President Obama brought it out in plain sight for America to see. Whatever accolades Romney has, whatever promises he makes, he is not global Commander-in-Chief material. Even if one wrongfully thinks Romney would be better for the economy, the fact that he doesn't know what he's doing on the international stage, and the fact that he is so inconsistent on almost every issue, disqualify him entirely from the job of C-i-C.
If he is elected every country in the world will breath a collective, rueful sigh. "Here we go again" they will say.
Another step backwards for America.
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So I donned my environment suit, and I hopped around between channels post-debate as I was also reading online. I landed on Fox just as Hannity was starting up his segment, quickly went and got some water so I could barely hear his bitching about how the President of the United States was being "childish", and I come back and they have this group of people. 20 or so "undecideds" I think, I wasn't paying all that close attention. They were jumping around between them rapid-fire like it was The Jerry Springer Debate Special or something. Dumb. A woman in the front row started falling out of her chair at the notion that President Obama is anything but teh evuls. A sane black lady a row up was getting bitched at and given the death-stare by a fool on the front-row corner who did what I'm sure he thought was his "civic duty" by saying "It's the economy, stupid." to the sane black lady. Very unpleasant.
And morbidly, almost boringly typical; I won't sully the orange halls any further with it. What struck me was at the end, when they did two shows of hands. The first asked whether Romney won the debate on the economic ground. I think there were two or three who kept their hands down. I didn't catch it but I'm sure they were getting glared at by both the people next to them and the producers. Then they asked whether Obama won the debate on the foriegn policy ground. All of them raised their hands. Every one.
The idiot host then reiterated that point. Obama won on foreign policy, Romney on economy. Obviously he didn't mention the fact that the results were not so cut-and-dried, he wouldn't want to lose the chance to be on TV. But the main point stands. And I think it means checkmate for Mitt Romney. For all of the GOP's crocodile tears we're not in a depression right now. The President's economic policies are not the failure that Mitt and Rush say they are. That means that the President does have a great deal of credibility and promise on the economy, whatever amount of same Mitt claims to have. But Romney has precisely zero credibility and promise on foreign policy, which was supposed to be the crux of the debate.
Voters think the economy is more important, maybe, but I bet a very scant few of them think our position on the world stage is not important.
Mitt Romney will never be a better choice than Barack Obama to lead our nation in the world. Mitt doesn't savvy that arena outside of the boardrooms and the fundraisers, and President Obama does. That was glaringly obvious tonight.
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