It is easy for the Perry Hall neighbor to say the President failed or lacked leadership but when your Republican led Congress said from the beginning that their main goal was to make him a one time President, what did she expect. No President has the power to make critical changes without its Congress. Cooperation is key, unfortunately you can't just fire people from the White House as you can in the private sector.

I'll address just one part of your comment - Succession of policy.

Mitt Romney has one term as a governor - all of his other experience is in the private sector. That is not to condemn him, but he does not have many public sector connections from his career. If you look at his staff of advisers, there are very many who served GW Bush in similar capacities. So he doesn't have the chops himself (okay), but who will he get his advice from? And without the personal experience, how will he know what to follow and what to not follow? Since he is tight-lipped on policy and wants us to elect him first, that is one reason why many see his administration as a continuation of Bush.

So basically, the idea here is that because Obama couldn't fix a decade + of Republican mess making in four years time, he should be fired and replaced by....another Republican.

Brilliant.

@ Zee, for two years he and his party had filibuster-proof control of Congress. That is why we are in so much trouble. The notion that the Republicans were able to stop anything is just another lie.

@ Tim: You have no clue. Under Bush we saw a record 53 months in a row of job creation. In 2006, when the democrats took over Congress, the economy was doing well. The catalyst for the collapse was the housing market crash which was the direct result of democrat corruption. If not for the democrats forcing banks to make bad loans, starting with Carter's "Community Reinvestment act" which was accelerated by Clinton and Janet Reno, the collapse would never have happened. No less than 4 times Bush and the Republicans tried to increase oversight of Fannie and Freddie and the democrats blocked all those efforts. McCain said "I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole." The democrats said Fannie and Freddie were fine. Then they collapsed and brought down the entire economy. Who created the mess?

great letter. I completely agree. I think when people are really educated on the actual facts, they tend to agree as well. Sometimes its not about having a 'cool, hip' president, but a leader who has been proven before. Sometimes, no ones going to agree 100% with either side, or they may like some aspects of one and the other...but sometimes its about the greater good. The more experiance.the lesser of two evils.

Very well put Steve. It gets me furious that people are too ignorant to realize what slobbering liberals like Barney Frank have done to this country.

I know what you mean - those 2 unpaid-for wars, all those brave soldiers killed. But we did find those WMDs, didn't we?

"Mitch McConnell said in October 2010 that his party's primary goal in the next Congress was to make Obama a one-term president." It is difficult to fault President Obama for failing to achieve bipartisanship given the Republicans stated goal to thwart his legislative agenda to ensure he was not re-elected. They even refused to bring the President's American Job Act to the floor for a vote. This legislation would have cut taxes for small businesses, prevent 280,000 teacher layoffs and keep firefighters and police on the job, cutting payroll taxes in half for 160 million American workers, investment in rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges putting millions back to work. The Republicans refused to even vote on this important legislation because they don't want President Obama to succeed regardless what this means to middle class Americans and the economy. The policies of the previous Republican administration almost destroyed the economy and yet Romney has promised to not only return to those policies but to cut taxes even further on the wealthy and raise middle class taxes. President Obama has my vote to be the Leader of the Free World for four more years. He will continue the economic recovery. Remember, it took 8 years to push the economy to the edge of collapse. It will take longer than four years to completely repair it. The Romney/Ryan plan will take us over the edge of economic collapse.

Sarah Lawrence

@ Honeygo Hal: Right Hal, we found no WMDs. Except for the 55 metric tons of yellowcake uranium. And the mobile chemical weapon labs. And all those chemical artillery shells. And all of those entire facilities that were broken down and moved to Syria. You're right, we didn't find anything.

@ Sarah: On the other hand, the Republican-controlled House has passed numerous jobs bills and budgets with democrat support, only to have Harry Reid refuse to let them even come up for a vote in the Senate. The Senate which is required by law to pass an annual budget and has not done so for approaching four years. Obama proposed one budget and it was such an unparalleled disaster that the democrat-controlled Senate voted it down 99-0.
You are also spreading lies about Romney. He promised to raise taxes on the middle class? Wrong. Not even Obama has accused him of that because it is a ridiculous lie. You know who has increased taxes on the middle class? Obama and the democrats. Obamacare, which was shoved down the throats of Americans even though the vast majority of them opposed it, is the largest tax increase in the history of the world, and right in the middle of the worst recession since the depression. And this after Obama himself said that "You never want to raise taxes during a recession".

@ Sarah: As I made clear above, it was the democrats and their corruption of the housing market that caused the economic collapse. I was in the business and we saw it coming years earlier too. The economy and jobs were fine until the democrats took over Congress and started wildly increasing spending, which was already too high. Obama will continue the recovery? What recovery? The one that has seen gas prices go from $1.89/gallon to $3.80/gallon? The one that has seen unemployment go from just over 5% to nearly 15%? Yes, 15%. The 8% number does not include the millions of people who have given up looking for work. it is a lie. The one that has seen our credit rating reduced for the first time ever? The one that saw the debt go from $10 trillion to $16 trillion? What recovery?

After all the comments have been made, and digested by each and every voter,the decision on whom to vote for in November is a very simple one.Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?
With 39% of the average American's wealth evaporated since President Obama's election;and, no one going to jail for it,the answer is simple.As Clint Eastwood put it," If you have an employee who can't do the job,you would fire him."

For the love of Pete stop referring to him as "Governor" Romney. The title of Governor ends when you leave the job. There can only be one Governor of any state at any time.

Steve, you can refuse to believe whatever you want. All of those things were found and they were even acknowledged by all of the major media outlets who were doing everything they could to harm Bush. Here is the yellowcake uranium story from Bush-hating MSNBC. I was wrong about one thing though. It was 550 metric tons, not 55.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/

All anyone needs to know about Obama and this election can be found right here in his own words.

http://www.ijreview.com/2012/09/15290-case-closed-if-moderate-voters-see-this-video-its-over-for-obama/

@ Sarah: Yes, you definitely work for Obama because you couldn't find the truth with a divining rod and GPS. Some of your claims make me laugh out loud. Obamacare is going to massively increase both the deficit and the cost of health care. This fact is acknowledged by every source from the CBO to private medical advisers. Gas prices are determined by far more than crude prices and claiming that Obama has increased domestic oil drilling significantly is delusional. Drilling under his control has come to a virtual standstill. The only increases have been on private land outside his control. His illegal drilling ban not only cost thousands of jobs in the gulf region, but it significantly reduced our production capacity in the gulf. More on why in a minute. Presidents have a huge ability to influence prices, When they rose under Bush, his mere threat to greatly increase domestic drilling drove the price down by half. OPEC is scared to death that we will stop letting the democrats block domestic production and increase our energy independence.

Obama's illegal drilling ban (it was ruled illegal by 2 separate federal courts and he did it anyway) was for a reason. From the top: A report was released several months before the disaster detailing rigs which presented a safety risk. Deepwater Hoirizon was on that list. The Obama administration gave BP as pass on all their rigs and removed them from the version of the report that was made public. May have something to so with Obama getting more money from BP than any other politician. He then did nothing, he didn't even talk about the disaster, for almost three weeks. Finally he instituted his illegal ban citing the supposed danger of drilling at such great depths. These depths are the result of democrat restrictions put in place to appease their special interest contributors. Continued....

Why ban drilling? Because inactive rigs do not just sit. they are leased to new operators. George Soros, the most evil living human and Obama's puppet master, invested $900 billion in Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil company. Less than a week later Obama promised Petrobras $2 billion of our money to help them drill at depths nearly twice that which he said was unsafe for us to drill at. When our rigs went down because of his illegal ban, guess who took possession of those rigs. Wait for it....Petrobras!!! What a coincidence. Obama has blocked all attempts at increasing our energy independence. The Pentagon rightly sees our dependence on untrustworthy "allies" in the Middle East as our number one national security threat. Romney's energy plan for North America will end that dependence and that threat.

Ooooooh. Allecperts.com. They're almost as reliable as Wikipedia LOL. All former Presidents, Governors, Senators, and Representatives, are referred to by their former titles unless they hold a subsequent office and it is not at their own insistence as you insinuate.

Steve, of the many untruths in your comment is that I must work for President Obama. I don't. There is no point refuting your shockingly uninformed claims because you are so clearly wallowing in hate for President Obama you wouldn't believe anything I said. And this is not admitting defeat or in any way an admission that anything you said resonated with me. I'm just appalled, as always, when listening to a Republican's version of the world. As a political and news junkie, I have never heard such garbage in my entire life. And I'm a voracious reader. Goodbye.

Beyond all the other arguments, Romney just cannot be trusted. He has supported virtually every position on virtually every issue. I won't list them here - they are everywhere on the Web.

In his career at Bain Capital, decisions were pretty much made based on the money - the dollar ruled the policy. So he could change his position as long as the outcome produced the dollars. That is not the case for the POTUS, and I don't want such a mercenary running our country.

Hal, do you understand venture capital at all? Apparently not. Bain capital, and other venture capital companies, are contacted by companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy or who need help expanding. They ask companies like Bain to invest in them and rescue them. In the vast majority of cases they were successful. They took a one store office supply company and turned it into Staples. They rescued or built AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, Dunkin' Donuts, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America, Sealy, The Sports Authority, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel into the thriving businesses they are today. They created tens of thousands of jobs. The despicable ad Obama ran about the woman with cancer was not only a lie, but it was after Romney left and one of Obama's top donation bundlers was running Bain. Sure, we are better off with Obama, who has never held a real job, just about never told the truth, concealed his entire past, and spoken all through his life about his disdain for America while associating with pretty much no one who wasn't a marxist. That is much better than a successful business man.

The above comment is intended for Steve. Honeygo Hal, thanks for your reasoned, truthful comments. It as getting lonely on here.

Wow, lots to respond to. I'll address Sarah first since she has no clue about pretty much anything. I speak of Obama despising America because I take him at his word. There are endless videos of him from his college days right up to his worldwide apology and bashing America tour after taking office. It is easy to understand if you look at his influences and associates all through his life, from the communist professors he said in his book that he sought out, to the man he identifies as his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, the infamous communist activist. Rachel Maddow! LOL. That explains it. That laughingstock has been caught lying more often than Obama. Just search "Maddow caught lying" on Youtube for endless videos of her embarrassing herself. And Ted Kennedy! The Hero of Chappaquiddick. There's another reliable source. No wonder you have no clue.

Hal, you are consistently wrong, but at least you make a valiant effort at making sense. Just search them. You'll find stories from CNN, MSNBC, and several UJK papers about the labs and shells. If you look at the total cost of both wars up to today, they still have not exceeded Obama's first stimulus package.

As far as tax cuts go, they have worked to stimulate sagging economies every time they have been tried. Most notably when J.F.K. did it, when Reagan did it, and when GWB did it. You democrats fall for the lie that they have to be "paid for". Your politicians see it that way because they see the revenue as their money and can't stand giving up a penny, but they ignore history. Every time across the board tax cuts have been implemented, revenue to the government has increased because of the huge boost in the economy. Revenue to the federal government from the implementation of the Reagan tax cuts to the end of his administration had just about doubled. Unfortunately, the democrat-controlled Congress, true to form, spent every penny of the increase and more.

Hal, what do you think made all the mortgage securities with credit default swaps necessary? Lenders were sitting on too many bad loans that the democrats forced them to make and they were trying to stay in business. That is the whole point. I'll admit, I had insight into this since I was in the mortgage business, but you don't need insight to understand it. It is very simple. My company saw the danger and avoided it by avoiding subprime altogether. All we did was VA loans for veterans. We avoided the discrimination lawsuits filed by the Clinton justice department against any lender who did subprime but tried to act responsibly and not grant loans to people who could not afford them. BTW, Obama represented ACORN (you know, the corrupt group he denies any connection with in spite of the numerous videos of him addressing them and talking about how their goals are his goals) in one such suit against Citibank.

"The above comments brought to you by Rush, Glenn Beck and Faux News - facilitated by heavy doses of conservative Kool-Aid." LOL. I love how you lefties who are brainwashed by the likes of Maddow, Chris "tingle up my leg" Matthews, and NBC love to pretend we are the ones who are brainwashed. As far as I know, none of them talked about the Gulf disaster corruption. I found out about it because I pay attention to the press in Europe. Media outlets in the UK and Germany were all over that. In fact, if the coverage of Obama in Europe over the last two years was widely known over here, he wouldn't even be running again.

As to the despicable ad, it was "unfortunate"? Unfortunate? The most despicable batch of lies ever spouted? And yes, the Obama campaign did run the ad in addition to the Super PAC ad. In fact, Both ads show the lying steel worker in the same clothes on the same set and that has resulted in calls for an investigation into an obvious campaign finance law violation because of their coordinating the filming of the ads. I won't bother listing how every single thing he said was a lie because you, like pretty much everyone in the country (except for Sarah I'm sure), seem aware of the situation. I especially loved when Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager, went on national TV and denied any knowledge of Joe Soptic or his situation, and the next day the airwaves were full of the recording of the campaign strategy call months earlier that she hosted where he was the featured guest speaker and they called each other by their first names. Priceless! I love that you question Romney's qualifications when you support the least qualified candidate ever to run. Community Organizer, LOL. Right. that qualifies you to be President.

Speaking of foreign papers, they have been all over the massive pack of lies regarding the Bin Laden raid. Obama cancelled missions targeting Bin Laden three times. When he was approached about this mission he balked, would not render a decision, and went to play golf AGAIN. Obama did not give the order and was not involved in any way, other than being an obstacle. Even Obama-loving Time magazine reported on the decision being made by Leon Panetta to give all control over going or not going to Admiral McRaven, commander of the Seals. Once the mission was underway and they had verified Bin Laden's presence, Obama had to be fetched form the golf course so he could be there to watch the mission unfold. If you look at the famous (or infamous) Situation Room photo, you see Obama sitting there, still in his white golf shirt, hastily covered up by a jacket. Most of the press over here is also ignoring the fact that the Pentagon informed Obama that they had recovered Bin Laden's computer and had information on the location of nearly 30 top Al Qeada leaders and told him they needed at least 24 hours before the mission was made public to take these leaders out. Obama was on TV the next morning bragging about how "he" had gotten Bin Laden. As a result, all of those terrorist leaders knew they were in danger and they all escaped.

In a related story just out this week, remember how the Seal Team that conducted the raid lost most of it's members when a helicopter was shot down not long after the mission? The parents of some of those Seals have gotten together with some military officials and found out the details of that disaster. The helicopter was a CH-54 Chinook. These are large, slow helicopters. Because of Obama's treasonous rules of engagement, the Army was not allowed to shell the area the helicopter was going in to ahead of the mission in order to secure the landing zone because they could not guarantee that there were no non-terroists there. As a result, the helicopter was shot down. Even worse, those same rules of engagement prevented the Army from firing on the terrorists who launched the RPG-7 that shot the Seals down because they were in a house and Obama's rules prevent firing on a house unless it is know that there are no other people in there. Disgrace does not even begin to cover Obama's responsibility for the deaths of those men and those parents are not going to let this go. Our media will have to cover it eventually and when they do, Obama is even more done than he is now. He should be brought up on charges.

LOL. We've heard it all before. There are just a lot fewer people falling for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fZgQhnNRSuw

Steve, your version of the truth is so far removed from reality, even a GPS couldn't find it. I hope your conspiracy theories and wild, wholly untrue accusations about President Obama and anyone else you disagree with keep you warm at night. This conversation with you has been truly enlightening. I've never met anyone who sees the world the way you do. And I hope never do again. Be well.

Sarah, you must never get out. The majority of the country sees the world the way I do because they are paying attention to more than Rachel Maddow. There are very few people left who don't care about the country or their own families enough to find the truth and face it. Do some actual research. Read Obama's own books. Watch videos of what he has said through the years. My "conspiracy theories and wild, wholly untrue accusations" are based on nothing other than what Obama has said and done and are 100% provable fact.

Steve, I have been paying very close attention my entire life and my interpretation of the policies of President Obama and the Republicans is extremely different than yours. I stand by mine and don't feel the need to consider your conspiracy theories which have no validity whatsoever.

Hal, I was no big fan of going into Iraq either. It didn't have anything to do with Bush "nuzzling up to his father". That is just silly. From 1997 on, all of the major democrat players: Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Rockfeller, and others said the exact same things about Saddam and his WMD efforts as Bush did. I did see one defense analyst put forward an interesting theory that I have not hear before. Everyone knew that Iran was going to be a problem before long. Having control of both Iraq and Afghanistan would put us in the position of having Iran nearly completely surrounded and isolated. I wonder if that really did play a role? I would hope not, essentially conquering two countries for ulterior motives, but more heinous things have happened.

Hal, you are right about securities firms having moral and ethical responsibilities, but they were given a legislative green light for what they did. There are people on both sides of the aisle responsible for that green light. Banks that had been forced to make bad loans were on the verge of Bankruptcy and something had to be done to cover everyone's butts (as usual). It is indisputable that Bush and the republicans tried several times to increase oversight of Fannie and Freddie and that they were blocked in those efforts by the democrats, led by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Blocking those oversight changes are what led directly to Fannie and Freddie failing and the housing crash that was the catalyst for the entire economic collapse. It is all a matter of public record and there are numerous videos of the debates on the floor.

Hal, you place too much faith in the stones of the "right-leaning media". There have been plenty of valid reasons to not only criticize, but to impeach Obama that Fox News has not bothered to speak of. Most recently, Obama's illegal Executive order granting amnesty and job permits to illegal aliens. Something that a short time before he said himself that he would not do because he did not have the legal authority to do so. When he announced that we saw an exceedingly rare glimpse of mainstream media stones when a reporter (I believe from ABC) yelled out "What about all the Americans who can't find work" at the prospect of giving illegal aliens access to jobs.

And Hal, the helicopter incident is not a conspiracy theory. Some of the involved parents and their sources spoke in public about it for the first time last week. The anger of the Seal community about this is also what spawned the recent book exposing Obama's lies about the mission. There is much more to come. They are not going to let it stay covered up.

Hal, I tried your link about the Bush tax cuts but it didn't work. If you want to see the positive effect of their passage just do some research into federal government tax revenue by year. The Bush tax cuts were instituted in two parts. The first in 2001 and the second in 2003. Tax revenue to the federal government from 2003 on was as follows: 2003 - $1.782 trillion, 2004 - $1.880 trillion, 2005 - $2.154 trillion, 2006 - $2.406 trillion. Just as with every across the board tax cuts in history, tax revenue to the government grew substantially. In a related vein, revenues during the first two years of Clinton's administration remained just below $1.1 trillion, but after the republicans took over Congress in 1994 it grew steadily to 1.824 trillion by the end of Clinton's term. Bill did some things right after the republicans took over. Welfare reform, etc. He had to be dragged kicking and screaming to most of them but he did sign them.

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=200

And one more comment to address:

"By your reckoning, that would place responsibility for the 4804 deaths by America and its allies on Bush, while trying to make his father proud of him - not to mention the civilian deaths and the huge cost to American taxpayers. Interesting."

What? Exactly what does Obama's incredibly stupid and dangerous rules of engagement that endanger the lives of our troops have to do with Bush? Bush placed no such idiotic restrictions on our troops.

Sarah, yes it is, because your interpretation is based on the ranting of laughingstocks like Rachel Maddow and mine is based on Obama's own words and actions.

Sarah, you are walking, talking proof that there are certain prerequisites to being a liberal/democrat/socialist/communist etc. You have to be able to not only ignore truth, but to attack it. You have to be able to believe in an ideology and policies that have an unbroken record of failure and misery as something that will one day magically work. And last, you have to have an uncanny ability to consistently lie to everyone, including yourself.

Today we have more and very unfortunate evidence of the result of having a President who is not only completely incompetent, but who has alienated our allies and supported the enemy. The Israeli Prime Minister's speech makes clear their complete distrust of our leadership. This situation with Iran is completely Obama's fault. When there was a true uprising for freedom in Iran he ignored it and continued to support their radical terrorist leaders and now there is a very real chance for war. But, when the terrorists in the Muslim Brotherhood wanted to take over in Egypt and Libya, he jumped at the chance to support them, and now our Ambassador and other Americans are dead in Libya. And not only has he promised billions of our dollars in support of this terrorist organization, and they are recognized as such by our government, but he has hosted them in the White House and had security protocol ignored in order to facilitate the presence there of a wanted terrorist without his being arrested. This is surreal. If someone wrote this as a fictional story, that the US would have a President who has not only led his own country to economic ruin, but done more damage to foreign security than any other leader in history, it would have been branded as something too damaging to be realistic. And yet it is really happening.

LOL Tinfoil Hat time. Dude you're delusional if you think the President had anything to do with a Chinook being shot down in Afghanistan.

Hal, sometimes it seems like you are trying to make sense. Other times, like now, you seem like a mindless Obamabot like Sarah. War between Israel and Iran is extremely likely according to every analyst who has spoken. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu requested a meeting with Obama to discuss the imminent war with Iran and was told that Obama doesn't have the time. BUT, the same day, Obama announces that he does have time to appear on Letterman. And you support this dangerous nitwit. At least his administration apologized to the people who attacked our embassies and killed our people. No, they really did. Before he made his big bogus speech about seeking justice, they apologized for the movie that has enraged "the religion of peace" even though that was not the reason for the attacks, which had been planned for some time to be on 9/11.

Romney's statement was exactly what heeded to be said. It was what a leader says. It was what an AMERICAN leader says. If you can look at Obama's actions over the last two days and attack Romney on foreign affairs you are as completely incompetent on the issue of foreign affairs as your leader is.

Tim, Romney is hurting US/Russian relations? LOL. I'm sure you said the same thing about Reagan. You were completely wrong then too. Do you pay any attention at all? Russia's stance has been increasingly provocative ever since this weak incompetent fool took office. They even began probing our western airspace with their bombers again. His weakness breeds daring and aggressiveness.

Even if you ignore all the damage Obama has done here at home, this middle east situation is all you need to know for this election. Israel and Iran are about to go to war. Israel's Prime Minister asks for a meeting with Obama to discuss the matter and is told that Obama doesn't have the time. The same day Obama announces that he has the time to appear on Letterman, and to attend even more celebrity fundraisers for himself with Beyonce and Jay-Z. When students in Iran demonstrated, demanding freedom, Obama ignored them and didn't even talk about the situation until he expressed his support for the radical regime against the demonstrators. But, when the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization recognized by our government as a terrorist organization with ties to Al Qaeda, Hammas, and other groups, started riots in Libya and Egypt, Obama jumped at the chance to help them overthrow the leaders of those two nations. Mubarek in Egypt was a staunch US ally who maintained peace with Israel for decades. When the brotherhood took over, thanks to Obama, their first action was to declare Israel as the enemy and their destruction as their goal. Gaddafi in Libya, despite his history, had become an important source of intelligence after he learned his lesson when Reagan ordered him taken out. He had bee supplying us with intelligence on terrorist training camps for years.

Congress, republicans and democrats together, knowing that Obama's friends in the brotherhood were terrorists, voted against providing aid to them. Obama acted on his own, approved a waiver, and gave these terrorists $1.5 billion of our money in support. Money that we don't have, during the worst recession since the depression. Obama has eliminated two allies, greatly strengthened the terrorist enemy, and as made obvious in Netanyahu's speech, convinced our strongest ally, Israel, that we can no longer be trusted, just as he did the Eastern Europeans at the beginning of his term. No President, no leader of any nation, has done the staggering amount of peacetime damage that Obama has done not only to our nation, but to the world. All that I have said about this is easily verifiable and true. I find it increasing hard to remain civil with anyone who still supports this man or his party.

Hal, Steve, Tim, and Sarah, you are a glaring example of why the founding fathers did not trust the responsibility, not the right, the RESPONSIBILITY, of voting to just anyone. They knew it was too important to hand out like candy on Halloween to just anyone. They limited it to only those landowners who had a vested interest in the success of the nation, because they knew they would strive to remain informed. And no, it wasn't about race as you lefties like to believe. There were black landowners, and black slave owners, in the Colonies. Those of you who do not care enough to find or face facts, who would vote for Satan as long as he ran as a democrat, and who continue to lie to yourselves and everyone else, have no business voting for the leaders of this country. You would not be allowed to vote for the policies of a company whos business you do not understand, why on earth should you be voting for the leadership of this nation?

You know, It's interesting that everyone is all over Obama about the problems in the middle east. Sure, he helped the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood dispose of the leaders of Egypt and Libya and take over those countries. Sure he then gave those same terrorists over $1.5 billion that we don't have in the middle of the worst economy since the depression.

Now we hear that ambassador Stevens had sent a message that the security at the embassy was inadequate, and nothing was done. One of the other men who was killed had posted a message that day saying that they expected an attack, that security was not sufficient, and that he hoped they were "not going to die tonight".

Why is everyone mad at Obama? All he is doing is what he said he would do. In his book "Audacity of Hope", Obama said, and I quote: I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds blow in an ugly direction". That is what he is doing. Standing with the Muslims, not with America. He told us this people. In that same book he told us he was a Marxist too. Why is anyone surprised?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-romney-campaigns-vie-advantage-president-maintains-lead-article-1.1161540

Mitt Romney, sticking both feet in his mouth. Pretty epic.

This one's particularly rich:
"
“And had he been born of Mexican parents, I’d have a better shot at winning this,” the candidate said, referring to the presidential race, and getting a big laugh from the crowd. “But he was unfortunately born to Americans living in Mexico. . . . I say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be Latino.”

Stick a fork in Romney. He's done.

LOL. You guys have spent so much time trying to convince people that the MSM lies are true that you're falling for them yourselves. Romney's comments aren't going to hurt him. They are exactly what the majority of Americans want to hear right now. All of the interviews I have seen about it drive that point home, even on CNN. Government handouts have bankrupted this country and anyone with the slightest trace of intelligence knows it and knows that something needs to be done NOW. Our credit rating was just reduced AGAIN. The only two times in our entire history and both because of Democrat/Obama policies. Obama has a dream of a greatly diminished America and he has done much to bring it about. Keep dreaming guys. Keep believing the MSM polls that over-sample democrats. There are three polls that have decent records of success. All of them have Romney ahead, and the only two that have correctly predicted every single Presidential election since 1980 both have Romney winning by more than 100 electoral votes. Obama is going to lose BIG TIME. That means America wins.

And I did notice that none of you tried to defend what Obama has done to the middle east. Wise move. Especially since we learned even more today. The Obama administration had advance warning of the impending attacks and did nothing. And the administration's pathetic lies, which everyone knew were lies from the start, that these attacks had anything to do with a movie that no one has seen, have been once and forever exposed by the intelligence sources on the ground who have stated that there was no protest or riot going on at the embassy before the attack. It was a straight out attack and the movie nonsense was started afterward as a coverup. A coverup that Obama is supporting for his terrorist friends in the Muslim Brotherhood. As I said, no reason to be surprised here. He came right out and told us in his book that if things got ugly he would stand with the muslims, not with America, and that is exactly what he is doing.

Liberals are especially good at ignoring truth and fact. Even when it comes from their own left-leaning media. Here we have proof!

Administration had warning of attacks and did nothing:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/revealed-inside-story-of-us-envoys-assassination-8135797.html

http://www.examiner.com/article/eyewitnesses-no-protest-at-u-s-consulate-libya-before-attack-began

Attack was planned in advance and had nothing to do with the movie:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-usa-libya-consulate-attack-idUSBRE88I13P20120919

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012/09/12/deadly-embassy-attacks-were-days-in-the-making/57752828/1

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2012/09/libyan-president-no-doubt-consulate-attack-preplanned-135664.html

In the middle of this worst-ever recession which his party caused, Obama gives $1.5 billion of our money, which we do not have, to the terrorist-connected Muslim Brotherhood

http://www.investigativeproject.org/2581/fbi-chief-muslim-brotherhood-supports-terrorism

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-gives-egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood-1-5-billion-without-congress-approval

There are many, many more sources all exposing the democrat's lies. And still the administration keeps spouting the lie that this was about some movie that no one has seen and keeps apologizing to the terrorists who killed our people. And they keep funding the Muslim Brotherhood. And still Hal, Tim, Steve, Sarah, FIFA, and others keep supporting the most damaging, anti-American leader and party this nation has ever seen.

And now we learn, and are not surprised by, the fact that the Romney tape, exactly like the Zimmerman tape, was edited by Obama's propaganda ministry to make Romney look bad. The corruption that exists between the democrats and the media would have made Josef Goebbels blush.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/critical-audio-gap-in-complete-romney-tape-released-by-mother-jones/

LOL. A far left site (Politifact) tries to lie their way around the facts by quoting a far-left newspaper saying that "It turns out that the money was actually an aid package to Egypt itself, not the Brotherhood, according to a March 22 story in The Washington Post."

Hilarious. Do you think at all before posting this garbage? Who do you think the "aid package" went to? Do you think they took it around and distributed it house-to-house to the people? Do you think they left it in the sand? It went to the new leaders of the country, The Muslim Brotherhood. Geeez, you democrats just don't think at all do you?

Does Steve (2) = Joe? Lot of similarities!? Mostly linkitis.

Lies. Right. That's why I cite sources and you just attack and accuse.

Steve, again, you really just do not think. You can not debunk Obama's apology tour when there are scores of videos of him and what he said, live, in person, in his own words. Like I said before, the prerequisites of being a democrat are that you have to be able to not only ignore truth, but to attack it. You have to be able to believe in an ideology and policies that have an unbroken record of failure and misery as something that will one day magically work. And last, you have to have an uncanny ability to consistently lie to everyone, including yourself.

Did you read the article? Loosen up your tinfoil hat, turn off the Limbaugh.......

You're being duped and are too dumb to realize it.

Thanks for proving that you are a typical judgmental democrat who thinks you know everything about everyone. I don;t listen to Limbaugh, or O'Reilly, or Hannity, or Beck, or any other pundits. I also, unlike you, realize that even they are nowhere near as biased or guilty of brainwashing as NBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and so one. You know, all the sources you get your delusions from. Also, "dumb" means you are unable to speak. Buy a dictionary. And yes, I read the article, but I see more validity in vidoes of Obama showing exactly what he said than I do in far-left newspaper that are in the tank for him trying to explain it away as though it didn't happen, much as they did with the unbearably stupid comment about how it was only an aid package and it went to "Egypt itself" and not to their leaders. Think for a change. Exactly who do you think "Egypt itself" is? Exact same denial of fact here.

@FIFA. I know you probably don't read much, at least, not anything credible, but links are the online version of footnotes. Footnotes are citations of sources for information. You see, those of us with the truth on our side can site sources. We don't just spout off a bunch of irrelevant nonsense like you do.

Tim Pawlenty Quit as Co Chairman of Rmoney's campaign.

Crash and Burn Time!

FIFA, you claim to be self employed and yet you support the democrats. There can be no one more stupid than you. You post garbage with no citations and accuse others of avoiding facts. It's kind of sad that you don't realize just how much of a fool you are. If you did, you wouldn't support a Marxist who is so damaging to you and every American. I, like most Americans, do watch Fox, because they are the only news organization that is not biased. If you ever actually watched instead of spouting uninformed B.S. (a habit of yours) you would make a fool of yourself by claiming they are biased. On Fox you have far left people like Bob Beckel, Alan Combs, Juan Williams, Susan Estridge, Sheperd Smith, and others who are either on every day or who have their own shows. How many conservatives are on Obama's propaganda outlets?

You should probably go to the library and read a book about Karl Marx and Marxism before you make yourself look any more misinformed.

Faux News = Bullshit Mountain

So let's look at the last four years. The US credit rating has been reduced for the the first and second time in our history. Unemployment, REAL unemployment, U6, which includes the millions of people who have given up that the democrats refuse to talk about, is approaching 15% and has been over 10% for three years. More has been added to the debt and deficit in four years than in the well over 200 years encompassing all previous Presidents from George Washington through Clinton. Although Bush spent way too much money, Obama has spent twice as much in half the time. All of our allies have been alienated and no longer trust us. Our terrorist enemies have been emboldened not only by our weakness, but by Obama's monetary support. He helped the terrorists gain control of Egypt and Libya, which has completely destabilized the middle east and is leading to war. Anti-American demonstrations are more widespread than they have ever been.

The prices of gas, energy, and food are all setting record highs and continuing to rise and not only can this be directly linked to Obama policies, but you can find videos of Obama stating that higher gas prices are a good thing, and that energy prices will "necessarily skyrocket" under his plans. After stating that you never raise taxes during a recession, Obama has saddled EVERYONE, especially the middle class, with the largest increase in taxes in human history. The CBO has again adjusted upward the amount that Obamacare is going to increase the cost of health care for the middle class while destroying the quality of care.

The day the democrats took over was not January 22, 2009, it was actually January 3, 2007, the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate at the very start of the 110th congress. At that time the GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%. The Unemployment rate was 4.6%. Gas was $1.89/gallon. Republican economic policies under Bush set an all-time record of 52 months in a row of job creation.

January 3, 2007 was the day the Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee. The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the Economy? BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

The democrat-controlled Senate has not passed an annual budget, as required by law, in four years. Obama did submit one, and it was such a disaster that the democrat-controlled Senate voted it down 99-0, and the house voted it down 141-0. This is a legislative record for failure.

Sure, this, which only scratches the surface of the destruction Obama and the democrats have done, is a record that intelligent people see as worthy of reelection.

Steve, I don't need to read any more than I have about Marx. You need to read more about his follower who you support.

You can keep parroting the lie that the President is a Marxist as many times as you want, but that doesn't make it any truer than the first time you said it.

The lie? Read his own books you fool. Listen to his own words. Look at his parents, grandparents, and the man he identifies as his mentor. Look at the people he has surrounded himself with throughout his life and in his administration. Geeeeez man, I could respect it if you had the stones to admit that you agree with his marxist views, but denying it makes you just about the most deluded fool I have run across in quite some time.

Let's see, do I believe Hal or the only pollsters who have correctly predicted the outcome of every election since 1980? Hmmmmm......let me think.........

Even your Teabagging buddies don't believe the President is a Marxist.

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2012/09/04/obamas-brand-of-marxism/

FIFA, it's really getting to the point that your drivel doesn't even deserve a response. At least Hal makes an effort every now and then to make sense or provide a source. You just spout B.S. with zero supporting sources and make a fool of yourself. Sure, you're right, what relevance does it have to compare the state of the economy before and after the democrats took control? What a fool. I love the narrative today. Obama's minions are so painfully desperate to find some positive economic news to latch on to. They know that can't be honest or quote actual accepted economic indicators, so they are now quoting census data, census data that is a year old, which shows a .04% increase in home sales as a sign that the economy has finally "bottomed out and is moving forward". LOL. Census data as an economic indicator! No one has been desperate enough to try that! Gee, I wonder why they don't talk about genuine economic indicators or what those same census numbers look like since then? LOL.

Just to show that Mitt Romney doesn't just take his gas can to Russia. Plenty of gas in the can of the foreign policy 'expert'.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/palestinians-condemn-romney-mideast-peace-comment

And now, for the sadly uninformed Steve, some backgound on why Obama is a marxist and never really had a chance of being anything else. All of this is from his books, his own words, and the words of those around him. No Limbaugh, no Fox news. In fact, even they rarely address this from what I hear. It's long because Obama's marxist history is long.

Obama's Mother was a communist sympathizer because of her communist parents. They even relocated to Mercer Island specifically so their daughter could attend Mercer Island high school. What was special about Mercer Island High School? According to The Chicago Tribune: "In 1955, the chairman of the Mercer Island school board, John Stenhouse, testified before the House Un-American Activities Subcommittee that he had been a member of the Communist Party. He told the committee that "Led by Communists in my union, the United Auto Workers, I joined Communist party discussion groups".

A former instructor named Wichterman remembers Ms. Dunham: "As much as a high-school student can, she'd question: What's so good about democracy? What's so good about capitalism? What's wrong with communism? When she married Obama's stepfather, Leo Sotero, she thought hew was another Obama Sr. When he became involved in the government's anti-communist activities she got furious, told Barack to never listen to him and learn all he could about his "real" father. She even sent him back to the U.S. to live with her parents so Sotero could not influence him. Obama still says "The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics" and was quoted as saying so in the Chicago Tribune.

Obama's grandparents were also communists and attended the "Little Red Church on the hill". It got its name from it's known ties to the Communist Party USA. John Stenhouse, the same communist from her high school, served as church president after being thrown out of the school system for being exposed as a communist.

When Obama's grandfather realized that Barack was having trouble dealing with his mixed race background, he decided he needed a black mentor. He introduced him to the man Obama still identifies as his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Davis is a notorious communist activist with a giant FBI file on his communist activities.

Obama, in his book "Dreams of My father" said this of his university days: "I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."

Obama's Cousin Raila Odinga is a Marxist revolutionary in Kenya. When Odinga, the son of one of Kenya's most notorious communist revolutionaries, was running for President of Kenya in 2006, Obama went to Kenya on the taxpayer's dime and campaigned for Odinga. Odinga made a pact with a hard-line Islamic group in Kenya to establish Shariah courts throughout the country if elected and when he lost he directed a program of ethnic cleansing among the tribes who opposed him. Thousands were murdered. Pictures of Obama campaigning for him are readily available on the web.

Alice Palmer, who traveled to the Soviet Union to attend the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and wrote about it in the communist party magazine "People's Daily World", hand picked Obama to be her successor in the State Senate. Obama's Run for the Illinois State Senate was Launched by a Fundraiser Organized at Weather Underground marxist terrorists Bill Ayers' and Bernardine Dorhn's Chicago Home. He received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America. Later, the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America newsletter reported that Obama, as a state senator, delivered the eulogy of Saul Mendelson, one of the “champions” of “Chicago’s democratic left” and a long-time communist activist.

The Communist Party USA has endorsed Obama in every election he has run in. Their website reported how "Our Party actively supported Obama during the Presidential election." They were also a sponsor, with pretty much every communist and socialist group active in the U.S., of the 10-2-10 rally that the Obama White House also endorsed right on the White House website.

Obama's other mentor, who performed his wedding and baptized his children, Jeremiah Wright, is an admitted Marxist. His "Trinity United Church of Christ" started in South America in the during 1950's and was a player in helping marxism make great gains among the poor because of its emphasis on the redistribution of wealth.

Now let’s take a look at the people he has surrounded himself with in his administration.

Van Jones - self-described communist radical and founder of the communist revolutionary group STORM.

Cass Sunstein - marxist who has written several books on subverting the law and pushing "stupid Americans" who he compares to Homer Simpson into accepting the overthrow of the American systems of government and economy in favor of a marxist/socialist system.

Mark Lloyd - Another marxist who has openly professed his admiration for Hugo Chavez and wants to control all media in the U.S. the way Chavez did in Venezuela.

Anita Dunn - who named communist mass murderer Mao Tse Tung as someone she looks to for guidance.

Ron Bloom - Who stated that "We agree with Mao that the free market system is a joke and that power only comes from the barrel of a gun".

Valerie Jarrett - Daughter-in-law of Vernon Jarrett, a close associate of communist Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who stated how happy they were to have communist radical Van Jones in the administration and that they "had been watching him since his days of activity in Oakland". It was there that he formed the communist revolutionary group STORM.

Carol Browner - Commissioner of "Socialist International" up until one week before joining the administration.

Ed Montgomery - Communist DuBois Club member.

John Holdren - Socialist who openly advocated forced abortions and lacing the U.S. water supply with drugs to sterilize the male population to halt what he saw as a population problem.

Donald Berwick - who loves the socialized medicine system that is currently bankrupting the U.K. and openly admitted that there will be rationing of care here under Obamacare.

Sure Steve, there's nothing there at all.

That's a nice piece of fiction but at the end of the day that's all it is.

Steve, his point is not that Obama isn't a marxist. It is that he is not alone and he is absolutely correct. Let's take a look at the Communist Party Manifesto as published in The Congressional Record, January 10, 1963, and see how much of it sounds exactly like the democrat party platform or their actions.
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

Yes, modern democrat = communist.

I don't know FIFA, you have to present a fact before I can refute it for you. All you do is deny fact, and insult. You haven't posted a single fact and not a single source. Of all the liberals here you are easily the least effective at supporting the liberal lies.

Yes, I cut and pasted from The Congressional Record. A credible source that I was citing. Why wouldn't I take directly from a source I was quoting? You have still not cited a single source for your manure. I guess that's why you don't understand the importance of quoting sources directly, because you have no credible sources. And the democrats had total control of the Senate the the White House for two years. That one extra vote meant absolutely nothing to their majority and they passed everything they wanted.

You see, filibusters are a democrat thing. Like when they led the longest filibuster on record in opposition to the 1957 civil rights act.

It is all right here. In theaters now.

http://2016themovie.com/media/

And on TV here:

http://thehopeandthechange.com/trailer.aspx

ROFLMAO Mitt Romney painted his face brown to appeal more to his Hispanic audience.
http://gawker.com/5944931/mitt-romney-dyed-his-face-brown-to-appeal-to-latino-voters

Who is advising this clown??

it is hilarious to see you insinuate that Romney is racist when the only candidates in this race who have made blatantly racist comments in the past are Obama and Biden, who interestingly enough, made his most racist comment about Obama before being picked as his running mate.

As if Obama wasn't already in enough trouble, this middle east debacle is the final nail in the coffin. After stubbornly sticking to the terrorist cover story all this time, the administration finally started admitting to what every single source in Libya has been saying all along. This was a preplanned attack that had absolutely nothing to do with some stupid video trailer. But apparently, the nitiwit-in-chief didn't get the message. When a student showed more integrity than anyone in the mainstream media and asked Obama why he didn't provide more security when he had three days notice of the coming attacks, he again spouted the lie that it was a spontaneous event triggered by the video! He just can't turn on his muslim terrorist brothers. Fort Hood was "workplace violence". 9/11 was a "manmade disaster". The war on terror is an "overseas contingency operation". The Muslim Brotherhood is a "democracy movement". Now we find out that the administration spent $70,000 on television ads in Pakistan featuring Obama and Hillary again apologizing to "offended muslims" for the video!!!! This level of incompetence and corruption has never been seen in American government before. Well, the corruption maybe. In Chicago. And who is a graduate of corrupt Chicago politics????

LOL The Mormon Church thinks that Black People descended from Satan. They weren't even allowed to set foot in a temple until 1978!

Nobody has to "insinuate" anything. He is what he is. A Racist.

We've heard it all before. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I must be a democrat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5VMX2JahrU

Another interesting statistic was just released. The total number of months when U3 unemployment was over 8% during all the administrations from Harry Truman through the end of George W. Bush? 39. 39 out of 768 months. The total number of months when U3 unemployment has been over 8% during just the Obama administration? 43. 43 out of 45 months. Can you say "one term and goodbye"?

Republicans are dropping like flies. Uneducated, bitter and angry is no way to live.

http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/life-span-declines-among-least-educated-white-americans-2463432.html

So Steve, you post an article talking about how one racial group is dying younger, but still lives longer than some but not others, and you inject politics into it. Not only are you an idiot, but you are a racist scum bag, and therefore, no longer worthy of responses.

Reverend Perryman's history lesson about racist democrats like Steve:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRE36Fxxx1w

Unfortunately for our country, I believe Obama will win a second four years. All the facts in the world won't convince the ever growing Kardashian mentality to vote for what's right for the country. It's not about policy or action. It's about who is the coolest. Who's elbows you are rubbing. Your vacations, golf and basketbal games.
These liberals are like empty vessels. You can fill them up with proven facts, but they are still empty vessels.
"Toast"? With Obama we may not even have the bread to make toast, unless we are on his entitlement list. Which is ever growing.