During Tuesday’s edition of his show on TheBlazeTV, Glenn Beck took a detailed look into what the United States looked like before President Obama took office and compared it to where we are as a nation today.
Beck’s findings are, to put it lightly, damaging to the president’s re-election hopes.
In a video segment titled “Obama by the Numbers,” Beck seemingly answers this nagging question once and for all: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” The answer, at least by the numbers, is a resounding “no.”
Here are some of the highlights from the video:
- U.S. went from No. 1 in global competitiveness in 2008-2009 to No.7 in 2011-2012.
- Average cost of college tuition increase from $6,591 in 2009 to $8,244 in 2012
- The price of gasoline skyrocketed from $1.85-per-gallon in 2009 to $3.86-per-gallon in 2012
- The Obama administration has added 11,327 new pages of government regulations
- Federal debt has ballooned from $10.6 trillion in 2009 to $16.06 trillion in 2012.
Watch the revealing video below:
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wilsonj72
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:45pmBush did it again? right! Thats a moms boy excuse. 4 years later and the ghost of Bush still in offices. Maybe we stop building mosque on the taxes payer back in this country and other country. A weak POTUS always need excuses. New movie where is Jimmy Carter at now, because he is not number one weak POTUS now.
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Jhooks
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:40pm@JZS Did you even read the numbers or watch the video above the comments section? Yes, George Bush went along with the democrats and spent like a druken sailor, especially during his last two years. However, the “blame Bush” rhetoric is, after four years of Obama, tiresome. ALL economic indicators and numbers have worsened under the Obama administration. One of the ways Obama is “fundamentally transforming” America is spending it into collapse. The bottom line is that Americans are worse off than we were four years ago. That fact is undeniable.
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Verceofreason
Sep. 26, 2012 at 1:21amBush went along with the Democrats.
You definitely need counseling.
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Stone Cold Truth
Sep. 26, 2012 at 12:39pmBush went along with the dems? So what? Bush isn’t running. Is that supposed to make us vote to Obama? Weaksauce v.
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Marine25
Sep. 26, 2012 at 1:26pmALL economic indicators and numbers have worsened under the Obama administration?
We were bleeding 750,000 jobs a month in 2008 and early 2009. Now we are slowly adding jobs.
Stock market crashed…now it breaks records.
ALL economic indicators? Or just the ones you pick and choose and are likely not educated enough to comprehend?
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BCanook
Sep. 26, 2012 at 4:45pm@MARINE25
We were bleeding 750,000 jobs a month in 2008 and early 2009. Now we are slowly adding jobs.
** 56% of the jobs created during this administration are low skill/low wage.
Stock market crashed…now it breaks records.
** Check the value of the dollar. The reason the stock market is up is because the Fed has devalued the dollar with quantitative easing.
Wake up! You are nothing but a useful idiot.
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cmrph
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:26pmPlease make this available on Youtube!!! We need to be able to easily spread the word like this, and it is so effective if you can post the video directly into Facebook so it plays there. It is unlikely a person will click a link compared to just pressing play…and this message is so important. We need more more more messages like this to make viral on Facebook and the like!!!
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Becky
Sep. 26, 2012 at 12:09amI just used my iphone video camera to pass it on…but, you’re right… YouTube would also be great… and television spots…
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BurningBright
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:06pmThey should air this on the major TV channels as an advertisment for The Blaze Network.
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CorpsmanHM3
Sep. 26, 2012 at 10:23amGood idea, and put the ad on the evening news with Diane Sawyer. She would have a heart attack.
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Case_Logic
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:59pmThis is obama’s fault! All of it!!!
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TrueSoundsOfLiberty
Sep. 26, 2012 at 6:48amHoly crap, you are so right! The battles in Afghanistan and Iraq are so this President’s fault!!
Eastinfection
Sep. 26, 2012 at 7:30am@TRUESOUND…
To quote part of Psalm 69: I’m in love with this malicious intent
You’ve been taken but you don’t know it yet (NWO;)
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bloptop
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:54pmI wrote about Beck’s alcoholism and they censored me. You guys really advocate free speech
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aliengibson
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:13pmwell your post is still up. what is your point? Glenn has talked about his drinking issue many many times. nothing you bring up is going do anymore damage. I used to drink to and now I dont sooooo let me know when you have a point.
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Stink Fist
Sep. 26, 2012 at 4:26amTell me about it. I wrote allot of things supporting Ron Paul when he had thousands of people showing up at his events and Romney had at the most 100. Beck wouldn’t report on that. It very unfair and I lost respect for him for not reporting on Ron Paul. It’s like all media got together to steal Ron Pauls momentum. Didn’t think Beck would do that, but I was wrong.
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bustedupvet
Sep. 27, 2012 at 3:21pmYou are a blind idiot! Bec khas been clean & sober for years! Today, he has done more for America and the citizens than you will ever dream of… *******
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bloptop
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:53pmI wrote about Beck’s alcoholism and the Blaze censored me….you guys really believe in free speech
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aleena
Sep. 26, 2012 at 1:21amYou are off topic. Please be advised that you are encouraging people to vote for Romney. If you reflect the kind of people who support Obama, who would want him for president?
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N37BU6
Sep. 26, 2012 at 8:12amGlenn talks about his alcoholism all the time… you’d know that if you listened to his radio show.
You’d know a lot of other things too.
Good luck.
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bloptop
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:53pmWow this is crap is the worst kind of propaganda. Bake sales down? Beck please go back to the booze, you were smarter
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Jhooks
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:43pmSo very sad, BlopTop. I truly feel sorry for you.
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N37BU6
Sep. 26, 2012 at 8:59amIt isn’t “bake sales down”. It’s the government stepping in and shutting down kids’ bake sales.
It’s about insane, out of control micromanagement and regulation. Of course, you’d know that if you paid any attention to the government at all.
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DavidintheD
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:43pmWant to see what America looks like after 4 more years of Oblamer come to Detroit.
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Prosecute_Constitutional_Treason_In_Washington
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:43pmThe first 4 years is only 15% of the destruction for eight years if this criminal if reelected.
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DavidintheD
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:39pmDetroit.
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Jhooks
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:36pmThe Obama administration is responsible for 30% of our national debt. Another four years is unthinkable.
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TheePolitinator
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:44pmYes and so is Clinton and Bush. they have all been carefully orchestrating this whole thing.
let them all rot in hell.
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jzs
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:57pmSorry JHOOKS. Two trillion dollar wars started by Bush, a 7 trillion dollar unfunded Medicare benefit (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/18/gop-2012-candidates-opposed-to-repealing-unfunded-medicare-drug-benefit/), dramatically reduced tax revenues (the “Bush tax cuts”) and the second worst economic calamity in the history of the US – which began a year before Bush left office – is the cause of the increased national debt.
Please explain yourself. What additional spending has President Obama passed? Please be specific and explain why you believe that wars Bush started, the tax cuts, the Great Recession (caused by Bush), the 7 trillion dollar entitlement Bush passed and the dramatically reduced tax revenues are somehow unrelated to the national debt.
And explain how President Obama increased the debt through his actions as President.
Sorry, Bush left this country a f-ing debt ridden mess in economic free fall.
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Thegipper
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:28pmJZS, no spending bills? Really? There was a near trillion dollar stimulus bill in the first six months, In addition to bailouts. That stimulus bill got baked into the spending for each year after because of the continuing resolutions (ie no budget passed after by Pelosi or Reid after the stimulus). The health car fiasco cost an early another trillion in the bill, and that has been revised up by more than double by the CBO since.
If you truly believe there has not been significantly higher spending in the last three years, I don’t think anyone here can possibly try to have a discussion with you.
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jzs
Sep. 26, 2012 at 9:25amThegipper, you’re correct about the stimulus, although TARP was passed under Bush.
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Max jones
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:27pmThe deal Obama made with the globalists was to weaken the USA to the point, at which loss of sovereignty will seem like a state of grace. It is truly brilliant how it is working. Alinsky, Piven, Ayers, Jarret Monsoor, Soros….right down the line. Golden boy, whose way was paved in gold and promises of fame and wealth. Fulfilling “dreams” of revenge on those who actually achieve success by discipline and endurance. Mentored by angry men whose jealous rage found roots in hatred and avarice.
Nurtured in isolation, Obama never had chance to come into intellectual contact with any philosophy but the the progressive agenda…he knows nothing else ….it is his life, his cause, his aspiration and his RELIGION.
In the end he is a tool of globalist mass killers, looking to subjugate the entire world and save themselves from “over-population”. Heartless and ruthless, they stay above the fray and conceal themselves behind piles and piles of stolen cash. Running ‘boys’ like Obama, ruining the middle class by taking the means of earning and burying them in reams of regulations and environmental statutes. Working to make the unions the only game, the sole employer. Allowing corruption to to run rampant, to purposely eat the profit margin of corporations causing bankruptcy.failure and eventually nationalization.
Beautiful, efficient, and terminal.
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Jhooks
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:25pmI follow politics and current events closely, as I am sure most of those posting here do. I am dumbfounded by those who would vote for Gary Johnson on “principal”, knowing he has no chance of winning. The bitterness from the Ron Paul supporters seems to indicate it would be preferable to see Obama reelected and let the whole thing come crashing down. I understand the campaign for liberty, but I implore you to consider the best way to reclaim liberty is not to let it completely disappear (as it will with another Obama term) Once liberty is gone, we will never get it back. Rather, Mitt Romney is our only hope for restoring the vision of the founders. A half of a loaf of bread is better than none at all when one is starving. America is starving.
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Buchanan16
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:37pmOh my gosh Jhooks, you couldn’t have said it any better!
We all must unite under one cause: to rid Barack Obama of the presidency. If we can band together with that being the main them we outnumber them 2 to 1. Sitting here fighting for liberty with a 0% chance of successfully attaining it at this point is insane.
Here’s how to do it:
Follow the progressive way but instead of unraveling America’s core we slowly build and restore it.
1. Elect Mitt Romney.
2. Educate people with the facts. Don’t sit back down and continue your daily routine after Mitt is elected, otherwise you just lost the battle for true liberty already.
3. Hold Mitt and Gov’t feet to the fire.
4. Elect your liberty lover 4 or 8 years after Mitt depending on how he does.
It’s that simple folks. I want to cut the cord in one piece right now as much as you do but it is impossible. We’ve been given countless examples, now let’s try a different way.
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TheePolitinator
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:40pmI agree with this post. At this point regardless of your so called party affiliation. You need to get out and vote, 1st step is getting this arsehole out of our house. The rest we can deal with as it comes.
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MadAsHeII
Sep. 26, 2012 at 10:49amIt still amazes me how much everyone just goes with the flow no matter haw much freedom they take from you. Paul supporters have called you sheeple, and I am beginning to see what they mean. When the people turn a blind eye to the parties ignoring their voice, then the people deserve to lose their voice. Does it not bother anyone that both the Democrats and Republicans pushed their agenda’s at their conventions against the nays of their delegates? It was blatant in both, with evidence that is irrefutable, and you all act as though that is business as usual. How dare all of you act as though this is OK. It is not OK. It goes against, what we have all taken for granted, our freedom, and now we have lost. When the American people do not stand up to tyranny, then that is what we deserve, tyranny. Shame on all of you. Oh, Barack Obama will ruin us all. BS. All of you are ruining us as a free nation from the lack of Patriotism toward freedom. Your silence speaks loudly.
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swamp_donkey
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:17pmlol @ somolia
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Twinspeedr
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:13pmWhat’s everyone whining about? The Dow is back up neat 14000 and we have successfully handed the middle east a new infant Caliphate, the most advanced drone technology in the world and nuclear weapons. What, you think Obama and his people have been sleeping (or golfing) this whole time?
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TheePolitinator
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:43pmAnd to add to this. If you fools think there isn’t already a nuke on U.S. soil with Muslim Brotherhoods name on it you deserve to die.
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Stink Fist
Sep. 26, 2012 at 4:28amI hope Denver doesn’t get hit. I live right downtown. Zoinks.
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bustedupvet
Sep. 27, 2012 at 3:24pmWhen he wasn’t screwing off, he has been working on his devilish plan to destroy America…get your head out of the sand or where ever it is!
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Verceofreason
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:28pmWhy do these stories leave out REPUBLICAN OBSTRUCTIVISM?
How many anti-abortion bills, and naming national mottos, and PO do we need?
And that Debt ceiling ca ca?
That ceiling was raised 9 times under Bush.
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swamp_donkey
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:49pmexactly
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TheePolitinator
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:21pmThe Obstructionism Obama Didn’t have his first 2 years? You’re a lemming. We all know the Republicans are just as corrupt, stop pledging allegiance to a party and talking points. Start understanding we are being lied to and manipulated by political rhetoric. All carefully designed to get your attention away from the actuality of things, and all to push the global agenda forward.
We have all been lied to from both sides, it’s time we stand United against tyranny and the unelected elite controlling our Gov’t. It’s time we make a stand for our self, it’s time we make a stand for the next generation.
It’s time to wake up.
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TheBurningTruth
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:28pm@VoiceOfIgnorance: It doesn’t matter how many times the debt ceiling is raised, what matters is the TOTAL increase in the debt ceiling. The increases under Bush (who was a PROGRESSIVE and NOT a Conservative) totalled less than $5T in 8 years. The total under President Marxist totals over $6T in 4 years. At that rate, Bonobo will add over $12T by the end of a second term taking our overall debt to over $22T. That’s a debt that we’ll NEVER payoff.
Also, why do people like you try to excuse Barry’s terrible behavior by pointing to Bush’s bad behavior? You seem to think that because Bush was irresponsible that it’s OK for Barry to be nearly criminal in his spending.
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Max jones
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:46pmPOLITINATOR….Very wise, young man. You’ve done your homework. Let me get a bit biblical, here, and say that the globalist empire IS the coming of the Beast, of Revelation…..but you knew that.
http://theseason.yolasite.com/
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Max jones
Sep. 25, 2012 at 11:37pmONTHEVERGEOFREASON…G.W Bush, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton are all Globalists. They all did what damage they could in office, and work still for the eventual installation of the NWO…Obama is the Judas Goat…The Chosen one to make the break. Groomed and prepared for the job. Installed to polarize and divide our population. To foment unrest and to work his magic until we are helpless to stand against the evil in our government.
Everybody wonders where the money went
lets go ask the president
Will he admit its all been spent
settin’ up world government?
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oregon scott
Sep. 26, 2012 at 1:52amSee there is the difference, true conservatives know and admit That president Bush made some mistakes, but those of you that lay down roses before obama’s feet can see no wrong at all. Even when, he has added almost 6 trillion to the national debt. in 3 and 1/2 years. President bush added 4.6 the last two years were an actual cut in deficit spending. even with a dem house and senate. I love how you all call unemployment at or below 5% a failure, Lower taxes actually raised the amount to the treasury just like when Regan lowered taxes after carter. look it up and get the facts straight please.
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semihardrock
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:23pmWhat does that say about the 50% who already claim to want to vote for Obama. Ask again, what country is this? Just because they keep saying “The United States of America” does not really make it so……at least change the name after the election.
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SueC
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:22pmI’d like to post this on another site but need to have the source information on a lot of this so when the libs there rise (and they will) I have the sources to combat with.
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swamp_donkey
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:50pmlol calling glen beck a source is like calling allen west sane lmao
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TheePolitinator
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:24pmMr Swamp Donkey, your a fool, an ignorant ill informed instrument of an agenda your imbecilic little pea brain simply can’t grasp. I bet your I.Q. sits at about 45.
Go back to media matters lemming.
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Verceofreason
Sep. 26, 2012 at 1:19amAllen West get his “idea”s from Action Comic books
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wisehiney
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:14pm“And then the Great TEA Partier rises from the pumpkin patch and vanquishes them all!”
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TheePolitinator
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:42pmI bet the only great thing you have done is fart in class and make some idiot laugh. STFU
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Verceofreason
Sep. 26, 2012 at 1:21amThe Tea Party is official dead.
Get some new hearing aid batteries for them so they get the messsage.
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saranda
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:12pmGas prices have not hit the highs of 2008. The lows of late 2008 and early 2009 were entirely based on the beginnings of the global economic crisis and kind of a silly basis for comparison.
As for global competitiveness, considering the USA doesn’t really make anything and we are a nation of consumers it is amazing we are even top ten still.
College tuition is a really tough thing to hang on the president.
Debt is legit but how hard is gb having to stretch in this one.
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needmoinfo
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:29pm6 trill is 6 trill. That is a stat no one can dispute. A lot of it spent unwisely. A lot of it just disappeared. That by itself is enough to fire him. No argument to keep him can over ride 6 TRILLIONS DOLLARS. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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wisehiney
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:33pmGas prices at record prices for August/Sept.
Competitiveness drop due to taxes and regulation.
College tuition due to liberal education subsidies, housing bubble for same reason.
oBUMMER not responsible for more debt, HA!
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wisehiney
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:00pmI am gonna make up a new Halloween story about the oBUMMER weasel monster. “He was banished in 2012, but he still slithers in on dark nights to take all of the bad children away.” You kids had better behave!
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dwf1
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:10pmStop blaming BO he is not the problem. The problem is obtuse (stupid) Americans who vote for him. And then there is the GOP. God help us please!
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wisehiney
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:12pmOK, I can make up stories about them too.
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Hanner
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:25pmGlenn needs to turn that over to Crossroads and let them run with it. Fun, Fun.
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dwf1
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:28pmI think we agree. If the GOP would stop the attacks and go after the record… maybe America would have a chance. I don’t have any idea what to do about stupid. Idiot proof it and along comes a better idiot.
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dwf1
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:38pmOne last comment; how in the 7734 does a admitted failure have a chance at being reelected?
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Sep. 25, 2012 at 8:57pmDamaging as all get-out, and we know the MSM will say absolutly nothing on the matter when it comes to their god-king Obama.
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swamp_donkey
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:52pmyep we need bush back cuz everyone knows he had everything heading in the right direction
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SimpleTruths
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:09pm“Romney: “I will help usher in a revival in American manufacturing.” —Mitt Romney, 5/8/2012
Reality: Under Romney’s leadership, Massachusetts manufacturing declined by double the national rate, and was the third-worst overall in the country.
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honor007
Sep. 25, 2012 at 8:56pmTHIS IS AN AWESOME AD!!!
Speaks in facts and truths, and no celebrities or voice overs.
Love to see more like this in different areas of corruption!!!!
I say Romney/Ryan needs to hire Mercury One for their Advertisement needs.
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RamonPreston
Sep. 25, 2012 at 8:53pmThe question is: What will the numbers look like after another 4 years of Obama?
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oldguy49
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:00pmcuba
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cemerius
Sep. 25, 2012 at 9:46pmSomolia……..
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Blitz
Sep. 25, 2012 at 10:32pmWeimar Republic.
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Verceofreason
Sep. 26, 2012 at 1:26amPrince Romney still think one gets family medical care and treatment for chronic ailments
and seriously disease from an ER.
What more has to be said =CLUELESS
He’s going to do away with Obamacare and leave 50 million Americans uninsured
because hey “They won’t vote for me anyhow”.
What a wonderful president and human being Romney is.
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Apple Bite
Sep. 26, 2012 at 5:45amPoland 1945
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