Obama congratulates Romney on "spirited campaign"

Are there enough mindless sheep to ensure that the u.s.a. continue declining under Obama or will we begin the path of recovery?

Don’t get cocky Mr. President, you haven’t won yet!

@checkthefacts: There’s more than a %92 probability Pres. Obama will be re-elected. If you think and actually check the facts, you too will see this reality. It’s not “mindless sheep” who are voting for the guy.. It’s millions of disheartened Republicans who can’t stand what the Tea Party has done to our party.

@checkthefacts, once again you need to check the facts. We began the path of recovery a long time ago…

Jan 2009:
LOSING ~750K jobs a month
GDP SHRINKING at 7-8% annual rate

Oct 2012:
GAINING ~150K jobs a month
GDP GROWING at about 2% annual rate

checkthefacts,

It would seem to me that the mindless sheep were the first to bleat here.

Romney can come back in 4 years. If he gets elected then, he can undertake the same difficult task that GW Bush had in 2000: trying to fix something that’s not broken.

Unlike Romney, Obama is not a bluffer. (guess, bin Laden learned that firsthand)

This may be the last chance for the republicans. They have a declining base. You know, old people who watch too much TV. It’s not a big segment of the population, and it will start declining now. But let’s look at who else could have run for the right.

Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and from there, the other were almost non-existent. None of these candidates would do as well as Romney. He is their best, and he will lose.

You see, there are only so many nuts who buy into the hate and greed.

ChecktheFacts, you should check the facts.

@usaprag
Unemployment was 7.8% when Obama took office. Now it is 7.9%. Do the math.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Oct 2012: GAINING ~150K jobs a month. Too bad that doesn’t keep up with population growth. That’s why it went from 7.8 to 7.9.

We want ROMNEY to win! – I hope you do too.

The country needs a change, this is not a real recovery.

Wow, he must really be worried to be giving a victory speech now. The future is very uncertain.

BillFair,
Your facts are propaganda.

Obama should be ashamed of his own campaign. The only thing he could talk about was to complain about Romney, negative campaigning. He has no record he can run on. He was a dismal failure as a President.

Republicans and Independents, if you have not voted, get out and do so. Vote for Romney. We need to end Obama’s reign once and for all.

USAPragmatist:

Are you joking or just flat out lying? Not funny, not funny.

I just can’t get over the comments coming from the Left side of the aisle here. Each one is mean spirited, uses nasty language, etc. You guys all act like a bunch of little kids. I definitely would not want to be associated with your movement. You guys act waayy too much like Obama. Only negative comments.

Vote for Romney if you have not yet voted. Be on the side of the good guys.

brotherkenny4, How right you are, the networks are talking about that decline today. They even produced a graph that shows the decline from the ’90s to today. Of special significance is the decline of old white men who exude a lot of vitriol and vehemence. America has become so diverse that it is to the detriment of the Republican Party not to embrace this diversity.

@checkthefacts, yes when he took office it was 7.8%, but we were also losing about 750K jobs a month so it peaked months later at about 10.1% I believe(just going from memory so might not be exactly correct). But even you cant blame these job losses on Obama. So in effect Obama took over an economy that had tanked and as losing jobs and the peak unemployment attributed to this train wreck was 10.1% and now it at 7.9%, seems like a pretty good improvement to me.

So I ask you again to explain your assertion that we have not yet started the path to recovery.

Now that Obama has said he made multiple mistakes in Libya will it change the election?

@Dragos111

Apparently you don’t post/read many of these comments. There has been just as much disheartening, hate filled rhetoric coming from the “right side” of the aisle. You might not see it in this single article but the whole subject of political discourse has devolved. Both here, in the populace and the media and unfortunately, the Congress itself.

“Somebody must have taken it,” said Eeyore. “How Like Them,” he added, after a long silence.

well, some dirt was thrown back and forth, but it was CLEAN dirt! ROTFLMBO

USAPragmatist…speaking of mindless sheep (checkthefacts)..you’re still bothering to respond to his dribble? He blames Obama for the unemployment rate from day one in office. He is in for a HUGE shock if Romney ACTUALLY gets elected and the trillion dollar deficits don’t magically go away on 27 Jan 2013.

Actually if you follow politics this is a win for Obama with at least 298 electoral votes, if not more. The networks made it closer than it actually was. If you got your stats from Cable TV news networks then you had no clue. As I have following politics for years,and also a blogger for the 538 and Nate Silver the pollster Obama won this election right after the third debate. before that it was touch and go. But Obama picked up steam right after the third debate and he never looked back.

It will be wonderful to see a decisive Romney win shove election results right up the ….. of the President. What an arrogant man.

The arrogance of this President is beyond belief. If he wins, can anyone possibly imagine that he will do any better during the next four years than he has done in the last four?

part of me wants obama to win so he can reside over his failed policies and not have any wiggle room to blame it on his predecessors. then again millions will suffer. in the end it doesn’t matter who wins neither person can change the declining trajectory this country has been on for the past 40 years.

@usaprag
Because 4 years later the job growth is slower than population growth. We are still going backwards.

Although I prefer Obama over Romney, I think Romney could be an adequate president. We’ve seen enough of the venom and hate spewed from each side for years – if there is any decline in America, it lies therein. We need our representatives and senators to represent all of us, not just their own party interests. And your party sucks canal water. So there.

This man is a thorough Gentleman.. compared to Romney. He must be re-elected and hopefully with a great mandate.

The Chicago Machine will do anything to win the election per Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. That includes hacking into electronic voting booths. It is likely that Mr. Emanuel will be offered the Vice Presidency or the post of Secretary of State as reward for his efforts. Mr. Emanuel has strong clout with the Hollywood and media people that came in handy with the Libyan situation.

@Carmi, I agree with your assessment of the venom being spewed as one of the reasons of the decline of our political system. However I disagree with your false equivalency of both sides. Yes their is some venom from the Democratic side, but it pales in comparison with the venom coming from the right. As an example there is only one party that has stated that their primary goal was ‘to make Obama a one-term president’, not do what they were elected to do…run the country.

@checkthefacts, once again you are wrong, here is a nice article for you…

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/how-many-jobs-are-needed-keep-population-growth

My Oklahoma, extremely red state, second grade class voted Obama today two to one. This has to be a reflection of the way the parents will vote.
Surprising

@usaprag
how am i wrong? In the article it says it is different each month.

Please explain how unemployment went up if more jobs were created than lost? Its mathematically impossible

@usaprag
how am i wrong? In the article it says it is different each month.

Please explain how unemployment went up if more jobs were created than lost? Its mathematically impossible

@checkthefacts, your are too easy man, because more people entered the search for a job, most likely because they see the job market getting better so they think it is time to get involved again.

If you read the whole article you will see that their calculations for the number of jobs needed to be added to keep up with population growth is on the order of 100-125K with current conditions.

The vast majority of America are mindless sheep following one of the two political parties. The DNC and GOP have nothing for any of you. They will not allow anyone else to show up to the debates, they have the country grid locked, and the idiots go back and vote for them over and over.

@Yukon51

Or it is a reflection of your own personal bias, and how you teach. Or it is just the fact that incumbants have a natural advantage due to their recongizability.

Does Obama know something we don’t know? Seems mighty cocky to say this so soon in the polling results.