Do people actually listen and think?

Robert Ruben (sec. of Treasury under Clinton) balanced the budget and now we are trillions in debt. Mostly due to a war over "weapons of mass destruction" that the UN told us never existed in the first place and which, in fact, did not exist. If we can stop making dumb moves like that and extricate our country from this endless war that most of us don't want, we can probably give some aid to Africa without breaking the bank. In fact, we have been very ungenerous in recent times. America actually gave less aid to sunami victims that many European countries. Our money problems are not caused by giving aid or by domestic poverty programs, they are caused by a mismanaged war and they are being added to by enormous buyouts to aid financially irresponsible institutions such as Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. If we can once again get a brilliant administrator like Clinton in the presidency, we can probably start to get out of the mess we are in and we might even wind up with a balanced budget again some day. What really gets me is when people hop all over Obama because he talks about raising taxes. Taxes have to get raised somewhere. There is a deficit in the trillions that has to be brought down. I actually read on a conservative web site that Clinton didn't really balance the budget because he increased taxes to do it. Taxes are the most legitimate of balancing a budget!

Obama was born in the U.s. there were rumors he was born in kenya but was rushed to hawaii but those are just that, rumors and fact skewing. BUT, what isn't rumor is how much money he plans on spending here and abroad. I don't care about his race, gender, or anything trivial like that. what I do care about is his ideology. the ideology that the answer to every problem is more government programs, more government regulations, more government interference, more government spending, more government revenue collection, government government government....ACK . And yes, things are getting out of hand. People are nit picking on both sides. People are also taking little snipets of information and creating the rest of a story from their bias, take an incomplete story or a few lines in a news paper, without checking the rest and then, wether or not there IS even a rest of the story, running with it and pointing to it going "see?! see?!" again, on BOTH sides. It's nausiating and it's driving me even further to a candidate like Chuck Baldwin.

I didn't know he wanted to spend our tax money to help Africa. We need the money here to help our poor and homeless people, and people who don't have health insurance. That is where the money is needed. I will have to re-think this whole thing. Personally I really liked Clinton.

Hi Mac The same thought ran through my mind too. Gee after all, it is the American citizens/tax payers that is voting for him. It is the tax payers money he is going to take to another country right? Like a betrayal of trust and really discourages me to even want to vote for either one. They both dissapoint me deeply.

I thought Obama was born in Hawaii and last time I checked, that's still in the U.S. Also, the U.S. has always provided humanitarian aid to other countries regardless of our own debt. We are probably the most generous nation in the world.