Tuesday, October 23, 2012

The last debate

The third and last debate is now history.  Obama was in full attack mode and came off unpresidential and petulant.  On the other hand Romney was decidedly laid back and actually came off the more presidential of the two.  Weird.  Overall the moderator, Bob Scheiffer, a CBS lifer liberal, was fair to both men.  If one was counting the "blows" recorded by each, Obama "scored" more largely because he was on the attack. At the same time most of his points were scored on then usual distortions of Romney's positions, and on outright lies, something the deems are practiced at and willing to do.  Since O has a record which is indefensible, all Romney had to do was beat on it like a drum, which is exactly what he did.  The best put down of the evening belonged to Romney when the responded to one of O's attacks with the quip: "A personal attack on me is not a policy". This line resonated driving home the point that O has no policy prescriptions for the next four years other that implementing his unpopular and dreaded socialist Obamacare, and more green energy "investments" by the government which have not worked out well, to say the least.  Overall it's hard to see how this blast debate will change much in terms of the momentum residing with Romney.

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