Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Second Presidential Debate

Two down...one to go. Presidential debates, that is. And after last night, I'm really not looking forward to the third debate. Why? They're not debates. The debates, and last night's second one in particular, have become theatre....bad theatre. There are no serious exchanges of facts or opinions or programs. There are only crouching pauses by President Obama while Governor Romney talks, with the President waiting to pounce on the smallest factual mis-speak or to attack by suggesting that Mitt Romney is deliberately lying or providing misleading position summaries. Numbers and statistics become meaningless because they are systematically dismissed by the President as lies. And, while he is dismissing Romney's presentations, the President is not able to provide numbers or statistics to show that his term as President has been positive. He did not even argue with the following -- 23 million unemployed and under-employed Americans, 3.5 million more women unemployed today than when Obama was elected, middle class incomes shrunk by $4000/year during the last four years while health care costs have increased by $2500/year, 47 million Americans on food stamps, 1 in 6 Americans poor using government definitions of poverty, $6 trillion added to the national debt during Obama's term (1/3 of the entire national debt has been created by Obama), a $1 trillion budget deficit each year of Obama's term. President Obama's answer to that damning condemnation of his stewardship was: "we've been through some hard times the last four years." Now, dear readers, you know that I support Governor Romney. Last night did not change my position, rather it re-enforced it. Barak Obama may be glib, he may have a pleasant public demeanor, he may want to do good things for America. But the sad truth is that he has failed. Failed on every front. He has no explanation for his dismal failure during his first term and no program for doing better in a second term. Although I have heard no one talk about it today, Mr. Obama subconsciously admitted that he thinks he is finished when, in answer to a Romney question about the future, the President said: "People will say that when I was President..."

2 comments:

  1. Obama is a broken, defeat man, that almost seems to relish the fact that he will not win re-election on Nov. 6th.

    He was so ill prepared to be president. he didn't understand the presidency at all. And if one would look at the men that have held the office and been such a dismal failure, it's for the same reason. they don't understand the office, they don't understand the power, they select their cabinet in their own image, they quickly understand that they are in way over their head.

    Richard Nixon understood the office, that's what makes his failure so bewildering. Lyndon Johnson knew how to operate the office. Ronald Reagan understood the that it was about right and wrong and nothing else.

    Jimmy Carter had no idea what he was into at all. Bill Clinton governed by polls, he went with public opinion.

    And Obama is right they will say that when he was president nothing positive happened at all. It's a blessing that something historically altering hasn't happened.

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  2. As Maurice Chevalier sang to Hermione Gingold..."Ah yes, I remember it well..." We'll make that Barack's swan song.

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