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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is my take.  I will tell you up front I am an Obama voter.  I don't think the President can actually influence the economy as much as the media and others credity him for.  Congress has an equal if not bigger role in passing legislation.  The debt crisis is not being solved by either party.  The simplified the R's keep trying to cut from the smallest piece of the pie, discretionary spending, i.e. the federal bureaucracy.  Even if you got rid of the entire federal gov't, you wouldn't solve the problem.  The larger issues are Medicare, SS and defense spending and the R's aren't willing to open up the defense budget.  The D's on the other hand aren't willing to look at the social programs.  Eventually we are going to have to cut from everywhere and raise taxes, but no one is willing to say that.  It will have to happen no matter who is in office.

The power that the President does have is the power of appointment.  For me the most important is the Supreme Court.  I don't want another Alito or Scalia on the court.  I don't agree with their judiical philosophy and don't want to see the court move even more to the right.

Foreign policy.  I don't necessarily agree with everything Obama has done, I think he is more measured and thoughtful than Romney.  I honestly believe that a President Romney would have us go to war with Iran.  I'm Jewish and I've heard tons of criticism of Obama with respect to Israel.  I know many Jews who only vote Israel alone and they uniformly believe that Romney would be a better friend to Israel, which means supporting Bibi at all costs.   That said, I also know plenty of Jews who support Israel but are highly critical of Bibi.

I also don't like the direction the R's have taken with respect to religion.  In the R party there is too much blending of church and state.  There is too much religion and mention of god for my taste.  I want an 800 foot steel reinforced wall between church and state.  The R's have a picket fence right now.  Their polices from denying global warming, to teaching "intelligent design" to supporting conscience laws where pharmacists can refuse to give women birth control or Plan B based on their religious objections, make my skin crawl.

I could go on about lots of other things but I'll stop there.

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Which is why the economy imploded under the 2006-2008 fully democrat congress.[/quote]

Yes, Congress managed to tank the entire economy between January 21 of 2007 and April of 2007, when the first major mortgage lender declared bankruptcy.

If you think that Nancy Pelosi is capable of creating a meltdown in 90 days, you should pull for her because she is the most powerful politician in the history of America.  Because under Republican control, the house Republicans can't pass a resolution to order pizza for lunch.

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