Everytime Romney, Ryan, Christie, or Clint lied about Obama....it just served to refresh my memory of 2000 and why I'd decided to register and vote Democrat.
-- There has been no government takeover of healthcare.
-- Obama did try to close Guantanamo. The republicans stopped funding.
-- The war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq were started by George W. Bush, not the democrats. The invasion in Iraq was unnecessary to start with and poorly run on top of that. Bush hired cronies to run Fema, as well as the occupation government of Iraq. Paul Bremer was just as inept as Brown was during Katrina. The war in Afghanistan was started with the mission of destroying Al Qaeda and killing Bin Laden. Bush said "Bin Laden, I don't think about him anymore" and clearly was telling the truth. Obama said "I will focus on the terrorists and Bin Laden" and he was telling the truth also.
-- Obama inherited an economy in free fall. That decline didn't start when Obama took office. It had started back in 2005/2006. Bush was warned, but did nothing. When it was very obvious that we were in trouble...what did Bush do? He mailed out checks for a few hundred bucks. He sent billions to GM and Chrysler and said "Try not to go bankrupt until the next guy takes over".
-- Obama did not have complete control of Congress. He had 59 votes in the Senate and the number of filibusters shows what the republicans thought of the fact that the majority agreed with the democrats. The problem in 2010 was that people believed what the republican said. They actually thought there were death panels. They thought that government had taken over GM.
-- Obama has not intruded on freedom of religion. No Catholic has been forced to take contraceptives. That contraception is in health insurance plans does not force anyone to use it.....The businesses that will be required to provide that coverage are not churches, they are hospitals and colleges.
-- Obama never went on an apology tour.
-- The GM plant in Janesville closed before Obama became president. It closed while Bush was in charge and yes, Obama was right....It would have been open with a little help from the government.
So then, once you get past the allegations from Willard that Obama is bad, let's move on to what he says he'll do that will be so good for us.
-- He says he will increase defense spending.
-- He claims that he will not take money out of medicare.
-- He promises to protect seniors, I assume that means he won't take money out of Social Security.
-- His speeches and website all contain tax cuts. Mostly for the wealthy. The plan for two tax rates will result in an increase in taxes for those in the lower bracket and a decrease for those in the top bracket.
-- So given all of the above, would someone explain how he balances the budget and creates 12 million jobs?
-- There has been no government takeover of healthcare.
-- Obama did try to close Guantanamo. The republicans stopped funding.
-- The war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq were started by George W. Bush, not the democrats. The invasion in Iraq was unnecessary to start with and poorly run on top of that. Bush hired cronies to run Fema, as well as the occupation government of Iraq. Paul Bremer was just as inept as Brown was during Katrina. The war in Afghanistan was started with the mission of destroying Al Qaeda and killing Bin Laden. Bush said "Bin Laden, I don't think about him anymore" and clearly was telling the truth. Obama said "I will focus on the terrorists and Bin Laden" and he was telling the truth also.
-- Obama inherited an economy in free fall. That decline didn't start when Obama took office. It had started back in 2005/2006. Bush was warned, but did nothing. When it was very obvious that we were in trouble...what did Bush do? He mailed out checks for a few hundred bucks. He sent billions to GM and Chrysler and said "Try not to go bankrupt until the next guy takes over".
-- Obama did not have complete control of Congress. He had 59 votes in the Senate and the number of filibusters shows what the republicans thought of the fact that the majority agreed with the democrats. The problem in 2010 was that people believed what the republican said. They actually thought there were death panels. They thought that government had taken over GM.
-- Obama has not intruded on freedom of religion. No Catholic has been forced to take contraceptives. That contraception is in health insurance plans does not force anyone to use it.....The businesses that will be required to provide that coverage are not churches, they are hospitals and colleges.
-- Obama never went on an apology tour.
-- The GM plant in Janesville closed before Obama became president. It closed while Bush was in charge and yes, Obama was right....It would have been open with a little help from the government.
So then, once you get past the allegations from Willard that Obama is bad, let's move on to what he says he'll do that will be so good for us.
-- He says he will increase defense spending.
-- He claims that he will not take money out of medicare.
-- He promises to protect seniors, I assume that means he won't take money out of Social Security.
-- His speeches and website all contain tax cuts. Mostly for the wealthy. The plan for two tax rates will result in an increase in taxes for those in the lower bracket and a decrease for those in the top bracket.
-- So given all of the above, would someone explain how he balances the budget and creates 12 million jobs?
