You know, I was just thinking about Donald Trump's offer to give $5M to one of Obama's favorite charities if he will supply us with his transcripts & college applications. HECK, I would do that in a minute! And my charity would treasure a donation of that amount! I am proud of my past, and my school records. If there is nothing to hide, why not do it? Any thoughts?

What do you guys think will happen with Congress if Obama wins?

Say Senate is 53D/47R and House is 205D/230R--both in the likely ballpark.

Are Republicans going to help improve the economy since they don't have to beat Obama anymore, or will they continue preventing success?

Any thoughts?

Yea, Donald Trump needs to keep his mouth and bad haircut out of politics. No one takes the guy seriously, except maybe you. Now run along, I think there's a new episode of Honey Boo Boo on tonight.

Oh really,

I have 4 kids in middle and high school. The teacher's union has no effect on anything but teacher pay, which seems fine with me, who else is going to advocate for them? They don't cry "union rules" or anything to avoid teaching. I like our school's teachers. They are good and care about students. I don't get the argument.

Are Republicans going to help improve the economy since they don't have to beat Obama anymore, or will they continue preventing success?

the hatred won't stop with an Obama victory. In fact, it will get worse as if that's possible. We may have to wait until 2014 to get control of the House again. Then real legislation will be passed and there won't be anything those American hating rednecks can do about it.

tonybeeerm-

Talk about comments with no substance (rolls eyes). If a union has more influence over children than parents, that doesn't say much about the parents, now does it

Great Posts, Tony!!!

Funny. I thought a marriage WAS a union?

Salud

Tony, attacking my opion is fine. Teacher's unions certainly do have more educational influence over your children. Getting a bad teacher out of a school is pretty difficult. Other than that, you have stated nothing of substance.

@oh really;

He is saying that the unions have more say about your kids and that the parents have very little influence.

Tony beat me to the point,but I think you just insulted many parents, and I do not believe they would agree that your statement is a fair one. I believe you are paraprhsing wrongly, but the comment does not really make sense in the first place,just feel good words.

Teacher's unions certainly do have more educational influence over your children. Getting a bad teacher out of a school is pretty difficult.

Umm no, the ultimate responsibilty lies with the parent. I had a rule in my house that my kids were not allowed to blame the "bad teacher" for failing grades, which they had none of(bad grades that is)well my son was sketchy at the end but not failing lol.My kids learned to hold the teachers to account, when they screw up, and my daughter did believe me, she is in university now and I do not believe a union had anything to do with it, more like hard work and keeping your grades up.

OFG,

Your belly sounds like it's aching.

We all have a range of thoughts about the debates, but it was Romney that appeared to be something he wasn't at ANY time before 3 weeks ago.

That might work (etch-a-sketching to the middle), but it's obvious he's saying something he's not. How does that make you feel? Do you trust him to support the things YOU want if he so easily blows in the wind?

One of the very few things Robme has said in the last 6 years that he has been trying to buy the White House: "this election will be defining for American families"

This is especially true if you are a woman, or have a girl or woman in your life that you love . . . .

25% of American women will be the victims of the crime of RAPE during their lifetimes. This is a disgusting statistic, sad but true.

If you think a 13-year-old girl who gets raped by her uncle or step-father should be forced by the GOVERNMENT to carry that pregnancy to term, go ahead & vote for the "Legitimate Rape" candidates.

R & R believe (look at their platform/website/budget) that a girl/woman who is RAPED and who terminates the resulting pregnancy is a bigger criminal than the RAPIST. THAT is a CRIME!

VOTE FOR THE FUTURE, LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT - O & JOE, 4 MORE!

Yes the election will be a defining moment for families. Hopefully for families that work and pay taxes who want to educate their kids properly and have modern womens rights. We know the answer is not you Mitt as you are the enemy.

Think who has your best interest at heart. A heartless Corporate raider in Romney for the 1% or someone who speaks the truth for real Americans, President Obama.

Socialism, increased government power, and an insurmountable debt.

Or economic recovery, lower taxes, and continued freedom.

Which one would you like?

Hey fatso, you need to get your head out of the foxes @ss.

Obama called Romney a liar over government guarantees to the auto industry. Obama cut him off like the school house bully when he tried to address it.

Because he is a liar. He said, and I quote "Let Detroit go bankrupt!" He even admitted it. What he didn't admit and knew, just as everyone else did, was that there was no one that was going to step up with the kind of finances that would've been required to keep those companies solvent. That means they would have liquidated assets spelling the end of the automobile industry in this country.

tony,

hatred won't stop with an Obama victory. In fact, it will get worse as if that's possible. We may have to wait until 2014 to get control of the House again. Then real legislation will be passed and there won't be anything those American hating rednecks can do about it.

I hate to think you're right. But Obama should be calling this out NOW, to help people down ticket. I don't think he's been doing that enough. Helping down ticket shows confidence too.

PS, I like your sad Mitt-Clown face

Small biz...

You have an awful small mind to be a business owner of any kind.

Yes , I do trust Romney and I will add that I have accumulated a fairly sizable net worth emulating rich folks. I do not dislike poor folk but rich folks have done a few things different and smarter.

SmBusOwnerinNY - So what you are saying is the Republican Congress members should be rewarded for doing nothing? Let's not talk about the actual fact that they have done nothing of substance, we all know that. Let's talk about the Veterans Job Bill. They would spend 800 billion for a war without paying for it and refuse Veterans returning from that war 1 billion to help them get jobs that was paid for. And you feel they should be rewarded... for what. They campaigned on the promise of jobs, jobs, and jobs. They provided none.

Tony...

You are just so WRONG. He said and Obama called him a liar on government loan guarantees. Yes bankruptcy is part of the plan. That is what Obama did anyway.

Liquidation was never considered by anyone.

Letterman is not on FOX is he?

Send Romney packing back to Ma. where he belongs!!! Four years of Romney will kill his country!! Save America and vote Democrat!!!

@ido; I spanked you hard the other day and blew your other "list" out of the water, you suddenly vanished when faced with facts, Your post here is obnoxiously long, and more than likely mostly wrong.

No, I am not going to provide links to the above. You Liberals are smart and have a computer with Internet access, so you can search the comments yourself.

Of course you are not, you do not even check your own copy and paste to see if they are true.

I seen enough the other day not to trust anything you post, so I will not waste my time on your trolling any longer.

I don't want you, Mr. lying game Romney, to have anything to do with decisions that affect my family.

If Romney gets in His ex-Bush neocon warhawk advisors will have us in a war before the year is out. The only way his economic numbers even get part way to what he promised, is to raise fees on everyhting he can think of. (like he did in Mass.) He will offload responsibilities to the states who will have to raise more money, by raising taxes or fees or both. The rich will be laughing all the way to the bank with their 20% tax cut, but the rest of us will pay more and more. The services the middle class (and poor) rely on, will be priced out of the range of many families. The rich already have their private daycare and private schools and will not see a downside at all. in 2010, 56% of American wealth was held by millionaires. Income inequality combined with a weak social safety net, leads directly to more crime.

Romney: A pi$$ (on the) poor visiojn for America.

SmBusOwnerinNY - sorry got a little ahead of myself in the typing. Did not mean to imply you felt they should be rewarded. Just making the point on why they should not be.

Tony, first let me say thank you, I've enjoyed every one of posts above. Your last comment was exactly right! I'm a salaried Union auto worker, Basically a white collar union employee. I sat in a town hall meeting with one of the vice presidents of Chrysler,which took place right after Obama loaned Chrysler the 'Stay alive' money. He told us that no matter what our political views are, we owe Obama our jobs! He said that NO ONE was interested in loaning Chrysler any money. Chrysler didn't want to borrow from the government because the interest rate was so high, but they had NO CHOICE. I can tell you because I was there, Romney's comment about private money being available is completely inaccurate!

old fat guy - sorry, Romney wrote

The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.

I know the argument being used to defend him on this, but the facts were, that there was no money. So when they entered Bankruptcy, there would have been no money to buy the company. At that point it would have been broken up into parts and sold to the highest bidder. What Romney was saying is after the vultures came in and bought the company for 2 cent on the dollar, then guarantee their loans. GM would never have survived. By offering to guarantee the warranties, the vultures would have gotten away with more. Kinda like Mitt did when he bankrupted companies and stuck the US tax payers with the pension funds he robbed from the companies.

@ido;

Sorry.........you haven't "spanked" anyone.

You even congratulated me on the first two.lol Then asked for more and you got it. Just admit it.

Coral Taxi.....

Congratulations.....you cherry picked only two issues and provided lame "excuses" for Mr. Obama.

How about the rest of Mr. Obama's FIRSTS ?

Then I came back and proved two mmore on your list wrong, YOu just vanished, because you can not argue with truth and facts, Until you accept that you can be wrong, you are just a troll sir. The big deal is that you do not check your copy and pastes yourself, so I am done with you ido, as far as politics.

"Mitt Romney and Richard Mourdock share an allegiance to the Republican Party platform, which would ban safe and legal abortion without any exceptions, give full constitutional rights to fertilized eggs, and repeal the birth control benefit." ~ Planned Parenthood

Standing With Richard Mourdock Is Standing Against Women

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dawn-laguens/richard-mourdock-against-women_b_2011400.html

Fat old guy,

The thing about a credit crunch, which was happening at the time the car companies were going down, is thet no one is lending money. No private company was going to come to the rescue of GM or Chrysler, they would have been liquidated and by now the factories would be being reassembled in China. Millions of jobs woould have been lost. Mr. Trust me I know what I'm doing Romney, really doesn't have a clue that running a country is not like aquireing companies. I've read his 8 page 5 point plan, it's all based on his disproved supply side economic advisor (Taylor) who claims that a 20% tax cut will lead to growing out of deficits. It didn't work before (Reagan) and it is very dangerous to think it will work now.

To grow out of deficits we need to slow spending. You could not raise taxes 50% and that is what it takes at today's spending level. Not just income tax ....ALL FEDERAL TAXES.

There is no way GM was moving but you all just go ahead and keep believing that.

Many big companies have gone bankrupt in America. Look at American Airlines today. In bankruptcy and still operating and will continue to operate if the unions do not drive all the customers away.

Forget it Ed. Old fat fart only hears what he wants. "Romney good, Obama bad!" or "Me Tarzan, you Jane." Like all Republican/Tea nuts these days, the truth don't matter to them. Keep pounding out the lies hoping people will believe them. Pretty sad when that's all they have going for them.

Glad to see romney wasting his time in Nevada where they'll be giving Obama another 4 years rather than becoming serfs to the wealthy.

Thanks Mr. President for bringing us out of the recession the last republican President left us, keep up the good work.

Vote every republican out of every office every chance you get. Vote!

Tony, first let me say thank you

You're quite welcome, Jim. I'm from Michigan too and unlike Mitt Romeny, I stayed here through thick and thin. He decided to abandon ship and then has the nerve to call it home and that the trees are the right height. The guy is a joke and is going to lose this state and his other adopted state, MA, too. And we are better off because of Barack Obama. Don't let anyone tell you any different. Especially old fat guy, who is a re reg.

old fat guy - Let's see, President Obama has 60,000 people in the State Department working for him. As well as the CIA, FBI, NSA, and untold other intelligence gatherers. Romney has Fox News. I think I will stick with the President for the time being.

Oldfat,

Look at where the British car factories are today. IN CHINA.

Only a few small high end companies remain, and only Lotus and McLaren are british owned.

PS. check out the Daily show for tonight if you can get the rerun. SO Funny.

Whoa.sorry to digress but wait til you hear Palins latest gaffe.

The Republicans are saying "who let her out!!"lol

Hasnt broke here yet,but I am sure feisty is at the ready.lol

Germ,

Go back to Koln.

Socialism, increased government power, and an insurmountable debt.

Or economic recovery, lower taxes, and continued freedom.

Which one would you like?

Which one is Romney for? Better yet, which way is the wind blowing today?

Mr. "Santa Claus" Romney who says everyone can have their cake & eat it too, a so-called Republican who will explode our deficit spending so much that it will make Obama look like a penny pinching Scrooge: I have been a lifelong Republican since I first voted in 1980, for Reagan. But this time I'm going to the other side and voting for a Democratic incumbent -- the one who took office when my company was having mass layoffs, who took office a couple months after my wife's company went bankrupt and everyone was laid off, the one who took office when my 401(k) and my home value had both dropped 40%.

Why? Because my wife found a good job, my company stopped the layoffs and started hiring again in 2011, my 401(k) regained all those losses and then some, my home value is on the rise, and instead of losing 800,000 jobs a month as we were when Bush left office, our economy is now adding well over 100,000 jobs a month.

And most of all, for my children's and grandchildren's future, because the Democrat in the White House is more committed to reducing our deficit spending then you are Mr. Romney. You are a disgrace to the Republican Party, and it's a sad day for the GOP when a liberal Democratic president is more of a Republican than you are sir!

Barrack Husseins defining of America.

Barrack Husseins $863 billion $timulu$ allegedly created 5 million jobs.

OK, let's give them that. These are obviously NOT the aforementioned "shovel ready" jobs he promised. We all remember his and Jeff Immelts, the "Job Czar", hysterical laughter as Barrack announced, "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected."

That's OK. Most intelligent Americans didn't believe his claims to begin with.

But it is interesting how the Liberal bobble-heads continuously decry "trickle-down" when the $timulu$ was the epitome of it. You pour $863 billion dollars into the top of a massive monolithic federal bureaucracy and expect it to trickle down to the private sector to promote growth.

So, let's do like Liberals do and pretend the money did get to the private sector and create the 5 million alleged jobs.

It cost us over $200,000 to create each job. I don't care what anyone says, I want my tax-payer money back, this is NOT a good return on investment.

More importantly, let's look at the types of jobs being created. It's obvious these jobs don't all pay $200,000 each. This should open an inquiry but it won't.

So, just what kinds of jobs are being created? Let's look.

In a study done by the National Employment Law Project, the results are typical Liberal smoke and mirrors.

Although six in 10 jobs lost during the Great Recession paid mid-level wages, the majority of new jobs created in the recovery -- positions such as store clerks, laborers and home healthcare aides -- pay much less, according to a new study.

Lower-paying jobs, with median hourly wages from $7.69 to $13.83, accounted for just 21% of the job losses during the recession. But they've made up about 58% of the job growth from the end of the recession in late 2009 through early 2012.

Those jobs have been concentrated in three industries: food services, retail and employment services, such as office clerks and customer service representatives, the study found.

In contrast, mid-wage occupations with median hourly wages from $13.84 to $21.13 -- jobs such as construction workers, real estate brokers, and data entry clerks -- have accounted for just 22% of the new jobs in the recovery after making up 60% of the job losses in the recession.

So, it looks like all those horrible mid-wage jobs from the terrible Bush years are being replaced by low-wage jobs by Barrack Hussein.

These are the “green shoots” of the “recovery summer” under Barrack Hussein.

Averaging this out, $17.50 an hour jobs are being replaced by $10.75 an hour jobs.

This is the Barrack Hussein vision for American families. This is obviously his "from the middle" meme. Unfortunately the truth is it’s a "from the middle down" reality.

This will continue to be Americas fate as Liberals refuse to address the real 800 pound gorilla in the room. Progressivism is the cause of all of our problems. When the wizards of Progressivism unleashed their fairy-tale government social and economic justice for the collective, our economy has seen it's slow but eventual collapse.

The incessant intrusion of government, especially the federal government, into the private sector is the reason we see not only our economic collapse, but also the social, moral and cultural decay. These are primarily the result of the irrational concepts of social and economic justice surrounded by even more dysfunctional political correctness.

Barrack Hussein is a statist surrounded by faculty-lounge elitists who have never created a job in their lives. Their notoriety, as is usually the case for Liberals, is dependent on how many books they have read. If they happen to have written a book, they are elevated as the pinnacle of authority.

We don't need more government. We need less government that is efficient, responsible, accountable and transparent. When our own government blatantly admits that our health care system loses over $750 billion dollars to waste, fraud, abuse and corruption (WFAC) EVERY YEAR, our response should be to stop all tax payments until the government fixes its incompetence.

The list of WFAC in our government borders on a trillion dollars a year. The idiocy of the Liberals is they just want to keep taking from the rich and redistributing it to the rest of the world. We tried this with the sacrosanct "war on poverty". In 1965 the poverty rate was 14%. Since then, we have spent over $17 trillion on this "war" and the poverty rate is 14.3% (15.1% including recessionary forces).

America is collapsing under the weight of Progressivism and its attendant government dependence. Our nation was NOT built on the shoulders of government or unions or entitlements. It was built on the back of industry. The genius of the Edison's, McCormick's, Ford's, Vanderbilt's, Carnegie's, Wright Brother's and others is what allowed America to become the "Shining City on the Hill".

Barrack Hussein promotes mediocrity rather than American exceptionalism. Real Americans reject this foolishness. True American leaders don't lead from behind, they lead shoulder to shoulder with other Americans to build a strong and vibrant 21st century Republic.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

What ever you do,

If you're a COLLEGE STUDENT

or the

MEDICALLY UNINSURED

or the

PARENTS of any SICK CHILDREN

or any

WOMEN who RELIES on PLANNED PARENTHOOD

or one of the Many

AMERICANS and FLORIDA or OHIO RETIREES that RELIES on MEDICARE.

you'd be CRAZY to Vote for that LIAR, TAX-CHEAT and PENSION FUND THIEF,

MITT ROMNEY.

You Know it.

I know it.

And Now your "REPUBLICAN MOMMA" knows it.

All Hail Obama

Ruler, Master, and Overlord of all you Republicans and Teabaggers

for the Next Four (yes! 4) very Long years!

Now go out and VOTE a straight DEMOCRATIC ticket.

You'll be Glad you did.

ps. Is this a Great post, or what?

Make corporations invest in America. Vote for Obama! Believe the nuns on the bus!

At 'Oh Really, Why' @#1.15, You DO know of course that Obama paying to have his records 'sealed' is a complete myth don't you? If not you should.

http://www.factcheck.org/2012/07/obamas-sealed-records/

I think this Rommey version of GM bankruptcy thing is skipping a very important point. When a publicly traded corporation goes into bankruptcy their stockholders receive nothing. Their stock value goes to 0.00. The government version walked into the thing and bought stock in GM so they controlled it. Stockholders have regained their value and didn't lose their ownership. Now it seems to me that a bunch of those 1% people might be scratching their head about what would have happened to their money under the Rommey plan. He would have killed it the same as is his modus operandi at BAIN. At that point the stock value is $0.00

One other little thing that bugs me. Rommey keeps saying he was bipartisan in Mass. Ugh, wait, if you have an 85% Dem state legislature then the governor can't do anything. If he vetoes a bill they over ride it. His only choice is to sign the law or be left out!! Why has he not been called out on this lie???

Jody 1593626,

The only threat to America is the Republican Party.... they ran the moderates out and replaced them with radicals...Bush ran the country into the ground then the Republican Congress did nothing but fight any attempt to help the country get back on its feet with 387 filibusters so they could run on a bad economy... patriots- HELL - LOL... their TRAITORS!!!!

As a FORMER Republican... I would NEVER vote for another Republican EVER again!!!!

If Obama wins, I can almost guarantee that nearly every small business will post a sign.

"We take cash only."

Hey, rightwingers, you know Romney is known as Mitt the liar. In the debate last Monday he already went back on every foreign policy position he had to agree with Obama.

Is he going to balance the budget? No, cutting funding for PBS will not balance the budget.

Is he going to create 12 million jobs? Maybe, in China and other third world countries.

Is he going to repeal ObamaCare if elected? No, that is one of his lies. He is the father of ObamaCare and proud of it. He's going to embrace it the moment he (in his imagination) is in office. This is where Mitt the liar really shows up. He will switch his position immediately if he is ever elected.

And he will switch positions on countless other issues to sell the right wing down the drain. He already sold you out on foreign policy.

Romney knows that the last four years were far better than the eight years before that. The only thing the Romney would do differntly is to reduce the capital gains tax to zero. Why? Because Romeny makes $250 million a year on capital gains.

Mitt is a closet liberal, except when it comes to his personal gain, and then he is purely Tea Party.

Romney says he will do for the US what he did for the State of Mass. the Olympics and Baine. Well lets take a look, Baine bought companies for pennies on the dollar, took out loans on them, paid 80 to 90% to investors, looted pension funds, defaulted on the loans, fired everyone and sold off the rest for profit or in some cases hired new workers for half wages and restarted the business. As Gov. in 4 years he left the state deeper in debt than he found it but did create a health care system that almost 70% of the people love. As head of the Salt Lake Olympic committee, he called up his friends in Washington and got a 70 Million dollar EARMARK bailout from you and me.

In every way Mitt made it worse for working people and rich people richer, except for the health care plan. That's the same as "Obama Care" and he wants to get rid of that. Make sure you tell everyone you know that if Obama Care is removed the "Donut Hole" comes back along with other changes that will cost them more. Tell me why the republicans wont let Medicare get discounts for Rx's. like Veteran Admin. does. It would save Billions every year for medicare. Signed into law by G W Bush, it states that pharmaceutical companies will set the price Medicare have to pay and NO NEGOTIATION ALLOWED.

Other than "trust me" he wants to cut taxes by 20% (5 TRILLION dollars), take Investment Income taxes to ZERO (95% of mitts income is investment income), increase military spending by 2 TRILLION dollars, claims removing tax breaks will pay for it. Just who is he going to borrow the money from to pay for all this?

scott, I agree and when I vote I only push 1 botton even though I'm a registered goverment of the privliged. Romeny and his slimy running mate are out.

HA HA

'BS 2012' Obama's cheerleader...so sorry your man has been a dismal fail.....

This will be telling to families across America. If Obama wins, the religious right wing can finally Shut Up!!

If Romney wins, the churches all need to be taxed for the lobbying business they conduct and their exempt tax status should be wiped out.

It's either a brilliant man named Obama, or an idiot named Romney! America, don't disappoint the WORLD!

Trust a Republican to bash the Unions! While I know that the teachers union is not perfect, the way he talked he wants to get rid of ALL unions! Of course this has been the goal of the right wing for many years. They would JUST LOVE a Country made up of nothing but "right to work states!" That way they can trash all the labor laws that the Unions got into place to protect workers. And not to mention pay a fair wage for that work! But you see the right don't care about any of that, they want to "take this country back", yeah, back to the 1920s. When the working people of this Nation had little to no say in their work environment. A "defining moment" absolutley, because the Middle class will no longer exist, if this man becomes the President!!

I know that there are some women out there who will vote for Robme/Lyan but I will never understand how they could reach that conclusion. As far as women's rights are concerned, Robme/Lyan believe that we should just shut up and let the men make all the decisions for us. You can see that from the people they chose to marry.........totally subservient to the men in their lives! The problem is, they want the rest of us to "fall in line". You've heard the rhetoric that comes from the repubes with regard to women, we've all heard it. When someone tells you who they are, BELIEVE THEM! The republicans have some messed up ideas about women and rape, rape and pregnancy, contraceptives for women, equal pay for equal work for women.......the list goes on and on! If you are a woman and vote for Romney, you must not like being a woman very much. Those idiots want women to step into the "wayback machine". If you are a woman, think about what these repubes want for and from us. Think about how much ground we and our daughters stand to lose. They will get the SCOTUS completely under their control and then what? Think about who is REALLY on our side.......a man who has two daughters of his own, a man surrounded by women in his immediate family on a daily basis, a man that I watched sign the Lily Ledbetter bill into law. If we lose ground now, it will be a hell of long time before we can get it back. You heard Mourdock make his insane statement the other day and you heard him try to walk it back the next. That's exactly what they do. They tell us who they are and when they realize that the sheet has hit the fan, they try to hide who they really are. How could we vote for people who are too stupid to realize the power of women? Hell, they couldn't even have gotten here without a women! Time to remind these little men what REAL women are about!

O AND JOE 2012! 4 MORE 4 44!

BO2012 said,

Transparency and Accountability

Now that's some funny sh-t right there!!

The whole list was a joke but the transparency and accoutability is over ther top!!

Hey you forgot to put on your list that Obama doubled the debt... let's not forget that!!

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

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

Jody-1593626 (Post # 1.4)

To quote you:

“The seals removed one threat to America. Help remove the other threat in November.”

Be real careful there, because what you just recommended was the assignation of a U.S. President (a form of terrorism). You never know when someone will report your comment to the FBI . They take such threats seriously. Grow up, find a good hobby to keep your mind off such dangerous thoughts and remarks that could land you in very hot water. Start showing respect for a Pres. the office, and your Country.

@blueinut49,

You are sooo right about the unions. Some people seem to have forgotten the role unions played in helping employees get a fair shake from some employers who rode roughshod over their workers. I come from what was once a proud union town in Pennsylvania. Then that senile old coot Reagan began union busting bigtime. Yeah, the right to work states, I live in one currently......Floriduh! Basically, it's the right to work your a$$ off for low wages! The people who live here and have never lived anywhere else, don't know any better, I guess. Ridiculous!

Election outcome will be defining for American families

Just like the Bush election was.

Romney III has provided a "softer" version of Bush II for us... how nice!

Now let's get real... Does anyone here not understand that as soon as Romney III is elected, Romney II will reappear and be directed by his Koch brothers handlers? Does anyone believe that the Tea Party won't convert the Mitt like they converted the House and Senate Republicans?

Are we really ready for cowboy foreign policies again?

You seriously want to have the only economic "discussion" and legislation be wrapped around nothing but tax cuts at the top?

Do we really think "trickle out to the Caymen Islands" economics will work for all American families?

And let's kill health care insurance for millions and, while we're at it, literally kill thousands of Americans... and send most back into the abyss of medical debt?

And we don't need no stinkin' education.

And another couple of Supreme Court conservatives sure should finish off any semi-progressive rulings.

Women's rights? Minority's rights? Equal opportunities and equal pay?

Yes, a defining moment for American families for sure.

Obama/Biden 2012

Some people will read my post, above, and say "yea, but... the economy!" They'll cry that we cannot load our kids down with the debt the president has laid on us. They will cite Romney's business credentials and find some supporting data for the support of a revenue neutral 20% tax cut (pick a number). They will cite the last debate as a soft Romney and that all their previous fears of the man are now resolved.

Doe that about sum up the argument?

The facts, however, are clear and have not changed just because Romney's handlers let out more leash.

Tax cuts are considered to be "temporary measures with limited effect" by most economists worth their salt. We can look at the Bush tax cuts as a clear example. Did they provide a stimulus effect? Yes, they did... an untargeted one, but a stimulus none the less. Their effectiveness was higher in year one, much less in year two, and non-existent by year three. By the third year, tax cuts become a liability... they have little stimulus effect, generate loads of debt, continue to be untargetted, and, if you try to revoke them, will actually be an "unstimulus" and will hurt the economy.

And Romney wants to double-down on Bush. Romney's plan is crap... a temporary bump at best, a huge debt creator at worst. And, anyway you look at it, his plan does NOT support defense spending increases. What it DOES support is the need for additional cuts to support structures, infrastructure improvements, research and development, etc. He will make our current deficit look good. He risks taking us over the cliff at full speed.

BO,

stop talking. Know what you're talking about before you put words on paper. You don't reduce the deficit, you reduce deficit spending. Obama said he would reduce the nat'l DEBT by 50% in his first term. He added 6 trillion to the national debt.The reason we are in such bad shape is that Obama borrows over a trillion dollars every year and spends it on his favorite giveaways like solar and wind and electric cars and phones for the poor and food stamps for illegal aliens, and on and on. Then he prints money like a madman and deflates the value of the dollar and reduces yor buying power. Gasoline is skyrocketing and your food costs are soaring. I dont know if you drive or buy groceries, if you do then you know what I am talking about. Before you liberals bad mouth Romney, take an honest look at what your candidate has been and is doing. If you cant figure it out,for whatever reason, get help and have someone explain it.

A 41% loss of net worth for median income families in the last 3 1/2 years is success? ot a loss of income, but net worth, that means 41% of everything one owns is gone! It takes a lifetime to create ones net worth and Obama wiped out 41% of it! Obama needs to go, FIRE him! No company would keep a CEO that lost 41% of the company in less than 4 years. George Soros has this planned, he wants to bankrupt the nation, so he can come in and buy it for nothing! If Obama is re-elected, George Soros will own you!!!

After 4 years of complete misery.

What misery? I am making $15K a year more then when Obama took office. Jobs are up, housing is up, defaults are down, stocks are up.

Trolls are trolls and you sir are a bridge lurker for sure. :)

Mitt, please stop with the plastic patriotism, you care about the average American family about as much as Charles Manson did. You are possibly the least patriotic man in the country, your loyalty is to your bank account and the Mormon Church. So why don't you just start putting the Chinese flag up behind you and your hand picked crowd when you speak, it would be more realistic.

Jody,

Donald Trump, Really?

There always seems to be some nefarious conspiracy against President Obama. College transcripts, PLEASE!

Were is your hero's tax returns?

I can't even imagine anyone expounding on Romney's behalf. The man is a shape shifting liar. He has proven that over and over. He will say anything to get elected. Is that truly the type of man, whom you want to run the country?

I don't think that the American people really want a CEO as President, in my experience that is not a formula for the advancement of the middle class. And the middle class being successful is what is going to move this country toward prosperity.

I realize Romney/Ryan cannot be responsible for all remarks made by the members of there party. BUT how can anyone with a desire to be an American Leader pander to such a base as the Republican Party now has. It is the Party of divisiveness and intolerance run by the rich to further there economic gain. They would scuttle rules and regulations that safeguard the health and economic well being of our Country.

"You see the teachers union is there, but the PTA doesn't have a union, and parents don't have unions and kids don't have unions," Romney said. "When I'm elected president we're going to make sure we have a voice for the kids of America and their parents and the teachers."

A question: Does Romney know anything about American public schools? Did he ever go to a public school in his life? Did he send any of his five kids to a public school?

Parents who want to be involved in their child's school have plenty of opportunities.

The issue isn't that all of our public schools are failing. The best public schools are doing a fine job. It's the schools in the inner cities, in the poor neighborhoods, that need help.

We need to provide ALL American children with a fine public education, not just the kids in the wealthy school districts.

Actually it is Mitt Romney's lack of definition that has turned me off. I am open minded and I vote on the issues. If my life were all about me then I would vote for Mitt however his stance on women's issues effects the women in my life. My daughters have the right to choose what to do with their bodies, they deserve equal pay for equal work and the environment and the toxins we dump has and will continue to define our health which affects health care. President Obama has vision and he is not afraid to make a declarative statement.

@1.82, h engbers: As bad as the deficit spending is now, Romney will make it even worse, since he's unwilling to cut the "sacred" parts of the budget. You don't reduce deficits by cutting PBS funding -- that's a tiny drop in the bucket.

Gasoline is skyrocketing? In August 2008, before the crash and when Bush was still in office, the national average gas price was almost $4.00 a gallon. This week it's $3.62. In fact, if you look at the charts of average gasoline prices over history and smooth out the short-term ups and downs, gasoline prices generally follow economic activity -- including a huge collapse in prices from nearly $4.00 a gallon in August 2008 to a low of $1.61 in December 2008. Gas prices fell off a cliff in late 2008 just like the economy did, and have been slowly rising since then -- just like the economy.

Food prices are soaring? Maybe somewhere in the world, but not here in the U.S. The all-food CPI increased only 0.8% in 2010 -- the lowest food inflation since 1962. The food-at-home CPI for that year rose only 0.3% -- the lowest annual increase since 1967. In 2011, we saw higher food inflation, with all-food rising 3.7% and food-at-home rising 4.8%. But food inflation has slowed considerably in 2012, and is on track for an annual CPI between 2.5% and 3.5% in both the all-food and food-at-home categories. The effects of the drought have not yet shown up at either the grocery store or at restaurants, but are expected to push food inflation to as much as 4.0% in 2013 -- regardless of who is president.

So yes, I do drive and and I do buy groceries, but I still don't know what you're talking about. Before you conservatives bad mouth Obama, take an honest look at the data about our economy, jobs, salaries and inflation. If you can't figure it out for whatever reason, get help and have someone explain it.

I have to say I agree with Romney on this one. The election is about defining yourself and the US - do you 1) love yourself, your fellow citizens and your country; or 2) you are Republican? You can't love yourself, your fellow citizens or this country and be on the Right, endorsing ideas that make things worse for everyone (but the to 1-2%), following a path of hatred toward anyone not identical to you (be it ethnicity, religion, of whom they love); and calling for more and endless war where millions are affected because a phony "News" channel tells you you should or Talking Heads who are idiotic or self-proclaimed "entertainers" tell you you should.

Either march proudly toward the future or admit you are Sheeple and get out of the way; Progress will happen regardless of you wanting it to or not. All the Sheeple can do is postpone it a bit, but in doing so, they show they and their Right-Wing ideas are all about hate and a desire to do nothing for anyone else (including family and friends, and for those not in the top 1-2%, themselves).

Know what you're talking about before you put words on paper.

On paper? Are you mailing in your comments, h engbers?

The rest of your spiel was also out of touch with reality.

Yes, It will mean that the top 5% who just increased their share of the wealth in America from 40% to 42% will get even more with this baffoon in office!

BO 2012 are you f'n insane? Obama hasn't reduced the deficit you moron. He doubled it. He will do the same in the next four years. Whatever your smoking must be some good sh!t please send some all of our ways.

h engbers - You are wrong

Obama said he would reduce the nat'l DEBT by 50% in his first term

President Obama said he would cut the deficit in half. The deficit was 459 billion at the time. Then he was handed a 1423 billion deficit by Bush... who knew. President Obama's 2013 deficit is estimated to be 901 billion or a 512 billion reduction from Bush's last budget, but actually more than 459 billion he promised to cut in half. You apparently get your facts for the same source as Romney gets his foreign policy advice... Fox News. One could argue that President Obama would have had to cut 712 billion to keep his promise, and he probably would have reached that goal if the Republican would have given him an ounce of cooperation. However, the facts are they did not. To cut the US debt in half would require the government not spending any money for over two years. How do you think that would turn out?

I see several posters talking about the 40% net worth loss by the middle class while the rich increased theirs by 13%. Obama had nothing to do with either one.

The collapse of the real estate market, the collapse of the economy, and artificially low taxes at the top (which Obama has been trying to rid us of for four years) are the direct cause of this dilemma.

Most of what the middle class has in assets (net worth) is (was) real estate. When real estate dumped, their net worth dumped. That was a done deal before Obama took over and only 10 or 20 years of positive market forces will bring that net worth back... if ever.

Of course the economy also contributed. On a steep slide downward before Obama got here, jobs and businesses were lost. That, too, contributed to the net worth lost by the middle class. The stimulus, tax cuts, unemployment extension, and special programs helped, but this also will take decades to recover... I won't say "if ever" on the economy because it's already looking recoverable.

But how did the rich avoid these same trappings? There are only two contributors... Layoffs in front of a stabilizing economy provided unexpected high profits and low demand combined with artificially low PERSONAL taxes at the top led to the big "feed by greed"... the rich got richer by taking profits out of the system instead of creating jobs.

Consider...

The Fortune 500 companies made record profits during this great recession.

These same companies reinvested record lows back into their companies. Less equipment, little or no expansion, no jobs.

These same companies then provided record breaking paydays... both in amount and frequency... to their company officers... the highest in history.

And guess what... during this same period... while Americans were dying on the vine... transfers to off-shore accounts hit record highs, with some estimates topping a total of $100 Trillion stuffed in these rich mattresses... taken OUT of our economy.

And the enabler for all this wealth transfer?

LOW PERSONAL TAXES AT THE TOP... plain and simple.

The Romney Plan... doubles down on stupid... unless you're rich, of course.

There is so much FORGIVENESS

KINDNESS

RATIONALIZING

BENEVOLENCE

by the Republicans

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when it comes to Mitt Romney's flip-flop campaign.

Romney is correct when he said it is a defining moment for U.S. families. If he is elected, there will be a sharp rise in the number of homeless families. They will be sleeping in the streets at the mercy of whatever charitable organizations might be willing or able to help them. The elderly will be eating dog food, and dying on the curb-sides for lack of medical care. We will finally have achieved the status of India, a nation with a handful of billionaires and the rest, rag pickers. That's my vision of the United States under a Romney/Ryan administration.

Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin are politcal SKANKS.

You can smell their whorishness from miles away.

BO 2012

You keep repeating the same retoric over and over just like Obama does. No matter the number of times you repaet this garbage it does not change the fact it is garbage.

Jus to point one. You continue to say Obama has reduce deebt. How is it then that we have gone fro 10 trillion national bebt to 16 trillion. I think your view of what forward is may be as squewed as the Presidents

SHORT LIST OF BROKEN PROMISES AND OUTRIGHT LIES BY BARACK OBAMA

Increase the capital gains and dividends taxes for higher-income taxpayers

Increase capital gains and dividends taxes from 15 to 20 percent for those making more than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single)

Expand the child and dependent care credit

Expand and make refundable the child and dependent care credit.

Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners

Create a $10 billion fund to help homeowners refinance or sell their homes. "The Fund will not help speculators, people who bought vacation homes or people who falsely represented their incomes."

Provide option for a pre-filled-out tax form

Will direct the Internal Revenue Service to "give taxpayers the option of a pre-filled tax form to verify, sign and return to the IRS or online. This will eliminate the need for Americans to hire expensive tax preparers and to gather information that the federal government already has on file."

Create a mortgage interest tax credit for non-itemizers

Create a refundable tax credit equal to 10 percent of mortgage interest for nonitemizers, up to a maximum credit of $800.

Require automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans

Automatic enrollment in 401(k) plans for workers whose employers offer retirement plans.

Require automatic enrollment in IRA plans

Require employers who do not offer retirement plans to offer their workers access to automatic IRAs and contribute via payroll deduction.

Create a retirement savings tax credit for low incomes

A tax credit for retirement savings up to $500 (couples) or $250 (singles). Phases out when incomes exceed $65,000 (couples) or $32,500 (single). Indexed for inflation.

End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000

"Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors -- saving them an average of $1,400 a year-- and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all."

End no-bid contracts above $25,000

Create a $60 billion bank to fund roads and bridges

Repeal the Bush tax cuts for higher incomes

Repeal the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single)

Phase out exemptions and deductions for higher earners

Restore the phaseouts of personal exemptions and itemized deductions for those making more than $250,000 (couples) or $200,000 (single), with threshholds indexed for inflation.

Sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize

Lift the payroll tax cap on earnings above $250,000

Forbid companies in bankruptcy from giving executives bonuses

Allow workers to claim more in unpaid wages and benefits in bankruptcy court

Allow imported prescription drugs

Prevent drug companies from blocking generic drugs

Allow Medicare to negotiate for cheaper drug prices

Appoint federal-level coordinator to oversee all federal autism efforts

Double federal funding for cancer research

Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a comprehensive study of federal cancer initiatives

Provide the CDC $50 million in new funding to determine the most effective approaches for cancer patient care

Fully fund the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Create a National Commission on People with Disabilities, Employment, and Social Security

Change federal rules so small businesses owned by people with disabilities can get preferential treatment for federal contracts.

Reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act from companies with 50 employees to companies with 25 employees

Provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave

Require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year

Expand the Family Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence or sexual assault

Form international group to help Iraq refugees

Work with Russia to move nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert

Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center

Develop an alternative to President Bush's Military Commissions Act on handling detainees

Strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and double its budget in the next four years

Secure ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)

Seek to negotiate a political agreement on Cyprus

Reinstate special envoy for the Americas

Double the Peace Corps

Seek independent watchdog agency to investigate congressional ethics violations

Create a public "Contracts and Influence" database

Expose Special Interest Tax Breaks to Public Scrutiny

Allow five days of public comment before signing bills

Tougher rules against revolving door for lobbyists and former officials

Double funding for Federal Charter School Program and require more accountability

Double funding for afterschool programs

Expand the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity

Urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws

Support repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

Sign the Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act into law

Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage

Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour

Restore Superfund program so that polluters pay for clean-ups

Support tax deduction for artists

Re-establish the National Aeronautics and Space Council

Support human mission to moon by 2020

Pay for the national service plan without increasing the deficit

Reduce the number of middle managers in the federal workforce

Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Limit term of director of national intelligence

Give annual "State of the World" address

Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels

Work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers

Establish a low carbon fuel standard

Enact windfall profits tax for oil companies

Create cap and trade system with interim goals to reduce global warming

Use revenue from cap and trade to support clean energy and environmental restoration

Require plug-in fleet at the White House

Require new federal fleet purchases to be half plug-in hybrids or electric vehicles

Require more flex-fuel cars for the federal government

Mandate flexible fuel vehicles by 2012

Double federal program to help "reverse" commuters who go from city to suburbs

Require energy conservation in use of transportation dollars

Provide an annual report on "state of our energy future"

Devote federal resources to promote cellulosic ethanol

Sign the Freedom of Choice Act

Allow penalty-free hardship withdrawals from retirement accounts in 2008 and 2009

Give the White House's Privacy and Civil Liberties Board subpoena power

Recognize the Armenian genocide

No family making less than $250,000 will see "any form of tax increase."

Negotiate health care reform in public sessions televised on C-SPAN

Create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange.

Cut the cost of a typical family's health insurance premium by up to $2,500 a year

Bring Democrats and Republicans together to pass an agenda

Introduce a comprehensive immigration bill in the first year

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bigdogg464

Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin are politcal SKANKS.

Oh, but they are the female luminaries of the GOP! They are the women who lead the Republican party!

(I question whether Ann Coulter is really a woman or just a man with implants and a blonde wig. Take a close look at 'her'.).

Ticked off in Ohio,

"SHORT LIST OF BROKEN PROMISES AND OUTRIGHT LIES BY BARACK OBAMA"

No one could possibly post a list of Romney's lies because the Newsvine database would not have the capacity to store all the terabytes that would be required. Databases have limits on how much data they can store, and a list of Romney's lies would simply bring down the entire system. So I guess we'll just have to leave you unchallenged in that respect.

Wow, all that free stuff, Obama gives you. Obama creates 4 billion dollars in new debt, every day. who will pay for all of King Obama's benevolence. Those mean 1%, that have been successful in America. Where other Americans have not, or will not. 23 million Americans cannot find work in America. Obama has failed, and failed miserably!

I'm a salaried Union auto worker, Basically a white collar union employee

I'm happy that you have your job, saved by obama, while tens of thousands of non-union workers lost their jobs in the same deal. Your wages, your pensions, etc are part of what caused the auto industries financial problems. Unions have no place in this country anymore, especially public unions. The only union that seems to be smart is the coal union, and that's only because obama has trashed on them.

1) love yourself, your fellow citizens and your country; or 2) you are Republican?

I guess you're saying that the high majority of our military doesn't love this country since they are voting for Romney, very nice. Always good to stereotype.

I'll be voting for Romney because obama has screwed my backyard:

1. Groceries are more expensive and going up even more while we put corn in our gas tanks (proven to be worse than gas in all aspects)

2. Health insurance is going up dramatically. My wife finally got a raise this year, along with a health insurance increase of 10%. Her net pay check is now less than it was before the raise.

3. I haven't had a raise in three years, bonuses gone. We're still trying to live on less than what our combined incomes were three years ago, while the cost of everything is higher.

4. Gas is still high (while he takes credit for more gas being pumped on private lands, which he had nothing to do with)

This also goes along with his dumbass wife screwing up school lunches, all the regulations that are killing small businesses, his crappy foreign policy, the list goes on.

Four years ago my wife and I voted for obama because we despised what bush had done to the country, we wanted a change.

This year, we're voting for Romney because we despise what obama has done to the country and we want a change.

Romney is a business man, he knows money more than any thing else, his own success is proof of that. Our country needs someone who knows money since the economy and jobs are our biggest issues.

Reality bites Obamacare already !!!

My company just put out a memo of rising health insurance premiums for next year, and we have been notified Blue Cross-Blue Shield will be likely terminated in 2014, moving our plan to "one of the government coverages in order to make it affordable for you and your Company".

Perhaps, Mr. Obama forgot to pass out the KY Jelly before he screwed us ! Yes, the law of unintended consequences ..... you put a moron in charge of health care, who clearly doesn't know what he is doing, and it raises the costs to make it unaffordable !!

A government takeover of health care with new mandates raises costs SIGNIFICANTLY such that those who have had coverage for yours, now get to pay a lot more .... because NOTHING in Obamacare reduces costs !

DEPORT ROMNEY BACK TO MEXICO!

Romney states: Election outcome will be defining for American families. Romney and his family are not from the United States. They are from Mexico. Romney's grandfather and father were born in Mexico. Why isn't Romney running for President of Mexico instead? His son Tagg looks pure Mexican. Obama has a record of deporting criminal illegal aliens.

DEPORT ROMNEY BEFORE HE BLUFFS HIS WAY INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.

richard murdock made the statement that rape was God's gift to women. (mitt romney endorses this character-what does this tell the american people).mr murdock you obviously dont know who you been talking too. persons who follow the devil.......do these evil deeds like rape and many other acts of violence.God never does evil. never endorses evil in any form. if you read the bible nobody would have to tell you this.

RI Mom... very astute point and well said! The Republican forgiveness factor where Romney/Ryan's many lies are concerned, is simply amazing... in fact their whole campaign has been built on shape-shifting, changing, rearranging and just out and out fabrication. Now and then they actually leaked out the truth about something, like a Medicare voucher system, support of bills to repeal or amend women's rights and their intention to kill any National Healthcare reform. The only thing they really have to campaign on, which people (other than the wealthiest 2% could support) is the fact that in these United Hates (no typo by the way), many people would support ANYTHING, just get the black man out of their White House! That's really what it's all about. To see these toothless, mindless zombies parading around during any given tea bagger event, holding their signs proclaiming such as "Keep Your Government Hands Off of My Medicare" and "Make English the Offical Language of the US" (for real), only proves the profound ignorance and racism that drives these people's hatred of the president. I do see a distinct resemblance to the rise of Adolph Hitler (pre-WWII), regarding the Tea Party movement and all the blather we've heard the past several years from supposed "Conservatives". Their mere title, in fact is nothing more than a joke... considering their beloved leader George W's administration is responsible for the state of this country today. If you work for a living, or live on a retirement, you had best vote straight ticket Democrat, as Myth Romney will lead this country into a complete oligarchy... under the guise of fiscal conservatism. Care to know how? Read how the guy really made his fortune sometime... it certainly was NOT by helping create jobs... quite the contrary:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829

Using the most reliable pollsters and historical 'Undecided Voter' trends, Obama has 243 Electoral votes, and Romney has 261 Electoral votes, with only three States 'too close to call' - Ohio (18), Wisconsin (10) and Iowa (6).

Romney has to win either Ohio (tied) or Wisconsin (leans Obama), while Obama must win both Ohio and Wisconsin. Iowa is now pretty much irrelevant.

prober this repub has some of the people fooled some of the time. just like adolph menou hit@*%(*%*($r.he is the dictator of the new reich.our children will lose their education. old people will die in the streets for lack of medical care. middle class will slap hamburgers on a grill and clean toilets. poor people will be in soup lines in hopes some of the charities will have enough food to feed them.women will have it worst of all you want have control of what happens to your body if you dont have money.romney has already caused governor rick perry to banned planned parenthood in texas(no birth control, no help for rape victims,no pap smears, no breast immaging).if you want to see total destruction of am&(%$#ica.vote romney/ryan nov 2012.

mirage george romney born in chihuahua,mexico came to america with his 12 wives including mitt's mother lenore. so they could have their children in america. even though they never became american citizens. they were practcing pologamy.(not legal in america).pologamy will probably become legal when romney gets president.

the teachers romney was going to hire from overseas is china. he has already made an agreement with them. you talk about america's debt little george's war (repubs) put us in this debt obama's trying to get us out of.repubs failure of fannie mae and freddie mac. enron. s&p all these republican bailouts. obama bailed out the auto industry.

you just can't trust a guy that won't release his tax returns !!!!

IDo,

I've seen some great progressive factual postings, but you and your brainwashed conservatives won't believe them. Your for one throw out color words all the time with nothing to back them up! So typical of a teabugger! How about Romney's lies that are continuing to pile up depending on which group he is talking to or which Debate he is in. Flip-flops are lies man!

With Powell's Endorsement the polls are showing Romney losing ground first, his own party is turning on him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roy,

Even conservative and Unfair and Unbalanced Fox numbers don't come close to your made up ones!

Hey Republican hypocrisy, can you trust a guy who doesn't release his birth certificate when there is such an uproar. Would you not do something if you didn't have anything to hide.

Roy

I'll bite... how are you different from the following... except of course Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa...

Colorado (9) Romney

Florida (29) Toss up - Romney

Michigan (16) Obama

Nevada (6) Obama

New Hampshire (4) Toss up - Romney

North Carolina (15) Romney

Pennsylvania (20) Obama

Virginia (13) Toss up - Romney

Ohio (18) Obama

Wisconsin (10) Obama

Iowa (6) Obama

It looks to me like you have Florida, New Hampshire, and Virginia with Romney?

Personally I think Ohio is definitely Obama at the moment... how do you see that as being even?

My scenario gives Obama 277 but I keep Florida, New Hampshire, and Virginia in play for Obama.

Concerned Ma,

So where have you been for the past year? Da! Is it tongue in cheek or what? It has been released by Obama and Romney's is Michigan, of course?

Sorry, Missed the name mentioned! Concerned ma!

ONLY 12 MORE DAYS OF OBAMARRHEA!

Obamarrhea is what you get when you look at the abysmal past 4 years of this "historic" president.

Maasive debt, joblessness, homelessness and hopelessness.

No history of any governance or experience in economics or business.

Spitting on the Constitution time and again, ignoring that it IS a Charter of Negative Liberties.

Dividing our great Republic worse than during the Civi Rights era.

Allowing terrorists to kill Americans on our soil and abroad.

Class warfare and promoting mediocrity instead of American exceptionalism.

To cure Obamarrhea, it needs to be eliminated and flushed, once and for all.

ROMNEY/RYAN 2012 FOR REAL AMERICANS©

Republicans Filibuster Everything (a Record 375 Filibusters), Then Romney Blames Obama for Not Working With Congress

Republicans record-breaking use of the filibuster is effectively changing the constitutionally structure of our government -- everything needs a super-majority of 60, instead of 51. This is not normal. It was not like this before.

The new ad from the Romney campaign blames President Obama for not reaching out and working with congressional Republicans to get things done. Yes, really. It also ballyhoos Mitt Romney's claim that he was able to work with a Massachusetts legislature that was 85 percent Democratic.

I don't know whether to be brutally outraged about this or to congratulate the Republicans on an outstanding execution of political obstruction and subsequent projection. For now, let's go with brutally outraged.

It's important to review exactly what's led us to this point. From the very beginning, congressional Republicans fell into lockstep with Rush Limbaugh and the collective wish for the Obama presidency to fail. Limbaugh set the table several days before the inauguration by telling his audience:

"So I'm thinking of replying to the guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it."

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell famously told the National Journal, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

So what bills have the Republicans filibustered? To name a few (out of 375 that the GOP has blocked):

H.R. 12 - Paycheck Fairness Act
H.R. 448 -- Elder Abuse Victims Act
H.R. 466 - Wounded Veteran Job Security Act
H.R. 515 - Radioactive Import Deterrence Act
H.R. 549 -- National Bombing Prevention Act
H.R. 577 - Vision Care for Kids Act
H.R. 626 - Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act
H.R. 1029 - Alien Smuggling and Terrorism Prevention Act
H.R. 1168 -- Veterans Retraining Act
H.R. 1171 - Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program Reauthorization
H.R. 1293 -- Disabled Veterans Home Improvement and Structural Alteration Grant Increase Act
H.R. 1429 -- Stop AIDS in Prison Act
H.R.5281 -- DREAM Act
S.3985 -- Emergency Senior Citizens Relief Act
S.3816 -- Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act
S.3369 -- A bill to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities
S.2237 -- Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act
S.2343 -- Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act
S.1660 -- American Jobs Act of 2011
S.3457 -- Veterans Jobs Corps Act

H.R. 1469 –- Child Protection Improvements Act
H.R. 1511 –- Torture Victims Relief Reauthorization Act
H.R. 1514 –- Juvenile Accountability Block Grants Program Reauthorization Act
H.R. 1580 –- Electronic Waste Research and Development Act
H.R. 1585 -- FIT Kids Act
H.R. 1617 –- Department of Homeland Security Component Privacy Officer Act
H.R. 1622 -– Research and Development Programs for Natural Gas Vehicles
H.R. 1675 –- Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2009
H.R. 1709 –- STEM Education Coordination Act
H.R. 1722 -- Telework Improvements Act
H.R. 1727 -- Managing Arson Through Criminal History (MATCH) Act

DEMOCRATS are passing bills to make things easier, and REPUBLICANS are refusing to even allow an “up or down vote.”

H.R. 1741 -- Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act
H.R. 1796 –- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act
H.R. 1803 -- Veterans Business Center Act
H.R. 1807 –- Educating Entrepreneurs through Today’s Technology Act
H.R. 1834 –- Native American Business Development Enhancement Act
H.R. 1838 –- Amending Small Business Act
H.R. 1824 -- Best Buddies Empowerment for People with Intellectual Disabilities Act
H.R. 1875 -- End the Trade Deficit Act
H.R. 1879 -- National Guard Employment Protection Act
H.R. 1933 –- A Child Is Missing Alert and Recovery Center Act
H.R. 2020 -- Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2009
H.R. 2093 –- Clean Coastal Environment and Public Health Act
H.R. 2134 -- Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act

Once again; Democrats PASSED the following bills, and Senate Republicans prevented these bills from even coming to a vote.

H.R. 2142 – Government Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Performance Improvement Act
H.R. 2187 – 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Facilities Act
H.R. 2200 – Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act
H.R. 2221 – Data Accountability and Trust Act
H.R. 2352 – Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act
H.R. 2454 – American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
H.R. 2510 – Absentee Ballot Track, Receive and Confirm Act
H.R. 2529 – Neighborhood Preservation Act
H.R. 2554 – National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act
H.R. 2611 – Authorizing the Securing the Cities Initiative of the Department of Homeland Security
H.R. 2664 – Promoting Transparency in Financial Reporting Act
H.R. 2693 – Oil Pollution Research and Development Program Reauthorization Act
H.R. 2749 -- Food Safety Enhancement Act
H.R. 2868 – Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009, Drinking Water System Security Act of 2009 and Wastewater Treatment Works Security Act of 2009

What else?

Here's an astonishing one. The Republicans filibustered the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act -- basically, healthcare for 9/11 heroes. Every Republican senator voted to filibuster this bill. I suppose the Republicans are only interested in 9/11 heroes when they're used as political props.

On the House side, every single Republican, including Paul Ryan, voted against the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act, which forces Congress to pay for new legislation through either budget cuts or revenue increases.

You'd think that by helping to pass these bills, Republicans could boast a solid record on fiscal responsibility, job creation, veterans affairs, anti-terrorism, senior citizens and, hell, 9/11 workers. Instead, they blocked all of it. Jobs for military veterans, tax cuts for small businesses -- you name it.

Why? So President Obama and the Democrats could be accused of failure.

But if you take Romney's word for it, the president is a lazy, do-nothing chief executive who's been stonewalling the Republicans. Not the other way around. I'm not sure how he doesn't pull a muscle or dislocate a shoulder by twisting himself into a pretzel like this, but it's an amazing feat of through-the-looking-glass deception.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/republicans-filibuster-ev_b_2018663.html

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/16/1132504/-Why-is-the-Republican-Record-Breaking-use-of-the-Filibuster-Not-a-topic-of-the-News

LMarcT "Roy I'll bite... how are you different from the following...It looks to me like you have Florida, New Hampshire, and Virginia with Romney?"

Yes - I have Florida for Romney by 5%, New Hampshire by 2% and Virginia by 3.5%.

Only Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa are within 1%, and Iowa becomes irrelevant because either Romney must win Ohio OR Wisconsin, or Obama must win both.

It's 'too close to call', but I give Romney a slight edge in Ohio because the 'Undecided Voters' traditionally 'break for the challenger' by about 80% - see link for explanation.

http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/10/the_incumbent_r.html

Hmmm . . . based on your economic definition (and reality) we are not a socialist economy, nor are we headed there. We are a capitalist society with regulatory protections built in to protect us from monopolies, cartels, and unfair trade practices.

But your comment raises a few other questions in response.

Why is it that the preponderance of the (so called) jobs bills and budgets passed by the Republican House included components or amendments that are intrusive and/or restricted individual liberties and/or provided free reign to businesses to do as they chose without regard to impacts on people? And wouldn't those "jobs bills", if passed and signed by the President into law, result in enlarged government control of our lives, increase corporate entitlements, and redistribute wealth (upwards, same as previous administration policies). Isn't that EXACTLY what you are fussing about? Not to mention the overlap (instead of separation) of Church and State in violation of the Constitution.

Clearly the very laws and protections you are fussing about are what helps to define and protect our individual liberties, our markets, and our society as a whole. Yet you claim that this is socialism.

To quote a favorite movie line, "You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."

as soon as anyone mentions socialism, kenya, birth certificate or school papers, I know they have nothing. Ignore.

I think that Bush actually eroded our freedom!.. He invented being able to watch American's without any reason!!! I do not want or need our government looking at me unless I am a criminal.

wow, lucky...how many lies can you tell in one rant? Obama had jobs before...lawyer, teacher, community organizer...oh, i know you don't think they are valid, but they are jobs. You lie about where he is from...he has evidence you nutjobs ignore. Almost everything you said has been fact checked to death and proven false. ( i do think you are right that he never had his own business, but that has never been a requirement for the Presidency has it? Never mind...arguing with a hate filled person who can not even acknowledge the President is an american is pointless. You are not interested in the truth and wouldn't recognize it if it smacked you in the face. you are in the right party and voting for the right candidate.

I agree, Sherry. And I also find it dishonorable and sad that person would continue to post lies that have been debunked many times.

Oh, for Pete's sake. Enough already. Do you really believe all that crap? Or do you think that your hate justifies your lies? Either way, you're a small, small man. You'd serve your party better by doing something constructive. If you want Mitt to win so badly, you should have volunteered for his campaign, instead of wasting your time sounding spiteful and uneducated here.

emmy -

So, can you prove that anything lucky said is a lie?

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I'm sorry you can't accept the truth. Seek help - you're going to need it when Romney wins by a landslide as Obama's chickens are coming home to roost.

No, Tammy, I'm not biting, and I'm not wasting my time debunking crap that's been debunked countless times. I'm sorry that the last few years have been so rough for you; maybe you should take some personal accountability for that. I don't need help. I am better off than I was four years ago. Anybody still clinging to the birther nonsense is not worth my time. How desperate can you get?

Amen! Thank you for your post. I just learned something sort of encouraging. I thought these posts were genuine but I found out some folks are getting paid to post by Obama. Whew! My folks in La. were mad b/c Obama hired New Orleans residents to sit in his B.P. press conferences instead of Plaquemine parish residents. Paid them $5.00 an hour. he is underhanded and evil and a hypocrite. Joe Biden gave $300 last year to the poor. Romney gave 3 million. Facts are very stubborn things.