wait until mitt gets inaugurated and introduces the 2nd, third, and 4th ladies to america.

Paul, I think I speak for many of us when I say thanks for taking one for the team. Because you are enduring this crap, we don't need to. Good job, and good reporting!

"Tonight I’d ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.”--from Rmoney's speech tonight.

You didn't let me answer your simple question, Willard. Because I'm probably more proud of President Obama today than when I voted for him.

You see, I didn't vote for him expecting him to do everything I wanted him to do. I knew that he couldn't...and I suspected that he wouldn't. He simply wasn't the type of ideologically rigid leftist that the right painted him as or that some on the left dreamed he was.

I voted for him because I knew he was smarter than the other guy. And, after eight years of Shrub, I wanted a smart man to be able to make tough choices to keep our heads above water with the mess he was about to inherit.

And yes, I wish he'd have dared to do more while he had a Congressional majority...but for someone so vilified by so many so quickly, I saw that he was trying to be the leader of all people--not just those who voted for him.

What I've seen for four years, however, is a smart man stymied by a political machine designed to do nothing more than deny him the ability to govern--without any attempt to hide their obstructionist behavior or their selfish, un-American reasons for doing so. AND THEY HAVE THE UNMITIGATED GALL TO THEN BLAME THE PRESIDENT FOR ALL THAT THEY DID NOT ALLOW HIM TO DO?!?!?

No, I was not one who was all whipped up by the idea of change and "Yes, We Can"...and yet, the Affordable Care Act? The end of Don't Ask Don't Tell? A clear sign of positive movement towards backing marriage equality? A stable, if a bit sluggish, economy? The elimination of OBL (however it was done)?

And to have done so with the grace and poise of a true world leader against unimaginable odds and the barely disguised (and totally irrational) hatred whipped up by Faux News and the bile spewing radio bloviards, and spat out on poorly spelled signs held by Tea Party pawns of the super rich? If nothing else, the fact that he remained presidential when so many chose to flatly deny him his very existence, much less the respect he's earned, makes me more proud of him today than I was of him the day I cast my ballot for him.

Has he been the perfect president? No. But while he's been president, things were frighteningly bad...and things have gotten better. All Rmoney seems to offer is vague promises for things to go back to the way they were when they were bad...and to make them worse.

And the best feeling I'll have is the day that I'm sure that Rmoney isn't given the chance to do that...and the smarter guy is re-elected and will still be the President of the United States.

Thanks for making the question so simple, Mitt. With any luck, this night will be the best feeling you'll ever have.

Lot of empty chairs for all the non-white attendees ...

Seems that Fox and CSPAN were the only ones to carry his bio flick. A missed chance to expand his likability.

@ #3, well stated and I concur. Now get all of these horrible rethugs out of my city!

@3 well written. I completely agree!!

Thank you @3. Couldn't have said it better myself.

@3, so well done, and @Paul, man, I totally overlooked how awesome your title was until just now.

Just to echo the rest, thank you, pg13, for your eloquent statement. I whole-heartedly agree with every word you wrote.

I'm convinced that there no longer is any such thing as a "Republican" Party - there is the Democratic Party, and then there is the Opposition Party, their sole reason for existence being to simply OPPOSE every single thing that any Democrat, anywhere, ever suggests. They have nothing new to offer, no way forward, no solutions, no ideology other than that professed by Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street".

They are simply and utterly bereft, and, as you say, they have the GALL to ask for the reins of the country back again - THEY, who got us INTO this mess in the first place....

@3. Thanks. Think I will feel no guilt in re-electing the more intelligent person, let alone the more human one. Even this old white guy sees that the Repubs are empty of any new ideas and live in fear of the present, forget about the future.