More low-brow, specious nonsense from a deranged, paranoid, propaganda-addled BIGOT. You will NOT win in November.

There are other candidates for the worst President ever. President Bush II who lied us into a "war of choice", failed to kill Bin Laden, triggered the worst recession since the Great Depression and took away many civil liberties comes to mind.

Hey Lynda...you need to include your buddy, Clinton then because HE had the first chance to get Bin Laden out in the open and DIDN'T!

Masked Blogger...It goes back further than that. When Oliver North was asked by congress who is our worst enemy?, He replied, "Osama Bin Laden"....Nobody knew this name and laughed at him. So it goes back to Reagan.

Oh yeah...well William Howard Taft was president in 1911 when Reagan was born so it's HIS fault!

Masked....I think we're on a first name basis......great comeback........PS Taft was Republican.

georgey girl:
Did your 'mother' also have real children, - that 'lived'

@Sahara, get your facts straight, Ollie North did not say OBL, he said Abu Nidal made a threat on his life....

Bob ?? Why would Sahara get the facts straight ?? As they are inconvenient truths to be ignored.

I am curious about your choice of Gov. Romney. Apparently you prefer the "you are on own" philosophy to "we are all in this together." That should work out well for you during the next natural disaster! Or perhaps there is something in Gov Romney's record that attracts you. Is it his outsourcing, job-killing record at Bain? Is it his implementation of RomneyCare in Massachusetts? (Opps, that is one of the many things we don't discuss such as his tax returns, previous pro-choice position. or what his plans for tax cuts and creating jobs are) Is it his failure to serve in the military during a war he supported in the 60's? Or perhaps you are so impressed with his (silent!) support of those who currently serve in the military? SWJ, are you really sure your eyes are wide open and actually focusing on reality?

I'm with you Swiffer Wet Jet!

I totally agree, Swiffer. Not gonna make the same mistake twice!

For anyone to say that Romney is a job killer is ludicrous and a bunch of nonsense. Does anyone realize that the United Auto Workers has outsourced close to 2/3 of its employees? In the meantime, due to this wonderfully successful "bailout" of G.M., courtesy of the American taxpayer to the tune of $80 billion, G.M. is once again headed for bankruptcy and we the taxpayers could be on the hook for another $25.7 billion dollar "too big to fail" bailout which Obama wants to use as a successful model in helping future "private industries " who need a bailout. Solyndra , a "Green job" bankrupt company that created not even ONE job, left the taxpayer on the hook for over 1/2 a billion dollars. In the meantime, Romney saves businesses like Staples and Toys R Us, huge employers, that cost us taxpayers zip, nada, nunca.. I also think it is despicable that the military may not be able to vote in this year's election due to half of the overseas voting facilities either being shut down or out dated. And this is Obama's thank you very much to those who serve ourcountry and sacrifice so that we can be safe from harm?? Unbelievable!!!

Ms McAloon, you are way off base on GM; I continue to follow them from an investment perspective and your comment is speculative, and undoubtedly self-serving for political purposes.

As for your final grenade into the tents of your fellow Americans, our troops have every opportunity to cast absentee ballots, as they have done under every president in recent memory.

Furthermore, the Obama Administration has been more supportive of the needs of the troops - and, their families, which is very important for anyone who has ever deployed - than most Administrations.
I love those Presidents who spend oodles of bucks on hardware ships, planes, tanks, whatever - but then screw the troops themselves and their families. Obama is finally getting that personal support right.

As someone who himself deployed in war, and later retired in 1992 from the military, I am very sensitive to these needs; my military generation basically got screwed by the presidential administrations of the 60's, 70's and 80's.

But, I realize you are trying to smear President Obama, because you and some others posting here really, really hate him, and always have.

Oh yeah? Well the Blue Dress Stainer In Chief was on watch in 1993 during the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and later during the USS Cole bombing, so try harder!

And, Dennis M., it's precisely this kind of uncogent, rabid, right-wing rhetoric that will be get him re-elected. We've had enough of the likes of you, the Tea Party, the Glenn Becks, the Rush Limbaughs, the Sarah Palins and most of all, the Mitt Romneys that are slick enough to swindle small minds like yours and scramble the country over the same social issues that they've been scrambling you with for 30 years; while they laugh all the way to the banks and lobbyists for their multi-billion dollar corporations.

Here is one of the people behind your so called fact check. I rest my case for all those with two brain cells to hit together and get a spark.
On Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” on Wednesday night, onetime Bill Clinton ally (now foe) Dick Morris suggested the former president secretly wants Barack Obama to lose the election but won’t say so publicly because the Obama administration is holding Hillary Clinton hostage and it will kill her if he loses.

Hey V, CONGRESS originates spending and taxes, read it it's in that thing called the Constitution....

So most of her children were feed, clothed and taken care of under Reagans (2 terms), George A.W. Bush (1 term), Clinton (2 terms) and George W. Bush (2 terms) thats 20 years of welfare under Republicans and 11 years under Democrats and you want to blame Obama for this? Idiotic.

Dear Lue for your information you misread & miscalculated by a landslide, during the Presidency of Reagan 2 terms, Bush Sr 1 term, Clinton 2 terms & Bush Jr 2 terms; This woman was NOT on WELFARE during any of the Presidents which you mentioned, she started receiving WELFARE in 2010 which President Obama was serving!

This is a story of a mentally unstable and very fertile woman. It's a bizarre tale that happened in the area where I live. I don't know how anyone can connect this spectacular story of copious childbearing in any particular way with President Obama. It's an anomalous situation, not something that commonly occurs.

What exactly do you think President Obama had to do with it?

Are you really so uncaring about all the children born of this fertile, irresponsible woman, who did not ask for the circumstances of their birth? What is your plan for them while this unstable woman is busy learning how to be a successful farmer?... and where is she to take some of this "plenty of empty acreage" you speak of "for her to build a house, do farming, growing vegetables, fruits, milk from a cow, eggs from a hen? Sell these things and make clothes and get into arts and crafts creating beautiful things and selling them???? Nice fantasy!!

Why is it that so many among the passionately political are so pro-fetus but anti-children? If you're going to make such a fuss about abortion, then you need to show a little more charitable attitude toward the children born and not aborted. Otherwise it seems completely hypocritical.

Pass the Kool-Aid, sister! Hillary would have been better.

Right on, Right on, Right on!!!

Lynda,

Did you know the motto of the communist party is "Forward>" Do you think that a bit odd? You mention Bain was job killing and out sourcing. I know people that got jobs because of Bain and jobs that were saved because of Bain. The percentage is much larger in the save column. Also you mention that Mitt did not serve in the Military. Can you tell me which Branch of the Military Barack served in. I cannot understand the support the Obama receives from people like yourself when he so clearly is working against this country's best interests.

Randy, for the record, Willard got deferments from 1965-1970, on "religious" grounds. He spent part of that time in France as a missionary converting Catholics and Protestants and whoever he could lay his hands on to Mormonism. Odd for a man who announces his vice president with -0- military experience and who has spent his entire adult life working FOR the government he now decries as being too big. These men are a draft dodger born with a silver car in his mouth and a "wonk" congressman who has sucked the teat of government his whole life, totally out of touch with the USA. They deserve to be tossed into the dust bin of history, not awarded with the highest jobs in the land. And while I'm at it name me ONE thing B. Hussein Obama is doing or has done to harm this land? It took W 8 years to get into 2 wars of choice, take out our strongest counter to the Iranians, create ZERO net jobs, double the debt and throw this country into the worst recession and brink of world depression and 2 years into his term we think electing a bunch of tea partiers to Congress, with Mitch McConnell saying the TOP priority of the GOP is to deny him a second term? You and your ilk have microwave memories; If my 18 y/o kid did equal damage to our car he'd wait until he is 40 until he got the keys back, and you want to hand them over now? Good Grief!

Let's just say it'd be a FLUKE if Ms. Fluke ever had the need for birth control in the first place! That whole situation was a diversion from the REAL issues. We all have Moms, Sisters, Aunts, Wives, Female Friends, etc...... so to say anyone who doesn't agree with your hero (@Lynda) is against womens rights, is plain and simply stretching it.

So, based on your wildly unsubstantiated assertion that the unspecified policies of Mr. Obama, in the aggregate, bear a direct causal relationship to everything you perceive as ailing our country economically, you stand ready to vote for a tax-avoiding, draft-dodging fraud and his pathologically lying sidekick - both of whom are busy trolling for votes by overtly appealing to the most vile and debased instincts of the demented bigots and superstitious loons that form the low-brow base of the GOP. Wonderful.

And hey, who cares if Romney's vaunted "business experience" is illuminated by his longstanding stewardship of a predatory vulture capital firm that profited from slashing American companies and gutting out their innards for the immediate profit of himSELF and his well-connected friends, and then sending a substantial portion of his ill-gotten gains to Switzerland and the Cayman Islands (at least as far as we know from the one single complete tax return he ever bothered to show us) during a time when American troops were getting blown apart in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's your definition of trustworthiness and "patriotism", I gather? It sure isn't mine.

I'm sticking with President Obama this November. The guy certainly isn't perfect, but at least he's not a sociopath like his opponent and the legions of paranoid, willfully ignorant bigots and freakishly authoritarian whack-jobs who support him and his disgusting party.

A woman's right to equal pay for equal work, for planning when to have children and for preventing breast cancer or cervical cancer are essential to her economic success. We can't speak of changing the "economic mess" (check out the graphs showing how much of the national debt is due to an unfunded war in Iraq and tax cuts for the wealthy under President Bush II.) without including these rights for women. Despite what Gov Romeny and Rep Ryan say, America is not in decline. And no one wants the country to be run by a hedge fund investor only interested in making money for himself and his investors without a detailed plan to create jobs rather than cut them.] or outsource them to foreign countries.

Are you talking about High School Grads or College Grads??

In the early 70's when I graduated from college, jobs were very hard to find, too. I expected as a young adult to work my way up in my chosen career. I did so. paid off my student loans with two jobs and eventually was successful. I am not sure that is an attitude common among young graduates (from technical schools, colleges, high schools, etc.) today who seem to expect instant financial success complete with new cars, apartments or houses, gym memberships and vacations! President Obama's student loan reforms which allow graduates to pay back student loans over 20 years based on actual income will be very helpful to those who are not in a position to (as Gov. Romney puts it) "borrow money from their parents" or just sell some of their stock to finance life in college. Except for the lucky few, good jobs for graduates have always been hard work to find and keep. (By the way, nci ess, I admire your work ethic, Posting at 3:00am is commendable!)

Story Continues......I was a democrat & voted for President Clinton, he was the great healer of our economy!
I am going to skip my thoughts on President Bush due to there are things that happened during his term some I agree with & some I don't agree with, it is too complex & will give my thoughts on it separately!
In 2008, being a registered female democrat, I was extremely excited about having Hillary Clinton as President unfortunately it didn't happen then I hoped of her becoming our Vice President, what a great team that would have been unfortunately he chose VP Biden & that's how he lost my vote not that it matters he won anyway & as for his choice VP Biden who makes distasteful comments like the one about the chains, for his own good he needs a long rest & not be around the public too much!

Amid these rich (often informative) exchanges, it may be useful to appreciate what we bring to them. Broadly, this is knowing, opining, and believing. It is difficult to have a useful discussion where beliefs and opinions swamp and dilute possible common ground. There are things we can all "know" and agree on, that is, fact-based findings, empirical and observable reality. Minimally, this should be an area of indisputable agreement (unless and until new facts surface to shed new light on what we can know together). On the other hand, we all have opinions but it is insufficient (in a discussion) to say "that's my personal opinion" and I'm sticking with it. To be a USEFUL opinion worthy of respect as persuasive to convince others, one must have a reasoned scaffolding for support. It may not be enough to close the "persuasive" deal but at least it would merit listening and respect. Beliefs, for their part, are CHOSEN positions. If one believes in the supernatural, that is a choice and often non-negotiable. There is usually no convincing, reasoned argument that can shake what a person CHOOSES to believe. Beliefs are not fact-based and are generally not susceptible to wiggle room in the face of counter positions. Facts are facts but interpretation of facts may vary. Different interpretations would best be presented with informed (rational, fact-based) opinions. Examining facts through the lens of disparate, conflicting beliefs will never lead to consensus (on anything).

It is unlikely that Gov Romney will win the Tampa Bay metro area in November. And, frankly, everyone should celebrate the fact that 11,000 of our fellow citizens cared enough to stand in line and wait in a field in the heat to see any candidate in person. I admire them for that. Let's hope voter turnout is excellent in November. The future belongs to those who show up!

Very True George :)

As for you Lynda, future belongs to everybody out of over 1 million who live in Tampa Bay only 11,000 showed up, stood in line in the heat & rain while the working class took responsibility & chose to work or spent quality time with their families & loved ones!

V. Do you read or watch anything that isn't propaganda. See, we want to hear what you think, not what you have been told to think. You see, if you're opposed or afraid to even seeing information from both sides of an argument, then you don't control what you think. Others do! A lot of people won't read opposing views because they are afraid it might make them think. It's not easy to absorb competing info and deduce a position, but it is a lot more satisfying if you have a usable instead of used brain. Now, turn off FOX and start reading everything you can get your hands on.

So true. Some people only vote ONE issue important to them and don't consider the good of the society as a whole (i.e. financial strength nationally).

The Republican Party serves two extremes; the ultra-rich and the ultra-stupid. Any self-respecting middle-classer that isn’t fooled by shiny-things (all of this foolishness; men trying to figure how to legislate women’s bodies and what grown, consenting adults do in their bedrooms) needs the protections of labor and unions just to keep from working 80 hours a week and weekends for taskmasters like Mitt Romney for $6.25 an hour. Don't you get it? The super-rich have been shipping our jobs to the China and India for the past 30 years -- and all the GOP can do is sit around and spin the country into circles. I hear no solutions coming out of the GOP -- none -- just criticism over a problem that they created. What is this 5-point plan of Mitt Romney's to create 12-million jobs? He has not given a single detail. All he cares about is giving his rich buddies more tax breaks, when as it stands, they all stash their money in Switzerland and the Caymans like he does. I am amazed by the stupidity out here. The high-irony is: Right-wingers will gladly bow-down to an 'American company' like Wal-Mart, that has eviscerated American small business, and yet has the unmitigated gall to line its lobbies with pictures of dead American soldiers -- while they peddle Americans shoddy Chinese crap and high-fat, over-processed "food" made from pink slime. Now who's stupid?

Be warned - Ultra Left Wing Wacked Out Vegetarian Cat Lady Alert, in progress!

Hey Kincade....you had me UNTIL this line...... "At least they are not dragging down the economic engine by giving the country more uneducated,.......... " What about all the kids born yearly to welfare recipients that everyone else has to foot the bill for, because no one has the balls to say "ENOUGH"!!!! If you want to talk about a drag to society - there you have it, plain and simple. I don't care what race, color, or otherwise - don't breed what you can't afford to feed! End of story.

Do the A-R-I-T-H-M-E-T-I-C....the congress under Bush 1 doubled the national debt and W quadrupled it. Then crashed the economy. Asked for and got a $787 Billion bailout and made bridge $20+ BILLION bridge loans to the "UNION stooges" at GM and Chrysler before BHO became president. Besides how do you have a convention without inviting your previous P, VP, SecDef, SecState, previous VPOTUS candidate or even mentioning them, I guess the party was just formed 3 1/2 years ago from the remnants of the Whigs....