Are there any libs/dems and cons/repubs that like to hear both sides of the story?

—————————————————————————————————————— ONE SIDE --- Obama came to office with $10 trillion in debt THE OTHER SIDE --- then he added $6 trillion to it. Obama came to office with more than a $10 trillion national debt ... Although the current debt was $10 trillion, he also faced a near Great Depression economic situation along with two ongoing wars and Medicare Part D that were not being paid for (funding for these was all being put on the nation's credit card). On top of that, $1.3 trillion of the $6 trillion you cite came down the pipe from G.W. Bush ... If McCain had won, he would have started out $1.3 trillion in the hole as well.

Another question you might ask yourself would be where did the original $10 trillion national debt come from? Could the Party of "Deficits Don't Matter ... Reagan proved that" had anything to do with it? If you are at all interested in the truth, you might want to take a look at this graph.

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html In viewing this graph, notice that at the end of WWII the debt was about 123% of GDP (which is higher than it is now). Also notice that the debt was continuously paid down through to when Reagan took office ... paying not only for WWII, but also for the Korean War and the Viet Nam War. It should be enlightening to see what responsible government can do.

—————————————————————————————————————— ONE SIDE ---- due to Obama's policies, the U.S. credit rating got downgraded - 1st in U.S. history. THE OTHER SIDE ---- A year later from his same policies, the U.S. for a 2nd time received a credit down grade. This tells me that you haven't done your homework.

When the downgrade occurred, I went to Standard and Poor's website to see why it happened. What I got from their report was that even more than the deficit being higher than they were comfortable with, the downgrade came primarily as a result of Congressional "political brinksmanship" over raising the debt ceiling (I give you Michelle Bachman and other Tea Party Republicans publicly calling for DEFAULT over raising the debt ceiling to allow the government to pay its current bills). Here's Standard & Poors report.

http://www.standardandpoors.com/spf/swf/... ——————————————————————————————————————.

I notice many of those are completely false. THIS is why people don't listen to "your side". It's because your side is built on things that aren't true.

So here, I'll take these 1 by 1. One side: Obama added $6 trillion to the debt. The other side: Was this new spending, or was this tanking revenues caused by tax cuts and a recession?

You can figure this out yourself, revenues and outlays are public information. One Side: 44 months in office has seen the longest sustained unemployment in US history The other side: Has unemployment been trending up or down since Obama has been in office? If it's gotten continually worse, you'd have a case, but unemployment has been dropping consistently for three years.

One side: GM The other side: This one is true! One Side: 17 thousand jobs from Keystone The Other side: Totally unverified number. Plus, who builds an oil pipeline over an aquifer that waters $200 billion in crops annually?

That's like building a fireworks factory next to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. One side: US credit rating downgrade was Obama's fault The other side: S&P said they downgraded us because cons used the threat of default as a bargaining chip. Go read their press release on the topic, they were very clear about it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pol... One side: $40 billion leads to massive inflation The other side: Not really. FOREX markets didn't really care. The dollar's value is stable.

That's why nobody listens to your side: It's based on misinformation.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.