Romney: Soft on Wall Street, Hard on Sesame Street

My Thoughts on the Presidential Debate...(less rhetorical, more politically ranty)

I am vocal about my support of president Obama. I have already planned on moving to Canada if Romney wins the election. That being said, I am not surprised by the fact that most polls are claiming that Romney won the debate. Historically, challengers almost always "win" the first debate against an incumbent. 

Romney was able to dominate a lot of the debate through basically being obnoxious. He interrupted, lied, and insisted on having the last word. Poor Jim had a rough time trying to keep the governor quiet. 

That being said, I don't think Obama did nearly what he could have. A lot of Romney's claims about the president's policies were not correct (that's fact check speaking, not me), but Obama did not do enough to refute the incorrect claims. He also did not bring up the 47% thing which I find completely surprising given how detrimental to the Romney campaign that was. Obama has done this before. He acts way too nice in a debate and ends up coming out on bottom when his opponent doesn't play by the rules. 

Romney has yet to talk about the specifics of his plans. I kept waiting for some sort of outlining of his tax and healthcare plans, but he never said anything that I hadn't head a million times before. No seriously man, where are you planning on getting all of this money!?! (Other than from PBS, of course). He also continually misrepresented his own platform. It's like he didn't know his own policies. I can't even count how many times he said things that were against all of his own campaigning. Especially in regards to healthcare. Apparently, he wants to replace Obamacare with Obamacare. 

It is so strange to see all of the news reports claiming that Romney dominated the event. It just goes to show his rhetorical prowess. Yea, if you lie about everything and won't stop talking you're going to look a little better. But the facts speak for themselves. Just because it looks like a president and it talks like a president doesn't mean it should be elected. And I can't believe that after an hour and a half of discussion, Obama leaving the stage first is what people wanted to talk about in the post-debate coverage

All that I got out of the actual discussion was that Jim Lehrer needs to stand up for himself. And according to Romney, it's more important to fund the military unnecessarily than help me with health insurance as I get older. If you can afford not to die then the terrorists will win!