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Subscribe to RSSORLANDO -- Jokingly introduced as the "shy and retiring" Chris Christie by Republican Governor's Association chairman Bob McDonnell, the New Jersey governor and prominent Mitt Romney endorser once again showed he was anything but -- slamming President Obama and defending the man he is supporting for the Republican presidential nomination.
"Every time there was an opportunity to provide real leadership where the things would be difficult to do, where it's not a guaranteed layup or a guaranteed photo op, he walks," Christie said of the president. "Real leadership is not what you see in the White house right now. As I've said before, I think it’s a sad day in our country's history to see a bystander in the Oval Office, and that's what we have."
Christie was among 27 Republican governors to attend the RGA's meeting here this week, but his position as perhaps Mitt Romney's most prominent supporter -- and one of only a handful of governors to endorse any presidential candidate -- made him the center of attention today.
"He's the one guy who has performed consistently," Christie said, when asked about a perceived lack of enthusiasm in the GOP base for his favored candidate. "If you define enthusiasm as being at 30% one day and 8% two weeks later. I call that schizophrenia, not enthusiasm. What Gov. Romney has shown over time is that he has a strong and steady core of supporters. I believe that that type of steadiness and that type of consistency is going to lead to him being our party's nominee."
The New Jersey governor, who briefly considered making his own run for the White House, weighed in on several strategic elements of Romney's campaign, including how the former Massachusetts governor should deal with the surging Newt Gingrich. His advice? Don't engage.
"If Gov. Romney engaged every person who had a temporary rise in the polls, that's all he'd be doing," Christie said. "Gov. Romney's job is to lay out his hopeful, optimistic vision for the future of this country and his critique of the last four years, not to engage every person who has, like I said, a temporary rise in the polls."
The outspoken Christie also took a question from a reporter about Romney's demonstrated preference for not taking questions from reporters.
"Everybody has got their own style, and I certainly am not going to try to make anybody something that they're not. Because if they acted that way, it wouldn't come across legitimate or genuine. I am who I am. People ask me questions and I try to answer then as directly and as quickly as possible, and I just think that's the better way to go when you're in public life," Christie said. "Because if you avoid the questions, they're eventually going to catch up to you anyway, so why not answer them and get them out of the way and move on to what you want to talk about."
Despite the vast majority of Republican governors attending this event remaining unaligned in the presidential race thus far, Christie said he was not actively recruiting new endorsers for the Romney campaign.
"I think my role as an endorser is to help Governor Romney in whatever way he asks me to. I'm not sitting around, you know, as a recruiter. I've got other things to do. I'm the vice chairman of this organization." Christie said. "Everybody knows that I'm with Mitt and if in fact they have some questions they'd like to get clarification on or encouragement, it's not like I'm not visible around here. They can talk to me, but I'm not sitting here with my Mitt button on trying to bring everybody into the fold."
Christie did disclose one of those things Gov. Romney asked him to do -- he'll be campaigning in Iowa on Romney's behalf next week, yet another sign that Romney is playing to win in the Hawkeye State.
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Quick!
Someone shove another Krispy Creme into this blow hards pie hole!
There is a deli here in Chicago has named a new sandwich after the NJ Governor!
It's called the 'Oinker'!
It consists of two half pound burgers with the works & topped with chili cheese fries nestled between two glazed doughnuts and topped with a slice of Godfather's pepperoni pizza!
Christie reminds me of Rex Ryan, the NY Jets football coach. They both have big mouths, they are both media hounds, they both lack class and they both love to push people around.
Buy hey, it's what the media loves. Neither of them have done anything to garner such publicity, but then that's today's media.
Two loud-mouthed jackasses. They both ought to concentrate on their own jobs more.
Go Pat,
And,
GO PATS!
Versus the guy that spouts whatever pleases whoever is in the room ...
Romney has no core.
Fiesty,
Almost tossed my cookies reading that recipe! Chris Christie is an incredulous angry fat man. That is all he is. That personality may work in New Jersey but I'd slap him if he came on my property here in California to deliver his hateful spitfull speech. Put a dart in him already!
Fat Man to the rescue!...Christi sees the mean-spirited Grinch leading in the polls, so gotta come in and attack the President.....huh!
Hey, Fat Man, attack the Grinch...dare ya', double dare ya'!
Ana--totally agree with you! Prick the humongous hot air balloon of pomposity--pins work well too! And I don't think his schtick would go over too well in the Northwest either! What a prime example of the quintessential TPGOP bullyboy!"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Time for a resto in Chicago to develop a pizza called the Boinker in recognition of Cain's exploits ... and the toppings are?
Santorum's secret sauce, pepperoni compliments of Cain & a double dose of bull@!$%# from the rest of the field!
Bon Apetite!
idealogyspoilstheview,
"white breast meat"
Chugged down with with a glass of NewtSurge ... comes with a complimentary barf bucket.
Sorry, I was off topic ... Christie ... it's a visual problem for me. An Oval Oaf in the Oval Office.
Fiesty: You took my blowhard line
Nurse: Not only will he not go over big in the NW,he wouldn't go over on Northwest airlines either ( you know fitting in the seat,even first class hi but won't fit )
And for my viewpoint: Things in jersey aren't going to well and this fatty is going to Iowa to campaign..While they all critisize the President for Foriegn affairs travel...This fatass needs to stick a carrot in it and stfu..
Shut up, fat boy!
If you look closely, you can almost see Christie licking his chops whenever he says Romney.
-- images of Fat Bastard telling Mini Me: "Shut up and get in me belly!"
cristie reminds me of jackie gleason"honeymooners"BANG!!ZOOM!! To the donut shop...........or jake & the fatman.or cannon.................he will be indicted one day.As far as williard?hahahah!.................Obama/Biden 2012
WOW! Such erudite and intellignet comments. I guess it is true that when confronted with the truth the libs resort to name-calling and plyground bullying tactics. Your mamas should be so proud...
Oh how the truth hurts.........This is not the last time we will hear that one.
Another loud mouth reading from the script!
You go Christie--kibbitz from the sideline, because you didn't have the stones to get into the game.
Just another nattering nabob of the know-nothing party....
@comfortably--love the image of the "nattering nabob of the know-nothing party..." I wonder who died and made him the high nabob of no-no?
Christie is auditioning for the Traditional VP role of instigater( Him & VP Biden would be a good Debate, probably even Cussing from either)!
Christie is a Bully, who was a Protoge of Karl Rove, so he's therefore "UnPatriotic", in my book.
He talks about being Genuine, but Only his kind of Genuine is the Real Deal, noone else can be themselves & be Genuine according to the DoughBoy.
I guess he thinks "Killin Bin-Laden", could be done by Any ole Bystander, while takeing Donald Trump to the woodshed & Donald was the Only one who did'nt see it comeing.
The DoughBoy is just That, except He's Full of Sh!t, not Dough.
Occupy SoggyBottom!
I'll be ROFLMAO for some time to come over this one:
Mitt Romney is the Guy who has Performed Consistantly.
What ARE you liberals going to do when Obama is no longer president? Your safety net of political focus has a poor chance of getting re-elected. I truly understand that the liberal posters are an island unto theirselves and keep on cheerleading for Obama... but the truth IS, Obama, unless there's massive cheating going on, can't run on his record. His 4 years of trying to fundamentally change this country will be wiped clean by the next conservative president. It happened with Carter. Obama's negative rating is almost as bad as Carter's was so if you liberals don't want to be disappointed all in one day next November, you might want to start preparing for his ouster.
If you are so smart B-B-B-Brian just which one of these failed persons is gonna be the next President ? First it was Bachman then Perry then Cain now The Grinch...I think I got the order right....So which one Oh wise one ?
Brianb- you have to know that they are safe in their delusions because the media- still besotted by Obama- keeps them in a state of ignorance.
Such as this
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/2011/11/29/watching-the-wheels-come-off-the-green-machine/
So, Fisker gets have a billion taxpayer borrowed dollars- to, ostensibly, build luxury electric cars in Finland- because it's main backer is a big time Obama donor. . .
And, it looks like all that money is being laundered outside the country, because these hundred grand plus clunkers will never be built.
Meanwhile, GM- Obama's private, albeit taxpayer owned- car company is offering FREE real cars to Volt owners. Seems the little batter powered roller skates have a nasty tendency to catch fire while being charged.
Let's see- if I owned one, and it caught fire in my garage, would I be mollified by a free Malibu?
Not bloody likely.
GE makes the batteries for these, by the way- and the tax credits for "green technology" are a big part of why they never seem to have any tax liability.
Ah, well- they'll always have those great bumper stickers. . .
And is that a prison tower in your avatar because I could imagine by the way you talk you would be one of those guys that watch grown men strip and cough for a living?
So blowjob no gas powered cars ever caught fire ? And you would be a foriegn car buyer since you are so patriotic and all..You know all that we want our white country back crap you guys chant while you are teabagging each other at the old folks rallies.
sw philly has taken offense. A true Obama suck up I see.
No Jo - You are aware that GE is the parent company of ABC, CBS and several liberal newspapers. This is the reason that Obama gets no negative press from the mainstream. Since the big O bailed out GE they are now owned by him too. When you have liberals filled to the brim with nothing but good news about Obama, they have no choice but to support him. Thank goodness there's the independents and the conservatives that have their feet on solid ground and see right through the horsehockey the liberal media puts out there.
So B-B-B-Brian no gas powered cars ever caught fire ? I am sticking up for american manufacturing not politicians...But for some reason you shills think it is Obamas fault that two battery powered cars caught on fire..
sw philly - I don't own a crystal ball, nor am I clairvoyant. I don't know what republican will be the candidate. Neither do you. You can cut down all the republican candidates you want. You won't have a choice in selecting them. Neither will I. I'm not registered as a republican in my state.
Somebody will run against Obama. Somebody chosen to beat him, you can bet the farm on that one. Right now, you are looking at a shrinking field and eventually it will come down to only one of them. That's the one I will vote for, so consider YOUR vote negated.
Me,my wife and my 20 year old son will all vote for Obama so no you will not negate my vote because I will also drive others to the polls who don't have a ride and I don't own a farm to bet or lose....And it just shows how mindless you are that you have already decided to vote for someone even though you don't even know who they are yet...But I don't think it is mindlessness I think it is racism so you might as well go ahead and register republican...
Oh and do you live in the same state as me to negate my vote anyway....You do know how presidential elections work in this country dontcha ?
So you admit that you are also hell bent on destroying this country phillycheesesteak. Very interesting. You support a president that doesn't live by the Constitution he swore an oath to defend and protect. You support a president that continually appologizes for this country and calls it's citizens lazy. You support a president that endorses half trillion dollar loans to corporations that go belly up in 2 years. You support a president that can only speak when a teleprompter is in front of him and can't verbalize 2 words without one. You support a president that has no backbone, hasn't solved a single problem and runs away from anything challenging. You support a president that claims it was his orders that killed Osama Bin Laden, when there are reports out there that claim that OBL has been dead for 10 years from kidney failure... the same OBL who's body was dumped at sea for no good reason and no pictures have been released of his dead body. The media posted pictures of Gadaffi's body within 24 hours of his death.
I guess these are good reasons to support a president, if you are a liberal.
BTW phillycheesecake, Not only will I vote against him, my 2 daughters and their husbands will also be voting against him, as will my wife and about 200 of my friends. I hope you are prepared to do a lot of driving and hauling liberals to the polls. That's a lot of negating to do.
You don't live in my state do you ? And everything you stated above fits right in line with people who say we never went to the moon.......And if you talk like you type like I said your family will just tell you they are voting republican so you stop bullying them with your tin-foil hat club ideas..Obama can't put two words together without a teleprompter c'mon...Bin laden has been dead for ten years Seriuosly...You are a joke
Racism you say phillycheesecake? What if by chance Cain wins the nomination? I said I would for for any of them... voting for Cain still makes me a racist? You gotta be kidding me to pull that old stupid line out and try it on me. Not once did I mention race in my posts... leave it to a liberal to pull that card out. Let me tell you something. It has never been about race... not from me, nor any other conservative I know. Obama is 50/50 so how does race even play into it. Am I racist against his white half, or his black half? Now here's a challenge for you, oh race baiting liberal... quote the line in any of my posts that mention race... You brought it up so it's YOU who are the racist, not me.
My wife is black and my kids are black and anybody who spouts crap like you is a racist.....You see I know the stuff people sat behind people of colors back....And they say all the same things you say so I am asuming and if it wasn't true you would find no reason to defend youself.......
Hermie is black but hates his own race so of course you would vote for him
sw philly, you are braver than me. I put Brian on ignore long ago. I think that is a picture of the insane asylum where he lives. He does seem quite trapped in his delusions.
Some of his stuff is pretty out there that's for sure......I personally beleive that if you support the GOP you are a racist, and that has nothing to do with Obama..It has to do with there record on the issues...And if you are not and are republican you have to stand up to them and challenge them on it or you are being complicant..
sw philly, I too personally believe if you have an R beside your name or claim to be an Independent (that is someone who doesn't have the courage of their convictions) you are every bit as guilty as those who make wild claims and tell lies about the President, if you stay silent. Not matter how outrageous a statement or lie told, no matter how many times they are corrected or debunked, and no one from the right denounces them, in my mind they are just as bad.
Now they can get their pants in a bunch when challenged, but until a person of note in the GOP, or an honest broker steps forward and lets it be known that hateful rhetoric is not acceptable, all conservatives are guilty.
sw philly how do you feel about the fact that barry was carried in the womb of a causican women. Be honest that pisses you off don't it. Wow and nothing your racist azz can do but live with the fact. Bhwaaaaaaaa ha ha ha ha. :)
Bob not sure what planet you are from, but here on earth usually babies are carried in their mother womb no matter what your color.
Why on earth would that piss off anybody except you?
He is every woman's loud mouth X husband ...He thinks he scares people ...they are all just laughing at him ...
Sad, sad, Christie is now an attack dog for flip flop Willard. Once a presidential wannabe but now a cretin of himself. He said he was sticking to his governorship term in NJ but why is he fronting for Willard? Is he looking for a VP slot in case Willard gets the GOP nomination. Time will tell
That's exactly what he is looking for, that's why he gave mittney his endorsement immediately after rejecting the call to run himself. He just another republican establishment wannabe.
Unac - You couldn't be any more wrong. Christie said from the beginning he wouldn't run for President this time. He hasn't been a wannabe at all. Nothing but made up crap.
Brian you couldn't be more wrong thinking we are gonna have a chief from the GOP so it's all good..
The ONLY way a democrat wins phillycheesesteak is if Obama steps down, or buys the election. He is, of course, from Chicago... and we all know how they play dirty tricks.
So that will be your excuse when most of america votes for him including your family without telling you...He bought it..Haaaaa
I wish Obama would step aside he is ruining the country and our party and I'm the only one on the left who can see this. Not ready to go to the right but I'm ready for Hillary , the person we should have nominated the first time around. Maybe Obama would have actually been ready in 2016. When will we learn if we don't keep our eye on the ball we will get our asses handed to us in 2012. We NEVER should have lost as many seat seats in 2010 it was directly attributed to Mr Obama and his incoherent policies.
Hillary 2012
SW Philly--- You are as vile as Philly itself. Why don't you join the Ron Paul Party!?
Hillary 2012
In 2008, Independents voted for Obama to show they weren't racists.
In 2012, Independents will vote against Obama to show they're not idiots.
[Christie: I am who I am.]
Yes, we know....and that is the very reason why you will never be president of the United States.
Could you imagine a white house with an angry President Romney and an even angrier Vice President Christie? The world would hate us. They would be sanctioning us, not Iran. The Banks would run away and the businesses would move down south. The Justice Dept. would be fighting a new hostile workplace harassment lawsuit every day if not every hour. Prescriptions for Zoloft and Valium would be up. I guess the drug industry would love them!
This vision is a SNL skit waiting to be created.
It sure seems like they're trying real hard to make crap up. That's a sure sign of desperation.
Christie is blowing donut dust all over the place.
I hope the paramedics are close by.
NO doubt this fatty is gonna go into cardiac arrest any day now....He oughta be concentrating on a diet..
Ana - where do you get this junk? Angry... Is this the way you view Republicans? Angry? Angry at whom? Republicans are somewhat stupid... but not Angry. I guess I should expect no more from the drama queen with the use of the word Angry.
What about the screaming they want their country back? Seems kinda angry to me?
Brianb,
Did you miss Romney's interview this am on Fox or Christie's explosion yesterday? I guess so! Keep up buddy!
I didn't miss it I cuoldn't stop laughing at fatty he looked like he was gonna vapor lock.....
That's right Ana - view one clip and assume every republican is angry. Liberals are great at assumptions. You assume Obama is going to win because you follow the Obama bought media, come to this Obama cheering squad blog and you walk away feeling like the big O is a shoe in. Those who aren't liberal feel different than you do. Most of us can't wait for the creep to get the hell out of Dodge.
That is just most of you and your racist freinds...B-B-B-Brian
How much different would it really be? We have an angry arrogant racist in there now.
swphilly - keep it up son, and you will be censored for your rude and obnoxious comments.
When it comes to leadership Mr. Obama may be on the sidelines but George W. Bush wasn't even in the arena. Looking at the motley bunch running on the GOP side who could do the job any better? None of them could. If anything only Romney, Huntsman and to a small degree, Gingrich could possibly enter the arena. As for the other loons they won't even come into sight of the arena of leadership.
Governor Dumpling should fess up as to why Mitt doesn't answer questions at his little staged events. It is hard to answer questions when you have been on both sides of the abortion issue, both sides of gay rights issues, both sides of national health insurance issues, etc. The only thing Mitt has been consistent on is his consistent move to the right after leaving Massachusetts.
Right he does answer questions anyway just with a different position everytime.
Wouldn't anyone be angry after having endorsed a windsock.
This guy is the poster child for how to get a heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, you name it. We have the highest level of obesity around the world. He could make a real difference by showing folks who have the same weight issue he does by taking steps to obtain a heathier body. Instead he is blathering about leadership skills which flipper boy has none of.
Go Obama!
So Chris Christie's weight upsets you? This means he cant be a leader?
Barack Obama smokes cigarettes, at least until recently. Is that OK? Can he be a leader?
And Michelle Obama, whose cause is fighting childhood obesity, has a quite large butt and regularly goes out to fancy restaurants and eats expensive unhealthy food, according to reports. Does that upset you?
Or, just perhaps, you are just a nasty partisan hack?
No he is just a fat blowhard.
I couldn't care less about his weight. I don't think he's even been Governor long enough to say he has a good or bad record as a leader. But I have heard a few negative stories about his cuts to police and fire departments and the resulting strain on those agencies. I don't like that he used a state police helicopter to fly to his son's ball game. Stuff like that makes me wonder if he's practicing what he's preaching.
Also, being able to sling a good insult doesn't mean he has good ideas, nor does it make him a very good leader in my opinion. We need good ideas not good insults. Not paying for the things our government does is not a good idea. I know you'll say we have to cut our government spending but it seems we can't or won't. So we have to pay now and stop incurring debt that our grandchildren will have to pay for.
sw philly you are nothing more than angry progressive freeloader who is not successful even with everything handed to you. You are angry because people are better off than you without trying hard and you can't even steal what they have got with the backing of the federal handout program for moonbats. Life is just never going to go the way you want. Try looking in the mirror and asking yourself "do I ever want to be somebody" if the answer is still no accept the fact you will always be a loser.
sw sphilly, you still looking in the mirror? I notice your rude posts have ended..lmao!
I am solidly in support of my fantastic Governor Bob McDonnell for VP...
But must admit, the also fantastic Gov Chris Christie as VP candidate on the national stage would drive the moonbats over the edge...Christie is a great communicator, he cuts to the chase.
Just in case it gets lost in the shuffle:
Is that before or after he cuts wind?
Is that before or after he cuts wind?
I totally disagree with Governor Christie.
"As I've said before, I think it’s a sad day in our country's history to see a bystander in the Oval Office, and that's what we have."
He got BP to cough up $20 Billion after the Gulf spill. He got health care reform started. He finally allowed gays to serve openly. He formed a debt commission to deal with our rising debt long before the Governor's party created a debt crisis from scratch for no reason. He's getting us out of Iraq. He's getting us out of Afghanistan. He significantly helped the Libyan rebels without us setting foot in the country. He's trying to help us be leaders in green energy (the inevitable future). He saved a lot of jobs by bailing out the auto industry. He's trying to rebuild our nation's infrastructure which is badly needed and must be paid for in spite of the Governor's party position that we should not raise any money to do it.
If President Obama is on the sidelines Governor, then you are in center court with the rest of your party shouting no to every decent idea that comes along... while the President runs circles around the lot of you.
Yeah everything he has done has worked out soooo well. I wonder why people are complaining????
It's the Radical Right that is complaining. Fat boy should shut his pie hole.
Yeah.......shut up and let Urkel ruin the country his way.
Christie the hog that talks.
This is really something from a Gov. who wants to cut everything for the have nots, and protect the haves! He cuts education to the bone while he sends his kids to private schools. And has the gall to take a State Police helicopter to his kids little league game! He is not even going to get re elected in NJ, but good news is Mike Myers next movie he gets a role as the new fat basturd in it!
We ( the left) sure make ourselves look very intelligent with sniping from a computer about someones weight and equating it with his IQ. Thanks for bring us down to their level, sheer genius.
Hillary 2012
By the way, Christie actually said something smart, he said Repubs CAN"T beat Obama the way things stand. SOOOO true!
Hillary 2012
P. Christie is certainly soothing in his brilliant commentary and analysis....like most republicans, he demonstratedly lives in another world far from reality and even furhter from truth; oh yes....if you say America to most republicans, they look at you in wonder and ask, "What is that?"
About 1 year ago, every GOP elected official "walked away" from leadership by wanting to go home for Christmas while our troops served 24/7. Their whining is still ringing!
Not tooo "HONEST" the Dems did too. Are you working 24/7? I love our military ,I love those true HEROS that protect everyday of our lives but you can't compare what they do to ANY of us civilians.
GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!
What was the use of Gov. Christie announcing he was not running for president? He's still out of the state campaiging, for Mitt Romney. He obviously doesn't want to be governor, he'd rather be Vice President. So go, already. We will find someone else to run NJ, you know, someone WHO'S HERE.
LOL......Damn the truth sure does hurt some people.
Christie had his chance to make a difference and jump into the presidential campaign. Instead, he chose to sit in his fat a$$ and throw stones, all the while the republican field is comprised of a bunch of clown college morons. That should add greatly to his credibility.
What an assinine blowhard Christie is. All he's doing is prepping everyone for his VP nominee from Romney. He's crass, rude and just an all-around jerk. He puts on this tough guy persona, but that's just to cover up the fact he's a no-nothing egomaniac. The GOP is a laughing stock.
INTEGRITY: Integrity is a huge umbrella that encompasses a number of attributes that defines the word and every human being that wants and hopes to be taken seriously. It is not politically partial nor discriminatory, and includes qualities like honesty, truthfulness, loyalty, trust, faithfulness, fairness, honor, reliability, responsibility, veracity, genuineness, sincerity, accuracy and the like.
Since Pres Obama's election, it appears that "integrity" has become a disingenuous play-toy, a talking-point and a false claim by those whose singularly stated purpose is to defeat Pres Obama no matter what it takes; even if it means abandoning integrity to make that happen and taking America down along with them. They, by their actions, are openly flaunting integrity's unimportance as a characteristic necessary for human and global success. I offer the following names as evidence: Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, every US rep who has been voting NO just for the sake of politics, every governor who is attempting to destroy their state (i.e. Scott Walker, John Kasich, Chris Cristie, etc), the Tea Party, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Michele Bachman, Sarah Palin, Grover Norquist, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Neil Boortz, Ann Colter, every predator CEO in the US, Rupert Murdock, the Koch bros, the leadership of Iran, Pakistan, N. Korea, China, Cuba, the Taliban, etc, etc, etc. And lastly, and just as egregiously, those who would vote for someone lacking integrity; for it displays their equal lack of integrity as well.
Having been consumed by greed, power, selfishness and self-interest; those lacking integrity have turned to the dark side for direction and guidance in their lives. Strangly, and probably blasphemously, they often invoke God as their "co-pilot" in all they do. They are the evil that is destroying our nation and our world community, and they must be defeated (peacefully at the polls and in the streets
If the people, especially the working class, look at the "why" when considering the economy, then Obama should win easily. Not because he has done so well with the economy but because the causes of the problems can easily be traced back to before him and the cause for the continuation of the problems can be totally identified with the Republicans putting their political ambitions above all else as they stubbornly fault and arrogantly block all efforts and just protect the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (1%). It would be very hard to see any conscience or responsible consideration of the majority (99%) from the Republican / Tea Party or to expect anything other than “more of the same”, Bush-Cheney style, from them - that is simply the absolute reality; now we only need to see if the voters will even consider reality (the Republicans and their influential, powerful and extremely wealthy supporters are working very hard to see that they don't).
Absolutely agree with you RGiles. Pres Obama has done as well as he possibly could given the "NO" obstacles he's been faced with.
Do you realize, starting with the 110th Congress that the Democrats have held the majority in Washington since 2007, either by controlling both houses of Congress or one house of congress and the Presidential office? Are you saying that even though the Democrats have been in control for almost 5 years that they were still unable to do anything about the downward spiral the nation is in? Are you saying even though they held the majority they could not stop Bush? Are you saying the Democratic party is that inept? During that 5 years the national debt has went up 5 Trillion dollars.
The Republicans are not much better. The Democrats are blaming them and the Republicans are too stupid to point out the facts about the Democratic control.
Both Parties are at fault. Corruption and Greed are put above the people.