This statement by President Obama today is exactly what I have been thinking on my own: "I can't speak to Governor Romney's motivations. What I can say is that he has signed up for positions, extreme positions, that are very consistent with positions that a number of House Republicans have taken. And whether he actually believes in those or not, I have no doubt that he would carry forward some of the things that he's talked about."
As for the claim that we are not better off economically than we were four years ago, that is quantifiably false. When Obama took office we were in a negative economic slide of proportions the US had not seen since the Great Depression. You can speculate whether his actions brought us out as quickly as we could have, although even here you have to reckon with a Republican controlled House that pretty much kept him from doing anything he wanted after Ted Kennedy died.
What you cannot do is say that we are worse than we were four years ago. Four years ago we were going in a negative direction. Right now we are going in a positive direction. The debt in itself is not the gauge but the trajectory.
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