Nice to hear your opinion knowing that's all it is,.

Karla....what is not fact....people like Mitt alot less than the guy he is running against. I didn't make that up...the polls bear those facts. Anne supports her husband...she should.

She just be honest and say...I send someone to shop for me at SAKS...and I drove by a Costco once....

as I said before everyone has an opinion- as everyone has a vote. That is what makes our country great. I'm hope you will be better with Obama.

Greg- Your class envy is showing. Ms. Romney is obviously a kind, decent woman. I don't believe that should be as out of style as it seems to have become.
As far as Mitt buying shirts at Costco, be advised, many people with money have money because they are careful with it. Many of my clients are very well-heeled but shop around and look for deals just like you and I.
While Romney would not be my first choice, I don't think he is the wolf that the far left would lead us to believe he is. He is, however, an excellent business man. My feeling is that an excellent business man would not hurt our odds at all. Better him than a man who's biggest attribute is being a community activist and a lifetime recipient of government income.

I disagree....I stick an "I" before my name because I refuse to simply pick a side and stick with it. There are good things about the Repubs...conservative thinking, limited government, low taxes, welfare reform. Good things about Dems, more about people than big business, fixing roads, environmental issues and yes regulating big business.

The problem with both...neither stick to their core beliefs, and Republicans continue to bash the Middle Class by saying if we have not achieved the wealth of the upper 10% its because we are lazy and do not work hard enough. They seem to forget that they are asking for our votes.

As for Mitt....I worked for one Bains companies...where 115 of us got laid off and he walked away with 500k. To say he is a job creator...is a lie. So on that alone..he does not get my vote.

I do agree that people simply vote party affiliation rather than listen to differences...all these conventions are a waste of time. The time should be used for figuring out our countries problems.

The minds of Independent voters will not be made up until after the debates.

Hi Greg-
I liked your comment that there are good things to look at on both sides and believe it to be true. Sharon is definitely right that it can be difficult to be non-partisan due to a lifetime of partisan influences.
You listed, also, what was bad about Repubs but did not mention what is wrong with the Dems. For the sake of your non-partisan stance, would you mention what you feel is wrong with the Dems as well?
Thanks,
Mike

Hi Susan,
You said "As for Gov't Christie he has his own problems back home, and has raised taxes to cover the huge unemployment gap in his state." It sounds like you are espousing that raising taxes to cover huge unemployment is a bad thing, which I agree with.
My question to you is, since we agree that raising taxes to cover for huge unemployment is a bad thing, do you think is it ok for Obama to do the same thing?
Thanks,
Mike

I save the word "hero" for those that really are and use it very carefully. I believe she is an incredible woman and gave a fantastic speech. She feels about her husband as I do mine.

Karla- I see your point. The thing is though, that anyone these days with a supportive loving mother who was there for them, fulfilling their basic needs at home, so teachers actually have something to work with, has a hero for a mom.

"It's like they're hoping we'll get through the week without noticing who their candidate is." Brian, actually that's what the media has been doing with Obama for the last five years.
Glad you watched. You'll want to pay attention and learn all you can about your next president. Wow you guys sure are SORE LOSERS. : )

Isn't it great, we can all comment and not go to jail. We get the chance to vote and if we don't like who is elected we can do it again in 4 years. No one candidate is perfect but we have the advantage of deciding who we like. I think Ann is a lovely lady, so what if she sends her personal shopper to SAKS. I DON'T CARE. I am looking at more serious issues that have to do with our country. I am carefully looking at the facts and not the polls. We will have our say very soon. Good luck to us all.

Karla, that freedom of speech thing you and I cherish so highly would certainly be threatened if Obama were re-elected. He like and the Lib-Nuts like to use a term called "Net Neutrality". That's a first step in shutting us up.

Gee Brian...I think you're on to something here. Ann Romney probably took solace in the fact that since she has money coming out of her tailpipe to pay for cancer and MS treatments the notion of dying probably never occured to her. Good thing she's never had to worry a day in her life............because money makes the prospect of dying so much easier....

Brian, or Burl Ives, or whoever you are,
I think you should get that chip off your shoulder and stop slandering decent people. Your comments about a woman who has bravely fought MS and cancer are inexcusable. You should be ashamed of yourself. You really need a good kick in the teeth.

Brian,

Your insolence and arrogance and bias are prime examples of why our great country is not respected the way it once was and why we must have administration change immediately. Are you so blind that you don't see people suffering out there??? It's been almost and entire term and things have only gotten worse. If I screwed up on a job and kept getting worse and worse NO company would give me 3 1/2 years to get it better. WAKE UP!!

I see folks suffering Sandy. I also see a Republican Congress that has intentionally prolonged that suffering for political gain. If you think things are worse now than when Obama was elected you have a very short memory and evidently don't know how to use Google.

Brian, you never miss a chance to beat up on a woman. Do you? Did you ever think that some people like Pam don't have to use Google to know how much worse things are now than they were before Obama.

Beat up on a woman? Where on earth did that come from? Was I too harsh on Ann Romney? If I was it had nothing to do with her gender, it was the degree of her hypocrisy.

Yea, I saw it that way too. Christie has a big head (so to speak) and talked more of himself than Romney but what can you expect. I can't wait to see the democrats at their convention. Major name calling since they have nothing to brag about.
All the big cat liberal scumbags have already bailed out since it's taking place in NC.
I Love It!

I just hope Obama's drunk illegal alien uncle drives him to the convention.

Hey!!! And Ann Romney has Always Been Proud Of Her Country!

As usual....

People pick up on one thing and thats what they go with.

The point about SAKS...was not where she shops or who she sends to shop for her.

The whole point of the convention was a RESET for Mitt.

Part of the RESET was to have ANN speak about him and to try to get middle class voters on board with him. A point that she used prior to last nights gala was that Mitt went shopping for a 3 pack of shirts at Costco.

What I said was....she'd be more receptive to our ears if she just told the truth...something like....I Shop at SAKS and I am not going to say that I dont.

Not the BS....Mitt shops at Costco... which is pandering at its worse.

I think what she makes look appealing is marrying money. Who wouldn't choose to be a stay at home mom with that bankroll?

Proud of her country club maybe. She kept the home fires burning while Mitt was in Vietnam, oops, I mean riding his bicycle through the French country side peddling The Book of Mormon.

Brian, Dude, so your wife ran away and became a Mormon so now you hate all Mormons, would you give it a rest?

I don't hate Mormons Mike, just chicken hawks. That was a factual statement. Romney received two Minister of Religion draft deferments during the Vietnam War so he could ride a bicycle around France proselytizing for the Mormon church. Many Mormon men his age postponed their mission obligation in order to serve.

So were was Obama when it came time to serve his country? Well let's see, which country would he serve. He's yet to serve this country anything but BS.

Can you imagine anyone bashing Jacquelyn Bouvier Kennedy Onassis?
Did you hear Ann Romney say they gave away Mitt's inheritance? They lived in a basement apartment. I once lived in a garage apartment, no auto, no trust fund but I'm hard working, do not expect a hand-out like a dog and I only applaud the Romney's for their dedication. Look at their 5 children who have never been in trouble. That in itself is stellar.

Well said, Karla.

Amen.

LOL, Larry, but I can hardly handle the 3 males in my family I take care of, one being a feisty Jack Russell Terrier.

Okay. It's not the first time I've rejected
today

George, does it really matter. Are we that divided - REALLY? Why can't we take down that wall. If you are Democrat that's great- if you are a Republican, that's great.
What should matter are the citizens of this country and the issues that aren't going away either because of people not listening or having preconceived opinions or those that yell "racist" when nothing else works. Reach out and talk to your neighbor and listen to his or her opinions and then share yours. Who knows, maybe you are not off track as one might think, but don't have your neighbor if he or she disagrees with you. That's what we are all about.

Mitt's number was busy. I'll call him back later and let him know your concerns George.

George, don't quit your day job.

Come on George. I don't know what she looks like. How bout you? Are you single? I don't mind a few extra pounds.

Larry, THAT was funny :-)

Well said. Good to hear another mother's voice. I too raised 5 children, all daughters. No pic-nic I assure you. And no hand outs. Now we are facing our Social Security we paid for being taken away because we are right on the cusp of a middle retirement income. And the government is taking billions out of Medicare to fund O'bama care. Why not just FiX it?

Brian, your boy is the one that said it. He's the moron that said "you didn't build that". Blame him, not Romney and the republicans.

If Bush had said You Didn't Build That, you would still be Blaming him today so what the hell is your problem? Obama says stupid things all the time so why are you surprised that he won't be called on them? America was built on Free Enterprise and Obama can't stand it. America is exceptional and Obama hates that idea.
Face it! Your guy is a LOSER!

I assume you both know Obama was talking about roads and bridges when he said "You didn't build that". If not I can send you a link to the speech so you can hear it for yourselves.

Of course Brian. Everybody can hear as well as you can. The fact is, without businesses, there would be no roads. You people keep beatng the same frickin horse. Okay Already!!! SO what? Government doesn't produce anything. NOTHING! How do you put food on your table? Did government provide your meals tody? Yesterday? Did they provide your home, your car, your computer or just the roads?
Good God! Enough already with the Obama said and I can prove it. He's a Loser!

Brian? What is so great about government? We already know what you think about hard working "rich" employers. The employers that I have worked for were rich thank God. How about you?

No, Brian never worked for a rich employer that didn't cheat him. At least that's the attitude that I perceive.

Harriet is that your real picture?

What's the matter Mike, can't handle the truth?

Ah - Ha!
I knew there was something extra wacky about tha... I mean about those guys.

If the far-right cared about the rule of law--as they repeatedly claimed during the Clinton years--then Condi Rice would be sitting in The Hague right now, appropriately tried and convicted of war crimes.

http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html

Anybody but them Jeff. I have no feelings either way about Ann Romney but is there anyone on here who would not have liked for their daughters to marry money like she did?

Maureen, you type very well for a senior citizen. You think clearly too. I think you're right bout the way things used to be with the wife at home and the man working. It just so happens, I cook better than my wife and she makes more money than I do. I think I'll run the staying home thing by her tonight.
Thanks

RE: "...why is it that the Romney's wealth is such a problem..."

To be clear, Romney's wealth, in and of itself, isn't a problem. It's how he acquired the wealth that's a problem (e.g., loading companies with debt, throwing people out of work, off-shoring,...). It's the fact that he pays lower effective tax rates than most middle class Americans that's the problem. It's the fact that Romney hides his money in Swiss bank accounts and the Cayman Islands that's a problem. Most importantly, it's the lack of transparency that suggests that Romney knows that if most people knew how he invested his money and how he got away with paying so little, that they would be repulsed.

In fact, Romney has proposed a budget that slashes taxes for people of his economic stature and raises taxes on everybody else, and the ways that he has acquired his wealth and hidden his taxes are red flags indicating what he has in mind for our future.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/01/news/economy/romney-tax-plan/index.htm

Larry, It doesn't surprise me in the least that you cook better than your wife and she makes more money. You probably wear crocks too.

No. I don't wear crocks. My mechanic does.

Mike Horsman. What's your beef with me? I don't drive a prius.

Volvo? Subaru?

Hi Larry,
I am afraid I owe you a big apology. Somehow, I mistook you for Frank Jones. I got who was saying what mixed up in my pea brain. Words cannot express my regret. I really enjoy your posts. You are no Prius driver.
Cheers,
Mike

Mike, no problem. I was afraid my joke with Maureen may have been out of line. I meant no harm.

Hook, line, and sinker.

Michael Paul said, "1. Minorities are more dependent then ever on government... 2. Race is dividing us."

Maybe if people wouldn't make ignorant, racist statements like #1 above, then #2 would be less true.

With regard to the economy, I'd suggest calling your Congressman (or woman) and Senators and asking them to help pass President Obama's American Jobs Act. Better yet, you might ask them to support The People's Budget. If we can come together on these two plans, then much of the rest will begin to fall together--

http://www.americanjobsact.com/

http://www.epi.org/publication/the_peoples_budget_a_technical_analysis/

@C.J.
Hook, line, and sucker. Obama already had his job bill. It was called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It was a failure. I'm not supporting another one of his failures.

RE: "Obama already had his job bill. It was called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It was a failure."

Chris,

That would be a good point, if it was true--

"Did the stimulus work?

Certainly not according to Republicans, who regularly blast President Obama’s 'failed' economic policies on the campaign trail...

But on Wednesday, under questioning from skeptical Republicans, the director of the nonpartisan (and widely respected) Congressional Budget Office was emphatic about the value of the 2009 stimulus. And, he said, the vast majority of economists agree.

In a survey conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 80 percent of economic experts agreed that, because of the stimulus, the U.S. unemployment rate was lower at the end of 2010 than it would have been otherwise.

'Only 4 percent disagreed or strongly disagreed,' CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee. 'That,' he added, 'is a distinct minority.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/congressional-budget-office-defends-stimulus/2012/06/06/gJQAnFnjJV_story.html

(Incidentally, I had been posting under my name, also Chris. But since you were damaging my good name with your misinformation, I had to switch to my initials, C.J.)

Is that right? I hate to be the one to break it to you Chris, but your Kumbaya plan will never work and no thanks for your link. I've seen it all before. I've also seen where exorbitant amounts of money was wasted on single jobs. That's got democrat written all over it. Brace yourself Sucker. 9 weeks.

the ones

m sure you've already posted it here before.

C.J. you are very desperate to be quoting the CBO. That's hilarious. You may want to check their track record. : )
What next? Nancy Pelosi impressions? Shadow puppets?

Racism. Great. You have no idea the dis-service you pay Black Americans every time you play that card. Newsflash, responsible Americans, Black and White, aren't buying that anymore.
You, CJ, the media, and Obama are dividing us. You WANT it that way.

I hear you, Chris and Larry. Not ones to let the Congressional Budget Office and 80 percent of economists convince you that you're wrong. What do they know? Right? I admire how you stand by your convictions--regardless of the facts.

Hey Mike H. That's cool a trick you played. Somebody makes a racist comment ("minorities are more dependent then ever on government"), but the person who criticizes him for it is the one playing the race card and "dividing us." I commend you on your attempted application of the old adage, "The best defense is a good offense." Of course, any reasonable person can see through the smokescreen, but I commend your effort.

RE: " If Obama would suddenly swing to the middle..."

The only way that Obama could swing to the middle is to move to the left.

Obamacare? Mandates? He got those ideas from The Heritage Foundation, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney. http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004182

Cap-and-trade? He got those ideas from John McCain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UPJlJcxa4Q

Raising the eligibility age for Medicare and reducing Social Security benefits? He offered these during the debt ceiling negotiations. http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/06/obama-puts-medicare-social-security-cuts-on-the-table/

Tax cuts? He's provided more tax cuts than Bush (1/3 of the stimulus was tax cuts): http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2011/09/13/10287/obama-vs-bush-whos-the-bigger-tax-cutter/

War? He gave the order to kill bin Laden, has doubled-down in Afghanistan, and has decimated al Queda with drone strikes. http://theweek.com/article/index/228956/are-obamas-drone-strikes-decapitating-al-qaeda

I'm not happy about most of this. President Obama should have proposed Medicare for All, a carbon tax, tax increases on income from inheritances and investments so that the likes of Mitt Romney pay the same tax rates as the rest of us, and brought our troops home for Afghanistan by now.

There are a lot of reasons to vote for Obama. But anybody who thinks that this man is some kind of hard core liberal hasn't been paying attention.

@C.J.
So you're saying he's not as bad as we thought? Interesting. : )
I'll probably still vote republican since I have the Romney sign in front of my trailer.