President Romney is a very successful businessman, and obama is a successful affirmative action zero . after 4 years of the obama dynasty are any of us better off ? the answer is YES,...... if your an illegal or a govt leech.
You obots have an obvious hatred of America and hard working Americans successful American business owners, you regurgitate the obama pressititutes agenda time after time and you sound like a broken record with the made up wars on women and the rich and with their sandra fluke mentalities, they have bankrupted the country.
obama has no love for any American who has made their own way up to the top because he has NEVER done anything on his own, he is ,was and always will be nothing but an affirmative action zero, who was born with the govt golden spoon in his mouth and NEVER spit it out, his perpetual hand up has lasted his whole life and he made a career out of it and now he wants to pass that legacy onto millions of his cult followers, ''the obama generation'' that these leeches belong to, go by the new democrat motto:

Ask Not, What You Can Do For Your Country ,But What Your Country, Can Do For You !!...................and ''its all bushes fault ''

"So far to the left"? Comments like that underscore two things.

1. Infotainment now passes for "news". Too many Americans aren't informed, they are infotained.
2. America has moved so far to the right over the last 30 years that anyone in elected office who doesn't bash unions, condemn gay marriage & shovel money at the top 1% is "leftist" in the minds of many.

Barak Obama is a very moderate president. It's the GOP that has gone radical.

"...when all the Republican candidates last year said they would not accept a deal with Democrats that involved even $1 in tax increases in return for $10 in spending cuts, the G.O.P. cut itself off from reality. It became a radical party, not a conservative one. And for the candidates to wrap themselves in a cartoon version of Ronald Reagan — a real conservative who raised taxes, including the gasoline tax, when he discovered his own cuts had gone too far — is fraudulent.

Until the G.O.P. stops being radical and returns to being conservative, it won’t provide what the country needs most now — competition — competition with Democrats on the issues that will determine whether we thrive in the 21st century. We need to hear conservative fiscal policies, energy policies, immigration policies and public-private partnership concepts — not radical ones. Would somebody please restore our second party? The country is starved for a grown-up debate."
--Thom Friedman

You're delusional...so far left?? Not only delusional but clueless...

Read up on the extreme far left...you could learn something, unless you're extreme far right, in which case, there's no hope for you. You're in as bad as shape as your hero Romney...who's on a very steady downward ride of his own making.....

Attacking a sovereign nation or 6 million people with a democratically elected government because 20 terrorists attacked a consulate? That 17 of 24 Bush foreign policy advisers really make Romney look like Bush III.

I love how you fake Americans defend the terrorists ...you guys make me sick

poor Lil rick like the rest of the liberals they wet themselves when ever they hear the truth ..have another glass of koolaid ricky boy

Romney IS an elitist. No lie.

Mr. Victory,

True Gov Romney is an elitist and he can fit it with the the top 10 elitists in Congress, however he won't be a member of the majority of the elitist party (according to Forbes 8/22)

1. $290.5 million: Rep. Michael McCall (R-TX)
2. $198.8 million: Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)
3. $140.6 million: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)
4. $91.1 million: Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)
5. $85.9 million: Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
6. $83.1 million: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
7. $80.1 million: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
8. $56.9 million: Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
9. $47.2 million: Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA)
10. $36.7 million: Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH)

Something tells me no matter what is said to counter your claims, it would fall on a closed mind. Sad.

@ Hill

We don't really know how much Mitt has, do we?

Mr. Victory,

It doesn't matter how much Mitt has--he's a politician like all the politicians in the list--both parties have elitists, but the Dems look they have more---So you can't single out one over the other as being an "elitist"

dave loser, its none of your business how much money he has. you entitlement minded democrats think the whole world owes you something, you have been feeding at the govt trough for so long you'd starve if someone didn't feed you. Your just jealous because you went to school for 16 years and your not smart enough to make more than a burger flipper.

Incredible to see GOP supporters in bed with a Libyan government headed by the Muslim Brotherhood. Tell us (Just the truth) what your Muslim Brotherhood friends are telling you, that they had nothing to do with the attack and it was actually Mali and Algeria we should blame?

What does your friends in the Muslim Brotherhood think America should do?

So tell me something since you seem to think you know so much... Just because they get a warning about a "possible" attack, what were they supposed to do... The consulate was the only piece of "American Soil" in the country... We have no jusridiction or right to take action against the people when they are not on American soil, just because there might be an attack... Were we supposed to declare Marchall Law over the whole area with the small amount of people at the consulate...

Have you ever been to a foreign country in the middle east... Have you ever been to an American consulate... I have... Just because we are there doesn't mean we are in charge... The REALITY of it is, we get threats against our consulates all over the world all the time... Numerous threats a day... 99% of them don't amount to anything... All we can do is wait and see what happens... We have NO JURISDICTION outside the consulate... I doubt they walked on the property before they fired the RPG...

Get a clue and educate yourself instead of just repeating what you hear from the GOP talking heads who don't care about the people, they just care about making Obama look bad so they can wn the election...

Jeff, you say the consulate is American soil and then say we have no right, in a foreign country, to take action against the people when they are not on American soil.
They climbed the walls and came on to consulate grounds i.e. American Soil. Proper security measures were not in place when they came on to 'American Soil'.
Who is the ultimate person responsible for security of American Soil?
Isn't is the Commander in Chief. Isn't that one reason the State Department and DOD are under his control.

His campaign is falling apart.

"Oh, to be a fly on the wall in Mitt Romney's Boston campaign offices today.

Politico went live last night with what amounts to a rather blistering attack on the GOP hopeful's chief campaign strategist, Stuart Stevens, courtesy of a number of unnamed "Romney aides, advisers and friends" who spoke off the record to heap criticism on Stevens for pretty much all of the campaign's recent missteps—from Clint Eastwood's performance-art-meets-stump-speech to the candidate's own controversial late-night statement criticizing the Obama administration in the hours after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya." http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/09/17/stuart_stevens_romney_strategist_to_blame_for_campaign_missteps_staffers_tell_politico_.html

Maybe Mitt Romney does have a core after all!
It's just rotten.

The President is actually a very articulate speaker. The last guy, though...

I agree, the President is a very articulate speaker, seeing how most of his speeches are the same from his 2008 campaign, which make articulation easy--not to mention borrowing some from President Carter's speeches

their ol davey defending his flame

Name one extreme position President Barack Obama holds.

over 1100 pieces of legislation about birth control/aborotion/women's rights issues just since 2010.....

A right wing health reform policy is now considered a liberal policy, how can you not say the country, or at least the republican party, hasn't moved to the right? They are now controlled by a massive right wing fringe group that would have been laughed out of the party during the 80's.

Corey-You are exactly right. I have been a Republican for 30 years and can attest to what you noted regarding healthcare. Politics and policy are no longer textbook. Local campaigns are often run by national marketing and PR firms rather than people in the community. The big tent has been dismantled and special interest kiosks set up. Public funding has been replaced by Corporate funding at all levels of government.

I agree with Corey - I'm in the "I didn't leave the Republican Party, they left me" crowd

You must be right, DO. Any post with that many "ha"s is tough to argue with.

Dumpy, can't you name one extreme position President Barack Obama holds?

So you are supporting Libya over America?

Your Libyan government is claiming that their country was invaded by "foreign extremists who entered Libya from Mali and Algeria", and THAT is the account you want to run with?

Should we invade Mali or Algeria first?

The White House is no0w backing down on it's original account of what happened in the Libyan attack. Caught in another lie.

The White House is backing down from it original statement, that the investigation was ongoing? What is their position now? That they are going the GOP route and just jumping to conclusions?

They're in a box with Obama's college records....you know, the ones that he doesn't want you to see because they show all the Marxist oriented classes he elected to take.

@Steve From NH - First of all, good for Mitt "if" he legally got his taxes down to 0%. So far, I've seen nothing that shows he has violated any aspect of the tax code. Only a fool would volunteer to send in more money than obligated to one of the most fiscally irresponsible organizations on the face of earth.

Steve, you state; "many of them work hard...end up not making enough money to pay federal income taxes."

You seem to imply that "working hard" correlates to the amount of money a person earns. The amount of money one earns is inverse to the number of people who are capable and who are available to do the same work.

Those who "pick up trash" play a very important role in keeping our community clean. Without them we'd all suffer; however, they are not going to be paid $250,000 year, no matter how hard they work. Why? Because there are millions of people capable of doing that job. Brain surgeons, different story. Not many can do that; hence, big bucks.

BTW, if Obama confiscated his "just a little bit more" in taxes from "the rich", the amount would only fund the federal government for "1 day!" I do so wish he'd stop lying about "if the rich paid just a little more...". He ought to be telling people, "we should ALL pay taxes and if you're not, YOU are not doing your fair share". If we share in the rewards, we should also share in the burden. THAT is fair. BTW, $16 trillion and climbing. FORWARD!

@Joe:
Sorry, you missed the point completely. Mitt said that 47% of Americans pay no income taxes and so depend on the government for everything, won't accept personal responsibility and won't care for their own lives.
That ends up including seniors, injured veterans, and people who work multiple jobs trying to make ends meet.
I never said a garbage collector should be able to make 250k a year, that's ridiculous. But don't call that same person a leech because they don't make enough money, and don't call anyone a leech because they have deductions enough to get their tax burden down just like you did yours - especially when so many of these people make yearly 1/10th of what you make in a week.
If Mitt got his tax burden down to 0%, A) our tax policies are completely screwed up and B) it puts him in the group that he says can't take responsibility for their own lives and depend on the government for everything. Just stupid, stupid, stupid things to say, and shows what an elitist he really is.
Furthermore, the idea that the rich should not share an equitable burden is ridiculous. I don't care if it only funds the government for a minute, they should pay their fair share, if only for 'moral hazard' and simple, fundamental, American fairness.

Read this - says it a lot better than I ever could:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/brooks-thurston-howell-romney.html?_r=0

@Joe, I just realized something - are you saying it's ok for someone that makes millions in a year to pay no fed. income tax, but it's NOT ok for someone who only makes 40k?
And that surgeon that you mentioned who makes $250k a year - how many of those paid 0% in fed. taxes before they finished school? Romney says they are freeloaders who can't take care of themselves and expect the govt. to do everything for them.
In related and entirely humorous news, it turns out most of the 47% that Romney is talking about are Republicans - eight of the top 10 states with the lowest income tax liability are Republican-leaning states.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/opinion/granderson-romney-video/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57515033-503544/fact-checking-romneys-47-percent-comment/
http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/geneva/community/blogs/applesauce/x326768108/Memo-to-Mitt-Non-payers-of-income-taxes-are-most-heavily-concentrated-in-strongly-Republican-states

@Steve: Not my words; but, I agree...

We need to have a national discussion over whether it is fair or equitable to have millions of people enjoy the benefits of civil society but contribute nothing to its costs. I believe that it is bad for democracy and bad for the fiscal health of the nation to have so many Americans with no skin in the game.

While some people would like to make the tax code more progressive, the U.S. already has the most progressive income tax system of any industrialized country. The top 1% of taxpayers pays a greater share of the tax burden than the bottom 90% combined. Moreover, the nation's tax and spending policies currently combine to redistribute more than $826 billion annually from the top 40% of families to the bottom 60%. We should have an honest discussion over how much redistribution is considered fair.

Taxpayers who are now shouldering the lion's share of the burden of funding government are what I call the "successful middle class".... These are educated, dual-income families who are the heart of the nation's successful entrepreneurial class. ... They might be considered "rich" by some,.... We should question the wisdom of placing so much of the tax burden on the people who society values the most—working families and entrepreneurs.

Testimony of Scott A. Hodge before U.S. Senate Committee on Finance -
http://taxfoundation.org/article/distribution-tax-burdens-and-tax-benefits-equitable-testimony-scott-hodge-us-senate-committee

If Mitt provided 12 years of tax returns, Democrats would have no precedent to ask for more.
Would Democrats think they were fake? Like those crazies who don't believe in birth certificates? I doubt it.
Why doesn't Mitt Romney release his college transcripts? There is no precedent for releasing college transcripts, that is why neither campaign is asking the other to release them.

Tell me another president in the past 40 years who has released college records, now show me a president who hasn't released at least 5 years of taxes in that same time frame.

@ Corey

Exactly.

"Change". President Obama campaigned in 2008 and said he would not be like previous Presidents, that we need "Change"

So, why doesn't he preactice what he preaches and set an example by being the FIRST President to release his college records?

Sure, Barack Obama should release more records thnt is normal because Mitt Romney refuses to release the bare minimum of records, great argument salemvoter.....

I wonder, what does Mitt think of Paul Ryans mom? She also depends on entitlements (and you should listen to the video, Mitt says the word 'entitlements' like we would say the word 'pedophile'). As Paul Ryan says, my mom loves her medicare, and it's worked out really well for us!
The point is, of those 47%, I bet at least half work very hard at trying to get ends to meet, but can't. Especially with the trickle down policies over the last 30-40 years, which have demonstrably redistributed wealth to the upper 5% - whatever the intent may have been.
Others, like Paul Ryans mom, and maybe mine and yours, no longer make any money, and are dependent on entitlements like Medicare.
Mitt lumped all of those people together, and called them losers (not literally, but go listen to the video).
For a smart guy, he keeps saying really, really, stupid stuff, and in incidents like this he shows his true colors. I keep thinking more and more about the time he held down his classmate to shave his head because he didn't like the way he looked. Maybe that's the REAL Mitt Romney after all.
"Phillip Maxwell, an old friend of Mr Romney's, called the incident 'bullying supreme'."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142469/Mitt-Romney-held-gay-taunt-classmate-cut-hair-school-attack.html

I wonder what Mitt Romney thinks of his welfare receiving dad?

Direct quote from Obama. "You didn't build that.

Direct quote from ME.

No democrat including Obama has build a damn thing.

>No democrat including Obama has build a damn thing.
Tell that to Bill Gates.
Or Warren Buffet.

Medicare and Social Security are not "entitlements". Food Stamps and Welfare are.

The tape was doctored!!! 2 minutes missing.

Romney already says he agrees with all his sentiments on the tape salemvoter.
What kind of crazy conspiracy are you trying to sell?

thats right healey and so dont a whole lot of other Americans !!

CNBC Poll: 75% Agree With Romney’s 47% Comments

http://cowboybyte.com/12628/cnbc-poll-75-agree-with-romneys-47-comments/

steveo, you know damn well he meant he didn't worry about them as far as their vote goes because he would never get their vote, because all they want is their obamabucks , you obots are a joke

You mean multimillionaire Reagan, right?

Who said they were?
And I think it's becoming safe to argue that very few Republicans are even close to resembling Reagan either. Scott Brown is close. Most of 'em are more like Joe McCarthy.

steve some republicans might not resemble Ronald Reagan but ALL you democrats resemble Karl Marx

In what way is the country worse off than it was four years ago?
Then losing 700,000 jobs a month, now gaining jobs every month.
Dow Jones Industrial Average then 6,000, now 13,546
Then Osama bin Laden alive, now dead.
Then two wars, now one.

23,000,000 unemployed, underemployed or have given up. Obama is responsible for this and the democrat party.

Latino unemployment 11%, an Obama failure and a democrat party failure.

Black unemployment 14%, an Obama failure and a democrat failure

Black Teen unemployment 40%, an Obama failure.

16 Trillion in debt. An Obama failure.

766,000 less women working than when Obama took office. An Obama failure

We are all well aware of the mess President Barack Obama inherited, thankfully he has turned these things around.

Obama has had the time and money. Nothing but failure and excuse after excuse.

hamburglar healey your a fool !!! turned it around ? thanks to obamanomics were now 16 trillion dollars in debt, every man woman and child in this country is in debt over 50 thousand dollars today, 46.6 million Americans on food stamps , 24 million Americans out of work , we just had our credit down graded a second time real unemployment is around 11 % another terrorist attack and more Americans killed ....wheres obama ??? doing his stand up routine on the letterman show

of course we are better off than we were four years ago. Do you have amnesia?

no healey we have obamamnesia, and were going to get the cure for it in Nov .. you nitwit, the only ones doing better in obamanation are the illegals and the leaches

Mitt Romney also believes in redistribution of wealth, and so do you I suppose.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/09/19/yes-romney-believes-in-redistribution/

Are the Democrats allowed to quote Romney from 14 years ago and attribute those positions today Romney?

Redistribution of wealth is also what happens when tax and other policies favor investors over laborers, which redistributes wealth from the middle-class to the wealthy, as has happened over the last 40 years. It is definitely time for policies that redistribute wealth in such a way that the middle class is favored before the wealthiest 5% get everything, causing society to break down.
Dumpy, it's not socialism - grow up - it's the way everything works in a normally functioning democratic society.

@Steve - You state; "...tax and other policies favor investors over laborers,..."

Policies should favor investors. Investors are the ones taking "risk". Go ahead, take that favored position away, less investment, less JOBS!

Wealth is already being redistributed in a big way! The top 1% pay more in taxes than the bottom 90% combined. Enough is enough!

You people who favor "redistribution", talk about killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. You're not going be happy until that happens, are you?

Joe its useless ,steve ,healey and the rest or these obama cult followers are to far gone to try to reach , if lord obama took these obots out to lunch and the restaurant had dog crap was on the menu and obama told them to try it, its good ...not only would they order it and eat it, but they would tell all their friends its was great !!

@Debra - Cut and paste from the "fair and balanced" NY Times. You conveniently did not finish the last sentence with"who argued that the bill was unpaid for". Ya, must have been an oversight on your part Deb, eh?

Just like a "bleeding heart liberal." Support throwing money you don't have, at any cause that makes you feel good without figuring out how to pay for it. Oh wait, someone else will pay for it! Maybe the evil rich!

Oh, but Debra is right - Bob Woodward characterizes the Republican house led by Eric Cantor as a brick wall backed by a cement wall backed by steel girders. Their ONLY answer has been "NO!".
Last night Guinta said that the Republicans were trying to be cooperative with the Democrats and the adminstration. Even he must realize what a joke that statement is, especially given that he answers to Grover Norquist's wedding vows.