He said a lot without saying anything... our choices for the highest office in the world have been poor to say the least.

The convention was a true American rally for what the United States can be again. Clint , Mitt, Ryan , Rubio and christy were absolutely fantastic!! Each one was spot on and really hit it out of the part! However, you won't find one dem admit it. I can't wait to see Ryan and biden face off haha!

Seriously??? I agree with Plymouth Resident! A lot of smack but no substance!! I found the RNC to be totally contrived and both his son and wife were used as pawns to make him likeable to Latino and women voters... Not to mention that Romney did nothing good for Massachusetts and he was out of the state campaigning for his first go-round for the presidency. Did you notice how he never mentions being the Governor of Massachusetts and tries to distance himself from Romneycare - the precurser to Obamacare!!! At least with Obamacare, birthcontrol is cover. I guess he thinks we are all stupid and forgot about how useless he was in Massachusett!!

We have to be so careful on what words are used because someone might be offended. We have people looking for handouts rather than do for themselves. Obama is a sweet talker but thats all he is, he says the same thing over and over and over and does nothing but fly here and there and have parties. He wants everyone to be on the same level??? Really why should i work hard for what I have and expect to give it away to someone who is too lazy to make it on there own? He wants us depended on goverment and other countries. He has distanced us from our allies , and ones we had for decades but he took care of that. He complained about the war in Iraq but sent us into Afgan, does he remember 9-11? He took credit for taking out Bin Laden but that was in the works before he was in office. God does anyone remember history? Or is that selective? I was a dem but I saw the TRUTH.

The simple question is are YOU better off than you were four years ago?

I thought the convention was a positive one.My wife was the most impressed. When I did watch,I viewed it on several different networks.The negatives came from most of their critics.The array of diverse speakers and the "content" of which they spoke was right on. I would like to hear more from the Governor of New Mexico..she needs to be heard more. Gov Romney was/is correct the failed policies of this administration have not and will not work. I will watch the DNC coverage to see how they deal accurately with the Obama's adminisitration's policies of the past 4 years

Lets see where we were four years ago. Losing 600,000 jobs per month, on the edge of the cliff of a depression with threat of unemployment greater than 25%, the Automotive industry about to go under with the loss of hundreds of thousands of more jobs, stock market at around 6000, and a republican congress whose main objective is to be sure Obama was a one term president by refusing to support anything he offered, including bills they were once for. Brown was elected in 2009 giving the Republicans the numbers they needed to prevent bills from coming to a vote in the Senate. We have had the growth of the Tea Party, whose members in congress don't believe in any compromise!!!
Has President Obama been perfect? No. However he also doesn't deserve all the blame that is being dumped upon him, often by mistruths of the actual facts.

Couple of more things. The Republican Convention was, in some ways, built on lies. "You Didn't Build It" was taken out of context and was NOT what his speech was about. All fact checking organizations agree to this. Obama is NOT taking away work for welfare, rather giving Republican Governors what they asked for, the right to use their own programs to achieve a superior number of welfare folks to have jobs. Obama didn't apologies to the "World!!" Obama is NOT taking 716 billion dollars from Medicare patients, rather from insurance companies and hospital reimbursements (which, I heard, they agreed to as the support for Obama Care will provide more patients to make up the difference. The "middle class" has NOT had a tax increase under Obama. If so, please let me know what it is!

To sum up, I, for one, am tired of misquotes and mis-statements of facts by the Republicans, and to be fair also from the Democratic party. The upcoming election could well be the most important one in generations, and could well map the future of this country for many future decades. Vote as you will, just please research both candidates and make your vote a informed one.

LCT I wish I had the ability to expressed myself as you did in your comments. Our country is becoming a "gimmie" country. What gives anyone the right to expect to be taken care of? Last time I checked I gave birth to 2 children not 100's of thousands! My husband and I TAUGHT them to do for themselves. We aren't rich but we are comfortable by living within our means. Obama is an business idiot but a great party planner. The dems keep promising the freeloaders handouts and well with the America they are designing , those are the growing masses who would vote for him (besides throw back hippies). I say bring back prayer in school and if your kids need a spanking then SPANK THEM. Take responsibility for your own life.

Go R&R! It was a great convention! Wait till everyone sees that Obummer at the DNC convention isn't allowing Christian prayers...just ISLAM! I certainly do NOT want Gov. control of our lives & my grandkids, starting with Obummercare all the way down to taxing us into the poor house! Allowing millions of illegals over our borders with more rights than us is NOT American! This man is a traitor of this nation. Millions out of a job & the only job Obummer cares about is his own! Time to renew our values and R&R will do it!! Elizabth Warren (the wanna be Indian) has got to go also! She said she'd like America to be more like Communist CHINA!! OH REALLY!!! VOTE R&R for ALL OF US!!

Don't watch conventions...for either party...they are full of rhetoric and statements taken out of context. Electioneering has become big business and is causing so much contention that it is turning into hate and violence. I blame the candidates and the super pacs. The supreme court has allowed this country to become an oligarchy...the rich will buy the election. Congress is behaving like a bunch of schoolboys who haven't learned to compromise and BIG GOVERNMENT is trying to convince the populace that Medicare and Social Security (which we paid for) are entitlements....when that same BIG GOVERNMENT has bigger and better entitlements than anyone. And one word about the affordable care act...it may not be perfect but it's the best they seem to be able to come up with...as someone who worked in the health care industry for 30 years I know what I'm talking about...the health care system in this country is broken badly and will bankrupt this country if something isn't done. If you think it costs more to insure people h it does to subsidize them (for they WILL get care when they are sick. It is illegal to turn someone away from an emergency room where the cost is astronomical, and you are paying the bill) you aren't dealing with reality. The waste alone would scare you. And to those of you who call our President a traitor just because you don't like his views, SHAME ON YOU.

Romney is not in touch with the people. He was not a good governor of Mass. and he will be a worse president.
Things are anything but great under Obama, but he at least seems to be trying to help the average citizen.
Actually we have a rather poor choice here!

Things to remember about ScottBrown

*****Brown voted to limit birth control access. He co-sponsored the Blunt Amendment, which would have allowed an employer or insurer to deny coverage for birth control and any other essential or preventive health care service that he or she finds objectionable.

*****Brown voted and continues to advocate for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which would take away access to preventive health care for millions of women across the country.

*****Brown voted to cut funding for essential preventive health care when he voted for HR1, a budget resolution that would have cut funding for Planned Parenthood and the Title X family planning program last year.

Amiability, kissing your wife, doing laundry, and having two daughters are not qualifications for Senator.

Jared -
Always glad to be corrected. You are correct - at the time Obama was sworn in the market was around 8000, to drop to 6626.94 on March 6th, little over a month since Obama became president. Not a heck of a lot of time to turn things around figuring normal lag time for economic policy to take effect. It has been way above that level since then. Another way to look at it is that the DJIA was at 10,646 on January 2, 2001, a few weeks before Bush took office. When he left, it was at 8,077.56, a decline over eight years of 2,569. The market, during Obama's term to date, shows an increase of 5013. I, for one, would rather see the market on an upswing than a downswing. Perhaps you like to play shorts.

Regarding the Senate. I don't challenge the date Brown was seated at all, at near the beginning of Obama's SECOND term. One of the things Brown ran on was his vote would permit the breaking of the "filibuster proof democratic hold" and allow the Republicans to filibuster bills, which they have done more during the past two plus years than any other year. Actually, with the "blue dog" democrats, as the party does allow someone to vote their convictions, they had members of Obama's party voting against him whereas most times the Republicans voted as a pack of dogs following their leader whose stated goal was to make Obama a one term president. A policy that may very well work at the cost to the country.

OllieD-
You are also correct, however the market was at a high of over 13K in January of 2008 and did not crash until the Lehman Brother debacle in September of 2008. Still an upswing for most of Bush's 8 years. Obviously 9/11 caused the markets to tumble 8 months after Bush came to office. I am sure as an intelligent person you are not going to blame Bush for that.

On your second point about Congress. A mark of true leadership is the ability to rally ones own troops as it were and to have the oratory skill to sway the other side to your cause. Lets be honest all members of congress are duly elected by their constituents and as such hold the values of said people and their job is to represent them. That being said congress is for the most part a 50/50 split and if a policy/law can not be passed without some of the other sides vote is it really the will of the people.

LTC, Linda and Deanie: I dunno but as a woman I don't see where Mitt's offended woman I know. Assuming that as well informed, articulate woman you find the same. Our country changed these past 3 &1/2 years alright. I can't understand how the next generation will ever know America as we knew it. You ladies can see every woman that talks about Obamacare always mentions birth control . Sheesh almighty you have a couple of options 1. have your man buy it 2. refrain if you cant afford to buy your own 3. BUY YOUR OWN ! Why should anyone pay for you to have sex ?? Speaking of that , if you become pregnant and elect to have an abortion WHY SHOULD ANYONE PAY FOR THAT?? Dorothy you talk about Brown but how about Obama giving thumbs up to late term abortion ? You look at the horrific pictures of that procedure, Tell anyone with a conscience and heart that, that is acceptible, do you know what happens to the baby if it's moving after the procedure? I understand it may be neccessary at times. Not at 6 mos because some idiot used it as a form of birth control.Obamacare has things in it which has nothing to do with health care. Elly with respect i say to you Obama isnt for the average citizen, hes for the gimmie /goverment cheese class. If he feels the need to help someone remind him he's got a brother in a hut in Kenya, a Aunt in the projects and a uncle who needs rehab on our dime of course. I dont see him opening his wallet for any of them. We need a change alright but hes gotta go.

I would like to add that I come from a military family , my husband 35 years (launched for 9-11 and the shoe bomber), my son 6 years (current), my father 30 (ww2, korea, vietnam) and my brother in law (vietnam), I have to say that from my perspective he's put our troops in harms way by cutting the funds for the military . The jets are need to be replaced , like a old car you can fix them up only so much. He nixed the much needed equipment that could handle desert terrain . However, he can fly his wife to see play on broadway for millions of dollars , host parties every week , send his daughter to mexico for spring break (seriously does he realize how old she is??) which cost us millions. He uses Air Force One as his personal taxi cab which cost you and I millions but funding the military? Hes unbeliveable. Yeah hes for the little people alright. Yeah I can see how well he can relate to that poor woman living in squalor (cept' his aunt in the projects who i might remind you is illegal)(geeze is all his relatives illegal?) Yeah he can relate to the Veteran alright , shake his hand , pat his back but God forbid he gave him the equipment to get the job done. hahahahaha gosh its like a bad movie hahahaha okay now I cant stop laughing, the same reaction i get when he opens his mouth . God bless America

Sam:
Not even worth a comment!

We were not better off 4 years after Mr Bush yet he was voted back in and killed us for an extra 4. Get rid of the electoral college and let every mans and womans vote count!!!

OllieD---YOU,my friend, are doing your homework ( unlike the republikan bloggers here --- or ANYWHERE !!! ) I noticed with a smile that once you and another informed blogger started stating IMPORTANT FACTUAL INFORMATION, the republikan bloggers dropped-out of the conversation---telling and VERY common,I have noticed !!! The repubs HATE well-informed,honest,intelligent,un-selfish people...it screws- up their propaganda machine !!! President Obama,Ms.Warren,Alan Grayson,etc.---Best wishes, get elected,we NEED you now more than ever !!! The Watchman

I feel sorry for President Obama, if he gets re-elected, he will have clean up the mess of the previous 4 years.

100% of the republikans and 50% of the Dems are in the pockets of Big
Money (Bernie Sanders) Take your shot with the Dems,because it is the only one that will give you a chance to have a decent person with a heart that will REALLY help us !!! The Watchman

Hey LCT--- I read a LOT,I research,and I am also a registered Independent.FACTS,history, common sense,and caring for the poor and the survival of our Middle Class have led me to my political views.RUDE is the NICE way of describing the way republikans have systematically worked to destroy the heart of our country for 30+ years now.I am also an Artist,proud Public School Art Teacher,and I deal in knowledge,honesty,integrity,exposing phonies,and acquiring the TRUTH.Question: considering the HUGE mess President Obama inherited and the unwillingness of the ENTIRE republikan congress to work with him,do you truly believe that 1 term as President is a fair CHANCE? Do you have any FACTS to explain why Romney/Ryan would be better for 99% of the country than President Obama ??? I KNOW that Romney/Ryan would be better for the richest 1%,Wall St.,etc. because republikans ALWAYS want to help their uber-rich pals instead of helping the rest of us who truly NEED the help !!! It's the "republikan way !!!" I would recommend that you get some facts AND a heart. The Watchman