FOWARD! COMRADS! Did this dan seigel character actually say his mom had cancer(pause for effect), and that she had coverage despite no obama meddling. Wow! The first lady gets it? Probably why she takes trips around the world on our dime. Probably why her kids go to a private rather than public school. I know im supposed to say how glamorous she is, but she has the shape of grimace(mcdonalds anyone). Really the most frightening fact is that no matter who wins, the middle class is still screwed.

Marxism at it's finest. Love how the sheep get right in line and eat this nonsense up from the dictators wife. We deserve everything that's happening to us right now in this country. We might as well rip up the Constitution, cause we clearly don't follow that anymore. I hope the Kenyan wins and buries this country even further, cause we have not learned our lessons yet. As a Veteran of this country, I'm ashamed at those who voted for this Marxist cause he's an enemy to the Untied States Constitution.

How come the 'republicans manage to bring the hate-mongers out of the woodwork? That's one big reason good people who don't hate anyone have to get out and vote for Barack Obama in November. ......Joe Grogan..(It really IS possible to have a
political discussion without being snide.)

Obama never struggled a day in his life. What on earth are you talking about ? He isn't a typical black dude. In fact he is biracial.
And I would check out what the News media on MSNBC are spewing before you accuse the Republican's for any hatred.

Obama is running for a second term so he can rip off his mask and turn America into some socialistic hell hole. There will be no waiting for Congressional approval, no rules for Obama. He will do whatever he wants. An very dangerous man that needs to be far removed from American politics.

Babs Ann, ok, if you don't like the President, fine. That's your right. But at least be honest. You consider having your father abandon you, a mother on welfare at times, living with your grandparents, moving overseas with a stepfather etc to be NOT a "struggle"? Obama wasn't born the son of a millionaire auto executive (Romney), nor the son of a congressman/CIA director/President and grandson of a US Senator (GW Bush). And your paranoid ranting of socialist hell holes is amusing and very sad, at the same time.

If you know his biography that well, then you must know how inaccurate your comment was. Since his mother was unable to pay for such schools, another struggle--which Mrs. Obama referenced at her speech--involved heavy student loan debt. She shared with the audience that at one point in their married life their combined student loan monthly payment was higher than their mortgage. Sounds like a "struggle" for a young couple trying to establish themselves.

If traveling is part of her job, how does she end up on overseas vacations. Is it part of her job to be out campaigning for her husband? Do the taxpayers of upper dublin recieve compensation for use of school, police, and other services for clearly political purposes? Obama is a marxist. His economic philosophy is that we are all divided into classes. Those classes have been held down by dominate forces. In his mind he wants "fairness." That means taking from one group and giving to another group. Why is there hostility to rich people? Shouldnt we all be aspiring to be rich one day? If romneys and bushes are successful they should lead. What did obama do? He had loser parents, smoked alot of weed, and was a comm organizer(whatever that means.) This country deserves what it gets for hiring such a bum.

Joe Grogan.....People of good will can disagree. There are millions of Americans who disagree with the direction our nation has taken over the last 4 years. Those people spoke in 2010 when they took away control of Congress from the Democrats as punishment for Obamacare, TARP and other misguided excesses. The nation voted to put the brakes on. We'll see how things turn out in November, meanwhile I'll take the family out to Chick fil' A for dinner and then come home and watch Fox News....lol.

SMDH, I'd love to know your age bracket (10 year spread), because you surely do not speak as a person having lived through many economic changes in history. You speak as the idealog that everyone things Obama to be. And let's face it, the man is proving that his lack of experience is costing us dearly.

This article is lacking the enumeration of the "values" that Michelle was talking about. I see a lot of ellipses. Would those be the values of life, liberty, and property? Or perhaps social values like hard work, faith and family? Or perhaps they're the values of the activist, who wants government control of industry and a "right" to a job, a "right" to a house, and a "right" to silence dissent?

I'm 48. Never lived at home after my sophomore year in college, worked the following two summers while I was earning my bachelors and have been continuously employed since the month I graduated. How does my personal experience fit the narrative you constructed for me?

I am 65 and worked before marriage, after marriage for a few years, had children and went back to work when my oldest was 16. During that time, I lived the economy...and know when we were feeling either comfortable having to budget wisely or really feeling the pinch and having to really tightening up on my budget. All the while my husband was making a comfortable living and we truly lived within our means. Early 80's was the best period of comfort even though it was a time of large, constant expenditures for us. So, I was just wondering if you have been supporting yourself, yourself and a family and if you have lived those experiences as a mature adult who had people other than yourself depending on you. It seems to me that most die hard liberals are younger and have relatively little varied life experiences to have such strong and forceful convictions with regard to something as important as "serving" the American people.

and your current Sorros funded job? .... Must be night work.

Michelle Obama's Spain vacation cost taxpayers nearly $470G, watchdog group claims. Published April 26, 2012 FoxNews.com

She's just one of us???
At a time when the US has severe economic problems.
This is only one vacation that she took with her peps. Some marriage kinda of like Bill and Hilary's.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/26/michelle-obama-spain-vacation-cost-taxpayers-nearly-470g-watchdog-group-claims/

No not weak just late to the conversation. A paid political troll is obvious.

You flatter me! I only wish someone were paying me for my opinions. But how nice that my writing sounds professional.
Not a flack or operative, I'm afraid, just an American citizen praying that Obama is re-elected in November.

So to answer the Marxist question. I urge everyone to do your own research and come to your own conclusion. In researching this question I came across this site from 2008. Please do your own research. I'm not saying that the below is accurate but this is just what I found on the net. http://obamaism.blogspot.com/

Obama's Ties to Socialism, Marxism, and Communism
1. Obama's Father Wrote About Socialism
2. Obama's Mother Was a "Communist Sympathizer"
3. Obama's Parents Met in a Russian Class (Back then it was the Communist USSR) –
4. Obama's Teen Mentor was Frank Marshall Davis (a known Communist Party USA member)
5. Obama's Brother Roy and Cousin Odinga are Marxists -
6. Obama Attended Socialist Conferences at Cooper Union
7. Obama Was Hand Picked by Alice Palmer to Succeed Her in the Illinois State Senate
8. Obama's Run for the Illinois State Senate was Launched by a Fundraiser Organized at Bill Ayers' and Bernardine Dorhn's Chicago Home
9. Obama Had a Close Relationship with the "Anti-Capitalist" Group ACORN
10. Obama Attended Several Meetings with the Democratic Socialists in Chicago and Was even Endorsed by by Them.
11. Obama Endorsed Openly Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders
12. Many Obama Supporters Idolize Che Guervara
13. The Communist Party USA Endorsed
14. Obama's Church is Rooted in Liberation Theology which is Rooted in
15. Obama's Opening The Decemberists performing the Soviet National Anthem:

To further the question one has to ask is this economic situation planned. Is the spending spree to cripple. Destroy the middle class. Tax the middle to rich more, to put more people into poverty. Sounds like Cloward–Piven strategy. Please research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy. "that a welfare enrollment drive would strain local budgets, precipitating a crisis at the state and local levels that would be a wake-up call for the federal government, particularly the Democratic Party, thus forcing it to implement a national solution to poverty. Cloward and Piven wrote that “the ultimate objective of this strategy [would be] to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income...”[2] There would also be side consequences of this strategy, according to Cloward and Piven. These would include: easing the plight of the poor in the short-term (through their participation in the welfare system); shoring up support for the national Democratic Party then-splintered by pluralist interests (through its cultivation of poor and minority constituencies by implementing a national solution to poverty); and relieving local governments of the financially and politically onerous burdens of public welfare (through a national solution to poverty).

Gotta go back to work. Nice talking with you SMDH I release control of the tread back into your trusting hands.

May the Lord bless you.

No surprises here. All of this can be read in his first two books. Which is more the reason it is shocking he was ever voted in in the first place. All of the above is true and how anyone could deny that any one with that background (and the long-time relationship with "Rev" Jeremiah Wright) would definitely carry anti-American sentiments, is beyond belief.

Smdh, obama is a marxist. Im not foaming at the mouth saying this- simply look at his speaches and policies and any could see this. He should admit it and so should you. Marxism is an economic philosophy, just admit who you and your friends are. Why do you feel compeled to sneak around. Just be honest.

I find the cries about Obama being a socialist rather sophomoric and merely a rehash of the McCain campaign talking points that people have held onto for the past four years. This is the main problem I have with the left-right paradigm. Each side tends to attack with talking points that are absolutely meaningless in evaluating the performance of Obama and any other politician for that matter. This actually robs the country as the debate can’t get past angry statements so it can’t move to a rational discussion. I’m come to believe that’s a design feature of our contemporary political system and there’s an increasing number of people who are rejecting the two party system as a result. I count myself among them.

The problem with talking points and angry accusations is that they prevent a rational analysis of policies and I believe that if one were to examine Obama’s economic and foreign policies, one wouldn’t see a liberal at all. On the foreign policy front, Obama has basically been a continuation of Bush and has expanded the Bush policies of the expansion of the security state and foreign incursions abroad. Obama has greatly expand targeted assassination through drone warfare while killing many innocents, has provided covert and overt aid in the overthrow of governments on Libya and Syria and has overseen the implementation of the National Defense Authorization Act which provides for indefinite detention of American Citizens.

On the economic front, he’s overseen the continued bailout of the banks and has done nothing, absolutely nothing, to put some of the folks in jail who created this financial mess we’re in.

All of this is totally absent from the political debate and these are very real issues rather than Obama’s supposed socialism and leftist policies. Those on the right would have a legitimate criticism of the president if they were to go after him here, but they fall silent. Those on the left could push this president away from these dangerous policies, but they fall silent too. In effect, there’s a tacit agreement between both left and right about what they’re going to discuss and what they’re not. The real issues are simply not going to be discussed and we will go through the entire presidential campaign with gaffes on both sides and Romney’s taxes being the only issues discussed. And the result that will be the public going once again into the voting booth with little to vote on other than how they “feel”. Facts and analysis are beside the point. This is by design.

BTW, I’m a man of the left and I have major issues with Obama.

>>>It's a shame the media doesn't do their job... Maybe you tired ass people would NO the truth!!!<<<<

This is evidence of how effective right wing propaganda is and the people who buy into it. The left is no better to be perfectly honest.

You don't "NO" the truth.

>>>scan the string of comments on this issue, and consider who the nasty ones are. they tend to be not only nasty, but not at all interested in the facts. I have followed politics since the first time I voed in 1952, and I have never, ever, seen this kind of bitterness; I believe, as well, that a fair assessment of who is most responsible will tell you that it is clearly right-wing types<<<<

I agree totally and it only takes a small group of unchecked fools to turn the nation's politics into a nasty argumentative morass. We've had thirty years of right wing talk radio and they created a monster. They're looking for someone to burn down the Reichstag and almost anything will do with them having been prepped with years of propaganda. Dangerous times indeed for the nation. The worst thing is that whatever they're upset about isn't really the issue.

Greg why im I angry if I identify obama as a marxist? Why should he run from what he is? He believes heavily in classes, class struggle and that the lower classes have been dominated by rich. Im not angry about who he is- alot of people in the world have differing views of economic policies. I m just disappointed the american people picked him as their leader considering his marxist views on the world. Romney (definately not a marxist) will get america working again.

Stop it. This election has nothing to do with visions or values. It is all about the economy and jobs. There are 740,000 less women in the labor market today than when Obama took office. People have finally waken up to what ABC, MSNBC, and CNN refuse to report. PA is in play hence the frequent visits to our state.

Look at his record, not his 'values' or 'visions'. Cute buzz words do not work anymore.

I have an announcement in 83 days - just 4 days before the election so it is fresh in voters minds. Putting it out now is too soon. There is a saying in the media: "Today's headlines will become yesterdays news."

No values, virtue, honesty and integrity in this administration. BHO's GOT TO GO...
Check out the following and you decide what is wrong with our administration: http://www.churchmilitant.tv/daily/?today=2012-08-08

While everyone argues over whether President Obama is a socialist, or if Mitt Romney is a hand puppet for corporate America, or whether Michelle Obama goes on more vacations than Laura Bush...do any of you ever stop to think that these arguments are moot?
We should be discussing what the landscape will look like when the United States of America is dismantled, just as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was taken apart. In case you haven't realized it, America is a failed experiment, and it has already died. The America that conservatives speak of has been gone for decades. The America that liberals speak of has proven to be unsustainable, as witnessed by the USSR, Greece, Italy, England, and our own history over the past 50+ years.
Look at the facts... we cannot win military campaigns anymore, we cannot create or sustain our own economy, we can't maintain our own infrastructure, and we can't properly educate our children. What "hope" would anyone have for a nation that can't do anything to help itself?
The true "vision" of America is one where, in the future, many countries will occupy the land that was once the US of A. You should be packing your "values" in preparation of moving to the emerging country that best represents your beliefs.
The question we should be asking ourselves is, how do we get there? Peacefully? or by way of war, as these things have been accomplished throughout history?