“Here’s the ‘big change’ Mitt Romney is offering: going back to the same failed policies that caused the economic crisis and empowering the extreme voices in his party like Richard Mourdock," Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith said in a statement.

I don't think Romney is going to win Ohio. He's the guy that rapes companies, profits from them and send the jobs overseas.

"Insanely" huge crowd for President Obama in VA.

http://theobamadiary.com/2012/10/25/heads-up-president-obama-in-richmond/

If has campaign has been any indication, we could expect big changes from Romney on a weekly basis..

If has campaign has been any indication, we could expect big changes from Romney on a weekly basis..

That would be hilarious if it wasn't so frighteningly true, Irving.

I think we are going to need a big white board for all the changes. Who wants to be the scorekeeper on all the "big changes"? I caution the volunteer who accepts this challenge! You will definitely need hair implants from all the hair pulling you will be doing trying to keep up with the flip-flops that man will inflict upon this country. At the end of the day I don't think a one of us will know which end is up!

If you want BIG change as in a pathological serial lying sociopath occupying the Oval Office, then Willard is your guy!

None of the anti-Obama posters ever say WHY they support Willard!..They say nothing positive about him!

If you classify putting someone in charge of your country who was head of Bain Capital, a company that bought and stripped companies, put communities out of work with no healthcare, retirement, college funding and homes...and sent their jobs overseas.

Yes, that would be a change.

Having someone in charge who refuses to show more than 2 sketchy years of Tax Returns, would be a change.

In a week or two, Bain's Sensata will send a hightech factory to China.

Big Change as in giving more power to the 30+ states who give rapists parental visitation rights.

Big Change as in a rape victim has to spend months and thousands of dollars fighting in courts to have an abortion. If the Republicans on the court drag it out long enough, they can prohibit an abortion all together.

Romney picked "forcible rape" Ryan as his VP.
Romney one did ads for one senate Republican and that was Mourdock.

Big Change Romney will take away a woman's rights.
Big Change Romney will take away worker's rights.
Big Change Romney promoted a Chinese Company who used barbed wire to keep their slave labor workers in.

Fiesty,

You are spot on!

Change has been Mittens speciality. He has had more changes in postions then Imelda Marcos had shoes. (probally giving my age away there).

How can anyone with a modicum of sense feel that they could support this shape shifter is beyond me? He has either Romnesia as the President suggests, or is a diabolical liar who will say anything to win a vote. Seems there is no real core values with this man.

Big Change? There will be nothing new with Romney at the helm; we've already been through the constant lies of Tricky Dick Nixon, we've already been through epic failures in foreign policy vis a vie BushII, and we have seen first hand the disastrous fiscal failures of Reagan and BushII. With Romney at the helm, it will be a Rinse/Repeat cycle - a true Romney Tsunami of epic proportions destruction.

Romney said after running through a series of scenarios like caring for an aging relative or getting a good education for a child, and how those experiences would differ under a second Obama term or a Romney presidency.

Willard has that right. When he is done turning Social Security into a profit center for his Wall Street buddies and Medicare for a voucher program, expect mom, pop and Uncle Artie to move in with you as they can no longer count on Social Security and Medicare to live independently.

He will also return the student loan program to one in which the government takes on all the costs, risks, and expenses and the banks get all the profit. I guess this is what "running the government like a business" looks like. Of course Pell Grants would be cut and education funding cut and chopped up into block grants.

I don't really understand why Governor Romney thinks we want Big Change. When Obama took office, the deficit was 1.4 trillion. He's reduced it to slightly less 1 trillion. Which is still huge, but it is going down and is projected to go down further. Obama turned the economy around. We have had 30 months of dropping unemployment. At this point, as many people are employed as when Obama took office. Which isn't great, but we are headed in the right direction, as opposed to losing jobs, when he took office.

Obama has finished two wars.

He has provided Obamacare, which should provide for a healthier workforce; which in turn will both aid the economy and close the deficit further, as healthy people work harder, make more money, and also pay more taxes.

Why would we want to upset all that?

President Bush took a surplus and turned it into the biggest deficit the country has ever seen. He started two wars, one needless, the other horribly mismanaged.

Why do we need Change, when we are finally headed in the right direction?

Hey Willard we'll keep Obama in the White House and you can keep your "big change".

How do YOU spell d-e-s-p-e-r-a-t-i-o-n?

Calling your opponent "Romnesia" and "Robme".

What a Fine example for a President of the United States to set. The top Representative of all U.S. Citizens and the U.S. stooping down to such petty tactics making up names to call his opponent.

For the sake of the Office of the President of the United States, and the United States itself, so it wont be dragged down any lower than they already have, please help vote Obama out.

We need a President that represents our values. Our values are not to ridicule, call people names, and be disrespectful of people we don't agree with.

Romney proposes Big Change, he just can't remember which of the Big changes he'd committed to last.

Romney says he's the candidate of 'big change'

Yeah, just give him a minute and he'll change to your views at the drop of a hat. :)

After 4 years of Obama's failed leadership, we can only "Hope" there will be some "Change" left in our pockets when he's done.

Median family income is DOWN under Obama while energy costs have risen !

Our National Debt has risen about $5.2 trillion+ under Obama ... without Obama ever having a BUDGET !

Unemployment has failed to improve and the "shovel-ready" jobs were actually just Obama "shoveling it" to the gullible.

We need a President to stimulate manufacturing jobs here in the U.S. again. Obama has stimulated manufacturing overseas and Obamacare will further that trend.

Lord knows, if Obama gets re-elected, he will inherit an even bigger mess than the guy who was elected in 2008. Hope and Change only go so far when you have a clueless President like Obama in office.

I will admit that this mother f'er changes alot.

He already made a big change. He changed his entire belief system to try and get elected. (except for the magic underwear). That reminds me.

"Under My new regime, people will have to change their underwear every half an hour. From now on, all underwear must be worn on the outside so we can check. All persons under 16 years old, are now 16 years old......."

David Noah ...

We need a President that represents our values. Our values are not to ridicule, call people names, and be disrespectful of people we don't agree with.

From that statement, it's pretty obvious who shares "our" values and that is President Obama. Mitt's core set of values are nothing close to middle class Americans. We don't need to give them a "turn." Don't know if you saw this yesterday, but the rest of the world tends to agree with the Democrats ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/23/163473712/if-the-world-picked-u-s-president-obama-would-win-by-a-landslide

Obama/Biden 2012

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said he was the candidate of "big change"...

Romney's idea of giving someone 'big change' is to toss a quarter to them as he drives by in his Cadillac, complete with rooftop dog carrier.

Romney is for Big Change every hour on the hour. Figures if he keeps his supporters dizzy enough he can keep fooling them!

Obama/Biden 2012

Is it that time already? We have to change the clock from Hope and Change to Change and No Hope?

Mitt has outsourced more jobs overseas - just real BIG (sarcasm)

Mitt supports Richard 'The Dork' Mourdock and Todd 'The Toddler' Akin - thus -

Mitt - a BIGOT for real.

A quick look at the history of the number of tax returns each presidential nominee has released prior to the election. Food for thought.

1976 -
Carter: 1
Ford: 10 (summaries only)

1980 -
Carter: 4
Reagan: 1

1984 -
Mondale: 11
Reagan: 4

1988 -
Dukakis: 5
Bush: 14

1992 -
Clinton: 12
Bush: 17

1996 -
Clinton: 15
Dole: 30

2000 -
Gore: 8
Bush: 9

2004 -
Kerry: 20
Bush: 12

2008 -
Obama: 7
McCain: 2

2012 -
Obama: 10
Romney: 2 + (summaries only from 1990-2009, 20 years)

Updated as of 1:30pm EST on Thursday, October 25:

Real Clear Politics (RCP) is consistently cited by both FOXNEWS and NBCNEWS as a current source for
reliable averaged polling data at every level of American politics.

RCP continues to consider the following ten states as "toss-up": Florida (FL), Pennsylvania (PA), Ohio (OH), Michigan (MI), Virginia (VA), Colorado (CO), Wisconsin (WI), Iowa IO), Nevada (NV) and New Hampshire (NH). With only 12 days left in the 2012 presidential campaign, Obama leads in seven of the toss-ups and Romney leads in three.

In descending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Obama, followed in ascending order of 'percentage of lead' in favor of Romney, here are the published averaged polling numbers from RCP as of 1:30pm EST on Thursday, October 25:

In PA, with 20 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 4.8%, down from a longstanding lead of 5.0%.

In MI, with 16 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 4.0%, down from 5.0% for most of the past four weeks.

In NV, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 2.7%, down from 2.8% yesterday.

In WI, with 10 electoral votes, Obama's lead is holding at 2.7%.

In OH, with 18 electoral votes, Obama's lead has risen to 2.1%, up from 1.7% yesterday.

In IO, with 6 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 2.0%, down from 2.4% yesterday.

In NH, with 4 electoral votes, Obama's lead has fallen to 0.8%, down from 1.4% yesterday.

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In CO, with 9 electoral votes, Romney's lead is holding at 0.2%.

In VA, with 13 electoral votes, Romney's lead is 1.4%, up from a longstanding tie.

In FL, with 29 electoral votes, Romney's lead has fallen to 1.7%, down from 1.8% yesterday.

So…

For Obama to win re-election, the easiest route still appears to be through maintaining his existing lead in the five toss-up states where his current margins are widest: PA, MI, NV, WI, and OH. Doing so would bring his electoral vote total on Election Day to 271.

However, should Obama lose the critically important and highly-contested state of OH, the loss could effectively be neutralized by combined victories in IO and NH, while stealing CO where Romney currently leads by 0.2%, resulting in an electoral vote tally of 272.

For Romney to unseat Obama, he not only would have to hold the three states in which he presently leads, FL, VA, and CO, bringing his electoral vote total to 257, but also steal a victory in OH where Obama's lead rose today to is 2.1%. By so doing, Romney's electoral vote total reaches 275.

With only twelve days of campaigning left, this one may come down to the wire…. and to the October jobs report.

Let's hope that Election Day is free of both voter fraud and voter intimidation and that eligible voters who have registered in good faith over the past six months are in fact able to vote on November 6; let's also hope that vote tabulation itself is performed honestly and accurately by both the election commissions and private corporations to whom this essential role is being entrusted.

In any case, it will be interesting to watch as election night unfolds.

"BIG CHANGE"

That's what your paycheck will have in it if Rob-Me wins. It won't however be big change in the workers favor, but big change in the PROFIT of the Corporations that will be sending even more of your jobs to China.

It will be "BIG CHANGE" in your out of pocket expense for health care costs.

It will be "BIG CHANGE" in the SCOTUS when Rob-Me gets to appoint MORE Republican judges so he and his rotten PACS can push more garbage on the American people like "Citizens United" so they can BUY our government COMPLETELY and toss aside the citizens of the United States ONCE AND FOR ALL!!! A vote for Obama will insure moderate judges that will be able to overturn "Citizens United"!!! If you LOVE AMERICA, Vote OBAMA!!!

It will be "BIG CHANGE" if Rob-Me wins and gives MORE tax breaks for the rich and puts MORE of the burden on the middle class. His math doesn't work and never will. You will be SUCKER PUNCHED by the Republicans if they get in power.

Only one question I have for Republicans...If Romney is so great, and such a great American and job creator, then why has he and his buddies moved all their capitol OUT OF AMERICA??? You can't create jobs when your capital is working OUTSIDE AMERICA!!!

One last thing...OHIO, VOTE NOW!!! Don't let Mitts kid and the company he funds that makes your voting equipment (That can change votes with a simple cell phone) STEAL YOUR VOTE!!! Go to your local Supervisor of Elections office and vote on a paper ballot and don't forget to sign your ballot. Don't let what happened in Florida where they used $100 Million in taxpayer money to buy DIBOLD equipment to STEAL THE VOTE and change the outcome of a presidential election.

romney's idea of change is to change america back to the 1850's

no women and minorites voting. no civil rights . no medicare. no social security.

and the workers working for the man at wages that only keep you fed enough to be able to go to work.

It will be big change all right.

Bread lines and vouchers.

He's says he's willing to be a one term President.

He's willing to let the far right plunge this country into the a recession AGAIN with

their draconian austerity measures from the 1920's, along with their social policies from the "Mad Men"

era of the 1950's and their very reckless foreign policy plans from the 80's.

NO THANKS Romney, keep the change.

We had big change under the last republican President. Yes, we're still feeling the pain.

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

Does history repeat? Richard Nixon had a "secret" plan to end the war in Vietnam. Mr. Romney has a "secret" plan to boost the economy. Those of us over 50 remember the consequences of Nixon's plan. Pity those under 40 particularly the working male demographic have been dumbed down to the point where they are swallowing Mr. Romneys garbage!

When Obama took office, the deficit was 1.4 trillion. He's reduced it to slightly less 1 trillion. Which is still huge, but it is going down and is projected to go down further.

What projections?

Among the policy changes that are due to occur in January under current law, the following will have the largest impact on the budget and the economy:

• A host of significant provisions of the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (Public Law 111-312) are set to expire, including provisions that extended reductions in tax rates and expansions of tax credits and deductions originally enacted in 2001, 2003, or 2009. (Provisions designed to limit the reach of the alternative minimum tax, or AMT, expired on December 31, 2011.)
• Sharp reductions in Medicare's payment rates for physicians' services are scheduled to take effect.
• Automatic enforcement procedures established by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (P.L.112-25) to restrain discretionary and mandatory spending are set to go into effect.

• Extensions of emergency unemployment benefits and a reduction of 2 percentage points in the payroll tax for Social Security are scheduled to expire.

CBO's Baseline: Taking into account the policy changes listed above and others contained in current law, under CBO's baseline projections:

• The deficit will shrink to an estimated $641 billion in fiscal year 2013 (or 4.0 percent of GDP), almost $500 billion less than the shortfall in 2012.
• Such fiscal tightening will lead to economic conditions in 2013 that will probably be considered a recession, with real GDP declining by 0.5 percent between the fourth quarter of 2012 and the fourth quarter of 2013 and the unemployment rate rising to about 9 percent in the second half of calendar year 2013.

Because we all believe that these changes will really occur?

An open letter to undecided voters:

There’s been a lot of talk about you folks in the news lately. The whole country is suddenly fawning over your opinions. You’re the subject of unrelenting analysis by every pundit, pollster and political hack with airtime to fill.

It seems to happen like this every four years, as if you were Olympic athletes going for the gold in cluelessness. Every national election cycle, it all comes down to a massive shrug-fest from a bunch of mealy-mouthed swing-state hand-wringers. The fate of the free world is decided by the baffled half-wits who hold up the morning coffee line. Meanwhile, the rest of us are bombarded with a billion dollars worth of political advertising as punishment for your collective decision making disorder.

I have to say, I’m really starting to resent you people. Grow a backbone, already. I can handle the honest anger that comes from political disagreement, but what’s unforgivably frustrating is apathy and hesitation in the face of something that really is important.

Yes, this election actually matters. Those of you on the cynical fringe can save your silly rants about how Democrats and Republicans are all the same. They’re not. It's absurd to think that there’s no significant difference between the two major parties. This isn’t a choice between Coke and Pepsi. Choosing between President Obama and Governor Romney is choosing between a fundamentally competing set of social values and economic policies.

It’s also a choice between two men of inherently different character, one of whom will likely select two or more Supreme Court Justices in the upcoming term. That fact alone should sway your decision one way or the other.

Clearly you’re not a fan of either party, but picking the lesser of two evils is still your civic duty. It’s your job as a citizen to be informed, to understand the basic policy positions of both candidates, and to extrapolate how those policies might affect you over the next four years, so take a hot minute and do your homework.

If you have the wherewithal to call yourself a voter in the first place, then it’s damn well time for you to pony up and decide. It really is the least you can do.

http://www.thedaily.com/article/2012/10/20/102012-wknd-coquette-unsolicited-undecided-voters/

An open letter to undecided voters:

There’s been a lot of talk about you folks in the news lately. The whole country is suddenly fawning over your opinions. You’re the subject of unrelenting analysis by every pundit, pollster and political hack with airtime to fill.

It seems to happen like this every four years, as if you were Olympic athletes going for the gold in cluelessness. Every national election cycle, it all comes down to a massive shrug-fest from a bunch of mealy-mouthed swing-state hand-wringers. The fate of the free world is decided by the baffled half-wits who hold up the morning coffee line. Meanwhile, the rest of us are bombarded with a billion dollars worth of political advertising as punishment for your collective decision making disorder.

I have to say, I’m really starting to resent you people. Grow a backbone, already. I can handle the honest anger that comes from political disagreement, but what’s unforgivably frustrating is apathy and hesitation in the face of something that really is important.

Yes, this election actually matters. Those of you on the cynical fringe can save your silly rants about how Democrats and Republicans are all the same. They’re not. It's absurd to think that there’s no significant difference between the two major parties. This isn’t a choice between Coke and Pepsi. Choosing between President Obama and Governor Romney is choosing between a fundamentally competing set of social values and economic policies.

It’s also a choice between two men of inherently different character, one of whom will likely select two or more Supreme Court Justices in the upcoming term. That fact alone should sway your decision one way or the other.

Clearly you’re not a fan of either party, but picking the lesser of two evils is still your civic duty. It’s your job as a citizen to be informed, to understand the basic policy positions of both candidates, and to extrapolate how those policies might affect you over the next four years, so take a hot minute and do your homework.

If you have the wherewithal to call yourself a voter in the first place, then it’s damn well time for you to pony up and decide. It really is the least you can do.

http://www.thedaily.com/article/2012/10/20/102012-wknd-coquette-unsolicited-undecided-voters/

No past President would slingshot us backwards faster and farther. This is not the change we need. We want to continue moving forward. How difficult is that to understand for some Fox folks? Practically impossible.

Yes, Obama shares your values if you have none.

Romney is all about "big change" alright. If you don't like his position, he'll change it, daily, hourly, heck, even in the same sentence.

When Romney talks about 'big change,' he is talking about 10,000 bucks.

floridamom1

Yes, Obama shares your values if you have none.

says a person who probably voted for Gov. Rick Scott, the CEO of a company that defrauded Medicare for billions of dollars.

Dammit Mitt! Sh^t creeks current hasn't changed! You just turned around from the bow of the boat to face the stern! Thataway Mitt! No! T'other Mitt! Noo! Not you Mitt! The Boat! The Boat! Ahhhhh!.. Ummmmm, aaaaaaaa, ummmmmmmmmmmmmm.........................................................

God please save us from Robme/Lyin' Ryan, and their "big change"!!! . . . a BIG CHANGE to:

* Ryan's "person-hood amendment"

* a fertilized egg having the same 14th Amendment rights to *Life & Property* as the woman in whose uterus that egg sits

* that fertilized egg having at least the same, if not greater rights, than the woman in whose body it sits;

* all abortion outlawed & criminalized - government "pregnancy police"

* a return the the coat-hanger & back-alley abortions of 40+ years ago*vaginal probes*

* if you carry a pregnancy to term, after you have been raped, in *most states* the rapist has the same parental rights as you, the mother, and you will be "negotiating" with your rapist over child support & visitation for the next 18 years. . . . WIC, food stamps & TANF will be gone

DID YOU KNOW THIS???

~ if you are female, there is a 25% likelihood that you will be raped at some point in your life

~ 80,000 rapes result in pregnancy every year

~ nearly half of all rapes happen to children, under age 18

***WOMEN (AND THE MEN WHO CARE ABOUT THEM) PLEASE VOTE DEM! ***

***YOUR LIFE - YOUR SISTER'S/DAUGHTER'S/GRAND-DAUGHTERS - DEPEND ON IT! ***

O & JOE!!! 4 MORE, PLEASE!

Nice letter - Kaybee Toys. I'm a partisan but I still can't see how someone can be undecided when there are such differences in policy. Even despite Romney's cunning strategy to muddy the waters and "etch a sketch" how does his radical changes in philosophy/statements not send off alarm bells.

By "big change", does he mean paying for a cup of coffee with a hundred dollar bill since that's the smallest he has on him?

Mitt's change is just as President Obama said during the debate: banking and finances back to the 1920's, social issues back to the 50's, and foreign policy back to the Cold War.

That's not change, that's regression. We can't compete in the 21st century if Romney walks us backward into the early and mid-20th century.

Everyone here on this board is afraid of "big change" it seems like.

I guess that would mean that people here would have to get up and get a job, since their unemployment benefits would run out when Romney becomes president. Which is a change from those who troll the boards here quite often.

Big change to me means a better economy (Obama's "change" and "direction" is going downward, he keeps preaching that Romney will "go the other way" and "go backwards" from the direction Obama is going. Well, I want to go backwards from Obama's vision because Obama's vision is free falling from the sky!).

Big change to me means a better education system that will not allow unions to dictate if children gets an education or not! Don't believe me? Then look at Chicago!

Big change to me means a stronger leader. Obama's weak leadership not only is shown on the domestic front, but on the world stage also! How many times have Obama screwed up relations with our allies in favor of those who's interests are against ours? Bengazi is just an example!

Big change to me means better medical care. Obama's health care plan is just a glorified insurance scheme. It will not only increase the cost of medicine, but also decrease the total care we recieved before he came into office and increase the total time it takes to see a doctor! Don't believe me? Look at Canada!

Big change to me means a complete reversal of ideology that we have today. Man up for our own mistakes, don't blame others for our own situations and our own ideas. The response should not be "It's Bush's fault!"

I am hoping for big change come November 6th!

Dude, you guessed wrong. Try again, without assuming.

***WINNER***

The Most Ironic Title Award

TO: jim-1455434 who wrote:

"... Median family income is DOWN under Obama while energy costs have risen !..."

Romney wouldn't know a thing about that. Romney is a corporate raider, he doesn't work for the common man or woman.

Romney wants to be POTUS so that he can dine with world leaders, not wallow around with lousy 47%ers.

Obama/Biden 2012

So much for Liberal media. Has anybody noticed how MSNBC is covering the Romney Ryan speeches with live coverage every day of the same speech, while the Obama campaign is getting nothing. Most of the news is about what Romney thinks as well. Yet nobody is calling him out on his fallacious lies, liberal media my a**.

"Big change"? You betcha, Mitt! But THIS change is going to be Bush III" ... but on steroids. Some of the "changes" which come immediately to mind, just going by Mr. Romney's own words and promises during the primaries and general election campaign:

* Goodbye thousands of lives of American service men and women. Preemptive first strike and War with Iran; and a probable painful conflagration in the Middle East because Iran is not impotent like Iran and Afghanistan, but has the military might to hit back HARD!

* Goodbye to our already strained and tenuous relationships with Russia and China

*Goodbye to our guarantee of health care coverage "On Day 1," before any discussion about any sort of replacement has even started!

* Goodbye to Social Security and Medicare as we know it, and have come to rely on for our old age security and well being.

* Goodbye to middle class/middle income tax deductions while the wealthy class will be rewarded with the elimination of capital gains taxes and estate taxes and grow vastly more wealthy as millions more American families slip into poverty.

* Goodbye Roe v Wade and equal protections for LGBT Americans, minorites, the aged and disabled. Appointment of at least 1 more very "conservative" Supreme Court justice: Goodbye to women making their own sexual health decisions; goodbye women's control over their own bodies.

* Goodbye to American worker's protections. Goodbye to collective bargaining rights. The only rights will be held by business owners and corporations.

* Goodbye Environmental Protection Agency. Goodbye clean air and clean water.

* Goodbye Securites and Exchange Commission and regulations and oversight of the Wall Street robbers.

* Goodbye Dept. of Energy and protective regulation of energy producers. Goodbye alternative energy research.

* Goodbye Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management. Wholesale rape and exploitation of public lands by the corporations and plutocrats.

* Goodbye Department of Education. Goodbye American public schools classrooms with less than 35-40 kids per classroom.

* Goodbye Civil Rights, equal rights and voting rights protections.

* Goodbye public access to and protections of our public lands as the strip mining and oil and gas exploration in every corner of America destroys our last pristine preserves of unspoiled beauty. Millions of acres of our Federal lands sold off to the wealthy for exploitation of timber and mineral exploitation.

* Goodbye scientific research funding, and goodbye climate change research as Congress just legislates climate change out of existence.

Oh, and I almost forgot ....

* Goodbye Big Bird. Goodbye National Public Radio & Goodbye Public Broadcasting as we know it.

Everyone here on this board is afraid of "big change" it seems like. I guess that would mean that people here would have to get up and get a job, since their unemployment benefits would run out when Romney becomes president.

Hmmmm, big change? Then why is everything the same old tired crap we got from Bush? It really has nothing to do with unemployment benefits which no one would have needed in the first place if Bush had not trashed the economy. No, Romney's "big change" involves the same old thing - reduce taxes, spend more and count on the economy growing enough to pay for all of it. Sorry, been there, done that, still paying for it!

Big change to me means a better education system - but not to Romney. Have you read Romney's education plan on his site? Just what concrete ideas does it espouse? None! Lots of words, lots of lofty goals, not one solid action anywhere.

Here's Romney's plan for higher ed:

Strengthen And Simplify The Financial Aid System. How? By strengthen you mean...? I am all too afraid I know what he means by simplify. George W. Bush simplified the mortgage loan process in an effort to spur loans to minorities... that led to a housing bubble and millions defaulting on loans because no one had to be qualified for a loan anymore.

Welcome Private Sector Participation Instead Of Pushing It Away. Now this one definitely needs some explanation. The implication is clear - presently, the system is pushing away private sector participation... how? And how will you welcome private sector participation? By making sure everyone pays big money for every hour of class? Yeah, that will guarantee private sector participation, all right - while making already expensive higher education completely unaffordable for all but the rich!

Replace Burdensome Regulation With Innovation And Competition. I am just all too afraid I know what this one entails. Once again, I am reminded of George W. Bush - from one of Bush's mortgage speeches in 2002:

“One of the major obstacles to minority home-ownership is financing. Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac (who I will bail out in 2008) have committed to provide more money for lenders, they committed to meet the shortage of capital available for minority home-buyers. Freddie Mac just began 25 initiatives around the country to dismantle barriers (like income requirements) and create better opportunities for home-ownership. One of the programs is designed to help families with bad credit histories to qualify for home ownership loans (by faking their income) . You don’t have to have a lousy home for first time home-buyers. You put your mind to it the first time low income home buyer can have just as nice a house as anyone else (till those adjustable rates go up). “

The "burdensome regulations" that George W. Bush eliminated in the mortgage industry led to the housing bubble and what we now call the "Bush Recession". What new hardships do Romney's policies point to. In five years will we be talking about the "Romney Recession". Has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? The Romney Recession!

The illumination of the GOP brought to you by their very own "Weapons of Mass Frustration":

Paul Ryan and Todd Akin- Legitimate Rape

"Soup Kitchen" Ryan

Jack Welch - "Those Chicago guys..."

Allen West - Communist's!

Richard Mourdock - "Rape is God's will"

Big Bird Mitt

Rick Santelli - the Teabag wizard

Paul Broun - "Evolution is a lie from the pit of he!!"

the donald - grew up with President Obama in Kenya!

Sarah Palin - Nuff said

"Binders Full of Women" Mitt

Steve King - Gloats about bill to allow animal torture

Willard Romney - The 47% of Americans feel they are entitled

Rush Limbaugh / Sean Hannity - Everything that spews from their mouths

Flip-Flop Mitt

Freeport, Illinois better known as "BAINPort" Illinois to the people losing their jobs to China

Oh I fully agree Mitt Romney is the Candidate of Big Changes alright.

He changed his mind on this ....Hes changed his mind on that....Hell hes changed his mind of just about everything!

I just wonder if Romney ever stops changing and morphing at all?

Romney says hes full of Big Change today, but I think he's been Full of it all along.

Don't fall for this game of Charades Romney Plays!

Vote Obama Biden 2012! End this Blockade of our Nations Recovery by the Republican Party!!

Vote Straight Democrat! Protect Women's Rights!

I think you have to be totally ignorant of the reality if you vote for Romney.

There will be a lot of change, none of it for the good (of the common people) and whens that's done he'll run for re-election promising that he'll get it done with four more years. After that,the last one left in the country after China repossess' it please turn off the lights.

We don't need to worry about Al-Qaeda, we've got Romney/Ryan.

Wake up America! Vote Democratic and vote out the Tea Party/ Koch/GNOP.

I was a beneficiary of the economic safety net that the Republicans are out to destroy. In the mid-seventies I moved to California, jobless, because my son had a birth defect-related need for surgery. Although I had health insurance I needed temporary financial assistance. I was given food stamps and general assistance (welfare) for a couple of months during which time I became employed and began paying taxes. I finished graduate school on the GI bill and advanced. Long story short, I payed substantial taxes over the next four decades on family incomes in many cases well over $100,000, and now pay taxes on my IRA savings as I withdraw them.

Republicans campaign on the notion that "takers" are lazy and undeserving of assistance. I am proof that the economic safety net works. Those who would destroy that safety net are uninformed (lazy), mean-spirited, divisive and undeserving of our votes. Obviously, we need constant vigilance to ensure that our economic safety net is not creating a class of takers, but accusations that current recipients of aid, especially during this economically trying time are disgusting.

Perhaps he means "big pocket change" because that would be all he left us with.

Yeah, Romney is the candidate of “big change” alright….. He changes his position on every issue so often; it can only be described as “big change”.

Anybody that actually trusts this pathological liar must be brain dead.

And after a big Romney win we will have to have you all deprogrammed

Romney 2012

So what is President Obama’s solution? He is actually president, not just a candidate, and therefore in a position to do something. His approach is explicitly detailed in his 2013 budget proposal, available on www.budget.gov. This is an excellent source since nothing says more about a president’s priorities than his budget. It is not just a campaign document, it is what he actually proposed to Congress.

The document is rather long, but a helpful summary table can be found on page 205, presenting the projected revenues, outlays and deficits for a 10-year period. It is frightening. It projects deficits totaling $6.6 trillion over 10years, starting at $901 billion dipping to a low of $575 billion, then rising to $704 billion. That’s right: the deficit actually starts increasing again, digging us deeper into the hole. Clearly the president has no credible plan for reducing, much less eliminating, the deficit. This is not leadership.

Our nation’s economy is its most valuable asset with everyone’s livelihood depending on it. President Obama may prefer to focus on other important problems such as health care, education and the environment, but without a robust economy to generate the money to pay for his programs they are just empty promises. America can do better.

Harry Dolan served on the Marshfield Board of Education from 2004 to 2009 including three years as chairman of the Finance Committee.

And kids just because Obama team gives you a ride to vote you don't have to vote for him remember that.

TO: Rgray1965 who wrote:

"And kids just because Obama team gives you a ride to vote you don't have to vote for him remember that."

I sure ain't voting for Mitt Robme.

Maybe if they want to vote for Romney they ought to wait for the "Romney Bus" to go get them.

Obama/Biden 2012

Who would someone going in and making "big changes" as to be unsettling? It makes me nervous to hear a goof ball like Mitt Robme say something like that.

No thank you Mr. Robme. I'll keep the President we have. He does good work, and he's an honest man that we know we can trust.

Obama/Biden 2012

To EENGINEER--If the words Romney Recession has a nice ring to it then how about Romney, Ryan, Recession. The three R's would stand for Romney-Ryan-Recession.

As far as remarks that President Obama makes about Romney and some people don't like it or they think it is below our President to make. Let me just say that Romney can run all over and LIE about President Obama, and change his positons on every issue. I see nothing wrong with picking on remarks that Romney makes.

And one other thing. I think the Attorney General needs to look into those voting machines that the Romney's bought. I think this is a conflict of interest.

From Pennsylvania, lets vote Obama/Biden 2012

Why arn't Romney's suporters like Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld out campaining for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan? After all, they have alot to gain if he is elected.

And what is this I see that Romney wants one term? How can he get anything done when he said it would take 8 years or 12 to fix the budget.

Obama/Biden 2012

""The Obama campaign doesn't have a plan," Romney said. "The Obama campaign is slipping because he's talking about smaller and smaller things despite the fact that America has such huge challenges and that this is such an opportunity for America, and that's why on November 6th I'm counting on Ohio to vote for big change!""

This another lie Obama does have a plan. Romney has a plan that was Bushes plan, Reagan's plan. Look where that has taken us. This man is complete and udder phony.

Honest men don't spend MILLIONS of dollars hiding their college records

Something to think about

David Noah The president has the right to call mitt Romney a liar if that is what he is. The president has the right to call mitt Romney a flip-flopper if that is what he is. Our politicians need to be held accountable for the words they speak and that includes the president as well. By comparison Romney lies and flip-flops much much more than Obama ever thought about doing. WE DON"T NEED ANYMORE BIG CHANGES RIGHT NOW. When Romney says that he will create 12 million jobs, He is lying, The economy will create 12 million jobs no matter who is president. IF you don't believe it check it out, It's true. This man is a complete phony, he is talking head that says nothing except what people want to hear. He does not stand behind his word. After all business is business and the end justify the means. What a crock.

Randy Honest men don't withhold showing their tax returns for the last 10 years. It is clear that they both have something to hide. Quit your arguement all one sided. It does not work. Something to think about

I think it needs to be stated daily - none of the teabagging trolls above have given any specifics as to why they feel Miss Mittsy is the better choice. No ideas, no specifics...not even a heartfelt assumption.

After reading the disgusting posts about Colin Powell's endorsement and the vapid "I hate Obama" here, my only conclusion is that the teabaggers are completely racist. Period. They will (obviously) lie, cheat and steal to remove the man from the White House that they think is of an inferior race. They will whore themselves to the Mormon (completely against their evangelical brainwashing) simply because they hate African Americans more than they hate Mormons.

Miss Mittsy panders to these neo-nazi evangelical scum and it is a refelction of his own character. He will either sell his morality for a vote, or his beliefs correspond with theirs. If he was half a man, he would stand up to this trash, but he won't. Miss Mittsy is a liar and a coward.

Yeah. Big change, alright. Mittsy doesn't even know who he's sold his soul to.

Romney's campaign is like that old schoolyard comeback: "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you," except this is how Romney must say it: "You're rubber, I'm glue, whatever you say ... I use in my campaign."

Point taken but

Do you have all 10 years of tax returns? Do you want everyone in the entire world going thru your taxes for the last 10 years?

He was audited by a reputable accounting firm that he paid 13%+ in taxes for those 10 years.

At his income level the IRS doesn't give any slack. Death and Taxes

WI + IA + NV + VA will do it too (without OH)

Need more Obama surrogates campaigning in VA

Reposting these two NewsVine comments from, "BO 2012," and from myself, 'rradiko':

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BO 2012

The Republican'ts have a very straight forward agenda:

Kill Obamacare
Kill Medicare
Kill Medicaid
Kill Social Security
Kill Unemployment Insurance
Kill Finance Reform
Kill Food Stamps
Kill Labor groups
Kill Taxes
Kill NPR
Kill Regulation
Kill Science
Kill Welfare
Kill Gun Control
Kill Animal Rights
Kill NASA
Kill The IRS
Kill Civil Rights
Kill Collective bargaining
Kill E.R.A.
Kill taxes on the 1%
Kill minimum Wage
Kill Planned Parenthood
Kill Public Schools
Kill the Post Office
Kill Early Voting
Kill FCC, FAA, FDA, FISA
Kill Pell Grants
Kill Clean Energy
Kill EPA
Kill FEMA
Kill Contraception
Kill Abortions

Etc.

#1.179 - Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:24 PM PDT

rradiko

I would also add:

Kill off Food Inspectors
Kill off all sanitation regulations
Kill the Public Sector
Kill off the voting rights of legal minorities, elderly, students, women, working class, the handicapped...
Kill off the word, "United," in, "States of America."
Kill off our Stars and Stripes and our Bald Eagle, and replace both with a cowardly yellow flag of a coiled, ugly snake that wants to kill you.
Kill Choices.

(...Is there anything the radical right won't kill off?)

#1.180 - Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:55 PM PDT

What is it about Romney articles that the Liberal spammers find so attractive. They blow up every thread that even mentions his campaign. They must be really scared, especially with the recent poll results.

Randy, The point in wanting Romneys actual returns is to answer questions about Bain and when he left. Summary doesn't do that.

John, which "recent polls results" are you referring to? The ones marketed on Fox News that fail to mention that they randomly survey only conservative voters in certain regions or districts, plus or minus a few points?

Instead of polls, I rely on other sources in prediction-making.

How Gamblers -- History's Most Accurate Election Forecasters -- Are Betting on 2012

As of this writing, betting at the three biggest prediction markets is as follows: Betfair has Obama with a 64 percent chance to win to Romney's 36 percent; Intrade has the president at 58 percent; and the Iowa Electronic Markets have the president at 59 percent. Oddschecker shows bookmakers to be even more bullish on Obama.

"Gamblers have more experience with cheaters. They take voter fraud into their metrics. Polls don't. Nor do polls take into account intangibles like how each state's secretary of state factors in or systems within a state designed to eliminate voters."

In 2008, 90 percent of gamblers correctly forecast an Obama victory. They were also on the money with 48 of 50 states.

Gamblers' success in this arena is nothing new. In presidential races beginning in 1896, the New York Times, Sun, and World provided daily betting quotes. The papers' sources were bookies who had agents at every stump and whistle-stop to gather intel and quantify popular sentiment. Between 1884 and 1940, the bettors erred on just one of sixteen elections, Wilson's 1916 upset of Hughes.

Ironically, polls sent gamblers to the sideline. "Prior to Gallup's introduction in 1936, newspapers had little to report about the election horse race other than the betting markets," Strumpf explains. "When scientific polls came along, newspapers had something to report other than markets they were oftentimes uncomfortable with."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-thomson/how-gamblers--historys-mo_b_2011534.html

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." (U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 21, 1864,letter to Col. William F. Elkins, in The Lincoln Encyclopedia, by Archer H.Shaw).

"The selfish spirit of commerce... knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain." --Thomas Jefferson to Larkin Smith, 1809. ME 12:272

80 top CEOs tell Obama, Romney to slash social spending


By David Walsh

26 October 2012

The chief executives of 80 large US corporations have issued a “Deficit Manifesto,” calling on the next president to “fix America’s debt” by making substantial “changes in the federal budget.” The statement was published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Behind the innocuous phrases is the demand by some of the richest individuals in America for the slashing of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and a general offensive against the working class.
The CEOs’ letter, signed by a “Who’s who” of CEOs at giant US banks, financial firms and industrial corporations, calls on politicians to acknowledge “that our growing debt is a serious threat to the economic well-being and security of the United States.” It calls for Washington to adopt “an effective plan [to] stabilize the debt as a share of the economy, and put it on a downward path.”
The plan should be enacted now, “but implemented gradually to protect the fragile economic recovery and to give Americans time to prepare for the changes in the federal budget.” In other words, their proposals would worsen life for wide layers of the population, who need to “prepare” themselves for a drastic decline in their conditions.
Making no reference to the trillions of dollars made available to the banks during the financial bailout nor the trillions more that go toward imperialist war and the global defense of their economic interests, the company heads insist that the target of a plan to “fix America’s debt” should concentrate on the programs that assist tens of millions of working people, the poor and retirees.
They argue that a plan must “Reform Medicare and Medicaid, improve efficiency in the overall health care system and limit future cost growth” and “Strengthen Social Security, so that it is solvent and will be there for future beneficiaries.” These are code words for gutting these programs, which the wealthy consider an intolerable drain on resources…

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/ceos-o26.shtml

Big Change? I think he wants to be America's first boss. He wants to turn American into a Corporation. He is right about change. America will change into China, where the government tells everyone where to work, where to live, where to go to school, what to learn, and how your wife will bow to your every whim. His church still believes Polygamy is the right thing but at this point they understand the majority of American's don't feel that way so until he is able to change things (become President) he and his church will live by our laws. He believes Latin America is the answer to our success and the reason he feels that way is because with his Mexican families help he wants to turn Mexico into China. A country we can exploit. A country where there are no labor laws and a man will still work for $5 a day. There is one thing I like about him I will admit, he won't give Driver's License to illegals. There is just one problem with that though; Driver's License is a state authority not Federal. Where he came off saying that in one of the debates blew me away. Does he really think we are that stupid? Oops I really didn't' want to get into the way he thinks of us but since I did, does he really think we are so stupid we don't know Iran has beaches? Does he really think not raising taxes is the way to go?

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Blogs/Fiscal-Cliff-Notes/2012/10/25/CEOs-Pressure-Congress-to-Make-Debt-Deal.aspx#page1

He has already signed a pledge to Grover Norquist not to raise taxes so I don't see how he can fix our debt.

Does he really plan on day 1 to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act? What is going to happen to all those people that have pre-existing conditions? How about the people in the hospital that will lose their insurance? With out this health care police who will pay for these insurance policies if insurance companies decide to keep them on a plan, remember it's funded by the policy. I would like to know how Governor if you can call him that plans to lower the price of coal so it is more compatible with natural gas and then convince the energy companies to buy it. One other thing about coal, if the price drops does the price drop also to China? It seems China is buying up a lot of our coal so it would seem to me if anything we would want the price of coal to remain high. I love the new Google pictures it just added to its maps, you know the ones that show all the mountain top removal that is going on to get at the coal. It really makes such beautiful landscape.

Why arn't Romney's suporters like Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld out campaining for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan?

Wouldn't that just be the kiss of death? Hasn't anyone else noticed just how absent most of the "movers and shakers" from the last Republican administration are? The last thing Republicans want to do is remind voters of the f'ing mess they left the country in at the end of the last Republican administration. But I remember... and I am gonna remember for a loooong time!

Be aware that most of Bush/Cheney's advisors and staff have been hired by Mitt Romney. The very same people behind the scenes, who didn't get nearly the kicking around they deserved for their asinine economic and foreign policy advice to Bush, are now advising Romney. You can expect more wars that benefit only Halliburton and another, deeper recession as Republicans double-down on stupid with their "voodoo economics".

I voted for Bush the first time. I voted against Bush the second time when I saw just how everything he ran on was the exact opposite of what he did. Oddly enough, Romney is running on pretty much the same platform that Bush did - hell, with the same advisors that Bush had! I expect we will get the same results if he is elected.

There is no change. Romney is and always has been a lying weasel. Take the recently released court testimony, keeping in mind he is under oath:

At a Staples board meeting in September 1987, Romney and fellow board members agreed to set the value of the company’s common shares at one-tenth of one cent, the transcript shows. Romney acknowledged on the stand that he previously testified that he believed the value of the common shares at that time was roughly $1.30 a share.

“You voted in favor of that, did you not?” an attorney for Sullivan Stemberg asked of the board vote for a one-tenth-of-a-cent valuation. “But you’re telling the court that on the same day the share was really worth $1.30?”

“That’s correct,” Romney responded.

“Now, was it your true belief when you voted on September 22 that the value of the stock was one-tenth of one cent?” the lawyer asked.

Romney answered: “It was my true belief that one could justify one-tenth of one cent as the value of the common stock but that the stock was probably worth more than that.”

They voted to say the company was worth 1300 times less than it actually was, so that the CEO could appear to have less money. This was simply a scam to make sure his assets were devalued.

Romney was called in the divorce trial to testify about the likely value of Staples, and some have alleged that he gave a misleadingly low estimate, which helped Tom Stemberg, a friend, avoid paying a larger settlement.

Romney says this is nothing at all. I say that a board of directors that conspire to purposely represent a company at a ridiculously low value in order to cheat a woman out of a fair divorce settlement is fraud.

That's what you would get with Wrongme. Backroom, closed door deals, cheating and lying.

WAPO/ABC POLL: INDEPENDENT VOTERS MOVING TO ROMNEY

The latest Washington Post/ABC tracking poll shows voters moving toward Romney since the third debate:

As Romney hits 50, the president stands at 47 percent, his lowest tally in Post-ABC polling since before the national party conventions. A three-point edge gives Romney his first apparent advantage in the national popular vote, but it is not one that is statistically significant with a conventional level of 95 percent confidence.

Results from the tracking poll were first released Monday evening, and had Obama at 49 percent, and Romney at 48. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the results were flipped, with Romney at 49 and the president at 48. All of the results are among likely voters.

Two of the four nights reported here include interviews conducted entirely after Monday's debate in Boca Raton

THE POLL SHOWS ROMNEY WINNING INDEPENDENTS BY 19 PERCENTAGE POINTS!!!

Should that advantage stick, it would be the sharpest tilt among independents in a presidential election since Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide win. (Reagan won independent and other unaffiliated voters 63 to 36 percent, according to the exit poll). Obama won them by eight in 2008.

BYE BYE OBUMBO!!!

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Romney will bring change all right and many of you posters have already elegantly said how this change will "benefit" the middle and working classes...............I can't add anything other than to hope there is a God that will punish all of the Romney lies and Ryan hate for women