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PUBLIC OPINION > Obama Would Beat Romney in a Fist Fight

SodaHead News 2012/09/20 19:00:00
The presidential campaign is heating up as the election draws near, and both parties have come out swinging. Fortunately for the candidates, that's just a figure of speech. This isn't the Bolivian House of Commons. But what if the election really did come down to fisticuffs? Could Romney throw a knock-out punch? How is Obama's left hook? We took this all-too-important question to the public. You know, just in case.

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It looks like Obama took this one by a hair, but you know what they say. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. And maybe KOs. It would be quite the brawl, to be sure. In Romney's defense, he's definitely the larger man and doesn't have a history of smoking. On the other hand, Obama has proven himself a tough physical competitor on the basketball court.

Repping Your Party

We wanted this to be a fair fight, but based on the political breakdown, it seems most people just went with their party anyway. Few conservatives gave Obama the benefit of the doubt, and even fewer liberals did so for Romney. It's probably not going to happen anytime soon, so it's not like anyone's going to lose a bet here.

Teens Back Obama

Going by age, the youngest voters were much more likely to pick Obama. As voters got older they were less likely to pick the President, until about age 45 when it leveled out completely in favor of Romney. Of course, we have to allow for the possibility that this was also politically-minded, as younger people do tend to vote left.

Men Split the Vote

Men and women often have different attitudes toward violence, and also different perspectives on the relative strength of male competitors. For instance, there are more men interested in boxing and MMA than women. (Though, according to UFC president Dana White, the female audience is catching up.) Men were completely split, but women pushed the vote in Obama's favor.

If you'd like to vote on this question, dig deeper into the demographics, or engage in existing discussion about the topic, visit our poll about an Obama-Romney fist fight. We'd love to hear from you!
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  • Greg 2012/09/24 20:29:54
    Greg
    +1
    Mitt would kick Obama's ass!!!
  • Golanv ... Greg 2012/09/25 04:27:00
    Golanv (Raven) BN0
    +1
    Hey. Don't do this to me, man. I thought my double vision was back for a moment. ;) Obama will win the election and that's what counts with me, not this stupid question.
  • Greg Golanv ... 2012/09/25 16:54:52
    Greg
    Obama is a fascist pig...and I don't mean that in a bad way...ha ha...
  • Golanv ... Greg 2012/09/25 18:32:41
    Golanv (Raven) BN0
    C'mon Dude. Tell us how you really feel. lol. (Though I don't believe a word of it.) I've seen Obama called a fascist, a socialist, a communist, you name it on here. Actually it all sounds really nuts to me.
  • Greg Golanv ... 2012/09/26 14:40:51
    Greg
    Ms. Golanv, this is just my humble opinion but, I think you're really nuts if you support this fraud of a President. I hope he goes away and we never-ever have to listen to this lying douche-bag again...
    Thank you for your response to my previous statement...
  • Golanv ... Greg 2012/09/26 16:05:59
    Golanv (Raven) BN0
    You are certainly entitled to your own opinion and I am as well. I worked in politics for 5 years then went into mental health working with psychotics since it is so similar. ;) I had to take a test to see if I was sane and I knocked the top out of it. (Also tested genius level on IQ.) I've spent quite a bit of time researching everything and I will be voting for President Obama. I hope you will take some time to do some research yourself. Thanks.
  • Greg Golanv ... 2012/09/26 16:30:02
    Greg
    I've witnessed Obama first hand, no research needed...He is without a doubt the worst President since FDR!!!
  • Golanv ... Greg 2012/09/26 19:09:32
    Golanv (Raven) BN0
    lol. Too funny and so not true but I have to rest my eyes for a while. I'm supposed to be recovering from accident instead of playing on SH.
  • Greg Golanv ... 2012/09/26 20:20:38
    Greg
    I'm assuming your accident was voting for Obama the first time...Please rest your eyes and please get better...It must be like poking yourself in the eye...And btw, what was so lol?
  • Golanv ... Greg 2012/09/26 20:32:42
    Golanv (Raven) BN0
    The lol was at 'worst President'. He just came out in Newsweek today as one of 10 best. ~ I hydroplaned in downpour last week, went down a 15' embankment backwards into a flooded creek and ended up on rocks 40' downstream in my totaled car. It was on the 6:00 news, pretty wild, and I'm grateful to be alive. Retinas hemorrhaged on impact but doc says it is temporary. Thank God. This place is nuts today. Time to really ignore my happenings and get some rest. Have a good evening.
  • Greg 2012/09/24 20:28:15
  • rudad5 2012/09/24 20:05:37
    rudad5
    no not after id slip romney the brass knuckles so he could do a one punch to this corrupt senator because the bum needs to go.
  • RogerCoppock 2012/09/24 19:47:35
    RogerCoppock
    +1
    Fist fights favor younger men.
  • Nareen Lake 2012/09/24 19:41:19
    Nareen Lake
    +2
    Who cares! It's not going to happen. I care more about having a president who doesn't turn our country into a socialist/communist dictatorship, which Obama is doing. I will vote for Romney.
  • Golanv ... Nareen ... 2012/09/25 02:52:16
    Golanv (Raven) BN0
    +1
    I also think this is a stupid question and didn't participate in the poll. But I care more about having a President who will not drag us back into the 17th century nor turn us into a country of people who think progress comes from stepping on the heads of our elderly, disabled, poor, and shrinking middle class. Trickle down economics has never worked and never will. I like forward better than backward and I will be voting for President Obama.
  • my2cents Golanv ... 2012/09/25 04:12:02
    my2cents
    +1
    You're in good company!
  • Golanv ... my2cents 2012/09/25 04:30:08
    Golanv (Raven) BN0
    +1
    Dang, Girl. Why aren't we friends yet? You feel like one already since I keep seeing you. I will send invite now? Cool?
  • my2cents Golanv ... 2012/09/25 07:24:49
    my2cents
    +1
    Gotten and accepted. Glad to know you!
  • kultur 2012/09/24 17:09:06
    kultur
    No contest.......Romney is knocked out...lol.................Rom... lol lol
  • Stan kultur 2012/09/24 21:58:43
    Stan
    I agree, Romney acts like he has been knocked out!
  • john Kills 2012/09/24 00:25:45
    john Kills
    +1
    Neither of these two could fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
  • Of Thee... john Kills 2012/09/24 14:10:12
    Of Thee I Sing...
    +2
    Especially Obammy......He throws a baseball like a 7 years old girl....I give you Exhibit A...





  • my2cents Of Thee... 2012/09/25 04:12:52
    my2cents
    +1
    Yep, Obama throws like a girl.

    How does Romney throw?
  • Of Thee... my2cents 2012/09/25 07:18:27
    Of Thee I Sing...
    We'll see next Baseball Season when he is President and that idiot and his dingbat wife are ejected from the White House.
  • Gia my2cents 2012/09/25 07:49:14
    Gia
    ENOUGH ALREADY. GHANGE THE GOD DAMNED SUBJECT. GOOD GRIEF GET OFF IT ALREADY. YOUR SO BORING., BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA. ENOUGH!
  • my2cents Gia 2012/09/26 06:23:49 (edited)
  • Brainfart " Bane of the Col... 2012/09/24 00:12:40
    Brainfart " Bane of the Collective "
    +2
    A cigarette smoking former Crack and Weed addict against a the exact opposite..

    Not much of a contest there..
  • ☆FritzW☆ 2012/09/23 23:02:55
    ☆FritzW☆
    +2
    Wow.. now this really adds anything of value to the Obama V Romney Presidential Election! Jeesh... what's next, the wive's mud wrestling?? Come on.. let's have some intellect here.
  • Ron 2012/09/23 22:46:24
    Ron
    +1
    Miss Barrack Obama couldn't beat his way out of a wet paper bag, come on after he got hit the first time he would go running screaming like little girl.
  • Deputy Chief 2012/09/23 22:18:30
    Deputy Chief
    +1
    Obama fights like a criminal dirtbag.


    obama  chicago thug obama  chicago thug obama  chicago thug
  • Stan Deputy ... 2012/09/24 22:07:40
    Stan
    +3
    Somebody seems to have a pathology of irrational hatred?

    Your pathology is that of irrational hate which demonstrates insecurity, helplessness, guilt, and the inability to effect change. Hatred of a person based on race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or national origin constitutes irrational hate. Your comments show your pathology in great detail. This is not the comment of the President's Ideology or policies, it is an outright attack on the person.

    The more insecure you feel, the larger the hate mask you wear and this Black African American President just drives you into a racist rage. Irrational hate bleeds through day-to-day activities in the form of racial barbs and ethnic humor. Irrational hate elevates the hater above the hated. Many insecure people feel a sense of self-worth by relegating a person or group of people to a lower status, much the same way a school yard bully does. Not all insecure people are haters, but all haters are insecure people.

    GOP OBAMA HATE
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ch...
    http://www.kaystreet.wordpres...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/21...
    http://www.gopclownshow.com/m...
    http://www.policymic.com/arti...
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-2...
    http://www.usnews.com/opinion...
    http://www.videocafe.crooksan...
    http://www.rush...
















































    Somebody seems to have a pathology of irrational hatred?

    Your pathology is that of irrational hate which demonstrates insecurity, helplessness, guilt, and the inability to effect change. Hatred of a person based on race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or national origin constitutes irrational hate. Your comments show your pathology in great detail. This is not the comment of the President's Ideology or policies, it is an outright attack on the person.

    The more insecure you feel, the larger the hate mask you wear and this Black African American President just drives you into a racist rage. Irrational hate bleeds through day-to-day activities in the form of racial barbs and ethnic humor. Irrational hate elevates the hater above the hated. Many insecure people feel a sense of self-worth by relegating a person or group of people to a lower status, much the same way a school yard bully does. Not all insecure people are haters, but all haters are insecure people.

    GOP OBAMA HATE
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ch...
    http://www.kaystreet.wordpres...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/21...
    http://www.gopclownshow.com/m...
    http://www.policymic.com/arti...
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-2...
    http://www.usnews.com/opinion...
    http://www.videocafe.crooksan...
    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/d...
    http://www.facebook.com/pages...

    RACISM USED AGAINST OBAMA
    http://www.veracitystew.com/2...
    http://www.obamaftw.com/blog/...
    http://www.thedailybanter.com...
    http://www.eurweb.com/2012/03...
    http://www.politic365.com/201...
    http://www.limbaughbook.blogs...
    http://www.bparsia.wordpress....
    http://www.theroot.com/views/...
    http://www.jonathanturley.org...
    htttp://www.racerelations.abo...
    http://www.thegatewaypundit.c...
    http://www.alternet.org/story...

    T-BOOGER RACISM AGAINST OBAMA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://www.archive.org/detail...
    http://www.politico.com/blogs...
    http://www.washingtonpost.com...
    http://www.articles.nydailyne...
    http://politics.gather.com/vi...
    http;//WWW.jtwalters.hubpages... http://www.thiscantbehappenin...


    RIGHT WING HATE GROUPS AND EXTREMISTS
    http://www.prospect.org/comme...
    http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/...
    https://www.commondreams.org/...
    www.splcenter.org/get-informe...
    http://www.splcenter.org/get-...
    http://www.blog.al.com/spotne...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    http://www.npr.org/templates/...
    http://www.forums.charlotteob...
    http://www.democracynow.org/2...
    https://www.hsdl.org/hslog/?q...
    http://www.alternet.org/belie...
    http://politicalaffairs.net/r...
    http://www.splcenter.org/get-...
    http://www.publiceye.org/lnk_...
    http://www.washingtontimes.co...
    http://www.democracynow.org/2...
    http://premiumblend.net/2012/...
    http://www.splcenter.org/get-...
    http://www.google.com/#q=Righ...

    Bubba, I have this big old heart, and can forgive you for your mental illness.
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  • Deputy ... Stan 2012/09/25 00:22:41
    Deputy Chief
    I see you are incapable of legitimately disputing the facts I listed.
    obama loser
  • Stan Deputy ... 2012/09/25 22:39:24
    Stan
    When are you going to present some legitimate facts? Pictures are not legitimate facts, and you have so plainly demonstrated that you don't know what a fact is, and you sure have demonstrated your irrational hatred pathology. when you can present a fact, let me know and we can then debate it.
  • Deputy ... Stan 2012/09/26 02:40:04
    Deputy Chief
    Obama is 4 yrs into his term and every morning millions of
    Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us. Obama seeks to
    saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package
    that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation.

    These are the reasons that I refuse to vote for Obama:
    Obama's actions are not only that of a liar, but that of someone who wants to destroy the foundation of what made America great.

    Obama is destroying our economy with his out of control spending. Obama has accelerated the path that our nation was on to financial/fiscal ruin, by doubling the debt, despite his campaign promise to reduce spending and our deficit. He promised that by the end of his first term, he would cut the national debt in half, instead he doubled it

    Unemployment has risen rather than fallen (despite his failed stimulus $ plan, money down the drain, funded his campaign contributors) and job creation is down.

    Obama continued the signing of bills that contain PORK spending despite his campaign promise not to. Here is a video in his own words that he lied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Obama's famous promise to transparency, where he promised the Healthcare negotiations would be televised on CSPAN. Instead were conducted in secret behind closed doors. Another LIE!

    ...































    Obama is 4 yrs into his term and every morning millions of
    Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us. Obama seeks to
    saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package
    that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation.

    These are the reasons that I refuse to vote for Obama:
    Obama's actions are not only that of a liar, but that of someone who wants to destroy the foundation of what made America great.

    Obama is destroying our economy with his out of control spending. Obama has accelerated the path that our nation was on to financial/fiscal ruin, by doubling the debt, despite his campaign promise to reduce spending and our deficit. He promised that by the end of his first term, he would cut the national debt in half, instead he doubled it

    Unemployment has risen rather than fallen (despite his failed stimulus $ plan, money down the drain, funded his campaign contributors) and job creation is down.

    Obama continued the signing of bills that contain PORK spending despite his campaign promise not to. Here is a video in his own words that he lied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Obama's famous promise to transparency, where he promised the Healthcare negotiations would be televised on CSPAN. Instead were conducted in secret behind closed doors. Another LIE!

    He failed to follow through with his campaign promise for more off shore oil drilling. Quite the contrary, he strikes a deal with Brazil, informing them that he will make the US dependent on foreign oil.

    Backdoor deals regarding healthcare, despite his campaign promise to transparency to televise these negotiations on CSPAN. The majority of the people want Obamacare repealed. See proof on video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    CNN reports about Obama and his Lying and willingness to say anything to become elected: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    His promise that Obamacare would reduce healthcare costs for everyone. Mine have increased 25% this year, because of the contents of the bill !!!!!!

    The campaign promise of Capital gains tax elimination. Failed to follow through.

    Hiatus on 401(k) penalties Nope - still the horrible rates.

    Bring troops home in 16 months No, in fact started/engaged in another war, which we could NOT afford.

    Gates "We will not be taking an active part in the strike activities, and we believe that our allies can sustain this for some period of time."
    2 weeks later -
    Akerman " U.S. fighter jets struck three Libyan anti-aircraft sites overnight, U.S. military officials told NBC News on Wednesday, as the Pentagon revealed for the first time that U.S. pilots have continued to strike Libyan air defenses after turning the mission over to NATO. The strike — on portable anti-aircraft launchers — was the third time in the past week in which U.S. fighter jets have attacked Libyan air defenses, the sources added."

    Obama said, "Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age." But the irresponsibility over several administrations whereby banks were forced to artificially support a sub-prime interest rate that led to the housing bubble and brought down a financial house of cards gets translated into the president's distorted notion of class warfare, where the greedy and irresponsible "some" are at fault. http://www.americanthinker.co...

    Obama said, "On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord." EVERYONE can attest to the heavy handed Chicago style of Obama. More class warfare.

    Obama said, "We will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth." What growth? Keynesian economics never work. Never. Well, maybe where unicorns exist.

    Obama's Summer Of Recovery!! Did not happen - another empty promise!

    President Obama said: "everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good. Everybody is going to have to give. Everybody is going to have to have some skin in the game." flying Bo, the President's dog, on a separate aircraft to vacation with them in Maine, to a date night in New York City about 146k to a ridiculously costly trip to Spain, South America and anywhere else Michelle wants to go on the US Dime. Not very much austerity there. Not to mention a star studded event "In Performance at the White House." by the lovely PBS We also have Paul McCartney giving concerts there.

    The Obama Administration Has No Position on the Ground Zero Mosque … Gibbs explained, the president wouldn’t want to meddle in local affairs. Okay dokay, but why then, the meddle into Arizona affairs?

    Part of being great includes HONESTY and TRUST. Obama has NOT achieved either one of these important values. He however has proven that he will promise anything in order to become elected.

    Numbers don't lie and the fact that under Obama's administration, the debt has doubled, unemployment has increased, job creation down, rising gas prices, Libyan war, all contributed to the failing economy.
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  • Stan Deputy ... 2012/10/11 10:53:18
  • Deputy ... Stan 2012/10/12 00:07:46 (edited)
    Deputy Chief
    Obama's PROVEN failed economics speak for themsleves. Obama continues spending more than we take in despite the fact that he called Bush unpatriotic for spending less in more time. Obama is a failed president and a hypocrite who blames others but never himself.
    http://jec.senate.gov/republi... bush unpatriotic spending obama president hypocrite blames httpjec senate govrepubli obama failed economics
  • Stan Deputy ... 2012/10/16 00:54:07
    Stan
    What failed economics would that be Half-wit? He has created over 5 million jobs, keeping the country from sliding into another Great Depression?


    NATURAL BORN JOB KILLERS: REPUBLICANS OBSTRUCT OVER 4.2 MILLION JOBS

    By: Rmuse
 July 11th, 2012



    Most human beings appreciate a person who sets a long-term goal and achieves success through careful planning, dedication, and single-minded determination to see their final objective reach fruition. There are, of course, some goals that should never be made, much less achieved, and world history is replete with examples of dastardly leaders whose goals were not in the best interest of humankind and caused immeasurable damage to a great number of people. On Inauguration night in 2009, Republican leaders gathered to plot the absolute obstruction of President Obama’s economic agenda and thus far, they have been successful much to the disappointment of millions of Americans who continue to suffer the effects Republican’s goal of retarding economic recovery and job creation. The GOP makes matters worse by decrying the President’s handling of the economy when the truth is that if they had not blocked, obstructed, and stonewalled every one of the President’s plans to improve the jobs and economic picture, the economy would be much closer to achi...









    What failed economics would that be Half-wit? He has created over 5 million jobs, keeping the country from sliding into another Great Depression?


    NATURAL BORN JOB KILLERS: REPUBLICANS OBSTRUCT OVER 4.2 MILLION JOBS

    By: Rmuse
 July 11th, 2012



    Most human beings appreciate a person who sets a long-term goal and achieves success through careful planning, dedication, and single-minded determination to see their final objective reach fruition. There are, of course, some goals that should never be made, much less achieved, and world history is replete with examples of dastardly leaders whose goals were not in the best interest of humankind and caused immeasurable damage to a great number of people. On Inauguration night in 2009, Republican leaders gathered to plot the absolute obstruction of President Obama’s economic agenda and thus far, they have been successful much to the disappointment of millions of Americans who continue to suffer the effects Republican’s goal of retarding economic recovery and job creation. The GOP makes matters worse by decrying the President’s handling of the economy when the truth is that if they had not blocked, obstructed, and stonewalled every one of the President’s plans to improve the jobs and economic picture, the economy would be much closer to achieving a robust recovery.



    The only failure in Republican attempts to totally destroy the economy was their inability to obstruct the President’s stimulus the Congressional Budget Office and several independent agencies claim created over 3 million jobs. However, they have made up for that success by refusing to consider President Obama’s American Jobs Act proposed over a year-and-a-half ago, and coupled with severe austerity measures at the state and local level, they have been successful maintaining unemployment at over 8% instead of less-than 6% if they were not intent on obstruction and economic devastation.



    The austerity measures Republicans are implementing have never worked during a recession and despite the abject failure of every European country that enacted austerity, they are hell-bent on following the countries that have no growth and soaring unemployment. Even the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, Willard Romney, admitted that austerity during a recession is disastrous, and yet Republicans have killed over 600,000 public sector jobs that prevented 2.3 million downstream jobs from being created. Coupled with Republican obstruction of the President’s job plan in January 2011, they have effectively prevented 4.2 million Americans from finding good, living wage jobs, or enough to bring the unemployment rate down to 5.5% in a little over a year. Instead of cutting 600,000 teaching, police, firefighter and other public jobs, if states had increased those lost jobs by one-half, the unemployment rate would be under 5% and tax revenue would be up, the deficit would be reduced, and the economy would be humming along.



    Republicans are now claiming that letting the Bush era tax cuts for the rich expire will kill more jobs, but the facts, and history, do not bear out their fallacious assertions. During the Clinton Administration, the wealthy paid 3% more in taxes and the economy added 22-million jobs, wages increased, and businesses boomed. In fact, during the Eisenhower Administration, the wealthy paid nearly 90% in taxes during the time when hundreds of thousands of soldiers returned from World War II, and the infusion of cash created the nation’s highway system, a booming economy, and the great middle class. The GOP knows how to create jobs, but they have no interest in America’s economy, or its people and they must relish the thought of killing jobs and retarding economic growth as they planned in 2009, and will continue throughout 2012.



    There is a tax plan in the Senate proposed by Democrats that gives small businesses a 10% tax cut in exchange for hiring new workers and raising employee’s pay. It also allows businesses to fully deduct the cost of significant investments made in 2012 as an improvement to the current law that caps write-offs at 50%. An independent firm specializing in economic modeling estimates the legislation will add 1 million new jobs to the U.S. economy. The plan should give Republicans wet-knickers for including a tax cut for real small-business job creators in the healthcare, social services, and retail industry, and it passed a test vote in the Senate yesterday. However, because it was a Democratic plan, Republicans insist on loading it with amendments and the Republican-controlled House will surely oppose it because it creates jobs, and not tax cuts for the rich.



    It is a travesty that Republicans hate Americans with such a passion that they deliberately obstructed over 4.2 million jobs, and continue advocating for more tax cuts for the wealthy as they seek out ways to kill more jobs. They have also resisted attempts by the President and Democrats to rescind tax breaks for corporations that ship Americans’ jobs overseas, and there is no telling how low the unemployment rate would be if they did their jobs. However, they have fulfilled their goal of obstructing economic recovery and job creation measures so one can imagine they celebrate every new report that unemployment is stuck at a little over 8% when the reality is if they cared about the economy or the American people it would be under 5%, and that is without letting Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy expire. But that is the Republican Party that cannot compromise, help the American people, or help fix the economy their policies sent to the edge of the abyss. But they still have time to finish the job they started and obstruct America into a deep economic recession which appears to be their true plan that began in 2001 and should reach fruition by December 2012 when the Mayans predicted the world comes to an end. Unfortunately for millions of unemployed Americans, their world ended when Republicans deliberately killed their jobs and obstructed every single attempt to restore them and it appears they still have not achieved their ultimate goal of destroying the economy to make room for more tax cuts for their precious, imaginary “job creators.”
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  • Deputy ... Stan 2012/10/16 01:59:55 (edited)
    Deputy Chief
    Obama doubled the debt, and increased foodstamp consumption. How can you defend this failed record? His ability to reach across party lines because of his lack of leadership is destroying the country. Obama had control of the DEMOCRATIC Congress for 2 years and rather than concentrate on creating jobs, he concentrated on passing Obamacare/TAX without bi-patisan support!
    http://p.twimg.com/A2UML28CAA... obama foodstamps obama failed economic record
  • Stan Deputy ... 2012/10/16 12:36:36
    Stan
    OBAMA - THE FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT
    http://www.mediamatters.org/r...



    NATURAL BORN JOB KILLERS: REPUBLICANS OBSTRUCT OVER 4.2 MILLION JOBS

    By: Rmuse
 -- July 11th, 2012



    Most human beings appreciate a person who sets a long-term goal and achieves success through careful planning, dedication, and single-minded determination to see their final objective reach fruition. There are, of course, some goals that should never be made, much less achieved, and world history is replete with examples of dastardly leaders whose goals were not in the best interest of humankind and caused immeasurable damage to a great number of people. On Inauguration night in 2009, Republican leaders gathered to plot the absolute obstruction of President Obama’s economic agenda and thus far, they have been successful much to the disappointment of millions of Americans who continue to suffer the effects Republican’s goal of retarding economic recovery and job creation. The GOP makes matters worse by decrying the President’s handling of the economy when the truth is that if they had not blocked, obstructed, and stonewalled every one of the President’s plans to improve the jobs and economic picture, the economy would be much closer to achieving a robust recovery.



    The only failure in Republican attempts to totally ...






























































































































































































































    OBAMA - THE FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT
    http://www.mediamatters.org/r...



    NATURAL BORN JOB KILLERS: REPUBLICANS OBSTRUCT OVER 4.2 MILLION JOBS

    By: Rmuse
 -- July 11th, 2012



    Most human beings appreciate a person who sets a long-term goal and achieves success through careful planning, dedication, and single-minded determination to see their final objective reach fruition. There are, of course, some goals that should never be made, much less achieved, and world history is replete with examples of dastardly leaders whose goals were not in the best interest of humankind and caused immeasurable damage to a great number of people. On Inauguration night in 2009, Republican leaders gathered to plot the absolute obstruction of President Obama’s economic agenda and thus far, they have been successful much to the disappointment of millions of Americans who continue to suffer the effects Republican’s goal of retarding economic recovery and job creation. The GOP makes matters worse by decrying the President’s handling of the economy when the truth is that if they had not blocked, obstructed, and stonewalled every one of the President’s plans to improve the jobs and economic picture, the economy would be much closer to achieving a robust recovery.



    The only failure in Republican attempts to totally destroy the economy was their inability to obstruct the President’s stimulus the Congressional Budget Office and several independent agencies claim created over 3 million jobs. However, they have made up for that success by refusing to consider President Obama’s American Jobs Act proposed over a year-and-a-half ago, and coupled with severe austerity measures at the state and local level, they have been successful maintaining unemployment at over 8% instead of less-than 6% if they were not intent on obstruction and economic devastation.



    The austerity measures Republicans are implementing have never worked during a recession and despite the abject failure of every European country that enacted austerity, they are hell-bent on following the countries that have no growth and soaring unemployment. Even the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, Willard Romney, admitted that austerity during a recession is disastrous, and yet Republicans have killed over 600,000 public sector jobs that prevented 2.3 million downstream jobs from being created. Coupled with Republican obstruction of the President’s job plan in January 2011, they have effectively prevented 4.2 million Americans from finding good, living wage jobs, or enough to bring the unemployment rate down to 5.5% in a little over a year. Instead of cutting 600,000 teaching, police, firefighter and other public jobs, if states had increased those lost jobs by one-half, the unemployment rate would be under 5% and tax revenue would be up, the deficit would be reduced, and the economy would be humming along.



    Republicans are now claiming that letting the Bush era tax cuts for the rich expire will kill more jobs, but the facts, and history, do not bear out their fallacious assertions. During the Clinton Administration, the wealthy paid 3% more in taxes and the economy added 22-million jobs, wages increased, and businesses boomed. In fact, during the Eisenhower Administration, the wealthy paid nearly 90% in taxes during the time when hundreds of thousands of soldiers returned from World War II, and the infusion of cash created the nation’s highway system, a booming economy, and the great middle class. The GOP knows how to create jobs, but they have no interest in America’s economy, or its people and they must relish the thought of killing jobs and retarding economic growth as they planned in 2009, and will continue throughout 2012.



    There is a tax plan in the Senate proposed by Democrats that gives small businesses a 10% tax cut in exchange for hiring new workers and raising employee’s pay. It also allows businesses to fully deduct the cost of significant investments made in 2012 as an improvement to the current law that caps write-offs at 50%. An independent firm specializing in economic modeling estimates the legislation will add 1 million new jobs to the U.S. economy. The plan should give Republicans wet-knickers for including a tax cut for real small-business job creators in the healthcare, social services, and retail industry, and it passed a test vote in the Senate yesterday. However, because it was a Democratic plan, Republicans insist on loading it with amendments and the Republican-controlled House will surely oppose it because it creates jobs, and not tax cuts for the rich.



    It is a travesty that Republicans hate Americans with such a passion that they deliberately obstructed over 4.2 million jobs, and continue advocating for more tax cuts for the wealthy as they seek out ways to kill more jobs. They have also resisted attempts by the President and Democrats to rescind tax breaks for corporations that ship Americans’ jobs overseas, and there is no telling how low the unemployment rate would be if they did their jobs. However, they have fulfilled their goal of obstructing economic recovery and job creation measures so one can imagine they celebrate every new report that unemployment is stuck at a little over 8% when the reality is if they cared about the economy or the American people it would be under 5%, and that is without letting Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy expire. But that is the Republican Party that cannot compromise, help the American people, or help fix the economy their policies sent to the edge of the abyss. But they still have time to finish the job they started and obstruct America into a deep economic recession which appears to be their true plan that began in 2001 and should reach fruition by December 2012 when the Mayans predicted the world comes to an end. Unfortunately for millions of unemployed Americans, their world ended when Republicans deliberately killed their jobs and obstructed every single attempt to restore them and it appears they still have not achieved their ultimate goal of destroying the economy to make room for more tax cuts for their precious, imaginary “job creators.”

    Now lets look at the things over which Obama does not have control, because as demonstrate above Obama was not the President in 2007 or in 2008 when this economic abyss was created by your group of maggots. Moreover, Budgets are set by the policies from Octobr1 of one year to October of the folloeing year, so the year of 2009 was under the control of the Bush budget of 2008 until ctober of 2009

    DON'T BLAME OBAMA FOR BUSH'S 2009 DEFICT
    http://www.cato-at-liberty.or...
    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=v...
    http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/...
    http://www.seeingtheforest.co...
    http://www.ourfuture.org/node...
    http://www.en.wikipedia.org/w...
    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=v...

    WHAT WAS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE HOSTAGE TAKING BY GOP NOT TO RAISE THE DEBT CEILING?
    http://www.en.wikipedia.org/w...
    http://www.prospect.org/artic...
    http://www.davidhilfiker.com/...
    http://www.news.firedoglake.c...
    http://www.sodahead.com/livin...
    http://www.mariopiperni.com/r...
    http://www.crooksandliars.com...
    http://www.outsidethebeltway....
    http://www.capitalgainsandgam...

    WHATEVER OBAMA IS FOR, THE GOP IS AGAINST!
    http://www.salon.com/news/fea... G
    http://politicalticker.blogs....
    http://articles.boston.com/20...
    http://www.frumforum.com/can-...
    http://swampland.time.com/201...

    GOP WANTS THE ECONOMY TO FAIL
    http://www.washingtonmonthly....
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
    http://www.politicususa.com/e...
    http://tech.mit.edu/V112/N5/c...
    http://thinkprogress.org/romm...
    http://m.lasvegassun.com/news...
    http://crooksandliars.com/joh...
    http://mydd.com/2010/1/7/what...
    http://www.businessinsider.co...
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/a...
    http://robertreich.org/post/3...
    http://www.hermes-press.com/s
    http://theweek.com/bullpen/co...
    http://www.expressmilwaukee.c...

    AVERAGE WORKERS INCOME STAGNANT FOR 30 YEARS
    http://www.video.msnbc.msn.co...
    http://www.reddit.com/r/econo...
    http://www.traderscrucible.co...
    http://www.money.cnn.com/2011...
    http://www.rdwolff.com/conten...
    http://www.en.wikipedia.org/
    http://www.newsobserver.com/2...

    Your group of maggot's lies have become legendary.

    Since when did any President have any control over gas prices?

    THE REAL REASONS FOR HIGH GAS PRICES
    http://www.nrdc.org/energy/ga...
    http://www.economicpopulist.o...
    useconomy.about.com/od/commod...

    EFFECTS OF BIG SPENDING CUTS IN A WEAK ECONOMY
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/0...
    http://www.wbir.com/news/arti...
    http://www.usnews.com/mobile/...
    http://globalpublicsquare.blo...
    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b43...
    http://billemmott.com/arthttp...
    http://www.poughkeepsiejourna...
    http://conservativesarecommun...
    http://answers.yahoo.com/ques...
    http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=v...

    The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The center conducts public opinion polling, demographic studies, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. It does not take positions on policy issues.

    The Pew Research Center is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation which operates under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service code. It was established in 2004 as an independently operated subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts, its primary funder. Financial information is available upon request to Nikolas Wissmann, Director of Financial Administration.

    THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE PRESS
    http://www.people-press.org
    http://www.p
    ewresearch.org/topics/globala...
    http://pewresearch.org/about/

    The Pew Center reported in April 2011 the cause of a $12.7 trillion shift in the debt situation, from a 2001 CBO forecast of a cumulative $2.3 trillion surplus by 2011 versus the estimated $10.4 trillion public debt we actually face in 2011. The major drivers were:
    • Revenue declines due to the recession, separate from the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003: 28%
    • Defense spending increases: 15%
    • Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003: 13%
    • Increases in net interest: 11%
    • Other non-defense spending: 10%
    • Other tax cuts: 8%
    • Obama Stimulus: 6%
    • Medicare Part D: 2%
    • Other reasons: 7%

    So you say Obama is responsible for this as the experts don't seem to agree with your lying butt. want to try again half-wit?

    The U.S. budget situation has deteriorated significantly since 2001, when the CBO forecast average annual surpluses of approximately $850 billion from 2009–2012. The average deficit forecast in each of those years as of June 2009 was approximately $1,215 billion. The New York Times analyzed this roughly $2 trillion "swing", separating the causes into four major categories along with their share:
    • Recessions or the business cycle (37%);
    • Policies enacted by President Bush (33%);
    • Policies enacted by President Bush; (20%)
    • New policies from President Obama (10%).

    Again your claim it was all Obama's creation is exposed to the light of day and the lies it represents! what to try again?

    WHAT DID REAGAN AND REAGANOMICS DO?
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    http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo...
    http://www.en.wikipedia.org/w...
    http://www.liberalslikechrist...
    http://www.pleasecutthecrap.t...
    http://www.propublica.org/blo...

    AMERICANS SAW WEALTH PLUMMET 40% FROM 2007 TO 2010
    http://www.washingtonpost.com...
    http://www.freerepublic.com/f...
    http://www.infowars.com/entir...
    http://www.infowars.com/membe...
    http://www.infowars.com/housi...
    http://www.infowars.com/famil...
    http://www.infowars.com/the-c...

    GOP TOP PRIORITY --MAKE OBAMA A ONE TERM PRESIDENT
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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    http://www.politico.com/news/...
    http://www.content.usatoday.c...
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    http://www.politicususa.com/o...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    REPUBLICAN BLACK RESENTMENT
    http://www.prospect.org/artic...
    http://www.theroot.com/buzz/g...
    http://www.blackamericaweb.co...
    http://www.politicususa.com/c...
    http://www.americaforpurchase...

    THE REPUBLICANS are trying to make Obama look bad isn't working. Try explaining when Obama became President, the entire Grand OBSTRUCTION PARTY decided to practice OBSTRUCTION, HOLDING THE COUNTRY HOSTAGE TWICE, FILIBUSTERING AND BLOCKING ALL JOB CREATION, "SOCIAL ENGINEERING", SOCIAL DARWINISM, A WAR AGAINST AMERICA, WOMEN, THE MIDDLE AND POOR CLASSES, EDUCATION, UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT, VOTER SUPPRESSION, DESTROYING THE POST OFFICE AND OVER 100,000 POSTAL JOBS,,SOCIAL SECURITY, MEDICARE, MEDICAID, MORE DEBT PRODUCING TAX CUTS FOR YOUR FILTHY RICH ARISTOCRATIC MASTER, AND JUST PLAIN OLD DOMESTIC TERRORISM.

    GOP JOB OBSTRUCTION TO KEEP ECONOMY FROM IMPROVING
    http://www.politicususa.com/n...
    http://www.politicususa.com/g...
    http://www.alternet.org/newsa...
    http://www.integralpostmetaph...
    http://www.realclearpolitics....
    http://www.pfaw.org/factsheet...
    http://www.thegreenmiles.blog...
    http://www.democraticleader.g...
    http://www.news.firedoglake.c...
    http://www.politicsplus.org/b...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/w...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://www.forums.macnn.com/t...
    http://www.democraticwhip.gov...
    http://www.lasvegassun.com/ne...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    http://www.policymic.com/arti...
    http://www.post-gazette.com/s...
    http://www.thepage.time.com/2...
    http://www.consortiumnews.com...
    http://www.delisafos.newsvine...
    http://www.thenation.com/blog...
    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ra...

    So you would like to just skip over the fact that the last three Republican Presidents (Reagan, Bush 1, and George W. Bush) created $12 Trillion in national debt, gave TAX CUTS AFTER TAX CUTS TO YOUR FILTHY RICH ARISTOCRATIC MASTERS, a $800 billion drug bill onto Medicare, two more tax cuts to the Filthy Rich, a $750 billion stimulus, two ongoing Wars costing $12 Billion each month, and a economy sliding into another Great Depression, dump it in Obama's lap, and then try to blame Obama for what it all caused. Your problem, you gaping primate is it is all recorded history now, and all one has to do is fact-check to understand the truth. Your lies, conspiracy theories, and distortions of the truth are easily confronted and exposed, and that is exactly what I do. I have just covered the tip of the iceberg so far, and I have more to teach you maggot.

    DEBT BY PRESIDENT
    http://www.zfacts.com/book/ex...
    http://www.zfacts.com/book/ex...
    httpp:/www./zfacts.com/p/318....
    http://www.en.wikipedia.org/w...
    http://www.zfacts.com/p/57.html
    http://www.reaganbushdebt.org...
    hyyp://www.thinkprogress.org/...

    So after creating tens of millions of our citizens to lose their homes, jobs, retirements, and life's savings, you can't figure out why the unemployment and food stamp programs have gone through the roof? Either your really slow, or your elevators not making it to your top floors.

    JOB LOSSES AND THE NEAR DEPRESSION
    http://www.money.cnn.com/2009...
    http://www.reflectionsofarati...
    http://www.cashmoneylife.com/...
    http://www.reflectionsofarati...

    I wish I had a lower IQ, so I could enjoy your company.

    Education is learning what you didn't even know what you didn't know, and it would be my pleasure to be your teacher half-wit.

    SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS DOESN'T WORK!
    http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/...

    AMERICA'S MIDDLE CLASS CRISES
    http://www.swampbubbles.com/b...
    http://www.ireport.cnn.com/do...
    http://www.forums.catholic.co...
    http://www.finance.yahoo.com/...
    http://www.teamstermagazine.c...
    http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-2...
    http://www.moneymatters101.co...
    http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
    http://www.businessmasteryclu...
    http://www.theeconomiccollaps...
    http://www.democraticundergro...
    http://www.frrl.wordpress.com...
    http://www.thinkprogress.org/...

    WHO IS THE SMALLEST GOVERNMENT SPENDER SINCE EISENHOWER? -- OBAMA!
    www.forbes.com/sites/rickunga...
    http://www.boards.straightdop...
    http://www.deathandtaxesmag.c...
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  • my2cents Stan 2012/09/25 07:27:46
    my2cents
    +1
    You've got his number.

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