Bill, It was the same for me and I was born 31 years later. Lars, I was born 20 years later. In the summer, my mother would pack a lunch and we'd come home for dinner. We'd be across the street in the neighbor's pool, at the neighborhood playground. In someone's yard playing stickball or kickball. In the winter after school it was street hockey every day. And I fully intend to let my kids do the same.

Kuwull, Just so you know, I have a 7 (almost 8) year old son who insists he's going to be a contractor because he loves building and wants to build houses. I've sort of encouraged him getting into hands on work and will encourage both him and my daughter to learn some sort of useful skill in the school's Vo-Tech program. Then whether or not they go to college, they have some real and useful skill to fall back on. Mike T.

Kathleen, I've often wondered why the "graduated" (or should I say "Progressive" or "Communist"?) income tax can't be held unconstitutional based on 14th amendment equal protection considerations. Is there something in the law or the 16th amendment that supersedes that? Just wondering. Mike T.

I fear that Rubio was put up on a pedastal by conservatives for all the wrong reasons and now he's doing this because he thinks he can get away with it. I wonder if he feels that he can betray conservatives and they will simply say "the alternative is worse" and vote for him anyways. It is time to do something about people like this...and unfortunately Americans don't seem to have the testicular fortitude to do so.

Republican Jeff Sessions has already come out against the framework, specifically how the border enforcement "trigger" would work, saying "how the trigger works and the way it would be effected in some ways appears weaker than the one in 2007." I realize that I am a simple-minded, conservative with 2 degrees in engineering, but can someone please explain the concept of a "border enforcement 'trigger'" to me? Shouldn't our borders be enforced? Period, end of story, no more. We are a sovereign nation with a border that should be secured from people entering illegally or from invading military forces. Is there a reason that this simple concept is so difficult for people like Marco Rubio?

ordinary Americans that their lives are worse BECAUSE OF Obama, they will continue to lose to him. This polling data is nice, but misses the point.

ordinary Americans that their lives are worse BECAUSE OF Obama, they will continue to lose to him. This polling data is nice, but misses the point.

ordinary Americans that their lives are worse BECAUSE OF Obama, they will continue to lose to him. This polling data is nice but misses the point.

His policies have taken over our healthcare system to create more power and dependency on government. His preferred policy on immigration is to import more people who are dependent on government. His preferred policy on guns is to take them out of the hands of ordinary citizens to make us dependent on government for safety and to prevent us from stopping the government from doing what it wants. He is attempting to create a society dominated by government and the worst of his impulses were tempered during his first term due to a need to be re-elected. He has no reason to fear the wrath of voters now and can, essentially, "do as he pleases." This is all being done by design and until conservatives begin to articulate to...

Guy, While I admire your tireless efforts to bring us polling results, I think that you're missing the most important point here, which is this: Obama doesn't care! I don't believe he's the most intelligent man to ever hold the Presidency and I don't believe that he's the "smartest man in the room" at any point. I do, however, believe he is a reasonably intelligent and is an obviously well-educated man. He's also President of the United States, which means he can get advice from almost anyone he wants on a host of issues. All of that said, what is doing policy-wise is entirely on purpose. His policies hurt the economy and prevent job creation because it creates dependency on government.