Obama and Romney caught in a tough position with the question, "Are we better off than we were four years ago?"
Both President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, upon the start of the Democratic National Convention, have been asked the question - "Are we better off than we were four years ago?" I think this is a very common and understandable question to ask presidential nominees. However, I also think it's a very difficult one to answer. President Obama was recently asked a similar question - if he had to grade himself in his first term as far as the economy is concerned, how would he grade himself and he responded with "incomplete". Of course, the Mitt Romney team has jumped on this like a high-on-speed nymphomaniac on a giant carrot, thinking it's a dildo. Many liberals cringed when they heard the president utter that one word. My question is - how was he supposed to answer it? Considering the state of the economy at this current time, if Obama gave himself an A or a B, he'd be laughed at by Romney and company, and the public would probably ...