I lost count last night, during the debate, of how many times Obama asked Moderator Candy Crowley to either change the topic or how many times she cut off Mitt Romney to change the topic.
Each time Romney cornered Obama with facts to which Obama clearly didn’t want to respond, one of those two things happened.
Neither Crowley nor Obama however, could stave Romney off for the entire 90 minutes.
Romney shredded Obama on the economy and buried Obama under the record of his presidency. That moment came after a man who had voted Obama in 2008 asked him, essentially, why should I vote for you in 2012?
Obama responded with the talking points conjured up by his campaign, trying to highlight a dismal 4 years. It came across like a guy putting lipstick on a pig.
Romney showed the pig for what it has been over the past 4 years by simply quoting facts.
“I think you know better. I think you know that these last four years haven’t been so good as the president just described and that you don’t feel like your confident that the next four years are going to be much better either.
I can tell you that if you were to elect President Obama, you know what you’re going to get. You’re going to get a repeat of the last four years. We just can’t afford four more years like the last four years.”
From there, Romney literally listed the litany of Obama failures over the last 4 years and Obama, for one of the few times during the debate, sat quietly.
I have, for some time, questioned whether I would ever come across someone who’s arrogance could rise above that of Obama.
As we speed toward the November 6th election and even faster toward the next presidential debate, I believe there is but a single question which Mitt Romney could pose that would virtually bring the Obama campaign, not to mention his Canadian made bus…To a screeching halt.
So…We’re a month and a day away from the election and, just as we promised, liberal/socialists are coming more unhinged by the HOUR.
And so the first presidential debate of 2012 is in the books.
11 years ago, we were doing whatever we normally did on a Tuesday morning in September. We were at work or going to work. We were at school or on our way there. At home, maybe in a car, a bus or on a train.