Romney is a draft dodger, for God's sake. By serving as a missionary for the Mormon Church during the Vietnam War, Romney made sure he would not be drafted from the years 1966 until 1969 (when the war ended, for Romney, and putting self-interest and a whacky religion ahead of public service well past 1975, when the war officially ended). This exemption from service still stands today for Mormons. Romney could have been an Army Missionary, but went as far from danger as he could, to France and ate Freedom Fries while our boys in uniform lost their lives defending their country. Romney believes that war is necessary...for other people to fight. Most draftees in the Vietnam days were from lower-middle class neighborhoods, and enlistees to this day are mostly from the poor of America. As Romney said in 2012, "I'm not worried about the poor." Of course not! He isn't one! He must have been thinking : "Praise the Lord, and let the poor pass the hand grenades for me! And give us more some of those Freedom Fries, Pierre." And he recently endorsed his sons for NOT joining the military! Enough said. He's a conservative? Sure, and my dog speaks Arabic. Woof salaam woof!

What do two liars give you, one trustworthy honest man? No, it gives you two liars who cannot be trusted by anyone to govern a country. I don't agree with their policies, particularly the Tea Party Stalwart, Rubio. But at least if they were honest so that one knew where they stood, they might be a worthy foe. In this election, there is no worthy foe for Barak. No matter what the few hundred wildly applauding Pa. suburbians want to believe. And that's just fine with me.

No cost to high??

Really.

How 'bout putting willards 5 sons in uniform?? I'm good with that..

""After Romney told his audience it would be "simply unacceptable for Iran to get a nuclear weapon," Rubio took the mic and went further, calling the possibility of Iran getting a weapon "so horrifying" that "there is no cost too high to bear to prevent that from happening.""

Republicans screwed up. I'm just writing "Jon Huntsman" on my ballot.

WHAT MARCO RUBIO’S FATHER’S NEVER TOLD HIM
During a joint campaign appearance with Romney in Pennsylvania, Marco Rubio told his town hall listeners that he father never told him it was O.K. to take from the rich to advance. Here are other things, I believe, his father never him:
THAT it is O.K for the rich to practice reverse Robin Hood on the poor and middle class. (Rubio and Romney support the Ryan Budget)
THAT it is O.K. for the rich NOT to pay their fair share to support the country during especially times of economic trouble. (In fact, in earlier years the tax rate was much higher, about 90 % during the Eisenhower years, about 40% during the Reagan years).
THAT for the rich or any one to give money to the country is simply giving money “to other people.” (Giving money to the country through the tax system helps the country in economic and social distress).
THAT asking the rich to contribute a fair share of their wealth for the good of the country is “class warfare.” (NOTE that Republican Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan, and Democratic President FDR and Clinton). The country recovered!
THAT every one was simply left on their own in a system where opportunity to rise to the middle class and achieve the American Dream did not exist. (In earlier days, people believed in the American Dream because it was all possible to achieve it. Today, with almost all the wealth shifting to the top 1% and little opportunity for the 99% to rise to the middle class, the system has destroyed its basic fairness. The rich advantage rose by nearly 400% in the last 30 years while the income of the middle class flattened out at below 6%).
THAT mass or “self-deportation” is O.K. in a “nation of immigrants” that made it possible for his father to come to live in America.
Overall, Rubio is wrong in his assumptions, wrong in his facts, and wrong in his proclaimed orthodoxy.

WHAT MARCO RUBIO’S FATHER’S NEVER TOLD HIM
During a joint campaign appearance with Romney in Pennsylvania, Marco Rubio told his town hall listeners that he father never told him it was O.K. to take from the rich to advance. Here are other things, I believe, his father never him:
THAT it is O.K for the rich to practice reverse Robin Hood on the poor and middle class. (Rubio and Romney support the Ryan Budget)
THAT it is O.K. for the rich NOT to pay their fair share to support the country during especially times of economic trouble. (In fact, in earlier years the tax rate was much higher, about 70 % during the Eisenhower years, about 28% during the Reagan years).
THAT for the rich or any one to give money to the country is simply giving money “to other people.” (Giving money to the country through the tax system helps the country in economic and social distress).
THAT asking the rich to contribute a fair share of their wealth for the good of the country is “class warfare.” (NOTE that Republican Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan, and Democratic President FDR and Clinton). The country recovered!
THAT every one was simply left on their own in a system where opportunity to rise to the middle class and achieve the American Dream did not exist. (In earlier days, people believed in the American Dream because it was all possible to achieve it. Today, with almost all the wealth shifting to the top 1% and little opportunity for the 99% to rise to the middle class, the system has destroyed its basic fairness. The rich advantage rose by nearly 400% in the last 30 years while the income of the middle class flattened out at below 6%).
THAT mass or “self-deportation” is O.K. in a “nation of immigrants” that made it possible for his father to come to live in America.
Overall, Rubio is wrong in his assumptions, wrong in his facts, and wrong in his proclaimed orthodoxy.

Vote Abo

Do you really believe so profoundly in your omniscient sagacious erudite Deity BHO, that the culminations so rationalize any and every means obligatory to further proliferate his probable face in the mirror cocaine séance induced utopian idealistic fanatical fantasy based sociopolitical thesis of fallacious bovine excrement??? Or are you so egoistically entrenched in your own narcissistically conceived shamelessly brazen ignorance of reality that lures your perpetually focused Agape with incontrovertible veneration of this polemical self-proclaimed transformative savior of superficially hypocritical evenhanded fairness ???

This is what we got, as opposed to what we were promised;

Behind closed doors deals made in seclusion, things against the will of the people transparency not.

Obama promised to cut the debt/deficit. so five trillion more in debt & no sincere budget proposal aimed at reducing debt.

Health care legislation having nothing to do with health and everything to do with political power.

Obama promised to be the great healer of racial divide yet promotes division at every rose garden address and photo op

vote abo

Is it perfectly alright if; Pres BO continues to speculate with our money some more on solar energy or algae production or whet ever kind of speculation was going on in Columbia ??? I/we really need some answers and solutions that put all Americans first, Not this endless string of excuses from the rose garden. I believe America is about finished excusing this b/s artist! JUST SAYING

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@sam

Economic prosperity is not a zero sum game. What that basically means is Billy Bob's economic prospects are not influenced by how much Mary Sue earns. To the contrary, they can both thrive economically at the same time and during periods of broad based economic prosperity that's exactly what happens in this country and other countries around the world. So Billy Bob doesn't see his income prospects diminished just because Mary Sue landed a 10% raise.

For example, my ability to thrive economically is a function of the skills I bring to the employment marketplace and the value that marketplace assigns to those skills. There could be hundreds of baseball players or football players or rock stars or CEOs who make more in a day than I might make in a year, but whatever they make has no impact at all on the salary I can command in my own line of work. To broaden the argument, the fact that the top 1% has seen their incomes increase faster than others has no bearing whatsoever on the income prospects of the other 99 percent. Because economic prosperity is not a zero sum game.

GO Vote ABO

@ SAM,or whoever it may concern

But that's not quite the way the left sees things. In their view, the fact that Albert and his rich buds make so darn much money somehow means that folks at the lower end of the income scale aren't making as much as they could or should. So when CBO reported last October that the top 1% of earners saw their incomes increase much faster than lower earners, the left went ballistic and channeled the OWS mantra to assign the blame to the evil 1% for sucking all the economic oxygen out of the air. But that's absolute rubbish. Income inequality is just a symptom of a much deeper malaise: folks at the lower end of the income scale don't have the skills required to prosper as much as those who do have the skills.

And sad to say, this is a problem that has been with us for generations – despite the hundreds of billions if not trillions of government dollars that have been spent over those generations to fix the problem. So, you want to reduce income inequality? Then figure out how to motivate the poor kid from the poor neighborhood to do what it takes to improve his life. But don't blame the evil 1% if that kid gives you the finger and then runs off to score some dope. Look instead at the cultural inequality that leads to the family breakdown and self-destructive behavior that breeds the poverty and despair in that kid's community.

The inconvenient truth is that income inequality is a consequence of cultural inequality. My salary doesn't matter, nobody else's salary matters. What matters is changing the value set of the prospective economic losers among us before it's too late for them. Until that happens, a big chunk of our population will remain hopelessly behind the rest of us. Blaming the 1% by attempting to redistribute their wealth and the wealth of other "rich" folks does nothing to change that underlying reality.

All that does is salve left wing guilt while this intractable problem continues to smolder.

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Jest sayin

vote in Nov.

It's good that NBC is holding the opposition's feet to the fire. But Obama has been in office for almost four years and you have never examined him. NBC never looked into where he was born. You never investigated his forged birth certificate. You never released his college transcripts or interviewed one friend or ex-girl friend. You gave him a pass on his close association with some of the worst people in America including Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Rev Wright and Rashid Khalidi. You let Obama get away with the massive corruption in his "stimulus packages" that saw $100s of billions of our tax dollars slip into the pockets of his cronies. NBC has ignored the "Fast and Furious" scandal that saw his administration selling weapons to foreign drug dealers that has resulted in the deaths of many people including Americans.

Aren't you people in the media supposed to be objective journalists rather than partisan activists? Shame on you.

Romney's just gonna march out people left and right to see how the chemistry works in public. That's all he's doing with Rubio. Don't get too excited about Rubio... didn't work all that well from what I have read elsewhere. One commentator said... marching out candidates like this is like catnip for the media. Sounds reasonable...

Sure beats the McCain approach with Sarah Palin... shock and WTF?

Coy. Thats a good word for it. Does it mean desperate? I don't think a hispanic will work. Won't that make it really lopsided? Where was Romneys dad born. Mexico? Losing situation. But coy! Does Rubio want to have a loss that big on his record? And most of all has he been vetted? No witches? No ethical investigations, andmost importantly does he even know what a vice president does or doesn't do?. And is he a chatty Cathy who will never stop takling and spewing her opinion based on nothing but dissention and disharmony in the country. One of those is enough for a long while. But coy! Don't the republicans just think they are the cats meow!

So he's going to put a "token" latino or whatever? Another millionaire putting another millionaire on the ballot. What a joke!

Willard, please pick that little kid from Florida! It will be Palin all over again :)

Romney could interview Jesus Christ and he'd still lose this fall....

Marco Rubio, Vice President. OMG, how frightening does THAT sound? Someone previously said they think Romney's just parading these different losers around to see what kind of reaction they get. I agree. Romney doesn't have a clue, so he's doing some public vetting to see how it goes. Doesn't matter. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve always voted for the politician that I thought would best serve our country – sometimes Republican, sometimes Democrat. I think both parties are equally corrupt, though in different ways, so I try to vote for the lesser of the two evils. Now, in 2012 we have two paramount issues, both of which are destroying our country: 1. Corporate influence, which drives our government to promote corporate interests even to the severe detriment of the people. 2. The crime, employment, and economic devastation from the massive number of illegal aliens in our country. Republican politicians embrace the corporate oligarchy, for financial reasons, of course, and this is destroying our ability to function as a legitimate democracy, with obvious dire consequences. Democrats champion, protect, and practically invite illegal aliens to storm in and take over our country -- which they will most certainly do within the next fifty years, unless the problem is stopped now. With each of the last three Republican presidents, corporations, including Wall St, have been given greater and greater influence, with more and more direct input into the legislative process. If Romney is elected, the next four to eight years could very well be a tipping point where the corporate oligarchy is able to make their political dominance permanent – an end to any legitimate democracy. If Obama is re-elected, we face another kind of tipping point where the twenty-two million illegal aliens (a conservative estimate) here will become permanent -- a process that will only encourage more to come. Besides the obvious crime, employment, and economic problems, we also face the very destruction of our culture. It is profoundly important for our nation that we solve BOTH of these problems. But… given this situation, who should I vote for???

Jeez, We might have at least one candidate in both parties' Presidential Tickets which are not Natural Born Citizens. The father Obama claims was NEVER a US Citizen and when Rubio was born, his parents were NOT yet US Citizens. Well, at least Biden's and Romney's parents were already US Citizens at the time of their births. So each ticket is "half qualified" (if Rubio becomes VP Candidate) per the articles of the US Constitution as intended by our Founding Fathers. Anyone who knows their 18th Century History knows the Founding Fathers took the meaning of Natural Born Citizen from the Law Of Nations (1758) during the Constitutional Convention in 1787 which requires BOTH (two) parents be already citizens at the time of the child's birth. This is not about Democratic or Republican politics, it is about defending the US Constitution no matter the politics of the unqualified Candidate

Rubio can't be on the ticket because he isn't qualified. His parents never became naturalized until 5 years after his birth which makes him ineligible to be on the ticket. And Mitt may be in jail by the time the election rolls around for Voter Fraud charges in Mass. Seems Mitt voted for Scott Brown in the special election to replace Kennedy but Mitt hadn't lived in Mass. for the previous two years and wasn't eligible to vote. He claimed he had been living in his son's unfinished basement the whole time. And this clown wants to run the country? Say No to Mitt and say No to the Republican Party in November and vote a STRAIGHT Democratic ticket.

This guy wants to run gov. like one of his business adventures...buy a co. and sell it in many pices to make a profit! That's why we will loose again! another 4 years of Obama! Hooray!

Romney wants to Gov. like one of his business adventures...buy a co. and sale it many pieces to make a profit! WOW what a smart business man! This is why we will loose again, this mentality this is our guy will not work. Another 4 more years of Obama is inevitable! Wow!

Is there any difference between Romney's economic policies and those of Bush?

This man is attempting to play the American people stupid putting out that they are considering Rubio for VP. He knows that a candidate such as this man could never be V|P because he is not an American citizen due to he was not born of American parents which means a mom or father or both on American soil. It does not matter if the person was an anchor baby or later became a citizen after coming to America this is in the United States Constitution.

This Romney is still playing the American stupid all he wants to do is getting in this WH to help himself, family and rich friends, he wants wars to line his pocket and help the Bushes, he intend to bring back alot of these Bushes ex-workers and finish destroying this USA. Why do you think he is building this compound in California? Plus having elevators so his people would be shield from citizens. He does not plan on spending night at the WH because like the have repeatedly used the secret lying code that President Obama was a Muslim that was only referring to him be black, or using the epithet word he is a nig...! This is really a racist, terror of evil person. He will stop your health-care, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Pell Grant, Housing subsidy, all types of Entitlement programs, especial parent plan hood he already stated that. Many of his policies is due to his faith of Mormonism, way he was raised from generation to generation, see in his eyes women are to have babies and not use birth control methods, read his bible it states it in their the woman place in society. Yet if you are poor your must take care of your children and not get federal or state aide, this is his belief. You must read all about how he took these companies he worked under Bain and bankrupt them out of greed and how he made his money. That is why is answer to every thing is bankrupt,foreclosure, it is a quick fix.See voting for this man is like a person would committ suicide to destroy yourself. Old people you know you will not be able to move with your children so he will be throwing you off the cliff or under the buses you will become homeless.