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Why make excuses for the unemployment rate? Over 2.5M US citizens - 7.9% of its population - are unemployed right now. Where's the "change"? How exactly is this administration going to move "forward" if for the last 4 years they haven't improved on this?

As for defaulting? The US was one week away in 8/2011 from defaulting on its 14T debt; only a last second agreement to increase the debt ceiling (or is it floor) prevented that from happening, and world economies to go back into another recession.

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actually I think Ryan will be the "favorite" of the republicans now. He's young, follows their party lines, more personable and will face a "lesser" democrat in the next election (think Bush vs Gore minus the southern "hick" accent and a democrat that's less appealing than Obama.)

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Ryan is too far to the right to win a real election. He was put there only to appease the base. Romney spent the whole entire time since the primaries trying to get back to the left to pick up the middle ground. Ryan can't be seen moving left before the next primaries so all that will happen is that he will alienate more people in the middle. He isn't a good candidate but he is a good running mate.

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I'm not saying he'll win a general election... just that republican might rally around him next. One of the biggest problems many republicans had with Mitt was that he wasn't conservative enough (which I agree is why Ryan was named as his running mate.) Plus a lot of people were asking "Obama.. Mitt... what's the difference?"

now if everything does fall apart (like the republican supporters are running around and screaming on Facebook) then it'll add fuel to Ryan being "totally different." If it doesn't fall apart (and everything gets turned around) then the next election will be the dems to lose.

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What i don't get about Trump whining about the electoral college is that the Republicans have gotten a lot of concessions from that process over the last 4 years. Swing states like Florida and Ohio changed various laws to make it harder for the Obama core voters to cast their ballot. The 2010 census saw republican states gain more votes while democrat states lost. Obama had to fight hard to keep the 2012 fight fair.

All this, combined with Obama's 'failings' and the addition of 'poor-robbing' policies like Obamacare, and RoMormoney still lost the college and the popular vote.

The only way the neo-con Republicans can get back into power is by cheating, it seems. Perhaps they should change their approach to appeal more to the popular masses instead of the lunatic fringes. But then you'd want to keep the lunatic fringes under a protective government party blanket, wouldn't you? So they wouldn't be 'on the loose' so to speak.

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Conrad Black's take on the Obama victory and what may follow.

Barack Obama’s second term will provide America with a tired administration without a great reservoir of congressional support. But the Republicans cannot go through another four years as “the party of no,” and will have to give him some sort of increased income and sales or value-added tax that will start deficit reduction at last, even if it doesn’t do wonders for economic growth. It would also provide the impetus for an increase in the size of government and, heavy-handedly, further transfers of wealth and resources from the most to least advantaged people.

The incumbent no doubt is not surprised that he won. Obama sincerely believes he did a competent job, and blamed the deficit entirely on George W. Bush and Republican obduracy in the Congress. He took dramatic and transformative steps to extend medical care to those inadequately served, and transferred money from the rich to the poor.

In foreign policy, the Democrats believe they limited the adventurism, costly in money and lives, of the American-led military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan; were successful in fighting terrorism, especially in taking out Osama bin Laden; and stayed clear of the former administration’s habitual policy of pulling out its six-guns and manning up to confrontation with almost everyone.

Of course, there is some truth to all of this. But many Americans did not get over several serious obstacles to re-electing the Obama regime.

In the 232 years of American history leading up to 2008, the federal government ran up a cumulative deficit of $10-trillion. In just the last four years, that has increased by 60% to $16 trillion, $17,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States; and there are 5-million fewer Americans with jobs than there were four years ago. In that time, the number of people benefitting from food-stamp programs (supplements to income for purposes of avoiding malnutrition) has increased from about 27- to about 47-million people.

Mr. Obama certainly inherited serious problems, but conditions have in many respects deteriorated, and the potential devaluation of the currency has shaken the traditional, bourgeois, soul of America.

While many Americans credit the current president with trying to extend assured medical care to the needy, the majority seem to blame him for misrepresenting a program that is too costly and too coercive, and which was rammed through the Congress. What was required was a health-care reform that the president could have sold to a broad enough cross-section of the public that some Republicans would have felt compelled to vote for it. None in the Senate did.

The failure of the administration to move earlier against the Iranian nuclear military program, the failure to assist the democrats in that country’s attempted Green Revolution, and the embarrassing fiasco of the “reset” with Russia, annoyed many voters. Its infatuation with global warming has left millions of Americans queasy that it is a trendy, faddish and even quixotic government. All this helps explain why the election was so close.

Because the economic record of the administration has been so rocky, it could not really run on its record, and invested a great deal of effort in denigrating the Republican challenger as a job-outsourcing asset-stripper, stooge of the billionaires, foreign-policy amateur and adventurer, and a retrograde creature who wished to unleash a “war on American women” by making contraceptive devices and treatments less accessible.

Romney co-operated with this for a time by running an inept campaign, waiting an inexplicably long time to get off his back foot, and generally confirming the widespread opinion of him as someone who faced in all four directions on every issue, a perception that enabled an improbable succession of Republican challengers (but not including the strongest possible candidates for the Republican nomination, Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie) to leap into the lead against Romney in the nomination race, before being exposed as unsuitable for various reasons, some of them rather exotic, for consideration for the presidency.

But Romney impressed much of the electorate by choosing for the vice presidency, Congressman Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, and probably the country’s foremost authority on how to grapple with the deficit. The febrile Democratic effort to portray Ryan as a fiscal and religious primitive (he and Vice President Joe Biden are both Roman Catholics) who would impose chastity on the population and tax the rubber tips on the canes, crutches, and walkers of the elderly, failed for the most part.

Romney decisively defeated the president in the first presidential debate, effectively eliminating the possibility of Democrats representing him as a rank amateur and irresolute waffler unfit to masquerade as a president. The rest of the debates, two between the presidential candidates and one between Ryan and Biden, were generally thought to have been about drawn, but the Democrats found themselves waging a much more strenuous campaign to retain the White House than they had foreseen.

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On a personal note, although I think Romney would have been a more effective president than Obama, with a better program, I am in fact more in sympathy with President Obama’s declared goals in judicial and welfare matters. I am a capitalist, but after my recent experiences in the United States, especially my three years in prison there, am an unambiguous leftist in justice (where I was always a liberal), and in welfare questions (where I always admired the workfare programs of the Roosevelt and Eisenhower administrations).

It is scandalous that such a rich country as the United States has 45-million poor people, and I agree with the spirit of the Democratic effort to assist those people. But I do not think their professed methods would be any more successful than the well-intentioned, but largely counter-productive programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society legislation of 45 years ago — which I also ardently supported at the time, especially civil rights.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/11/06/conrad-black-obamas-thin-victory/.

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Bitter Much?

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

Our country is now in serious and unprecedented trouble... like never before.

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House of Representatives shouldn't give anything to Obama unless he terminates Obamacare.

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Hopefully the House of Representatives can hold our country together for four more years...stay strong and never give up!

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The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

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Our nation is a once great nation divided!

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Our country is now in serious and unprecedented trouble...like never before.

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This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!

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Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

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We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!

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Nope...only stating the truth. Under Obama's administration, the US debt has plunged the nation into almost defaulting; as well, unemployment rates have risen to 7.9%, higher than Canada's 7.4

How's that for change and hope?

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