Immaculate attire, a crisp red tie, a smile and lots of smooth talk, a seamless transition to the center, a haze, an impression.... Presidential debates first and foremost try to convey an impression to the crowds, especially to the "undecided ones".Looking sharp and attacking the President on several accounts politely and with confidence, candidate Romney may have seemed to create the right impression to many, especially to those easily impressed. Also to those who don't remeber that this is the same person who just a few months ago was so far veered to the right that it was scary!
What Romney's smooth performance at the debate could not hide from the president was the fact that he did not have any details what so ever to any of his proposed changes.Spoken like a true candidate or contestant, he had no concrete plans or details to back up his theoretical revamping of the economy!" At some point, I think the American people have to ask themselves, is the reason that Gov. Romney is keeping all those plans secret is because they're too good?'Enough clues to the intelligent voters to pose this very question to him at the next debate!
Not mincing words or not in the least going vague or "hazing" the listeners, Obama said," Math, common sense and our history shows us that's not a recipe for job growth. Look we've tried this." A clue to the ones who listen closely as the president clearly speaks from the standpoint of someone who has had 4 years of dealing with these gruesome issues in office and only making a dent!
Repeatedly the president attacked with conviction, and a bleeding heart for the country's common folk, and a nagging suspicion on the honesty of Gov. Romney's real game plan or real focus , " It is not possible to come up with enough deductions and loopholes that only affect high-income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdenening the middle class.It's math.It's arithmetic." President commented,"But under Governor Romney’s definition, there are a whole bunch of millionaires and billionaires who are small businesses. Donald Trump is a small business. Now, I know Donald Trump doesn’t like to think of himself as small anything, but -- but that’s how you define small businesses if you’re getting business income." Enough cluing us in who Gov. Romney really concerns himself with, again the entire 100% or just 47% ? So is it too much when I ask whose side is Romney really on? I am not going in to vote for him till I can be sure I get the answer to this one?
President Obama said not just once during the debate that your budget reflects your choices.His words of warning played out like this " You know, this is where budgets matter, because budgets reflect choices. So when Governor Romney indicates that he wants to cut taxes and potentially benefit folks like me and him, and to pay for it we’re having to initiate significant cuts in federal support for education, that makes a difference.You know, his -- his running mate, Congressman Ryan, put forward a budget that reflects many of the principles that Governor Romney’s talked about. And it wasn’t very detailed. This seems to be a trend. But -- but what it did do is to -- if you extrapolated how much money we’re talking about, you’d look at cutting the education budget by up to 20 percent."
President clearly warns us that these will come from cuts for education. Romney vehemently denied accusations on this , on Medicare, and on taxation issues without giving any concrete plans or details.Am I then willing to take the chance and cast my vote to someone like Gov. Romney who may tomorrow decide to do just that?!
" We have to work on a collaborative basis" said Romney, the same guy who at the party"s preliminaries stood out as the one most on the right. The President may have seemed mitigated at times, being too decent to point out that from day 1 of his term the Republicans had claimed that their mission was to make sure Obama was a one term President!
To those in doubt of his achievements the president said," When I walked into the Oval Office, I had more than a trillion-dollar deficit greeting me. And we know where it came from: two wars that were paid for on a credit card; two tax cuts that were not paid for; and a whole bunch of programs that were not paid for; and then a massive economic crisis."
Defending Obamacare he put forth,"And the fact of the matter is that, when Obamacare is fully implemented, we’re going to be in a position to show that costs are going down. And over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it’s true -- but they’ve gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years. So we’re already beginning to see progress. In the meantime, folks out there with insurance, you’re already getting a rebate."
So in the end impressions can only go so far.What will create the right impression on anyone, skeptical and doubtful as we are now, are concrete detailed plans focusing on us the middle-class, our jobs and our kid's futures.
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