Comments on: Obama TV Ad Hits Romney on Massachusetts Debt

By: deedeemao

deedeemao — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 03:29:49 +0000

Obama is critsizing someone for running up a lot of DEBT?

Oh that’s rich and we all know how Obama absolutely hates the rich, all those millionaires and billionaires who don’t pay their fair share like General Electric.

It has to be a sorry day in Obamaland when not even Joe Biden can make this man look serious by comparison any more.

By: david

david — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:08:48 +0000

I wonder how Massachusetts faired during the meltdown and how they are doing in terms of unemployment, tax revenues,teacher layoffs etc. Just looking around at the states that lap up every dollar of federal money they can and some of them are not doing so well.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:56:38 +0000

True desperation by the Prez Zero campaign, he has a great talent at blaming others,, its not hard for Romney to slam this one, but the limp brain dims will believe anything the great one tosses out. Real numbers absolutely do not support this most recent attempt to smear

By: richme

richme — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:40:08 +0000

Obama’s hypocrisy is stunning in attacking Romney’s Massachusetts record. Under Obama, we’ve had 38 straight months of unemployment above 8%.

When Mitt Romney took office on Jan 2 2003, the Massachusetts unemployment rate was 5.6%. When Romney left office on Jan 4, 2007, the Massachusetts unemployment rate was 4.6%.

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

By: tork

tork — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:59:07 +0000

Meh…. if you look at the numbers from a historical perspective, Obama is more fiscally conservative than Reagan and Bush (both of who increased the deficit by wide margins). If you also look at what happened during the Depression, the numbers are parallel. You look at the peak of the depression and look at the peak of this last recession, there is a similar pattern with regards to overall national debt.

The Republicans just hope we don’t look at the actual historical numbers. Sure, the have their own numbers which are all out of context and cherrypicked…. but if you look at the long term trends and compare presidents using the same criteria…. It’s very clear that Bush caused it, Obama is fixing it. And that he isn’t spender that the GOP pretends.

BUT…. you have to look at the facts.

By: greer

greer — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:30:33 +0000

Obama has run up more debt in a shorter period of time than anyone in all history!

POSTED BY: VALWAYNE | JUNE 12, 2012, 4:39 PM 4:39 PM

Not really. There was a $1.2 trillion deficit for 2009 before Obama even swore the oath of office. And another $1.25 trillion in interest on the debt left by the Bush administration that has nothing to do with Obama.

And neither does the Bush economic crisis have anything to do with Obama, nor the ongoing repercussions of that disaster. The world is still trying to recover from that botched job.

By: Ty

Ty — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:17:04 +0000

2.6 Billion over 4 years? … OUCH! That’s a hard number to swallow. Speaking of hard numbers to swallow, an Obama budget (if he had one) would have added about that much money to the national debt … yesterday.

By: valwayne

valwayne — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:39:45 +0000

Obama has run up more debt in a shorter period of time than anyone in all history, and he is borrowing over $4 billion dollars each and every day!!!!! And in return for all that debt he’s given us the worst UNEMPLOYMENT since the Great Depression, Solyndra, and lots more Government and Regulations strangling business and jobs. The idea of President Debt whining about anybody else’s debt is laughable. Obama will do anything to avoid explaining his disastrous Presidency!

By: bush is back

bush is back — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:23:35 +0000

No, the Republicans desperately wan the economy to crash before the election.

By: bush is back

bush is back — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:04:56 +0000

Medicare has less bureaucracy and overhead costs than any private alternative….that’s all the information we need.