If you can't tell the truth, lie.
If you vote against funding increased security...make believe it wasn't your fault.
The debate, a week later, is still a Romney win in the minds of the press. Not because anything Romney said was factual, not because he outlined a plan for America...solely because he talked "forcefully" and Obama seemed "disinterested."
Benghazi, a month later, despite Romney's indecent comments and accusations, has suddenly become the "news". By news they don't mean a careful study of the facts which are then presented in a rational manner. No, that would be responsible and ethical journalism. Instead we get passionate declarations made by proven liars about how Obama just fell asleep at the wheel. Instead of the media (except for Soledad I guess) reminding these liars of their voting records, instead of reminding people (the term is used loosely) like Darrel Issa that they didn't seem to have this noble stance on protecting American interests when George Bush fell asleep at the wheel and 3000, not 4, people died.
This has nothing to do with Obama or embassy security...it has to do with furthering the narrative that "Mitt Romney would have bombed the terrorists responsible for Benghazi before they had even begun to plot an attack. Mitt Romney is that prescient and manly."
What has become exceedingly apparent is this: Mitt can lie without sanction; Mitt doesn't have to back up any of his plans with specifics or facts; Mitt can insult foreign nations and foreign leaders without rebuke; Mitt can make birther jokes while refusing to release his tax returns; Mitt can make pretty much every mistake possible and still receive a big old hug from the MSM who will obligingly crow about "the horserace is back to being neck and neck" while simultaneously jumping on every minor misstep of the President.
In other words...we have to work twice as fast and 100% harder than do our counterparts in putting out our message. It isn't fair but there it is.
I don't really give a crap about who "wags the dog" during an election. If you can get away with it...well, it isn't any more unsavory than lie filled character assassination ads, imo. What does piss me off is this: Congressional approval rating is 10%. 10% is a fine number for a craft brewed stout but a fucking embarrassment when used to describe the legislative body of our country. Instead of passing things that will help Americans like the Jobs Act or Vet bills or Farm bills...Congress convenes a hearing aimed at helping one American, Mitt Romney...that aggrieved and put upon multi-millionaire who doesn't, and never will, want for anything except sitting his arrogant ass in the Oval Office.
If we end up with the second coming of the Prevaricator-in-Chief...it won't be because Romney deserved it or earned it...it will be because the public doesn't understand or care about facts and because the media did everything in its power to convince people that Romney's forty-five-faced campaign was razor sharp and far more focused than Obama's Big Bird campaign.
This election should not be close but it is and because it is it is an indictment on the embarrassment America is becoming. We talk about exceptionalism and we criticize other countries for their electoral process but we go out of our way to disenfranchise our own voters and corrupt our own democratic ideals. We made it so that any rich entity, American or not, can funnel unlimited money into elections to ensure that the candidate who is most favorable to their economic interest has a better shot at winning. We not only elected a lying wannabe warlord...we sent him back for four more years as a reward for those lies. Four years later we could conceivably elect another lying wannabe warlord. We decry Muslim extremism, particularly their views on the treatment of women, while we try and pass as many laws as possible to limit the rights of women. We decry Muslim extremism while our Christian extremists push for a more biblical legislative agenda. American hypocrisy has pushed past all bounds but you, Iran, you're dangerous and corrupt.
Is Obama perfect? Not even close...but he's 100% better for America and the world than is the alternative.