I don't know if he will do anything differently. I thinkl that what we should be asking ourselves is if he and congress will act differently. After all, the fiscal cliff wasn't just an executive action, but included both houses of congress. Neither the house, senate or the prsident has much to brag about. Obama didn't get much accomplished, but then the republicans in congress said publically that they weren't willing to compromise and were going to make sure that he was a one term president.

I think that the result of all this nonsense is that sometime in the not too distant furture the anger of the public will reach such a point that someone or a group of someone's will tap into this anger successfully and create a viable third party of radical centrist. And this group will bring comprimise back into fashion. Ahhh, dream on.

In VA. we have a measure on the ballot that addresses the governments eminent domain law. It would make it harder for the government to confiscate property in order to turn it over to a developer in an attempt to get a higher tax return.

Where in the world do you people find this obscure nonsense?

I never believe this kind of crap about either side during a presidential campaign season and I guess it was about as successful as the previous administration.

If you support freedom of speech then you must take the bad with the good. However, that doesn't mean there are no consequences to what you say. We have slander and libel laws which don't stop you from saying something that demeans or denigrates a person as long as you are aware that there is a price to be paid. We are lucky to have a constitution that spells out our rights, but none of them are absolute. There are established parameters.

Yes, I went on several and I think that some of them wished that they were blind.

I think that this term refers to person that crunches numbers for a someone say an accountant or bookkeeper.

Well, I think he's an American citizen. For one thing, the  whole birther issue would have ot be a conspiracy and most conspiracies are bunk because of the number of people that would have to be involved and the fact that not many people are able to keep a secret. Just think ot the number of people that would have to be involved and the fact that so many agencies have looked into this., No, I have too many other problems with him to be worried about this one. In my humble opinion this whole dabate is bunk.

The purpose of the media is to inform the public because an informed populace is necessary to stability of the country. However, like some of the others have said, it's become more of a disemination of opinion pieces. I think sometimes that part of the problem is technology. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a luddite, I love all the benefits of modern technology, but the problems arrises when there is simply too much data for people to effectively absorb in the short time they have in their daily lives. Think about it; in bygone years information was dispersesd in a much slower manner because technology was more primitive even into the middle of the 20th century we were educated at a gentler rate. We had more time to assimilate the data and make informed decisions. But now, we are bombarded with information at an unbelieveable rate and not just locally, but nationally and worldwide. The constant barage of events and news creates a sense of desperation and angst that makes us feel as if we are falling behind and not living up the responsibilities we accept as adults. Nothing could be further from the truth, we do an amazing job considering.  The trick is to be discriminating in the stream of data you choose and try to make the best decisions you can and realize that the media is shoving sound bites at us because they simply can't adjust to the volumn of material themselves and I really think that they haven't found a way to effectively communicate that to us, in other words, they are worse off than we are.

Sorry