It's debate season!!!

This past Wednesday we had the first presidential debate between Obama and Romney. J and I have a TV but no cable and this was actually the only occasion I regretted not having cable but it all turned out well thanks to Youtube live stream. 

We gathered a few friends, lots of cheese, crackers, beer and wine and sat down to watch what ended up being a pretty unexciting debate. It was however, the greatest event in twitter since it’s debut back in 2006! At times I even found it more interesting to watch the twitter comments rather than listen to Romney prattle on, especially when Romney said he would cut PBS and Big Bird with it, the response on that was phenomenal!

It was a bit disappointing though in the end. Obama is usually a great orator but he seems to have trouble when it comes to retort, losing his fluidity in speech and hesitating far too often before replying, something that I had already observed back in ‘08. Unfortunately, most of the audience is looking for the bloodbath in how many zings each opponent throws rather than the content of the actual debate so in that front it was an unfortunate win for Romney. 

Other than the RNC, this was the only time I’ve hear Romney speak and I’ll admit he does have charm (and good hair!) but hopefully people won’t be fooled by it when it comes to voting time. I’ve never seen an opponent go back and forth on his promises as often as this guy does! That’s what I love about fact-checking though; it weeds out the lies from this campaign!

And can we please stop with the blame game! Obama did not cause this recession, he did not cause the crisis, he did not cause unemployment growth!

Can we just take a minute to reflect on something…imagine that Obama had been president right after Clinton…I seriously doubt America, and the world for that matter, would be in the state that it is now! Clinton left the economy high and unemployment low and if Obama had followed suit he would have built on what Clinton had done, instead of destroying it like the Bush administration did! So please let’s not talk about whether or not the US is better off than 4 years ago (itis better off by the way!). Bush destroyed the economy in 8 years, it will probably take just as long to get it back on track. Especially when Congress is so hell bent on voting down any democratic proposition. Government should not be about taking the biggest slice of the pie home, it should be about sharing the pie equally among everyone and you need compromise across the line to achieve that.

But who am I to say anything, I don’t get to vote! There was a joking petition at one point during the 2004 elections going around in Europe saying that actually the whole world should be able to vote for the American president seeing how his decisions affect the whole world, so yes, I do wish I could vote but since I can’t then I hope that people will vote according to their beliefs, I just hope their beliefs take their pencil to tick for Obama come November!

I can’t wait for the next debate this coming week, let it be on foreign policy, that one should be rather interesting!

I wonder whose flag pin will be bigger next time and please no more threats of making Big Bird homeless!