I would love to see Herman Cain, Alan West, J.C. Watts and others in the White House. But NOT Obama. Robert Byrd a LIFELONG DEM was head of the KKK, Abraham Lincoln REPUBLICAN, freed the slaves

Why is the rust belts population in decline, while the population in the south grows ???? People are voting with there feet.

And you all failed to mention our country is Broke…………….. we owe more than 100 trillion , the good news is we can possible only have 4 more years of this stupidness. that is if we can survive. Not saying the GOP is any better. however sanity is better than insanity. more of Obama,s fix,s no doubt will end in complete destruction of the good ole USA. There is a recession coming like none of us have ever known. WELLLLL stupid me everone know,s a bigger recession would be B ush,s fault. Mr O said it himself . Quote ” If I can,t get it done in four years than voted me out ” The things Mr Obama have done may be the best anyone has ever done. However The facts are what they are. God Help our Leaders..

I have lived in Alabama every day of my 69 years and I ashamed to say that you are right. It isn’t just the poor here who hate President Obama, the middle class and even the wealthy are appalled that there is a black man in the White House.

Those who know how to lose tend to adapt well. Those who don’t know how to lose tend to deny adaptions and become bullies with rage.

CA, haven,t you figured out by now that the rich will always be all rite. who cares about them. Besides there the ones who sign,s about 50 percent of america,s paycheck.. There was wealthy man on the news a few weaks ago. he was asked if he would be willing to pay more income tax. His response was this, He said, Why would I give money to a Gov. who is so wastefull. And by the way Mr. CA. I believe a second wave of economic downslide is still ahead, probly by the end of the year. just my opinion. The Obama cure will bcome the poison. again, Just my opinion. I will be glad in time to say I was wrong. I guess I am waiting for a real man to step up and want the Job.

KEEPING IT THOUGHTFULY HONEST:I have been studying this particular issue for some time. It is my sad but real conclusion because of this President’s high level of intelligence and his skin color are very different from the republican’s last President, it has awaken the ugly racial prejudice that exists in some Americans! And when Mr. Bush with his policies left office, he left us with a BIG Mess and our near depression economy in a deep ditch! They can’t get over it! Their racial prejudice beliefs of that “African-born Muslim Socialist” leads them to dislike this President that has” grown to cult-like proportions across some regions. For example, some statewide polls show the “president losing by thunderous majorities. One example, a “ recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute in The New York Times shows that “among Southern working class whites, Romney, the WHITE GUY leads by 40 points!” THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH: Just like the republicans tried to demonize President Clinton when he was in office! So as Mr. Colbert stated, they want to blame the BLACK guy now! hum…

LOL…what a crock! Everything is racist when it comes to this president, huh?

$16 TRILLION in debt…8.2 UNemployment, which he said would drop dramatically if the stimulus was passed…47 MILLION people on food stamps…1 in 6 people in poverty in this country…MEDIAN households now bring home $4000.00 lesst than they did 4 yeras ago…not to mention the complete failure of his foreign policy.

Your standards are pretty low if the job he has done the last 4 years is OK with you…to most folks, he is accountable for it…when will you hold him responsible? 2016?

LOL…I guess only one opinion is welcome here, huh?

Oh, I saw or heard one or two racist people, so everyone in the south MUST be racist!! How ignroant can you people be?

They hate him because they have become an anti-rational cult of reality deniers and malicious frauds. They hate him because – despite their best efforts – virtually none of their charges have proven to be true, and the only people who believe them are either zealots like themselves or “low information” voters.

They hate him because they have supported and defended and relied upon the racists in both north and south for so long and with such dedication that they have become racists themselves, assuming anyone is left in the Republican cult who hasn’t been one all along.

They hate him most of all because he is – like Bill Clinton – all that they have hated and distrusted and worked tirelessly and successfully to purge from their midst: a moderate Republican, and an intelligent one to boot.

Why is it that this president is not responsible for anything:?

You cannot be that dense either Jane…I go out into the world everyday and work with people of all races…I cannot tell you the last time I heard ANYONE call someone else a racist name. Perhaps you live is a hot bed, too bad, but around here we get along wery well, sorry to burst your bubble of hate.

Dems voted against it…no matter how you spin it.

Race relations have not improved and have actually been exacerbated. The quiet misconception that race does not play into politics is pure poppycock! Anyone older than fifty can and does see, feel and discern the purity of racism in America. We have come a long way, but racism has raised it’s head. The real story here is the bigotry being shown to Obama and it has been that way since he won the right to represent the Democratic party. Sam Donaldson hit it on the mark that “people do not oppose Obama on principles or politics, but merely because he’s black.” Mitch McConnell openly proclaimed he would do everything in his power to make Obama a one term president. America and American’s of color have lost so many voting privileges and rights since the 1960′s. Look at some of the bigoted posts on this and other blogs. Many do not have respect for the office or the man. All post “State of the Union” “You Lie” call to arms.
Obama has done better than expected by many, and that does not sit well with “White” America.

Of course they thought Bush was a conservative, until his massive failures at war, the meltdown of the economy, unemployment, and the budget. When they finally perceived these failures they reframed the problem as Bush “not being conservative enough”

The time of little white-steepled churches way off in some woodsy, spanish-moss enshrouded copses, along with their obscure, salvation-spouting Doctors of Divinity degreed preachers is coming to an end…

Anytime, the light of day is focused on heretofore dank and dark places, there’ll be widespread, panicky scurrying hither and yon by those critters, that for too long were able to do their dastardly work in the dark!

Great job Dominick !

Dom I am in the medical field. Look up the first part of the Obummer plan just inacted. Tell me It will make things affordable. Not. I will have to pay Taxes now for insurance that I didnt have to before as income. Stimulus package I didnt want and didnt work that supposedly Bush started. LOL. That is what Obummer said in the beginning. GM and Chrysler who now do not have to pay taxes or into the Obummer Health care act. Along with Walmart and GE. Look it up. As I recall it was Bush who did cash for Clunkers I participated in it. Incentives if you could afford a 28000 dollar car at a 9% interest rate or 8 years to pay it off at a 8% rate. Look it up. I bought a house became injured Lost my house and recieved no assistance. Became a part time realtor instead and fighting with the Union of the realestate GLVAR. Equal Pay for woman- Exactley what era r u living in. Give me 2 people and show me their pay stubs doing the same job. You will not find them. My wife makes more than me and we are both nurses and she is from a foriegn country and took her 10 years to get her citizenship LEAGALLY. Show me your numbers and I will show you mine on the so called savings. Drug cost cuts were bushes. look it up. None since because we cannot negotiate for CHEAPER DRUGS. LOL. What lobbyists are you talking about that were limited. Why do you think the head of Romneys campain just left him. LOL. To go to the White house. Look it up they have to sign in. I still have Friends there in the Military SO WHAT ENDED. The Secret detention centers are still open just not ran by america. We still fund it by the money we send them. Funded Road ect… Your State does that by allocating funds. COme on people you cannot b that stupid. LOOK IT UP. Phasing out Guantanamo prison. NOT. Some Navy friends IN CUBA say its doing fine. Released prisoners SECRETLY. Like the KILLER that Just went back to Canada. LOL. What increase in Military pay and Bennies for veterans? My Father gets disability for veterans who are still denied there FULL benifits. Improved housing. LOL. They just finished the housing project that started in the Bush era at Nellis. They also finished the New Gym Facilities that Bushed started. My Friend Doug Runs it and ordered all the nice stuff they use. NOT OBUMMER. I have Proof he tried to cut some of there funding. Better armor after we complained and improvised on there own. What about that how many still have to die. How come we are not complaining about AFganistan. Or even still going to Kuwait? The contract Policy are going to Prisoners. IDIOTS. Loosing JOBS to prisoners. Did not close off shore accounts. Where is the evidence for that. Burmuda, Puerto Rico is still booming and takes advantage of our taxes. Look it up. My businesses was over regulated out of business. I only owned a small Moving company called Valley Movers. Look it up in Vegas. OUT OF BUSINESS. Limited salary to 100,000 dollars to White house aids. So how many aids do you say Mrs OBBUMMER has? More than any other white house wife. Look it up. Obummer appointed not by due process of congress or the senate the first Latina Judge. Because She could not take the scrutiny of the back ground process. Look It up. I cannot believe how uneducated you really are. Blinded. I even asked a african american who the founder of Plannedparent hood was. I told her she was a racist biggot who wanted to controll the black race. Look it up. Education and facts I have given you both. Give me facts not Dummy crat regurgitation.

They hate him because they are ignorant racists.

Not all business people are Republicans and are not threaten by Obama. The ones who are greedy and only want everything for themselves and would like to keep the middle class down are the ones that hate Obama.Obama has exposed their dirty deals. It’s through Obama we got to know that millionaires are not paying enough taxes.

I have written a couple of comments here about the ignorance of many of the American electorate. After reading this article, it appears that the deep south is “ground zero” of stupidity. This is what our schools have turned out?? Shameful.

Romney believes in the Ten Commandments sometimes: Honor your father and mother doesnt apply.
George Romney (Mitt’s father) believed in submitting 12 years of tax returns and advised other would be Presidents: ‘if candidates refuse,they leave the door open to speculation and accusation.
Listen to your dad Mitt, he might be on to something with “honesty is the best policy”

This country will not survive another four (4) years of Obama.

There will not be enough money in the entire world to bail us out.

Your right John, “if you want good paying jobs vote for Romney” except the Chinese workers don;t get to vote and they don’t get paid that good.

Why do people call Obama a black man? he is half and half. Why distinguish him by color? What percent African blood do you have to have to be called black, or white? My ancestors came from Africa, Italy, England, France. I have the sickle cell gene. Both my parents are a mix of Italian, American Indian, English, French, African. We use to call a mixed breed dog a heinz 57. That’s what I am, but my parents put down white on my birth certificate, so that’s what it is.

Both candidates should release more information. obama refuses to allow his college records to be opened. He had them sealed. Romney released only two years of tax returns … both should be more open. It seems both are hiding something.

No one should HATE! I have seen lots of stuff on both sides. I don’t hate Obama, I just don’t like what has been going on the last four years. I really thought he was going to make a difference, but I was wrong, I admit it. Why make this about race anyway?

It has been stated and claimed by right wing, conservative Republicans that the multi-millionaires, the billionaires, the large multi-national corporations, the banks and the wall street moguls are the “job creators”. If that is true then the “wealth creators” are the middle class. Their responsibility to the economic system is to work at the jobs created by the “job creators“. Their task is impossible when the “job creators” have gone on strike. They are collectively sitting on trillions of dollars in cash and creating nothing. They have collectively sabotaged ( not obstructed but sabotaged) the economic recovery in order to destroy any possible success of the first black president of the United States. They have collectively and intentionally destroyed the world economy in order to foreclose on every casualty of their collective action. Like Romney and Bain Capitol they know that there is value in each carcass and the “job creators have cashed in. All that is left now is to crush those who would stop them from repeating that collective action in the future. What a union, the Mineworkers or Steelworkers or Autoworkers or Government employees could only dream of such united power.

So tired of people talking about the Affordable Care Act. The reason the Repubs are so against is, because it would make big business insurance companies lose money! There would be a great big business in town, that they would have to compete against, and they know they can’t! Since, the very reason they are in business is to make money off of you and me. Obama’s program would be alot cheaper and offer the same or more than they could offer. All, this mess about people looking through your medical file and deciding whether you are going to get any medical procedure is bogus! This lie is being told by the Republican Party, and so many people are so gulliable they actually believe it! The ACA, would create jobs, for dentists, physicians, medical assistants, etc. , also it woould createejobs for medical software companies, computers, office buildings and so on.

How can we say they we are the greatest country in the world if we have people dying everyday, simply because they cannot afford treatment! It is ridiculous! Poeple need to stop being in love with the almighty dollar, and start for once caring about people!

Romney said lets let the states decide and run their own health programs. Well, it has been in the states hands for decades and they are quite simply failing! Sure, lets keep on going to the doctor and lets keep on paying large co-pays of hundreds of dollars a month for Med-i-Caid, all this before you can receive medical care. This is simply sad, for once start putting the people before money first. If we did this we would be a far better country than we are today.

Sure, do you believe everything Romney says. Where have you been in the last two weeks? Romney, is a con man, he will say whatever he needs to say to get into office!
This is his third attempt to become President so now he is desparate! He does not care about you, and you are only fooling yourelf! Now, if you are rich, that is a different matter all together! Romney plans on cutting major programs, and I for one know that there are two many people who would greatly suffer behind his actions! Sure, anybody could cut services, it is not brilliant , it is a big lack of compassion! I sure hope that you’ll be supporting him when one of his new cuts, affects you, family or friends. I bet ya, you’ll be singing a new song then!

Wow, You ROCK! I don’t see any replies, so I guess your facts can not be refuted! ;>) Nice post

Oh no! Busted by the spelling police. If you can read it, WHO CARES??? It a blog for crying out loud, not an English class.

Really?

Alabama George Wallce was a Democrat. Republicans freed the slaves not Democrats. Democrats and states rights with owners of slaves were the main elements in the Civil War/War Between the States. President Lincoln was a Republican and freed the slaves. The 13 and 14 admendments were by Republicans and not Democrats.
Where is the objective evidence that anyone hates Obama?
Todays isssues are between conservatives, all races, and liberals.
Liberals want more government in there lives and conservates want minimal government in there lives. Conservates see the US constitution as a concrete document to be literally followed, but Democrats see the constitution as a ever changing document.
Mature adults have rational differences and use reasioning rather than immature emotions to make decisions concerning our government.

The Republican Party of the 1800s-1940s bears little resemblance to the GOP of today. It’s instructive that the “Dixiecrat” Party popped in 1948 from racist former Democrats who were dismayed that the Democratic Party was (finally!) beginning to embrace civil rights. Since then, the GOP has become more and more the White Mostly-Southerner Party while the Democratic Party increasingly becomes the party of Everyone Else.

Sidenote: Abraham Lincoln questioned the divinity of Jesus. He wouldn’t be welcome in today’s GOP.

There IS evidence of (irrational) hatred of Obama, just like there was evidence of (irrational)hatred of GWB. One need only read many comment sections like this one or look at the dingbats (which, yes, didn’t necessarily reflect the views of most gathered) at some of the Tea Party rallies a year or two ago.

And liberals want more government in some parts of their lives (financial, guns), but less in others (especially sexual issues), while conservatives (or at least religous conservatives, who still hold a considerable sway in the GOP) want the opposite.

I’m not an expert on many things, but since Ive been serving in the military for the last decade, I know a couple of things for sure, in response to your listings the following were not accomplished because of our president, or are simply wrong.

25. Our pay and benefits have always gone up every single year to compensate for inflation, however since Obama has been in office they have gone up less and less. From around 3-4% to about 1.5%, less than the actual rise in inflation. (my numbers are not strict calculations, they are guesstimates from the top of the head trying to remember)

23. The improved armor for soldiers actually started when I was first deployed in Iraq back before Obama was in office, and have increased since because of the every changing combat situations we encountered. This was demanded by the soldiers on the front line.

26. I can only speak for 2 specific military bases that I have been on in the U.S, that being Fort Irwin, and Ft Bragg, but both started their housing improvements before Obama’s term started. And while there has been some up in veteran benefits, mostly it has been cuts.

22. The military has never authorized torture, there are those that don’t follow rules, and have been punished because of it. But sometimes in war, and I can tell first hand, minor scare tactics is an only option when the lives of our fellow American soldiers are on the line. And the military has always up held the regulation of the Geneva Convention, we all have to sit thru annual classes especially before deployments about the laws of war.

Ok so Obama “Ordered” the raid that killed Osama, any Human with half a brain would have, that fight was gonna happen with or without his “order”. I give the president no credit for the death of Osama or the “end” of the Iraq war, only to the men and women who fought every day in unthinkable conditions without complaint, so people like you can sit at home and type lies on their computer.

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Why do so many Democrats believe that Republicans really hate Obama? Is there anything short of a Republican actually voting for Obama (something that this Republican did once, as a protest against Bush’s federalization of the TSA and against Gitmo, and to contribute to a historic milestone in American racial progress — but will not do again) that a Republican could do to convince a Democrat that he or she merely opposes Obama’s policies and does not hate the man (or for that matter the policies). By the way, I was a Republican in Alabama when Democrat George C. Wallace won the governorship due to the support of a majority of the Alabama black vote and a minority of the Alabama white vote. This ‘Southern Strategy’ fiction – built up from a throwaway line by a failed politician, not from any actual revelation of a true conspiracy – is being bought only by those of you too young to actually have been there at the time.

-Jobs and New Jobs are paying about 3 to 4 thousand less than they use to.
-GDP has been slashed to 1.3 percent (lowest ever)
-Media Incomes are down, 4,000 per family on average
-Unemployment above 8% for 43 months with citizens settling for lesser paying jobs.
-Gas prices have doubled (Obama cut in half oil drilling permits, did not allow on federal lands and is closing coal plants in battle ground states while smiling).
- Tuition is up 55% in Texas and nationwide at certain double digit percentages.
- Nation is scoring in the bottom 3rd in Math and Sciences.
- Obama wants to raise taxes on over 1 million small businesses.
- Sequestration; Obama wants to cut our military during the most dangerous times on earth while increasing federal aid to those who don’t need it.
- He wants to protect Teachers Union ploys and tenure among others who want more money without supplying appropriate education to the masses and the ability of the school to fire bad teachers.

How is that for some hate? Let’s get a real bipartisan in office and get things moving. Enough of this media made President who cannot stand the altitude except when their is a teleprompter.

This is a sad era for our country when people hate you because you stand for all people. President Obama is a man with morals and digity! The GOP and the southern haters are people who hate all people of color; it does not matter their level of education or background. He is a threat because he is a well educated black man who they can not tempt with their arrogance and betrayal of the american people.

I’m in the South with the rabid Faux watching low information zombies who believe everything said on Faux Noise. There are some of us white Democrats who are seriously determined to support President Obama along with all the black people. We know we have a lot more sense than all the people who had Bush/Cheney plastered on their cars throughout the eight years and some still do. Romney may not have as much support being a Mormon but there are way too many lies that people take as fact in the low information foxified south.

Most of them hate him because repubs are like that: uncharitable, nasty bigots who dislike anything or anyone which smells of reason and intellectualism. They are the ones who rejected health reform, tax reform, necessary social programs, etc.

They need someone to hate, make fun of, bitterly rail against, and sarcastically put down, as well as the people who disagree with them. They are also often the most self-righteous. Irony.

The palpable hate is surely racial in origin. When Republicans announce that their highest priority is not this nation but getting Obama out of office they have stated their real purpose

Wow! Glad to see racism and bias is alive and well in Gene Lyons. He must be good buds with BO. Hopefully some future prez will support the Constitution!!!!

gene lyons, you are a dumba$$

I am a Republican. I certainly don’t hate the President. I voted for him and identified him as a leader from the time he spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He is charming, charismatic, cool, but incompetent. He didn’t surround himself with first rate advisors and it shows. His hubris is that he thinks he is so smart and so effective, the power of his personality will overcome any obstacle. His foreign policy in the middle east is a disaster. His domestic policies might as well have people building pyramids, because they aren’t generating any GDP productivity.

He is spouting the same collective drivel that socialists ( Roosevelt) and Fascists (Hitler) did at the same time in the 1930′s… the needs of the state supercede all individual wants, needs, and desires. And we will force you to comply with our vision. The safety net wasn’t meant to be a lifestyle for the lazy, TV watching, texting, morons that define our society.

Neither candidate has articulated how to create jobs in the private sector. Somebody may before the election, but it isn’t likely to be the current President.

It seems likely the President will be re-elected. If so, I will predict that we will collectively praise/sanctify Barack Obama after the next term, even while the country is dying. What a shame.

Think the republican party will diminish in the face of a prosperous 2nd Obama term?
Better think again.
The propaganda machine is alive and well, with the republican minions believing EVERYTHING that comes out of the mouths of Coulter, Limbaugh, and Hannity.
In the minds of the faithful, they have successfully placed the blame for the countrys ills squarely on the shoulders of the poor, the teachers, firefighters policemen, and ANYONE affiliated with the union movement in America, while defending their corporate masters, and the billions they squeeze from the working class through lower wages, fewer benefits, and longer hours.
They will become even more radical in the years to come, perhaps to an extent that civil war may be the only answer for America to rid itself from their brand of fanaticism.

Because their EVIL and GREEDY alone with being big PHONEYS! ON EVERYTHING. Mr. Obama, has been broke and lived in a Car… he does feel our pain! I too lived in a Car and know how things without money or a home can be. I still cannot believe how ONE WOMEN, can vote for the PHONEY! Love Obama!

I don’t hate Obama. I hate tyranny.

Repub DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA CARE… DID NOT GO FOR 16TRILLIONS spending bill that your great grand children and mine have to pay for ! WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO HAVE ANOTHER 4YRS OF FREE SPENDING !

no

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Republicans don’t hate O’bama, they hate what he is doing to the country and to its people.
This administration is the most contraversial and anti-American ever.
They lie, cheat, steal, and blame everyone else for the problems.

DISDAIN FOR THE WORKER: Locate and read this NY Times editorial opinion by Paul Krugman and you will understand why republicans hate OBAMA. It is precisely the republican party’s “DISDAIN” for the average working man, and OBAMA’s favored support and empathy for the average working man that makes the republicans hate him so.
Just as Mr. Krugman points out about Eric Cantor’s labor day tweet, honoring business owners and entrepeneurs on labor day, giving respect to their bravery and spirit, without ever mentioning a word about the worker, on this labor day tweet. Instead only honoring their bosses, and the owners of business’s.
His article points out that this is the attitude of the entire party, cater to the owners and starters of business, but if your just a lowly worker or employee, we could care less about you.

We need a principald conservative party to check their own folly. Letting Emotions and religion govern a free people. The ignorance of the Tea party must be overcome, The religious Zellots must be tamed, and the 2% should buck up and take a pinch for the team.

As cartoonist Al Kapp used to tell us ‘What’s good for Genera; Bullmoose (read General Motors) is good for America.’Today he would probably have written ‘If you are Koch’en with oil it’s good for America.’We must follow the selfish billionaires like the Koch boys, not the unselfish ones like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

Nope, that’s not why we hate him. If you really care, we hate him because he is a socialist. Because we believe (right or wrong) that he is destroying the American dream. His anti-business, pro welfare, government support from cradle to grave is the precise formula that is killing the Europeans. We, who hate Obama, want less government, freedom from government, we hate big brother (black or white). We do not want government taking money out of our pockets so they can decide what to do with it, not us. That is why we hate Obama. And, it looks like that is the reason that you like him. So, we have a significant ideological divide. We, or at least I, do not consider Obama or his supporters evil, just misguided and uninformed. The notion that we can solve societies ills by taxing, borrowing and spending is so empirically and philosophically false that one must be completely ignorant of economic principles and history to believe it. But the song is seductive isn’t it? A friend or mine once said that “if you are not a Democrat when you are young you have no heart and if you are not a Republican as you mature, you have no brain.” I am no longer young. I have college degrees in economics and law. I have a lot of experience in business and life in general. I am not swayed by slogans, eloquence or charisma. I require philosophical consistency. Romney is not precisely the person I would want as President. But, he is infinitely better than Obama. That is why we hate Obama and the welfare state that he represents.

No, that’s not it. I guess I don’t really hate him, but I don’t like him. I don’t like him because he’s condescending and patronizing, and believes that he knows what’s best for us, and the only reason we don’t agree is that he hasn’t talked at us long enough. And I hate the possibility that we’ll have four more years of him, because I think he wants to turn us into Europe. I think he wants to convince us that we need the government to take care of us, no matter what it costs, and that there are enough rich people to cough up the taxes to fund it. There aren’t. And if there were, they wouldn’t be rich very long – and then what do we do?

He’s a communist. America is capitalist. Communism destroys countries. Capitalism builds them. Pretty simple, really.

To borrow a phrase from Bill Clinton – it’s the economy, stupid! More specifically, socialism vs. capitalism. Socialism is a destructive force because it turns everything into a zero sum game. From the government trickle down concept – every bit of wealth that is redistributed must first be taken from someone else. Given the terrible inefficiency of government bureaucracies – $1 in will get you less than .80 back.

In contrast, businesses in the private sector (capitalism) create wealth. They take goods and services that cost $1 and turn it into products and services that sell for $1.25 or more. The $1 of cost of goods/services sold provides revenue for many other businesses, pays wages, and so forth. The wealth created (.25) is profit that is saved, reinvested, and otherwise provides growth to the economy. Let’s say the .25 is chopped up into .15 tax, .10 retained wealth – with $1 recycled within the ecnomy… that’s still $1.15 returned per $1 by capitalism vs .80 per $1 by socialism.

Trickle down is, in reality, all we get (we the people of the 99%) regardless of the source. I’d rather the trickle down fund be $1.15 than it be .80 to start off with.

The bottom line: capitalism is NOT a zero sum game, there can be win-win’s outcomes- but socialism is usually a less than zero sum game where there are frequently lose-loser’s outcomes.

Chances since Obama was caught without his teleprompter at the debate, he is now losing in the polls.

Gene Lyons, get off my President!!!!!!

I’m 66 as longt as I remember have I seen such disrespect from a party,Republicans are so disrespectful of the President and Vice President. Yes it is a race but there is no need to be disrepestful. Romney made a statment if Obama would stop pimping with Jay Z and his wife he could run his office. That kind of statement was not needed and just another way of direspect. The republicans who are running only talk about what Obama didn’t do which most of it are lies but they don’t say what and how they are going to make things different. They are a joke and people better watch out who they are voting for because Romney’s faith tells him what he can do and what he can’t. Look into their faith and you will see what I am saying. Yes they hate Obama because of his race long before time to vote the republicans said the only thing they were going to do was get Obama out of office they would not agree with anything Obama was trying to past. Guess what the no president has all that control so all the fault is not his alone. When you have a party that will not admit to the good and the bad. Another thing most republicans no nothing about blacks and who they are going to vote for. All races are voting for Obama all over the US.

This thing about jobs and economic think about when the new I Phone came out the people who were in line for days to get one. People are spending money, home are being saved and guess what education can be saved. Obama plus his side as always cared about children, education and all people and not leaving out 47%.

I’m so upset with the disrepect I don’t want my 12 year old watch the debates because of the disrespect the republican is showing. I teach my son as the bible says love one another as equel. It is alright to disagree but remain having “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”. We should look at the whole picture before we think the republican gets in office.

because he’s black and dared to win

they don’t hate him, they just don’t like his policies. Liberals confuse hate with political disagreement.

I think that the main reason that people disapprove of this President is that he has failed to follow through on most all of his campaign declarations. He has also politicized just about every issue of real and vital importance to Americans. He has continued to write and sign disastrous executive orders that are stealing our civil liberties. What an irony that is. He along with Attorney General Eric Holder have done their level best to create real divisions between our people over race. My personal opinion of him really changed when he signed the NDAA which essentially puts us all in grave danger and is completely unconstitutional. I also am not a believer in either the GOP or the Dems. As I see it they are all the same with only slight differences in the final outcome. All of Washington is hopelessly corrupt and and really needs to be rebuilt from the ground up. If Governor Romney is elected very little will change. We will still get into an illegal war and continue to kill innocent people on an unprecedented scale and we as a people will be less safe that we have ever been and we will also continue to bleed jobs to other more competitive nations. It is time for us all to do some real soul searching and take a stand against this one party system and demand a return to sanity.

don’t forget about all of the taxpayers money that was lost investing in green companies by the Obama administration.

The DEMS are the party of HATE. Disliking policies, outcomes and even the man is not tantamount to “hate.” The only hatred I see comes from the LEFT.

The United States of Islam? How exactly is that going to occur? Is he going to ask Congress to pass a bill? Is he going to order the military to kill anyone who doesn’t go to mosque? Please explain how you foresee this happening as I find it fascinating.

Also, can you give some examples of how he doesn’t believe in capatilism?

You no idea how entertaining these kinds of comments are.

Interesting article. I had not thought about it this way.

If you think that racist people can’t accept a few of the “good ones,” you’re quite confused. These people absolutely hate Obama that much more because he’s black, they might be able to like Allen West and Herman Cain if they’re part of the program, but they still look down on their race.

Perhaps we should have expelled the South , instead of allowing them to try to secede in 1860. A nation of buffoons on our Southern border for the last 150 years, might have given the world, by our example in the North, a better understanding of what our founders (limited as they were by their position in history) were trying to accomplish. Bigotry is at the base of their hatred of The President, and even in the North we have those whose underlying dislike of him can be stirred in private, or in public (like say in a red-neck bar) to elicit the “N” word, with very little prompting. We have to also remember that the corporate elites (Koch Brothers et al) are feeding the bigoted base ‘s underlying prejudices and ignorance, in an effort to paint him as being “the other” the Kenyan, un -American, socialist, communist, fraudulent, Muslim, or any other mindless idea they can plant in intellectually empty, but fertile minds, that are so full of what we classicaly call manure.

Question: I am a senior. where is the lower drug prices? i haven’t found it .
where is a hybrd car that is dependable and can be afforded, especially by seniors?
Gm bailout . that is a laugh. a laugh on the taxpayers. bammy wrote of 14 billion. government took stock at about 30 dollars and it now worth 19. and they went to china.
Where is the equal pay for women in the white house?
Where is is the 716 b medicare saving? must be the 718 billion bammy stole from medicare/
where is the elmination of the doughnut hole for seniors? I worked 20 years for mine.
limited salries for white house employes. that is the joke of the day.
that is enough i think you get the idear.
bammy is a liar, along with his whole adminstration.
Hate: do not know about that. more disgust and horror more than anything else.

lol Nice way to say if Obama loses its because of race not his RECORD. lol Sorry, kids. He has nothing to recommend him as President and now he has his recored of failure following him around like a bad smell.

I’m not so sure that we shouldn’t have cut the South loose, expelled the actually, instead of letting them try to secede back in 1860. A hundred and fifty years of having a retrograde cotton mouthed drool bucket speaking nation of fundamentalist bigots and racists on our Southern border, would have provided the contrast necessary to show the world the potential our founders hoped for, by having one side standing on the moral and ethical side of reality , and another claiming a common heritage, showing the world how terribly wrong things can go. Instead we have a frenetic nation, still fighting that old conflict, that killed over 600,000 of us and threatens again to become a monumental struggle between the new plutocrats, and their ignorant base, and those who still believe in representative democracy, facing a cadre of ignorant fools all lined up to do the bidding of the lucky few in a Potemkin Village type of political reality that can only mean the end of our noble experiment. Hatred of President Obama by the clueless bottom feeders on the Right, is being driven at a guttural level, by the worst aspects of our national psyche.

Why is it that like 99% of blacks hate Romney?

I think White educated men fear educated Black men, MLK, President Obama in some way White men see them as a threat.
Republicans say Blacks are uneducated, but when they meet an educated Black Man, its who are you and what are you doing here. President Obama and MLK, and other didn’t back down.

Some Black thinks that Republicans has never total excepted Black Americans, therefore Blacks Americans doesn’t care much for the Republicans. Democratics has reached more to help the poor and middle class than the poor no matter what color.

That in itself makes the Republicans a party that doesn’t care about the poor or middle class.

They also do not like him because he has been INCOMPETENT. Makes voting for Romney sooo easy. A romney land slde is about to happen Gallup Romney 51% Oblamer 46%,,,Oblamer can not get above 47% he is doomed. bye bye barack!

Yes, what damage did Obama cause. Did you think the collapsing economy he inherited would cost nothing. Several months of losing 700k jobs a month under Bush and Obama has turned that around. Of course, Romney would have turned it around on day 1! you are delusional and brainwashed.

Then you mean that Bush dropped the ball and allowed >3,000 of our fellow citizens to be killed? You mean like that!

Republicans are out of their minds.

I see nothing but HATE from all the Democrats on this blog—man how UGLY you really are inside!!!

I’ve lived all my life in SE Texas, and in the middle of the most right-wing of conservative bible-belt mentality, and I’ll tell you without hesitation two things…
One, racism and hatred of any and every body they percieve as not like them is pervasive. The only thing that’s changed is they lie about it, try to soft-peddle, deny it, more in public now. But it was even a HUGE factor in why I and many others here in the south have even left any attempt to be involved in churches. I have often been schocked and disgusted when I’ve found myself having gotten comfortable enough among any group of them for them to let down their guard and talk the way they really feel, and not just the “N” word but any and every other derisive, demeaning slang term for not only blacks, but any other racial or ethnic group…even us pure white American liberals, lol…is jst part of their everyday language.
Two, the hatred they have toward Obama has absolutely nothing to do with what he has or hasn’t done since elected. NOTHING. I state this because I have not encountered a single Obama-hater that hasn’t hated him since before he was even elected. Not a single one that is an Obama-hater now, that wasn’t already an Obama-hater way back then. Which also means ‘ve not encountered a single person that liked and supported Obama, and/or voted for him, in 2008, that hates him now. Sure, some are dissapointed in the job he’s done, that things aren’t better than they are now, but none that hate him for it. And even most of them both feel he’s probably done the best that could be under the circumstances, and still feel he’s the better choice than Romney now.

WHY REPUBLICANS HATE DEMOCRATS OR OBAMA?
The Republicans and Central Intelligence Agency are a Lethal Partnership they own America
Republican President Nixon started CIA . President Dwight Eishenhower apointed him to be in charge of Central Intelligence . Nixon with the help of Congressman Charlie [Good Time Charlie and a group known as The Plumbers were the committee that changed CI to CIA 'The CI protected every American and American Property but the CIA seem otherwise As they own Operation 40 a Assasin Group that has been responsible for the Assasination of many leaders in various fields in and outside America . Even John F kennedy s assasination was linked to CIA
1]Operation 40 Assasination Squad [ Funded by CIA
2] Talibans Pakistan [Romney had high popularity votes here ] Funded by CIA
3]Mujahadeens[ afghanistan &iran Funded by CIA
4]Alqaeda [IRAQ Afghanistan iran,indonesia , everywhere] Funded By CIA
5 ]Operation Cyclone [Cuba] funded By CIA
6] American Communist Party Funded By CIA
All the above were formed by president Nixon and Charles Wilson when they formed CIA
What will other Republican Presidents do but TOW THE LINE .They have to continue what has been started
Everytime The Republican Rule has created massive losses and damage to America and rest of countries around the world they take a Holiday Break .
It is only when they want a Break do the opposition get a chance to sit in this seat which is highly wired and dangerously volatile
So what ever happens as in brutal war crimes or excessive spending is only a continuation of crimes that are on rollercoaster .
The FBI and Democrats are like floral decorations to the OVAL ,they must fade when the heat burns so then the Republican can sit and cook his feast
This may be the best time ever for Americans to query the expenses and weapons of mass destruction stored in Pentagon . Take stock why does America need Military Intelligence, Federal intelligence and Central Intelligence . When All three combined could not hit a nail on a man called JACK who was named as The Presidents killer . They Could not Find out who demolished Twin towers .they Could Not Find out why George Bush Invaded Panama and Iraq ,They could not find out why Saudi Arabia was Paid massive amounts of american Dollars to station american Combat teams to assasinate Saddam hussein
They could not find out anything about CUBA or The relationship between George Bush and Bin Ladin . Why did Bin Ladin and CIA have a joint account . Why Did CIA pay Mujahadeen leader a salary in millions . The Three intelligence groups were fast asleep when a Plane can fly at eye level into the twin Towers .till today they dont know who done it
Wake Up America the day is dawning and the world is about to end because the stockpile of chemicals and weapons collected by Bush is about to expire at the Pentagon
Whatever I have written just take the phrase and put it in search box you will get detailed information on facts figures reports and newspaper articles . All this is already documented but Americans are just waiting for a Miracle to happen . TAKE ACTION Take Action Protect your nation for your grandchildrens sake .
Every American is authorised to query any Goverment system thats not working for the benefit of the citizens if there has to be a Melt down ,or a merger or a new organisastion DO IT NOW . Stop fighting for pollution and enviroment and sea lion Save America from Destruction .We have too many enemies ,we have too many home nutured terrorist who are large as dinosaurs ,we have destroyed everyones property with our false pride and arogrance .
This election tells us a new war is threatening “

The rich white Republicans are afraid of a Democratic majority in the house and senate now that Obama knows the Republicans will not cooperate. I imagine Obama will use the next four years working on legislation to benefit the 98% of the population, not the 2% of Rich white Republicans. Obama’s promotion of programs for the USA will result in prosperity and after all the Republican bulls–t, they would be have to eat some of it when the USA prospers under Obama’s direction. That’s the real crux of it. Imagine how much Trump the Chump would suffer for the next four years. The fact that women, the underprivileged, and immigrants will gain so much it would be almost impossible for the Republicans to stop the progress even if they get elected in 2016. VOTE OBAMA

Well said Dominic Vila. And he was able to do all of that and (and more see Donna Brazille’s list of 128 + achievements) continue to be a strong contender in the elections in spite of 1. Pledges by GOP and behind the scenes tactics to make him a one term president. 2. Claims that he was not born in the USA distracting him to prove his birth place 3. Attempts on his life, but the army couple ended up being murdered for revealing the plan. 4. Fear mongering by five members of Congress accusing him of having Muslims infiltrate the Government pointing fingers at Hilary Clinton’s Aide. 5.Fear mongering films featuring him as a communist that feeds into the gullible crazies’ narrative. 6. The tape that the GOPs placed in the mailboxes of millions of voters also denigrated his mother’s memory in the most hateful way, and by the way, that was on the eve of the first debate. 7. Accusing him and his campaign for defining Mr. Etch a Sketch over the summer, but even Obama couldn’t define Mitt because we still don’t know how many Mitts there are in this campaign. 8. Voter ID infractions, including the case in Florida that resulted in the firing of a young woman who was doing what she was told. Today, October 26th, in Virginia Democrats revealed that voters’ registration forms were being thrown in the thrash (See story on CNN) and Voter ID laws to intimidate the poor and minorities from voting. 9. The anti-Muslim film which caused uprising in the otherwise quiet Muslim world to prove that Al Qaeda was not on the decline and the GOP and their pundits vociferously distanced the incident in Benghazi from the film. I wonder why it was so important to prove that the film had no influence and how they knew to say that before the evidence was out? The consultant of the film confirmed that it was a political film with the intention to disrupt the Muslim world. Is there fear that the money trail for the film will lead to interesting places? 10. Accusations of Obama blowing up the debt by spending. Hmmn I think its time the Democrats show exactly what the money was spent on and ask America which area would they cut. Right now Sandy is threatening the East Coast. For the last three years there have been unprecedented spending for natural disasters. 11. Similarly, spending on veterans who were employed during the Bush years (hence contributing to the lower rate of unemployment) but chose to go to war to protect their country and who cannot work anymore (contributing to the current unemployment rate) and the list goes on and on, and so does Barak Obama fighting for the middle class and values of honesty and integrity. Four More Years!

Except that Obama’s DP is mostly center/center-right, and that is its weakness (one the RP can exploit but not directly use to win).

If you live in a socialist country, you would likely be happier and living in a kinder country. As a Canadian, I don’t understand how anyone can not want socialized medicine. It is It bot

Because the Republicans won’t work with him – there is the division – the Taliban-like, holier than thou, selfish, money hungry, unkind let them eat cake Republicans.

Another uneducated American. Watch some indepth info on your Republican Party and where the money is coming from – ten main people buying the presidency and thinking they will run the country through wishy wash Romney.

I love the example of the Mensa Group who, years ago, were on a bus trying to find the Mensa Conference in Germany or somewhere. They were late as became lost – couldn’t figure out the map.

When the Republicans, bought by the Koch brothers and others, won’t work to improve the country, solve the problems. With worldwide problems and following the Republicans, who could solve all in four years. To think he could shows the lack of education many Americans are now known to have, sad to say.

What concerns me is how democrats let the south know that progressive movements are not a threat. I think it would have been a great strategy for Obama to hold public discussions in the south over their concerns. I think a good deal of southerns would turn out to be more moderate if they didn’t feel so austrasized. That would leave the extremists behind go on believing in their own narcissitic agenda at all costs.

Another concern of mine is the issue of abortion. I am pro-choice, but I see why this issue is close to the hearts of pro-life supporters. I would be willing to compromise say with rape, incest, health of the mother, and maybe late-term abortions.

We need to be more moderate as a nation. This is getting ridiculous.

I hope that President Obama gets back in . We do not need a deceitful President that we would get if Mitt Romney gets in. The Romney campaign now has put out a add on cars and jeeps from Chrsyler are on there way to China…………..Chrysler has denied it and this decietful man still runs the adds. When head of Bain Capital he layed off 2500 employees and sourced out the work to where else China and other foreign countries…….US citizens wake upi smell the flowers get your heads out of the sand ………and realize what you wouls get if God forbid if Mitt Romney ever got in.He would start a war somewhere ……….cut off the social security for all you people that worked hard to get and paid for…….he does’t care about the 47% of the middle class people of the USA…HE ONLY CARES ABOUT THE VERY WEALTHY…………..He would not show his income tax only one year………….He has all of or most of his money in OFF SHORE ACCOUNTS IN THE GRAND CAYMAN SO HE DOES NOT HAVE TO PAY INCOME TAX……..A real loser….he doesn’t care about America he only cares about himself.
I am a Conservative and can’t beleive what Mitt Romney and the Ultra Conservatives are doing. He will do anything to get into the WHITE HOUSE………….AT ANY COST. WHEN YOU VOTE REMBER WHAT YOU WILL GET IF YOU VOTE FOR Mitt Romney.

Marguerite P

republican senators are all billionaires that their head does not see the poor people needs, so they are in a limbo only taking care the do not get taxed. those heads can not see realitty that why you need a new republican party, which will be 180 degrees off romny and the mayority. they need someone like OBAMA, BUT DONT HAVE IT……YET.

This article, if it’s even noticed by any conservative leaders, will probably be dismissed out of hand, but there is a lot of truth here nonetheless. The entire ‘take back America’ mentality smacks of the sense of entitlement to which many white Americans have always subscribed, and the ongoing outrage and indignation at Obama’s actions is very telling as well; many of the things for which he is routinely criticized would have elicited adulation had they been performed by a white man (e.g., his eloquence, the assassination of bin Laden, his coolness under fire, etc.). I’m surprised that he hasn’t been referred to as ‘uppity’ yet. I guess there will be plenty of time yet….

Why Do So Many Republicans Really Hate Obama?

Not just Republicans , anybody who is not a Muslim or Marxist Atheist on the planet hates Obamas destruction of the US as the leader of the Free World. God Bless America, Vote Romney

Dominick Vila, must of had a bad DREAM. Obama has destroyed American and its Constitution. Medicare will be completely BROKE in 4 years. Seniors may lose their Social Security sooner than 15 years? Bush set upi the date to leave Iraq? Wasted over $2 Trillion on his HOPES? Let 4 American’s be MURDERED in Libya? America CANNOT afford Obama another 4 years?

Why? Who cares?

Aslo people felt Romney was about to plunge America into some other poorly thought out and highly unnecessary war. The world needs a strong and systematic grasp on peace so that terrorist know that even tho you aren’t spoiling for war you are willing to fight them with all you’ve got if they do foolishness

I am so glad the left Libs know so much about Conservatives…without this story and all the comments stated how would I have known why I hate Obama so much. I wont’ waste my time giving you a list as Dominick Vila did, which are laughable. Oh ended the war in Iraq LOL sorry hun that was already a done deal and signed before he got in office, Equal pay for women another one I can’t help but laugh at…oh wait Affordable health care, incentives for first time home buyers ROFLMAO I can’t go on…I just can’t.

HOW ABOUT LET AMERICANS BE MURDERED AS HE WATCHED and DID NOTHING?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? He is a liar, a theif who wants to steal from those who have to give to those lazy bums who won’t work or get an education….has nothing to do with color…I’d vote Allen West as President any day a real man a real American a Real hero. Not a thug who believes as his pastor does G.D. America.