This is a great choice for Obama. Can you image an 80-year-old with a voucher in-hand trying to purchase health insurance? Can you image Romney's tax returns when capital gains are not taxed at all? I don't believe Paul Ryan represents the future that most Americans would like to see.

Romney's selection of Ryan as running mate solidifies and clarifies the complete moral failure of Republicanism in our historical era. Nothwithstanding his attempt to finagle some distance between his ill-defined economic policies and Ryan's hardline plan, Romney's choice of Ryan in practice embraces Ryan's heartless, Ayn Rand-influenced, selfish economic philosophy of social Darwinism. In picking this VP, Romney implicitly lays the groundwork for the possibility that should he be elected President and fail to serve out his term, Ryan would then become President with an unfettered ability to enact his un-American philosophy of economic injustice that would kick fairness, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the middle and lower classes to the curb for generations. This is now the clearest choice imaginable regarding the future of this country and will largely determine whether the United States continues to decline or can remain the most extraordinary and successful experiment in self-government in human history. The stakes are that formidable.

Cheer up, you have in office the most liberal President in the history of the United States. Hopefully for our childrens sake, it will only be for a few more months. Read about what is going on in Europe. If we don't stop the out of control spending, we will suffer the same fate.

Paul Ryan is a outstanding leader and represents his party and the country well. He is an excellent choice for Romney and I wish him well. He wants to include private insurance into the Medicare mix while Obama wants to kill it through $700 billion cuts to Medicare Advantage plans through which the majority of Americans receive their Medicare. How can Social Security and Medicare be solvent when Obama reduced the payroll tax for them by 50%.

We all better think of what is going to happen when China calls our financial marker!

The liberalism of today is not what it was back when this country was founded or even as late as FDR. Today it is out of touch with reality and it's a shame when less then 25% of the Democrats control the whole party with their money and their ideals. And it's the same with the Conservative right. They try to control their party with the funds they have too. What we the people of our great country need is the parties both working for us and that means being in the middle and working together on the federal and state level. But the way it is with both,we the people are not heard and they the ones who control are going to have it their way no matter what and that is our fault as we voted them in.

It shocks me that people who are passionate about our country can align themselves with either side, Democrat or Republican as both parties have serious flaws. Where is the common sense?

So if you don't agree with the current administration's fiscal insanity, you're a racist. Is that about right Portent? You are a very eloquent writer, but you need to work on reading the facts. You have the social issues confused with the fiscal issues.

Ryan kills Romneys chances to win the election. Romney already had the concervative vote no matter hwo he picked no way would they vote for Obama but with Ryan he will louse the undecieded and middle to right leaning Democrats. this will cost him the election there are not enough concervatives to carry the election. He should have picked someone who would appeal to swing voters and he did not do this.

In an attempt to capture the swing voters and the tea party Romney choose another Caribu Barbie just like McCain did in the last election and look were that got him........Was considering Rommey till this choice. Looks like I will be voting Democratic again this year for the same reason. What the heck was he thinking of....

Yeah, Lee, I guess Lincoln emancipated the slaves by an executive order that left it up to each of the 10 Confederate states affected to decide for themselves whether to implement it, thereby keeping "big government" out of the process -- all in good ole' Tea Party conservative tradition!

The Emancipation Proclamation didn't actually free any slaves because it related only to areas under the control of the Confederacy. The South broke away from the North, and President Lincoln couldn't make slave owners living in the Confederate states of America obey the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation didn't include slaves in the border states and in some southern areas under the North's control, such as Tennessee and parts of Virginia and Louisiana.
It's more important in the fact that it was the first time that U.S. citizens had an idea that slaves may be freed if the Union won the war. In other words, it basically fooled people into thinking that the war had been fought over the right of slavery all along, when, in fact, this is a historical myth.
Note the last two paragraphs. Mr. Lincoln bluntly states that the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation has nothing to do with freeing slaves at all. In fact, it's a call to slaves in rebellious states to rise up against their masters/owners and rebel themselves, and to come and fight in the Union army. He plainly states that the primary reason for this document was of "military necessity", not humanitarianism.

The housing debacle was caused by the dems program to extort banks into accepting loans for people who could not afford to pay. Obama has moved to continue down this impossible road. The most frightening thing I have heard from him is, "give me 4 more years to FINISH the job". In 2016 we could have 16% unemployed, owing even more of our future to China, and reap the results of obama's flexibility on our missile defense with the russians giving nothing in return...you really think his color is the issue???

Typical right wing extremist comment. Unemployment was at 7.6% when Bush left is mile high pile of crap for Obama to clean up. Then it obviously went up in the wake of the mess Bush left and Obama has been slowly be getting the rate down. A couple of months ago it was 8.0 and its at 8.3 now with a high in the 10% range a couple of years ago when this country was at its lowest since the great depression. So to tell everyone its going to 16% is another right wing tactic, just like all the lies in the RNC, hoping someone will actually believe some of the lies coming from the right

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.
At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77, GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%. the unemployment rate was 4.6% George Bush's Economic policies set a record of 52 straight months of job growth…January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy? Banking and financial services, Fannie May and Freddie Mac dumped 5-6 trillion dollars of toxic loans on the economy, while Dodd and Frank were in total denial concerning the pending disaster…