Message #4572

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Clara, don't try and convince me.  It is the American public you have to convince.  Tell them how good things are now. So put your money where your mouths and go to high unemployment states, states with high foreclosure rates, and pales where gas is nearing 4 dollars a gallon and tell THEM HOW MUCH BETTER THINGS ARE.

I'll remind them of how things were as bad as they were 4 years ago, but I'm sure they remember that rather indelibly--it was a huge shock Dubya put the nation through as it is. What needs to be frequently mentioned is that no President has control over gas prices and the people to get angry with about gas prices is the so-called "free market, which is now global in scope, and in mentioning that, also mention that more drilling here will send OUR oil resources to other countries by that same global market and more drilling will not impact the price of gas either--only more local refineries will do that.

Foreclosure rates are the result of too-big-to-fail predatory banks coupled with the failure of "job creators" to keep the middle class in the jobs they used to have...you know, the jobs lost under Dubya and even with the tax cuts Dubya gave these "job creators". We're a decade under tax cuts for "job creators" and we still don't see the jobs.  Governments don't create private sector jobs--"job creators" do and they've failed even with tax breaks. That's not a difficult argument to make, mainly because of the truth of it.

Got to western PA, southern Ohio, and WV and tell the coal miners that Obama may be putting out of work how jolly things are.  Don't waste your talents and arguments here.  Go convince the coal miners union that isn't endorsing or sending money to Obama no good things are.

Under Republican administrations, coal miners die due to lack of regulation enforcement, thus creating widows and children dependency on the government for welfare. You can't earn a paycheck when you're dead.

Unemployment is higher, real estate is worse, manufacturing is down and GDP in at a virtual standstill and this Obamabot is blissfully unaware.

Unless banks write down debt as losses instead of assets, real estate will always be the case no matter who is president and even in the absence of Fannie and Freddie, both of which followed banker advice when they did what they did, and I now draw your attention to the Home Ownership platform in the current GOP Platform document. When in power, they'll do it all over again.