Backhouse,

Romney, where are you plans... Obama doesn't have to lay out any plans... I really liked what he has done the last 4 yrs....going from losing 850k jobs per year to gaining on average of about 175k/month... I'll say President can keep doing what he is doing. HCR passed; Fair pay act... and the list goes on an on...

btw, if you haven't already picked urs...I hear Romney's got a complete "binder full of women"....just take your pick...after-all 'women are objects' ala "mail order bride"... absolute rubbish.

Perhaps I missed something when examining the expectations of the duties of the POTUS. I wasn't aware the the POTUS was in control of each and every oil company in the U S and dictating what the price of gasoline would be at the pumps.

But it has become abundantly clear that oil companies and the GOP have been in bed together for decades. The GOP is stuck on the past so they fully support oil companies and what will give them the biggest boost to their bottom line. In the meatime, all of the people of the country are held hostage and having to pay three times as much at the pumps as when Obama took office. The oil companies want a president in office who will give them everything they want, so they have raised prices at the pumps without regard of what it does to every American automobile owner as they try to make our economy look worse than what it should be.

What we need is to have Obama repeal the laws which allow companies to hold America hostage with record breaking profits during his second term. There was a time when oil companies and others were held accountable for doing exactly what oil companies are doing to us right now. They used to pay "windfall profit taxes" for their pirating of the American people. We need to have that back so that oil companies will charge a reasonable amount for their product.

Romney is so delusional, he has a lot of nerve asking Obama to be more specific when he and hulk wannabe hasn't mentioned one specific on how they pay for those tax cuts and increase in military spending.

Robme is out of touch, he looked like a spaz just like in Denver, trying to bully Obama and Crowley. Waaaaaa Waaaaaaa I am used to getting things my way Waaaaaaa Waaaaaaaa

@backhouse;

Yes there is only so much time in a debate. Obama has a budget already for 2013 .

We are moving forward I do not wish to start over with someone new . I believe the forward progress will continue over next four years.

I need a date tonight, I better get my binders out. lol

Mitt has a plan, it's called trust me! He has been asked over a hundred times which loopholes and deductions he would close to pay for his tax cuts for the rich, he hasn't answered yet!! This man is like a used car salesman! He wants to sell you a car, but he doesn't want you to test drive it!! Trust me, you can't trust him!!

Obama 2012 and hopefully getting the House and the Senate Democrat again!!

Considering the only plan the republicans had was to make Obama a one term president, it's not real surprising Mitt's plan is a little barren on specifics...

We all know that the next four years, if Obama is elected, will be exactly like the past 4-years. It's all about policy and Obama has no clue how to right this economy.

No, we don't. Most of us have some sense of perspective. For the better part of Obama's first term, we were reversing the enormous backward momentum this country was carrying after eight years of failed Bush policies. The sole reason why Obama's job score is near zero and not plus five million is because of the massive job losses in the first months of his presidency, which he could have done absolutely nothing to prevent. Obama's second term won't begin with 800k+ job losses a month, as he inherited for his first term: it will begin with net job gains, which will pick up as the economy continues to distance itself from the near depression we had.

In many aspects, these past four years have been more productive than practically any other president's term since, perhaps, LBJ. Whatever negative feelings you have about them, they can all be traced back to the maladies Obama inherited, not to to anything he did himself. If I were to ask you what exactly Obama has done that has negatively affected the economy, you'd give me shallow, generic, misleading answers like "he's been hostile to small businesses" and zero specifics, because the truth is that there is nothing specific he has done you can use to justify your holding him responsible for the high unemployment or anything like that. Overall, were it not for him, we'd be vastly worse off, perhaps barely getting out of a full-blown depression.

And no, I don't care how tired you are of hearing the old "it's Bush's fault" argument. Just because you get tired of hearing that the sky is blue doesn't make it red. Likewise, just because you get "tired" of people pointing fingers at Bush doesn't invalidate the point that Obama inherited a terrible economy as opposed to creating it.

The republicans are OBSTRVCTIONISTS

& Mitt has no real plan

...I'll take the course were on...It's getting better...

Just look at your mutual funds present value.

Barack & JOE

I pointed out they’ve gone well from roughly $1.86 a gallon when the president was elected to $4 a gallon," Romney said

What you all ignore in this whole meaningless gasoline issue is that George W. Bush faced the same crisis. In June of 2008, gas prices went over $4 a gallon, too. George W. Bush stepped up to the plate and managed to lower gas prices to below $2 a gallon... by trashing the American economy!

Doubtless Mitt Romney has the same solution in mind. No, thanks!

Two major national presidential polls are out today. Several statewide polls are also out as well. In the Gallup presidential tracking poll Mitt Romney had a 6% lead among likely voters and a 2% lead among registered voters. When likely voters were included in the Gallup poll President Obama was at 45% compared to 51% for Mitt Romney. When registered voters were included in the Gallup poll President Obama was at 46% compared to 48% for Mitt Romney. Third party candidates combined with undecided voters were at 4% among likely voters and increased to 6% when registered voters were included in the presidential poll. Gallup released their presidential tracking poll at 1 p.m. ET, Wednesday, October 17, 2012.

Rasmussen Reports presidential tracking poll had Mitt Romney with a 1% lead nationally. President Obama was at 48% compared to 49% for Romney. Third party candidates were at 1% and undecided voters were at 2% nationally. Rasmussen Reports released their presidential tracking poll this morning, October 17, 2012.

Obama agenda for new term.....

1) Complete bankruptcy of United States

2) Indoctrinate students, immigrants, "undocumented workers", women, minorities into idea of changing Constitution

3) Pass Gun Confiscation... I mean Firearms Protection Act

4) Remove all remnants of prior freedoms

5) Keep them all in the dark until the take-over is completed

Steve-446003...

You need mental help...seriously

I have read a few of the comments so far, but I don't see any comment regarding the fact that Romney, while out on the stump(read the article) said he wanted to talk about Phillip, who was the first question of the night. That is completely wrong and I knew it when I read it so I went to youtube and sure enough, as I remembered it, it was Jeremy Epstein, the young college kid, THE FIRST question of the night was about if he would be able to get a good job coming out of college. Now, if Romney can't even remember back just a few hours ago what the first question was, or even worse, if his own handlers can't even prepare him to meet and talk with the people they want voting for him, why in the hell would I want this man to be president?!

@steve;

I do not believe one thing you have mentioned a president could do on his own if he wanted too. Sounds like you need to take the tin foil off sir. Wait a minute on second thought leave it on, you will feel much safer.

To all the people who actually see what is going on with our country, for the sake of everyone in this country, I hope we outnumber the people voting democrat at the polls next month.

Romney 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Romney has a binder full, all right ... a binder full of canned retorts that have nothing to do with the questions being asked!

Romney said that it was NOT the job of the president to create jobs - that the government COULD NOT CREATE JOBS. Then he said that HE would create jobs as PRESIDENT. Huh?!?

Romney said that he had a 5-step program to "fix America", but would not give any specifics or details. Guess it's a "secret" plan. Anyone who believes he has a real plan needs to join a 10-step program.

Romney insisted that we look at his record. "If people want to know what I stand for, they can look at my record as governor." ~ Mitt Romney

Okay, let's see...

Under Gov. Romney, Massachusetts fell to 47th out of 50 in job creation:

Before Romney's time as governor, Massachusetts ranked 36th out of 50 in job creation, but over the course of his tenure the state dropped to 47th out of 50, even as the national economy was growing.

Gov. Romney created or raised over 1,000 taxes and fees:

Though he promised he wouldn't raise taxes as governor, he increased taxes and fees by as much as $750 million per year, leaving the average taxpayer to pay an extra $1,227 in state and local fees and taxes. During his first year in office, Romney raised fees on milk, driver's licenses, hospitals, nursing and barber licenses, and even on the blind.

Gov. Romney left behind a huge budget deficit:

Romney broke his pledge to balance the budget and left his successor, Gov. Deval Patrick, with a $1 billion budget deficit. Long-term debt increased by 16% over Romney's four-year term, and he left Massachusetts with the highest debt per person in the nation.

Romney's approval rating when he left office as governor was at 34%.

People have said that we need a "businessman" to lead our nation. That is a short-sighted thought. In business there is either an owner making all the decisions or a CEO with a Board of Directors making the decisions. (Despite the lip service they pay it, Boards are not really too interested in what the stockholders want or say). The object of a company is to make money for the owner(s), CEOs, Board members and, to a lesser extent, the stockholders. The public, in general, is just something to be manipulated, used or ignored.

Within our nation there are millions of people and our elected officials have the duty to do what is best for the majority of those citizens. The duty of the president is to be responsive to the people of the nation.

It is NOT about the CEO [read: president] or the Board [read; Congress / Senate] or the stockholders [read: the 1%] making huge amounts of money at the expense of 99% of the citizens.

Mitt Romney has made his disdain for the middle class clear when he thought he was out of earshot of them and was with his own kind.

President Obama has made his compassion for the middle class clear. He is not in the pocket of the 1% - he is standing up for the 99%.

Obama / Biden 2012

I really liked what he has done the last 4 yrs....going from losing 850k jobs per year to gaining on average of about 175k/month...

Me too - but it was 850k jobs PER MONTH (February, 2009).

If 1.3% growth is the sign of an improving / healthy economy

Actually, the growth rate in the quarter immediately prior to the 2009 inauguration was -9%. NEGATIVE NINE PERCENT. So, technically it is a sign of improvement and we have every reason to believe it will continue to get better, Mr. Romney's BS notwithstanding.

americansocialist, you need a life...seriously. Right on Steve! For all of you silly liberals, blinded by your love of Mr. Obama, get ready. You're little dog and pony show is about to be over.

Romney is now the “Leader of the non-working, do nothing, filibustering GOP controlled congress with an all time low approval of 7%.”

With a record 500+ filibusters, PLEDGES to NEVER generate more cash for the government, ZERO compromises, voter suppression and intimidation, creating war on women, and with NO record of any accomplishments or anything done for the country in 40 years.

The undecided voters keep ignoring or are not aware that the REAL culprits behind the slow recovery on the economy and jobs are the “obstructionist” Republicans controlling congress with cloture and filibusters to stop job legislation and halt Obama’s agenda to fix the economy.

Only a "super majority" can stop the Republican obstruction of the past 3 years.

Obama doesn’t have a supermajority, Obama only has the senate by ONE and the GOP owns the house and CONTROLS all legislation.

We have a communication problem if these undecided voters are not aware that the GOP has done NOTHING but get in the way of passing bills to promote job and economy growth.

Remember that the President doesn't pass the bills, he just signs them.

Obama has a 51% approval and has been waiting for job bills on his desk to sign but the GOP losers just won't pass any.

Stop blaming Obama. Put blame where blame is really deserved, on the 7% GOP owned congress.

Mitt: You're not the President yet. Unlikely you'll ever be. You are running though. Don't think you should concern yourself with the Presidents agenda for a 2ed term. Serve yourself much better to actually show us how your deals are not steals.Tell us the specifics of just some of your bullsh^t. Tell us how you would block domestic oil production from being sold on international commodities markets. Mitt, You are the most nonsensical son-of-a-bitch to ever run for the Presidency. I have no reason to believe you actually know your ass from from the exit end of a shotgun about those things of which you speak. Pitiful!

We had three debaters, team Obama/Candy vs Romney. Candy bias with inconsistent fact check , which she did only once and did it wrong. Obama never did an statement , he did an speech in the Rose Garden the day after. Obama never said in clear words . OUR CONSULATE IN BENGAZHI SUFFER A TERRORIST ATACK ON 9/11 KILLING AMABASSADOR STEVENS , UN Ambassado Rice apear in more than 5 shows telling that it was an expontaneus reaction to the Mohamad video. also in an interview . Obama spoke man said ....

“Q: No, I just hadn’t heard the White House say that this was an act of terrorism or a terrorist attack. And I just –

MR. CARNEY: I don’t think the fact that we hadn’t is not — as our NCTC Director testified yesterday, a number of different elements appear to have been involved in the attack.”

Carney’s “we hadn’t” statement “actually affirmed Gov. [Mitt] Romney’s position that the White House did not call the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism,”

Just read the fact-checks. Romney was wrong about energy production (it is up in Federal areas 13%), he was wrong about Detroit (his method would have forced GM and Chrysler out of business), he was wrong about gas prices (when Obama took office, the world was in the grip of a financial crisis and crude prices - and gas prices along with them - had plummeted because world demand had collapsed. With the return of the US economy has come the return of gas prices to what they were before the collapse), he was wrong about his tax cuts not coming from the middle class ("he says he would pay for the tax cuts by reducing or eliminating tax deductions...but he can't achieve all of his goals under the budget rules presidents must follow"), he was wrong about the effects of Obama's 'spending' (you can only say he doubled the deficit if you count 2009 - the budget for which had already been approved before he took office. When you look at Obama's budgets, he cut the deficit by $380 billion. No republican since Eisenhower has cut the deficit. The only other president to do so in the last 50 years was Clinton, who cut it $450 billion.) And, of course, he was wrong about Benghazi, as anybody who understands the english language knows by now.

I've been watching this campaign for about 1 year now, and the longer it goes on, the less I know what Romney wants. He has taken all sides of just about every issue, and that's just in the last 6 months.

As for Obama, since the recession he inherited bottomed out, he lowered unemployment by more than 2%, he created more than 5 million jobs, consumer confidence is rising, housing starts and prices are rising, manufacturing jobs are coming back, the deficit is going down, healthcare increases are slowing, nobody is talking about a 'double dip' recession anymore, everything is moving the right direction. Our allies respect us again, which makes us safer, millions who could not get healthcare now have it. Small businesses starts are way up, energy production is way up, and he has strongly defended women's rights on both economic and social issues.

Oh yeah, I'll take 4 more years of healing America, over the guy who is clear about only one thing: that he wants to go back to trickle-down economics.

@bo; Please do not clog up vines as you did last night with mile long repost, you were the cause of the deletes,I tried to stop you. they deleted 1 and 2 because of you.

Romney wants some new ideas from Obama, so he can shift again, quickly adopt the ideas and call them his own. His own 5 (1) point plan is hollow, just empty platitudes. Without substance or any way for the mathematics to work. Bluster, bravado, and falsehoods are all he has. A snake oil salesman.

Obama didn't layout his plan for the next four years because its no different than the last four years. "......slow to no job growth full steam ahead...and while we're at it let's increase taxes, that's the ticket...."

There's a fiscal cliff heading our way....and its going to be bad.... real bad if our lawmakers don't get on the ball.

If you believe Romney's comment about searching his "binders of women's folders", then you're the among the most ignorant fools on this planet. He doesn't even come across as sincere, just a flaming J.A. And for those who still can't make up their mind as to whom to vote for at this late in the game, then they are doing nothing but grandstanding for their 15 minutes with the "Hall of Fame" on National TV. Perhaps, too, this is just a media political pandering scheme to keep their ratings high through using the undecided voters to gain their objectives. If you don't know whom to vote for by now, then perhaps you have no business voting at all.

Romney didn't hear Obama's plan for the next term because he was too busy over-talking and listening only to himself. I think his really big faux-pas of the debate was not the "binders" or "acts of terror" it was his dismissive autocratic answer to Crowley on the her follow-up question to his tax plan math. Romney instead of answering a very interesting and important question (paraphrasing)on "what happens if the "math" doesn't go exactly as planned?" would rather chastise the person asking the question with an indignant (again paraphrasing) "Who the hell are you to question me; my math is never wrong" response. Add this answer to his 47% statement and you can really see how much contempt Mitt Romney has for women, the middle class, and anybody that doesn't offer the potential for personal profit.

NPCDan...

Oh I have a life...its called thinking for yourself and not being a brainwashed red sheep.

You should give it a try ;)

Zman.

Karl Rove is the student of Goebels, and it appears that the student is now the master.

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Not that Mitt bought his own gas or that the price matters to him, but the price of gas topped out at 4.12 per gallon during July, 2008. Bushes last year in office. Another lie debunked.

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PhantomBeast is AMAZED with you desperate and naive voters whom the Count and his sidekick Lyin"Ryan, are trying to manipulate into shooting yourselves through the butt.

Romney campaigned for a year on cutting taxes for the wealthy to stimulate job growth. Now he says he won't. He said he supported the Blunt amendment, which gives women's healthcare coverage decisions to employers, now he says he doesn't. He said he wants to repeal the Dodd-Frank market regulations, now he says he's all for market regulation. He called the Arizona immigration laws a 'model for the nation', now he says he only meant a part of the law. He said he would repeal Obamacare, now he says he would only repeal part of it, and keep the parts people like (without saying, of course, how he would pay for it without an individual mandate - which, by the way, he was for before he was against). He said for months that he was 'severely conservative', now he says he a bipartisan moderate. He said the Israel/Palestinian problem is not solvable, now he says he can solve it. He said he can't worry about the 47% of the nation who he will never convince to take personal responsibility, now he says he cares about 100% of the nation.

My head is swimming, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Printing all of his flip-flops would be so long it would collapse this thread. Just what does this guy believe? Almost the only thing I know for sure is that he believes he wants to be president. Why? Nobody knows...

Anyone, who is as disrespectful publicly toward the President and the monitors as Romney demonstrated with his disgraceful behavior that was totally lacking with personal charisma during the debates, will be even worse if ever elected. We don't need another Gestapo Bush telling us what we need to know or not know (Or has your limited memory capabilities already forgotten that?) He displays nothing more than a hypocritical flaming Jack A$$ tendencies and a user of women. Then he says he was a Pastor using religion again to gain his personal agenda!?!? Guess he certainly doesn't practice what he preaches when it comes to blatant lying. We need someone with standards above what he has displayed with his most inappropriate behavior.

I disagree with most of the liberals here. Mitt could be successful if we elect a House and Senate that is 87% Democrats like he had in Massachusetts. That way they could pass the laws we need and override every veto, the same way he made so many improvements in Massachusetts.

Obama said the 4+ trillion deficit that Bush left was bad- he is correct and his promise to reduce it was commendable.

the debt is 16+ trillion and growing, this must be new (Dem) math, lol.

Obama was correct when he said Bush debt was bad, we can say Obama's debt level is bankrupt bad; but I am glad to hear that you Dem say things are "better";o)

So no answer on why my taxes go up when Obama said they went down?

No answer on why fuel has doubled?

No answer period from the left. Thats why Obama is done.

rukidding47 - Are you kidding? See post 1.45. Or are you paying 8.24 a gallon for gas? If I were you I would get off the computer and look for another gas station.

Romney did lay out his agenda !! You can't say he didn't lay out how he would balance the budget because he did in the debate last night.

He wants to remove all tax on capital gains, remove all tax on inheritance lower taxes 20%, That was just three that I can remember. No Inheritance tax and no capital gains will keep the weathy richer than they are now and almost all their wealth come from inheritances and capital gain so that way they will be completely tax free.

Same ol' leftists on this NBC Loves Obama Club site... Same ol' ridiculous cliches from the "Fisty Redhead" and her a-kissing companions, "American Socialist" and "Pigotry" (really?)...

The truth is that all your cynicism, distortion of facts, and lies, will not get your Emperor new clothes... nor any new votes for that matter.

rukidding: it would be a mystery why your taxes have gone up when your effective tax rate has gone down. Did you make a lot more money? Did you make more income from real work than from investments last year? Are you lying to make a partisan political point? Those are a few options. Mine have gone down.

On the gas, an AP report today might provide an answer: "When Obama took office, the world was in the grip of a financial crisis and crude prices - and gasoline prices along with them - had plummeted because world demand had collapsed. Crude oil prices have since risen even as U.S. oil production has soared in recent years because global demand is reaching new heights as the developing economies of Asia use more oil."

And ir12 is right; prices still haven't reached their Bush era peak, probably because our production is 'soaring'.

All I've heard Mitt do is talk about his 5 step plan and a bunch of numbers out of thin air. Energy plan: will create 3,000,000 new jobs! How?

I will reduce the piece of ink and create 1,000,000 new tattoo artists. I can do the same thing!

Tunde Akins said,

I'll say President can keep doing what he is doing. HCR passed; Fair pay act... and the list goes on an on...

Here is what REALLY is happening...

Under Obama, Poor, Middle Class Incomes Fall Sharply

Mon, Oct 01 2012 By JOHN MERLINE

Despite repeated promises that he would build prosperity from the bottom up, President Obama has presided over three years of income losses for the middle class, according to the latest household income data from the Census Bureau.

Since 2009, the middle 20% of American households saw their average incomes drop 4%. In 2011 alone, they fell 1.7%. The poorest 20% have fared even worse under Obama, Census data show. Their incomes have dropped more than 7% since 2009, and are now lower than they've been at any time since 1985, after adjusting for inflation.

These results are in direct contrast of what President Obama said his policies would produce when he ran for president in 2008.

Here's another dose of reality...

Obamacare: $27.6 Billion in New Regulations

Washington Free Beacon Staff

A new report released by the American Action Forum shows Obamacare has imposed $27.6 billion in new regulations. Most of the burden of these new regulations will fall on private entities: “at least $20.4 billion in lifetime costs on private entities and $7.2 billion in increased burdens on state budgets,” according to the report.

Besides the added costs on states and private entities, the 85 new Obamacare regulations will require more than 60 million hours of new paperwork.

Twenty states will lose the equivalent of 300 full-time employees’ worth of work to filling out ACA regulatory red tape. Additionally, 27 states have a burden of over $300 million in new regulatory costs.

And costs will only go up from there. The report notes that these new regulations likely “represent a cost floor, and not a ceiling to implement the ACA.”

This is just a quick look at what is REALLY going on in this country, but you can't see it because your blind in one eye and can't see out of the other!!

It's time to turn the page on this failed presidency...

The middle class and your children/grandchildren can't afford 4 more!!

Obama's assertion that he proclaimed Benghazi to be a terrorist act the day after and yet Susan Rice, Hillary and Carney were are all explicit afterwards in still saying it was a spontaneous riot in response to the video is a flagrant bare faced transparent lie. This administration lies and spins so much they can even keep their lies straight anymore.

And yet, Obama did call it an act of terror the day after, and promised 'justice' for it. Just watch the video. What is getting between your ears and your brain? Is it paranoia, partisanship, wishful thinking?

I must admit one moment of disappoint in the debate. Romney said he would continue to support Pell Grants. Really???? Has he never read the Ryan budget he supports? That was a 40 mph fastball in the middle of the plate.

@Coral Taxi

They deleted the posts that I started not because of the long posts.

They could've just been collapsed.

It was obviously personal.

A Romney fan IT guy.

Because my posts had tons of likes and someone got upset.

Why else.

The only way the Romney ticket can get elected is by telling more lies and hiding their true agenda which we all saw and heard when he was running for the nomination with the other clowns.

Not only does the president need to be reelected, but we need to give him a democratic congress without the Blue Dogs like last time. The Democratic party turncoats are responsible for the lack of moving forward. This time we need to get people in congress, even if they be Republicans, that are patriots and not A Holes working for the Company Store.

I knew as did many others that Bush/Cheney would lead to exactly where it did. Romney and his bodybuilder are far more dangerous. I have NO DOUBT that a Romney ticket will lead to civil violence. Americans are used to a level of freedom they will not go below. Even Republicans and Tea Baggers will not stand for the kind of administration and kiss ass Supreme Court they will give us. True Conservatives, as few as there may be, need to side with Obama, a man that is down the middle and loves this country more than our trading partners and the International Corporations seeking to have all the power.

Getting Obama another 4 years should not be a partisan issue. BTW: Obama may be Right of Reagan.

Even before we get the jobs we need very badly, we first need to get our politics in order. As things stand, the only operative free market is for the purchase of our governmenment and through that the country. That means de facto slavery.

Romney will give us endless unpayable personal and governmental debt to the extent we will owe everything and own nothing.

In 2008 the President made more than 500 promises but it seems that during this campaign he has been less ambitious. Most of what I hear is about how bad the Romney is that the President's campaign invented. Too bad for the President that he had to debate the real Romney. During his nomination acceptance speech the President said that we would bring the troops home in 2014 and money saved we would start paying down the National Debt. But the White House is predicting huge deficits for more than a decade. The President promised that the 2012 federal deficit would not exceed 229.27 billion dollars. Since he missed it by almost a trillion dollars the President does not have much credibility when it comes to the budget. This additional trillion dollars, I estimate, will end up costing the tax payers 10 trillion dollars to repay over the next 180 years. The President wants to increase taxes on the "rich" but this increase of taxes on the rich will at best net 100 billion dollars per year which will not come close to closing the budget gap. Apparently the President wants to spend more money. He wants the unemployed to be better educated. He wants better roads and bridges and high speed trains that the unemployed can use to get to their nonexistent jobs.

Mitt's own words:

And if we do that, if we do what I am planning on doing, which is getting us energy-independent, North American energy independence within eight years, you're going to see manufacturing come back jobs because our energy is low-cost.

They're already beginning to come back because of our abundant energy.

http://www.2012presidentialelectionnews.com/2012/10/video-watch-the-2nd-presidential-debate-from-hofstra-university/

(watch at 13:55 of the video)

Willard's own words. 4 years of energy policies are bringing back manufacturing jobs. Or maybe not. You never know with Willard.

Here is another perspective.

A few years ago, Putin and United Russia party were campaining while selling "Putin's Plan" to the public. But nobody really heard or knew what "Putin's Plan" is.

Same with Romney's Plan.

I have said it before and I'll say it again. Rombot has no specifics because the Republican agenda would scare the crap out of you.

For readers who don't know what I'm talking about: Ever since Ronald Reagan, the GOP has been run by people who want a much smaller government. In the famous words of the activist Grover Norquist, conservatives want to get the government "down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

But there has always been a political problem with this agenda. Voters may say that they oppose big government, but the programs that actually dominate federal spending -- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security -- are very popular.

Republicans are waging a war on entitlements so if you have no need Social Security or Medicare keep voting Republican.

The economic collapse was created by you libtards, when are you going to go read Clintons and HUD's 100 point program to increase homeownership in America, it was called the National Homeownership Strategy, it was a coordinated effort to put pressure on the banks and increase home-ownership. For once I'd like to see a liberal accept responsibility in the housing crash by comprehending from whence it came. A great read is called "the Affordable Mortgage Depression" so you can quit blaming Bush and know your history. and dont blame the Grahm Bliley Leach act, Clinton gladly signed that bill as well, go read his signing speech... it enforced more of the CRA.

Obama could commit mass murder on public television and some of these people would still make excuses for him.

The truth is he lied in the debate. He never referred the the Libya incident as a terrorist attack in the rose garden (Yes, I watched the entire speech).

He never answered any questions directly (Yes, I watched the debate, Obama dodged questions like it was a game of dodgeball.)

He has no plan, while accusing hos opponent of being vague. Even though Romney directly answers questions, has a five point plan, and has a website with his full tax plan posted. (OMG, you expect me to read!! No its easier to have Obama tell me what I should think. Hmmpff.)

It took him over a month to accept responsibility for the death of Ambassador Stevens.

Oh, and there is more, much more. But it will never make a difference to the Obama loyalist.

Teresa

it's called trust me!

Most people with a resume like Romney call him to negotiate a salary / benefit package and when he can start.

That is how silly some of these attacks are.

Obama's second term plan "we need more time".

The cult leader got his a$$ whooped.

Yep, and since all the indicators are and have been moving in the right direction, in some cases for years now - UE falling, consumer confidence rising, home starts and prices rising, deficit decreasing, GDP growing, exports growing, energy production growing, manufacturing jobs growing, healthcare increases slowing, even the stock market skyrocketing - I think he has earned the right for more time to continue to fix our economy from the economic collapse brought on by trickle-down economics.

What I don't think we need is about the only thing Romney has actually not changed his mind about in the last 6 months - to go back to trickle-down economics.

Romney is such a fraud, the President did talk about his agenda. Romney cannot be trusted because up till now we haven’t heard him make one coherent statement about his own agenda. Romney’s river of lies and deception gets worse by the day. I’m totally amazed at the number of people that actually believe the lies coming from this snake oil salesman……………

BTW: Where are those tax returns Mitt?????

@ Tunde Akins, # 1.1

I'm with you, a slow recover is better than no recovery. Moving Forward!

And a fast recovery is better than a slow recovery.

Fast is possible, but its been stifled by the Pres. Himself.

Romney/Ryan 2012 (the end of an error)

Again.... why is that Biden gets a "free ride" & Romney was disrespectfull?

This ain't choir practice folks.... if Barry can't stand on his own feet in a debate, how could he ever lead?

Sure it is. Fast is possible. This thing should be old news by now. Everybody knows that. You said it. How could we not believe it? Mitt said it. It must be true. Of course, that you just pulled that out of your butt without backing it up in any way shouldn't concern anyone. It's just so obvious.

I'd amend Confussed in this way: a real recovery is better than a pocketful of promises.

Romney/Ryan 2012 (the definition of 'blind trust')

John Doe You don't know jack. The republicans in the house have stifled recorery. Give credit where credit is due. Sure obama made some mistakes in the beginning.Who wouldn't have. You can't just blame Obama, Everyone involved needs to be held accountable.

pugulrich,

Haven't you learned to read? How about see and hear? It was shown on TV several times today that Obama called it a terrorists act? Does it matter when bush allowed 3,200 to be killed in NY by ignoring the warnings of terrorists learning to fly! I wish your right wingers would remember those facts!

Just a couple of random thoughts.....Mitt Romney is not a, "job creator", he is a, 'wealth creator" and.....my family is solidly in the middle as far as income, we are still working (not retired) and I have absolutely not one tiny, little bit of concern personally about taxes on interest, capital gains, estate or dividends. Lowering taxes in any of those categories would help my family in such an in insignificant way that it is not even worth consideration. And, no matter how many times Mitt Romney says it, my taxes have not gone up in the last 4 years.

Romney and his endless lies. If mittsy says it, the probability is greater than 99% that it's a lie.

In the debate he was caught in an egregious lie and the moderator corrected him.

AND THE FOX F^KHEAD FASCISTS ATTACKED THE MODERATOR FOR BEING CORRECT!

FOX DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE: SPEWS MORE LIES THAN ROMNEY!

A highly reliable, un-named, anonymous, high ranking Obama official provided the following agenda IF Mr. Obama is re-elected to a 2nd term:

1. The re-creation of a 21st-century version of FDR’s Works Progress Administration program within the Department of Labor that would oversee a massive new bureaucracy and millions of new federal jobs.
2. An additional government-funded jobs program that provides “good jobs” capable of supporting a family with a “decent standard of living.”
3. A new government mandate to force businesses to provide twelve weeks of paid benefits to employees who need time off to care for a new child, a sick family member, or their own illness. Plus, a higher, required minimum wage that would raise the floor for all employees.
4. An expansive, de facto amnesty program for illegal aliens via both executive order and interagency directives linked with a reduction in the capabilities of the U.S. Border Patrol.
5. Plans to bring in untold numbers of new immigrants with the removal of caps on H-1B visas and green cards.
6. Government-funded, neighborhood-based programs to better integrate the newly amnestied immigrants into society, including education centers and health care centers. A “federal solution” to ensure that the amnestied immigrants are treated “equitably” across the United States.
7. A National Infrastructure Bank that would evaluate and finance infrastructure projects of substantial regional and national importance” and would finance “transportation infrastructure, housing, energy, telecommunications, drinking water, wastewater, and other infrastructures.”
8. The wresting of control of the military budget from Congress by placing an ”independent panel” in charge of military spending while slashing the defense budget.
9. Spreading the vastly reduced resources of the U.S. Armed Forces even thinner by using them to combat “global warming,” fight global poverty, remedy “injustice,” bolster the United Nations and step up use of “peacekeeping” deployments.
10. A new “green” stimulus program and the founding of a federal “green” bank or “Energy Independence Trust,” which would borrow from the federal treasury to provide low-cost financing to private-sector investments in “clean energy. “
11. A “green Manufacturing” revolving loan fund to create 680,000 manufacturing jobs and 1,972,000 additional jobs over five years
12. Detailed plans to enact single-payer health care legislation controlled by the federal government.

Welcome to the Obama Nanny State !!!

I'm Not Too Proud To Beg; I Want You To Vote'

OBUMBO'S speech at Ohio University's College Green Wednesday October 17th, 2012

NOW HE IS BEGGING FOR VOTES???....DISGRACEFUL!!!....DISGUSTING!!!....AND PATHETIC!!!!

GONE FROM HOPE AND CHANGE TO JUST BEGGING FOR CHANGE!!!

DID YOU EVER THINK YOU'D SEE THE DAY WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WOULD STOOP TO BEGGING FOR VOTES????

How can Obama lay out a plan? The only plan he has come up with is continued record pace deficit spending leading to a $26Trillion debt. Obama doesn't want to spell that pout to the American people. he is a coward.

Here it is.

THE OBAMA MASSIVE DEBT PLAN!!!

Straight from Mr. Obama's fourth proposed budget. Here is the debt he is proposing to foist on US, our kids and grandchildren to go along with his big government as the center of the universe agenda.:

Table S–15. Federal Government Financing and Debt—Continued(Dollars amounts in billions)Actual 2011 Estimate 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020021 2022

Debt Outstanding, End of Year: Gross Federal debt:Debt issued by Treasury .................................................... 14,737 16,323 17,520 18,471 19,398 20,363 21,298 22,218 23,125 24,051 24,984 25,918

Debt issued by other agencies ........................................... 27 28 28 29 29 28 28 27 27 26 24 22 Total,

gross Federal debt .............................................. 14,764 16,351 17,548 18,500 19,427 20,392 21,326 22,245 23,152 24,077 25,008 25,940

Almost $26 Trillion in debt proposed /projected by Mr. Obama. UNSUSTAINABLE! And we all know that in actual practice it will turn out to be a lot higher if Obama is returned to office. And on July 16, on Morning Joe,Mr. Obama's spokesperson, Rep. Jim Clyburn(D), admitted that the Obama plan necessarily will require middle class tax hikes in the years going forward after the election, in order to pay for the deficit spending and debt laden Obama plan. Which is why Mr. Obama is only proposing a ONE YEAR extension of the current middle class tax rates.

And please, when you see Mr. Obama on the campaign trail, ask him how much yearly revenue he perceives his proposed tax hike on those making over $200,000.00/$250,000.00 per couple (projected to raise $60 to 70 billion)will raise, and how that will even come close to his proposed $1.3 Trillion per year in deficit spending and debt building. Oh, silly me, I forgot, Obama doesn't take questions on the campaign trail. He only sits for interviews with People magazine and radio spots with the Pimp With A Limp.

Too bad Mr. Obama can't discuss his budget plan with the American people. He knows it will be rejected, so he is busy playing with smoke and mirror attacks on Mr. Romney and giving meaningless rhetorical speeches in the hopes of duping voters once again.

Do you call yourself backhouse because you live in the back of your moms house?

Look Obama plan is no plan.

What has he ever been good at get out the vote?

Collage and high school kids can do that and what you got when you voted for Obama

Wikipedia: Greg Palast (born June 26, 1952)[1] is a New York Times-bestselling author[2] and a freelance journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation[3] as well as the British newspaper The Observer.[4]

How Mitt and Ann made millions–and Mitt's hedge fund donors made billions–from the auto-industry rescue that he condemned.

By Greg Palast

Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed,“Let Detroit Go Bankrupt.”
But Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys’, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment.

It all starts with Delphi Automotive, a former General Motors subsidiary whose auto parts remain essential to GM’s production lines. No bailout of GM—or Chrysler, for that matter—could have been successful without saving Delphi.

So, in addition to making massive loans to automakers in 2009, the federal government sent, directly or indirectly, more than $12.9 billion to Delphi—and to the hedge funds that had gained control over it.

One of the hedge funds profiting from that bailout— $1.28 billion so far—is Elliott Management, directed by Paul Singer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Singer has given more to support GOP candidates—$2.3 million—than anyone else on Wall Street this election season.

His personal giving is matched by that of his colleagues at Elliott; collectively, they have donated $3.4 million to help elect Republicans this season, while giving only $1,650 to Democrats. And Singer is influential with the GOP presidential candidate; he’s not only an informal adviser but, according to the Journal, his support was critical in helping push Representative Paul Ryan onto the ticket.

Singer, whom Fortune magazine calls a “passionate defender of the 1%,” has carved out a specialty investing in distressed firms and distressed nations, which he does by buying up their debt for pennies on the dollar and then demanding payment in full. This so-called “vulture investor” received $58 million on Peruvian debt that he snapped up for $11.4 million, and $90 million on Congolese debt that he bought for a mere $20 million.

In the process, he’s built one of the largest private equity firms in the nation, and over decades he’s racked up an unusually high average return on investments of 14 percent.

Other GOP presidential hopefuls chased Singer’s endorsement, but Mitt chased Singer with his own checkbook, investing at least $1 million with Elliott through Ann Romney’s blind trust (it could be far more, but the Romneys have declined to disclose exactly how much). Along the way, Singer gained a reputation, according to Fortune, “for strong-arming his way to profit.” That is certainly what happened at Delphi.

Read the full article at The Nation...

PolitiFact, the fact-checking arm of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has confirmed that Obama does participate in the Illinois pension fund, which was organized in the Cayman Islands and has interests in China.

KingK.......

The HUGE difference is that President Obama neither makes nor influences those choices whereas MITT ROMNEY DID AND DOES.

See: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Red+herring

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The main (possibly, only) element needed in President Obama's second term agenda is overcoming republican obstructionism and economic sabotage. Then, we can proceed to fully repair our economy and move our nation forward as was done in the Clinton administrations.

All other elements are ready for implementation.

He made the choice to take the pension and many plans allow contributors to control the allocations to different accounts. As for your last comment,I'm sure most Americans are happy that Congress has opposed Mr. Obama's proposed $26 trillion debt budget. Not a single Dem in the House or Senate voted for it. Are they all obstructionist too?

@Tunde Akins

You're right Obama doesn't have to post his plans since everyone knows what it is. Declining gross national product, $4.00 per gallon gasoline, 23,000,000 unemployed, under employed or just given up looking, probably another 6 or 7 trillion in debt, the highest tax increase every placed on American in the form of health care, 47 million on food stamps, 17 million in poverty, open borders, more give aways to illegal aliens, death of diplomats, guns to the cartel, shut down coal and oil production, money to his buddies and green energy failures and most important it was all GEORGE W BUSH'S fault.

By the way.....you can look that up in the transcript of his speech, which he challenged everyone to look at.

Sorry Zman and sfcret - you again are both wrong. First I very much doubt you are a democrat. Secondly Candy Crowley did not apologize.

See what happens when Romeny keeps Lying??? It spreads - you both can't help yourselfs to spreading more lies!!! Just crawl back it the closet and we will see you both in three more years. Thanks for playing.

sfcret.....she did? Wow, I didn't see that.

I'll have to look for it.

That should tell everyone what a LIAR Obama is!

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY!!!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! You sound like bleeting sheep!

She did NOT. And they played the tape where he said it. Get your head out of fux news.

ahhh, 'scuse me there self educated voter.

But, you apparently haven't read the transcript of the Rose Garden speech that your messiah challenged you to read.

He clearly did not refer to the Bangazi incident as "an act of terrorism."

He very clearly spoke about generic "acts of terrorism" and about making light of foreign religions.

Face it, Obama is caught in a great big LIE, and there's no way of getting around it.

And finally, you can doubt my political affiliation all you want. I really don't care.

But, I was a registered Democrat for 32 years when Obama came along.

HE is the reason that so many of us have decided to cross the aisle this year.

Even polling data shows that approximately 9% of those who voted for Obama in 2008, will NOT do so again this year.

HE LIED, self educated voter, and he thinks that you are too stupid to call him out on it.

THAT, my friend, is how fascist propaganda works.

But I will not be part of it, and anybody with half a brain won't either!

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!

Candy Crowley did walk back her remark on the CNN Anderson Cooper show this morning and admitted Romney was right. Further Crowley had no busy fact checking or interjecting herself into the discussion.

For all you left wing nuts that are trying to spin this, I suggest you read what Obama said in the Rose Garden and then what was said at the debate. Also remember terror can be caused by a lot of things, not just TERRORIST.

Further, if Obama knew the attack was carried out by TERRORIST and not spontaneous rioting why did he send Susan Rice out on the Sunday talk shows to say it was spontaneous and caused by a anti-Muslim video? Also why did he say, when asked on the View, in response to "was this a Terrorist attack or not", we are still investigating the facts. Why did he go to the U.N. and continuously refer to the Video?

From Fox News

Moderator Crowley says Romney 'right in the main' on Libya, despite debate intervention

Enough said.

From CNN News:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=athcyCTnTTs&feature=youtu.be

the video to back it up. But that's fine all of left-leaning Obama lapdogs. I'm sure you'll spin it so that it was somehow Bush's fault. Idiots.

Zman, If you can't figure out that Obama clearly implied that it was an act of terrorism, then you need to go back to grade school. You posting such a childish rant is only confirming your vast ignorance! But then again, that's what your candidate was doing last night, bumbling, stumbling, fumbling!

State of Awareness.......your "fact check" isn't a "fact check" at all.

It's political propaganda.

Obama did not specifically refer to the Benghazi attack, in his Rose Garden speech on Sept 12, as "an act of terrorism."

He spoke of random, non-specific "acts of terror" in that speech. He also spoke about making light of foreign religions, which was what his administration said precipitated this attack.

They said it was a spontaneous riot, in response to an anti Islamic video, NOT an act of terrorism by an organized terror group.

Any attempt to make it look like the contrary is true, will only result in egg on whoever's face tries it.

The transcript of the speech is as plain as day.

Obama LIED, and four (4) good men DIED!!!!!

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!

Here's the portion of the President's statement, in full context - it's quite clear he's talking about Benghazi, even comparing it to 9/11, and not some 'generic' act of terrorism:

I have no doubt that their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who loved them back home. Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourn with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those, both civilian and military, who represent us around the globe.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for.

Today we mourn for more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

He didn't lie. Romney just screwed up, that's all.

Georgie Boy ALLOWED 9/11 to happen on AMERICAN SOIL...

WHERE WAS YOUR OUTRAGE THEN, PHUCKING HYPOCRITE!!!

tim-2799493, WRONG! Read that paragraph AGAIN;

"No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for."

Absolutely no where, in that paragraph, nor anywhere else in the speech for that matter, does he specifically refer to the Benghazi incident as an act of terrorism (which were the words he used last night)

Furthermore, you forgot to mention THIS little ditty from the same speech;

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

It's quite clear that he's talking about the assertion, that the attack was a spontaneous riot, in response to the release of an anti-islamic video, which is what HE, and everyone else in his administration called it for two full weeks after it happened.

Obama himself even went to the UN a week later, and lectured the General Assembly on freedom of speech, in connection with the Libyan incident..

So please don't try to pan this LIE off on us anymore. Propaganda only works on those who are too stupid to see through it.

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!

http://factcheck.org/2012/10/factchecking-the-hofstra-debate/

Corrected fact check link

DDubb48

Zman, If you can't figure out that Obama clearly implied that it was an act of terrorism, then you need to go back to grade school. You posting such a childish rant is only confirming your vast ignorance! But then again, that's what your candidate was doing last night, bumbling, stumbling, fumbling!

Sorry DDub, but you apparently haven't READ the Rose Garden speech, and you weren't paying attention last night, because you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

Not only did he NOT specifically refer to the Benghazi incident as an "act of terrorism" (which were the specific words he said that he used).

But, he also "implied" as you put it, that it was a protest over the release of an anti islamic video, when he said THIS in the same address..........

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

Furthermore, calling Obama (and his sheeple like you) out on his LIE last night isn't childish, nor did Romney stumble, bumble nor fumble.

He was flabbergasted, as all of us should be, at the ability of Obama to lie with a straight face, and ask the media to help him do it at the same time!!!

Absolutely nowhere in that speech from 9/12/12 did he say that Bengahzi was an act of terrorism. He spoke of random/generic "acts of terror". But NEVER once used that term in connection with what happened at our consulate.

In fact, he even went to the UN a week later and lectured THEM on free speech, as a response to the Benghazi attack!

You're just angry because Obama is caught in a straight forward LIE and you're trying to deflect attention away from it.

DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY 2012!!!!!

@state of awareness......never mind your Obamabiased/influenced fact check site........just READ THE FREAKIN' SPEECH!!!!!

Remarks by the President on the Deaths of U.S. Embassy Staff in Libya

Rose Garden

10:43 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Every day, all across the world, American diplomats and civilians work tirelessly to advance the interests and values of our nation. Often, they are away from their families. Sometimes, they brave great danger.

Yesterday, four of these extraordinary Americans were killed in an attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. Among those killed was our Ambassador, Chris Stevens, as well as Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith. We are still notifying the families of the others who were killed. And today, the American people stand united in holding the families of the four Americans in our thoughts and in our prayers.

The United States condemns in the strongest terms this outrageous and shocking attack. We're working with the government of Libya to secure our diplomats. I've also directed my administration to increase our security at diplomatic posts around the world. And make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people.

Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. But there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal acts.

Already, many Libyans have joined us in doing so, and this attack will not break the bonds between the United States and Libya. Libyan security personnel fought back against the attackers alongside Americans. Libyans helped some of our diplomats find safety, and they carried Ambassador Stevens's body to the hospital, where we tragically learned that he had died.

It's especially tragic that Chris Stevens died in Benghazi because it is a city that he helped to save. At the height of the Libyan revolution, Chris led our diplomatic post in Benghazi. With characteristic skill, courage, and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries, and helped them as they planned to build a new Libya. When the Qaddafi regime came to an end, Chris was there to serve as our ambassador to the new Libya, and he worked tirelessly to support this young democracy, and I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there. He was a role model to all who worked with him and to the young diplomats who aspire to walk in his footsteps.

Along with his colleagues, Chris died in a country that is still striving to emerge from the recent experience of war. Today, the loss of these four Americans is fresh, but our memories of them linger on. I have no doubt that their legacy will live on through the work that they did far from our shores and in the hearts of those who love them back home.

Of course, yesterday was already a painful day for our nation as we marked the solemn memory of the 9/11 attacks. We mourned with the families who were lost on that day. I visited the graves of troops who made the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hallowed grounds of Arlington Cemetery, and had the opportunity to say thank you and visit some of our wounded warriors at Walter Reed. And then last night, we learned the news of this attack in Benghazi.

As Americans, let us never, ever forget that our freedom is only sustained because there are people who are willing to fight for it, to stand up for it, and in some cases, lay down their lives for it. Our country is only as strong as the character of our people and the service of those both civilian and military who represent us around the globe.

No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character, or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America. We will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. And make no mistake, justice will be done.

But we also know that the lives these Americans led stand in stark contrast to those of their attackers. These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity. They should give every American great pride in the country that they served, and the hope that our flag represents to people around the globe who also yearn to live in freedom and with dignity.

We grieve with their families, but let us carry on their memory, and let us continue their work of seeking a stronger America and a better world for all of our children.

Thank you. May God bless the memory of those we lost and may God bless the United States of America.

END
10:48 A.M. EDT

ZMan2012

You should be running alongside Mitt, the Twitt with you manipulative and ignorant twisting comments. So you say Obama allowed 4 to be killed; but exactly how many did Bush sacrifice in N.Y. by ignoring the warnings of the terror group??????? And just exactly how many lives were sacrificed in the two unpaid for wars that Gestapo Bush started for WMD's that did not exist????????? Furthermore, just how many days did you serve to protect your Country? I seriously doubt that you spent even one day because your big trap would have gotten you booted out with a "dishonorable discharge". Go bury your head in shame!!! You just might try working at a job for a change rather than foolishly blowing your words of hot air.

I was only correcting it for those interested in actually going to read it as well as get more information on the false statements by BOTH candidates. And no, that site isn't Obama biased/influenced as it also calls out false statements by Obama. That is your paranoia setting in.

As I said, it's quite clear that he's including Benghazi among the acts of terror such as 9/11. The only way is isn't clear is if you simply don't want to believe it.

That's your problem.

ZMAN,

Your BS arguments and Democrats for Romney slogan make me SAD. Why you ask? Because my guess is your just some Republican plant payed to sprout your lies and misrepresentations on this site.

You have never been a Democrat. In fact its possible you aren't even a human. You are as Robotic and Insensitive as your hero's Romney and Ryan.

For a while I was hoping that after President Obama won a new term, your ilk would fade away, but I've come to the conclusion, that won't happen.

You and your kind are small minded and hateful.

Your kind will sell out our Great Country, simply because you can't have your way.

No one that believes in Democracy would want to see The U.S.A. become a Plurocacy, and that's what you are suggesting.

So do us a favor and take a hike. Talk Fox News into opening up there website for comments, so you can be with your own spiteful and hateful kind.

We remember "W" and we aren't going back.

Notice if you READ the actual transcript of what Obama said on Sept 12th, you will notice that he FIRST apologized..... We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others..... as if we brought the attack on ourselves

His anger, disgust, & resolve was nowhere to be seen in the speech....

Strange, he showed more expression telling that he was the "Commander in Chief" in the debate.... glad we know now.... one would have never known.....

It's so funny that Candy had the transcript just sitting waiting for Obama say

Candy this is it Candy page 3 paragraph 2 line 3 read it Candy read it out loud that's right good girl

Notice if you READ the actual transcript of what Obama said on Sept 12th, you will notice that he FIRST apologized.....

That's a just a bold faced lie.