The speech was short of specifics...lots of vague platitudes.

It will be difficult for Romney to win in traditionally Democrated voting Massachusetts, with large unions and many on some sort of government help. Scott Brown could win and that would be almost a Republican victory.

Frankly, you would have to be asleep to vote for Obammy. I would vote for a shoe before I voted for that bum. Romney is the man.

The whole RNC experience left me flat. We mainly heard assertions and falsehoods rather than facts.There was more talk about how Obama has failed us than what the Republican team of Romney and Ryan will actually do to create jobs and help get our economy back on the road to greater prosperity. One of the greatest problems in our government today is that policies are being determined by corporate interests whose money can influence what is done rather than what is in the best interest of the people. We are being distracted by discussions of issues such as women's rights, which should not even be on the table, instead of passing regulations and incentives for companies to bring jobs back to the US. Maybe people should start boycotting companies who try to sell products made anywhere but the US?

Keeping all politics and ideology out of it, Mitt described to a tee the America I believe in.

Go Mitt 2012! Obama is bringing Ameeica way down! Romney is very experienced and a true leader!!

There is no comparison between Obama/Biden and Mitt Romney/Ryan!
The republican ticket has true management/leadership experience and will definitely get us out of the turmoil, downward spiral that the Obama Administration has us in.
For your own good and the good of future Ameicans, you must Vote Mitt Romney in November!!

Americans*
Sorry small key board :)

Go Mitt!!!! 2012

When I vote for Obama in November I will be voting for the candidate who has a better understanding of where I came from and what it has taken to get me here. I admire Mr Romney's family history - I just don't see a self made man - his "opportunities" were there already. I signed on for the hope and I'm not willing to quit now.

I am an independent voter who votes what the country needs. Have had enough of "Hope & Change". He tried & failed. We have an economic emergency. The country can do nothing for the social issues if we are broke! Who better to put our financial house in order? To whom would you go?

Obama was given an opportunity and he has not performed well, despite his efforts. He's a nice man, but we need more experience in the Oval Office. If we truly want this economy to be turned around, Romney must be elected in 2012. If the voters give Obama another term, the long term financial consequences to this country are going to be devastating.

No question - no comparison between candidates! Obama has done nothing to help this country and will only lead to its demise.
Medicaid and SS is going to be insolvent very shortly. It needs to be fixed but the Dems don't want to do anything. Is it better to be contributing to this "fund" which is not even real, for it to be gone by the time you need it? It makes no sense not to try and reform it. Paul Ryan's budget got 48 yes votes and 51 no votes in the Senate. Obama's budget got 99 no votes. Who's the extreme one?
Vote Romney/Ryan 2012! Come on MA voters, you know it is the right Vote!
Pssst...no one will know ;)

No question - no comparison between candidates! Obama has done nothing to help this country and will only lead to its demise.
Medicaid and SS is going to be insolvent very shortly. It needs to be fixed but the Dems don't want to do anything. Is it better to be contributing to this "fund" which is not even real, for it to be gone by the time you need it? It makes no sense not to try and reform it. Paul Ryan's budget got 48 yes votes and 51 no votes in the Senate. Obama's budget got 99 no votes. Who's the extreme one?
Vote Romney/Ryan 2012! Come on MA voters, you know it is the right Vote!
Pssst...no one will know your vote! Your friends will be voting for Mitt Also!!
It's the right vote for America!

I have never had a problem with Mitt as a person, and back in his moderate days, I was not that far left of his politics. But the hard swing to the right of both Mitt and the whole GOP keeps me solidly in the democrat column. The slaughter of the truth in the speeches was a wonder to behold. I have a lot of disappointment in how things have gone since 2008, and Obama shares some of the blame, but conspiring as they have to make him fail at any cost is a new low.

I was looking for how much Mitt Romney agrees with his running mate's budget plan. I got none of it. I hope he doesn't obfuscate on the specifics of that question for the rest of the campaign season and we get some pointed answers. And I sure hope the media and the debate moderators hold his feet to the fire on that specific question.

In particular, I want to know if Mitt Romney agrees with Paul Ryan's idea of means-testing future social security and medicare beneficiaries. Means-testing punishes the conservative virtue of frugality and the idea of saving for a rainy day. It flies in the face of everything the Republicans say they stand for, and in particular stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy of Ayn Rand who Paul Ryan has said he admires.

As an independent, undecided baby boomer that voted for Obama last time, I felt the Republicans did a good job at the RNC of continuing the storyline of change. The RNC did nothing for me in terms of swaying my vote one way or the other.

It's really simple. If you're rich vote for Romney, if you're not rich vote for Obama. The republicans need Romney to get in , that's why Trump has been supporting him , so they can protect their money. If Obama gets in, the rich will start paying their fair share in taxes. It's not about jobs as the Repubs. lead you to believe...it's about protecting their money so they can avoid paying their far share of taxes. They want to stiff the middle class . Obama wants to help the middle class and wants the upper class to pay their fair share. What's wrong with that?

A lot of political rhetoric being bantied about. Like I said in my first post, politics have nothing to do with decision. If I am the owner of a company that is 8 trillion dollars in debt and I hire a new CEO who told me he could turn everything around and after 3 years our debt had doubled, I would fire him in the spot. Nothing personal but he has failed as the leader of this country and proven that he has no idea how to get us back on track. So just like in 2008, I hire a new guy and give him a chance to do the job. In 3 years if he hasnt shown me anything, I will look at someone else.

We have to get past partisan politics and find someone who can run this country like a business. If America were a business, we would be in receivership right now being run by the bankruptcy court dissolving all of our assets!

I found that it depended on what channel you watched the RNC and unless you were tuned to C-SPAN you did not get a fair look at the convention. I tried flipping between FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc and each channel seemed to show only the speakers (or reply of soundbites) that each station wanted you to see resulting in different context all together.

If you watch the stories and comments of the speakers with an open mind you would see that our former Governor is a class act who cares about people and the country and respects opinions for both sides of an augment. I think Gov. Romney understands that this election is not about him and just his or the Republican ideas, but it's about what is BEST FOR AMERICA and I think we can count on him to make the right decisions for everyone.

I really do not want to vote for Romney. Having said that, I can not possibly even consider voting for Obama. I have had more than enough of his "Hope and Change"!!!!!!!

Jenni Speed......Obammy is a racist term....LOL
He's been called worse.
Jim@ccfiile.com

I'm not rich and I'm voting for Romney. I make a pitance running a nonprofit and work at a deli part time to pay my bills. I cant afford to watch tax and spend liberals drive up our debt any longer. I have two boys just out of high school and their future depends on this election.

Like I said, again, we will never get this country back on its feet until we start thinking with our brains and not our hearts. Liberal ideas sound great until the bill has to be paid. Oh wait, we NEVER paid the bill, we keep charging it. We are bamkrupt and its time to settle our tab.

“I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour,” proclaimed Mitt Romney.

PolitiFact, the Pulitzer-winning project of the Tampa Bay Times, the New York Times and The Washington Post all agree that Romney’s assertion that Obama began with an ‘apology tour’ is simply not true. They can not find any comments from Obama that support Romney’s ‘apology tour’ claim.

Romney claims that “Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus”. Independent experts on the Middle East assert, that while disagreements exist, that there is a strong level of co-operation between the U.S. and Israel. While in Israel, Romney praised their low GDP spending of 8 percent on healthcare. Then he learned their healthcare program is similar to Obama’s. Oops!

Romney and Ryan claim that Obama’s $716 billion dollar cut to Medicare to finance the Affordable Care Act will take money away from today’s seniors. This reduction will not do that but will rein in payments to hospitals and service providers. Ryan doesn’t want to talk about his $700 billion cut to Medicare which will be used to fund tax cuts for those making over $250,000. (All of you reading this making more than $250,000, please raise your hand).

The Bush tax cuts for the rich caused much of the increase in the debt and contributed to the economic crisis. Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs according to the CBO.

Romney claims that that he started Bain Capital with the idea that if he and his colleagues believed the advice they were giving their clients. was good advice, then they should form their own company and invest in those companies themselves. According to Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, authors of “The Real Romney”, the idea to form Bain Capital was part of an offer from Romney’s mentor at Bain & Co. Romney gained an agreement with Bain & Co. that if Bain Capital failed, he could return to Bain & Co. with all raises and benefits he would have received in the meantime. The authors also assert that Bain & Co. told Romney they would protect his reputation. Have you never wondered about the relationship between Bain & Co. and Bain Capital?

Romney is the first Rebublican nominee since 1952 not to mention war during his acceptance speech -- even though we are at war. You remember 9/11 -- terrorism? Neither Romney nor Ryan appear to. So much for a tough foreign policy. I guess there are no daughters or sons of Rupublicans in Afghan foxholes.

And Eastwood, that leader of the Hollywood conservatives who speaks -- rudely -- to empty chairs -- got it wrong. He blamed Obama for starting the war in Afghanistan. No so -- Bush junior started it. So if was foolhardy, Eastwood was criticizing Dudya.

In fact, Romney never even mentioned veterans. Think about that the next time you want to wave the flag and say ‘we’ll never forget our veterans.’ Romney did.

Mitt Romney has a proven record of success at taking broken institutions and turning them around. He did the same thing here in MA. When he became Governor Massachusetts, we were running a budget deficit. When he left we had a surplus. Under his leadership the school system became #1 in the nation.

This country has fiscal problems and educational problems. Mitt Romney solved those problems here in Mass. He can do it again at the Federal level.

For one of the Presidential Debates, can we see two empty chairs and either Charlie Sheen or Clint Eastwood moderate? My mute button or channel change button is automatic when political ads come on - both for President and U. S. Senate. Can't wait for November 7!

If you are a woman, how can you possibly vote for Mitt Romney?
If you vote for Romney and you are a teacher, your unions will be gone. If you want to get paid what you deserve, forget it if you are a woman. He also wants to end any kind of birth control, as well as planned parenthood. You won't have worry about your job, I just realized, because you'll have too many children. Hey but if you are very rich and want to have no opinion as a woman...you go ahead and vote for Romney.

With the National Debt of $16 Trillion, Unfunded Liabilities of $100 Trillion, 43 months of an unemployment rate over 8%, 23 million Americans out of work, a trade deficit for the first 8 months of 2012 at $380 Billion, and a US GDP growth rate of 1.85% for the first 6 months of 2012 it is time for a change!

Hi Folks,
This election will be a repeat of Jimmy Carter versus Ronald Reagan. The incompentency of Obama is obvious to all. Romney will win in a landslide. Dont let the media fool you. Even in liberal Ma the message will be sent to the Dumbocrats.

Steve

The anti-Romney accusations are galling. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, George Axelrod, Debbie Wasserman Schultz made outrageous accusations that gullible people believe. The liberal Press don't fact check; send the garbage on! The CBO reference is reported differently, "Obamacare will cost $2 Trillion, 20 million uninsured & siphon almost $ 1Trillion from Medicare, while Ryan's plan won't end Medicare or affect anyone over 55 years old & save the program for future generations." NOBAMA, PLEASE !

Well i look at like this, A vote for the party that took america from a budget surplus to a multi-trillion dollar defecit and start two wars in the course of 8 years and try to limit the rights of our "free" nation based on religious values in a country where seperation of church and state is strictly stated all the while trying to make more tax cuts for the rich because they earned it and the poor can suck it up and make due OR the party who is pulling out of said wars and has (somewhat) stabalized the economy. Take your pick guys.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein

Re-Elect Obummer...I think NOT.

Racism...??? Hmmmmm...
Is that when I am casting a vote for Romney or is it when 95%+ of the Black vote went to Obummer in 2008...I get confused.

I am voting against Obummer not because he's an incompetent Black but moreover because he IS an incompetent who just happens to be Black. I just hope that Condi will be part of the new administration (Is that being bigoted? She is a shining example of an extremely talented and gifted individual who just happens to be a woman and just happens to be Black...What if Obummer was a caucasian...would things have been different in 2008?...We know the answer, don't we?)

Agreed, we need to end these wars we have no business in. We need to tell Israel to lay off of Iran. You don't start a war bcause you "think" a nation has nuclear weapons. What Israel is doing is beyond ludicrious. We don't need the Sampson Option here.
ALL nations on earth have a right to use and have nuclear power. To start all this "we think" again is sounding like the "I thinks" we had for Iraq. Those "I thinks" were ALL lies.

Stopping these wars will save TRILLIONS of dollars that can be put back into our own country to build our own infrastructure consisting of bridges, electical, roads, solar, wind, and other ways to fix our country.

If either of these two politicians don't want to end these wars then neither will get my vote. Ron Paul was the only one that understood this war situation.

Joe Rizoli

When my liberal TV director friend of over 40 years and life long Democrat called expressly to tell me he was going to vote Republican in this election, I asked what caused him to change parties. He told me when Obama stated he didn't build his business, a production company that he put up all of his assets to start, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I suspect millions more who voted for Obama last time, even life long democrats, can't bring themselves to do it again. It may be the czars, subverting immigration enforcement,forcing Obamacare down our throats, blocking oil exploration, expanding the government workforce, non-existent transparency, asserting they didn't build their businesses, or a host of other reasons, they bring themselves to be duped again.

Here's a great article that explains in detail how Romney amassed considerable wealth for himself and his peers by destroying the livelihoods of middle class Americans. Read it and then share if you still think Romney is someone YOU want running our country.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829

To: Joe Rizoli - By all means, cast your vote for Ron Paul, but it will yield no results. You're presenting a nice, idealistic viewpoint, but you're naive. Iran wants Israel blown off the map. Israel and the U.S. are not the only nations concerned with their activities. Every country in the Middle East, that is located in close proximity to Iran, is concerned. They feel that way, because they know the Iranian train of thought and the objectives they wish to accomplish.

To: Brenda Crawshaw - Romney's objective in business is to maximize profits. He's got a solid track record of doing that. He never set out to destroy the middle class, despite what you think. Let me ask you this: how is Obama helping the middle class? Yes, he passed healthcare, but people cannot feed their families xrays and annual physicals. The lower and middle class need jobs! Obama has totally failed in his endeavor to solve the financial crisis. And wake up, his passing of Obamacare is going to harm the middle class, because they will ultimately be footing the bill for it.

To: Paula Leva - Do you honestly believe Obama has a plan to solve our problems? In case you haven't noticed, he has not delivered on those promises from 2008. What makes you think he can do better in a second term? More of the same for an additional four year period would be devastating to this country financially. Nice guy, but he doesn't know what he's doing. Hope and change hasn't worked. All he's accomplished is the implementation of class warfare.

To: Paula Leva - where are you getting your facts from? Unemployment was not 11% when Obama took office. Don't you remember, passing of the stimulus bill was supposed to prevent unemployment from hitting 8%. It's been over 8% for 42 months and we're still losing hundreds of thousands of jobs monthly. Romney inherited the mess from the Big Dig and cleaned it up. Please do your research.

Hye - there is nothing wrong with maximizing profits if that's your end all to be all. However, the systematic destruction of jobs while maximizing those profits - which by the way only went to Romney, Bain and the principals of those businesses - enitrely eroded swaths of the middle class. (Romney doesn't know how to do anything else - look at the spending on the Olympics he oversaw!)

And if you are hanging your hat on "Obamacare" being on of the negatives of Obama's administration, remember, Obama's plan was based on the plan that ROMNEY instituted here in Massachusetts with the cost cutting measures directed at FOR PROFIT insurance companies and medical facilities ERADICATED by the REPUBLICANS. You just can't have it both ways.......

Thank you Paula !!!

Mitt Romney is an liar who will say anything to get elected (see his performance in the primary against Newt) When he spews "Let 's take our country back! Exactly who is he taking it back from? It is subliminal garbage meant to paint Dems and Inds. as unpatriotic if they don't agree with the Repub. platform. I am an American and I love this country don't I am dismayed by the blind selfishness of the rich. We send our young (not Mitt's) to fight and die and defend this nation around the world and Bush passed those costs onto the next generation. Now they cry that the "job creators" will be hurt if we raise taxes on millionaires. Where were they job creators when Bush lowered taxes and went to war! Never in history have we fought two wars and lowered taxes. I don't like paying taxed anymore than any citizen but I recognize the need to share the sacrifice. The Repubs. seem to consider shared sacrifice to be "collectivism" It isn't. It is responsible citizenship. Not wastetful spending but prudent debt retirement and investment in ways to grow the economy.

Romney and Ryan would lead to massive unemployment growth, decreased quality of life for seniors and a frightening future for womens reproductive rights.

Sally Kohn, a FOX News analyst said this aout Paul Ryan’s speech at the RNC:

"Ryan's speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech."

She went on to say that there were three words could describe his speech: “dazzling, distracting and deceptive”.

James Downie of The Washington Post blasted “Paul Ryan’s Breathtakingly Dishonest Speech”.

Ryan quoted Obama as saying, in February 2008, the Janesville GM plant would be open for another 100 years . He then blamed Obama for the plant closing. However, GM announced the closing of the Janeville plant in June 2008. The plant was closed while Bush was presient. The bailout of the auto industry saved dozens of GM factories and hundreds of thousands of jobs all along the supply chain. If Paul Ryan thinks that Obama could have kept that plant open over and above GM’s decision to close it, Paul Ryan must think government should decide which plants stay open and which are closed.

Paul Ryan said Obama’s stimulus plan was ‘a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism...” The CBO said the stimulus is responsible for p to 3.3 million jobs and provided a tax cut for 95 percent of Americans.

Paul Ryan said Obama was stealing $716 billion from Medicare ‘to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for”. The CBO said this money results from reducing payments to insurance companies and hospitals. These cuts are also credited with extending the life of Medicare for 8 years. Paul Ryan says he wants to protect the poor but he wants to cut $700 billion from Medicaid and use it as a tax cut for those making over $250,000.

Paul Ryan has ripped Obama for voting against the Simpson-Bowles recommendations. Paul Ryan didn’t tell you that he was member of Simpson-Bowles Commission and that he also voted against those recommendations.

Paul Ryan claimed that Obama was responsible for the downgrading of the credit rating of the United States. Ryan didn’t tell that the organization issuing that downgrade specifically cited the Republican House of Representatives for refusing to raise the debt-ceiling -- which has been raised numerous times under numerous presidents.

Paul Ryan signed Grover Norquist’s pledge of no tax increases for the rich. You can not find an independent economist who thinks the United States can solve its financial problems without both spending cuts and tax increases.

Paul Ryan decried Obama’s stimulus package and then wrote at least four letters seeking money from that very stimulus package. He secured $20 million for Wisconsin businesses and home owners to improve their energy efficiency.

Paul Ryan is all for smaller government but he supported Bush Medicare prescription drug program, The TRAP bailout of Wall Street and the auto bailout.

Paul Ryan co-sponsored a bill in the House with Todd Aiken that allowed for an exception to a ban on abortion in cases of 'forcible rape'. Two hundred Republican members of Congress signed onto that bill. To add the modifier 'forcible' to the word 'rape' more than implies that these folks think that rape is sometimes not 'forcible'. Are we still fighting the notion that some women 'ask for it' by their choice of attire or behavior?

The anti-abortion plank of the Republican party provides no exception for abortion in cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. This would have the effect of requiring all rape and incest victims, who become pregnant, to carry the rapist's child to term. Some women might choose to do that; the platform of the Republican party would requie it. The Republican Party's position would require a mother to die. Thrity-eight states extend parental rights to a rapist.

Romney has carved out an exception for abortion in the cases of rape and incest but if he is the head of the Republican Party in 2012, why does the platform not reflect his views? Why does he not have the power to force his views onto the platform?

We are one Supreme Court Justice away from losing Roe v. Wade.

I do not want Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan picking any nominees for the Supreme Court -- ever.

All politicians "lie" to get elected. Or should I say, they tell some pretty good stories.
The ones who tell the truth don't get elected. Ron Paul perfect example.
People don't want to hear the truth they want to hear what they want to hear.
The more fairy taleish the story is the more they will believe it.
So the best story teller get the job. Not to hard to understand.
How about that "change" Obama promised last time? The only change I see is the change missing from my pocket.
How many out there will look at the promises that were made to what the reality is?
If a person says he's going to do something than why do people not take them up on it later. I guess people have short memories and that's what the politicians bank on.
Jim@ccfiile.com

For those who uncritically buy the Republican dogma that lower capital gains and dividend income rates automatically create jobs, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI&feature=player_embedded

Obama is a president that has delivered health care to every single American in every corner of the country after 90 years of trying. Here is a president who presided over the creation of 4.5 million jobs in 2 and 1/2 years, which by the way is more jobs than 8 years under Goerge W. Bush. Here is a president that saved the American auto industry from extinction and the American financial industry from self- destruction. There are 95,000 people in Massachusetts alone who get a paycheck on account of the recovery act. We have the end to" Don't ask "Don't tell.' We have equal pay for equal work, a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, Osama Bin Laden, Whitey Bulger, the end of war in Iraq. All under Obama's watch. Hmmm. Not bad for 4 years work. I'll take it. This race won't even be close. Maybe next time.

Obama will WIN because Women will remember in November !

The stock market under Obama:

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1346635089332&chddm=358938&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=INDEXSP:.INX&ntsp=0&ei=1QREUODQLoW_0AGndQ

Corporate profits under Obama:
http://ycharts.com/indicators/corporate_profits/chart#series=type:indicator,id:corporate_profits,calc:&zoom=&startDate=1/20/2009&endDate=6/30/2012&format=real&recessions=false

The second link, i.e. corporate profits didn't come out so well. Trying again:

http://ycharts.com/indicators/corporate_profits/chart#series=type:indicator,id:corporate_profits,calc:&zoom=&startDate=1/20/2009&endDate=6/30/2012&format=real&recessions=false

Obama Avoided Scandal: As of November 2011, served longer than any president in decades without a scandal, as measured by the appearance of the word “scandal” (or lack thereof) on the front page of the Washington Post.
Oh Oh..... Romney: Bian Investigated over tax strategy.* Bain, Romney's former firm, among those subpoenaed. A probe into a potential tax dodge by the industry could further play into the Democrats' hands.

Obama:Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs.

Obama Passed Wall Street Reform: Signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010) to re-regulate the financial sector after its practices caused the Great Recession. The new law tightens capital requirements on large banks and other financial institutions, requires derivatives to be sold on clearinghouses and exchanges, mandates that large banks provide “living wills” to avoid chaotic bankruptcies, limits their ability to trade with customers’ money for their own profit, and creates the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (now headed by Richard Cordray) to crack down on abusive lending products and companies.

Obama Recapitalized Banks: In the midst of financial crisis, approved controversial Treasury Department plan to lure private capital into the country’s largest banks via “stress tests” of their balance sheets and a public-private fund to buy their “toxic” assets. Got banks back on their feet at essentially zero cost to the government.

Obama Toppled Moammar Gaddafi: In March 2011, joined a coalition of European and Arab governments in military action, including air power and naval blockade, against Gaddafi regime to defend Libyan civilians and support rebel troops. Gaddafi’s forty-two-year rule ended when the dictator was overthrown and killed by rebels on October 20, 2011. No American lives were lost.

Obama Told Mubarak to Go: On February 1, 2011, publicly called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to accept reform or step down, thus weakening the dictator’s position and putting America on the right side of the Arab Spring. Mubarak ended thirty-year rule when overthrown on February 11.

Obama Improved America’s Image Abroad: With new policies, diplomacy, and rhetoric, reversed a sharp decline in world opinion toward the U.S. (and the corresponding loss of “soft power”) during the Bush years. From 2008 to 2011, favorable opinion toward the United States rose in ten of fifteen countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, with an average increase of 26 percent.

Obama Kicked Banks Out of Federal Student Loan Program, Expanded Pell Grant Spending: As part of the 2010 health care reform bill, signed measure ending the wasteful decades-old practice of subsidizing banks to provide college loans. Starting July 2010 all students began getting their federal student loans directly from the federal government. Treasury will save $67 billion over ten years, $36 billion of which will go to expanding Pell Grants to lower-income students.

Obama Increased Support for Veterans: With so many soldiers coming home from Iraq and Iran with serious physical and mental health problems, yet facing long waits for services, increased 2010 Department of Veterans Affairs budget by 16 percent and 2011 budget by 10 percent. Also signed new GI bill offering $78 billion in tuition assistance over a decade, and provided multiple tax credits to encourage businesses to hire veterans.

Obama Tightened Sanctions on Iran: In effort to deter Iran’s nuclear program, signed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) to punish firms and individuals who aid Iran’s petroleum sector. In late 2011 and early 2012, coordinated with other major Western powers to impose sanctions aimed at Iran’s banks and with Japan, South Korea, and China to shift their oil purchases away from Iran.

Elsa..Since when are womens rights a responsibility of a man or Govt?
All these "rights" issues are a joke.
But I will say this, I do believe a women/men etc... should be able to decide what they can do with there own body with this one caveat....whatever decision they make they will have to answer to God for for it in the end. Man's opinion is the least of the problems.
Jim@ccfiile.com

Al Linane--Hero of the WEEK! Thanks so much for all that work! Now if people are willing to read and to think about what you've explained so comprehensively, they will see just how amazingly fortunate we are.

2016:Obama’s America, the movie, is a work of far right imagination and distortion. It reminds me of Paul Ryan’s convention speech.

Dinesh D’Souza got his start in politics working in the Reagan White House. It breaks little new ground, mainly recounting history that is familiar from Obama’s own autobiography. But it’s conclusions and it’s self-professed ability to see into the future render it silly and useless.

The film is based on D’Souza’s book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage” and a 2010 Forbes article, "How Obama Thinks." wherein D’Souza claims Obama is “a man driven by the anti-colonial ideology of his father...” D’Souza concludes his Forbes article by writing: "Our President is trapped in his father's time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anti-colonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son.”

This claim is astounding given the limited contact D’Souza admits Obama had with his father. D’Souza makes the wild leap that because the father was not around to radicalize the son, proves that the father did radicalize the son. This, of course, led directly to Obama passing the health care plan the Republicans and the Heritage Foundation created in the 90’s and Romney instituted in Massachusetts.

Obama Created Conditions to Begin Closing Dirtiest Power Plants: New EPA restrictions on mercury and toxic pollution, issued in December 2011, likely to lead to the closing of between sixty-eight and 231 of the nation’s oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants. Estimated cost to utilities: at least $11 billion by 2016. Estimated health benefits: $59 billion to $140 billion. Will also significantly reduce carbon emissions and, with other regulations, comprises what’s been called Obama’s “stealth climate policy.”

Obama Passed Credit Card Reforms: Signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act (2009), which prohibits credit card companies from raising rates without advance notification, mandates a grace period on interest rate increases, and strictly limits overdraft and other fees.

Obama Eliminated Catch-22 in Pay Equality Laws: Signed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act in 2009, giving women who are paid less than men for the same work the right to sue their employers after they find out about the discrimination, even if that discrimination happened years ago. Under previous law, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., the statute of limitations on such suits ran out 180 days after the alleged discrimination occurred, even if the victims never knew about it.

. Obama Protected Two Liberal Seats on the U.S. Supreme Court: Nominated and obtained confirmation for Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic and third woman to serve, in 2009; and Elena Kagan, the fourth woman to serve, in 2010. They replaced David Souter and John Paul Stevens, respectively.

Obama Improved Food Safety System: In 2011, signed FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, which boosts the Food and Drug Administration’s budget by $1.4 billion and expands its regulatory responsibilities to include increasing number of food inspections, issuing direct food recalls, and reviewing the current food safety practices of countries importing products into America.

Obama Achieved New START Treaty: Signed with Russia (2010) and won ratification in Congress (2011) of treaty that limits each country to 1,550 strategic warheads (down from 2,200) and 700 launchers (down from more than 1,400), and reestablished and strengthened a monitoring and transparency program that had lapsed in 2009, through which each country can monitor the other.

Obama Expanded National Service: Signed Serve America Act in 2009, which authorized a tripling of the size of AmeriCorps. Program grew 13 percent to 85,000 members across the country by 2012, when new House GOP majority refused to appropriate more funds for further expansion.

Obama. Expanded Wilderness and Watershed Protection: Signed Omnibus Public Lands Management Act (2009), which designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, created thousands of miles of recreational and historic trails, and protected more than 1,000 miles of rivers.

D’Souza interviews a psychiatrist who says that an absentee father often has a significant influence on his son. No news there. But suggesting the son inherits the absent father’s mindset must mean that D’Souza believes Obama has the ability to contact the dead.

D’Souza attempts to prove that men Barack Obama met along the way have caused him to want to turn the United States into a socialist state and destroy Israel. D’Souza talks about Bill Ayers who Obama met 25 years after Ayers’ association with the Weather Underground; Edward Said, a pro-Palestinian professor; and Frank Davis, a friend of Obama’s grandfather, who was a member of the Communist Party in the 1940’s.

This 89 minute attack ad uses over 100 credited actors to play out re-enactments or just plain imaginary scenes. No opposing views are allowed to cloud D’Souza’s conclusions.

This film fails as a documentary. Documentaries are designed to evolve to reveal facts and perhaps even a truth. D’Souza’s film simply plays out what he has already written and lectured about.

At one point D’Souza attaches great importance to a simple preposition in the title of Obama’s autobiography: He says, "Notice it says ‘Dreams From My Father”, not “Dreams of My Father."

2016: Obama's America won’t be convincing any undecideds to vote for Romney. Heavily promoted by Fox News and Russ Limbaugh, even the most ardent Obama-haters should not be taken in by D’Souza’s self-promotion.

Obama Gave the FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco: Signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (2009). Nine years in the making and long resisted by the tobacco industry, the law mandates that tobacco manufacturers disclose all ingredients, obtain FDA approval for new tobacco products, and expand the size and prominence of cigarette warning labels, and bans the sale of misleadingly labeled “light” cigarette brands and tobacco sponsorship of entertainment events.

ObamaPushed Federal Agencies to Be Green Leaders: Issued executive order in 2009 requiring all federal agencies to make plans to soften their environmental impacts by 2020. Goals include 30 percent reduction in fleet gasoline use, 26 percent boost in water efficiency, and sustainability requirements for 95 percent of all federal contracts. Because federal government is the country’s single biggest purchaser of goods and services, likely to have ripple effects throughout the economy for years to come.

Obama Trimmed and Reoriented Missile Defense: Cut the Reagan-era “Star Wars” missile defense budget, saving $1.4 billion in 2010, and canceled plans to station antiballistic missile systems in Poland and the Czech Republic in favor of sea-based defense plan focused on Iran and North Korea.

Obama Began Post-Post-9/11 Military Builddown: After winning agreement from congressional Republicans and Democrats in summer 2011 budget deal to reduce projected defense spending by $450 billion, proposed new DoD budget this year with cuts of that size and a new national defense strategy that would shrink ground forces from 570,000 to 490,000 over the next ten years while increasing programs in intelligence gathering and cyberwarfare.

Obama Let Space Shuttle Die and Killed Planned Moon Mission: Allowed the expensive ($1 billion per launch), badly designed, dangerous shuttle program to make its final launch on July 8, 2011. Cut off funding for even more bloated and problem-plagued Bush-era Constellation program to build moon base in favor of support for private-sector low-earth orbit ventures, research on new rocket technologies for long-distance manned flight missions, and unmanned space exploration, including the largest interplanetary rover ever launched, which will investigate Mars’s potential to support life.

Corrine.....My God should be the same as your God.....you might want to try to understand where he is coming from. We all have to answer to him as he is the lawmaker and life giver.
Jim@ccfiile.com

Obama Invested Heavily in Renewable Technology: As part of the 2009 stimulus, invested $90 billion, more than any previous administration, in research on smart grids, energy efficiency, electric cars, renewable electricity generation, cleaner coal, and biofuels.

Corrine, if Jim's God sounds mean then Godly patents
are mean too. Maybe it's time you got your head out of the clouds and into a good book, like the Bible. The world is going to be judged by the man on the white horse who it is said "judges in righteousness" Rev 19

Joe Rizoli

Sorry Al, I just started and finished the book War and Peace while you posted, what was that about Obama?

Joe Rizoli

This comment thread is a perfect example of how the two-party system has destroyed any semblance of rationality in American politics. People honestly believe that Candidate A from their party is the perfect leader and will right every wrong, while Candidate B from the other party is inept, evil, and the cause of all wrongs.

Both candidates have strengths and weaknesses. Be objective, research the facts, and follow the money. Make use of sites like PolitiFact or FactCheck and OpenSecrets. Further, in this election especially, understand the complexity of the economy and understand that the President has limited ability to influence it for good or for ill. Pay attention to what Congress has been doing; the divisiveness there has been toxic to us and both parties are to blame. Don't buy into the spin, rhetoric, and talking points.

...or just be lazy and continue to parrot "us good them bad" like Anne Coulter and Chris Mattews, then wonder why things really aren't any better in 2016.

And Al...all of us Republicans could copy and paste many of the embarassing apologies that Obama has made unbidden on behalf of all Americans! He had his chance! Now lets give Romney his...then in 4 years we can always switch back! Go Mitt!

Makes you wonder who really cuts taxes for the middle class? Seems to me that Bush did the work and Obama wants the credit!

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/07/obama-team-millions-face-tax-hikes-if-all-bush-rates-expire/1

I'll tell you something, the RNC showed us a thing or two with their surprise , ace in the hole, secret weapon , guest speaker. Wow I was impressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb7wQe03ol8

Obama-he makes that utter failure Jimmy Carter look like FDR. Clint Eastwood had it right empty chair ans empty suit with an idiot Joe Biden for VP

Wow. So much for taking the politics out of it. No one else matters, its Obama that is in office right now and he has not done the job. He and Bobby Valentine have failed and need to be fired.

I am leaving this discussion because some of the comments are so ignorant, my head wants to explode when thinking about replies.

Obama Expanded Hate Crimes Protections: Signed Hate Crimes Prevention Act (2009), which expands existing hate crime protections to include crimes based on a victim’s sexual orientation, gender, or disability, in addition to race, color, religion, or national origin.

Obama Brokered Agreement for Speedy Compensation to Victims of Gulf Oil Spill: Though lacking statutory power to compel British Petroleum to act, used moral authority of his office to convince oil company to agree in 2010 to a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; $6.5 billion already paid out without lawsuits. By comparison, it took nearly two decades for plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez Alaska oil spill case to receive $1.3 billion.

good move Ray...things are headed to the Twilight Zone..fast

Dave...please check what you are saying. I'm honest and voting for Romney.

Obama has done, at best, a fair job. He had a Congress that had the numbers stacked in his favor for the 1st half of his term. The main thing he spent his political capital on, was health care.

Unfortunately, he called in almost all of his favors to get that bill passed. He had to eat crow and extend the Bush Tax Cuts twice, just to get anything else through Congress.

Its good that we have Universal Health Care on the way. Obama didn't spend his political efforts getting people back to work, where they could have participated in health care as part of a free market economy. I, as a working taxpayer, look forward to making sure others don't have any reason to go to work. Between EBTs and Health Care, their benefits package for Unemployment rivals that of many Fortune 500's.

I wonder how much money some of the medical lobbies have donated to his reelection fund? He wrote them a pretty big check with the health care act. We all know that he would NEVER accept large donations after taking such good care of Big Medical, right? ;-)

You are the Job Creators

Think about a small business --- the ones that are said to create the majority of new jobs. It could be a restaurant, a landscaper, a car dealer, or a maker of widgets.

Let’s say a person and starts a small company to build a better widget. Like all business owners, she struggles to control the cost of inventory, raw materials, shipping, wages, etc.

She makes great widgets but if no one buys her widgets she doesn’t need inventory, raw materials, a shipper nor does she have to pay wages. No demand for her widgets means no employees -- no jobs.

There’s no demand for her widgets because consumers do not have the money to spend for new widgets.

Let’s assume that a YouTube video of her widgets goes viral and demand for her widgets explodes. She needs more inventory, raw materials, more shipping and more employees. More employees?

I think the demand for her widgets created those additional jobs. And who was buying those widgets -- who was creating that demand -- well -- you and your friends and the folks down the street in your middle class neighborhood in your middle class town.

You are the job creators.

It is a political lie that the rich create jobs.

Obama and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives agree that a tax cut for the middle class would be a good thing. You know -- the middle class -- you.

The Republicans won’t allow this middle class tax cut because they want to extend the tax cut to the folks beyond the middle class. The folks making more than $250,000 per year -- you know -- the group which does not include you...the group which does not create jobs.

So you do not get your tax cut.

You can not buy new widgets.

You do not create new jobs.

The economy does not move forward.

Vote Republican. Vote for Grover Norquist.

Linda – If she does not come up with a better widget, there will be no better widget for consumers to buy. 0 supply, therefore no jobs created *and* the consumer does not get the benefit of a better widget.

Also, the consumer does not take on the personal and financial risk, or put in the sweat equity to build the business that creates the jobs, and the consumer has no obligation to the employees.

Roberta: "The republicans have been unwilling to compromise and work with our president."

Are you just kidding me? Is that what you think? It's just the Republicans????? Do you understand why nothing has gotten done-because Obama and the Democrats refuse to compromise on anything????? You must be very young or very uninformed.

Obama Created Recovery.gov: Web site run by independent board of inspectors general looking for fraud and abuse in stimulus spending, provides public with detailed information on every contract funded by $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Thanks partly to this transparency, board has uncovered very little fraud, and Web site has become national model: “The stimulus has done more to promote transparency at almost all levels of government than any piece of legislation in recent memory,” reports Governing magazine.

Obama Pushed Broadband Coverage: Proposed and obtained in 2011 Federal Communications Commission approval for a shift of $8 billion in subsidies away from landlines and toward broadband Internet for lower-income rural families.

Obama Expanded Health Coverage for Children: Signed 2009 Children’s Health Insurance Authorization Act, which allows the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to cover health care for 4 million more children, paid for by a tax increase on tobacco products.

Obama Recognized the Dangers of Carbon Dioxide: In 2009, EPA declared carbon dioxide a pollutant, allowing the agency to regulate its production.

Obama Expanded Stem Cell Research: In 2009, eliminated the Bush-era restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, which shows promise in treating spinal injuries, among many other areas.

Obama Provided Payment to Wronged Minority Farmers: In 2009, signed Claims Resolution Act, which provided $4.6 billion in funding for a legal settlement with black and Native American farmers who the government cheated out of loans and natural resource royalties in years past.

Obama Helped South Sudan Declare Independence: Helped South Sudan Declare Independence: Appointed two envoys to Sudan and personally attended a special UN meeting on the area. Through U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, helped negotiate a peaceful split in 2011.

Obama Killed the F-22: In 2009, ended further purchases of Lockheed Martin single-seat, twin-engine, fighter aircraft, which cost $358 million apiece. Though the military had 187 built, the plane has never flown a single combat mission. Eliminating it saved $4 billion.

Hey Patch:

Has Obama purchased time here on the site? Or is Al L just angling for a cabinet post?

You should read him, Chris. All you do is fling your junior high school names and jibes. Step up, and READ for once. And respond intelligently, to the specific arguments. "Lieawatha!" "Mayor Mumbles!" God forbid you should ever make an original or helpful contribution...

Mitt Romney's new campaign manager..Another secret , surprise even gives Clint Eastwood a ride for his money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaezjE1uJTw

And let's be honest, Chris L., YOU got personal this time.

David, your picture tells me everything I need to know. If you don't want to be prejudged, take down the "I was rejected as George Costanza" headshot.

Housing costs highest level in six years. According to Forbes magazine unemployment at 11 percent. I am not saying Romney will cure all that ails the United States. I'm saying he deserves a chance . Barack had his and fumbled...that's my opinion. Of course all u dems will slam me for it...I don't care. Have at it! I

Dave N...I asked for the National unemployment numbers when Bush left office. And what they are currently. When Romney left office in Massachusetts the unemployment rate was 4.7% it is now 6.1%. Still below the National average of 11%...8.3% is not the actual rate. To be fair to Obama and Patrick the numbers are never what they say they are. But in both cases nationally and locally the Republicans did a bit better. Patrick even admitted that on MSNBC in May of this year. Again I will try to have an intelligent conversation with you because I don't believe you are as angry as u seem. I take offense to your "honest Americans will vote Obama" approach. I will listen to Obama tomorrow night. It probably won't make me vote for him...but miracles happen everyday!

Chris,
The only part of the ACA that is a tax, is the penalty people pay when they do not get insurance. This same tax exists in Romneycare. We had to get health insurance passed because costs needed to be controlled and, very importantly, 30 million Americans did not have & could not get, health insurance. Thus Emergency Rooms became the first point of treatment.

As a result of ACA, people, including the folks who want to rail against ACA, can no longer be turned down by an insurance company due to a pre-existing condition. (That is huge). Also, people can stay on their parents' heath plan until age 26, if they so choose. This is great because many folks in their 20's were not getting health insurance and therefore any treatment they needed was more expensive. ACA is based on Romneycare which is based on the Republican-controlled Heritage Foundation recommendations of the 1990's.

ACA sets a limit of 20% of premiums that a health care provider can spend on administrative costs, sales and salaries. Furthermore, ACA gives the states the authority to lower that percentage; Massachusetts lowered it to 12%. If an insurance company spends more than the allotted percentage, they must rebate the overage to the folks who paid the premiums.
We, as a nation, are better off today because of ACA.

David...David...David.
A little fact checking would prevent such untrue statements as:

"Because here in Massachusetts its ok for people to use their EBT cards to buy booze and cigs."

"Customers cannot use SNAP food stamps (EBT Cards) to buy non-food items like alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, vitamins or medicines, pet foods, soap, cosmetics, laundry products, paper goods, or other household products."
http://www.massresources.org/snap-store-owners-guide.html#whatfoods

Chris L.,
Thank you for your service to our country. Your posts are always spot on!

Linda - But in MA, you can get cash with your EBT card, then go buy the booze and cigs.

Linda--I am worried--who is this David you're referring to? I pray it isn't me, because I never said those things. AWKWARD!

I can RARELY claim a really good idea, but I've had one now. We should form a "coalition of the furious". Bi-partisan, of course. And lots of drinking, I hope.

Amazing how some people get fired up...and 50% of this country wont even vote!

Even though it was messy as hell, I'm glad Obama showed his strength & got 'God' and 'Jerusalem' into platform. Romney doesn't have the strength to get his own views on abortion into the Repub platform.

Gotta go run a marathon now -- I'll be back in under 3 hours.

Obama's priorities are not My priorities, not my family's priorities , not my friends' priorities, not my church's priorities. Obama's values are not America's values or more importantly not my Founding Fathers' values.

It is easy for white-collar professionals to be pro illegal immigration. They don't have to worry that an illegal immigrant is going to take their job. They are not the house painters, landscapers, carpenters, brick and stone masons, house cleaners, janitors, etc., whose jobs are being undercut and/or taken by illegal immigrants. Those used to be good paying jobs that middle class Americans supported families on. I know, I grew up in one of those families.
It is for this reason that so many AFL-CIO members in construction support Scott Brown. They are tired of seeing illegal immigrants taking their jobs.

Remember the old saying, "Charity begins at home."

No President – not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years. ~ Bill Clinton

Yes, but it branches out, if it's real.

If you are a house painter who can't afford to do a job as cheaply as an illegal immigrant, because you are paying more in insurance and taxes, then you are indeed losing jobs to illegal immigrants, which impacts your income greatly. Over time, it lowers the good paying wages that you once had. How does that benefit the middle class?

Chris L - "If I recall, the "American Dream" used to entail showing up here with nothing, working hard, and making your own way in the world. When did it become "show up unannounced and undocumented, and get lavished with benefits to sit at home all day?""

Very well said. I'm first generation American and my parents & grandparents came without anything. They all achieved middle class status during their lifetime and the grandchildren have gone on to achieve more. None of us were born into money, but with student loans and part-time jobs, we've gotten ourselves educated. I'm tired of listening to the Dems talk about class warfare, unlevel playing fields, etc. Of course the wealthy are born into advantage, but a person can work their way out of poverty, if they put their mind to it. Society needs to stop handing out entitlements, as that's not what this country was founded upon. We do have equal opportunities...which is something that's difficult to find in other nations!

"No President – not me or any of my predecessors could have repaired all the damage in just four years. ~ Bill Clinton"

I don't think anyone expected all the financial problems solved in four years, but we did expect SOME progress to be made in that time frame. Unemployment has been over 8% for 42 mos. and real unemployment (those not collecting or those underemployed) exceeds 15%. Those numbers should have been dropping bit by bit over the last couple of years, but they're not. People are still getting laid off by the hundreds of thousands every month.

Ladies and gentlemen our 45th President of the United States, put your hands together for Mitt Romney !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaezjE1uJTw

(question) "Has anyone seen my tax returns ?? Somebody stole them and just when I was going to show them to everyone".....(answer) "I think Trump stole them Mitt, check under his hairpiece."

"People are still getting laid off by the hundreds of thousands every month."
What is your source on this statistic, HyeAghcheg?

"Unemployment has been over 8% for 42 mos. "
Unemployment has been over 7% for 42 mos.
Unemployment has been over 6% for 42 mos.
Unemployment has been over 5% for 42 mos.
Exactly what number would have satisfied you?

Al Linane also commented on SOUND OFF: Romney and the RNC.

"Obama:Passed the Stimulus: Signed $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 to spur economic growth amid greatest recession since the Great Depression. Weeks after stimulus went into effect, unemployment claims began to subside. Twelve months later, the private sector began producing more jobs than it was losing, and it has continued to do so for twenty-three straight months, creating a total of nearly 3.7 million new private-sector jobs."

Nice spin. Too bad 3.5 years have passed and 365,000 people filed new claims for unemployment just last week. BTW, that number was a decrease of 12,000 people from the week before. Is that your definition of success? Almost four years later and we're still bleeding jobs at an unacceptable pace.

For the latest financial statistics, click on this link and scroll down to the lower left hand corner of the page. It provides the latest unemployment claims filed and the most recent national unemployment rate:

http://www.dol.gov/

Here's a great article in today's Boston Herald that point out the deficiencies in BOTH candidates. The Labor Department reports on the unemployment numbers this morning. And for all the Bush slamming that goes on....and some of it deserved...it's worth noting that under Bush the unemployment rate was NEVER higher than 6.3% (Which is still too high). Maybe we should nominate a third candidate?

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view.bg?&articleid=1061158535&format=&page=1&listingType=nat#articleFull

Good thing Mr. Obama gave his speech last night. This mornings jobs report sure would have put a damper on things! Unemployment fell because more people gave up looking for work according to Boston.com. That's great more people for the people who do work to support! Exactly how is the Democratic plan "working" again?

CBS has reported that they have sold 90% of the ad time for 2013 Super Bowl with 30 second spots going for $3.8 million. Seems like a bunch of companies are betting on -- not against -- America.

If Elizabeth Warren is as smart as the Democrats say she is, why didn't she get the legal documentation proving that she had Cherokee ancestry before she checked the minority boxes at UPenn and Harvard? Isn't that what they teach in law school?
Either Elizabeth Warren isn't very smart or she's intellectually dishonest.

"CBS has reported that they have sold 90% of the ad time for 2013 Super Bowl with 30 second spots going for $3.8 million. Seems like a bunch of companies are betting on -- not against -- America."

How is that relevant to the economy? Corporate America will always have the money to fund advertising for the Super Bowl. That will not, however, benefit the millions of people that are out of work.

HyeAghcheg - Linda doesn't know much about Advertising. You go out and spend money and advertise in order to generate sales of your products. If the orders are coming through the doors faster than you can fill them, you can cut back on your advertising budget. If the sales are not up to your levels of expectation, then you need to seek them out through advertising. If the economy was doing real good, the need to spend money on Super Bowl commercials would be left to those whose entire advertising campaigns are designed for big-viewing audiences, such as the Super Bowl. But given how the economy is not doing well, it will be interesting to see who feels that exposure to such a huge audience during the Super Bowl will generate the business that they either need or want.

I'm really not sure what advertising has to do with the lousy job stats that came out today. I guess the Democrats are trying to make us look away by mentioning the Superbowl! With Obama's pleading for 4 more years last night, and today's numbers, no way does he get re-elected! I wanted him to at least give a good speech last night. Its good television! Bust his speech was at the very least "Eastwoodesque". How about Biden too? We killed Bin Laden, and we saved GM! Hey Joe...how about getting GM to pay us back? You know...we the middle class that you express to care so much about!
I know Dave Nolta is probably at work or with his family. And I hope to hear his opinion on this soon! But where are all the other Democrats today? Probably blaming the Republicans again. Or yelling the Democratic Rally Cry..."We can't fix this in 4 years....it was to broken and wrecked by Bush!" Umm...Reagan did it in less than 4 years...and he inherited a hell of a lot more mess than Mr. Obama. Oh and he did it with a Democratic House of Representatives for the first six years, and a COMPLETE Democratic Congress his last two. So don't say it cant be done. All of us should be mad that so little has been done by ALL our Reps to fix this mess! Don't put all the blame squarely on George Bush.

A lot of the wealthy Americans who hire illegal immigrants as painters, stone masons, and house cleaners are citizens, such as Barney Frank, John Kerry, Elizabeth Warren, and Deval Patrick. You see, the Republicans do not have a monopoly on wealth. The Democrats like to pretend that they are ALL middle class, when in fact, they are pretty wealthy, too.

I applaud Linda for firing a contractor who brought an illegal immigrant worker on her property after being told not to do so.

I wish both parties would get off the subject of birth certificates, college transcripts and tax returns. Why can't people see that those are all distractions? Look at past records of performance on the job. Nobody can foresee the future, but past performance is usually the best indicator of what's to come.

Sheldon Adelson Stands To Get $2 Billion Tax Cut If Mitt Romney Is Elected.

Nice.