Please educate us about where he was truthful and untruthful!

Great impassioned speech by Bill Clinton and that is what will make the difference in this election.  The democrats speak with conviction, the republicans don't.  It's been said in the past that you can't hide your feelings - Romney's the exception to that rule.  He speaks like a computer!  (He reminds me of Marsha Coakley).  Romney lacks sincerity and that is why he'll lose this election. 

Clinton is so good at speech giving that he could say the sky is green and I'd want to believe him. There were more than a few inaccuracies and even some seeming outright lies in that passionate pitch (http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/FACT-CHECK-Clinton-claims-of-compromise-a-stretch-3842906.php) but boy he sure gave it with conviction and even a near tear in his eye at times. 

Both parties continue to insult the intelligence of the citizens with their "lookie over there so you won't see me with my hand in the cookie jar over here" tactics. They oversell past accomplishments while leaving out the downside. We never hear details of their intended solutions. It is easy to paint a rosy picture when you don't have to say how you'll do it and when you know you can't really do it but it won't matter. 

Was President Obama naive or dishonest when he told us he'd cut the debt in half and turn the economy around in 3 years or he'd be a one-term President? If he was naive, we should seek to understand if he's had enough on-the-job training to be better qualified this time around. If we was dishonest we probably shouldn't re-hire him. We, our children and our grand children cannot afford another 4 years in which we add more than $1,000,000,000,000 per year to our debt.

Every program has admirable goals and we'd be blessed to be able to afford them all but we can't. Even if we raise taxes on the top 3%, we won't be able to keep up with the interest expense which is mostly owed to ourselves in the Social Security and Medicare funds. Defaulting on the loans means defaulting on those programs' ability to operate. And when interest on debt exceeds GDP, defaulting is a real possibility. We're headed in that direction if we don't change. We now have more National debt per person than Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal's citizens. Yet we're running to spend more and cheering about it. Yes our economy is larger and we can afford more debt than those countries but not without any limits. As citizens, we're being remarkably short-sighted and selfish in this regard and we and our country are headed towards paying the price and taking the rest of the world with us. 

. . . and the Emperor has new clothes! 

I only peek at the Globe every so often.  For me, it's like scratching a mosquito bite until it bleeds to stop the itching.  I wonder if it even bothers the editors at all that every article about Obama never contains one single negative or even questioning slant to it, while every article about Romney never contains one single positive slant and is ALWAYS filled with buts, howevers, and in sharp contrast to's.  It's astounding how completely biased this paper is.  Then again, it is published in Massachusetts so I guess no one sees it as an issue.  Remarkable.

From NHCabin----------

This comment is intended for the article about migrants that ARE NOT IN ISRAEL.  Each time I try to post I get an error message.Someone was kind enough to let me use their log-in*************************************We are ALL lucky to live in the land of plenty. ***********Africa is a mess.*********** These refugees are in EGYPT. Why isn't anyone asking why they do not want to stay in EGYPT. My guess is- ISRAEL is a democracy. It is a land of hope, much the same as America. These refugees passed through Egypt to camp at a BORDER FENCE. You will notice ASSOCIATED PRESS did not querry why these poor , displaced people were not made welcome and comfortable in EGYPT. Since these people are in EGYPT under international law can EGYPT return these people. Why is that Israel's issue. WHERE IS THE CRITICISM OF EGYPT

Pres. Clinton promoting Pres. Obama...who is so stupid to tell the small businessperson he didn't build it, after risking everything he owned and worked probably 80hrs aweek to get started (my daughter has)....but then Pres. Obama had everything handed to him (if you have bad marks in high school and high on dope) how did he get into elite schools??? Affirmative action and Elizabeth Warren played the same game to get ahead. Can we afford Pres. Obama for another 4 years where he increased the deficit $5 trillion dollars in 4 years, added 21 million people to food stamps and Obamacare adds 30 million to medicaid plus all the illegals he is giving free amnesty. Cutting $716 billion from medicare that hurts the elderly to fund his Obamacare. And a president that promises Pres. Putin that he will be flexable when re-elected...is the scariest part of his administration...selling out our country.

Neither candidate is perfect. But all we have are two choices. Why only two? You will have to vote for the lesser of two evils. I will vote for Obama, first, for a superficial reason: He has great command of the english language and probably the best orator we have seen since FDR and Reagan. As for his wife, I hope to see her more and more on the screen with her eloquent delivery, probably as good or better than her husband's. She is the first of all first ladies, I think, except for Eleanor. I am sad, though, that Obama has not lived up to many of his promises. Guantanomo is still here. He signed on Christmas Eve, rather sneakily, the NDAA bill, that allows federal troops to arrest you and take you away indefinitely with no right to a lawyer, no right of habeas corpus and no right to a jury or fair trial. Then he signed for the extension of the Patriot's Act, another violation of our constitutional rights. And more. But Clinton's logic is surgically correct: Why re-elect the Republican rascals that caused the economic mess in the first place? Besides, Romney is a lousy orator and I can't wait to hear Michelle and hubbie give another speech. Both are high class.