2nd Presidential Debate

Last night's debate was a much more vibrant debate, on both sides.  Romney did a fairly decent job, about as well as I expected.  Obama also did as well as I expected, however, his performance was leaps and bounds ahead of Romney.

First, Romney lies and he flip-flops.  Two important issues that this is shown are taxes and women's rights.  Obama quoted Romney's performance from the Republican Primary Debates, wherein Romney promised a tax cut for all, including the wealthy.  However, recently, he has stated that he has never advocated for a tax cut for all.  Which is simply not true.  As far as women's rights go, Romney stated that he acquired "binders of women" as candidates for his Cabinet.  He did get plenty of candidates, but he did not search them out, he was given the information by advocacy groups, at their initiative, not his.

To me, the point where Romney lost the debate was not his lack of knowledge of Bengazi, but his lack of knowledge that their are situations in this country where having a job is not the answer.  Pay equality is not solved by having a job.  Clean coal and energy independence do not come from jobs, but from regulations.  His answer to any query, like how are middle class citizens going to be effected by the closing of loopholes or deductions was we are going to create jobs.  What?!?  How does that solve the problem?

Obama showed up and did what he had to do.  He had a two-fold mission.  First, show where Romney lies and flip-flops.  He did.  Many times.  Second, show what his record's been and where we are going.  He gave nice specifics about both.

This debate is Obama's.

Some useful sites, regardless of your political affliation: http://www.politifact.com/ and http://www.factcheck.org/.  Both of these sites review claims by all parties and rate them as true or not.