twincreek

You hit the nail on the head.

Hunter Lou 1947 Loc: Minnesota

You are so right. Fox News does alot of doom and gloom. If every station used their same formatt we'd have a bunch of us walking around like zoombies thinking that the whole world was coming to an end soon and that there was no way we'd survive.

twincreek

You hit the nail on the head.
And Yes it is very important but you will never pay it down by raising taxes and continue to spend.

PrairieSeasons Loc: Red River of the North

The Democrats' policy isn't just "tax and spend" idiocy. It's "borrow and spend", "tax and spend", "QE3 and spend", and "where's my Visa card and spend". Why do you think they haven't approved a budget for the past three years?

Hunter Lou 1947 Loc: Minnesota

Right on Sarge: I watched his conceding speech. I thought it was filled with bitter tones rather than words of praise and future hope.

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

Here is the red vs blue map by county, which is more telling then the national map.

I find two news outlets that I find non-offending. FOX & the BBC. Both tell me things I am not happy about, but I find it harder to tell what their personal opinion is when they are supposed to be telling us the facts. Liberals don't like FOX because they don't like any other side of a story but their own. I assume they don't like the BBC either- but would have a harder time trashing them due to political views.

PrairieSeasons Loc: Red River of the North

I think it has to due with tall buildings. The closer you get to tall buildings the more likely you are to have leftie voters.

Pentony Loc: Earth Traveller

Okay folks, calm down. How about term limits for all politicians?

RichieC Loc: Adirondacks

NOW YOU ARE TALKING! And congress shall pass no laws or programs that are exclusively theirs... You'd see a better health care and SS system immediately.

darkonc

I cried when Obamma got in in 2008. They were tears of relief. For me, the first Bush years had been tolerable, but after 9/11 it went to hell in a handbasket.
I had seen civil rights like the right to be presumed innocent, and habeas corpus being chipped at (it always starts with 'enemies' -- Jews in nazi Germany, communists during the McCarthy era, and now 'terrorists').
I saw people in the supposedly most democratic country in the world afraid to voice criticism of their political leader for fear of being branded un-american.
I saw the most militarized country in the world go to war on questionable 'evidence' with money it didn't have
I saw tens of thousands needlessly die, and/or be tortured in the name of civil rights .. and each time that happened, another enemy of the west was born.
I saw a 'free press' being increasingly put into a box, and told what to say.
I saw an election run as much on a question of race, as policies.
I saw people calling for war, hatred, intolerance and capitol punishment, turn around and call themselves loving pro-life christians -- as if they'd never read the new testament.
I cried tears of relief because I saw the powers of hatred, volence, greed and intolerance pushed back, if only for a few years.
I cried tears of relief because I'm of mixed race, myself, and I saw that the power of racism was losing sway in the US.

This election, I was less worried.
I knew that Romney was promising to raise taxes for the poor and cut services in order to drop taxes for the super rich, and
I knew that he was promising to destroy a health insurance law that -- although a compromise, gave the middle class some real hope of being able to survive a chronic illness without financial ruin, and
I knew that we'd be in for at least a few years where belief would out-Trump truth in public policy -- but I felt that the momentum had been stayed for at least the moment
I also knew that Romney -- being a religious minority himself, was a bit less likely to go for rampant extremism.

Nonetheless, I breathed a sigh of relief.
I believe that Obama is more a voice of reason, and that he doesn't owe a blood-debt to billionaires who donated tens of millions of dollars each to his campaign to let them own the country.
I don't think that he's perfect, but I really do believe that he, and his team, are the better alternative.

vikinguy Loc: Durham NC

No, no they didn't. Missed it by a couple miles.

vikinguy Loc: Durham NC

Telling in that the blue areas are where the educated people live in diverse communities?

Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

I have been reading all the pages of everyone's rhetoric, the one that rings so true so far is this one by Bmazz. STOP LOOKING AT WHO IS BLAMING WHO, but look at 2008 when Obama made his "i will do this, speeches." HAS HE LIVED UP TO HIS
P R O M I S E S? Not one of them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, This past 4 years, Obama has been blaming everyone else for the countries problems...............Now, he has noone to blame any more, everyone will see him for what he really is, a good talker with nothing between his dumbo ears. I may be stepping on some bleeding heart liberals toes. But i too am entitled to my opinion, and i know that those same liberals will do their best to drown me out. But someone has to say it like it is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rich

Reddog Loc: Southern Calif

Please don't compare Fox with BBC FOX is all Gloom and DOOM. The actual newspeople on FOX are actually quite good its the commentators that suck! Unfortunately they are the ones that are on prime time. FOX commentators offend anyone who does any research at all. All people like to hear their side of the story both liberal and conservative. FOX is a mouthpiece for the GOP and MSNBC is a mouthpiece for the DEMS, How can anyone not see this is beyond me!

Reddog Loc: Southern Calif

I am also tired of hearing that RATS Caused the Black Plague but its a fact and no matter how tired I get of hearing it it does not change! GWB caused this mess and like the Rats causing the Black Plague that fact does not change no matter how tired you get of hearing it!