Foreign Policy:

During the Bush administration our popularity around the world hit an all time low, no time in history has so much of the world rooted against us, and this was a direct result of 1. "cowboy diplomacy" which basically meant we do whatever we want and to hell with everyone else. 2. simply our President was an idiot, and while this is funny to some, most Westernized nations see this as a serious character flaw, not his character, ours for electing him.

While Romney seems much brighter than Bush Jr. there's no reason to believe he would not have continued the "cowboy diplomacy" that has crippled our world influence.

In comparison, just in the few months since Obama has been President, and Clinton Secretary of State, our popularity has risen dramatically.

This is a direct result of actually talking and listening to other nations, friends and enemies alike. This has been the foreign policy theory of every great President that we have ever had. Yet of course conservatives call it "apologizing" and get all bent out of shape. The fact is though, American stock is rising, and in the long run that means less hatred for America, which means less terrorism, and more international help with the necessary wars and other crisises in the future.

Economy:

I'm constantly amazed at humans' capacity to rewrite history, often before it is even written, to ignore the real problems, while clinging and agonizing over side-shows and talking points and terms like socialism or communism.

The indisputable facts are that, all of these economic crisises; banks, housing, cost of health care, wage discrpencies, rapant corruption on wall street, etc,

all, all of them are a direct result of a lack of oversight

Now, say what you will about what the solution to this is, whether Obama is taking the right path, etc.

Argue that until you're blue in the face and as long as you have an answer that isn't exactly what we did to get into the mess - then you're part of the conversation.

Unfortunately many Republicans, and Romney can count himself as part of it, have opted to 1. say there's nothing wrong and it will correct itself, 2. pay lip service to change, when really they only want to keep the status quo, and keep their contributors and personal business interests happy, 3. pretend the last 8 years didn't happen and preach less oversight like the crazy guy on the corner talking about the sky falling.

Well some don't like Obama's plan, but I can tell you it's better than nothing, and yeah, nothing is exactly what Romney would be doing at this point.

Environment:

That pollution is bad is an inescapable fact. If you want to believe there's no such thing as global warming, or in the easter bunny, or that the earth is flat, fine whatever. But on some basic level even crazy people can believe that it would be nice to have less pollution right?

Clean energy, even if global warming really is a myth, would at the least cut down on pollution, create jobs here in the US that cannot be exported, keep the trillions we send overseas every single year to countries like Saudi Arabia right here in the US.

There are only 2 kinds of people against clean energy, the ignorant, and people who have a bunch of stock in oil and don't give a rat's ass.

Unfortunately Romney definitely falls in one of those two groups, while Obama most certainly does not.

Social:

Obama has recently replaced one Liberal leaning justice with another Liberal leaning justice.

Romney would have nominated an anti-abortion, far right judge.

This may or may not have over time allowed religion to become an integral part of our government (even more so) which means less science and less acceptance of all people and cultures.

It also would have given anti-abortion proponents another shot at making it illegal, which history has shown over and over and over and over and over... means more young mothers dying in dirty basements because of unsanitary abortion procedures performed by people who may are may not have a medical degree, and the exact same number of abortions being performed every year

While you have Faux and Rush and Savage and whoever else screaming bloody murder at things like the firemen issue with Sotomayor or the thing with the cops arresting the black professor,

the fact is, the US does have race issues, that's why these small cases that actually no one should even hear about, constantly make national news. Old white people think they're not racist but really are, old minorities think the white man's out to get them whether they really are or not, and these two views collide and you get two otherwise intelligent and good people like the prof and the cop in crazy race driven situations.

Meanwhile the young people of all races are looking around at these situations and saying "wtf is going on?" And they can grow up just like their parents did, or not, and we'll see.

Because for 50 years probably now one has said a word about about race, and things stay pretty much the same with small problems and improvements here and there and an occassional riot to difuse all the tension until we do it all over again. Meanwhile no one says a word about it, at least no one that anyone is listening to.

Now guess what, we have a black president who I think surprised the hell out of everyone by answering as a human and taking the prof's side publically. As 99.9 percent of black men would. He was being a real person and got a lot of crap for it for a couple days.

And what happened? Was there a race war? No. Did Jesus come down and Rapture all the good Christians and let the devil take over? Was there plague and pestilence?

Nope, there was a mature conversation. The prof and cop came together in the middle somewhere, which is where it had always really been, and people grew a little and became better people.

Obama wasn't elected because of his race, or in spite of it, he was elected because he was far and away the best candidate at this time.

but I will say that having a President who isn't a white male, and who wasn't born with a silver spoon, and who was from a broken home like so many people today,

and who apparently is very ready to talk about race whenever it is brought up,

is just about the best thing for us right now.

Do those of you who write the prezez name with two R's realize there is only one R in his name. It's Barack...Barack Obama. I mean if you're going to argue about him get the spelling right. He is our President, after all!

No. Barack Obama isn't absolutely insane. Mitt Romney is a religious nutcase. Granted, Obama is moving rather slowly about doing what he promised, at least he's moving toward it. Mitt Romney would have been horrible.

Yes, simply because he is more qualified than Barrack Obama in economics.

There sis no way the Mitt Romney would be a better president than Barrack Obama, and I wish people woudld stop making debates about this. It is getting rediculous. Obama won the election, he is our president for 4 years GET OVER IT!

Of course, Mitt Romney would be a better president.

1) He loves America and the Judeo-Christian ideals on which it was founded.

2)He has real world experience in running businesses, states, the Olympics. He understands economics at a time when our country needs a stready hand and an experienced leader at the helm.

3)He is a positive and decent role model who believes the best days of our country are still ahead. He would not be leading an apology tour throughout Europe and elsewhere dragging us down and demoralizing us.

4)He can speak without the assistance of a teleprompter.

5)He believes in free market principles, individual rights and understands that the American people should be in charge not the government.

6) He's not only perceived as competent, he IS competent.

I could go on..... http://thecompetentconservative.com/2009/07/24/health-law-costs-are-not-the-problem-in- ma/

Mitt will stomp all over Obama in the debates and will be one of the greatest Presidents this country has ever known.

Mitt Romney: "Stimulate the economy, not government"

2012

Romney actually would have executive experience as opposed to experiance in organizing communities.

Yes of course Romney would. It is now painfully obvious that Obama lacks any real world leadership or management skills. He is an ideological driven academic elitist that has not had a legitimate job in his life. His fortunes have risen by good looks, charm and the ability to speak well. All necessary skills for the best leaders but such cannot be the substitute for hard experience solving demanding, complex problems. Its like eating frosting with no cake, tasty for second of two but one grows quickly tired and sick of it.

On the contrary, Romney spent a long private career solving exactly those kind of problems. He knows success and failure. Name Obama's biggest failure. Can't? Did he not have any? That should tell you loads. Romney lost a Senate race and a Presidential campaign. And I guarantee he saw many failures and mistakes in the private investing world. You know more about a person from failures than successes.

The US government is the largest, most complex enterprise in the history of mankind. Romney has accumulated long experience diagnosing and solving such problems. What is needed now more that anything is a leader with experience and skills. Romney has it, Obama doesn't.

Wow it look's like I'm not the only Romney supporter on this site. This surprises me!

Romney does have real world business experience, while Obama only knows politics. They are both arrogant, but Obama speaks in a very vague and comforting way that people like. So I think people like Obama more from his personality and stage presence, although Romney might be better at doing the job.

Three Trillion dollars better. Or is it more than that amount? I lost count.

But seriously ppl, ya. Think about it. He actually has real business experience. And also his brain is not drug addled. Have you noticed how halting Obamas speech is? Looong pause.

Any president that understands the ideas of Free Enterprise will do better than any one who does not. Free Enterprise built this country to the point where we can be very generous. NOT Scocial Justice.

Hell ya! Obama hasn't done anything good for this country yet people still worship him! Why is this? I assure you with complete and total certainty it's because he is black. No matter what anyone says the truth is Obama is black and since we don't want to seem like a racist country and boo our first black president, we let him get away with all sorts of bull shit that we wouldn't allow anyone who was white to get away with. That and the fact that almost all colleges teach liberal eticit and even now they are spreading the liberal mindset in public schools too I am starting to observe! When will this madness end?!

No president in the U.S ever apology for his own people and around the world like Obama attack,blame,critic,and anti America in the history,even Mrs.Clinton,sorry,where is America value? Obama is the wrong man for the wrong job,the wrong person for the wrong place,and the wrong leader for the wrong country. Wake up, America! you still have better leader,most experience leader, smarter leader,stronger leader, America loving leader,and true America leader Mitt that can lead America to prosperity and will lead the world,in his leadership,he protect America, carry America value,and represent America principle,he is the hope of America,he is the America dream,he is the man that met the need of America now, America will rally with him in 2012,and they will replace Obama by Mitt in 2013, and sent Obama back to Illinois,so he can takes some vacation to Kenya. Mitt can be a great president,and so America will lead the world as Reagan did.

This argument does not state "at what" would Mitt Romney be a president than Barrack Obama. First of all, Barrack Obama (it's Barack) does not exist so I would win the argument right there. But I will ignore this fact and move on. I choose that the "what" be the Stormin' Mormon Deuce of Clubs book club. Being that Mitt Romney is a Mormon and Obama not, Mitt would be a better president of the club. Argument resolved.

Wouldn't you be prouder saying "President Mitt Romney" rather than "President Barrack Obama"? I know thaty I would! I mean, Mitt Romney sounds so much more official! (;

The real question may be who wouldnt make a better President than Obama?

This would be a very short list indeed!