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

Make my day punk...racist failed businessman...haha go ahead try ...

Ride off into the sunset with your "deranger" Clint

Wrong again seaney moron, YOU are the racist

I knew you were racist Paddy me boy.Bush couldn't blame poppy or Reagan and Clinton left a trillion dollars in the bank which Bush squandered. Deary me it's like taking candy from a baby..Briano Obama's aunt is responsible for herself after all that's the GOP mantra,so you want your cake and eat it??

paddyRanger Bush had more class? When? Where? You've got to be jokin..........

Mayolady ......what do you base that on "obama excelled in Havard Law school" if that were true, why is he spending millions on trying to prevent his records being released surely if it ....nobody is judging him on his colour, he is being judged on his lack of availability of his records, other sources say he is absent more than he was present.

Padraig8........what President balanced the Budget, Obama has not balanced anything. And to the cretin seaney boy you should read more yourself and learn something. the sub prime loan scandal which caused the housing market to collapse started under Clinton, Bush has just more class to blame everything on previous president unlike the useless obama

As I understand it, Ryan always had a government job, not in the private sector, except to moonlight as a student. One reason OBama was given a great job as a professor is he is highly intelligent. Ryan is not his equal in education or ability. OBama excelled in Harvard law school and according to a guy who wrote in to a newspaper recently who went to Harvard with him, the professors always called on him to recite a case because his answers and thoughts were so penetrating. The writer suggests that OBama got in Harvard because of race. Evidently he excelled and was at the top of his class and editor of Law Review. Racism surfaced in this article quite clearly. Let's not judge a man unworthy because he is black. Mayo Lady

@ Rhuidhri, So who are you for? The man who started his own business, through his brains and ability, or Obama who relies on his ideology, ie. marshall, ayers, wright, alinsky. A clear choice emerges but Obama hides behind the pro business rhetoric, what is he ashamed of?

Seano since Obama is so caring, why does his aunt still live in subsidized housing on my dime in Boston, maybe he could let loose with a dollar or two and pay for his own family to get ahead, Instead he will preach to us about being our brothers keeper and such, Hmmm brothers keeper.

Just so you wont get it wrong again ill put it in the body of this comment,the post paddyranger said he did not write is mine PADRAiG8 i am the dual citizen who is PROUD to be a Democrat in the US and a Republican in Ireland PaddyRanger blames a problem on the President who balanced the Budget? Not Smart Paddy. Your msg sucks Tiocfaidh Ar La (padraig8)

Paddy me boy read Rhuaidhri's piece below and you might learn something

Figures that the one comment that gets posted is the one I didn't want posted, must have hit tab by accident. To finish my thought somewhat more coherently. Personally I much prefer a man who makes in through life on his own brains and ability to one who makes it off the blood, sweat and ability of others. It comes down to a choice between two men who both know the rich getting richer ain't going help most of us. One guy wants to do something about the injustice of that while the other wants to hoodwink people using their dreams. He hopes that people will believe that someday they too will all be as wealthy as him and so taxing rich folks like him is only taking money out of their own pockets in the long run. I hope most people are smart enough to realise that the sums don't add up, with an ever smaller percentage having ever more of the wealth if they don't pay more taxes then that means more and more of the tax burden falls on the people who have less ability to pay it. If he can't sell you that fantasy he then tries to sell you a fantasy that by being richer and having control over all that wealth they can give it out much better than a government could. Sounds plausible but I'm a big believer in actions speaking louder than words. When you look at actions you find that even though these folks pay less taxes as a percentage of their income most of them give so little away than if you add taxes and charity they still give less as a percentage of what they earn than most average folks give away each year never mind most average folks pay more taxes than they give charity. There are very few rich folks who give away anything close the kind of percent average folks pay in taxes. Those few rich people are generally the ones who say rich folks should pay more taxes. Romney and his kind are pure and simple just plain greedy but are smart enough to realise they have to dress up that greed as something else. Don't be hoodwinked any more I beg of you.

Funny thing one thing the article fails to mention is that he isn't the guy guy running for president either. Nope that guy is one named Mitt Romney who ain't Irish and if Obama is is privledged just what is Mitt Romney? Personally I much prefer a man who makes in through life on his brains and ability to one who makes it off the blood and sweat ability of others especially when the choice comes down to a guy who knows that the rich getting richer ain't going to help most of us wwealth and how he came about it

The current national debt equals that left by Cheney/Bush included in their budgets and that left by them for the two wars that they fought "OFF THE BOOKS" and only recognised later by the Obama administration. Since then, the only things that Obama has added are the Stimulous Bill at about 2 trillion and about a trillion more in Obama tax cuts. I guess you could lay the 3 trillion from the continuation of the Cheney/Bush Tax Cuts at Obama's door since he did sign their extension but that was sort of pushed on him by the GOP. The Affordable Health Care Act will begin cutting the deficit in 2014 according to the CBO. Had the congress agreed to the Obama/Boehner agreement instead of swallowing the "poison pill" of across the board cuts, we would be on our way to knocking 4 trillion off the deficit right now. When the Cheney/Bush tax cuts go away in January, the deficit will start disappearing and the across the board cuts will speed things right along. Compare that with the Ryan Plan that does not reduce the deficit untill 2040. If the deficit is your primary concern, join the Democrats in Off the Cliff - A leap of Faith!