Closely examining the idea of Obama is some kind of "entitlement king" exposes it as fantasy. He has created no entitlements, and only expanded one I know of: Unemployment insurance, only available to previously employed people who document ongoing but unsuccessful efforts to find work. Having never been on it I do not know which are state and which federal requirements, but in TX unemployment insurance requires recipients look for work daily and prove they did so; naturally, benefits end once unemployment does. So I am not sure how much "reliance" occurs except for those genuinely seeking but unable to find work.

That last is the problem: The conceit there are plenty of jobs for anyone not too proud to take them AND that unacceptably high unemployment is intolerably burdening hardworking Americans. Those positions are mutually exclusive: Are they hard working Americans needing but not getting the presidents help, or lazy bums who deserve no unemployment insurance? If the former, a president PLEDGED not to help will not, so Romney is not the answer; if the latter, their unemployment is not Obamas fault, and thus no reason to remove him.

The idea unemployment insurance or the rest of the welfare state creates a culture of dependency was at least a plausible accusation against FDR, even if few fell for it until the Reagan Revolution, but Obama? He was not even BORN until 30 years after the creation of Social Security and unemployment insurance, and was only 4 when Medicare and Medicaid were created. It is therefore hard to see how they could be his fault even if they did somehow convince 25 million people to quit their jobs (the idea anyone <65 would quit their jobs to live off SS and Medicare is absurd in the first place; it is not even POSSIBLE without SS disability, which is nightmarishly difficult to qualify for even with acute demonstrated need. If there is a problem, Obama did not create it; he inherited it along with the rest of us.

So what is left? Robomacare? People quit work because they must buy unaffordable insurance or get it from their employer? See any problems with that logic?