It was Hillary’s ad that questioned Obama’s capacity to respond to a 3am phone call when there was a real threat. works out, she was the one that was unable to respond. I can see the 2016 ad now.

Did you listen to his news conference? He wants to close Guantanamo but cannot figure out how to do it. He thinks that 90% of the people agree with hi on the Affordable Cara Act. He threatens Syria then cannot pull the trigger. Thinking he will actually act is like waiting fro unicorns.

What is missing from this conversation is the absolute hypocrisy of the administration. Cut the WH tours, make the flying public wait longer, continue the GSA parties and idiotic grants. Chicago politics at its worst.

It will be good to see him gone – unfortunately likely to be replaced by an R further to the right.

It is my take that the reason his popularity has declined is the obvious political motivations behind his sequester public posturing. Cutting off access to the white house for school kids while sending jets to Egypt is a perfect example of horrible optics. Saying that the cuts to the federal budget will reduce teachers when the feds do not really finance K-12. Overall, he has overplayed a hand that could have been done without the histrionics. He is a great campaigner but is lousy at governing.

Not only the stupid design but the absolutely idiotic implementation,

Hw does this sound?? Cut out those White House tours that school kids have panned for months – and give the cash to Morsi. Its all the sequester. Or make it take longer to get through an airport – but buy all the TSA folks new uniforms.

Is that how it goes down in Chicago?

I agree that he has a lot to lose. The manic speeches about the impending doom (now in their third or fourth iteration) are really getting tiresome.

For him to stand there and say that kids won’t get educated and he is willing to allow the many huge redudancies in the Federal Government is preposterous. He looks and sounds like a fool.

My guess is that the sequester will go into effect and that Obama’s admin team will allocate the cuts to those areas that will affect the public the most – create pain and the public will yell! This falls into the same category as “if you don’t want to hear the answer, don’t ask the question” The President proposed this and it was a very bad proposal that he does not now want to live with. If that team were not so political, and were a little more interested in the welfare of everyday citizens, we would not be seeing this impending mess.

I have been following the WalMart issue for some time and here is what I do not understand.

Are we asking Americans to forego the lower prices and pay more for their goods? Or are we asking them not to buy at all? Do we want WalMart to charge more?

Why are we against the lower/middle class folks that need a store that provides the clothes and food at prices which are simply more affordable? Obviously most Americans approve of WalMart being there and selling TV’s at a ore reasonable level or they wouldn’t show up in hordes and walk right past a picket line that clearly explains the picketers positions.

Basic economics tells me that a lower price will always make the sale and no matter how nble the cause, we cannot expect buyers to pay a higher price for the good of someone else.

Our government has dumped over $4 trillion into the economy over the Presidents last term. That does not go away and it has ended up in the hands of the folks who have something to sell – mostly big companies. The unplanned outcome of the massive spedning is the enriching of the already rich.

The true test of solidarity will come when union families refuse to shop there.

I live in Northern Virginia and see all of the enthusiasm here on the Romney side. The Romney phone calls to my home land line outnumber Obama calls 5 to 1. Romney signs must outnumber Obama 10 to 1 or even more, and the signs are everywhere. This is an area that is more traditionally Republican, although it went for Obama significantly in 2008. It sure looks like a Romney win in this county – one that Obama needs to carry the state.

If signs and local calls are a sign of organized GOTV, Obama’s team is under performing here.

Well, I live in Northern Virginia in a county that voted Obama last time for the first democratic win in several decades. Now, however, all I see is Republican yard signs – in yards, along highways and secondary roads. All I can say is that it sure looks like Obama has lost an area that he needs to carry this state.

My observation was that it was a draw. That is a positive for the President given hie earlier performance but it is also a positive for Romney. Romney is less well known to the general public than the President and any chance he gets to be on an equal footing with the President will likely make attempts to cast him in a negative light be less effective. Unless there is some major slip-up by Romney on Monday, the movement that we have seen in the polls over the last three weeks is likely to continue. This does not look good.

Actually, as I posted a couple of days ago, I live in Northern Virginia in a county that has been R for a half century, but voted for the President in 2008, A drive around the county two days ago saw dozens of signs for Romney and none for Obama. That on top of the event here that attracted 15,000 people to see Romney earlier this week leads me to believe that the energy is on Romney’s side. If Obama cannot cannot generate more interest in this county, which is a bedroom for DC, he cannot win this state.

I would call that outsourcing.