Reply #88: I can just as easliy say those are hardly impartial!

[bhikkhu]

...but a way around the circular bias accusations is to look at actual numbers, as the results to date of the implementation of the trade policies we have been talking about.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-05/record-u-s-exports-led-by-caterpillar-seen-in-worldwide-markets.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/business/economy/us-exports-rise-to-record-as-trade-deficit-shrinks.html

I like it that Obama's policies are driving economic growth and job growth, expanding exports and shrinking the trade deficit, as we go into an election year. Can we agree that its good news, that he's doing ok?