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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ok, I'll take a stab at this.

i'm undecided, wholly around social issues and fear of rewarding bad behavior with the white house.  but i read a lot of remarks by corp ceo's and they are frozen with uncertainty right now, thus are reluctant to hire.

i believe obama took on the wrong issue out of the box with health care and he and the economy has paid a price since.  most of the stimulus money went to transfer payments and bailing out states instead of bricks and mortar--in my view a flawed decision.

dodd-frank is a full employment project for banking lawyers--jamie dimon asked a simple question:  did anyone add up the cumulative impact of all the new regs?  i think he got back a blank stare.  i think there was little focus on the unintended consequences of a new massively complex bill.  but i really think dems who want more stimulus spending don't have the background to understand the sand-in-the-gears impact of these and other new regs.

Keystone--should have been an easy call.  it sends a terrible message and has much broader impact beyond one pipeline.

my bottom line--over the past decade there have been zero net private jobs in this country..any growth has been wholly in the public sector.  there is, i think by now, an appreciation that public sector will not grow, so we must have private sector job growth.  i fear that will not happen, or will not happen at a brisk pace, under a 2nd obama term.

now please don't go parsing speeches and ask me to cite "so where exactly does he trash big biz."  i'm just saying the cumulative effect of 4 years of this administration is that they don't get how to set the table (and then get out of the way) for robust private sector job creation.

and, fundamentally, i think they don't understand govt's inability to do much here except harm.  Was there a master fed policy to encourage growth in social media employment?  Natural gas production?

but it's my bias--i think a govt should collect the revenue it needs for some core services--which includes a safety net--and then get out of the way.  not every problem has a govt fix.

i think romney gets that far better than obama.  doesn't mean i'll vote for him, but i sure don't appreciate being called stupid for so considering---particularly by the limo lib crowd. [/quote]

This PP sounds more intelligent than the others who posted.  But still not making a very strong argument.

PP, have you ever seen an oil spill?  have you ever been one of the responders responsible for cleaning up a spill and leak?  I have many times.  I can assure you that you do not want this mess throughout the most sensitive lands in our country.  Are you one of those who also wants to get rid of EPA?  If so, who is going to focus on overseeing this mess and cleaning it up when things go wrong.  And things WILL go wrong.

Most of your argument makes you look like the typical American who is obsessed with instant gratification.  Republicans are giving Obama a hard time because he still blames Bush.  They say he should have his mess cleaned up by now.  Bush was president for EIGHT YEARS!  those eight years included the most devastating attack in the history of our country and the beginning of 2 wars.  Also some insanely irresponsible spending and policy.  How the hell do you think Obama should be expected to fix it all in less than 4 years?  Obama could have focused more on instant gratification.  He could have given us more tax cuts, etc that would put a few dollars in our pockets just to make us cheer for him and make us fell all warm and fuzzy toward him.  this would have made re-election much easier, but those "gifts" would make things worse in the long run.  Instead, he has a long term plan and vision that will take a second term to complete.  he's not superman.  though, in my book, he's pretty close.  It would have been better politics to make healthcare a second term goal.  Or push the changes through so quickly that everyone will experience the benefits of it before they hit the voting booth.  But that would have been too much too soon and the adjustment would have created many problems down the road (after Nov.6).

Face it, he leads like an  actual responsible grown-up.  Not like Bush who is like the kid passing out candy to the other kids at the playground so that they won't tattle on him when he plays in traffic.  [/quote]

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