Well said. Record filibusters on every single piece of legislation involving jobs and the low-info voters still can't see what the problem is.

Maybe not Magical Secretion, but Obama did rewrite the human biology textbook to include a "Composite Girlfriend". Now that is just plain weird!

A composite girlfriend suggests a dating rut to me... ; )

For two years he only needed one RINO to do whatever. But instead of jobs he pursued healthcare takeover. Since then the only jobs bill he proposed was a joke, copy of first stimulus that failed. Designed so that no reasonable person could vote for it, then he could claim he tried. The GM bailout was mismanaged, he bailed out the UAW at taxpayer expense, a competently managed bankruptcy would not have the taxpayers losing billions and a company projected to be in bankruptcy in next four Years.

@Bren -

Maybe the dating rut was caused by Obama's failure to deal with reality head-on. In Obama's early adulthood, accoridng to his own words, whenever the going got tough, Obama chose to check out by snorting a few lines, smoking some crack-rock, hitting the bong, lighting a joint, taking a few hits of acid, getting sh!t-faced drunk and lord knows what else!

How can you support a candidate that used to do this whenever life got a little difficult for him in his adulthood? Doesn't that say something about his character and integrity?

And yet you constantly rip on Romney for his treatment of the family dog. At least whenever the going got tough for Romney, Romney got going instead of checking out like Obama did! Romney has never even taken a sip of alcohol, yet alone abused hard illegal narcotics the way Obama used to!

Honestly, how do you reconcile this?

Obama and the Democrats did not save the economy. The only thing they deserve credit for is the SEC suspending Mark-to-Market rules from SOX regs in April 2009, ironically regulation to prevent Enron's accelerated the crisis. By may the panic was over. Almost no stimulus spent then. By late 2009 companies realized they had cut inventory to far during the panic and the economy was headed from improvement. Lots of optimism after Scott Brown Election that the Democrats might be reasonable and pull back from their radical agenda. Then they rammed Obamacare and continued the anti-business policies. Not surprisingly that lead to worst recovery since great depression.A president with just a little bit of competence could have the growth rate 50% higher than Obama which would still not be great. Face it either he is trying to screw up this country or he in in over his head.

@Hoffa: Nowadays, when the going gets tough, the president goes golfing. 104 times and counting during his first term. How does Bren explain that dereliction of duty? Safer than crack, I suppose.

Mr. Hoffa, you have brought up the dog incident more than I have. I don't support drug use but appreciate Obama's coming forward. All I've heard about young Romney is how he assaulted a fellow student and cut his hair. Nice.

Bryant, a million GM and industry jobs saved, cars selling. Chrysler at the point of making payments. That indicates "working" to me.

"Not surprisingly that lead to worst recovery since great depression." Bryant, have you ever taken a U.S. history class? Or read an article about the Great Depression? Perhaps you have forgotten. After the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 and a slight rebound, a tariff was enacted in 1930 that stopped international trade virtually in its tracks. Other countries' economies crashed. Banks foreclosed on homes; people began hoarding money until there was little financial movement, exacerbating the problem. Worse, social unrest began to swell. "Hoovervilles" of displaced, angry people began to show up. It wasn't until Roosevelt began spending money creating work programs, etc. that social unrest quietened and the economy began to inch forward. World War II and more government spending got the economy cranking.

We've had nothing to compare with the GD until now. Who's obstructing jobs bills after years of rubber-stamping bad fiscal policies under Bush. Please.

Gear, let's "talk" about "dereliction of duty," aka "vacation." Here's the work-up of notable vacation schedules of modern presidents:

George W. Bush (8 years) 1,020 days
FDR (12 years) 958 days
Bill Clinton (8 years) 689 days
LBJ (6 years) 484 days
Reagan (8 years) 436 days
Obama (as of May 9, 2012) 61 days

Bren:

What is your source for that data, and what is counted as a 'vacation day'? GW Bush certainly had his staff and resources at his Texas ranch during his 'vacations', allowing him to work from there in pretty much the same way as he did when he was in Washington DC. I'm pretty sure that Obama does not have the same level of access when he's on the golf course, or even in Hawaii for that matter.

@Bren -

Obama only came forward about his past drug abuse AFTER the 2008 election had concluded!

As you say - Nice!

The vacation data derives from several sources, which is on my other laptop. I Googled the question--for example, the Clinton data is from Wiki Answers. Modern presidential vacations always include some work, and 24 hour/day availability in the event of a crisis.

My favorite George W. Bush quote from the golf course: "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. [Holding up golf club] Now, watch this drive." Like that kind of "work," Cow?

And there are these interesting contraptions called smart phones and apps. One can check up on news, sports, texts, and emails from all over. For example, I have two videophone-type apps on my phone so I can see the other iPhone user's face. Cool, huh? President Obama probably has something like this as he Tweets quite a bit. So he's probably in the loop.

Mr. Hoffa, Mr. Hoffa. "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," which discusses Obama's self-described "party lifestyle" (drugs/booze), was first published in July 1995 and republished in August 2004.

Further, Obama is upfront in his preface about changing names for privacy reasons and creating some composite characters. Hope this helps,

@Bren -

You are correct - Hoffa meant to say that the media vetting of this fact only occurred after the election had concluded.

Meanwhile, the media is beating up Mitt Romney over a hair cut prank and the car ride of his family dog.

Funny how the media does not see Obama getting into fist fights and shoving and belittling girls in his early adulthood as not being news worthy, but Romney's prank haircut and family dog incident somehow are relevant?

Even you have to admit that the liberal media bias here is pretty messed up!

And please don't give us that crap line about how the the truth has a liberal bias - we've heard that LIE too many times already!

Really, Steve? As if Barack Obama created the deficit or the recession.

Hope and Blame

Your Jesus can't put the credit card down, time to start admitting he is spending us into default. Linked was another broken promise by your Messiah. He has only done the opposite, and we warned you.

@Bren -

The state of the economy was known when candidate Obama made the promise to the American people to half the deficit, remember?

There's no viable excuse here - Obama LIED and actually increased the deficit as opposed to lowering it, adding a record amount of money to the debt over the last 4 years.

What's even scarier than the national debt is our total public debt and unfunded liabilities: federal, state, municipal/school board debt is around $40T.

The total public and private debt of our country stands at around $70T or $222,715/person.

That's unsustainable!

@Bren
Since you failed to address the question in another blog:

What did the Democrats do after they gained both houses in 2006 to prevent us from falling off the financial cliff? Might I remind you that Obama was in congress during that time.

I wonder what would have happened if the same deficit hawks clucking today had shackled FDR by the ankles during the Great Depression.

Deficit hawks who stood by and rubberstamped egregious tax cuts for the folks who needed them least, stood like statues as billions of taxpayer dollars were handed out in no-bid contracts to Halliburton and its newly-created subsidiaries and other contractors; as Bunnatine Greenhouse, contract official, was publicly demoted for trying to stop it (and received a $970,000 settlement in taxpayer dollars 2011 in response); etc., etc., etc., are now pretending they now have a solution.

If it wasn't so pathetic it would be funny.

@Bren -

You're like a broken record, repeating the same old nonsense over and over again!

And you never directly answer the tough questions - just like Obama! No wonder you like him so much!

Steve - Why does a commenter constantly found to make idiotic statements persist in making more idiotic statements so easily disproven?. The liberals did not run up the national debt alone, of course, your very own dear sweet party contributed many many trillions, and everyone knows that..

Jason J. - Malia Obama going to Mexico as a tourist with other young friends is a criminal enterprise? You seem to be a jealous 13 yr. old.

Funny how the Lefties used to complain that the Right was trying to create a theocracy by pushing Christianity onto everyone, and now they are complaining about Ayn Rand's atheism and claiming that the Right wants to 'destroy the remnants of the Judeo-Christian ethics upon which this Nation was founded.'

Can't you people make up your mind?

Cow, I think we are seeing several levels of activity. The proto-theocrats (Magical Secretion, Pill Between the Knees, Forcible Rape nonsense) firing up the low-information base; meanwhile, atheistic philosophy-fueled Paul Ryan forgets to give his idol Ayn Rand a shout out from the national stage. Same with Romney's passing comment about his religion. That tells me that the low information base isn't supposed to know.

That's not a "lefty" problem as informed voters know all about Mormonism and Ayn Rand. This is a GOP strategist-created issue with their voting base, pure and simple.

I wonder if it is possible for all UW M students that are forced to listen to Rent-a-Teacher Poulos to sue him for malpractice due to his inept ignorance.

@CowDung -- Look up hypocrisy and the double-standard. The Right wants a theocracy on reproductive rights but ignores the caring for the poor that Jesus taught. You can't have it both ways, not and still tout religion the way Ryan does.

@Nick
You again label some hidden item that will destroy America, but you never explain. You claim Obama is for an inclusive America, yet the Democratic Caucuses met in distinctly separate room based on race, gender, income and religion during this convention. It is Obama who reshaped our entire healthcare system while the public was against it.

Are you glasses mirrored on the inside, because you are only seeing what you want and not the reality the rest of us are living in.

@Randy
You said, "Blah, blah, blah contraceptive. Blah, Blah, Blah hate the poor." I could pull those lines from a post made by any liberal on Patch.

If the campaign wants to move forward, maybe they could attempt to advance new ideas rather then spend time and money on these old lines of rubbish.

@Nick -

Your problem appears to be that you believe in unfounded conspiracy theories as opposed to objective factual reality.

That is why you dismiss the objective facts as being meaningless and instead perpetuate a bunch of nonsense that you cannot back up beyond your own opinion or the opinions of other extremely biased partisan types.

Have you ever thought for yourself a day in your entire life? Or do you only believe in and adopt the opinions of others without the ever exploring the primary factual sources for yourself?

Your vision of America is that of a blind lemming society reliant and ever trusting in government. Sorry, but that's not what this country is all about and the people of this country will make that message loud and clear come November!

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

"Trust the government? Heck, I'm in the government and I don't even trust it. You don't have to believe in your government to be a good American - you just have to believe in your country!"

Dirk and Lyle the prejudiced anti Mormon bigots....the Democrat party certainly has a big tent, big enough for racists, bigots and other mouth breathers.

unaborted socrates - I was a Mormon for many years, and I have family members that were and are Mormons. I have personal knowledge and experience. Do you, O unsage one, pretending to be intelligent?

Taxes
The Democratic platform says that President Obama will fight to extend tax cuts for those making less than $250,000—while “asking the wealthiest and corporations to pay their fair share.” This means, only the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans would see their taxes go up.
The Republican platform calls for extending all the Bush-era tax cuts, which experts agree are enormous drivers of our budget deficit.

Medicare
The Democratic platform explains that the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan Republican budget plan to give seniors vouchers or “coupons” for health care “would end Medicare as we know it.”
The platform states:
Democrats adamantly oppose any efforts to privatize or voucherize Medicare; unlike our opponents, we will not ask seniors to pay thousands of dollars more every year while they watch the value of their Medicare benefits evaporate. Democrats believe that Medicare is a sacred compact with our seniors.
The Republican platform cynically claims it will “save Medicare by modernizing it.” It calls for block-granting Medicaid and giving future seniors, those under age 55, a voucher to pay for health care. Vouchers are designed to cover less and less, leaving seniors with large out-of-pocket health care expenses.

Social Security
The Democratic platform pledges to “find a solution to protect Social Security for future generations” and to “block Republican efforts to subject Americans’ guaranteed retirement income to the whims of the stock market through privatization.”
The Republican platform wants to carve out private accounts as “supplements” to the Social Security system:
While no changes should adversely affect any current or near-retiree, comprehensive reform should address our society’s remarkable medical advances in longevity and allow younger workers the option of creating their own personal investment accounts as supplements to the system.
It's pretty clear which platform lays the groundwork for an economy that works for everyone, not just the 1%.
Read the entire Democratic and Republican party platforms and you decide.
Now that should get things bubbling.

Bernard -

Instead of huge off-topic anti-conservative liberal brain dumps in the comments section, which just acts to disrupt the on-topic conversation, why don't you actually do your own blog on the Patch with this crap?

Your silly example still makes no sense Bernie.

Democrats had a respectable average return of 9.6% as when compared to republicans 0.58% average returns. If an employee’s 401[K] plan was fully invested in stocks at a value of $100,000, at the beginning of the employee’s 40 years of labor, apply this to both parties for returns.
Republicans Nest egg would have accumulated $224,375.
Democrates Nest Egg would have accumulated $ 3,912,210.
Now at $5,000, initial nest egg investment.
Republicans Nest Egg would have accumulated $126,027.
Democrats Nest Egg would have accumulated $1,985,526.
‘The Presidential puzzle; Political Cycles and the stock market” Accessed journal of finance, Vol.LVIII, no.5October 2003

In addition;http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/may/23/facebook-posts/viral-facebook-post-says-barack-obama-has-lowest-s/ Pulitzer Prize Awarded site

And again Bernie:

( http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/hist.pdf )

YEAR ------ TOTAL SPENT ---% INCREASE
----------------(in millions)
2008 ..........2,982,544 .............9.30% (last year of Bush)
2009 ..........3,517,677 ...........17.94% (transition budget with TARP)
2010 ..........3,456,213 ............-1.75% (first Obama budget)
(still higher than 2008 by 15.88%)
2011 ..........3,603,061 .............4.25%
2012 ..........3,795,547 .............5.34% (estimate)
and the politifact followups:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/may/25/lots-heat-and-some-light-obamas-spending/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-facts-about-the-growth-of-spending-under-obama-part-2/2012/05/30/gJQA3V4d2U_blog.html

So how do you go from 2.982 TRILLION to 3.795 TRILLION (a 27% increase in four years) and still have "the slowest growth in spending of any President in the past 60 years"?!?!?!?!?!

@Bernard -

Anyone can cut, paste, and post.

Try proving to us that you can think for yourself by doing your own blog here on Patch and stop disrupting the flow of the on-topic conversion with large off-topic dumps. No one is reading your crap and it only upsets those of us actually engaged in the on-topic conversation.

Just like a liberal - very inconsiderate of others!