To a Rick Perry comment I read when I stopped to write this post XD
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-sad-facts-behind-rick-perrys-texas-miracle/2011/08/16/gIQAxc3zJJ_story.html
I do NOT want the entire US to be run like Texas.
Anyway, Barack Obama. He did in his first three years more then Bush did in his entire 8. Passed Health Care Reform, Lily Ledbetter, ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, passed Financial Reform and created the Consumer Protection Bureau, the Credit Card Acountability Act (ended retroactive rate increases, mandated 45 day notice before rate increases, and more), ended the federal ban on stem cell research, passed the Stimulus package which according to the non partisan CBO saved and created millions of jobs and kept the recession from getting much worse, he got Osama Bin Laden and ended the war in Iraq.
Now, obviously, Obama didn't do most of this single handidly. Congress had to debate and pass these bills, Navy SEALs were the ones who physically went in and shot Osama in the face. But the fact of the matter is most of this wouldn't (or didn't in the case of Osama), have happened under a Republican administration, especially any of these current candidates. Obama got handed a sack of crap when he came into office, and all things considered he aint doing half bad. Heck, Health Care reform alone is something every president of the past 50 years has been trying to do.
I respect Ron Paul. While he doesn't perfectly follow his own principles himself (really, NO politician does), he's still the polar opposite of Mitt Romney. Says what he thinks, not what people want to hear. That said, his beliefs include dismantling some needed government programs like FEMA, which showed how useful it could be this year when being headed by the right people.
