User blog comment:Nathan8039/Election Day! - Your Voice/Your Vote./@comment-5052981-20121030155829/@comment-3247345-20121031040903

1. Most of that was the result of the deficit Bush ran up. Obama took the blame because he was honest enough to put the several hundred billion dollars a year we spend on war into the actual budget instead of counting it as "supplemental" to mislead the public about the real debt. Other than the Obamacare most of the deficits that caused the debt were inherited from Bush's term.

2. That's because Congress blocked him on that. Classic case of bipartisan "not in my back yard" syndrome (with the terrorists' housing). Both parties are to blame for this but Obama isn't.

3. You can blame Congress for that. You can also blame Bush's wars that Obama inherited. Budgeting isn't as easy as you think it is. Like it or not the government has a major role in the economy not matter who the president is. Simply slashing the budget and demanding that middle class pay for millionaire's tax cuts will crash the economy. I have to wonder about the right wingers who complain about the massive spending under Obama. Where were they when Bush was maxing out the credit card pursuing a personal vendetta against Saddam? Were they drunk for the 8 years Bush was in office then wake up with hangover on the day of Obama's inauguration thinking "What happened?"

4. The people who say that are the only ones bringing race into this equation. Obama didn't say a word about his race during his campaign. This reminds me of the people who call everything racist but they're the only ones who see race at all. These people turn out to be the real racists.

5. You can blame the high gas prices on Bush because of the supply shock that resulted from one of the world's largest oil producers being invaded because Saddam "try to kill [Bush's] daddy" and the people he scared the crap out of by doing that.

6. Yes he did. He killed a dictator with American blood on his hands. He did it without ground troops, without one US soldier dying, and at a cost of about a billion dollars. Compare that with the several trillion dollars spent in Iraq. 5000 soldiers dead and 30000 wounded. He got rid of a dictator for 0% of the casualties and less than 1% of the monetary cost.

7. Define the war in Iraq. Yes it's still a warzone. But American troops are no longer fighting and dying over there. It's just a bunch of religious zealots killing each other. That you can blame on Bush for over throwing the dictator that kept these wackos in line.

8. Yes, and there's more Republicans than Democrats in the House of Representatives. They're the ones who almost caused us to default on the debt Bush ran up. Both parties are to blame for the gridlock.

9. Very childish.

10. How? By not being able to clean up the mess President Numbnuts left in 4 years?

@Jon23812 Don't bother. The right wing votes based on ideology and propaganda. Except for the extremely rich. They know exactly what they're doing when they vote for the likes of Romney. I'd know. I used to be Republican until earlier this year. Then I looked at the facts. The only reason I wrote what I did was for people willing to look at the facts.