The third and final installment of the Presidential debates left me asking myself several questions:
What does Romney have against even-numbered plans?
What's with the bedroom eyes? Does Romney want to make out with Obama?
Was that one out of place hair on Romney's forehead purposely planted there to make him look human?
Why is Obama only allowed one family member on stage after the debate concludes?
These are troubling questions that deserve revealing answers. Overall, yesterday turned out to be a pretty good one, though. All of my teams won; Team San Francisco Giants, Team Chicago Bears and Team Obama. Though this debate was seated with more authority given to the moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS News, President Obama did not pass on the opportunity to stay aggressive and in conrol. Obama consistently shined a light of ignorance, elitism and flip-flopping untruths upon his competitor. Meanwhile, Governor Romney's political tactic was to grin and bare it.
Romney looked pretty much like a scared child throughout the debates and it almost seemed like he had begun to realize how in over his head he was. Every barb offered by the President was met with no return fire, while the Governor maintained that attacking him would do no good for the country. So he won't throw out any zingers, he won't offer specifics on his economic plan for the country and he won't remove troops from Iraq or decrease government war spending? Seemingly, Romney is running out of advantages in this race; fortunately he is still White and wealthy, which should carry him pretty far amongst many voters.
The night was highlighted by some really funny and clever jabs by President Obama, but there were several humorous lines by both candidates. Here are some of the more funny and noteworthy quotes from the night:
"Al-Queda type individuals" - Romney
"We can't kill our way out of this..." - Romney
"My strategy is to go after the bad guys and kill them...but my plan is broader than that." - Romney
"By the way, number one I get rid of is ObamaCare. There are a number of things that sound good, but frankly we just can't afford them. And that one doesn't sound good, and it's not affordable - so I get rid of that one from day one." - Romney
"If Israel is attacked, we have their back." - Romney
"His words amount to genocide, incitation - I would indite him for it." - Romney
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"I'm glad that you recognize that Al Qaeda is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what the biggest geo-political threat to America was, you said Russia. And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because, you know, the Cold War has been over for twenty years."
"Strong, steady leadership...not wrong and reckless leadership." - Obama
"But that was ten years before you took office. And then you cut education spending when you came into office." - Obama
"I think Gov. Romney maybe hasn't spent enough time looking at how our military works. You mention the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916...well Governor we also have fewer horses and bayonets." - Obama
* I should state that during this following segment, the audience broke their "vow of silence" by letting out gasps of air and suppressed laughter. *
" We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines." - Obama
"The question is not a game of Battleship, where we're counting ships; it's what are our capabilities." - Obama
"We visited the website quite a bit, and it still doesn't work." - Obama
"Let me just respond. Nothing Governor Romney just said is true." - Obama
As I've said, Obama was seriously getting his "Awww snap" on. Obama has out-dueled Romney in the debates, now we wait to see if that translates into the most votes. Even if Obama does win the most votes, we must always prepare for a sudden "changing of the rules", as Chris Rock pointed out: "Hey man, you got the most votes! Too bad you lost. We used to count votes, now we count bacon!”
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