"Hold your nose and vote Obama in 2012"

A reminder, that I'll make even at the risk of being labelled an Obama apologist - we could do WORSE domestically. Take, for instance, the misleading GOP accusations that seem to describe Obama's administration as having exclusively and grossly increased the national debt. In fact, Republican Ronald Reagan was the first US president to push that debt over one trillion dollars. Democrat Bill Clinton was the last president to balance the budget and leave this country with a budget surplus, which the Republican Bush regime promptly squandered on two wars funded, so to speak, on a credit card. There was also Bush's exorbitant boon to the pharmaceutical industry known as Medicare Part D. Ultimately, George W. Bush racked up more red ink - at least five trillion dollars worth - than all his predecessors COMBINED. Bush and Cheney also managed to destroy the American economy in the process, as anyone who remembers the stock market crash of September 2008 is forced to concede. True, Obama hasn't done everything right by any estimation, but at least his administration helped save the US automotive sector. And don't forget, the much-criticized TARP program was begun by Bush/Cheney. In all fairness, Obama sure as hell was handed one unenviable financial situation by the previous Neocon regime. We could do worse, and under Romney/Ryan, we surely would. As if all that isn't reason enough, Romney proposed about a year ago that we should privatize disaster relief efforts; imagine how that would have affected the response to Hurricane Sandy. Not good, not good... http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/18-ways-mitt-romney-is-just-like-george-w-bush-20121018 "Romney's tax-cut math just doesn't add up. The last time America took a faith-based plunge on this kind of tax policy, Bush turned a $5 trillion projected surplus into $5 trillion in new debt." http://www.holdyournoseandvoteobama2012.com/