Obama: Election Odds Better in 2012 Than 2008

C’mon, ABC, did you reprint some satire from the The Onion? LOL!!

Reported to Attack Watch!!! This is not positive enough. Our President deserves better.

Here’s where Obama’s wrong: back then the “headwinds” he was facing was obscurity. We didn’t know who he was. He was that blank slate that, as he put it, people could project themselves onto.

Today? No one wants to project themselves on what is now a graffit-filled slate, much of it scrawling out un-hopeful messages like “9.2%.”

I’m actually glad to see he feels this way, though. The thought of him pulling an LBJ and dropping out sends a shiver down my spine as the shadow of Hillary darkens the stage.

I hope he continues to think this way. A narcissist will always be a narcissist.

Head to head polls are meaningless at this stage.

Posted by: Nemov | September 16, 2011, 12:01 am 12:01 am

Oh they’re not ‘meaningless’ at all. They tell where people are at right now and they point out President Obama is not at all ‘delusional’ about his odds at this point. It’s the right wing poster who are delusional.

Don’t “higher odds” actually mean a worse chance? Maybe he phrased it that way on purpose. Considering that his chance of winning the 2008 general election was 100%, how can his chances be better in 2012?

So this DiPietro guy won’t vote for a candidate based on the rantings of a few voters? Has he considered voting based on the qualifications of the canditates?

As an experiment, have this guy post somewhere that he thinks Obama is war criminal, an incompetent moron, and a full-blown Communist. (Much worse was spewed againt W. for eight straight years.) If he posts his email address, I’m sure the emails he gets from Obama supporters will be similar, if not worse, than what he is getting from republican voters. If the experiment is a success, then surely he won’t be able to vote for a democrat in 2012, either.

Also, isn’t getting Obama out of office the first step in making things right? If a republican were president right now, the first step in “making things right”, in the minds of democrats, would be to get the republican president out of office.

This DiPietro guy either isn’t very bright, or he’s just a hypocrite.

If a republican were president right now, the first step in “making things right”, in the minds of democrats, would be to get the republican president out of office.
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This is where you’re wrong Alex. The Democrats work and compromise with Republicans to get the best things possible under the circumstances accomplished.

The Republicans election tactic is to refuse everything – even bring the country to a debt default crisis – in order to make things NOT work so Obama will be defeated. That’s been fairly obvious from the beginning.

And their tactics for decades now have been smear and fear campaigns. Not good for the country.

This just shows that it is time for the 25th amendment, section 4, to be invoked.

This from a man that thinks giving a temporary tax credit to a business if they give
an employee a raise that would be permanent. Absolutely no clue.

NOT WITH NEWS LIKE THIS!! ——– The Energy Department is trying to explain reports that its $38.6 billion loan guarantee program, designed to ignite the nation’s clean energy sector, has created only 3,500 permanent jobs — despite spending half the allocated amount already and boasting it would create or save 64,000 jobs!!!!! —– Just like the rest of the administration — HOT AIR!!!!

in the face of economic ruin

Posted by: MediaMan | September 16, 2011, 1:06 am 1:06 am

You might want to have yourself checked for delusional aspects – we’ve seen 18 straight months of economic growth after the Bush disaster.

The Democrats had control of both houses of Congress and didn’t pass budget and didn’t do anything about the debt ceiling. They passed a huge stimulus under Bush, which they shouldn’t have done, but passed a bigger one under Obama, $500+ million of which went to a company that just declared bankruptcy just over a year later and whose main financier is Democratic donor. The Gunwalker case gets worse by the day as more murders are discovered with weapons that were allowed to walk out of gun shops under Democratic leadership. The Health Care Law is a joke as more and more waivers are given to companies because it would break them. In many cases people are going to see their rates rise. A couple years ago I got an extra $40 a month back in taxes but had to repay it at the end of the year, some stimulus that was. There have only been two good decisions to come out the White House and Navy SeALs were involved in both but any president, regardless of party, could have made those decisions. It was released today that pressure was placed on an Air Force General to adjust his testimony to Congress regarding GPS and cell phone technology to favor a company that has donated to the Democratic Party.

That said, neither side is perfect and you can’t please all the people all the time but it seems every week something shady comes out about this administration. Whether it goes to the highest office or head of department within an agency it is ultimately Obama’s show and he is responsible and ignorance is not an excuse. There is too much baggage on this administration and there is no way Obama is better off now than he was the last election.

>Real GDP has grown since the 3rd quarter of 2009 after the Bush economic collapse devastated
>the economy. These figures are easily available. There has been no ‘economic ruin’ – at least not
>under Obama. Under Bush, yes. Under Obama, no.

No one should expect much from the ABC forums, but this is an absurd line of reasoning. The nation moved into a mild recovery following the downturn late in the Bush administration, plateaued, and is now seeing the fulfillment of a predicted decrease in 2011. As you have said, these data are readily available.

There is no question that Bush-era spending and longtime federal policies re: home loans contributed to the economic collapse, just as there is no question that the Obama administration’s out-of-control spending, corruption, and disastrous stimulus packages have contributed to what will soon be a double-dip recession. Obama has failed both economically and socially, and now it’s time for change that we all (or at least 50% of us) can believe in.

There’s nothing better than starting the day off with a good laugh. Thanks!

It cracks me up all the liberals blame Bush for everything. They seem to forget that a democratic led congress and senate beginning in 2006 led to the economic crisis. All parties are at fault. But after 3 years in office it is still Bush’s fault. Please take a little bit of responsibility. Obama is in over his head. He has no solutions and at that is a poor leader.

Dear Leader has spoken. Have you used the assigned towel to clean his portrait displayed in a spot of honor in your home? Inspection is at noon. Be ready. All hail Dear Leader. Upon his victory by 100% the calendar will be set back to year zero. Glory.

What is this guy thinking? Last Gallop poll; 39% approve, 52% disapprove. If the Republicans can come up with a decent candidate he doesn’t have a chance.

Waiter! I’d like to order whatever he’s having–with a side of Rose Colored Glasses, please.

I’ve never considered myself a democrat, but the sad fact is that the republicans keep parading a band of idiots before us thinking it will get them a spot in the White House. Once again it becomes a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. Obama may be an idiot, but even he’s not that stupid and he knows that a lot of people will be forced to vote for him over someone who could be even worse. Someone needs to come up with a candidate with some common sense because frankly, I am sick of the whole damn game.

Bachmann says the hurricane and earthquake are God’s warning, Perry says Social Security is a scam, Romney says health care for everyone is un-American, Ron Paul says FEMA shouldn’t exist… there has never been a bigger bunch of purely “Crazy” candidates running for president than the current GOP!

Yep I think Obama has a chance of winning again. Obama 2012

Democrats have it the bag in 2012!!!

Considering who his opposition will be, he’s got a great chance of being re-elected. Even though the Republicans are doing their level best to keep America poor and ignorant………….

Some idiot wrote, “A little less than 2 years to go in his first term and Obama the Genius is already worrying about re-election?”

LOL! The election is less than 14 months away. Yes, he’s preparing his re-election campaign, just like every other president in history has. Your comment is really, really silly………

acdc2012 blathered, “Fifty percent of the population in the great USA does not pay income tax, thanks to Obama.”

Why is it that the morons on the Right feel it necessary to LIE in order to make a point? Is it simply being deliberately dishonest, or is it willful and egregious ignorance of the basic facts about how our country runs and what its recent history is? Claiming that Obama is responsible for something like this is so stunningly STUPID as to virtually defy comment. If this person typifies the current level of ‘thinking’ on the Right, then Obama has clear sailing into another term…………

“And I just have to remind people that, here’s one thing I know for certain: the odds of me being reelected are much higher than the odds of me being elected in the first place.” -Obama

Everything else being equal, he’s correct. Unfortunately for him eveything else isn’t equal.
In 2008 he didn’t have a track record of crony capitalism.
In 2008 he didn’t have a track record of going on vacation after vacation while problems that he needed to deal with piled up.
In 2008 he didn’t have a track record of running deficits into the stratosphere.
In 2008 he didn’t have a track record of being an economy killer.
In 2008 he didn’t have a track record of ignoring high unemployment.

It’s offical, Obama is an idiot.

Hey Blaze,
Please do not us reuters/ipsos polling as your proof. They poll 45%Dem, 30%GOP, 25% Indy, they poll All Adults, and then they only poll 900 which is to small for an accurate polling size for the whole nation. The actual numbers for polling are 31%Dem, 34%GOP, 35% Indy. When you poll with these numbers, ask Likely voters(voters who have voted at least once in the last two election cycles) and a polling size of 1500, the numbers for Obama Flip, and he starts losing in most matches head to head. So keep going with those talking points from the guy who pays you, George Soros, and be utterly surprised when the dems are wiped out as a voice in government.

That’s the problem with Tyrants they never know when enough is enough. They get delusional.

“pass this bill, or the bridge I’m standing on will collapse”

Posted by: Blaze | September 16, 2011, 1:00 am 1:00 am

Hey Blaze, nice Poll you dug up.
I’m not a Poll Fan but I thought I’d help you make your point with another one.

Gallup Poll June 16th 2011

“Thinking about the presidential election in November 2012, are you more likely to vote for Barack Obama or the Republican Party’s candidate for president?”

Repub Candidate – 44%
Barack Obama – 39%

NY-9 Poll
Repub Turner wins Weiner’s 90 year old Demo seat.

“We remain very confident about our ability to win a contest of ideas in 2012,” Obama said, “as long as we can get the message out.”

Does he seriously think he could win the contest of ideas when this jobs bill was the best he could do? And as long as he can get his message out?

First, the jobs bill is a re-run of old stupid ideas that hasn’t/won’t work. Second, he has had 2 1/2 years of messaging, pivoting, focusing, and blaming….sheesh, really Dude?

If a republican were president right now, the first step in “making things right”, in the minds of democrats, would be to get the republican president out of office.
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This is where you’re wrong Alex. The Democrats work and compromise with Republicans to get the best things possible under the circumstances accomplished.
The Republicans election tactic is to refuse everything – even bring the country to a debt default crisis – in order to make things NOT work so Obama will be defeated. That’s been fairly obvious from the beginning.
And their tactics for decades now have been smear and fear campaigns. Not good for the country.
By Jim
During the negotiations for the health care bill, Nancy Pelosi wanted to make sure Republicans did not have a voice by saying “the election is over, you lost”. This is about as uncompromising as a party can possibly get. If you can name for me a time when the Republicans used that phrase to try to silence the Democrats, I’ll believe the Republicans are the party who will never compromise.

HAHAHAHHAHA.

Seriously? Obama is going to get crushed in 2012 along with the Democrats in the House and Senate. Articles like this just make me laugh.

This man is just eloquently stupid.

Considering who his opposition will be, he’s got a great chance of being re-elected. Even though the Republicans are doing their level best to keep America poor and ignorant………….

Posted by: Searambler
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No President has ever been re-elected with a high unemployment rate regardless who who the opposition was. The election of Clinton proves that.

With an unemployment rate of 9.1%, gas prices near $4.00/gallon and a debt of 14 trillion, if you honestly think Obama can get re-elected, you’ve gone delusional.

Talking abt polls:

Rasmussen, Sept 13:

Romney 43% Obama 40%
Generic Repub candidate 49% Obama 40%

Obama’s Presidency let’s see:
Amenesty for illegals which costs this country over $400 Billion per year
Union, Union, Unions which ruins manufacturing as factories are closing left and right
Reparations for black farmers although most of the recipients weren’t farmers
EPA and carbon credits: He is shutting down 20% of our power industry and giving our carbon credits to China, India, Malaysia, Nigeria and other polluting countries.
Sues the state of Arizon for illegal votes which is costing this country over $400 billion per year or $4 trillion in ten years.
Plays BBall and has sports players, musicians and actors in the white house about 3 days a week.
Wife goes on expensive vacations and takes all her friends and family at our expense.
Does shady deals with his green jobs buddies
Does shady deals with the Unions
Need I go on, and some of you sheeples are so blinded by him, you would re-elect this guy. You are either delusional or just dumb!

“And I just have to remind people that, here’s one thing I know for certain: the odds of me being reelected are much higher than the odds of me being elected in the first place.”

Obama’s is right, but the headline is wrong. The odds are a lot higher, meaning there is less of a chance of reelection. Like in golf (which the President knows much about), higher doesn’t mean better.

President Obama IS the best choice for 2012. The Republicans have worked very hard at keeping our Nation in trouble just in order to win the next election. I think that strategy will backfire on them all as it SHOULD. They have put party over Country and their ONLY goal has been to oust our President while at the same time, they have done NOTHING to mend our problems and rise our Nation out of the mess that those very Republicans had such a strong hand in causing. Many average Americans are hard working people and have witnessed over the past 3 years exacly what the Republicans are trying to do. They want to take ALL the power away from the middle-class while at the same time, strengthening the wealthy and big business. I will proudly vote for President Obama because the alternative is much too bleak a picture for me to comprehend.

Obama has ignored the mandate provided to him to focus on his pet liberal projects. 900+ days in he only begins to talk about the economy and then delivers a bag of lies and sets up the most political game for re-election…with no care about the economy. Run against congress who oppose his “jobs bill”…..sorry Barry….we see through your lies and deception. Resign now.

That level of anger some of you speak of is directed at the Republicans who are too blind to see how much they have damaged their own party by the things they’ve done over the past 3 years. Look at one more poll, the one that shows Obama’s #s being down but then you look at the polls geared towards Congress and moreso at the Republicans in Congress and THOSE polls are about as low as a poll can get before people come at those slime with pitchforks let alone a refusal to vote for such a useless lot. I refuse to ever vote for a party like the Republicans who have actually worked AGAINST curing the ills of our Nation just in order to get rid of a good man, President Obama. I pray that the Republicans pay dearly for every thing they’ve neglected in the past 3 years and that they also learn to put some people with brains in the running instead of a circus full of clowns like Perry, Bachmann, Palin and all the others that speak in order to please the Tea Party.

My first comment was not posted because a message came up that said I was posting too quickly and needed to slow down. What does that mean? And why is it when I hit the back button to go back to my post, it’s gone? I also tried posting on the “Notes” with that stupid Captcha code at the bottom. I entered the code six times yesterday and every time I was told I had entered the incorrect code. The letters and numbers were clear as day, so there was no confusion as to what I was attempting to enter. My comment was never posted. Is this another way of censoring certain comments? Sure seems like it.

Carole, if the basis for your campaign is “look how bad the other guy is” you have already lost.

@Carole you wouldnt vote for the other side regardless so your comments are a joke.

I want the drugs he’s taking!

Fiction.

His popularity and his congress are in the toilet. Could he be any more wrong?

searambler, liberals and democrats have almost 100% control over our educaitonal system…which is failing miserably compared to our industrialized counterparts. and recent stats show that almost half of college freshman are in need of remedial instruction. as a former high school teacher and college instructor i can safely say that you’re more likely to see bigfoot than you are to find a conservative or republican in a faculty lounge or school administration office. sorry, but the democrats own our educational system and its failures…which at this point are legion. but i’m sure in some way it’s all bush and the republicans fault, right? like how no child left behind (which was the pet project of the liberal lion of the senate ted kennedy) is, right? liberals control education…it’s failing us miserably…it’s their deal.

Obama please resign.

Sounds like Obama’s been smoking something other than cigarettes — he is totally delusional.

Don’t laugh too hard. I never thought George Bush would be reelected, especially since he lied to get us into Iraq; but he was. Until it actually happens, it’s up for grabs.

My mind goes back to George Bush, Term 2. I just came on here to see conservatives get really upset.

Grumopolis, I agree that our education system is a failure, unfortunately. I believe part of the problem is more money goes to the adminstrators than to those “on the front lines,” i.e., the teachers. And we have gotten away from teaching the important things. Instead, we teach self-esteem and how to work in groups, so that the students who do poorly are carried by those who are better students. I also believe doing away with discipline in the schools has been a detriment. I went to Catholic Schools for 12 years. People say the nuns were mean; they weren’t mean, they disciplined you and expected you to learn. I received a FANTASTIC education that has benefited me my entire life, beginning with my college career. I now teach college students and they are such a bunch of babies, with their parents doing everything for them. You would not believe the stories I hear from parents, telling me how intelligent and wonderful their student is. Meanwhile, they can’t even pass a simple grammar exam!

Is he still smoking cigarettes or something else?

Does anybody out there really believe anything that this idiot says antmore.

you cant believe anything this guy says one minute he is putting down rich people for being rich and the next he is rubbing elbows with them. obama was not rich when he ran for president but he is now.did somebody force him to take all that money he now has. hate the rich give me a break just another con game being run by another politician. and for all you little people out there like me the president will not help you theres nothing in that jobs bill or on his agenda that will help you one bit.he is talking about upper class and middle class union workers so unless you are one of them forget it. i never fail to be amazed how poor people can envy this guy so much.if you were making the kind of money it would take for his policies to affect you you wouldnt be poor. most of us have never made fifty thousand dollars ayear in our lives and never will.better wake the guy you thought could walk on water turns out tu be just another politician pushing the same old tired junk just to be re-elected

Attitude, you don’t know the half of it. I had three kids in college and the only thing I helped them with was filling out the financial aid forms for loans. We call today’s college kid parents “helicopter parents.” They decide the major and talk to as many of the student’s professors to make sure they all know how intelligent the child is. It’s pathetic, really. They refuse to allow these kids to grow up and learn lessons on their own. And the kids have this sense of entitlement, as if you owe them a good grade because their parents called and by golly, they’re all geniuses. They’re just having a “bad semester.” HA!

Well from a mathematical perspective Mr. Obama may be correct, however from a logical perspective, a bleak outcome is almost guaranteed. But for those who voted for him the first time, it would be interesting to see just how many actually will vote for him a second time. And the outcome of that is what Mr. Obama should be basing his expectation upon. Unfortunately the only Change I have seen from this Administration is the change in our Nation’s Credit Rating, The Stock Market Collapse, Unemployment Rates skyrocketing, Foreclosures consuming our communities… But then again I guess Mr. Obama’s definition of change is what you get from your dollar. It is really clear that Mathematics was not his strongest subjects and to think he is in charge of our how our finances are distributed. How is that for Change?

President Obama Will Win In 2012; Because My Family, and My Friends, and The Millions Of True Grit Americans Out there Will Be Voting For Him and Vice President Biden in November 2012!!!

charity, that sounds like a tyler perry movie title.

A good president is definitely a thing of the past. All we have now are people with their own agendas. We end up getting caught in the middle and ultimately paying a heavy price for it. This is the time we really need to start thinking about moving away from the two-party system. The choices stink!

Throwing money at something that doesn’t work isn’t going to make it work any better. It’s like putting a bandaid on a bleeding artery — pointless. I am a Democrat and I have to agree that the dems must take responsibility for a failed education system. We have lost sight of what’s right, anymore. I’m not sure how to fix the system … maybe going back to the “old way” of doing things. Seemed to work in the past — we were much more competitive. It’s even more important to go back to the basics in this globally competitive society. We are cheating our young people by coddling them way too much. Discipline is a thing of the past. The students control the classrooms and the teachers stand by helpless. It only takes one student to take attention away from an entire class; I would never teach below the college level. I don’t want to be a baby sitter.

For those of you who complain EVERY day about the media and how UNFAIR they are to the right, I’d just like to mention that the media is the EXACT same as it was during the gw bush years and what was your problem then? Yup, you all had FOX News and still do exept that they often went WAY too far in their lies and were discredited as well they should have been. Otherwise, we still have the same news agencies. The truth is that Republicans REFUSE to own up to the fact that they have put forth the most idiotic, moronic, and dumb people on the planet to run for the highest office in the land and all the while they think that voters with ANY sense of how important this election is will choose them. I believe Americans are much brighter than that.

Can you imagine the leadership skills of a JFK, the personal convictions of a Teddy Roosevelt, the willingness to take personal responsibility like a Harry Truman, and the compassion and wisdom of an Abraham Lincoln? Oh well, I can dream can’t I?

His chances keep getting dimmer. Michael Angley reports:
“Last week, Air Force General William Shelton, Commander of Air Force Space Command, told Congressional leaders in a closed-door session that the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to favor a company that turns out to be a major donor to the Democratic Party.

LightSquared, a Virginia-based broadband satellite company, has been vying for permission to operate in a frequency band in the vicinity of our nation’s GPS system. In Gen Shelton’s presentation to Congress, he went prepared to warn of the dangers the LightSqaured project would pose to our GPS integrity. He said the White House attempted to pressure him into altering the substance of his testimony to indicate:

That the military would continue to test the proposed bandwidth for ways LightSquared could still use the spectrum space without interfering with GPS.
That he hoped the necessary testing for LightSquared would be completed within 90 days.
The general refused to make these changes.”

Newcountryman, yes, you can dream. Unfortunately, the only being who might possess all those qualities will have to be an alien from outer space!

Dear Sirs, I grew up in the age when there were only 3 networks. I admired you and respected what you said, but now as I hear the way you have stopped reporting and are practicing Yellow Journalism, I am disappointed and appalled. Please consider just reporting the news again. You are not in the business of advertising for Obama or those who share your political bent. I don’t care if you love or hate them – just tell the truth without any slant. Let the US decide whether we like them or not. You are not helping this republic. It is time for you to do your job and report – not spin. As a simple American citizen, representative of millions who are so tired of you trying to tell me how to think, I am requesting that you begin to self monitor. If you start reporting the news again, I may start watching again. I just want to hear the truth – not your truth or their truth. Save opinions for the opinion shows and REPORT the news (all of it). Thank you, Sincerely Sally Kirkpatrick

He thinks if he sells the perception things are good things will be good. Reality however keeps getting in the way.

Yeah, the Republicans really have it all sewed up, now all they need is a candidate with a BRAIN that can say things that piss off the Tea Party – THEN I’d know they really could have a chance in 2012. But, they won’t do that because they LIKE impressing their LOWEST base – the same people that applaud multiple executions and people dying because they have NO heath care insurance. Yup, those are the kind of Americans this nation needs – – – NOT!!!!!

I never thought George Bush would be reelected but he was and that’s for two reasons: one, history has shown that when we are at war, the incumbent has a greater chance of being reelected and I believe always has; and, two, the Democratic candidate wasn’t worth voting for. If the Republicans don’t come up with a viable candidate, Obama will be reelected; and so far, I haven’t seen anyone worth voting for from that side.

Posted by: carole | September 16, 2011, 10:17 am 10:17 am

You make a good point here, Carole. In times of duress, people tend to stick with the devil they know… not that Obama’s a devil; I actually have met him, eight to ten years ago and he’s really a sweetheart, truth be told, but they’re all politicians… so, anyhow… he represents the potential for more certainty following the election. Nobody knows what the Republicans will do. Perry and Romney say one thing but their records don’t back that up, and the other front runners, Bachmann and Paul are very radical. they will create tons of uncertainty and chaos if they’re elected and do the things they claim they will do.

Friday, September 16
General Election: Perry vs. Obama Rasmussen Reports Obama 46, Perry 39 Obama +7
General Election: Bachmann vs. Obama Rasmussen Reports Obama 46, Bachmann 3 Obama +13

Posted by: Blaze | September 16, 2011, 1:51 pm++++Does Polly want a cracker?

Thursday, September 15
General Election: Perry vs. Obama Bloomberg Obama 49, Perry 40 Obama +9
General Election: Romney vs. Obama Bloomberg Obama 48, Romney 43 Obama +5

I’m both glad and sad to know that Obama is this drippy dipstick delusional, or this dreary-drone dishonest — take your pick, or some combination thereof. And he plops some moldy cartoon icing on his roach-infested cake with his blather about winning “a contest of ideas” next year. What?! He has nearly no new workable “ideas” at this point, but rather, laughably and quite pathetically, he merely has his childishly stubborn and impotent ideology, along with his absurdly misguided notions and whims that spending more and more and more will eventually produce a brave new world of happy social justice (as in — true and lasting economic ruin and thorough discontent and misery for nearly all). I guess it might be perversely entertaining (or probably just super-duper-boring) to see him so desperately blow meaningless hot air and hypocritically pontificate throughout this next year. He’ll lose, either way. Thankfully.

I pray to Obama that he is NOT reelected!!!!

Posted by: grumpopolis | September 16, 2011, 10:53 am 10:53 am

grumpopolis, you win the coveted Post-o-da-Day Award™ for 09-16-2011.
Your comment
“as a former high school teacher and college instructor i can safely say that you’re more likely to see bigfoot than you are to find a conservative or republican in a faculty lounge or school administration office.”
is very funny (I laughed out loud) and so full of truth.

Laura, it won’t be a generic Republican running against Obama, and therein lies the problem for the the GOP. I’ve said many times that Obama is an underdog. It’s amazing he beats all of the Republican candidates, until you actually look out who they are and find out more about them. Then it makes perfect sense. It’s a lame field of candidates, and their ideas poll as badly as the tea party and their ideas.

I didn’t make up the RCP numbers. They are what they are… and apparently they ruffle your feathers:

Obama +5.3 against Perry
Obama + 0.9 against Romney
Obama +3.3 against Paul
Obama +10.6 against Bachmann
Obama +14.6 against Gingrich
Obama +10 against Cain
Obama +11 against Huntsman

Headline today: Obama regains lead over Perry in poll

Kimberly the lib spamster, you do crack me up. I see you totally evade the issue of the differences between your repeatedly cited polls and if a real election were held today — namely, the millions (many millions most believe, even many honest and very worried Dems) of folks who in a poll may say that they favor Obama, but will end up being no-shows (at best) on election day, because of Obama’s severely horrible performance as community organizer of the USA. And then you quickly skate over the polls that “ruffle your feathers” — namely the ones that show the generic Republican beating Obama…
Rasmussen: 47% to 42%, the Republican wins over Obama
NBC News / Wall St. Journal : 44% to 40%, the Republican over Obama
And, again, the average for all four polls shows a Republican win.

As for your vague and vapid potshots at the field of Republican candidates, unlike them, we surely do know Obama now, we know him quite well, and just how lame he has been, and how he will continue to mis-govern the country (right on down the proverbial drain). That is his very huge problem, the very problem that will keep many millions of Independents and Democrats at home on election day — or, by next year, voting Republican. Reality. Embrace it.

Laura, which Republican?

I cite the averages while you cherry pick. At RCP, which averages the polls, Obama vs. Republican: Republican +0.5%. As I’ve said, Obama is the underdog. However, when you look at the actual GOP candidates, Obama comes out ahead.

See the numbers posted 6:28 pm or go directly to Real Clear Politics and check it out yourself.

If you look solely at Rasmussen, Perry is the frontrunner in the GOP primary, and against the frontrunner, Perry, Obama is +7. Against Bachmann, he’s +33.

Well, well, as I said the Solyndra scandal is only a tip of an iceberg for the Obama administration. Read my lips, this is another one that ABC did not want to cover:

General William Shelton and PhilipFacon corp ( a major political campaign donor for Obama) soon-to-be another scandal .

I do not have time for all the details, if you are interested please Google yourself. A trail of bad politic is starting unfold and the Solyndra is not the end but just a beginning.

On Solyndra, I get:

Bush admin pushed Solyndra loan guarantee for two years
Michele Bachmann links Rick Perry on HPV vaccine to Solyndra
Infographic, Solyndra ‘scandal’ vs. the Defense Department’s biggest boondoggles
Pennies to Clean Energy, Billions to Big Oil — Mainstream Media Missing the Real Story on Solyndra

My understanding is that all the facts aren’t in yet and no conclusions have been drawn as to whether any real “scandal” exists. I think the hard right is just dancing on the grave of a business in an industry they fear because… well, they’re crazy.

Ah Kimberly, still chattering away and merely repeating your misleading talking points to no avail, except to drive home the point that you are a very silly lib drone? Why yes, you obviously are. Thanks for the laughs. I see you still — yes still — wish to absolutely evade and ignore the many millions of folks who in a poll may say that they favor Obama, but will end up being no-shows (at best, for Dems) on election day, because of Obama’s severely horrible performance and clunky corruption as community organizer of the USA — which, of course, is one of the main differences between these polls and the real outcome of a real election involving the inept and corrupt blowhard, Obama. You seem to be nearly as stubbornly delusional and/or dishonest as Obama himself. I know I should not be surprised, and yet I am — but only slightly. Goodbye Obama.

Proof positive this man has no clue. We have dumb and dumber running our country.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove

When are both parties going to do what they’ve both said they were going to: go through the budget, line by line, and eliminate the waste? I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s 20% waste, fraud, abuse and overlap. So 10-15% should be a realistic goal.

Bluedog, I do think Obama is an underdog, just as he was in 2007, but given there’s no candidate as good as Hillary Clinton in the GOP field, I think he’s less of an underdog than he was then. the truth is the GOP and its tea party are very unpopular.

As to why they’re so unpopular and what they actually seem to stand for, rhetoric aside, see Crashing the Tea Party by David Campbell and Robert Putnam, “Cultures of the Tea Party — a study which reveals American voters sympathetic to the Tea Party movement reflect four primary cultural and political beliefs more than other voters do: authoritarianism, libertarianism, fear of change, and negative attitudes toward immigrants and immigration. They’re also into God in gov’t; The truth about the tea party by Matt Taibbi, It’s Morning In Griftopia: A Q+A With Author Matt Taibbi, Michelle Bachmann’s Holy War,again by Matt Taibbi (but I’m moving on!), Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles, the 2011 Wisconsin protests, Disapproval Rate for Congress at Record 82% After Debt Talks (and note this part: “Republicans in Congress shoulder more of the blame for the difficulties in reaching a debt-ceiling agreement than President Obama and the Democrats, the poll found.The Republicans compromised too little, a majority of those polled said. All told, 72 percent disapproved of the way Republicans in Congress handled the negotiations…The public’s opinion of the Tea Party movement has soured in the wake of the debt-ceiling debate.”), Jane Mayer’s article in the NY brothers called Covert Operations about the billionaire brothers against Obama.

Finally, see CNN/Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers Letting Uninsured Comatose Man Die

That doesn’t mean it isn’t very important to vote. It is!

I’d love for there to be some amazing independent candidate that will move our country forward, but so far there isn’t. And the GOP frontrunners aren’t all that. Out of all of them, Huntsman is best on paper but kinda annoying in person (I heard one commentator say he’s like that teacher whose class you want to skip because its so darned boring, and I agree) and Romney would do the least damage and I do kinda like him… but will the GOP elect him as their candidate??? How is he sigificantly different than Obama really, aside from rhetoric and except for not having a strong record on counterterrorism and foreign policy? Romney is weak in the foreign relations area.

Have you read Mike Lofgren’s piece called “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult.” It’s interesting… you may be upset with Dems and Obama but as Lofgren puts it, “To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics…. The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy.”

that Congressional directly includes Bachmann and Paul, btw.

Kimberly, regarding your silly and nearly surreal contention that Obama would win a “contest of ideas”, well, one has to have at least plausibly workable ideas in order to win such a contest. Obama has proven he doesn’t even remotely have workable ideas… just the perverse determination to spend and spend and spend, even crookedly and corruptly it now strongly seems, and certainly on into real and lasting bankruptcy and ungodly high unemployment. And then your oft-repeated general claim that “the tea party is very unpopular” — yes, just more inflated hot air. Sure, they are quite unpopular with those on the left and much, or even
most, of the mainstream media, but their “unpopularity” is vastly and conveniently exaggerated in the lame attempt to persuade others to also merely dismiss them. It sure didn’t work during those mid-term elections, did it? Lol, indeed.
But yes, we should vote, and we will vote. We will vote to get rid of Obama, and millions of those who voted for him before will either stay home, or maybe even vote for his opponent. Again – Reality. Try hard to embrace it, painful as that may be.

Um…Kimberly. I actually read your very lengthy post twice, carefully. And then I went back and re-read your earlier posts. I know you won’t believe me, but you really are just a liberal chatterbox, as someone wrote before. You merely quote from articles and sources that support your brittle views, and you merely repeat the usual cliched liberal assumptions about voters and the candidates over and over again. In short, it doesn’t amount to much at all, except, for you, the intense pleasure of feeling like you’re really saying something important and having some impact. Best of luck being happy with your current schtick.

Sorry, Kimberly, but I’m not obligated to refute or address your many various stale “points” or views or partisan quotes from others just because you toss them out there in true chatterbox fashion, and it definitely cracks me up when minor hacks try to use that lame tactic in posting or debate — in short, “I’ll toss out a whole boatload of various stuff, and if you don’t take the time address it all, then I win.” Real amateur-hour style stuff. My summary of your posts, and you — as you are posting here at least — is entirely accurate, and you prove it more and more with every lengthy, painfully boring post.

Again, Kimberly: Laughs aplenty in your silly and nearly surreal contention that Obama would win a “contest of ideas”, well, one has to have at least plausibly workable ideas in order to win such a contest. Obama has proven he doesn’t even remotely have workable ideas… just the perverse determination to spend and spend and spend, even crookedly and corruptly it now strongly seems, and certainly on into real and lasting bankruptcy and ungodly high unemployment. And then your oft-repeated general claim that “the tea party is very unpopular” — yes, just more inflated hot air. Sure, they are quite unpopular with those on the left and much, or even most, of the mainstream media, but their “unpopularity” is vastly and conveniently exaggerated in the lame attempt to persuade others to also merely dismiss them. It sure didn’t work during those mid-term elections, did it? Lol, indeed.

But yes, we should vote, and we will vote. We will vote to get rid of Obama, and millions of those who voted for him before will either stay home, or maybe even vote for his opponent. Again – Reality. Try hard to embrace it, painful as that may be.

I must admit that this is oddly entertaining, even if pathologically so. Kimberly has her sacred polls mostly shredded by Laura, and then she goes on to absurdly claim that Obama would “win a contest of ideas”, even though Obama has no effective ideas at all, and is only trying to jam through his same old moldy and disastrous “ideas”, all of which translate into more and more spending for no substantial positive result, but just more and more debt absolutely. And then, quite weirdly, she laments the “personalization” of the posts, claiming it will make “you a smaller person,” all the while telling us all about herself, as if anyone gives a flying fruitcake whatsoever. Funny stuff.
But Obama will still lose next year, and we can all rejoice in that. Or at least those of us with some common sense and honesty.

I wonder if Laura, Mike, Blue dog et al. have ever heard of a writer’s thing called “voice.” har de har.

Of course, you’re not obligated to refute points or make sense or write a comment that is worthwhile. In lively cocktail party conversation in real life, you may want to be able to do that, or if you intend to campaign for a particular candidate, but if that’s not your scene or you’re still in high school, then by all means, carry on as you are.

The facts remain that Real Clear Politics shows Obama ahead of every real candidate, including the frontrunner, Perry. The headline at Real Clear politics regarding polling this week: President Obama Regains Lead Over Perry in Poll. Given that, the president’s remarks make total sense although obviously Republicans benefit from blocking policies Americans support. As long as the economy remains in bad shape, Obama’s approval ratings will be rocky, even if Republicans are viewed more negatively and they’re the ones blocking job-creation ideas the public likes.

For example, the NYT poll today shows that the majority of Americans, favors cutting payroll taxes for working Americans, 56-30; the majority favors Federal aid to state governments to avert public employee layoffs, 52-40; an even BIGGER majority favors spending money on the nation’s infrastructure in order to try to create jobs, 80-16; the majority, thinks creating jobs should be a higher priority than cutting spending, 56-29… and other polls have resulted in similar findings.(CNN poll, NBC/WSJ poll, National Journal poll). But the Republicans don’t want to do anything about jobs.

No wonder Congressional Republicans and the tea party are so very unpopular.

Crony capitalism : Solyndra and Lightsquared Broadband scandals . This is just a surface of the corruption. Corruption starts from the top. Time soon will reveals …

A trillion dollars of taxpayers for the Stimulus plan needs to be accounted for. Where did the money go? Solyndra and LightSquared Broadband are just a tip of an iceberg. I cannot wait to see more and more dirty laundry will be revealed.

No one is above the laws, if there is criminal activity involved, some body needs to be i jail.

Dear ABC, please stop being so ridiculously partisan by deleting totally legitimate posts, even if you do support President Obama. I thought maybe I was imagining it when earlier I was looking for several posts replying to the ever-present Kimberly, but now I’m sure. They are definitely gone, and they were well within the bounds of decency and relevance. So, Please Stop your partisan deletion of posts. You are, in the long run, just embarrassing yourself, and making people mistrust the “mainstream media” even more than they already do.

Bluedog, there’s a difference between a “bored housewife” and following a doctor’s recommendation to stay off your feet, but whatever. I am bored and I probably will be home full time for another 3-4 months and part-time for awhile after that. There’s nothing greater than being a mom. And there’s no rule that says moms aren’t or can’t be whip smart. Attempts to belittle, diminish and scapegoat someone because you don’t like what they have to say is the last refuge of those without a good argument. I say Bless your wee little heart, anyway ;^) We’re in a post-compassionate conservative era, and compassionate conservatism was an oxymoron to begin with.

On topic, it’s true that if you average the polls the generic republican is 0.5 ahead. That’s half a percentage point, despite the state of the economy, the GOP’s tea party’s momentum in ’10, and a successful ongoing smear campaign by the right. One of the articles I recommended was Covert Operations by Jane Mayer, a highly discussed article in the New Yorker. That goes into a little of what Obama’s up against. Republicans have been willing to engage in scorched earth tactics because they benefit from blocking policies Americans support. As long as the economy remains in bad shape, Obama’s approval ratings will be rocky, even if Republicans are viewed more negatively and they’re the ones blocking job-creation ideas the public likes.

As I keep pointing out, and you keep ignoring or calling trite, it’s also true that if you plug in the real candidates, including the current frontrunner, Obama comes out ahead, meaning his statements referenced in the blog post above make perfect sense. The fact of the matter is an actual candidate will be running against Obama. Anyone interested in the numbers can go to Real Clear Politics, which has links to all the polls it uses in its averages, or check my post at September 16, 2011, 6:28 pm .

The problem with Laura’s/your argument is that it’s a biased opinion without any substantiation whatsoever. You claim it is probable “millions” of former or would-be Obama supporters will stay home. This is conjecture over a year away from the election. You also state an opinion regarding massive failures, yet there are many people who are happy DADT was repealed,that an escrow fund to pay damages from the BP oil spill was pressed for and is now in place, that Bin Laden was captured and killed, that health care reform legislation was passed and SCHIP was expanded, that the administration isn’t anti-science or anti-immigration, that Obama has been a rigorous tax cutter during a time of recession and economic stagnation, that a credit card bill of rights was passed, etc, etc, etc. There are many people whom are grateful for Obama’s efforts to keep the safety net going and states afloat and public sector employees like firefighters and police officers employed. Whether they will stay home and not vote Nov. ’12 or not cannot be determined yet and will depend on whom the actual candidate is that the Republicans choose. Heck, the Republican establishment might vote for Obama if Paul or Bachmann becomes the candidate. Following the debt ceiling talks, both the GOP’s Congressional members and tea party are extremely unpopular. So while I appreciate that you think you/Laura shredded my argument with conjecture, I don’t find conjecture persuasive or conclusive, particularly if its rather far-fetched.

As for your weak defense of the GOP, the only things Republicans have proposed thus far is a Medicare-killing anti-stimulus that will worsen unemployment in the short term, hurling us into the double dip. A plurality of economists and financial experts recommend short-term stimulus and medium to long term fiscal discipline. They include Nouriel Roubini who predicted the financial collapse and was nicknamed Dr. Doom, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf and Ben Bernanke, as well as folks like Bruce Bartlett. Austerity hasn’t been successful in Europe.

ACDC, don’t you think if Republicans were serious about getting away from their well-known crony capitalism they’d back off their support of Medicare Advantage and stop interfering with implementation of the Dodd-Frank bill? What do you make of Perry’s relationship with Merck? Do Paul and Bachmann have Perry’s number, or is it okay to be a crony capitalist if you’re a republican, in your view?

So Kimberly, it seems you agree with me that one trillion dollars for NO-SHOVEL-READY-JOBS as well as Perry’s Merck relationship is a living proof of Crony Capitlism.

At least now we have some common ground. Obama’s Solyndra and LightSquared scandals are a tip of an iceberg of Crony Capitalism but wait, not too fast, one trillion dollars of taxpayers’ money have not been accounted for and we need to hold some one to be accountable for the Crony Capitalism, Do not we?

The SHOVEL-READY-JOBS Stimulus plan is just a front since there was ans is no jobs created. Over 9 percent unemployment rate, What’s happened to ” I will keep it under eight percent”? What’s happened to “Bush’s debt is unpatriotic” when Obama has the national debt doubled within two years?

Obviously, Kimberly, I have no idea what you are now jabbering about (above), and I doubt you do either — it doesn’t even begin to make sense, but I’m not all that surprised.
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Now Dearest Kimberly, where to really start, since there’s so much fun and enlightenment to be had from your reverse-reality Obama talking points, dishonest buzz words and misleading catch-phrases, and your continually wordy and desperate volleys of misinformation, that, sadly for you, continue to so obviously misfire?

How about here: Just what happened in that now famous, or infamous (for you perhaps), mid-term election — you know that historically decisive and extensive whipping the Dems received clear across the entire country which resulted in the Republican control of the House? Was the disenchantment, dissatisfaction, and even anger and disgust with Obama’s policies merely speculation and “conjecture”? Far more recently, just what happened in that New York special election in which the Democrat lost, and lost decisively, in a district that had not elected a Republican in 88 years? Was the disenchantment, dissatisfaction, and even anger and disgust with Obama’s policies mere speculation and “conjecture” there also? Slightly interesting to note that even Obama’s mouthpiece, Jay Carney, spun it thusly: “It was a special case in a specific district in a low turnout election.” What?! Low turnout? That rings a bell, surely. Ding-dong. But really, low turnout in such a publicized election, with so much money and energy poured into it by desperate Dems from across the country? So, anyway, the real truth is that predicting or asserting anything will happen, or is likely to happen, in the future is, indeed and obviously, a form of speculation and conjecture — whether it be polls more than a year away from an election or sensibly taking into account the deep disgust with, and widespread anger over, Obama’s failed policies, and even with Obama himself at this point. I will gladly go with my “conjecture” about many millions of Obama no-shows on election day over your pathologically persistent, yet mostly tacit, “conjecture” that those head-to-head polls (more than a year away from the election) show what is likely to happen next year.

Then, of course, you go on at length to give, unintentionally, almost a perversely hilarious caricature of the Dems’ usual talking points regarding Obama’s supposed achievements that people are thankful for, or should be thankful for, and, naturally and conversely, those very naughty and mean folks on the Right. But most are not thankful — as you so ardently wish they would be, and pretend so many are — because his policies have almost entirely failed to produce substantial positive results. Had they truly produced decent results for the massive amount of money spent, then it would still be debatable whether that huge amount of money spent was necessary or wise, but the debate would lean far more in his favor — but alas, his policies have utterly failed, so we have a debt we can not run and jump over, and next to nothing to show for it. So it is great and quite necessary that his stubborn plans to spend even more, ever more, are being blocked by those naughty “obstructionist” folks on “the Right”.

Along the way, you hypocritically talk about “a successful ongoing smear campaign by the right” when, in fact, no entity has been more consistently and thoroughly smeared than The Tea Party (of which I am not a member, by the way), continual smearing which has Obama’s active participation and happy blessing. Obama’s opponents are, according to your hollow buzz-words, ” anti-science” and “anti-immigration” Really? Being for the responsible use of science and wishing to also respect people’s religious views is equal to the absurd blanket buzz-term — “anti-science”? And being against illegal immigration — illegal immigration, yes — and wanting our government to respect and uphold the law and do their constitutional duty by stopping millions of people from illegally pouring over our border somehow translates into the absurd blanket buzz-term — “anti-immigration”? No, obviously. Your posts are chalk full this kind of disingenuous, sometimes downright dishonest, partisan absurdity — again obviously.

And, of course, in another post you make another typically laughable comment about the Solyndra scandal, merely pointing the finger at other, lesser, problems (both real and imagined) on the other side of the aisle. Half a billion dollars straight down the drain — 500 million, no less — all because of Obama’s brittle, failed ideology and sneaky strongarm tactics. Perhaps you should read, “Solyndra: Obama’s audacity of failure”. Google it, or Google another one of the many if that one doesn’t suit you.

As for your first paragraph, it is merely a very weird throw-away attempt at both pity and, oddly enough, respect. Please tell us no more about your personal life — it’s irrelevant, and frankly, few or none of us care at all, even if it makes you feel better to vent about it. And if you really believe you are “whip smart”, then I will concur with what you said to me: “I say Bless your wee little heart, anyway ;^)” Cheers, and good luck with all that.

Same easy shredding of your dreary nonsense.
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Poverty ! Really, not me and people I know. We live well and life is good under Perry governor ‘s watch.

Obama is toast, period. Even the Jews despite him. Bill Turner goes to Washington not to compromise with Obama but to get Obama out of the WH.

ACDC, there are the facts, and then there’s what you allege about yourself and your small circle of friends. 1 in 5 people in Texas live in poverty. They’re also not doing so well on health care insurance, children in poverty, education, living wages, and hunger.

Terry, which GOP candidate do you consider a sane adult? Michele Bachmann? Ron Paul? Rick Perry?

My friendly gardener from the South border told me he could do a better job than Obama. I believe he would but he was not born in the US soil. He creates jobs . He has three people working for him.
Ouch!

Gotta agree, ACDC2012. Nothing wrong with being a regular poster, but spending that many hours on all these threads repeating silly crap to no end even after you basically get destroyed is pretty sad.

I have a lot of sympathy for those who are really trying and are still unemployed, but you are right that people do abuse the system and do become dependent and lose their gumption to do for themselves when the benefits just keep on getting extended. Best to you.

You realize that you’re just showing how uncomfortable I make you. Did you see Kilgore’s “Five Things All the GOP Candidates Agree On. (They’re Terrifying.)? They’re all radical and unpopular positions out of step with the American mainstream: no role for gov’t in the economy, hard money (get yer gold, matey!), .Radical anti-choice, anti-right to privacy activism, radical anti-science anti-environmentalism, and anti-unionism/anti-worker rights.

No wonder the GOP, its congressional members and its tea party are so very unpopular and Obama, despite the economy, is outpolling the lame GOP presidential candidates.

Um, for your own info, it’s Salvadoran gardener, not Elsavador gardener. Also, Solinsky is a distance runner from Wisconsin. I fail to see what he has to do with anything.

Since Obama is little more than a bad joke now anyway, he probably figures he might as well keep on making us laugh by making more clownish statements during this last year of his nightmare term. I can laugh since I have a job and not just a temporary government subsidized job or a union job either, but lots of other people who are suffering don’t find his crazy talk so funny. But they will be able to get at least a small last laugh next year in the voting booth.

The ideologue who is very far out of step with America is Obama, and Kimberly.
Her continued and compulsive repeat propaganda posts show this quite clearly. There is no ‘there” for Obama for sure, and just claiming over and over that the tea party is very radical and very unpopular won’t help him all that much. However, it is likely to be one of the main lame left-wing tactics used and abused all this year and next.

With the way the Republicans are acting… holding back on everything that can help the economy just to thwart Obama… mmmm… you Repubs are hanging yourselves! LOL… do you really think that all the crap you all have been doing to the country will fly??? Picture IDs for voting, do away with social security and unions, cutting medicare for seniors…etc, etc…. LOL… You guys have a snowballs chance in hell of getting into the White House if you don’t pass the jobs bill. NOW THINK ABOUT THAT! LOL… LOL sooo funny!

I am one of those Independents who voted for Obama last time, and no way at all would I vote for him again. Kimberly, your posts aren’t convincing me of anything except that you are very far to the left, and that you spend a huge amount of time posting here. And “Lorrie”, lots of silly LOLs from you over nothing it seems. The debate here has not gone well for the Obama supporters to put it mildly.

Obama’s predictions are always so spot on in an odd sort of way. You just have to qualify it as a mirror of reality and then his record is better than anyones.

Well, “Carol”, way back I mentioned “voice.” You may want to look it up and work on developing different ones. Otherwise I won’t be the only one who laughs at the hypocrisy regarding the meme on time spent.

Meanwhile, I do think the Laurie or Laura personality would enjoy the piece “Basilisks, Ron Paul and the quest for the Generic Republican”. Pass that along ;^)

Obama, as of next November = defeated one-termer, desperately trying to save his poor “legacy”.

What in god’s name is wrong with you people? Obama is a damn fine president compared to the lineup of crazies and fools that you call the republican candidates. I’d rather have him thank any one of them any day of the year. They spout the same garbage as each other and then argue about who’s sh*t smells the best. I know 6 year olds who could run this country better than Romney, Cain, Bachmann, Gingrich, or Santorum. Republicans whine about the stupidest things, then expect that whining and throwing a “no” tantrum will fix the problems set forth. At least Obama came up with a few plans that have worked previously and are actually tried and true for bringing the economy out of a depression. Republicans have yet to come up with one that makes sense and benefits someone other than the mega-rich. “The 10 richest men in our country could buy the world. The 10,000,000 poorest can barely afford bread.”

why the hell is obama so confident that he is going to get re-elected?! i hope people will not be as ignorant at the next presidental election.