[Hoot Gibson]

But, it is back to near what it was. There has been a 26 month job growth. We are going in the right direction. We were in the middle of a massive recession in '09, and no matter who took office then, it would have been the same with the layoffs. Obama has turned the employment problem around. Nobody is arguing that the economy is weak, but Obama has it going forward instead of backward.

Obama has done nothing to turn the economy around, with the possible exception of reneging on his pledge to let the Bush tax cuts expire. Deep recessions have always been followed by strong recoveries in the past, but this has been the slowest recovery since records have been kept. Yet, once again Obama is promising to raise taxes if he is reelected - but only for those who are most successful, and responsible for creating the jobs that have been created.

RV, you are smart enough to know that the economy is not a winning issue for Obama. There really are no winning issues for him. Obamacare remains very unpopular and will probably be struck down as unconstitutional in a few weeks. Even if the Supreme Court upholds Obamacare, it will remain a campaign issue and it is an issue that Republicans will be standing on the same side as the majority of Americans.

What else can Obama point to as an accomplishment? Neither the war in Iraq nor the war in Afghanistan has gone particularly well since he took office.

The national debt has soared under Obama. Maybe he can get away with saddling Bush with all of the blame for the 2009 deficit, but that leaves him with three consecutive $trillion plus deficits for which he has nobody but himself to blame. The last budget that Obama submitted to the Senate on which there was a vote received zero votes from either party and the Democrat-controlled Senate has refused to pass a budget in more than 1,000 days.

I don't see any way that Obama can run a positive campaign, so all that leaves is a long series of silly attacks on Romney, such as this ridiculous "Romney was a high school bully" seems to have lost its legs when his alleged victim went public to refute the charge and the "witness" admitted that he was not present during the alleged incident.

Seriously, if you ever truly considered voting for Romney, you should take another look because Obama is not worthy of anybody's vote after his poor performance the past three years.