Obama has done nothing to improve Americans' lives. The ACA is NOT the healthcare reform we needed or can afford. He's done nothing for minorities and women in the US in his entire 4 year tenure. He's done nothing on the environment. He's refused to work with Republicans from day 0 of his presidency. And he plays gold more than anybody I have ever known who isn't a professional golfer.

Stop making concessions with your votes. Gary Johnson has executive experience, he takes the right stance on social issues and the government's role in our lives. and He has CONCRETE ideas on the economy. The other two bozos are politicians through and through, and nothing else.

A vote for gary johnson is a vote for Obama...thx....and he isnt bad. You blindly ignore O's accomplishments. No reasoning with you....God Bless these United States.

Nice propaganda piece from a teacher. It's no wonder we are in such a mess when the teachers of our children cannot distinguish propaganda from fact. It will be very interesting when the election results are known. I expect the shameless mainstream media to be exposed as the propaganda organs they are.

I want to live in a country where the government is limited, and a talented man or woman can grow wealthy and provide opportunities for others by their investing. I DO NOT want to live in a country with an ever expanding government limiting my options and seizing whatever property it wants from private citizens.

Then we should talk...

Sorry to hear this...the course the country is on is not a good one. Unemployment sky high, trillions of dollars added to the debt, deficit rising, gas prices double. I think I'll vote for Romney.

NEVER vote for Obama! he has done nothing for us in the last 4 years! Really tell me one thing he has done for you........................ ummmmmmmmmmmmmm nothing! why would you vote for some one like that! ummmm you wouldn't. or at least you shouldn't.

And this guy is a teacher ? More like an empty headed mouth piece.

Why didn't you just post one of Obamas speeches and put your name on it.
That about sums up what you wrote.

All these Obama haters posting without reacting to any piece of the opinion article. If you disagree with something specifically cite a piece of the article and state your disagreement. Don't just make generalizations such "he has done nothing for us" or insulting the person because he has an opinion that is different than yours. The people I am most disappointed with are the tea party hijackers that have turned the Republican party from a moderate voice on spending to uncompromising idealogues. Our government was built on compromise and if the Republicans can't compromise on anything, they should all be voted out of office.

I too noticed just a bunch of hate. No comments on any points of the article. I understand voting one way or the other but the hate is just disappointing.

As American we have to right to vote...
however some things to remember..
The WAR in NOT over...

153 million dollars to the brotherhood of Islam

A higher % of cost of living to people are welfare then people on SS

Military had to fight for any raise( while giving up some other things)

Her proudest moment for our Country is when her husband became Prez.?? really?

Purposely, NOT using the word God...

have not worked full time or permanent work in 3 years

While everything increasing NOT increase in pays..

more people on food stamps than ever before

& don't forget his promise last time... that if we where not happy with the results Not to vote him in again

I guess the people that are happy with his change are the people that " got theirs" not thinking about who's really paying for it

Divide and Conquer my freind.

we are just hours away from barrack hussain obamas concession speech. and we will get a leader to turn this great country in the right direction. nothing has improved under obama nothing!! it has only gottten worse. no apology tours no bowing to foreign leaders and dictators and the list goes on. the way this country was when i was a kid is upside down. the liberals and big government and the amount of people on welfare or thier hands out is sickening. illegals pumping out kid after kid after kid and all on our dollar. they dont pay for healthcare we do yet they pay no taxes all the money goes right back to mexico. oh but they all get obama phones.lol what a joke. 3 and 4 generations of families on welfare. if you are on welfare you should not be able to vote. and also get drug tested. welfare was not put in place for people to stay on for ever. most liberals are morons anyway if you have ever talked to one you would know right away. liberalism is a mental disorder of some kind.

Anyone who wrote this should not be in any position to vote let anyone teach kids. Hello go see an English teacher! Need more paragraphs. And footnotes! This is what listening to unqualified people gets you.

Obama is a joke! Hate? All this blogger does is blame bush blame someone else. Obamy was there wit bushy.

Debt 2009 was 11 tril now it's 17 tril. Obama knows debt be bad and all he did was make more of it.

There ain't no jobs. Unemployment in phil a over 15 percent Camden over 30. Who he kiddin

I drank the cool-aid four years ago, that wasn't going to happen again. To me HOPE & CHANGE has become HOPING FOR A CHANGE!!! Hopefully I'm one of many Obama voters, lifetime democratic voters, that are being counted as still being in the Obama court that instead VOTED FOR ROMNEY!!! As a small business owner who BUILT HIS OWN BUSINESS and now really struggling for the first time in 30 years in business, tonight will be PRAYING FOR A CHANGE...ROMNEY!!!

@Michael. Thank you. Well said. I, a moderate republican, support Obama for the same reason. The republican party is being destroyed by the religious right wing fanatics who know how to respond only with hatred. Hopefully after Romney is defeated, the republicans will stop acting like the party of Adolph Hitler and become reasonable. We need to focus on jobs not scripture.
A vote for Romney will mean two more failed wars.

If you think the last four years were the greatest, get ready now you can really cry in your beer. Oh, that's if you will be able to afford it, forget the banks helping you out,you just might need to find the closet Tent City. Shame that the so call smart people can be such fools to suck up his lies. Take a good look, one stop to show his face at the Jersey Shore, and just what did he do here, I must have missed it. Since there are so many people are still suffering big time and with no hope in sight, wake UP People!

Anyone who thinks things are better now than they were in 2009 is smoking crack.

Public service announcement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGCIm4GNQE

I just want to say that all of you are embarrassing. This website should be a place where people can humanly discuss politics and point to actual facts and statistics if they want to make a point. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I implore you to present it in a thoughtful manner. When you speak in fragmented english and have horrible misspellings that would take nothing but a quick reread to catch you are discrediting your own points. Actual civil discourse is what we need--not people going on to the patch to angrily vent to others who agree with themselves. The hate from both sides in these comments is appalling. How do you expect future generations to work together and make compromises when you cannot even have a civil discussion online?

Dana: I'm no fan of Romney, but Obama knew what he was doing. He knew that this storm was the best thing that could have possibly happened for his presidential campaign. If he dedicated all of his time to relief efforts, he would have succeeded in swaying the people who were on the fence knowing that they had to choose between the lesser of two evils. That's all he was doing here, so don't give the man credit he clearly doesn't deserve. The true heroes are the unsung ones: the hard-working employees of the utility companies and others who worked long hours to try and restore some kind of normalcy, and the everyday people who have gone above and beyond to help those in need. I don't see Obama giving his salary or any money to assist those less fortunate than him even though he's a multi-millionaire. He's every bit as self-serving as any other politician, which you should have figured out by the way he shoved his health care law down our throats, put us into more debt to hook his favorite special interests up with our money, and went back on numerous campaign promises after he got elected (no individual mandate in health care reform, bringing troops home, closing Guantanamo, etc.). He's just another person who loves to be in power and to have his ego stroked.

Obama is irresponsible and unpatriotic. he aint helpin no one but hisself

well the good thing is IF Obama makes it back in again HE cant run again..
sadly 66% of military did not get absent ballets in time while 72% sopport Romney..
that worked out well comander in Chief...

Girlfriend says:

Check it out! Navy Seals vs. Black Panfers - can you believe it?

It is a zoo in Philly!

Slick Willie aka Prez Bill Clinton was in town yesterday and had this to say:
'Who Wants A President Who Will Knowingly, Repeatedly Tell You Something He Knows Isn’t True?'

He is right, except when he wasn't:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTPVe6-Pso

Time for a stogie and some scotch!

Rufus-I respect your opinions- but I got my beliefs, and you got yours. Neither one of our heads are "buried in the sand", but thanks for the compliment.

I can't believe they put an article like this on the Brick Patch. I can refute almost every point Baker makes. Maybe the Patch can post my rebuttal after the election. Well, if you are for reason and truth, please stop regurgitating all the liberal talking points.

Why would you vote for a president who hasn't passed a budget to run the country in the entire FOUR years he has been in office?

Why would you vote for a Congressman who did the same? Or a Senator? Both the "majors" are to blame - send the message, and be the change.

For those of you out there who "get it"...you'll have to look for us on the ballot - IN Ocean, we're in Column Three - IN Burlington, the clerk illegally scattered us in spite of qualifying for column 3.

SENATE - EUGENE M LAVERGNE
CONGRESS - DISTRICT THREE - FREDERICK JOHN LAVERGNE
CONGRESS - DISTRICT FOUR - LEONARD MARSHALL

OCEAN COUNTY FREEHOLDER
SCOTT NEUMAN
TRACY M. CAPRIONI

BURLINGTON COUNTY FREEHOLDER
KIMBERLY SUE JOHNSON
DONALD E. LETTON

Go Romney Go!!!!!!

Happily, in the end, most Americans can sort the truth from the lies and match these truths to their values. Politifact.com, Factcheck.org, and Snopes.com are great non-partisan tools to assist all of us in making our choices. I will respect whoever is elected and takes on the job of POTUS, but using these tools and my values, I have concluded that the best choice is Barrack Obama.

Michael

Leaders can convince legislatures to pass budgets with direction and strength.
Weak leaders fail at this and your guy has had 4 years.
You cannot give him a mulligan on that one!

M. Baker, thank you! This article rocks!

It's simple. Take away the labels and parties, put these two men's resumes in front of the American people and Romney would have won hands down. But people are so caught up on republican and democrat nonsense that our country will continue to suffer and suffer greatly. I was raised a democrat and now an independent who makes informed decisions based on facts and records. It's a shame that we let a man go that could truly help our country.

Why did the patch publish this elementary school book report? I would have rather read, "Why I want to be an astronaut." This article is full of conjecture and opinions. I like facts. Here is a great fact...the American Constitution is the longest lasting constitution in the world. It became law in 1789. It has been so successful because it is supple and can be amended to adapt to the times. The problem is that the scriptors of the Constitution didn't put in any provisions to prevent money grubbing, lazy, leeches from voting in Presidents that fund hand out programs on the backs of hard working Americans. It doesn't matter how malleable the Constitution is. There is no way to stop the hand outs that are labeled, "Paying their fair share." This is a slippery slope to Greece. No book report on the patch about why someone voted for a socialist would be complete without the mention of a hand out, a pocket full of rainbows and the insistence that everyone pay their fair share. Paying your fair share allows those who do little or nothing can continue to do so. As long as their are more people who leech than there are people who contribute to society, the government will perpetuate dependence. The author left off these comments and I didn't want this fairytale book report to have a fictional ending. The End.

I agree with "march". Michael Baker's essay would receive a poor grade even at the high school level. Guess that's why he's bloggin on the Patch!?!

No scandals? What is Fast and Furious? The blood of those agents is on the President's hands.
If Obama accomplished so much in 4 years, why are we in such a mess and facing a fiscal cliff? Eventually, blaming Bush might not be an acceptable answer even for those wearing blinders.

You are blinded by liberal ideology, Mike, and I fear that you influence your students with your misguided, albeit well-intentioned views. Mitt Romney is a man of integrity and intellect. Lies? I hope all the untruths and misdeeds of the Obama administration and campaign eventually come out. Then let's talk about Romney lies and the wonderful Mr. Obama. He has inflicted such damage on this country already. After his second term, we will never again be the great country we once were. At least, not in my lifetime.
I can now relate to Michelle Obama, but with a twist. For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my country. And I cry for it.

Obama and Romney are both total frauds- sellouts to the globalist offshore banking cartel, that imploded our economy and is now reaping the rewards. (Goldman Sucks, Bank of America etc.) I voted for Gary Johnson with a clear choice, and the republicans are dead unless they can court the liberty vote. (They cheated Ron Paul)

No wonder education in our country continues sliding toward the 3rd world. It's obvious this author could never make it in the private sector. Tax takers. Many inaccuracies in his statements. No time to refute all. Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. Her statements of ,"A Latina can make a better decision than a white male" as well as her ruling against the white New Haven firefighters who outscored blacks on promotional exams prove this. Ironically her ruling was thrown out by the Supreme court during her conformation. Eric Holder is another racist. I wonder if the Black Panther's were again out in Philly with their billy clubs to intimidate white voters.They only got Bin Laden after water boarding KSM, a technique Barrack Hussein was against. No waterboarding no Bin Laden. But that was Bill Clinton's fault wasnn' it? Bin laden was a hard target 3 separate times but Bill refused to give the order. Maybe 9/11 never happens? Guess Willy was busy fighting off his rape accusations by 3 women. A rapist, disbarred, impeached, felon was Obama's biggest campaigner. Too bad Teddy died. You could add a murderer to the list of supporters. Illegal immigrants are illegal, as are their children and are a drain on healthcare and education. Why did Obama use executive order and not go through Congress? We all know his next step is to grant amnesty to all 15 million illegals and that's the end of our country. Which is what he wants. Dreams of his father.

hey "fed up "how did that obama concession speech work out for you? lol jarhead you are a sore loser and the reason no progress can be made. thank god we got rid of the nitwits from the tea party the todd akins, the allen wests the richard muordocks. jarhead youre a dinosaur and a speed bump in the forward momentum of this country

john 57 clinton created 22 million non govt jobs. no wonder republicans talk about the sex scandal they sure cant mention his jobs record.

Yes, compared to Obama with negative jobs, Criminal Bill Clinton also grew the national debt by 40%. That's right. The National debt increased by 40% under slick willie!
I seem to recall the GOP in charge of Congress during most of that time.

Coincidence or was Mr. Guilty of Perjury King?

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/03/tax-cuts-not-the-clinton-tax-hike-produced-the-1990s-boom

you gotta love guys like bluebeam who say people who think they are better off now than in 2009 are smoking crack. when bush left office with a 19 % approval rating our economy was in free fall from the lack of regulation republicans wanted. we had bin laden still running things at al queda, gm was going under and there were 500,000 less manufacturing jobs in this country. romney is a puppet of the koch bros and sheldon addelson for whom of which he kissed their rings. today after getting hit by a second storm of the century nitwits like bluebeam and jarhead are still talking about al gore's house instead of science. is it any wonder ? the head of the science committee was a republican who said theres nothing we can do about climate change because god is in control of that. the same way republicans like todd akin, paul ryan and richard muordock said during rape a woman's uterus releases anti rape ninjas. we will bring this country back to the glory days of clinton despite the interference from those like paul di bartolo, john jay and bluebeam.

this is the part where they will start talking about cycles causing climate change. i even saw one mouth breather on the patch mention 50 yr cycles. maybe they never had science class in school i dont know but cycles take thousands of years not 50 yrs not two.we have a president who realizes what lies ahead for our climate not a mannequin who uses "the rising seas" as a laugh line for rubes.

ann powers ask the ex employees of gst steel, kaybee toys, dade international what a man of integrity romney is as he gutted their companies for profit and put them on the breadline. ask the ex employees of sensata tech who just had their jobs outsourced to china last month which in turn will turn their town into a ghost town.now the coal miners who were forced by their boss to stand behind romney on his campaign are getting fired by the same boss who of course blames obama. sorry ann your way of thinking was considered a joke by a majority of americans on nov 6th.

and hingle huckleberry a link from the tea party heritage foundation claiming clinton was bad for the economy? wasnt there any fox news links you could give us? puhleeze

As a second generation Greek I will tell you this. Greeks are not as enchanted with the Democrat party as they have been due to this money spending moron that is creating a race war between browns and whites.

If you are a liberal white (and not in the crooked business of Unions) you better realize your time is up. You are the devil.

dingleberry i didnt choose a tea party website like you did for your "facts" i used the congressional budget office and national bureau of job statistics. you know all the lefty sites.

thank you for those words of wisdom barney rubble. maybe if you get to have it your way we can bring the kkk back.

I agree with Barney! Open your eyes America...you are on a downward spiral and half of you are too stupid to know it!

Obamaphone. If it's for free, then it's for me.

I hate greedy conservatives that don't want to pay their fair share.

Hey Michael Baker, you think you are free? Post something negative about homosexuality or Islam on your Facebook and see how long you have a job. Your precious Democrat Party led by Obama, wants forced unionization, redistribution of wealth, $10 a gallon gas, massive tax increases, no mention if Islamic terrorism in government, no voter I.D. so they can cheat unencumbered and on, and on. And you call that free? I pity the students who have you for a teacher. No wonder we are in an academic free fall.

Everything Obama has done only helps those who like to take and not give (Ride in the wagon, not pull it). Lets see who they vote for when on the 15th of the month no check is in the mail. I hope this does happen but only for the young welfare takers who refuse to get a job....

Shameful that 50% of our people are such blatant freeloaders. Obama has done nothing for those that wish to better themselves. It has become obvious that those who voted for Obama are only interested in themselves than the common good - way to go to leave a toilet for our children. Either pull the wagon or get in it, sadly most are too lazy and self entitled to help. I am disgusted with my fellow lazy, greedy, sel entitled Americans - we will be the cesspit of the world within four years thanks to your selfishness and stupidity.

What is shameless about Obama, who has more names than Barack Obama/ Barry Soetoro, and few other names only known to the IRS and Sealed Obama Records, is that he used Saul Alinsky's RULES FOR RADICALS to accuse his Opponents of what he and the Democrats do... and GOT AWAY WITH IT! We are not even sure if Obama really won the election because the voting machines seem to be full of anomalies of votes being changed from Romney to Obama, let alone only dead people vote for Democrats in Philly, as reports of NO VOTES for Romney appear in at least 19 Philly voting districts? I think ... there needs to be a REEDUCATION to many Democrats...

Question... how may executive orders has Obama written and what is in them? I may not be able to quote them from memory, but I know WHERE TO FIND THAT INFORMATION! That is the point... Democrats not only don't care where the information is... but they take nearly everything said by Obama/ Dems as truthful, but if you look up the entire set of facts... whoa... wait a minute.. it is never nearly as true as the dem's spin pretend it is, eh?

Well, Obama is elected, and unless an act of God finds some reason to invalidate the 2012 election, we are stuck with four more years of Poverty, and increasing taxes as Welfare is handed out instead of JOBS. Just the fact that Unemployment is really above 14% if you add in people left out of Unemployement... Obama now steers America towards the liberal fantasy of a Socialist Utopia.

how much you wanna bet joe b is getting a check from the gubmint?

look your guy lost the election. now chin up little buckeroos. lol

Not part of sour grape crowd. The President won, “fair and square", as they say. Everyone better hope and pray that he’s as good a President as he says he will be.

The political discourse, however, will continue and it must. As a fiscal conservative, I was very disappointed that the President won reelection. His campaign deflected all the discussion of our spiraling out of control entitlement programs and deficit spending. He never once explained to the American people how he plans to get our fiscal house in order, but rather only demagogue his opponent incessantly. Apparently, from the results, the masses believe that “…higher taxes on the rich; more spending on education, roads and bridges and Obamacare”will grow the economy. What a crock….does ANY Economist support this notion? No. Say what you will,Romney had a credible and, in my view, responsible plan to reduce the debt. Obama did not.

Well, the American people have spoken and America is going to get exactly what it deserves, MORE deficit spending; MORE tax dollars flowing to the geniuses in Washington DC to redistribute wealth. Growth killing policies that do nothing to reduce unemployment, but further line the pockets of DC bureaucrats. I’m not part of the sour grape crowd. I’m in the “worried as hell” crowd that Obama’s policies put this nation on a path to fiscal self-destruction ala Greece. He’s shown me absolutely nothing to believe otherwise. I hope I’m wrong….

Steve, let's not overlook the fact that Krugman is a self-proclaimed liberal who would rather we put all the money into one pot and hand it out equally to everyone regardless of the contributions people make to society. He's a strong critic of the Obama administration for not going far enough with stimulus packages as he believes there is no way for our society to outspend its means. I'd propose that Krugman is the most followed because his positions are so extreme that it gives all other rational-thinking economists a feel for how far they can argue something without being viewed as "going too far." Krugman works exclusively in theory and not real world application of his knowledge. His views are so extreme that nobody in a position of power accepts them as possibilities. Even Obama's economic team (including the clueless Tim Geithner) haven't dared come close to implementing Krugman's views because they are so left field.

Wrong again, Mr. Will (as well as Mister B, who severely mischaracterizes Krugman's economic views and beliefs). It's Paul Krugman who has done all the debunking, which is why he won the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, as well as the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association (the leading society for academic and practicing economists, who roundly acknowledged the worth of their colleague Krugman and his views). Krugman is also widely considered to be the most popular and widely followed economist now living. (Although he has indeed earned the enmity of many Republicans and the purveyors of their "fairy dust" economics.) And yes, who would deny -- Republican or Democrat, including the president -- that the Obama administration could be doing better on the economic front, which is what Krugman urges (demonstrating that his economics transcends mere politics).