Nevertheless, despite record high gas prices and a housing market driven into a mountain thanks in significant part to progressive demands on lenders, the economy has not experienced one single quarter where it did not grow. In fact, the economy has grown larger each of the past two quarters.

The gaffe is in how much he tortured an answer to a simple question. A little girl asked him why he wanted to be President and he had to trot out the empty calories of Obama-speak. I suspect he did that because that’s all he has in his verbal arsenal when he doesn’t have time to read the answer off a card.

But here’s you righty bloggers that appear to be so blinded by either partisanship or just plain disdain for Obama himself that you’re attempting to blow red white and blue sunshine up you-know-where and tell everyone that a presidential candidate saying that America is “no longer what it could be, what it once was” is guilty of some sort of gaffe?

Yea, go ahead and play that angle.

The difference between Reagan and Obama is that Reagan had an overwhelmingly optimistic outlook for America. His “Morning in America” never said that America was worse off today. His entire point was to ask if the leaders we had were doing a good or a bad job for you. Coupled with his optimism and his belief that meddlesome leaders were an impediment to success and, ultimately, happiness, that’s a much different message than the one Obama is trying to send.

You don’t have to be top of your class to know these basic facts.

ChenZhen, I am, and I”m hardly rich. Furthermore, I work for a state government which is hardly the path to economic stability.