Democrats held the house and senate for the first two years of his term. Can't use that excuse, I guess.

Do you mean his proposals in his last two terms to increase the debt with more handouts to bankers and decrease the jobs with carbon taxes? Those proposals?

Or do you mean the first two years when he had a super majority in each house and did nothing to improve jobs, increased unemployment and failed to keep most of his promises?

By the way what happened to hope and change and his new way of getting things done by building consensus? Was that line all just bull@@@? If he was serious why did he run the one of the most partisan and divisive governments ever? Shouldn't he have been working with his opposition like he said to get things done? And what was with all the czars and rule by diktat? And what was with all the stepping on the toes of state rights? No Joe - he was the architect of his own failure.

I thought Obama was the great organizer who would bring everyone together and unclog Washing ton DC. He has created more division than any other modern president and he alienated congress - even his own party voted against him!

There is a 9% unemployment rate (those still looking for work) but 16% of the US is our of work (7% who are not looking for work any longer). Obama is responsible.

cause that makes sense! Since the average American wage has gone down under Obama... along with unemployment going up! Hmmm...There are now 495,000 more unemployed American than there were in 2008, up to 8.1% from Inauguration day (43 months). That is the longest unemployment has ever been above 8.0% since the Great Depression. The Middle Class average income has dropped and gas has gone up. Home values continue to fall, college tuition is up by 25%, 15 million more Americans are on food stamps (up 46%), and our debt has increased by $5.4 trillion (up 51%) in Obama’s first 4 years. How is Obama helping?

Does he have a plan to increase unemployment from 5.4% to 8.5%? Or maybe a plan to tax away an un-countable number of the jobs?

Your guy promised jobs, then gave your money to the wealthy for bonuses, and increased unemployment by more than 50%. If you want to ask where are the jobs, start there. How blind can you be?

Romney has said he has a GOAL and a high one at that. Well, we can all have goals. Getting there is quite a different issue. If he has such a great plan, I'd like to hear it. I'd like to know why he has let the country suffer for the entra 6-8 months while he touts his great blueprint without giving it out. If he announces it and it is implemented and it works, he gets the credit. It was his publicly announced idea. Why let the country move slower to recovery than it has to? Why keep the secret? Sounds like smoke and mirrors and empty promises.

That's exactly right. But you believe in a "goal" that has raised unemployment from 5.5% to 8.4%. So how about we give someone else's goals a chance.
We already saw how smoke & mirrors works with this administration.

what was that? http://www.mittromney.com/jobs

yes

I'm better off.

No. unemployment is higher than when he took office. Its higher than when the economists said the recession "ended". Those green jobs? All a scam - they are not sustainable without government handouts, and we could not even afford to keep the handouts going now.

The debt is out of control and the deficit is climbing. Who is going to pay that bill and when? How many cuts will happen when this hits the wall? Is Obama being stupid or does he just not care? You know who will be stuck with that bill, and it won't be comrade Obama.

Speaking of government handouts? Exactly why is the GOP so intent on continuing oil subsidies? When the industry was fledgling, it needed it and rightly so. For too long now, they've stood proud, been extremely profitable. The government lets them use land for a tiny fee, builds the roads into far off places where no road is otherwise needed and then the government must maintain the roads. Then the oil companies pump the oil and...they own it. They sell it on the world market to the highest bidder. The US is only their conduit. We pay for the infrastructure, they take the profits and the US oil supply is further depleted. Why should we give them subsidies? Why should we pay for those roads? They should pay a fair price AND the taxes that go along with the income.

The country is worse off. Look at gas prices, look at the prices for a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread or a carton of eggs. Look at the unemployment rate. Look at our national debt. Look at our problems with Iran and unfair trade with China. How many new trade agreements have we forged? China managed to breech our mainland defenses with a stealth submarine. Russia has done the same in the Gulf of Mexico.

4 years ago...no - that was the worst of the current recession/depression
5 years ago - yes much better off.
TARP was the beginning, and then it all went downhill from there.

Yes I am doing a lot better today then I was 5 years ago, my business, have exceeded my expectations. I look forward to the next 4 years to reach that $150,000 mark. YES YES YES!

Bulletin: Based on TIM's great comments.
Read this ALL-- You'll learn something.
(All after the most devastating event on American soil-WorldTrade center)
Bush gave us 5.5% unemployment
Bush gave us 14,000 Dow average record highs.
Bush gave us $1.89 Gas prices.
Bush gave us 1 war (iraq) Afghanastan is Obama's war-His right war Let's not forget that. A war that is still costing us big dollars added to Debt.
You know why Obama keeps the troops there?
Because he would have 15% unemployment if he pulled them out Today.
(send them home with No Job? added to unemployment rolls?) (That folks is exactly what Lyndon Johnson did in Vietnam) 600,000 men left in a war for no cause other than keeping the unemployment rate low.

How can any Obama supporter who is against wars , allow such an escape hatch for this President.
You should all be screaming as 1) GITMO remains open 2)We are still in Afghanastan. 3) Why is there no job hooplah! after killing OsamaBin.

Osama Bin Gone and GM back WOW! Great accomplishments?!!!!
As an old ad from Wendy's said "WHERE'sTHE BEEF"?

B/T/W Didn't Obama INHERIT the GREATEST MILITARY IN THE WORLD.
Funny, how he never admits that.

I wonder how Sarah's competition is doing. Does she still have any? Just curious, cuuzzz, she's doing great, but when I drive down the Rock Road in St Ann, or Mexico Rd in St Peters, I'm not seeing thriving business, I see empty buildings. People with a goldmine business of owning a strip-mall that can't make the payments. That's what I see.
Hey, wanna go to the outlet mall in Warrenton? Oh, there's nothing there? Wanna buy it, then?

I assume that $150,000 is profit, I wonder if she'll get there if she spends more than she makes.......

Hmmm...There are now 495,000 more unemployed American than there were in 2008, up to 8.1% from Inauguration day (43 months). That is the longest unemployment has ever been above 8.0% since the Great Depression. The Middle Class average income has dropped and gas has gone up. Home values continue to fall, college tuition is up by 25%, 15 million more Americans are on food stamps (up 46%), and our debt has increased by $5.4 trillion (up 51%) in Obama’s first 4 years. How is Obama helping? I had to really search for a job... I can't get through school without loans but when I do get them, I will be paying them off for years. What has Obama done to help any of that? NOTHING! 4 more years of Obama would be asking for more destruction of the American Economy and the American Dream

Really? As Governor of MA, their job creation ranking was 47th. As a businessman, he laid off more than he hired as a larry the liquidator.

Yeah, the GOP jobs plan is to cut taxes for the wealthy (investment income) and then a magical trickledown is supposed to occur.... Even though it hasn't worked with the Bush top-heavy tax cuts - the cuts that factored in the economic bubble and then meltdown.

No, the GOP plan is to cut government waste, cut taxes for everyone, and yes that includes minorities & those that provide jobs, balance the budget, etc. (you mentioned "hasn't worked", but you didn't mention that the current plans don't have any positive results, in fact, you can't explain how they could possibly even work - big government has never worked, ever, anywhere - the idea of spending our way out of debt might be the dumbest thing anyone has ever said or thought - how endlessly attacking job providers can decrease unemployment).
You always mention Bush & how his policies failed, yet you forget WHY he did them and how the House & Senate wouldn't let him continue to fix it, starting with Fanny-Freddie. You leave out that those moves caused the bubble that bought us time to try & fix what had already been broken by those in the House & Senate, and that HE, all the way back to 2001, 2003, & 2005, was the one (along with McCain) warning them that the crash was going to happen. The Democrats (some of which were making money from it, including Barney Frank, Obama & others), laughed at him like he was crazy (like you've been trained to do), and I'll be darned if it didn't happen.
Again, you either don't know (in which case I'll get you some episodes of C-SPAN & show you it happening, which probably wouldn't matter to you anyway, you'd still be right), or you are blatantly lying. Which guy you want to be?

Oh, and where do I send you the C-SPAN highlights?

Rahib, you missed the point, that's what ALL businesses have had to do. Blaming the businessman's reaction to being screwed, only means you are looking at the process 1-step too late. You're blaming the result & ignoring the cause.

RD mentions how Romney is for the rich, yet he doesn't have a problem with it (or ignores it) when the current President is owned by the 1% & paid them back with our money.
Check out this 1% -
George Soros, Warren Buffet, AIG, Goldmann-Sachs, Fannie-Mae & Freddie Mac, General Motors, Chrysler, Bank of America (from Countrywide on down), CitiGroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, GMAC, Morgan Stanley, FHA, PNC, US Bankcorp, Suntrust, Capital One, Regions Financial, Fifth-Third Bank, GMAC, Chrysler Financial, and tons of others.
Obama gave Trillions & Trillions of dollars to those entities (not the rich, the WEALTHY) & insider traded on that information, but NOTHING to the middle-class.
Need more 1%?
All of Hollywood, the Green movement (when we have access to free, clean, abundant power, mind you), the Unions, nearly every sit-com, nearly every news outlet, nearly every newspaper....
How long of a list do you need?

* More Occupy people showed up at the DNC to protest, than the RNC, look it up.
* NOW is also protesting the DNC because they refused to allow children on the Convention floor & provided NO daycare options. They must've been too busy telling people they're on the side of women, instead of actually being on their side.

Nice try, Victory Life Books peddler.

I'm with you Earl.
If you want to see "The Centerfold", check out: www...............

The washington post? WTF? Serious?

Why don't you just ask Obama's wife to grade his report card.

If Obama has created all those jobs, how is unemployment over 8%?

Did you check the Post-Dispatch too? They also "shape the news as we see fit". A quote from an editor over at that rag.

PS - Quoting the media? They have NO INTEREST in getting you the truth.

Curious, Devon, where do you get your facts and other info?

Sean, Devon,
Just citing my opinion unlike you guys. The Washington Post gets their jobs data from the same place everyone else does - the government. If Romney can use that data to beat up Obama, I can use the same data to show that his jobs plan is a pie in the sky campaign promise. Anyway, let me know when you have an actual rebuttal to my claim that Romney's "economic plan" is a campaign talking point that isn't grounded in reality.

Rich Pope yes I live in a wonderful life filled with amazing Blessing's, and it does seem that everything I touch turns to gold. Why because I work hard for everything. God said. There are rewards in your labor, and for me that's been so true. Now when I say hard work I mean hard work, that's up at 6:00AM to feed my Chickens and Turkeys, Fresh water 5 kinds of lettuce grapes, strawberry's watermelon. Corn and crimped oats. Then off to work. I have a very fun and exciting business, I do online sales, communicating with customers all over the world. I also sell Nikken magnetic mattress and wrap's. I also handle Real Estate Transactions, so as you can see I have a lot of work, its this way every day, and I love it.

Sarah:
You do have a wonderful work-life. Everything you touch turns to Gold.
You must be in that 1% class?
Are you paying your FAIR share of Taxes?

Paul Revere Yes I do in fact I just wrote the check a week ago, am I one of the 1%? No I am not, but I am working hard to get there. I can say this thou as strange as it may sound the more I give away the more the Lord Bless's me, so I love to contribute.

You're right, they get their info from the same place as everyone else. As a matter of fact that same information comes across my desk, yet they shape it into whatever they want & discard the rest. THAT'S how I know.
I'll use it again, because it's the perfect example, you have all of these media people that lied to you about the Freeh report, which they didn't read, and gave you Louie Freeh as someone credible when he isn't even close. Get that? No background check on Louie Freeh, no questions as to why he only spoke with ONE of the FIVE principals in the case, and completely ignoring everything that was in the report.
Not to mention, ESPN/ABC, who continue to pound Joe Paterno's "cover-up", when the report (if they had read it would know) doesn't indicate anything of the sort. AND this is all while ESPN is sitting on a tape for 8 years, of the wife of a pedophile-assistant-coach on the Syracuse basketball team, admitting that he was a pedophile. ESPN covered that up (most likely because there is an inordinate number of Syracuse grads that work for ESPN/ABC) and is BY FAR more guilty of covering for a child-molester than Joe Paterno.
They Lie.

NCK
Let me know when you realize that you are still falling (even with hindsight & no results) for a 4-year old failing promise of Redistribute The Wealth (to that list of 1%ers I gave you, I guess), Hope & Change.
Let me know when you realize that you could use those as teaching examples of how to define pie-in-the-sky campaign speak that has no substance & doesn't even bother to address a single issue, or suggestion of how to fix it.

Sarah, you have a good heart, to continue to try and make sense to these people!! I take pride in people like you and President Obama who continue to fight for the good of America in spite of the obstacles from those who don't think but just hate.

Amen.

Sarah may have a good heart but she has a terrible brain! What color is the sky in your world Sarah? Do ponies eat rainbows and poop butterflies where you're from?

Your Wrong, 4 years ago when President Obama took office our Country was losing ten's of thousands of job's>>The economy was collapsing at its fastest rate since the Great Depression when Obama took office. In his second month he got Congress to pass a jobs stimulus bill worth about $900 billion. This helped stop the collapse and heightened the first spike in job growth. But the Republicans blocked more stimulus and by August 2010, falling stimulus spending began reducing job growth. Had Congress worked with President Obama we would have had a much better outcome, we are doing a lot better now, the job market has made a turn for the better, the stimulus is working.

Sarah:
You must work for the Government, or you sell to the Government.
Where do you suppose "stimulus" money comes from.
Obama did not Pay one penney for anything. USA does not have any cash.
It's like you going to the bank loan and paying your mortgage. You are up to date on Mortgage, but you pile on more debt coming due another month.
Obama supported the unemployed and paid for 1st time homes and paid for Auto Clunkers and college cost -WITH BORROWED MONEY. supported Unemployed with borrowed money.
Do you understand that.?
A False working environment is here.
Of course, if you work for the State or any Government , your pay comes from the People who are out of jobs and taken decreases to stay employed.
That is why YOU think the Stimulus is working.
Get the Facts. The only reson why jobs are holding is because the real workers in AMerica have taken substantial Pay cuts to keep their families afloat.
Obama has mortgaged OUR FUTURE to stop a necessary recession.
We needed a Recess, and he took the easiest route of "FREE"
No more responsibility, and people like you are totally hypnotized as to where this country is Headed. Download the Summary of Obamacare. Read it (only 12 pages)
Be informed as to what it will cost starting in 2014 as every employer will be faced with major lay-off decisions.
Wake-Up.

they may not directly create my job but they sure as hell can regulate me out of one!

Rich Pope your wrong. G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney has created the deepest deficit America has ever seen, and that Sir is a Fact. President Obama has made huge strides, considering the loses, you apparently have an underlying issue your not acknowledging.

Sarah, you need to be medicated.

Sarah,

The only problem with your theory is that the President/VP doesn't control spending. That is the job of congress. So I ask you - who had control of congress in 2007-2008 prior to great recession? That would be democrats. They could have stopped Bush's spending on the wars, but didn't...

RE: cash for clunkers, I bet the shareholders of GM that were screwed out of their money in the 'recovery' don't look at it the same way you do.
Also, all of the cars that were turned in, even if they were in good condition were scrapped, and sent to China as raw material. Ask any used car dealer how that worked out them.

You really are losing it. Such a frustrated dude. Maybe Romney will win and cut the taxes to zero and we'll have utopia for eternity.

Bob Martin and what are you? You need to come up with something other then your one line spit venom, and hate attitude.

Sarah, please tell all of us...How is a job created? If you were president, how would you "create jobs"? Let us hear your ideas on this matter.

PaulRevere your WRONG again. Sounds to me YOUR the one who needs to research the facts.The auto bailout proposal from the Big 3 auto companies totaled $34 billion in government loans. In return, the companies promised to fast-track development of energy-efficient vehicles, and consolidate operations. GM and Ford agreed to streamline the number of brands they produced. They also won agreements from the UAW union to delay contributions to a health trust fund for retirees and reduce payments to laid-off workers. The three CEO's agreed to work for $1 a year and sell their corporate jets. >>GM received $6 billion through GMAC, which became a bank holding company. Congress first explored whether a planned bankruptcy reorganization was the best alternative for the companies, but realized that would take too long to implement. Congress was divided on whether to use the $700 billion EESA funds, instead of the $25 billion available from an Energy Department energy-efficient loan program.

Ford didn't take any bail-out money.

So it was a bribe to get them on-board with the "green movement" joke?
Or was it that 100 year-old car companies honestly couldn't make any money?
A 100 year old company that can't make money deserves to go out of business.

Sarah:
You can spew "ignorance and untruth's" all you want.
GM today is $21 per share. Chrysler does not exists as a US Company anymore.
Obama Gave GM $60Bil (not $34b)
Chrysler was given apprx $15Bil.
Any reader can google that -- they are facts.
Now Obama has LOST the $15B he gave to Chrsler, it's GONE!
Fiat now own Chrysler (they paid $1dollar) for it. Obama effectively stole and bankrupted many American Family lives who had invested in Bonds of GM and Chrysler. (Billions of dollars Lost by American Families) And you say he saved an industry. CHRYSLER IS GONE!
GM should have gone into bankruptcy in the courts. That is Your opinion as DIP (Debtor in possession) does not have to take place for that.
So you are wrong --It is an opinion of yours. It is a spin that obama needs to justify his "ignorance of the Capitalistic system of Failure".
The courts would have negated immediately ALL pensions and union contracts. THAT WAS THE PROBLEM and obama just did something No other President would have even considered. The President of the US IS NOT RESPONSIBLE TO PICK and choose Public company survivors while "screwing innocent investors."
Now GM reports a very misleading profit of $ 3.2B and (PAID NO INCOME TAX)
Ford reports a profit of $3.6B and pays $1.2B in taxes.
So GM is left with $3.2B to pay their buddies while Ford is left with $2.4B to reinvest.
Two auto companies earning the same profit , while GM gets another Taxpayer tax forgiveness. Is that competition?

Sarah, Here is more:
Want more comparisons.
Ford actually had $8B profits before paying appx $5B Interest cost.
So Ford who did not screw their bondholders actually earned $8B to GM $3.2B in 2012 (6 mo). GM had practically NO interest like FORD. As GM OBAMA screwed the bondholders. THESE ARE FACTS Not opinions.
GM is priced at $21 while Ford is priced at $10 per share.
Which price is correct in a competitive market? What will happen when the Free tax subsidy runs out on GM?
What will happen when GM burns through all it's $60B in Govt. payoffs to support union legacy pensions and medical.?
What will happen to GM when they need more money to buy new equipment to keep producing updated cares.? VOLTS! Why did our Obama give GM an add'l $9000 for every Volt sold? all additional funding to keep GM alive.
Sarah: GM is dead unless they do what the courts would have done .
IMMEDIATE Tearing up of every union contract.

Sarah:
Are you FOR or Are You Against Auto Bailouts?
Now your giving CREDIT TO BUSH! for helping the Auto industry-Is that right?
Of course, Back to Blaming Bush when you can't win the argument.

Frankly, $17B in Bush's help is a far cry from the ultimate $75B that Obama actually spent and wasted.

I knew as soon as you ran out of answering the Debt causes, Auto Clunker cost,
House buyers cost, Volt subsidies, Tax forgiveness, competition unfairness,
extended unemployment worthlessness YOU WOULD BE BACK TO BUSH.
You are a hopeless case of "ignorance in this country"
Sarah, You have no intention of discussing the truth. You cannot handle the truth.
If, I am wrong, than would you please list one thing that Obama did to Create a private job. (NOT SAVE JOBS).
As President or As a Community organizer.

Sarah:
Play your games, it does not change a fact.
America has millions of Autos being sold by many very large auto companies based HERE! in the USA.
No President or YOU could ever justify that GM loss would not have been replaced by the other Auto companies. It was unnecessary and only done as a PAYOFF FOR VOTES. that's what I believe-That's opinion!
Evidence the weekly visits by union leaders to the white house.

Evidence their use of the words "We have POWER!"
Reminds me of another world leader who claimed that.

Rich Pope what a terrible thing to say, I need to be medicated, is this what you want to do with people who don't agree with your ideology, medicate them? that is so disrespectful. We are holding a dialogue that even thou we all have our own opinions its should be understood to respect the others point. You left the page?

Quick clarification:
There is ideology, then there is fact.
Ideology without fact, is fiction.
Ideology that fails to review it's results, is Liberal.

I guess so your attention span is about 1 minute.

Women are waking up to the Crazed Ideology of the right-wing tea-party Republicans. If they get there way women will be bare foot pregnant, the rights of women and multicultural nationals are at jeopardy, if this right-wing tea-party crazed lunatics get office, they will take the rights of women back to the 1920's

You mean widely taken out of context & twisted.
You guys keep repeating this trying to make it somehow mean something else, (like Karl) as if no woman has ever claimed rape when there wasn't one.
That would be a rape that was illegitmate, no matter how you stretch it.
So like a good servant, you omitted the inconvenient parts to fit your politics.

Stress effects a woman's cycle, always has.
Stress is created by stressful situations.
Legitimate Rape is a stressful situation.
Ergo, Legitimate Rape creates stress.
Stress & Shock can both put your body into a "coping" state, in which many of the body's operations become altered.
I would imagine there would be some stress in falsely (illegitimately) accusing someone of rape, but likely for different reasons.

It's amazing how all of these "my body, my right" people know very little about said body.

Plus, None of that rhetoric can even exist unless you dismiss those young ladies that have ruin lives, like our shining example at Duke.

Ooops, Sorry, I forgot we were supposed to pretend like these things don't exist while you're hating on Republicans.

Now you're just willfully participating in the hate-mongering.
Please cite the legislation that is being proposed that would cause women to be barefoot & pregnant. You're a left-wing-built idiot, but it's not too late to fix it. You just have to want to see the truth.
Bearing false witness isn't a new trick, the downfall is, it only works on the weak-minded.

Devon, do you have any facts or studies to back up your specious claim that women don't, or even can't get pregnant from rape? Remember, outrageous claims require outrageous amounts of evidence. Just because you keep repeating something doesn't mean it's just true because you say it is.

Way back where I come from, we have a word for people who say things like that, and you wouldn't like it, trust me.

You don't know what he said, only what you can twist it to & tie to the whole party.
You don't even know what your own party is about, much less the other party.

Oh, and by the way, those folks who are supposed to be all about women, are being protested right now at the DNC by the group NOW, because they won't allow women to bring their kids onto the convention floor, and they provided ZERO daycare for those mothers.

They must have been too busy convincing those like you that they are FOR women, to actually BE... FOR women.

They are using your emotions against you, just an FYI, they can't do that with your brain (or most brains anyway). Maybe use your brain instead of your emotions to think sometimes.
Ex: You keep talking about what the big bad Republicans will do if they get into office, that you will continue to let the people actually screwing you (and all of those people you claim to "care" about) continue to screw you. It's the very definition of "fear-mongering" & proof it works.
Look at results.
5.5% to 8.4% unemployment
100% increase in those on food stamps
Fair Housing Regulatory.....

I know you won't do the research, but if you actually, really want to, I'll get you tons of facts, numbers & results you can look at. That way, maybe with a few facts instead of feelings, you might be able to post something with some substance instead of repeating the exact asinine, baseless, rhetoric of accusations & unfounded claims that you're conditioned to.

Nice try, Mitt.

If this weren't so sad (Mitt trying to use this for political gain) I would have to laugh ---they even call it a tipsheet. As in, "let us tell you tea partiers what to think and what to "cut and paste" on this topic." .... And then they are off to the internets.

The President IS skipping many of the intelligence meetings.

http://g-a-i.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/GAI-Report-Presidential-Daily-Brief-A-Time-Based-Analysis-FINAL-DOC.pdf

He also hasn't met with the job council in 6 months.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/obama-jobs-council_n_1684221.html

Wow, that is disgusting. Bush attended *every* PDB leading up to 9/11...

We are still trying to sort out and learn from past terrorists attacks during presidencies, and conspicuous-looking intelligence reports. Do we even know what Reagan knew before the Marine barracks were bombed in Lebanon? I don't even want to bring up 9-11. FDR and Pearl Harbor?

Then here we have an American jumping to conclusion the day after the attacks. I know we have the 24/7 news cycle -but it is going to take a while to indict the President over this.

Mittens candidacy needed a boost. Sorry this is his chosen route. Shameful.

So you're okay with the President skipping intelligence meetings and not attending jobs council meetings, but it is "shameful" for anyone to point it out?

That is some interesting logic, RDBet

The President set up the Jobs Council and named Jeffrey Immelt (sp?) (GE chairman) as its head. See the link below for details.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/advisory-boards/jobs-council

As far as the PDB's it is my understanding the the President receives a printed copy of the report and according to WH spokespeople, he reads them. The value of the in-person meeting is that the President can ask questions and/or clarification about intel. supplied in the report.