Don't vote Obama, but don't vote Republican either; vote Libertarian in Republican's clothing.

Yes we can!" roared the crowd. It was an emotional night for everyone. The 2008 presidential election was over. John McCain had lost to the first major party endorsed African-American presidential candidate in United States history. We finally closed troubling chapters in our history such as Mississippi burning and the civil rights marches of Selma.

Republicans, including the bewildered Religious Right, sat stunned in their seats wondering what would happen to their country. It was not because the Democratic Party was any different from the Bush Administration but because the GOP had pathetically lost its neo-conservative bully pulpit in the White House.

Democrats cheered with glee at the opportunity to take back the power that was theirs during the Clinton Glory Days. They salivated at the prospect of re-introducing neo-liberal interventionism on foreign soil and overseas markets They longed to once again crank the Dollar presses to inflate the money supply in the name of the "poor" this time instead of "business". They would gladly finish the work of the Fall of the American Empire started under the Bush Regime.

And now, the smoke and mirrors game goes on. The crooked politicians of 2009 are no different than the corrupt politicians of the Gilded Age or the Roaring Twenties. Crony capitalists like oil barons and railway tycoons then lined the pockets of our nation's representatives to further the goals of Big Business and destroy the wealth of American workers. Sound familiar?

President Obama had a unique opportunity in history -- and he blew it. He brought us "change" indeed. He slammed the Bush Doctrine in all its ugly forms of secrecy and judicial obstruction into executive hyper-drive. The rhetoric of compassionate conservative now became the drivel of compassionate liberalism.

If there is one thing Americans say about Obama it is this: he cares.

He cares for the mechanic in Detroit who lost his job. He cares for the middle-aged couple living in the Hooverville tent outside Sacramento. He cares for the middle class mother and her three kids in Toledo spending their nights in a homeless shelter with the addicted and the ignored.

But does Obama really care?

In fact, his compassionate liberalism runs so deep that it pulls a move from the old Ronald Reagan playbook we knew as trickle-down economics. These days the compassionate White House grants bail-out money to financial monsters like AIG and Bank of America. There could be no better help for the American veteran shivering under a bridge tonight because there just aren't any more jobs. (Unless of course, you can beat out the 200 other people applying for that one lonely job opening.) The idea is that bail-out money will sooner or later trickle-down to the great unwashed masses of Americans wondering what in Sam Hill happened to the real estate market and their retirement accounts.

It may only be a drop of financial bail-out -- but hey it trickled down. Next up, bread lines!

The truth is that the White House allowed corporate giant CEOs to loot and pilfer the public treasury. This Administration is following the same tortured logic of the previous one which assured us that falsely accused cab drivers from Baghdad were receiving comfortable attention at Guantanamo Bay.

The left-right political paradigm in this country is a sham. (Sorry to disappoint my fellow Evangelical Christians.) Both parties have proven to be Big Business, Big Government warmongers. For those who actually wished McCain had been elected just think about this: the GOP would have put up no opposition to the new President's Stimulus Package and would have rammed through trillions more in "help" for America.

So there you have it. President Obama is as bad as the worst conservative and as bad as the worst liberal -- and all with a smile.

How is the left-right scenario a sham? Consider the following.

The gay rights issue is a political distraction. Stem cell research? Just more Big Research pork-barrel spending. Abortion? It's the political Gordian Knot that requires even the most astute of political science majors to bust a gut if they dare try to untie it. The so-called immigration invasion? A typical act of sensational yellow journalism that says, "Look over there, Bubba! It ain't your own government stealin' your hard-earned dollars, it's them Mexicans lookin' for revenge and dishwasher jobs since the Alamo!" Sorry, Pat Buchanan, the "Death of the West" comes from the corruption in our government, not the immigrants heading back home in record numbers.

What are the real issues of post-election America? For starters, the destruction of individual wealth in this country, save for the high upper class. We are on the verge of an economic meltdown that will dwarf the Great Depression and will take decades to recover. There is no need for a conspiracy theory here -- only the urgency of understanding the mess that we allowed to happen and how we can financially protect ourselves.

We must not waste time. We must move our already-compromised and over-valued U.S. Dollars into assets of real value. This does not include real estate unless you're buying ten cents or less on the high-priced dollar. Forget your 401(k), pensions and your annuities. Unless you can take your money out, they are toast. The stock market is one toxic graveyard, particularly finance shares. Dump them. Invest in precious metals, food supply, cigarettes, alcohol and medicine for trade and help for your neighbors when the Dollar collapses.

Consider buying silver, palladium and gold from reputable sellers like apmex.com. I personally recommend silverbullion.com because I support the goals of the owner Jason Hommel to bring silver back as the most effective medium of exchange. Remember, that despite the U.S. Treasury's naked assertions, the U.S. Constitution expressly reserves the right of individual States to mint legal tender coins so long as they're gold or silver.

When the dollar collapses, I do not think that New York City will burn or that the United States will come to an immediate end. But if it did, the blame must rest entirely on Barack Obama and his Congressional Criminal Syndicate.

Some might here criticize me as being unfair. After all, George W. Bush The Evangelical nearly bankrupted this country with his illegal wars, his blatant lies to stir Americans to bloodshed, his deliberate obstruction to the 9/11 Commission, his last-minute corporate bailout to the tune of hundreds of billions, his economic tinkering with interest rates, his unconscionable acts of torturing innocent men and children, his doubling of the national debt, et cetera, et cetera.

But let me be clear about this. George W. Bush is a public menace. He and his cadre must be tried and convicted of their crimes. But that will never happen under an Obama Presidency, in spite of the President's left-leaning brand of crony capitalism. The Truth Commission currently at play in the Congress is merely a circus show to fool Americans into thinking that we actually take seriously the crimes of torture, invasion, occupation, mayhem, pillaging, looting, rape, pollution, perjury, bribery and killing of civilians with illegal weapons of war.

Every moment that the Obama Administration rolls on without prosecuting the crimes of the former Administration, it exists as a de facto confirmation that our new President has sold out to the rich and that he lied to his Democratic base and the American voter. The White House today has continued in the same deadly bait-and-switch tactics of the former Village Idiot-In-Chief. Additionally, Obama has moved to control more media and aggressively solidify relationships with members of the "War and Bankers Party" on both sides of the aisle.

For a President to vociferously take on Rush Limbaugh the GOP's talk radio attack dog is an alarming signal. Besides the fact that the Democrats want to point out the weakness of the GOP's leadership vacuum, Obama is inserting himself into the realm of media and entertainment instead of focusing on how his office can uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution in light of the economic crisis. Are we really so surprised to see the leftist authoritarian Hugo Chavez, who is a regular media personality, cheer Obama in his nationalization and socialization of the banking and insurance industries?

Evangelical Christian radio stations are scared stiff about the Democratic-led Congress reviving restrictions on Americans to share their religious opinions over the people's airwaves. And they should be concerned. (I particularly enjoy my local station.) After all, the same kind of government that monitors, censors, filters and controls any form of media is the same type of authoritarianism that steals, plunders and coerces its own people. One look at China's control of the internet and Google's sickening overture to that regime is enough to make any civil libertarian's skin crawl. Reports that Australia is considering Chinese-style filtering over what their people can access on the internet makes me want to boycott eucalyptus leaves.

So why is President Obama responsible for our economic debacle?

Because it's the first rule of leadership. Everything is your fault. If he didn't like the prospect of being stuck with the mess of his predecessor he should have remained in the Senate or considered an honest living like working for AIG or Lehmann Brothers. Obama has not only repeated the same unconstitutional trespasses of Bush II, but he actually increased the amount of corporate welfare to the Bank Barons. Obama turned a blind eye to the Federal Reserve's arbitrary usury practice through the printing of increasingly worthless U.S. Dollars.

Are we really going to see a Dow Jones 4000? The answer is regrettably yes -- and then some. There are economic forces at play that will no longer be ignored or manipulated. Human behavior will always gravitate towards self-preservation and the protection of our future generations through wealth-building, capital, production and labor. All the paper fiat money and government spending in the world can never stop that or help this economic disaster recover without drastic corrections to our own cursed speculative market. The times of fast and easy money are over.

President Obama has not even finished his first year in office and I must already call him out as one of the worst Executives ever in the history of our Republic. Bush II is close behind. Every GOP and Democratic elected leader that voted for any of these crooked bail-outs deserves a one-way ticket to an electoral defeat. Should state law allow it, a public tar-and-feathering might be in order.

When our country faced economic dangers, depressionary woes and international volatility let it be said that President Obama failed to protect us from the corruption of Congress, the indifference of the Judiciary and the foolishness of the People. Let it be said that he abandoned his post to uphold the Constitution. Let it be said that he whored his policies and his office for the rich and powerful, both foreign and domestic. Let it be said that we voted for change and all we got was the Raw Deal of the Obama Failure obama is a failure

If I got an dollar for every should Obama be reelected debate, I would have like $10.

If more debt and spending is something that you admire, then yes, but it will crash.

in my point of view No. Obama didn't deliver favor, his attemts to change something was not so succeful. During his carreer as Prezident country was in a risky situation. People in USA dont want to elect Obama again becouse he has baffled them. My friend Will from USA and i was chating with him about this topic.He said that no need to elect him becouse his promises in most cases NOTHING. Americans position become risky.

[Can someone please explain why Ron Paul is out of the contest??]

He will go down as probably one of the top 5 worst presidents that we have ever had. I believe he is a traitor.

First of all he is hiding who he says he is. Took way to long to present his birth certificate…if that is the real we probably will never know. Never would present his academic records from the colleges he supposedly attended. Would not release his medical records either. Who is he?

Well he has bowed down and kissed Arab leaders. He has treated the president of Israel terrible…what leader in the world comes to the White House and has to use the back door?

His hero is an anti-American racist who hates whites….Rev. Wright. He was in bed with Tony Rezko the Chicgo slug who is now in prison. I mean what political candidate would take money from someone who is being investigated by the FBI? OBAMA.

Then there is his affiliation to communist radicals…many of whom he appointed as Czars in his administration. Enter the scene….Bernadine Dohrn and her communist husband Bill Ayers who founded the organization Weather Underground.

"The best thing that we can be doing for ourselves, as well as for the [Black] Panthers and the revolutionary black liberation struggle, is to build a fucking white revolutionary movement." And that is what she and her husband did.

For a long time she was on the FBI's most wanted list. Her husband is just as radical as she was. Two of Obamas friends.

He failed to handle the Gulf Oil spill in a timely manner.

Failed to end the war like he promised he would do. Took him three years to end it….hundreds more died on his watch.

Putting all legislation on the Internet for five days before it came to a vote.

Snubbed the president of Israel. Snubbed Britain by returning that bust of Churchill.

He appointed Communists/Socialists/Progressives to his various Czar positions (without even getting congressional approval) then doing nothing for them after Glenn Beck calls them out…forcing many to resign.

Then there was his failed stimulus…health care the country still does not want…

Wants total amnesty for illegals.

Does not even know basic American geography and thinks there are 57 states.

Thinks that there was only one bomb that hit Pearl Harbor.

He thinks to solve any financial crisis….borrowing is the answer. So he has borrowed until we now don't even have our chins above water.

I could go on and on….

He is a narcissist and his change was not what the people who even voted for him expected he meant. His change seeks to destroy the country. He is absolutely incompetent and dangerous….and I would vote for just about anyone in order to get him out. Well except Nancy Pelosi and I think she is almost worse than Obama is.

If he is get in for four more years…we are doomed. He hates this country and it shows. He has done nothing but apologize for Americas actions since taking office and I think people even many Democrats are sick of him and can now see him for what he is.

Change is good in some cases….thats why we need to throw him out. Maybe then he can go over and listen to the Muslim call to prayer…something he said was the most beautiiful thing he has ever heard. So much for Christ eh?

This country needs leadership throughout all branches of government. This country needs leaders who are willing to make difficult decisions, despite the political fallout. We need one who loves this country, truly understands the values we seek to live by, and implement policies that are consistent with those values. We also need someone that is willing to recognize the policies that have worked in this country in the past and around the world and those that have not. We do not need an ideologue. We do not need arrogance. We do not need to be treated like ignorant, lazy people that have no passion, drive or work ethic. I could go on, but I simply encourage all of you to put your party affiliations aside and objectively think about these comments as you decide who to vote for. Our country is at a turning point and has significant needs. We cannot afford for voters to retreat to the political party talking points.

Research the issues and do not rely on your 10 minutes of daily news. Think. What is truly best for our country?

I do not agree with the majority of his or the Democratic party positions. Not all, but enough that I vote Republican. I would prefer to vote 3rd party if a candidate was viable.

An independent will probably not have a chance at the executive office for 4 more cycles unless they are a wild card.

It's cliche to say this but it's true; voting for a third party or abstaining is throwing your vote away when you have the opportunity to vote for the better of 2 candidates.

It's a losing situation since voting for a third party raises the numbers for next time and encourages more voters to have another option.

Even though I disagree with the President Obama's positions, he really wasn't given a good start. The housing bubble wrecked the economy. War is actually a revenue and employment generator. We really didn't get to see whatever potential he brought to the table.

I feel that he has been given too much support by a select few with too much financial and media influence. You can buy your way into an elected position or have others pay for you.

Lastly, as much as I don't want him to serve a second term, I think that he will most likely win. Mitt Romney has no personality, a large body of voters, the religious right - non-Mormon - has rejected him. And Newt Gingrich is way too controversial.

The man spent more than all the other presidents combined in his first 2 years....

If we want to survive four more years, no. He's the next Hitler.

Oh my god! No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you're a proponent of fiscal irresponsibility, debt, unemployment and malaise then absolutely yes. Also if your politics tend toward the fascist/communist end of the spectrum, again yes. But if you believe in freedom, and the Constitution, and the God given rights of man and responsibility, then Obama must be thrown out. And I believe he will be.

Really? Republicans have ruined this country? Are you joking or dumb? Abraham Lincoln is hands down the best president we have ever had (Republican). Ronald Reagan (republican) is in the top 3. Just because someone claims to be Republican, Conservative, Democrat, Liberal, Independent, or Green Party does not mean that that is completely true. This country suffers from a major disease called compromise. There have been "Democratic" presidents who should have called themselves Conservatives and vise versa. We need a Conservative in office that will not compromise to Congress or anyone else. I was watching the news the other day and obamination (obama) was holding a press conference. During this conference he was blaming George W. Bush for the deficit problems when (yes he messed it up) he has made it 10x worse. It really all boils down to the fact that nobody is perfect and Congress is full of a bunch of (Democratic!!) greedy bastards (pardon the language). They really don't care about how this country SHOULD be, they only care about what they can do to increase their bank accounts.

We shouldn't vote Obama back into office he has already gave us 4 years of lost promises and trillion of dollars in debt. Anyone with the smallest bit of common sense would know that Obama is not the correct answer for America, because he has made it worse. I would vote Romney into office any day rather than Obama. Lets remove the problem(Obama) not put the problem back into office!.

No because he has had three years to make some changes to this economy and he hasn't! Actually if you haven't heard it has DROPPED! :(

It's time for someone else to step in and help America.

I don't honestly see how this man could be re-elected. For all the Lefties out there, yes President Bush was NOT the ideal president he was very far from it, I will be the first to admit that. What you must understand is that: The national average when President Bush left office the national price for unleaded gasoline was $1.75 a gallon, today as I write this, the Lowest national price for a gallon of gas is $3.80. When President Bush left office (not that this is low) the national debt was 8 trillion $'s, today it's 15 trillion $'s and climbing, do your math, President Bush created about $1 trillion a year in debt in 8 years , Obama has created $7 trillion in about 4 years, I don't see how that is attractive to lefties but it just seems to be. The last time our economy was worse than this, it was the great depression. Everyone keeps saying that "Obama got osama", Incorrect, he gave the order to kill him after 16 hours of "thought" wheather to do it or not, the Navy Seal Team 6 were the men who killed osama in Bush's war. Taxes, Conservatives want them low and Liberals want them high. Obama wants to raise them on the wealthy, WHY!? 50% of Americans pay no taxes at all! why not even give them a tax! The wealthy pay their fair share, they make up for the 20% who do pay taxes. Raising taxes is one thing but if the president is going to raise them he needs to raise them on EVERYONE. We are all in this together, stop alot of these govt funded (taxpayer funded) programs and grow a set and work for your living so your neighbor doesn't have to! Barack Obama has been a failure as a president 6x more than President Bush. If your going to argue this please do so in an intelligent, mature manner.