There are other sources of this information. They merely tapped into the database.

Keep trolling Keith Best. Empty brains make statements with no facts and troll for hate and fear.

Keith, Obama can't be that bad. He pushed for ObamaCare that was patterned after RomneyCare. If fact, Sunday morning Romney was telling us that, if elected, he plans to keep key parts of ObamaCare.

Much of the first term spending is related to high unemployment and the reduced tax flow from a reduction in profits and income. I've heard both Romney and Ryan say they know Obama inherited a very bad economic situation.

Then of course, there were two wars, that thing in Lybia and the Arab spring stuff in Egypt and Syria. Stuff like that would be challenging to anyone -- even someone with executive experience.

Come to think of it, the Republicans call themselves the "party of Lincoln." If I recall my history, Lincoln didn't have any executive experience. Apparently, "executive experience" is a GOP talking point in 2012. Seems that those running Eron had plenty of executive experience and hand-in-glove ties to President George W. Bush. Remember Bush? Apparently they forget about him at the GOP convention and all the TEA Party rallies I've attended.

Jim Bob,

So stating that there are good parts to ObamaCare means it's a good bill? Not at all, it's a terrible bill with some small parts that should be kept. Obama inherited a bad economic situation; yes, but he has made it worse and increased the deficit more than all presidents combined before him. "Executive Experience" I think what Keith was stating is that Obama has no experience in the real world; none, zero, zilch. He has never run a company big or small and has no private work experience at all. Obama isn't the worst president, Carter saves him, but he is the second worst president of our country.

Chadwick:

Obama has experience working as a community organizers in Chicago. If that isn't related to the real world, I don't know what is.

Can you name me a perfect piece of legislation that has ever been passed into law? Anybody who thought ObamaCare was the end of the story is thinking with a blank slate.

Other than driving the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile, Paul Ryan has even less real world experience than Obama. Obama also worked at Baskin-Robbins in high school. Ryan's been living on the public teat since graduating from college...actually longer since Social Security paid for his college.

It amuses me that the TEA Party gets an orgasm over Ryan when he is a career politician who voted for baliouts and stimulus money and proposes a budget that would balance around 2050. Go figure...

Hey, you forgot to address the points on the wars and Bush and Bin Laden. Do you GOTears have a collective brain fart when it comes to the cause of the record debt and deficits we are experiencing? Duh, if we start two unfunded wars, and cut taxes, people will have to start wearing hard hats to protect themselves to the increased number of golden eggs falling from the the free-market Golden Goose.

Obama is right when he says the GOP prescription is to give a couple tax cuts and eliminate regulations and everything will be golden. Hey, it didn't work for Bush and he double the national debt. Reagan almost triple the national debt!...you'd call themselve "fiscal conservatives."

Whats sad Tim is that we can't have policy debates. Both sides cherry pick sound bites and participate in internet road rage. And our "hidden " government pulls our strings to keep us apart. Whats sad is way too many of us aren't engaged in fact finding.

sorry about it Bren, but it IS working class people, not the rich, who are influencing elections. There are a lot of unions at the top of this list....

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

Citizens United upheld disclosure requirements as constitutional.

I know right. It's all Bush's fault and there is no way this man, who choose to run, knew all of the issues, promised to fix them, won election, could have possibly fixed anything in only 4 years. It's just not fair to blame him for increasing the debt 5 Trillion dollars, or for 86 million people out of the workforce. He did shoot Osama, right in the head! Well not really the Seals did that and they were set up and over there because of Bush.

Oh wait.....

http://tinyurl.com/9v2jaqo

Steve, where did you get the 86 million number?

underemployment, given up looking, left the workforce, etc. Obama, Obama, Obama!

You're right Carol, Obama has left a terrible mess to clean up.

Dan, can you try that again, in English this time?

Steve, from the latest polls, it looks like you'll have four more years to slam Obama.

What do you think the economy would have looked like today had McCain won in 2008?

The polls that over sample democrats? mkay

Jim Bob amongst many others obviously don't understand the day-to-day dynamics of polling, especially after party conventions. Look up polls for Carter and Dukakis and tell me how salty they must have felt blowing their poll leads.

It's alright, let them live in the polls. It's a much better win when they believe them yet get crushed.

Don't tell anyone, they might think you're rich and hate you.

I too am missing, but having this list searchable is BS.

Nuitari, do you really think it's about hating the rich? For me it's about Romney and Buffet paying 13 percent federal taxes and me and Ryan paying 20 percent. Obviously, the more you income is derived from capital gains, the lower the tax percentatge you pay.

At least Reagan understood this and raised the captial gains tax rate to be the same as earned income. Ryan wants to eliminate capital gains. That would reduce the Romney and Buffet percentages even more.

In my worldview, if Romney pays 13% and I pay 20%, either I should also pay 13% or Romney should pay 20% or we should be paying a percentage somewhere between 13-20%.

Invest your money instead of blowing it on consumer or family goods and you too can pay 13% income tax rates.

There, that was easy

Steve, the problem with the economy is that people aren't buying consumer goods. That's what drove the economy up till 2007. The good old days when we had a -20 percent savings rate and anybody without a decent credit rating or a stable job, etc. could get credit cards and buy $350K+ houses when they should have been buying a double-wide trailer.

Reagan was the last President who set the captial gains rate the same as the earned income rate.

So vote for Obama again to continue the lack of consumer spending. Raising the capitol gains tax does nothing to solve your response. It would only slow the investment into consumer product development.

Steve, the hymen of the consumer spending bubble broken when Bush was President. Bush cut taxes, reduced regulations, started two wars, passed Medicare Part D, etc. and the end of his term produced months of hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost. How did this approach help consumer spending? We had a -20% savings rate, i.e. living way beyond our collective means.

Please provide a couple insights into how the R-R ticket will increase consumer spending? The average hourly pay rate has been dropping for years. The average number of hours worked has been dropping to around 33 a week. There are serious issues here that won't be solved by tax cuts, increasing military spending and cutting big holes in the safety net and reducing funding to K-12, college and vo-tech education and training.

R-R don't want to tell us their plan would include eliminating the mortgage deduction, daycare credits, and a whole list of other middle class welfare programs that have made the country what it is today.

The challenges are a little deeper than I suck because I don't support your candidate. The Democrats don't have all the answers nor do the Republicans. The TEA Partiers have big mouths to bully the gutless politicians into their sinkhole of uninformed ignorance. Perhaps we need to grow some ears and start listening to the options echoing from all sides of the debate and discussion. Afterall, that's what politics is about...a thing call compromise.

Prime example of changing the subject. I'll bring it back. You bitched about the capital gains tax. I said you too could "enjoy" the capital gains tax if you would actually invest your already taxed first income. /end

When the Walker/Barret list was made it showed donations less than $100.

The total limit that you can donate directly to a campaign is so low this list is BS. This is how Obama takes out his competition.

Yeah he is a liar. And a poopy-head too.

Please list everything that was in that bill so we can have an honest look at it.

Joseph:

Could you explain the difference between a politician and a liar? I seems to me that that there is one of those oxymorons.

If Ryan is indeed a liar, luckily he is a practicing Catholic and can to to confession every Friday. A week full of lies probably translates into 10 Hail Marys and 10 Our Fathers, which -- if you have attended confession religiously -- can be mubbled quickly between the confessional and the holy water dish on the way out of church.

That is what is called putting God before country.

CS, I believe Carol's point is that the elimination of Bin Laden was accomplished during Obama's watch. Remember when Bush told us "mission accomplished?" Not sure what mission Bush accomplished, but he didn't get Bid Laden, he didn't end the war in Iraq and he forgot about the war in Afghanistan.

You don't have to be an slack-jawed, Fox News-parrotting blowhard to know that - had McCain won in 2008 - he would be trumpeting the killing of Bin Laden.

I'm not sure I heard the Iraq and Afghanistand wars or Bush's or Bin Laden's names mentioned during the GOTea Convention. What give there? You would think two of the major causes of the grwoing national debt would have been spotlighted?

Great point, Scott. It appears the editor uploaded one image and Patch users uploaded the rest, given our open platform. I've seen this happen on other political stories.

I'm a Romney fan as well, but this isn't a campaign site. Part of Jefferson's concept of democracy was a well informed voter and to me that means two sides (often more!) to every story. The first photo of the two candidates is neutral and looks like your editor's work..

I didn't realize anyone could upload images. Perhaps this says something about the relative competence of the two campaigns?

►but this isn't a campaign site.◄
You wouldn't know looking at all the Obama banner ads here.

►says something about the relative competence of the two campaigns◄
liberals do have a harder time at the internet.

Steve, I believe Scott's point deals with the pictures that go with the story. He is not talking about banner ads.

If you look at the 19 photos included with the story, they look like they all come from a Romney campaign ad.

If the Patch is actually paid to include those photos with this story, it is rather deceiving to us readers as to the purpose for this story.

Conservative users love uploading images on this wonderful site. So much better than the editor's. :)

You, as a user, can upload pictures to any article you want.