like that (sometimes they play with the dates) are thrown around by Reagan hagiographers all the time.

But real revenues per capita grew only 19 percent over the same period — better than the likely Bush performance, but still nothing exciting. In fact, it’s less than revenue growth in the period 1972-1980 (24 percent) and much less than the amazing 41 percent gain from 1992 to 2000.

Is it really possible that all the triumphant declarations that the Reagan tax cuts led to a revenue boom — declarations that you see in highly respectable places — are based on nothing but a failure to make the most elementary corrections for inflation and population growth? Yes, it is. I know we’re supposed to pretend that we’re having a serious discussion in this country; but the truth is that we aren’t.

This article pretty much says it all:

It is curious that the American Right, which waxes nostalgic for the happier days of the 1950s when the United States was supposedly more moral and more united, ignores one of the central reasons behind that middle-class era: very high taxes on the rich.

Granted, some on the Right may love the Fifties because it was a time of racial segregation and second-class status for women. But what arguably made the era work was the fact that the US tax structure "disincentivized" greed by ensuring that excess wealth was mostly recycled back into the Treasury for use building the nation and supporting research and development.

During Dwight Eisenhower's presidency the top marginal tax rate - what the richest Americans paid on their top tranche of income - was around 90 percent. In the 1960s, under John F. Kennedy, that was lowered to around 70 percent, but that rate still meant the rich had a limited incentive to be greedy since they wouldn't get to keep most of their extra money.

All that changed with Ronald Reagan's presidency and his slashing of the top marginal tax rate by more than half (before it was adjusted upward slightly late in Reagan's years and then during Bill Clinton's presidency before being reduced again to 35 percent under George W. Bush).

Various tax loopholes and lower rates for capital gains also have let many of the richest Americans enjoy tax rates about only half of even those lower marginal income tax rates. Billionaire Warren Buffett has famously described paying a lower tax rate than his secretary, meaning that he and others in his category get to keep about 80 percent of what they make In other words, the American tax structure has been roughly turned on its head. From the rich paying between 70 and 90 percent on their top income, some now pay 20 percent or less, which means there is a much bigger incentive to be greedy.

Arguably, it was that incentivized greed - more than any of the social movements like civil rights for blacks and equal rights for women - that eradicated the rhapsodized Fifties and the middle-class culture that it represented in the nostalgic view of many Americans.

So, it's ironic that the defense of lower tax rates for the rich is at the heart of the Right's current political agenda. Some leading Republicans have even suggested that "tax reform" should impose at least some income tax on the poor and working class so the tax rates on the rich can be lowered even more.

It's ironic, too, that the core of today's economic crisis is that American bankers became so excessively greedy - spurred on by the prospects of "earning" bonuses in the tens of millions of dollars and keeping nearly all that money - that they blinded themselves to the risks from exotic financial products built on an unsustainable housing bubble.

If the tax rates had been kept at Eisenhower or Kennedy levels, not only would there have been plenty of money to keep the United States modern and strong but there likely would not have been the kind of financial crisis that, since 2008, has cost millions of jobs and required massive government borrowing to bail out the greedy bankers.

Thus, in a variety of ways, the Right's orthodoxy of low taxes on the rich (or the "job creators," as Republican wordsmiths prefer) has been a major driver in creating today's massive federal debt and in savaging the middle class.

KornFed .. you ever going to answer my question? Or just walk on by? Must be another Harley Chic, using our paid for entitlements to ignore the obvious.

Yeah, if you think the rich need more money vote:

Romney/Ryan for 2012!

Hey RedDev, why even care? Look at his and cantawhatever's posts. It's like trying to teach a rock to swim. They're not the sharpest knives in the drawer. They are more like spoons :)

Let them keep replying, if they can't turn people Democrat..nobody can :)

Yeah, if you think the rich need more money vote:

Romney/Ryan for 2012!

Yeah, if you think the rich need more money vote:

Romney/Ryan for 2012!

Hahahahaha.

Cant ake no More - what is the problem here? Do you find this funny?

Thus, in a variety of ways, the Right's orthodoxy of low taxes on the rich (or the "job creators," as Republican wordsmiths prefer) has been a major driver in creating today's massive federal debt and in savaging the middle class.

Do you not get that high taxes during times of paying off debt were extolled by the rich, the middle class and everybody else? Or do you prefer the line that the rich never participated in paying off the debt. History tells us the truly wealthy, are willing to participate. It is the low-life almost rich that aren't willing to pay their fare share.

Haha, I'm telling you Red, they are just kids. Waste of time. They are going to vote the way their daddy told them to vote. Any real issues are beyond them:

Asimplicity: The problem with giving prolific tax cuts that mostly benefit the rich is the fact that the debt in which all Americans are responsible does not change during this change. Basically, if you cut the taxes on the rich the debt remains the same. The only place that money can come from is the middle-class. That is why Romney's proposal will raise taxes, on average Middle America, by two-thousand dollars.

Kornfed: Hey Asimplicity, I just farted. hahahahaha

Cantakenomore: Oh that was a good one Kornfed. I love your posts. Meet me after work down by the barn again?

Kornfed: Google smurk blatter-spanger!

Cantakenomore: Wow! Well said again!

See, let them talk for their party. I know I'm happy when they do :)

Yeah, if you think the rich need more money vote:

Romney/Ryan for 2012!

If ya ain't got it...don't put it on your plastic...

Oh really .. where was that attitude when two wars and Medicare Part D was put on plastic. That was ok? But now, when we most need to rely on plastic, it isn't ok? Please explain. Would love to hear those medieval ideals on how to run a household budget vs. a government budget. Gosh, aren't they the same. Loves me some Monday morning quarter-backs that have no idea what they are talking about.

Asimplicity - agreed. I've had the enjoyment of knocking more that one of these idiots down the corporate ladder. Then they cry, they promise lawsuits, they promise disability claims, and then they are minimal inconsequential asses. It is such fun watching these tidbits participate in an empty goal. I've always thought peons deserve what peons get.

The President said that he would present a new plan for the economy. She speech included a lot of old platitudes that sound good but mean very little. The only plan that I heard was hoping that things get better. That is no plan. What is our President's new plan to fix the economy? Why do we need a new plan? What about the old plan that our President promised would have worked by now? What about the more than 5 trillion dollars that the federal government has borrowed under Obama's administration? What is the plan for paying this money back and how much will it end up costing the tax payers? The President said that when our troops come back home in 2014 that we will start paying down our debt which means that we will have to start running a surplus. The President promised that the 2012 federal deficit will not exceed 229.27 billion dollars but that is not even close to happening. The President needs of show us how we are going to start running a surplus in 2014.

Wow..the first 500 posts are from the same 18 people! Cubsfan and Jimspence, how many times are you gonna post your opinions? We got it the first 12 times, and Jim..learn to spell our Presidents name at least.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!!!

OBAMA is fullfilling the DREAM of every Latino. One day, America will be a backward third world country run by drug cartels.

CANADA is next!

Give you four more years Mr. Obama? What for?

So you can finish destroying what little hope there is and keeping the rest of the American People's change?

Thanks, but no thanks.

Anyone want to explain why OBUMMER-Biden gave a Finnish Car firm $500,000,000 to build competing electric cars in Finland after they promised Biden to use a factory in his home state Delaware to build the cars and use American workers?
Can OBUMMER produce his high school, college and law school transcripts? If not why not? If he wants to be elected, we the people who pay his salary want to see what we are getting. Also we want to know who paid for all this education and we want to see his pre law school test scores.
If he got scholarships and and why did he get them?
Who paid him during his high school, college and law school breaks, summers and expenses.
We know Romney worked as a security guard at Chrysler. What did Obummer do during his breaks and did he file irs reports on his income?
How much money did he get and if it was over $10,000 did he file reports on that money as required by law? Lots of questions too about his Pastor Wright.
Why did Obummer sit in the front pew and allow Pastor Wright to blame America for the 9/11 attacks?
Why did Obummer allow Pastor Wright to Jew Bait?
Why did Obummer help finance a 1.2 million dollar mansion for Pastor Wright?
Why did Obummer give Pastor Wright a government job and refuse to reveal his salary and his duties and refuse to reveal if Pastor Wright ever show up for his specially made job?

Why did Obummer's wife in a public interview say that Obummer's mother was definitely single when Obummer was born?
Why was Obummer's birth specially publicized in all the Hawaiin newspapers?
Why did Obummer's mother immediately after Obummer's birth move to Washington State and never see or live with Obummer's father?
Why did Obummer's mother immediately move back to Hawaii after Obummer's father leave Hawaii?
Why was Obummer's father wanted by immigration before Obummer was born?
There are a thousand more questions that Obummer refuses to answer.

poodlefan007 These are similar to his 130 initiatives that were not passed when he was state senator a lot of words and no bite.
Ask Obummer why the federal budget has $3 billion dollars specially designed for unions.
Ask Obummer why $3.9 billion dollars have been wasted on federal renewable energy programs he helped and failed.
Ask Obummer why China, Japan, Norway and England are spending billions on the renewable cheap hydrogen fuel and Obummer has cut the research budget into hydrogen fuel 90%
Ask Obummer why Norway has hydrogen cars that do not pollute and has hydrogen service stations?
Ask Obummer why he is against clean burning, unlimited hydrogen as a fuel!
Ask Obummer why he did not in 2008 send advisers to the American and Canadian companies to work with them on the oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. so that the final plan would be automatic for his signature?
Why did he wait until the last minute to cancel that plan to supply America with thousands of jobs?
Ask Obama why he threatened Boeing for their S.C. plant and 5000 jobs?
Ask Obama why he refuses to analysis the successful private schools that send 100% of graduating seniors to 4 year universities?
Ask Obama why he took a 17 day vacation and did spend one day answering a court summons in Georgia? Ask Obama if he believes himself above the law?
Ask Obummer why he toured Gila Bend Solar Energy plant and claim it as his own success when it was created and built before he became president.
Ask Obummer what he did for black males besides double their unemployment rate from 10% in December 2008 to 19.1 % in December 2011.
Ask Obummer what he has done to promote family unity in black families. Two parent black families have decreased from 75% to 45%.
Ask Obummer why 60% of black children live in a one parent home and what has he done about it.
Obummer talks and does nothing.
Ask Obummer why he has not asked congress to repeal the 20 special laws for unions that are basically illegal for any business or company?

And while you are at it, ask Obummer why he hasn't had his relatives who are in this country illegally deported?

From an avowed famous democrat, Andy Williams: "Don't like him at all. I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist. Obama (Barack Obama) is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail."

I love how those on the right refuse to accept the fact that the republicans whole agenda since Obama took office was to put party before country and obstruct and distort the truth. I remember when they use to put aside their differences for the good of the country in order to get things done.

I love how those on the right refuse to accept the fact that trickle down economics DID NOT work the last 10 years and how the middle class has shrunk as well as our paychecks. I remember when the party use to be for the people and fought for everyone to achieve the "American Dream"

I love how those on the right can sit idly by and listen to the rhetoric that and tax increase will hurt small businesses and the "job creators". BUT instead of targeting those that DO create jobs with tax breaks (like Obama has) the want to extend those tax cuts to those in the 1% in which 95% DO NOT create jobs. What was the last job Romney, Ryan, Reid, McConnell, Norquist, etc....created? Yet they want and additional tax cut.

I love how those on the right love to say that we need less government in our lives YET advocate for government to create laws that tell women what kind of health care they can/can't get, who we can/can't marry, what can/can't be used to vote. Kind of ironic don't you think?

I love how those on the right claim that the current President is ruining our country but can't produce on fact/example to support their claim. The fact that we have had positive job growth in the private sector for the past 29 months(yes we are losing jobs in the public sector which are not really job losses but jobs that are phased out when someone quits or retires which saves the government money), the highest Dow level this country has ever seen, more people re-entering the job market(which is keeping unemployment at the level it currently is), kind of tells you his policies and regulations ARE working.

I love how those on the right are quick to say the President has failed us when in reality CONGRESS has failed us as they have refused to introduce ANY type of good legislation that would get this country moving forward again.(Remember Congress is the only body of government that can introduce and pass policy NOT the President.

I have more but I'm sure most of you get the point by now. Don't worry I have some for those on the left as well just the right is a little more extreme right now which scares me as an independent. Once those on the right can admit to the failed promises of the GOP instead of just saying Obama is a failure, THEN we can truly have an educated discussion and maybe, just MAYBE turn this country around.

Typical Liberal, symbolism over substance.

Hey, at least there was symbolism. Romney didn't even have that, unless you count the magic underwear...

How can anyone trust Bill Clinton's words when he cheated on Hilary and lied about it. Clinton is pitiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love how those on the right are quick to say the President has failed us when in reality CONGRESS has failed us as they have refused to introduce ANY type of good legislation that would get this country moving forward again.(Remember Congress is the only body of government that can introduce and pass policy NOT the President.

I love it how the democrats can blame the republicans when the democrats had control of both houses in the first two years and still refused to introduce ANY type of GOOD legislation ( shovel ready jobs don't count) that would get this country moving forward again. You see the irony, don't you?

.(Remember Congress is the only body of government that can introduce and pass policy NOT the President.

Exactly, which is why we needed to vote those democrats out, because even when the President had control of BOTH houses, he couldn't get anything done.

I love how those on the right claim that the current President is ruining our country but can't produce on fact/example to support their claim.

http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/17/13339975-jobless-rate-rose-in-44-states-last-month?lite

Jobless rate rose in 44 states in July

http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/28/13526393-consumer-confidence-lowest-in-nine-months#comments

Consumer confidence lowest in nine-months

http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/30/13567396-economy-runs-neither-hot-nor-cold-but-not-just-right-either?lite

Economy is just so-so

http://bottomline.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/05/13682742-report-15-of-americans-on-food-stamps?lite

15% of Americans on food stamps

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/number-of-americans-on-snap_n_1074344.html

Number of Americans on snap

Good enough for you?

In this speech the President presented his new plan to fix the economy. What I heard were mostly worn out platitudes and some of the same old goals. He wants 100,000 math and science teachers. That's great, just give me a position in my local area so I do not expend to much fossil fuel. I have a masters in engineering, decades of experience and more than 30 publications in the open literature. I am willing to work over the Internet.

He talked about bold experimentation but so far none of it has paid off. The President said that when the troops come home in 2014 we will balance the budget and start paying down the debt. So in defence to White House predictions we should have a budget surplus by 2015. The White House needs to correct their projections and get the CBO on with this. The President plans to get this done through hope. In other words the President hopes that this will take place. That is his plan.

Yes, Dem Convention - a shining example of modern America with wonderful speeches! Obama accomplishments featuring "Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive"

Republican Convention - freak show full of lies, missteps, and sideshows including robot women, 400 lb fat men, and an old geezer talking to an empty chair!!

Gee, I wonder which one is better?????????????????

Obama 2012 - the only sane choice!

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i didn't listen to The president or vice Presidents speaches. Why ? Because i heard them 4 years ago but with an additonal line.. "Oh it is gonna take me longer than I promised" Be patient it coming, wait for it wait for it wait for it. you know what it ain't coming under Obama's leadership IMO. I voted for him. Yep I did.I stand by that vote yet today. I made a choice and right or wrong I will admit to it. What i won't do however is vote for Obama again. This country can't afford to "wait" any longer. we can't afford the way Obama cuts the deficit.I think he has the graph upside down because the dbt has nearly doubled not been cut in half as he promised.

Obama does not bring hope to America only words. He is a very good speaker and can make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.If you look to the real results however you will see that his only real gift is the gift of gab. Actions speak louder than words. Half a million american auto workers LOST THEIR JOBS after Obama took office. Over 23 MILLION americans are still UNEMPLOYED 4 years after Obama took office. Our debt is near double over when he took over.Imigrants are able to come and go as they please under this president. He actually increased our presence in Afganistan rather than ending the wars over there as promised. Obama gave BILLIONS to wallstreet bankers to bail them out but left out the key reason for giving them the money. He failed to demand thay help peole stay in their homes. Obama still doesn't get why the auto industry and housing industry are suffering. he still blames the housing industry for it all. It started with unfair trade agreements that sent our good jobs offshore. With out good jobs we can't buy cars and we can't make mortgage payments. Sying the housing crash caused this mess is like trying to borrow your way out of debt. It doesn't add up.

Obama has proven to me he does not have the skills to overcome party gridlock and actually causes much of it with his finger pointing. He has proven to me he does not understand what is really wrong and has no clue how to fix it.

In 2008 I voted for hope and change. I do the same in 2012. I sure hope we change Presidents . Well written speaches will not fix this mess.

Someone should have told the president that the Eastwood skit doesn't work without Eastwood

To all you right wingers who have nothing good to say about anything: "take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call me in the morning" lol.

That statement is one of the million reasons I will be voting for Obama/Biden 2012.

I really enjoy reading some of these posts and the apparent memory loss or selective memory over the course of the last 20 years. I can't believe people twist, distort, or flat out have it wrong when it comes to dates and events.

I don't think it's that people don't remember, I think on this board it's that may of these people weren't alive or perhaps aware. It's pretty clear from many of the comments we have quite a few kids shouting over and over for attention. I'd like to think adults would be a bit more measured in their responses and we would get less "I Know you are, but what am I" moments.

And I think people aren't always paying attention. Maybe during the Bush years they were in college working at a service job on campus that wasn't impacted by what went on with the economy. Maybe they had a new baby or two that kept them up and took all of their time.

And now, they wander by a television blaring some nonsense that is a flat out lie, they don't know. They weren't paying attention. Their family is conservative or liberal or Christian or Muslim and they believe whatever crazy thing their family has snapped together.

If you read what is written in many of these posts it's surprising we aren't worse off than we are. Logic doesn't play into most of them on both sides of the equation. The rhetoric is ridiculous. People cherry pick facts, out and out lie(they don't realize this of course), quote things years out of date and just pick things off sites like wikipedia which is great for stuff like what is that bird in my backyard but miserable for anything that actually involves a hot topic.

The idea of the Electoral College was to stop the great unwashed masses from doing anything dangerous to the Republic. It wasn't as many believe to help count the votes but to control the irrationality of the electorate.

Reading many of these comments, I think we should give people a sanity test before they can vote. It would be a simple one. If you can say the name of the party you oppose without screaming, ranting or foaming at the mouth you can vote.

I suspect it would be a much shorter election cycle.

If he wants a second term he should have done something with the first one.

Obama need 4 more years to destroy the American values. Obama want 4 more years to finish his war against religion, Obama need 4more years to destroy the Idea of American exeptionalism to replace for American anti-Colonialism, Obama need 4 more years to change our free market and capitalism for foreign ideologies that will destroy our country socialism/Marxism, Obama need 4 more years to destroy Americans corporations, Obama need 4 more years to unionize private sector, Obama need 4 more years of illegal immigration to increase their Latino base, Obama need 4 more years of more flexibility to give up to Russians our nuclear capabilities, Obama need 4 more years to make deep changes to our Constitution because he beleave is too old , unfair and crafted by whites slave owners. Stop Obama before he destroy the America we know , the America that our parents know, the America where our Ancestors choose to emigrate escaping from socialist and Communist regimes.

Romney Ryan 2012

I, like most other sane Americans, WILL NOT vote for ANY CANDIDATE who wants war with Iran or involvement in SYRIA or the Asian Pacific, or ANY OTHER asinine "spread democracy across the globe" missions.

Guess that X's out MITTENS, then, eh?? LOLOLOL!

RealAmericansFirst,

Sorry. Many posts to pick from, and you happen to be it.

#1.24 - Here are the jobs, :

This was the CNN Money headline in Bush's last month of office:Job loss: Worst in 34 years
Employers slashed 598,000 more jobs in January as unemployment rate climbed to 7.6%.

Here was last month's number from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 163,000 in July. Tomorrow's numbers look like they'll be even better.There's your choice.

The only way the GOP can win is LIE!

You left out the unemplyment rate. That 8.3% (or so) number? And the over 20,000,000 number.

#128 - Who WROTE all those earmarks, CubsFan?

Wouldn't be Ryan's House of Representatives, would it?

Ummm, Ryan's H of R didn't attain a majority until January of 2011. There just might have been a few Ds injecting earmarks.

#133 - Glass (D, VA) - Steagall (D, AL)

REPEALED by Gramm (R, TX) - Leach (R, IA) - Bliley (R, VA)

That occurred in 1999. The final vote for the repeal was 362-57 in the House and 90-8 in the Senate. Rather bi-partisan, I think.

Seems to me like you may have gone out for a pass, but came back incomplete.

Have a nice weekend.

F&B666

Sorry, you don't get a do-over. You blew it with your czars and vacations and golf- go back to Chicago where your buddies Rezko and Rahm buy your line of crap.

These conventions are nothing but pep rallies: They offer hype, smoke & mirrors, big promises, but no substance. Blah, blah, blah, sis boom bah!

All his firey-eyed speech did was to stir up a lot of nothing. Meanwhile, the national debt has rocketed up to $16 trillion and unemployment numbers are the worst with the fed ready to act. We're no better today than four years ago... no, worse.

And you want four more years of 'change you can count on"?

"Democrats were put on this earth to clean up the messes made by Republicans." - Red Cloud

Seriously??? Those jobs numbers are like they are because every single Democrat since Roosevelt has saddled their Republican successor with an economy heading into a downturn. Look it up. Clinton...check. Carter...check. Johnson...check. Truman...check.

Meanwhile every Republican since Roosevelt -- except Bush -- has left their Democratic successor an economy headed into an upswing phase. Bush I....check. Ford...check. Eisenhower...check.

And who is cleaning up who's messes?

Some people find it easy to blame President Obama for a slowly-recovering economy, when we really should be blaming ourselves for letting all those Tea Party obstructionists into Congress in 2010. Those representatives we elected and/or failed to elect are the architects of the recovery.

The most important thing President Obama said in his speech last night, in my opinion:

"This election is not about me...it's about you."

He could not have been more right. The United States of America is a democracy. WE THE PEOPLE hold the reins! If we drop the reins, we have only OURSELVES to blame!

GET OFF YOUR BUTTS and VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN TO SAVE AMERICA!

"This election is not about me...it's about you."

This election is about ......me

This election us about my Marxist /Socialist ideology

This election is about my desire of create a big government

This election is about my desire to change our old Constitution

This election is about my desire to end with the Oil companies

This election is about to end the American Exeptionalism because I believe we are an Imperialist Country and I give my apology to the world ( Berlin 2008)

This election is about me , me me me not about you.

Wow...there is a lot of hate and negativity posted here. This is not the America where I grew up: a country where you could get a good education at your local public school, where no one threatened you with hell unless you said you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior, where you could be respected if you worked as a teacher, not reviled because you were in a teacher's union.

I grew up in a country where we spoke to each other and treated each other with respect, a country where the truth mattered, a country where our highest aspiration was to provide everyone with opportunity, not to be rich and famous, no matter what crime you committed to achieve that goal.

I grew up in a country where our elected officials were there to serve us, not themselves.

I will fight until my last breath to make sure all my fellow citizens, be they black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or whatever else are included in the greatest melting pot on earth, a country that has made a virtue of diversity, a country that is strong because we do what is right and just by our fellow man.

OBAMA/ BIDEN 2012

USA!!!!!

OfCourse1,

You make a excellent case in your post above and it ties exactly to my post as well. I can't belief so many people live life with blinders on and then hold one party to a higher standard than the party they support, have a cold and callous moral stand when the best faults they can quote are pointless. The debates will be the deal breaker as to who can best present the plan and "details" on how it can work for America as a whole or they will look no better than they do today. If I did my best to destroy programs I bet I could do a darn good job and have a high level of success like some in Congress and I'm not a career politician. I hold all of them to a much higher standard in Congress that we the taxpayers pay for. If I could I would hand out a fist full of pink slips. Have a wedding to prepare for God Bless All and have a great day.

Nonfarm payrolls increased only 96,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. While the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent in July, it was largely due to Americans giving up the search for work.

It looks like more and more people are giving up HOPE. Thanks Mr. Obama

TeaTurds are the ruination of America. Take your Gestapo tactics and start some new country somewhere else Republicans... Somewhere where lies and dirty tricks are celebrated!!

The real America does things the honorable way!!!

TeaBaggers suck big time and lyin' Ryan/Romney are the biggest TeaBag suckers going...

"While governor of MA, Willard Romney left that state 47 out of 50 in job creation."

More myth-making by the Dems. MA averaged 47th during Romney's term as governor, but he brought them up to 30th by the end of his administration, not an insignificant feat, in light of MA's poor job-creation record in recent decades...

Barry sounds like every DEADBEAT boyfriend you see on TV.....

Come on Baby.... just give me another chance.... all I need is more time..... I can change.... it'll be better..... it wasn't my fault........

Cut the strings & RUN..... this one is NO GOOD..........

Wow... This is like the world's longest post...

Guys, it's just this simple.

Obama, did not honor every promise that he made. However, he did come through on a few things:

• Extended Child Tax Credits - Done
• Require economic justification for tax changes - Done
• Create consumer-friendly credit card rating system - Done
• Establish Credit Card bill of rights - Done
• Expand loan programs for small business - Done
• Close the "doughnut hole" in Medicare Prescription drug plan - Done
• Extend tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums - Done
• Eliminate higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans - Done
• Increase the VA's budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals - Done.
• Fully fund the VA - Done
• Assured that the VA budget is prepared as "must-pass" legislation - Done
• Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq - Done
• Removed combat brigades and bases from Iraq - Done
• Ended "Stop-Loss" program of forcing troops to stay in service beyond their expected commitments - Done
• End the abuse of "supplemental" budgets for war - Done
• End the use of torture - Done
• Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk - Done
• Seek verifiable reductions in nuclear stockpiles - Done
• Stand down nuclear forces reduced under Moscow Treaty - Done
• Granted Americans unrestricted rights to visit family in Cuba - Done
• Reduced subsidies to private student lenders and protect student borrowers - Done
• Encourage Water Conservation efforts in the West - Done

...and the list goes on... HE has been fulfilling a lot of his promises. He is working for the American people. What's everyone's beef? That we're all not employed with 100K a year jobs with houses we bought for 60K back to being worth 300K again? Do you really think that's coming back anytime soon.

I'll tell you what happened with Obama at the helm. We didn't sink into a great Depression where we had 25% unemployment and where the bottom fell out of the dollar.

What will we get with Romney in the office? We don't know. He won't say. All he gives is, "Just wait until we're in, THEN we'll tell you what we'll do for ya". I bet whatever it is will involve lots of Wall St. Perks, subsidies, and tax breaks for all his pals while they create the worlds largest corporate welfare state on this planet

Unhappy - So tell me what the republican's passed when they got control of the house after 2010?????

The debt debacle doesn't count....

So the President hopes that things will change. Change to what? The President has never said. There is no change in what the President told us four years ago except that the President seems less confident and is not offering up the promises he made 4 years ago.

Jobs, Mr. President jobs. That is suppose to be the Presdents number one prioriety. The speech was full of old goals and platitudes nothing about how to create jobs. The President would like the federal government to run a surplus by 2015 but apparently the President has no idea as to how that might be accomplished. The President promised that the 2012 federal deficit will not exceed 229.27 billion dollars but he has yet to tell the people how that is going to be accomplished.

For sure the President has enjoyed being our President and he would like to continue enjoying it for another 4 years at our expense.

If all you have is change in your pocket then you haven't managed your money very well.

Employers hand pick the best workers. We've survived a multitude of company lay offs, both my husband and myself. We work our asses off. Time to step up your game! Mittens isn't going to help you unless you're willing to relocate to China!

You can not manage money if there is nothing to manage!!! Thank you Obama for leaving us with nothing!!!

You can not manage money if there is nothing to manage!!!

Hate to tell you, but that train left the station long before Obama assumed the presidency. Name one Obama policy that left you penniless. Please, just one.

RedDev: I agree. How is it Obama's fault that you don't have the skills to hold a job, almighty Yoda? Was it Obama who fired you?

He's in the wind up, and the PITCH is on the way...... LOW and in the DIRT- BALL 4!! The winning run walks in and the ball game is over!! Republicans win! wait a minute The manager, Harry Reid and coach Nancy are on the field arguing ball 4.... they are saying the batter swung at the ball but its clear from the instant replay that the ball was 10 feet out of the strike zone and the batter never moved....

Now they are arguing the replay is wrong and the fans are all mistaken, everyone is leaving the stadium, but the Democrats are still on the field... the umpires have left, but their still convinced somehow they are right...

.....its a sad day in obamaville.

Fifty millions American Citizens are on food stamps?

Democrats care? Seriously? Why haven't we repealed the Glass Steagall act?

Really you all Blame OBAMA for your lack of Business sense. Lack of desire to build your own Business. And are waiting for Him to Create a JOB for you.

Yet complain that an illegal is working? A drug addict has the wits to support a habit? Who is worse? You for not doing or the dope fiend for getting it done?

Your pathetic!!! Don't Blame the president for your lack of desire or will to get off your duff. Blame yourself!! Aint that the REPUBLICAN WAY fricken losers

You cant have it both ways either the Pres is right or you are a loser. Ask not what your country can do for you, But what you can do for your country.

Jedi

You say you supported Obama which is doubtful but how do you justify all the lies, the flip flops and bad policy for the working class and the retirees that Romney/Ryan have put forward? I really doubt you were ever an Obama supporter.

A really sorry, but oft used comparison, that of sports and politics. Guess what folks, they are NOT the same. Sports are entertainment. Politics, while entertaining, are the bread and butter of life. My rights, liberties, freedoms, do not revolve around Tiger Woods making a hole-in-one.

Crowbar7 ...thinks a crowbar is where birds go to drink!

Democrats care? Seriously? Why haven't we repealed the Glass Steagall act?

Are you kidding. Democrats would repeal this legislation if they could. Name one prominent Republican, being the regulation haters they are, that would support this move. Hint - Ryan, McConnell, Cantor, Boehner, would rather commit hari-kari before they would ever support this move. Quit blaming Democrats for Republican/TP obstructionism.

Rt wingers whine about illegal immigrants, but forget how Romney the rich multimillionaire was caught TWICE hiring illegals from Guatemala to do his lawn and his son's lawn, that he found through the Mormon church! When caught did he turn them over to ICE? Nope, he did the ol catch and release. When reporters asked him about it, Mitts answer was ...Oh Geez and walked away.

Mitt went to Great Britain during the OlymPigs, angering one of our most important allies, making himself look more like an 'Ugly American' - clueless about the outside world.

The President pointed that out in his speech; so foreign policy-wise, Mitt is unwise and still not there yet.

Change is all I have because of a weak economy that has driven me to the unemployment lines twice since Mr. Obama has been in office. It's also caused me to do things that I wouldn't normally do. It's not about the ability to manage money, I have managed multi-million dollar accounts successfully and with great finesse. It's about not being hired in an extremely competitive job market where employers literally hand-pick those whom they want and shuffle everyone else out the door. Next time before you speak (or type) something so tripe "tristyJ" maybe you ought to stop and think first. Perhaps you should remember what Thumper's mother told him (in the movie Bambi) "if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all." My hope is that you never have to get this far down in life when you've been so far up.

Jedi: And yet you'd vote for a president who would limit or take away any of the safe guards for people like you down on their luck. All you have to do is read the right wing comments on these boards to get an idea of what a Ryan/Romney administration would impose. No matter how well you've done in life or how many taxes you've paid you're no longer welcome when you need help. Don't buy into any change is better than no change at all. It can get worse.