Here are a few facts re Romney.He donated all of his inheritance to charity.He donated his time free of charge for turning the Olympics around in 2000. As governor,he didn’t collect a paycheck. He gives16 percent of his income to charity.as opposed to Obama,a measly one percent to charities.Biden and John Kerry even less than that.Gee who’s greedy?I know the Dems are really good about spending the taxpayers’money,however,they are pretty tightfisted with their own.
Also,comparing Romney to Obama’s amateur status is an out and out lie. He was the Governor, and has realized tremendous success in the business world,just ask Bill Clinton
Obama has zero experience in the private sector.
Donating money to charity does not qualify someone to be a US President. I also wonder how that information became public? Why would someone wear charitable donations on his sleeve, unless the intent is to purchase approbation?
Yes, Mr Romney is qualified to be a businessman. He has had great success there. Mr. Obama is qualified to teach constitutional law. His academic success is startling. Both of them are competent individuals in some areas.
Every US President is a patriot, and does his best for the country. Even though I am critical of them, I do my best to support the president, and our country, no matter who is in office.
In my opinion though, neither Romney, nor Obama are qualified to be president. Obama has demonstrated his lack of aptitude for the job. Mr. Romney just doesn’t have the resume that one would like to see for that particular job.
But worse than that, Mr. Romney is advocating a platform which has been proven not to work from past experience.
If he can articulate a plan which has a chance of achieving his stated goals of balancing the Federal budget, while stimulating the economy. And if he can come up with such a plan, without gutting important social services, such as education, health care for the needy, care for the elderly and the children… Then I would be a big supporter. I am suspicious of his refusal to disclose his financial information. What is he trying to hide? He has the right to privacy in those matters, as a private citizen, but not as an aspiring president. I am suspicious of his claim to want to repeal the affordable healthcare act, when it was modeled on the plan that he championed in MA. That smells of hypocrisy. I don’t trust him. It is hard to gage a person through all the PR and counterattacks. But he smells rotten to me. Maybe I am wrong. But my instincts were right about Mr. Bush, and Mr. Cheney.
Mr. Obama has not articulated such a plan either. But the economy is slowly improving, and we are doing much better than Europe. I disagree with his use of money in his so called recovery plan. But his plan was no worse than Mr. Bush’s. I am disappointed with the lack of economic reform that he promised, and which is sorely needed. As soon as he appointed his cabinet, it was obvious that his administration was going to be corrupt. He put the people who oversaw the financial collapse into the jobs to try to fix the problem, when some of them probably should have been prosecuted and put in prison, instead. I am disappointed that he was unable to nationalize our healthcare system. We know from looking at every other modern nation, that nationalized healthcare provides the only answer, that anyone has found yet, to provide good medical care at a reasonable cost. The problem with our healthcare system is the insurance companies. We just can’t afford to keep handing them huge profits, just for brokering healthcare services. The president failed to stand up to them. President Roosevelt did stand up to the banking industry in order to push through the fiscal reforms we needed at that time. Mr. Obama did not lead us strongly enough on the important issue of healthcare. So, we ended up with something that nobody is happy with, except the insurance companies, of course. What business wouldn’t want a law requiring every citizen to buy their product, and for this to be enforced by the IRS?
I find it very discouraging that we, as a nation, can’t come up with reasonable solutions to our problems, even when those solutions seem obvious.
There are a number of ways which we could become energy independent. The Danes and the Germans are rapidly doing so. Like Romney, every president talks about the importance of moving in that direction, and then they do nothing about it.
I think we need a parliamentary system which represents all voters more fairly. Corporations and lobbyists need to be limited in their influence. All political terms must be limited. If a president were to run on that simple platform, and appeared to have a legitimate chance of implementing those changes, then he or she would have my enthusiastic vote.
If our political process could be fixed, then we would have a much better prospect of solving these social and economic issues.
