No, experience in politics/government is the best qualification.

Oh dear...



...the logic goes awry again.

There was once a very wise British Prime Minister who said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Too bad Churchill isn't still around to set the record straight, so I will.

Statistics on raising the debt ceiling a certain amount of times has no real significance, as it is the amount of money the administration is spending that causes debt to increase, not the number of times the debt ceiling is raised. Since your man Obama has been in office, he has wasted TRILLIONS of dollars and has spent more in his first three years than all of the presidents before him - COMBINED!

Furthermore, his misguided socialist philosophy of depending on government to create jobs instead of businesses has not only contributed to our debt crisis, but has resulted in ZERO net jobs last month.

And so what is the response from the liberal, progressive left when presented with this FACT . . . It's still Bush's fault. Yea, right. Dream on. Your illustrious, incompetent man in the white house not only doesn't place any blame on himself, wherein it lies, but will probably blame Bush when he loses his re-election in 2012, because to him, nothing is the fault of this narcissist, full of hubris and vanity.

But hey, that's just my humble opinion. I could be wrong.

he is not my man, just setting the record straight on the discussion at hand


Statistics on raising the debt ceiling is important, when some people pretend it is something new. On the flip side the debt ceiling is an artificial number for how much debt the US is allowed to hold, if the debt ceiling is raised it is because the US needs to owe more then the previous debt ceiling allowed it to owe. So in a way it is meaningless (10 tuple the dept ceiling and all of a sudden you won't need to raise it for a few years and so will be stable for a few administrations- and so if it got raised 1,5 or 10 times is immaterial) but again it does show that ever expanding debt for the US is nothing new which was my simple point.

Even though I agree with you in part "as it is the amount of money the administration is spending that causes debt to increase" the reality is that what is spent is heavily influenced by the debt itself for example the interest for 2011 is $434,131,324,866.27 [Link: treasurydirect.gov]. and add to it some of the capital since every year some bonds/ t-bills mature (and this goes back many administrations/Presidents ago) . It is also heavily influenced by long term contracts that might have been negotiated in previous administrations.


Don't get me wrong, if someone was saying the same thing for Busch's last administration or who ever wins the next one, I would say the same thing.

It's a year later and the debt Obama has driven up gets worse by the day. I suppose it is still Bush's fault?

Yes, and four years from now If Obama is re-elected, it will still be Bush's fault, because this narcissist of a president truly believes nothing is his fault. After all, he personally killed Bin Laden!

well Romney's comments about Israel and Iran are interesting and scary.. that is a war I don't want to happen !!!

I remember that pic!

... I predict a landslide victory for "O". And by that, I' don't meant the OBSTRUCTIONISTS party of NO!

No Kidding!