Yes, well I should have balanced that by saying the other joke is that electing Romney is like backing up the Titanic and running into a different iceberg.

Romney was a poor choice. So I'd probably have to agree that Obama was the better of the two candidates. It still doesn't make him a good President. Healthcare costs have risen well above prediction. The debt ceiling keeps rising along with the jobless rate.

You do realise that the some provisions in the Affordable Care Act are yet to be rolled out? Such as the Insurance Exchanges that people can buy a plan from (the same exchanges that Congress will be on) rolls out in 2014, as does the rule that those with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied coverage.

And that the jobless rate:

As for the debt ceiling - it needs to rise because the US needs to borrow because of the fact that you shouldn't lower taxes when you are fighting two wars and paying for a massive drug benefit scheme - which is what Bush did. With the bombing economy further defalting incomes and, therefore, taxes.

Obama got handed a crisis, and then was handed two years later a vitriolic and unpatriotic Congress, he has done more than many others would have. Biting the bullet on Helathcare would be one - Presidents have been kicking that can down the road for decades. He should have brought a larger stimulus bill to Congress but who is to say what he got was as good as he was going to get when he has a opposition that; has a leader in the Senate said the "most important goal" for his party of elected officials was to deprive Obama of a second term, has a member who yells out "You lie!" at a State of the Union address, and makes constant references to the 'fact' that Obama is a facist or a socialist (or both - because they are idiots).

Obama is no saviour or Saint - no politician is. But he at least has some semblance of civic duty (ironic considering a third of the US thinks he isn't a citizen) and is trying to make life better for the 50 million Americans below the poverty line and the veterans who are committing suicide at a rate of one every 80 minutes.

There was no question for a sane person which party should have won a few weeks ago.

Well there you go. I must admit it was refreshing to hear him say that it was a mistake to let so many US businesses relocate to other countries and that they had to work to get more jobs back and increase manufacturing and small business. It'd be nice to hear that from our Prime Minister.

I know Obama had promised health care costs would drop during his first term, but I'm probably just splitting hairs with that.

Mitt can go back to liquidating businesses now.The States just dodged a bullet.

No, I don't think they/we have.

they still have to get thru the the senate & the fiscal cliff.

the US is in deep doodoo, trillions of doodoo, thanks 'W'... the war on terror should have started at himself.

since the 'outsourcing' started with Japan back in the early 80's, its become the fashion of the high flyer US business man. lets outsource everything manufacturing to Asia. We'll all make more Profits.

Hmmn, unemployment, government welfare, the collapse of the housing markets, & an inability to payoff they're own accrued right wing debt. a bird in the hand is worth 100 Bush's.

next, the burning Bush.

# see Qantas the unAustralian airline. soon to be the flying Orangutan.