Actually, twfox, I was thinking more along the lines of Jimmy Carter. The economy seems very similar to what was going on during that election. Jimmy was well liked as an individual, but he did a lousy job as President. I was quite happy to cast a vote to remove him from office. I will be equally glad to cast my vote to remove Obama from office. He's done a terrible job by any objective standard, and it is time for him to go.

In her mind, she is one of the elites who get to tell the "little people" what to do. She is the poster child for "Do as I say, not as I do." She is every bit as narcissistic as her flappy eared spouse.

Shoppin, obviously you missed some of the complaints from Black ministers stating they could not support the President on this issue. Whether or not that translates into lost votes is another issue, but there have been voices in the Black community disagreeing with Obama and his recent statement of support for gay marriage. Blacks vote even more strongly against gay marriage than whites do when it is put to a vote by the people.

Shoppin, so what? Most American women use telephones, too. By that reasoning, the government should provide free phones for every woman too. How many more freebies do you want the government to provide, and where do you think the money will come from? I prefer to provide for my own care, and since I am in my 60s, I do not need a health care package that covers contraception, pregnancy and a host of other things that might apply to a woman in her childbearing years. The problem with government is that I would not have to option of leaving those things out of my health care coverage because the government has decreed that those items must be included. That decree means that lots of taxpayer money is wasted on services I don't need.

Actually, it's worse than that. As the former president, he gets a pension for life at the expense of we the taxpayers. Too bad there is nothing we can do about that.

GP, calling other posters here puppets is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. Where are your original thoughts? All I see from you are liberal talking points. So my question for you is simply this; who is the puppet here?

GP, you might want to check out those numbers from GM a little more closely before you go touting the GM bailout as a great success. Obama rewarded his union buddies with majority interest in GM and illegally forced the primary bondholders to forfeit their interest in the company. That violates every law on the books regarding who gets paid first in a bankruptcy. And GM did go into bankruptcy. As a result of Obama's shenanigans with GM, who still hasn't paid back the loans it received from taxpayers, I will never buy a GM product. I know many people who feel the same way. Ditto for Chrysler. Spouting the liberal talking points is neither intelligent nor persuasive.

John3138, as someone who is currently in a clinical psychology doctoral program, I can attest to the fact that this is a very controversial topic in psychology. Children go through a great many stages during their biological and psychological development. Four year old children do not have the developmental maturity to make such decisions and they need parents who provide guidance rather than indulgence. If the child insisted he/she had an imaginary friend named Harvey, would you treat the child for schizophrenia or would you consider the child as indulging in the kind of fantasy that is common in children that age?

There is no such thing as an IE Democrat. If they were truly informed and educated, they wouldn't be a Democrat. There is a vast difference between being educated and informed and being indoctrinated with progressive propaganda.

ericynot, using 2 completely unrelated facts to try to force a correlation to try to prove a point is meaningless. How does passing a piece of legislation on one side of this issue or the other relate to the divorce rate? To make a valid correlation, you must first postulate as to how the two are or are not related. Are they directly or inversely proportional? I could make correlations similar to yours all day long and all I would accomplish would be a sending a useless blather of words into the etherspace.