I did not write the following, I copied/pasted it from a comment on cnn.com... but I agree 100%
Obama has blurry vision. Here is what he has really done for us in 4 years.
23 million Americans without work
1 in 6 Americans in poverty
47 million Americans needing food stamps to survive
6.2 trillion dollars piled on our national debt
4 billion dollars a day borrowed from China
Cover ups in Fast and Furious and Benghazi
Bail out of Unions across the nation
Handing money out to Political Donors with "Green" companies
Gas prices double when he took over
$4,500 less take home pay for middle class Americans
Largest expansion of the federal government in history
Obamacare...costs more and is raiding money from Medicare to pay for it.
African American Unemployment at 14%, Hispanic 12%, Women 12%
My opinion of President Obama is that he is probably a really fun to hang out with (Jay-Z and Beyonce, George Clooney, among others); he is probably a really great husband (Mrs. Obama is going to be on Entertainment tonight, which seems appropriate); he is probably a great dad (buy Sasha and Malia their pooch, I mean really, he bought his kids a pup!!!)... BUT
I think President Obama is a failure as a President.
At a rally in Tampa, I was asked how a single mom could think about voting for Mitt Romney. To me, there is no choice.
Five years ago, my net worth was well over seven figures, despite paying $90,000/year in taxes to the federal government and another $8,000 or so in state. Five years ago, I owned a home that I'd put 20% down on, paid each month a little extra in addition to my monthly mortgage, and had at the end of 2008, and mid 2009 - still had $350,000 in equity in the thing as appraised by a licensed appraiser during the new appraisal regulations (i.e. appraisers were going to be fined if they gave any falsified increase in worth to the home and faced jail as a potential if the appraisal were egregious.) By the way, I bought the house in 2000.
Four years ago, President Obama was elected and he forcefully stated during his campaign that he'd stop rubber stamping of foreclosures. We all know what happened to me (or you can dig through posts and figure it out yourself).
My foreclosure was rubber stamped and is now being litigated by the federal government. BUT my house belongs to someone else now. And there is no way the federal government, or the bank, is going to send me a check for $350,000.
Four years ago, I had hope that my executive job would come back, or something like it.
It never did. Those jobs are gone because when big business can't afford to keep their full staffing because of the tax rate, the smaller companies soon follow suit. And then, of course, we have the push from Wall Street that says what an earnings report should state, so the CEOs focus more on that (or lose their own jobs), and then they off-shore because why?
Oh yeah, China is cheaper (India actually, or the Philippines).
Four years ago, President Obama said he'd crack down on Wall Street greed and theft.
I was contacted by the SEC about the company where I was the VP of internal audit. Unfortunately, when the amount was not the staggering $500,000,000 of say an Enron or WorldCom, the SEC was no longer interested because President Obama would not have made good press on a mealy $5,000,000 thievery.
No, see President Obama wanted good press and a company worth $800,000,000 stealing and lying about $5,000,000 is not going to get him the USA Today style press he wanted.
Four years ago, my life was different. In 2010, I went through the 2nd darkest year of my life; 2nd only to the year my first son died of SIDS. If I recall correctly, President Obama was in the White House then. He pushed and focused for a solid year on Obamacare and failed to do anything else for Americans. He went shore to shore of other continents apologizing for being an American and the war we started in Iraq (I agree with him there, we had no business in Iraq). He also apologized for Afghanistan and yet, the intell the CIA and others gained from Afghanistan is what led him to be able to take out Osamathejackass.
Four years ago, I did not vote for him (or for McCain - I voted for Colin Powell as a write in). But I did have hope. Hope that was quickly extinguished when I saw he was going to run this country into the ground.
Four years ago, the US had $10,000,000,000,000 in debt.
Today, we are $16,000,000,000,000 in debt to China and to others.
Four years ago, our embassies were protected by the brave men and women of our armed forces.
Today, we mourn the loss of an unprotected embassy in Libya (and where else, I might ask).
Four years ago, the unemployment (those actually filing claims, which do not include those who do not, or cannot - like me), the rate was 8%.
Today, the rate is the same 8% but more women and more children are on welfare and food stamps. (Personally, I do not obtain those though I do qualify.)
Four years ago... we were better off as a nation than we are today. And people want to take another four years of the same?
I do not get that.
And last, Alabama and Mississippi are two of the poorest and MOST African American populated states in the country. Take a look at the Huffington Post map, or CNN.com or any other political map:
Why is it that those two states are voting and leaning heavily toward Romney?
That should be all you have to know about what those folks' fear is.
Another four years of Obama.
