The Globe and it's mother ship, the NY Times, continue their campaign to tear down Mitt Romney. It won't work. Barack Obama can't run away from persistently high unemployment, a health care plan that most Americans reject, a disastrous foreign policy, an EPA that seeks to drive up energy prices, etc.

Willard, you do know you cant lie about everything, right?

Hey...stop reading this stuff...As Scott Brown has been saying in his radio minutes, there are millions of people pretending to be veterans and that is what we should be focussing on!

"Ozark" I would agree that Obama has to accept responsibility for the current economy. On the other hand Mitt has to accept responsibility for the time he headed Bain and the results of Bain's actions. You cannot on one hand say Obama is responsible for all he touches but Mitt is not responsible for the actions of a vulture capitalism firm. Can't agree on foreign policy I find Obama's foreign policy far more conservative than Bush's. I also like most of the ACA so personally I think Obama should explain it better and tout it more. It seems to me you find it awfully easy to blame Obama for things while at the same time saying Mitt didn't do anything. I doubt Mitt can hide from this or his prior tax returns which one thinks may not be very flattering.

*****I am sick unto death of this race for president and senate. I wish I could click heals, like Dorothy, and find the truth about where these candidates STAND ON THE ISSUES. I am sooooooo disappointed in news papers as a whole, not just the Globe, for their lack of truth in reporting. None of them, newspapers, are able to take THEIR POLITICS out of the reporting on the candidates.****************And another thing----who cares how much money they are raising? Do we need a day by day report? Is that all you can find to report on?********** It would be helpful if the issues were listed-- and candidates ACTUAL POSITIONS were given for each, NOT JUNK TALK, actual fact based positions.****** I know. NOT GONNA HAPPEN. AH WELL

I don't know why anyone would believe anything Romney says. Seems each day, there is a new revelation regarding his secretive, dishonest behavior. And as for blaming the Globe for reporting significant facts about the candidates marginal versions of the truth... Is winning worth electing a candidate you don't really know?

Romney has a problem with honesty. As a college student he pretended to be a cop. When he ran for governor he pretended to be a moderate. When he ran for president he pretended to be a conservative. He's an impostor.

If success disqualifies one from being President, the, perhaps, Curt Schilling should be the candidate.

and in real news: First the expected: last week's 374K in initial claims was revised upward to 376K as is now the norm. Then the unexpected: this week's initial claims dropped to 350K, well below expectations of 372K, and purely an artifact of the holiday shortened week as this was the biggest miss to expectations since November 2008. Of course, the Not Seasonally Adjusted claims number rising by 70K is very much irrelevant: it is all about statistical smoothing as those who have leaked access to early release BLS data will tell us. Finally, here is what the BLS actually said: "onetime factors such as fewer auto-sector layoffs than normal likely caused the sharp decline." Continuing claims did miss expectations of 3300K printing at 3304K, and down from a revised 3318K

then report Obama's whole record too - pre-Presidency

What about Obama's pre-presidency record? Why is the Globe not asking for the financial papers of Obama's past? One thing we know is that Obama is now listed as a multimillionaire, although he needed to borrow money to purchase their Chicago house in 2007. The media, including the GLOBE fails to apply the same inquiry standard to the presidential candidates for both campaigns, 2008 & 2012. The Globe is a newspaper and need to provide clarification of Obama's financial transactions and why not also giving us a factual analysis of what Obama and the elected Democratic congressmen & senators have done for the past 4 years in Washington. Four years . . . 4 years . . . we know that lots of our tax money was given away in bailouts and bonuses to Wall Street supporters,and that we are hearing of more unemployment for the tax-paying public.

So 'atomicdesigner' - you think you know Obama? The elected officials he is supposed to consult with claim they don't know Obama. Many of his fellow politicians have never spoken to Obama. Remember Obama's promise to 'work across the aisle?' It didn't happen - you don't know him. So, who are you going to vote for 'atomicdesigner?' Do you know yourself? You can write your name on the ballot if you think you know yourself!

Thank you, Globe, for hammering away at Mitt Romney for his endless prevarications. Keep shooting at that moving target.

I am not interested in Bain Capital or what Romney has done in the past. This newspaper should give us President Obama and Governor Romney's views on what they are offering for the future, then we can decide who to vote for.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us - if at all - not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

I think it is pretty clear what the candidates stand for. Obama cares about taking are of people: health care, jobs, women, education. Romney cares about corporations: low taxes, no health care, education only for those who can afford it, and the Republican war on women. Romney knows how to make money for himself, but why should that translate to letting the rest of the country in on the good stuff? After all, he sent his own money overseas. I'm sorry that the Republicans have blocked other Obama initiatives. If we raised taxes on the rich, we could start hammering away at the deficit, too. But at least we've stopped bleeding -800,000 jobs per month that we had under Bush. https://pusz4frog.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/private-sector-job-growth-chart-for-bush-and-obama-how-technology-is-making-high-unemployment-a-fact-for-the-new-work-force-of-our-future.jpg

I'm almost there with you Rick. The future is indeed the key. The past gives us some insight towards the path they will take but I don't put as much stock into that as some others do.

As my kids like to say "Oh Snap!". Your comment is on target. Romney knows both success and failure. That is at least one of the attributes I want in a candidate.

I am truly flattered that Off Track Betting, Messin' and other posters are my daily followers and go out of their way to register their dislikes. This motivates me to post even more often. :)

Obama's been pretending to be presidential for over 3 years. Biden has been pretending to be a man in control of his words for far longer. Your move.

I'm willing to bet there is a very plausible explaination and I look forward to reading/hearing it. There's no way Romney wasn't fully aware that publically available information like this was going to make its way out. Frankly I'm stunned it took so long. I'm pretty sure this is a failed attempt at "gotcha journalism".

I'll second that and up the ante by referring to Obama's on pre-election promises about such things as the unemployment rate and the debt ceiling just to name two. There has been far too little focus on deliverables on the part of the Obama Admin. In my world, it's similar to a forecast. Of course there's going to be some "drift" but FLOG I would have put him on a work plan and then fired him long ago if he delivered so poorly on his pre-election forecast as he has.

An Obama success story? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-gm-channel-stuffing

I think you'll find this is all old stuff, vetted during the run up to the 2008 election. Not "news" in any sense now.