Leno: “We wasted four years waiting for Obama to do something about the economy”

Leno: “We wasted four years waiting for Obama to do something about the economy.” Au contraire, as they say in the land of the 75% tax rate. Obama DID do something about the economy, he made it frigging WORSE!

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  • Jcrowley1985 it is time to face it Ron Paul is not going to even be on the ballot this time around. Yes we are saddled with less than an ideal candidate. I wanted Santorum to be the nominee and it did not happen. From your handle i will take it that you are not thirty yet. Having been around a bit longer let me share some advise I once got. Sometimes you are going to have a lose. When that happens you need to learn the lessons from the lose and turn it around and make it into a win the next time.

    I will admit that Congressman Paul has some very good domestic ideas. His foreign policies are not so much. We live in a very dangerous and unpredictable world that does require to have interactions with other nations. I also believe that if we give our money (tax payers) to a foreign country they need to accept the conditions that goes along with it.

    Hopefully Senator Rand Paul will have a much better chance at becoming President Paul. He is cut from the same cloth as his father.

    • deepthinker:"Yes we are saddled with less than an ideal candidate. I wanted Santorum to be the nominee and it did not happen."

      My thoughts exactly.

      deepthinker:"Hopefully Senator Rand Paul will have a much better chance at becoming President Paul."

      Rand Paul was thinking about running this time, but basically decided he wasn't going to run against his Dad. I can see Rand Paul potentially putting together a winning coalition of Libertarians, fiscal conservatives, social conservatives and maybe even some moderates and liberals in a way his father just couldn't.

    • We won't survive 4 years of Romney's war mongering and selling out to corporate interests, so noone else will get the chance to run for president.

      • WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! want a towel to cry into?

    • STFU you moron....What the hell does that have to do with this thread? I swear you must have an inflatable Ron Paul doll in your basement room along with an alter to which you pray to him nightly..Grow up for God's sake! I have seen many one sided boobs here, including the O and some other wastes of flesh, but you are winning the Darwin award for stupidity. Ron Paul is yesterdays news...or did you miss that? No wonder you have trouble getting along in life...Your so stuck in your fetish you can't see the whole world go by.....and there you will be in mom's basement till your 80 and then you'll be found at room temperature still holding a picture of Ron Paul...

      • Rand has a bit of the olde charisma of which his father seems quite deficient. While his dad sounded ready to toss Israel under the bus in his anti-aid tirades, I'm not sure Rand shares that sentiment. In any case, while his dad was a better choice over Mitt in many regards, he remains completely unelectable for too many reasons. I think it would be a great boon for the ticket to express an interest in putting Dr. Paul in charge of the Treasury. Burning the FED out of existence is a noble goal.

        • @Defhm, the links & vid about Panetta in this are worth looking into when you have time. Also the group he mentions when talking about Ron Paul (don't do wiki, try this one http://www.cfr.org/international-peace-and-security/shanghai-cooperation-organization/p10883)

          And since I know ↑tried-ass↑ wont even click the link, here's how he starts his discussion about Ron Paul

          TREVOR LOUDON: "There’s a lot I like about Ron Paul, his Constitutional stuff is superb, but Ron Paul has come under the influence of the Left on Foreign Policy, I’m afraid, and some people who support him may not like to hear that.

          He commissioned a paper in 2010 on Defense cuts, and that was commissioned with Barney Frank who has an FBI record like you wouldn’t believe, and they commissioned the Massachusetts Institute to write that defense cuts policy, and sure enough it recommended huge defense cuts.

          The Massachusetts Institute is controlled by Democratic Socialists of America. It’s a Marxist group, and Ron Paul is promoting a Marxist defense policy, so look, this is not 1776 anymore."

          http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2012/09/trevor-loudon-outs-leon-panetta-video-do-you-know-who-panetta-really-is-loudon-on-ron-paul-foreign-policy/

        • Mitt would never allow the Fed to be disbursed under his presidency. Him and his corporate friends depend too much on the endless supply of fiat currency to fund their bailouts.

    • I'd bet serious money I haven't watched an entire hour of one of those shows since Mr. Carson called it a day. Damn, I'm old. Calvin & Hobbes, Carson, Farside, what's this world coming to...

  • Hey Jay, he did what he was sent here to do! Depend on the Republicans to do the rest! We need to get away from both major parties and get a smaller, more conservative government that actually follows the Constitution for once!