Keith Longey:

You need to read some books.

To blame President Obama is akin to getting hit by a bus, waking up in a hospital four years later, and blaming the doctors and the nurses for the accident.

Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt and he started this financial mess when he deregulated Wall Street firms. Under George W. Bush, the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion.

It is silly for you to expect President Obama to immediately fix problems that started thirty years ago when he inherited two unsuccessful wars, a high unemployment rate, a recession, and a $12 trillion national debt with at least a $500 billion a year interest rate.

Do you really think that your nonsense will sway intelligent people?

Do you think that smart people have forgotten that President Bush and his right wing extremists, capital extremists, war hawks, and war profiteers killed about 258,000 people or that his wars will ultimately cost the USA about $4 trillion dollars?

@Roberto- I agree somewhat with your comments regarding the huge mess the President inherited. But the fact is that the country is digging itself even deeper into debt under Obama, and the country cannot seem to turn itself around economically. Yet the Presidents only solution seems to be to tax rich people more. So, do you think THAT in itself is enough to "sway intelligent people" to vote for him this time around? This Presidents performance has been Mediocre at very best. His only salvation is that his opponent may be worse than him. Unfortunately WE all have to suffer for this current crop of politicians who have no idea how or what to do in this current global economic mess we find ourselves in.

Roberto: George Bush's 8 years in office fighting two wars and the overall war against Islamic Terrorism, facing a major recession at the beginning of his presidency caused by the dot.com bubble bust and the rapid fall of financial assets that had been built on the basis of easy money from the Fed under the Clinton years complicated by the impact to our economy of the 9/11 terror asault on the transporation systems of our country and the hard damage done to our financial center resulted in only $4 trillion added to the deficit. Obama has added over $5.6 trillion in new deficit spending in just 3&1/2 years of his Administration to George Bushes $4 trillion in 8 years of his Administration. And the Iraq war was already won and the negotiated end of US military presence in that country already underway when Obama took office.

The housing bubble colapse, and the financial system near colapse that so shook our economy was the result of oversights of two administrations, the Clinton 8 years and the Bust 8 years, as Congress and both Presidents throughout that 16 year period pushed for more and more mortgage underwriting to spur home ownership for people that really did not have the economic means to suport those homes. And it was under the Clinton Administration that the Republican effort to begin to regulate the harmfull derivatives of credit default swaps that were growing like topsy as gambling instruments for our bigest financial institutions was short circuited and defeated by Alan Greenspan, at the Federal Reserve helm that saw them as being critical to keeping easy money moving at high velocity thru the economy, supply huge amounts of "liquidity", until they all went belly up, proving to be an assault on the necessary liquidity that underpins our financial system and markets.

"Need to read a book"? I've read em, you haven't, That is obvious, Roberto. You don't know your arse from your elbow on these subjects, do you?