Trying to be consistent with the negative views of both sides, I re-read the info on the web sites about your candidates.

The following is some snippets from the previously posted web sites.

Obama

Obama has also written and talked about using alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind” Obama was also member of the "choom gang", a self named group of friends that spent time together and occasionally smoked marijuana. At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency, Obama expressed regret for his high-school drug use

He ended plans for a return of human spaceflight to the moon and development of the Ares I rocket, Ares V rocket and Constellation program, in favor of funding Earth science projects, a new rocket type, and research and development for an eventual manned mission to Mars, and ongoing missions to the space station.

Obama tried to quit smoking several times, sometimes using nicotine replacement therapy, and, in early 2010, Michelle Obama said that he had successfully quit smoking

That is about all I found.

On the Romney site there was so much information that I could not decide which was negative and which was positive, so, I’ll just post the snippets and let you decide which is what.

Romney

Not particularly athletic, he also did not distinguish himself academically..(In school)

Romney became involved in several pranks while attending Cranbrook. He has since apologized, stating that some of the pranks may have gone too far.

In May 1966, he joined a counter-protest against a group staging a sit in at the university administration building in opposition to draft status tests. He continued to enjoy occasional pranks

Most individual Mormon missionaries do not gain many converts and Romney was no exception: he later estimated ten to twenty for his entire mission. He initially became demoralized and later recalled it as the only time when "most of what I was trying to do was rejected."

In June 1968, an automobile he was driving in southern France was hit by another vehicle, seriously injuring him and killing one of his passengers, the wife of the mission president. Romney was not at fault in the accident. He became co-president of a mission that had become demoralized and disorganized after the May 1968 general strike and student uprising and the car accident.

Mitt said that U.S. involvement in the war had been misguided – "If it wasn't a political blunder to move into Vietnam, I don't know what is" – but supported Nixon's ongoing Cambodian Incursion as a sincere attempt to bring the war to a conclusion. During the U.S. military draft for the Vietnam War, Romney sought and received two, 2-S student deferments then a 4-D ministerial deferment while living in France as a Mormon missionary. He later sought and received two additional student deferments. When those ran out, the result of the December 1969 draft lottery ensured he would not be selected

Two family incidents during this time later came to light during Romney's political career. A confrontation with a park ranger in 1981 became public in 1994, and from 2007 on there has been persistent interest in a 1983 family road trip with a dog on the roof.

Romney served on the board of directors of Damon Corporation, a medical testing company later found guilty of defrauding the government; Bain Capital tripled its investment before selling off the company, and the fraud was discovered by the new owners (Romney was never implicated).In some cases, Romney had little involvement with a company once acquired.

Bain Capital's leveraged buyouts sometimes led to layoffs, either soon after acquisition or later after the firm had concluded its role. Exactly how many jobs Bain Capital added compared to those lost because of these investments and buyouts is unknown, owing to a lack of records and Bain Capital's penchant for privacy on behalf of itself and its investors. Maximizing the value of acquired companies and the return to Bain's investors, not job creation, was the firm's fundamental goal. Bain Capital's acquisition of Ampad exemplified a deal where it profited handsomely from early payments and management fees, even though the subject company itself ended up going into bankruptcy. Dade Behring was another case where Bain Capital received an eightfold return on its investment, but the company itself was saddled with debt and laid off over a thousand employees before Bain Capital exited (the company subsequently went into bankruptcy, with more layoffs, before recovering and prospering).

Referring to the layoffs that happened, Romney said in 2007: "Sometimes the medicine is a little bitter but it is necessary to save the life of the patient. My job was to try and make the enterprise successful, and in my view the best security a family can have is that the business they work for is strong."

Romney changed his affiliation to Republican in October 1993 and formally announced his candidacy in February 1994

Kennedy won the election with 58 percent of the vote to Romney's 41 percent, the smallest margin in any of Kennedy's re-election campaigns for the Senate.

The day after the election, Romney returned to Bain Capital, but the loss had a lasting effect; he told his brother, "I never want to run for something again unless I can win."

Olympics critic Steve Pace, who led Utahns for Responsible Public Spending, thought Romney exaggerated the initial fiscal state to lay the groundwork for a well-publicized rescue.

Bullock said: "He tried very hard to build an image of himself as a savior, the great white hope. He was very good at characterizing and castigating people and putting himself on a pedestal

O'Brien said that Romney's budget plans were unrealistic; the two also differed on capital punishment and bilingual education, with Romney supporting the former and opposing the latter

Romney supported raising various fees, including those for driver's licenses and gun licenses, to raise more than $300 million. He increased a special gasoline retailer fee by two cents per gallon, generating about $60 million per year in additional revenue.

The combined state and local tax burden in Massachusetts increased during Romney's governorship

Romney attributed his conversion to an interaction with Harvard University biologist Douglas Melton an expert on embryonic stem cell biology although Melton vehemently disputed Romney's recollection of their conversation.

Romney opposes the use of mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions to deal with global warming. He has stated that he believes climate change is occurring, but that he does not know how much of it can be linked to human activity. He is a proponent of increased domestic oil drilling, hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), building more nuclear power plants, and reducing the regulatory authority of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Romney labels Russia as America's "number one geopolitical foe", and asserts that preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear capability should be America's "highest national security priority". He plans to formally label China a currency manipulator and take associated counteractions unless that country changes its trade practices. Romney supports the Patriot Act, continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and use of enhanced interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists.