And the MSM has worked overtime to make sure they never learn. That's why they've limited the conventions to 3 hours. The worst thing they could do is allow Americans to view Romney and Ryan at the convention and let them see that they don't have blood-soaked fangs and sleep in coffins during the day. The Obama campaign is a joke--by necessity, not by choice--because it doesn't have even a smidgen of success to point to. It's 100% based on negative ads trying to create a narrative that's just as easily countered in Romney ads. Obama is an abject failure at everything but mudslinging and his political career is finally coming to an end. The only issue is that he's left us with 5X the mess that the Democrats created during George Bush's last two years.

What kind of idiots believe this anti-fracking propaganda? Yes, I'm sure the "Our Longmont" bunch doesn't want the election "confused" with anything like facts or truth. Allow their propaganda to stand unchallenged so they can lie and mislead the people in the name of radical environmentalism that has no basis in science or reality. Don't interfere with their chasing of unicorns in the name of Gaia. Pathetic. The City Council should force this group to support their lies with something besides excerpts from "Gasland," the fictional movie they all promote. And the enviros try to claim the mantel of "science" and "rational thought?" They should be laughed off the stage of rational discourse.

Wow--that's some seriously selective recollection there, Cindy. So tell me--what would happen to all those soldiers we throw out onto the street when we "end all military participation?" And what do we do when we use all American labor and nobody in the world--including us--can afford the products we produce? And I'm sure you're in constant contact with your representatives and they don't listen--because you're a 24k nut.

Exactly purplewings123. Since Obama's gone rogue, what difference does Congress make? He definitely owns EVERYTHING now.

That's just stupid. I don't know what McCain and Palin would have done, but I can tell you what they wouldn't have done--and that's increase regulation of business in this country twofold. They wouldn't have threatened industries with driving them into bankruptcy and worked to destroy jobs in industries they didn't personally care for. They wouldn't have allowed the Bush tax cuts to hang over the head of business like the Sword of Damocles, wondering from one day to the next whether the capital gains tax is going to double overnight. And they wouldn't have engaged in politicizing virtually every agency and department in government with ideologues who put their nutty ideas above the welfare of America and Americans.

Are you seriously posting this widely--I mean WIDELY--discredited bunch of hooey? You should be banned forever for spreading ignorance.

There was no "budget surplus" when Bush came into office--it was a projected surplus. The debt was still over $5 trillion. He doubled that, true enough. With 9-11 (which according to the so-called "experts" was every bit as devastating as the subprime mortgage debacle), one major conflict and one minor conflict (both of which were won and are now in the process of being lost by Obama--no surprise there), the voluntary surrender of Libya's WMD program (which Obama then showed his gratitude for by overthrowing Gaddafi anyway), an average unemployment of rate of <5% (hasn't been below 8% since Obama took office), and calling--repeatedly--for increased regulation of the GSE's (which Barney Frank and Chris Dodd ridiculed as unnecessary), Bush was a better president by a magnitude of about 1000 when compared to the incompetent naif currently inhabiting the White House.

Glad to--GWBush said that he would protect America and Americans from another terrorist attack. Said he would pass policies to pull us out of two recessions. Support our allies and work to destroy our enemies. Reduce the deficit by half before he left office ($400 billion to $160 billion--until the Democrats got to town in 2006). He didn't arm drug cartels in Mexico. He didn't have any tax cheats. You see--Republicans are held to a different standard than Democrats. We know ALL the dirt on Republicans--the only dirt we get on Dems is that which is so egregious, so outrageous, that even their friends in the press are too embarrassed to cover up. Pretend that the Bush Administration was just as corrupt as this one if that fantasy makes you feel better. But it wasn't--by any stretch.

Hey joedoakes--I was talking about "that viscous racist" (actually as sarcasm related to the poor ESPN fellow that came up with that unfortunate headline about Lin). Anyway, the board I was using wouldn't let me change the thread title and I've been trying to live that down for about a week now. Happens to the best of us. Guarantee you one thing, though--I will never misspell "vicious" again in my life.

The problem is NOT with capitalism. Capitalism allows markets and consumers to dictate winners and losers. If consumers don't want a company to make profits, it won't. It's when companies are artificially propped up and insulated from the market, circumventing market forces, it is government's dallying that facilitates their "squeezing out of the middle class" because they are shielded from the consequences of their decisions. Look at any industry and see the artificial barriers government has erected on behalf of their cronies in corporate America. If the market is allowed to operate FREELY, then irresponsible management is either replaced with responsible management or the company fails and is replaced by a company whose management operates more responsibly. For example, had the irresponsible banks been allowed to fail in 2008 and sold to stronger, better managed banks (many of which had stepped in and picked up the slack during the 9-11recession), then we would have a much stronger and resilient banking system. As it is, the politicians propped up the status quo and we will again see the same systemic failures down the road because we refused to allow the marketplace to correct itself this time around. Believe me--the problems we see with "capitalism" today have nothing whatsoever to do with capitalism and everything to do with government trying to circumvent it.