So who is Paul Ryan --- he’s certainly not Barack Obama

Not missing any point......you have not raised any intelligent point yet....anybody who understands economy knows the problem was LAID by Clinton..

You miss the point as usual and you fail to understand why the debt tripled. Let us start with the debt left by Bush. Then you need to understand the "stimulus package" which saved the auto industry and the banks etc. and the global meltdown which started in '07 under bush's and some one had to have the guts and make the hard decisions. Your mob the GOP would rather a 1929 meltdown than save America from financial oblivion.

paddyRanger | Aug 26, 2012, 09:12 PM EDT Thanks Mcnamara31 and eiriamach funny thing as a dual citizen ..........This was not posted by me, someone else using my name, I would never lower myself to being a democrat in USA...

Seanomelb you are an utter cretin, to mention race does not make one a racist, you better learn what racist means, I pointed out that people who vote for Obama PURELY because of his race are the racists...and people like you are racist for always trying to play the race card. As for explaining it in simple language for a moron like you to understand, what don't you understand about Tripling a debt, it means you take a debt and make it LARGER, you understand the word larger, bigger, greater than it was before, how about you explain "macro" economics tripling a debt makes it better ...

Thanks Mcnamara31 and eiriamach funny thing as a dual citizen when in Ireland im Republican but in the US i am a Democrat. We should not have to fight these people all of our lives but some things are necessary to keep any semblance of a good life, i am thankfull for good men and women in the past years who were elected and supported the populace, but like anything else once some people are successfull they turn thier back on the ones who helped them and refuse to help other human beings,its the (let em eat cake syndrome) so look at History and it will not lie Republicans are allways for bootstraps Democrats want to first help you get Boots.

he was voted " biggest brown noser" in high school. His kids have Waspy names, he probably joined the Freemasons and thinks Catcher in the Rye is a profound book..

can't bring myself to vote for anybody who looks like Eddie Munster..What was he up to 40 years ago ?

If you are such a learned fellow explain the reasons for the "tripling of the debt" in simple economic terms and I know it has to be simple.BTW you brought colour into the debate not I.

Padraig8 So well said and true! Keep fighting the good fight.

Ah I get it I tried imagining how a retard like yourself comes to the conclusion I said something racist "plenty of Americans voted for Obama purely for his looks and skin color.".........the people who voted for Obama purely because of who he is and his skin colour are the racists...not someone pointing it out. You should go back to school and learn what the word means

seanomelb.....pathetic failure at it again "macro economics" eh...good one ... that's your excuse for tripling a nations debt excellent, and you clearly have no clue what the word racist means...suggest you go back and do your own schooling

paddy dick head ranger you need schooling in macro economics (if you know what that means) and you're a racist to boot

Paul Ryan thinks poor people are responsible for their own misfortunes and deserve to live lives of quiet despair. He also thinks women should have no control over unwanted pregnancies. He thinks that an acorn is a tree and should have all the rights of a mature oak and Romney would have this man a heartbeat from being president!?

Bravo, Padraig8! Thanks for your service and for your wisdom.

This is the funniest column I've read in a long time, my sides are hurting from laughing so hard!