As with his (lack of) true business acumen, Romney can't come up with an attack plan on his own, so he "harvests" Obama's instead. As with harvesting hair, once a Pirate, always a pirate.

You mean changing this country back to the Bush years Romney? Thanks but no thanks.

Romney is a empty wind sock,you can see the many ways he blows.

backfire

Re: the Benghazi Cover-up. Correct!!! It was really the Chinese that attacked the consulate. They were just made up to look like Libyan terrorists! Only the National Enquirer is reporting the correct details. You are wise beyond your years my friend...

mitt is a complete bore. one should not be a bore to oneself, as he appears to be. believing in his change policy is the sign of a delusional man and a delusional party. the billionaires, the millionaires care only about keeping their money and their supposedly entitled power, and do not care about the rest of us who are lost in the economic abyss 0 one that the POTUS has worked so hard on changing only to be met by the likes of Eric the judas Cantor, John the crybaby Boehner and the aging and senile Mitch McConnell. No is their answer, their only answer for winning is everything and progress is thrown under the bus. Mitt offers nothing but more good news for the welathy, the corporations, the banking sector and of course the defense contractors. women can expect to be abolished, yes abolished losing all rights to choose their own destiny abused on the gender. Mitt the mormon and Paulie boy the Catholic represent two of the most reprehensible religious orders/cults in the history of mankind and rarely offer any glimpse in spirituality or the cleansing of the soul 0 which is what Mitt needs to do - talk about Delphi, posthumous baptisms by his cultish Utah based tax exempt and tax exempt violating activist activities, the outsourcing of jobs to china, his own tax returns which are dreadfully hidden from sight, and of course Paulie boy and his moma on the trail speaking softly and lying through his white boys teeth while knowing full well that this budget they have popped up with will destroy the middle class and that is their aim.

we need a man who will serve the interests of the nation, not the fabulously wealthy2%.

Obama/Biden 2012

ARE YOU KIDDING!! LOL! Look at this from Obama own web-site as gleaming example of Romney's out-sourcing!! A TOTAL OF 829 JOBS!!!

http: //www.barackobama.com/romney-offshore-outsourcing//www.barackobama.com/romney-offshore-outsourcing/>
No lie! Hilarious!

Meanwhile, companies are running to China escaping the highest corporate tax rate on the planet, the Roman Legion EPA, Unions, and above all Obamacare.

This has translated to:
2.6 million Commercial foreclosures
Over 3.8 million business have gone out of business
38,000 US products moved offshore for manufacturing
The lowest number of patents in 35 years

And GM?

Bush signed TARP, as well as, the Bail-Out of GM which at the time was only $13 Billion placed in a working escrow. Obama over saw the administration of the funds, as well as, the re-structuring of GM.

With $50 Billion in their pocket in 2009, GM closed 13 plants, including the one in Janesville, laid off 21,000 workers. These plants were not part of Obama's approved re-structuring plan for GM.
Investing in China was. They opened 11 new plants, and hired 35,000 Chinese.

http: //www.financialexpress.com/news/general-motors-opens-new-plant-in-china/399643//www.financialexpress.com/news/general-motors-opens-new-plant-in-china/399643/>

http: //voices.yahoo.com/uaw-furious-over-gm-plant-china-426020.html/voices.yahoo.com/uaw-furious-over-gm-plant-china-426020.html>

http: //careers.gm.com/careers-worldwide/asiamiddle-east/china.html/careers.gm.com/careers-worldwide/asiamiddle-east/china.html>

GM has 11 joint ventures and two wholly owned foreign enterprises as well as more than 35,000 employees in China. GM, along with its joint ventures, offers the broadest lineup of vehicles and brands among automakers in China. Products are sold under the Baojun, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Opel, Wuling and Jiefang nameplates. In 2011, domestic sales of vehicles by GM and its joint ventures jumped 8.3 percent on an annual basis to 2,547,203 units. It has been the sales leader among global automakers in China for seven consecutive years.

Those GM Chinese cars have been imported for a year now.

If we give $50 Billion to a failing car company, is it not reasonable to have them use those funds to keep plants open here and not closed them like the one in Janesville?

General Motors Corp. will shift more production of vehicles bound for the U.S. market to China, Mexico, South Korea and Japan, but will keep total imports at roughly one-third of all sales here.

In a confidential 12-page presentation to members of Congress, obtained by The Detroit News, GM said it will boost U.S. sales of vehicles built in those four countries by 98 percent -- or about 365,000 vehicles -- while shrinking production in Canada, Australia and European countries by about 130,000 vehicles.

GM also has been importing vehicles made in China in 2011, reaching 51,546 vehicles in 2014. Imports from South Korea to the United States will jump from 36,967 vehicles in 2010 to 157,126 in 2014.

GM's plan to import more vehicles from low-wage countries raises questions about whether it should beef up its foreign operations as it is relying on federal money to stay afloat. It also puts the automaker at odds with the United Auto Workers, which is trying to protect U.S. jobs amid a dramatic restructuring of the domestic auto industry.

GM has faced strong protests from the union that its turnaround plan unfairly targets U.S. workers and plants for cuts. GM plans to trim 21,000 hourly workers and close 13 of its 47 U.S. plants by the end of 2010 as part of a tougher recovery plan sought by President Obama's auto task force. It will close three more U.S. plants by 2014.

And G.E?? Apparently Immelt's idea of being part of the solution is to ship as many jobs overseas as he possibly can.
A recent article on the Huffington Post/www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/21/obama-picks-jeffrey-immel-ge-jobs-overseas_n_812502.html> documented how GE has been sending tens of thousands of good jobs out of the country....

As the administration struggles to prod businesses to create jobs at home, GE has been busy sending them abroad. Since Immelt took over in 2001, GE has shed 34,000 jobs in the U.S., according to its most recent annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But it's added 25,000 jobs overseas.

At the end of 2009, GE employed 36,000 more people abroad than it did in the U.S. In 2000, it was nearly the opposite.

GE is supposed to be creating the "jobs of tomorrow", but it seems that most of the "jobs of tomorrow" will not be located inside the United States.

The last GE factory in the U.S. that made light bulbs closed last September. The transition to the new CFL light bulbs was supposed to create a whole bunch of those "green jobs" that Barack Obama keeps talking about, but as an article in the Washington Post noted/ www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706933.html?sid=ST2011013003428>, that simply is not happening..

Obama's jobs record: Better than Bush's

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Mitt Romney is accusing President Obama of overseeing the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression.

And months of disappointing jobs growth means the president could face Election Day with fewer workers than on the day he took office.

Obama battles job crisis

The U.S. lost 4.3 million jobs in President Obama's first 13 months in office. Track his progress since then.

But Romney's accusation is wrong -- President Obama's job gap isn't the worst. In fact, it isn't nearly as big as the one President George Bush faced eight years ago.

Read between the lines folks, when Romney says he and Ryan plan to implement some Bold New ideas to fire up the economy, Romney means he and Ryan are going to Privatize Social Security and Medicare to Bolster Wall street profits and profits of companies like the multi-national corporation AIG who borrowed billions in bail out money from taxpayers........Trickle down prosperity is still the motto of the republican party......god forbid

” The statement was published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

If your little blurb was in the Wall Street Journal, why didn't you post the link to the WSJ instead of the WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE?

I know you and many others that visit this site are socialist but to continue with your ideals are going bring a more harsh awakening to the American working class than it would by weening the sucklings gradually. BUT, that is the goal of socialism, to have everyone dependent on the government.

The grand visions of people like you, that hate people with wealth and want take it away in the name of making everyone the same is BS. Do you really think that there is no wealth or upper class in the Socialist or Communist countries in the world, you better open your eyes. That is what the nut in the White House wants.

Change Obama promised. He has kept that promise this country has changed faster in the last 4 years, than any other time in our history. Khrushchev promised, he would bury us, he too is keeping his promise. We were too blind to see what he was talking about, we just geared up our military and arsenals and dared him to do something. Obama's change, we were all looking more freebies and the good life. He didn't hide anything, he started the Change as soon as he took office. He took down our flag and put up his own logo, he renamed the cabinet members Czars and most blattant, he showed publicly his disrespect for this country.

I just watched a Obama endorse add where some sweet innocent looking young girl talked about giving up her virginity for Obama.

Is that the change we wanted?

Obama, the worst President yet. And now a perv.

Romney,nobody wanted him in 2008. The first thing he did as a candidate,in 2012,was to try and rig the Iowa primaries.

Of course Obama has to vilify Romney - because there's no way Obama can run on his record! Foreign policy? Benghazi! Economics? Shovel ready jobs & stimulus after stimulus! Jobs? Millions out of work (but don't count the ones who have given up, even though they don't have jobs)! Income? Cost of living soaring, even if the govt. doesn't count food and energy in the equation! Energy? Didn't Obama promise to end our dependency on foreign oil? Green energy? Solyndra! Terrorism? Obama has "decimated" al Quaeda, don't you know? Or, has he??? Transparency in government? Hoo - Ha! Not even worth a comment.

In short, Obama has failed on every single campaign promise, except Obamacare, which will destroy the best medical system in the world. It will also hasten the destruction of the economy, and ruin Medicare. Somebody will have to pick up the payments to doctors and hospitals that Obamacare won't make - if you don't have supplemental insurance, you're gonna die because no hospital or doctor will take you as a patient.

The choice is simple - do we as a country want to maintain Obama's status quo? Or, do we want to try to return to the America we used to be - a prosperous, vital world power, both socially, economically, and militarily.

OMG= Obama Must Go

Remember in November!

Mitt is an empty suit with no real ideas of his own.

Read the 2700 pages, it is full of hidden taxes. is an abbreviated list of taxes on families and businesses introduced by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), known as Obamacare, totalling more than $500 billion over the next ten years as prepared by the Americans for Tax Reform:

Excise taxes on charitable hospitals ($50,000 per hospital if they do not meet HHS criteria of "community health assessment needs," billing and collection," and "financial assistance" (PPACA, 2010, pp. 1,961-1,971)

Codify "economic substance doctrine" (IRS will not allow any legal deductions or tax-minimizing plans because it lacks "substance" and is intended to reduce taxes owed); this is a tax increase of $4.5 billion (Bill Reconciliation Act, 2010, pp. 108-113)

"Black liquor" tax on a special bio-fuel (Bill Reconciliation Act, 2010, p. 105)

Tax on innovating drug companies (PPACA, 2010, p. 1,971-1,980)
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Increase (PPACA, 2010, p. 2,004)

Ten percent tax on indoor tanning (PPACA, 2010, pp. 2,397-2,399)

Medicine cabinet tax disallows Americans to use health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, or health reimbursement pre-tax money to buy over the counter medicines except insulin (PPACA, 2011, pp. 1,957-1,959)

HSA Withdrawal tax hike from 10 to 20 percent (PPACA, 2011, p. 1,959)

Employer reporting of insurance on W-2 forms, taxing health benefits on individual tax returns (PPACA, 2012, p. 1,957)

Surtax on investment income for families that make at least $250,000 or $200,00 single (Bill Reconciliation Act, 2013, pp. 87-93)

Medicare payroll tax increase (PPACA, Reconciliation Act, 2013, pp. 2,000-2,003, pp. 87-93)

A 2.3 percent excise tax on medical device manufacturers (PPACA, 2013, pp. 1,980-1,986)

Medical expenses can be itemized if they exceed 10 percent, no longer the previous 7.5 percent, resulting in fewer people being able to itemize (PPACA, 2013, pp. 1,994-1,995)

Flexible spending account cap of $2,500 which is now unlimited (PPACA, 2013, pp. 2,388-2,389)

Eliminate tax deductions for employer-provided retirement prescription drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D (PPACA, 2013, p. 1,994)

Limit of $500,000 annual executive compensation for health insurance executives (PPACA, 2013, pp. 1,995-2,000)

Individual mandate excise tax starting in 2014 if a person does not buy a "qualifying" health insurance, 1 percent in 2014, 2 percent in 2015, 2.5 percent in 2016; exempted are hardship cases as determined by HHS, religious objectors, undocumented immigrants, prisoners, those earning less than the poverty line, members of Indian tribes (PPACA, 2014, pp. 317-337)

Employer mandated tax, non-deductible of $2,000 per employee if the employer does not offer health coverage and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit; if an employee receives coverage through the government exchange, the employer penalty for that employee increases to $3,000 (PPACA, 2014, pp. 345-346)

Tax on health insurers based on premiums collected per year (PPACA, 2014, pp. 1,986-1,993 (this all but forces employers to stop offering insurance, forcing their employees onto the government exchanges)

40 percent excise tax on comprehensive health insurance plans or "Cadillac plans" (PPACA, 2018, pp. 1,941-1,956)

Rather a 2012 status quo than a change to the middle ages.

Obama/Biden 2012.

Now Romney is running on the message of "change." Tomorrow it'll be "hope." What an idiot.

1. Passed Health Care Reform:
2. Passed the Stimulus:
3. Passed Wall Street Reform:
4. Ended the War in Iraq:
5. Began Drawdown of War in Afghanistan:
6. Eliminated Osama bin laden
7. Turned Around U.S. Auto Industry
8. Recapitalized Banks:
9. Repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell":
11. Told Mubarak to Go:
12. Reversed Bush Torture Policies:
Two days after taking office, nullified Bush-era rulings that had allowed detainees
in U.S. custody to undergo certain "enhanced" interrogation techniques considered
inhumane under the Geneva Conventions. Also released the secret Bush legal
rulings supporting the use of these techniques.
13. Improved America's Image Abroad:
14. Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant
Spending:
15. Created Race to the Top:
16. Boosted Fuel Efficiency Standards:
17. Coordinated International Response to Financial Crisis: To keep world
economy out of recession in 2009 and 2010, helped secure from G-20 nations
more than $500 billion for the IMF to provide lines of credit and other support to
emerging market countries, which kept them liquid and avoided crises with their
currencies.
18. Passed Mini Stimuli:
19. Began Asia "Pivot":
20. Increased Support for Veterans:
21. Tightened Sanctions on Iran:
22. Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants:
23. Passed Credit Card Reforms:
24. Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws:
25. Protected Two Liberal Seats on the U.S. Supreme Court:
26. Improved Food Safety System:
27. Achieved New START Treaty:
28. Expanded National Service:
29. Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection:
30. Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco:
31. Pushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders:
32. Passed Fair Sentencing Act:
33. Trimmed and Reoriented Missile Defense:
34. Began Post-Post-9/11 Military Builddown:
35. Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission:
36. Invested Heavily in Renewable Technology:
37. Crafting Next-Generation School Tests:
38. Cracked Down on Bad For-Profit Colleges:
39. Improved School Nutrition:
40. Expanded Hate Crimes Protections:
41. Avoided Scandal: As of November 2011, served longer than any president in
decades without a scandal, as measured by the appearance of the word "scandal"
(or lack thereof) on the front page of the Washington Post.
42. Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill:
43. Created Recovery.gov
Web site run by independent board of inspectors general looking for fraud and
abuse in stimulus spending, provides public with detailed information on every
contract funded by $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Thanks partly to this transparency, board has uncovered very little fraud, and
Web site has become national model: "The stimulus has done more to promote
transparency at almost all levels of government than any piece of legislation in
recent memory," reports Governing magazine.
44. Pushed Broadband Coverage:
45. Expanded Health Coverage for Children:
46. Recognized the Dangers of Carbon Dioxide
In 2009, EPA declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, allowing the agency to
regulate its production.
47. Expanded Stem Cell Research
48. Provided Payment to Wronged Minority Farmers:
49. Helped South Sudan Declare Independence:
50. Killed the F-22: In 2009, ended further purchases of Lockheed Martin
single-seat, twin-engine, fighter aircraft, which cost $358 million apiece.
Though the military had 187 built, the plane has never flown a single combat
mission. Eliminating it saved $4 billion.

Obama is the worst President we have ever had. He was by ne means delt a "rough hand", as proclaims. Bush signed TARP into law cleaning up Clinton de-regulation of the banks and the criminal neglect of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Bush also placed the first Bal-Out funds of $13 Billion into a working escrow account.

Oh, we get the Liberal mantra "we were bleeding 750,000 a month". Well no, it was one month, December 2008. And it was 720,000. Now we have 23 Million out of work. Geez, I'll take the 720,000 at this point.

Obama even had control of the congress, and even a $867,000 Billion stimulus filled with his "Tickle up" policies where he promised us a %5.5 unemployment, a green economy with five million jobs, and a cut in the deficit by half. What did we get? A measly $1 trillion added to the GDP in four years. That will barely cover the stimulus, it will not cover the deficit.

Obama Trickle up policies have translated to a huge failure and losses.
* 23 million Americans are out of work, have stopped looking for work, or are underemployed
* $16 trillion national debt (that's $50,000 for every American)
* 43 straight months of 8% or higher unemployment
* 4 straight trillion dollar budget deficits in a row -- more than any other president combined
More trickle up failues:
18.9% unemployment for Blacks
9.1% for woman,
685,000 woman lost their job and health insurance(who cares about FREE birth control when you do not have health insurance)
The poverty rate for woman has gone up to 14.2% from 7.6%
We have 6 million fewer jobs than 3.5 years ago
3.6 million Residential foreclosures
2.6 million Commercial foreclosures
Over 3.8 million business have gone out of business
38,000 US products moved offshore for manufacturing
The lowest number of patents in 35 years
The highest number of people receiving food stamps in 30 years
A 26% decrease in the value of the dollar
The fewest new prescription drugs in 25 years, 308 prescription drugs in short supply (as of 6/1/11)
Housing values drop 33%
It gets worse:
FOOD STAMPS
Obama - 46.2 million : Before Obama - 28.2 million
CREDIT RATING
Before Obama AAA - Obama AA+
GAS PRICES
Before Obama - $1.65 a gallon (End of term) : Obama - $3.80 a gallon (Current)
(Source: )
UNEMPLOYMENT
Bush - 4.71% (Average) : Obama - 9.4% (Average) - 8.1% Current
( Source: www.bls.gov )
NATIONAL DEBT
Bush - Increased 4 trillion (8 Years) : Obama - Will increase 18 trillion (8 years, according to OBAMAS budget)
(Source: www.treasurydirect.gov )
DEFICIT
Bush - $0.5 Trillion per year : Obama - $1.8 Trillion per year
(Source: www.federalbudget.com)
JOBS
Bush - GAINED 3 million jobs over 8 years : Obama - LOST 6 MILLION JOBS IN 3 YEARS
INFLATION:
Bush +0.1% (End of Term) : Obama +3.6% (Current)
(Source: www.usinflationcalculator.com )
This is called failure. Shall we look at his foreign policy now? In light of current events, do we really need to go there.

I voted yesterday in NC. The lines were huge. By this time in 2008, Obama already had a 330,000 vote edge which lasted to the election day. This time, it is much more different. The Charlotte Observer reported equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans voting early this year, pointing toward a Romney victory in the state.

Just think, Righties......four more years of kissing our Dem asses.

Then you have eight years of Hillary to deal with.

You guys are so irrelevant.

Those were not Bush policies that led to the melt-down. Clinton gutted the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and replaced it with Risk-Based Deregulation and sub-primes. This is what led to the melt-down.

Clinton also signed NAFTA which is the mother of all out-sourcing.

Clinton was blessed with a dot.com boom which had nothing to do with his policies in generating. He did lower the cap gaines which rolled private sector investment into the Silicon Valley.

This translated to 23 Million jobs, and the government tax coffers filled.

Now, we have 23 Million out of work because of the policies he signed into law.

Guess he thinks he broke even.

Romney stands in front of a factory and claims President Obama is not tough on China, the same factory that the Obama Adm went to bat for that very Co, fighting China bringing in cheap strand components that this factory made the Obama Adm stopped China.

Romney claims that he read that all Jeep jobs were going to shipped overseas, stood up at a rally and said it like it was fact! He got it off of a right wing blog. They are adding jobs on the jeep lines.

Romney stands in front of another Co and says that the Obama stimulus didn't help save or make any jobs, this Co received 700,000 in stimulus money.

Romney is running around the country with doom and gloom, about how bad it is and how none of Obama's policies have worked.

And why do republicans eat it up? And say can I have some more lies please?

Romney Mr Flip-flop liar, and maybe next election he can run for Panderer and Chief!

O&JOE

Hey there is awhole lot of free space over at CNBC.com that needs filled up. Spread your influence spread your voice. Post at CNBC.com

The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 was signed into law by Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999. With the stroke of a pen, Bill Clinton ended an era that stretched back to William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson and reached fruition with FDR and Harry Truman. As he signed his name, in the whorls and dots of his pen strokes William Jefferson Clinton was also symbolically signing the death warrant of Liberal America and its core belief in the level playing field that had guided the Democratic Party. But it was the gift of the pen to Sanford Weill and its assuming an honored place on the Wall of Me that rubbed salt in the wound.

However, the bill was passed in a republican held congress, but the vote in the senate was 90-8. That means most of the democrats voted for it too. Clinton's treasury guy, Robert Rubin pushed the bill through and then took a cushy job at Citibank, who had the most to gain since they had already started a merger with Travelers Group insurance. Clinton gave the pen he used to sign the bill to Sandy Weill, the CEO of Citibank, it is now displayed in their headquarters.

You talk about the republicans having control for the first six years of "W"s presidency. Remember that it took several years for the subprime loans started after deregulation to begin failing. The people that took out ARMs that had 2, 3, or 5 years before their rates went up and hoped their income would go up during that time are the ones to blame!

Clinton gutted the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and replaced it with Risk-Based Deregulation and sub-primes. This is what led to the melt-down.

Clinton also signed NAFTA which is the mother of all out-sourcing.

MSNBC--Still no Libya story? Why is that? Your lack of journalism is revealing.