Ask500

Well, I turned 68 in April of this year and I've been on Facebook for well over a year. I guess I'd have to answer "Yes"!! But they don't seem to be concerned about member complaints, so maybe I won't use them after I'm 70!! (For example, multiple posts in "News Feed" don't seem to concern them at all. Jerks!

That is a given; but the point is not that Obama has broken "a promise"; the point is that he has not kept a single ONE that was given to those who were responsible for putting him in the White House. The question is a legitimate one and asks for what "you think" about a second term.

While I believe that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii and has offered sufficient proof, even if he were born in Kenya to a U.S. citizen mother, he would be a "natural-born" U.S. citizen.

(See: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp)

Thanks for doing your homework and for providing those sites. They are very informative.

By way of clarification, let me state that my premise included the phrase "...that was given to those who were responsible for putting him in the White House."

When I viewed the first link, I noticed this one (that he kept): "No. 380: Bolster the military's ability to speak different languages." This, and most (if not all) the others in that list were probably never heard by the majority of Americans and didn't affect their vote.

When I viewed the second link, I noticed this one (that he broke): "No. 518: Create a public option health plan for a new National Health Insurance Exchange." This was a biggie in getting him elected.

Adding off-shore drilling, closing Gitmo, developing alternative energy sources, etc. (those promises made to the "liberals" or "progressives" who put him in office) to the broken promises -- those factors shifted my opinion and my vote (for this poll question) is that he does NOT deserve a second term.

I feel so stoopid! Now it makes sense!

Of course, the world will end in 2012 -- and it goes hand-in-hand with Obama's campaign for re-election!

(Hey, looking at all the wars and the debacle in Japan, we might not have to worry about Obama's second term!)

Thanks!

That may be true, but my question specifically asks "Does he deserve it?" (in view of his broken promises, etc.)

I apologize for being dense. I don't understand this comment. Would you clarify it for me? Thanks.

After a couple of years, I think that I can safely say: If Social Security had been privatized when GWB wanted it -- there would be a lot of folks today left with nothing in their retirement years! Thank God for Social Security!

It doesn't go far enough. Employers should be penalized!

As a legal resident of Mexico, U.S. citizen, I would like to inform everyone here that I am required by Mexican law to carry my immigration papers with me wherever I go. Those are 1) my U.S. passport and 2) my FM-3 (residence permit). I recently acquired a Mexican driver's license, and I had to prove that I was a legal resident in order to get it. Is Mexico so far advanced that they have out-paced the U.S.? By the way, I took the written test in Spanish, not English. It appears to me that the problem with "illegal immigrants" or "illegal aliens" in the U.S. stems from the fact that wealthy employers (Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods, etc.) need cheap labor and are allowed to bribe their politicians so that illegals are not held to the same standards that other countries enforce. Illegal remains "not legal"!