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Subscribe to RSSThe AP on Obama’s Florida stop yesterday: “Wooing Florida voters, President Barack Obama warned Thursday that Republican challenger Mitt Romney would gut his health care reform law and turn Medicare into a voucher program, driving up costs for the elderly on fixed incomes. Romney, firing away near his Boston home base, accused Obama of caring only about saving his own job -- not the jobs of Americans. In the daily war of words in an up-for-grabs presidential contest, health care politics took top billing as Obama opened two days of campaigning in Florida, the largest and most coveted of the nation's Election Day toss-up states.”
Right before Romney’s trip abroad, David Brooks writes: “It won’t help him win many votes this year, but it should be noted that Barack Obama has been a good foreign policy president.”
“The Democratic National Committee is reining in a planned series of videos using Ann Romney’s dressage hobby to mock her husband after a reminder it is related to her multiple sclerosis therapy,” the New York Daily News writes.
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“It won’t help him win many votes this year, but it should be noted that Barack Obama has been a good foreign policy president.”
Now, say that on national TV, you pundit-worm.
His foreign policy is I will give you whatever you want.
If you call that good then so be it. I happen to think both he and Clinton are very poor at it.
Obama's foreign policy is to tell the Russians to wait until after the elections when he will have more "FLEXIBILITY". Hell, he already took down the Eastern European missile defense shield. What else will he dismantle ?
Neville Chamberlain would be sooooo proud of him !
Mitt's secret foreign policy agenda would be to outsource more US jobs overseas sweatshops to make more blood diamonds to reap more profits to be stored in his Cayman Island tax haven.
Pigotry - FactCheck.org checked this out and found:
To quote Paul Krugman: “The Romney and Ryan plans by design don’t force any austerity measures on the wealthy. The austerity is designed for everyone else.”
Romney has gone about the country talking about “free stuff.” You know what “free stuff” really is? It’s TARP to bail out Wall Street and the Banksters. It’s tax cuts for the rich, especially tax breaks on dividends, capital gains (carried interest), and estate taxes – Breaks that only apply to the very rich. It’s the great big share of the budget given to the Military Industrial Complex.
The defense budget, which includes subsidies to Europe and military bases in Japan is "free stuff," as well as thermo nuclear weapons no longer needed as defense against a Soviet attack--talk about waste, here it is. The largest growing public sector is Homeland Security. What a mushrooming monstrosity this has become.
You know what’s NOT “free stuff?” Trust fund entitlement programs that YOU pay into like Social Security and Medicare, or even unemployment insurance that your employer (and you in lower wages) pay premiums for. And what do Teapublicans like Paul Ryan and Romney want to do? They want YOU make the sacrifice and accept cuts to those programs.
They want YOU to pay for unnecessary wars that were not not paid for, and deregulation of Wall Street that depleted your home equity and 401ks -- And possibly loss of your job and the wages and benefits along with that job. If you had to file bankruptcy because you lost health care coverage, too bad.
So the Republicans mismanaged the economy, and for a decade job creation has barely kept pace with population growth, and wages have been stagnant for even longer. But no, it is YOU, the middle class and working poor who are called upon to pay for the mess, and to provide more “free stuff” to the rich.
NO. Fight for Social Security and Medicare, because this is all YOU have left. Fight for your share of the pie and all the money wasted on defense that could be used to educate your children, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, and to create JOBS.
And Carter, even the wimp that he was, always had the love of the United States in his heart first and foremost. His methods may have been a little off but, the patriot was always there. Hell, I even voted for him. It was my first opportunity to vote in a presidential and like so many "first timers" today, was wooed by the ideology and the message. I have since learned, it isn't that easy.
Thats why he is no longer the worst and obama is.
They were both horrible at the job but Jimmy actualy cared.
rukidding???
LOL you made my day..You forget Mr Nixon (I'm not a crook) and then the one who will go down in History as a lier,(WMD) Big spender (un-funded prescriptions)
Big Business kisser(de-regulating them all) Kiss as$ to the wealthy (budget busting Welfare to oil, banks, et al w/ Un-funded Tax cuts) Wow Rush and Fox have feed you so much Tea, your brain is mush. Desperate, delusional souls can be so "out there" ya have to laugh!
The terminology "weapons of mass destruction" was used quite a number of times in describing Iraq by Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright ......... YEARS before the younger Bush was elected President.
So I guess you are saying Bill Clinton will go down in history as a liar ? Hell, we already know that. His executive knob-polisher Monica was going down on him in the "Oral Office"but Slick Willie later declared "I have not had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky". LOL !! I guess he didn't count on her dress being stained.
MediScare, demagogued by Democrats since the Stone Age........stale and old....but the liberal press like AP eats it up as exciting and new..
Don't you just love how Barack Hussein Obama is tring to play "boogeyman" with the seniors in making a partisan prediction of what Republicans will do ?
This comes, of course, after the Democrats gutted $500 billion from Medicare funding ! The bamster is merely trying to baffle them with bull$hit ... he has so much to spread around.
Seniors should ask the liar in chief about his plan to save Medicare. Oh yeah, it's do nothing until it's bankrupt. Seniors should love that.
You tea people Koch republicans show more everyday how scared you are of President Obama, and how delusional you are when it comes to the policies pushed by Limbaugh and Fox. I'd be willing to make a safe bet that all of you tea people saying you're in favor of Ryan's plan to privatize Social Security and Medicare are the vary ones that in several years will be whining and crying because the private sector took all your SS and Medicare benefits in administration fees and bad investments and now you can't retire because you don't have enough to live on. BTW: These private administrators will be doing just fine living off the money they stole from you. Them, their children and grandchildren will live comfortably off your retirement money. So keep propping up Ryan's budget, you will eventually have to pay for it.
We can't prop up Obama's budget ....... THERE IS NONE GENIUS ! At least, there is no budget now, and Obama's proposals have yet to receive ONE 'FRIGGIN VOTE from his own party. There has been no acting budget in place during Obama's term.
Romney embraced the Ryan Budget, with all of its rip offs of the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and the unemployed. When will the "job creators" have enough to create a job?
Nice distortion.... all you libbies have is the fear game. The Ryan plan allowed for OPTIONS. Get a dictionary and look it up.
pigotry...you better hope Obungler never has a haemohhoid operation. You'd be minus a nose!
The only thing that dork has going for him is @!$%#s like you! Unfortunately, there just aren't that many stupid people in the country.
The independents don't like his negative campaigning. It's wearing very thin. You notice, he sure as hell ain't talking about his record...how could he?...besides playing golf and being the campaigner-in-thief...he sure as hell ain't done much.
But hang in there. Fortunately for libs...denial is still their longest and strongest suit!!
A Health Affairs study () showed that the full implementation of the health care reform law and an aging population will result in a significant increase in spending. According to the study, spending will jump 7.4% in 2014 when the health care law is scheduled to be fully implemented. This is partially due to the aging of the baby boomer population, which will result in greater consumption of expensive health care services and products.
Also, the health care reform law will allow millions of Americans to gain coverage through subsidized insurance plans purchased through government-run exchanges, augmenting consumption.
By 2021, health care spending is projected to be 19.6% of GDP. The government share of the spending also would be greater, at nearly 50%, mostly because of the anticipated growth in Medicare enrollment.
Medicare might be the end of Medicare as we know it because it's are running out of money. The 2012 Trustee's Report reports the exhaustion of Medicare's trust fund in 2024 ().