Less people were pleased with Obama as time went on, so for a while Romney looked like he might have had a chance...until this (and the past week in general). Putting nails in his own coffin, essentially.
Our unemployment rate is at 19% and our debt is $16,000,000,000,000 and climbing. Our government won't pass a dang budget they're so irresponsible. To put it in terms you'll understand, shit is happening in the middle east and our ambassador and some other americans got brutally massacred because of it. Our government is covering up the whole dang story up and won't acknowledge their most egregious errors that got those americans killed. Energy costs keep staying at stupid high levels (At least here in Michigan... Dunno about the rest).
No it doesn't. It shouldn't matter. All that should matter is that the Administration botched this up so bad that the Libyan Ambassador himself saw it coming a mile away. The only thing different from this BS and Watergate is that people died and there aren't any calls for the president's head because of this utter failure to protect OUR AMBASSADOR and cover their knowledge of the issue up.
and whose fault do you think that is j-man? don't ya think the fact the republicans and their puppets control the house and senate contribute to that? how about bush? you can't blame obama for the bill he got charged with and you can't support romney with that shit either when it's his party that's the largest cause of it.
I assume you're smart enough to include the Republican controlled house in the 'Government' blanket you're using here, the same house that refuses to raise taxes despite them being extremely low (which is why no budget is being passed) -- even Reagan and Bush Snr raised taxes when the Debt was spiralling over GDP.
The utter failure to protect the Ambassador, as you put it, is on the State Department officials who are responsible for this kind of thing; but it's well known that US agencies work together poorly at best -- you just need to look at the post 9/11 review of the CIA to establish that.
At least he's honest ;/. But yeah, it's pretty funny that he actually said that aloud.
Ignoring for a moment, the fact that the government is not responsible for creating jobs in a free market (and even government policies have very limited impact).
Obama should've gone on offence when he first took office: raised taxes, slashed subsidies, pulled out of the wars.. but people weren't willing to back those movements for various reasons. The numbers are also a bit misleading; most of that money is going to Bush policy hangovers and most of the revenue not there is due to the Bush tax cuts.
If Mitt Romney does not screw up in the debate on Wednesday and goes on the offensive while getting under Obama's skin, this election will be blown wide open again.
Unlikely; there is an extremely low percentage of undecided voters left and most of them are barely-informed and somewhat unlikely to even watch the debates.
No, you fucking *don't* need voter ID laws, the degree of fraud is absurdly low -- most fraud is by felons voting (why felons don't get to vote after serving their time is also puzzling), and that would be solved by actually keeping voter registries up to date and remove people if they're convicted; but that might require too much logic for the idiots who came up with this shit to handle.
Again solved by my first response. Requiring a photo ID wouldn't even prevent this anyway - nothing stops an ex-con getting a drivers license.
They discriminate heavily against the *urban* poor as I said, the typical form of ID is a drivers license which many people in poor urban areas do not have (not true for poor country folks). You can claim pretty much all that other stuff without a photo -- typically a utility bill, social security number and birth certificate will get you through all of those hoops.
That doesn't matter, you should vote, otherwise your wasting one of your greatest rights as an American citizen. People who don't vote are a part of the problem.
this philosophy is 100% poppycock. If you're not interested in politics then good sir i applaud and thank you for not voting, because the informed citizen is the only thing that can keep this country from sinking into the depths of hell.
All/most politicians do this(take advantage of uninformed voters) so i can't fault him for that. Though i think Ryan is way worse. He just says whatever his base wants to hear and completely ignores facts.
obama basically did do this in his speech at the DNC where he said he was sure he would fail many times over and that he had failed often in the past; but yeah candidates can't really say anything to this effect because people want confident solutions. ( i think romney has taken that a little too far though.)
I don't know which debate you were watching
