For John, BLUF: Opinions are like noses and they have to be counted until one has a majority. Nothing to see here; just move along.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I didn't watch the Presidential Debate last evening. I was doing homework for my Saturday morning class at UMass Lowell, Sociology of Genocide.
From Mr John Cassidy, writing in The New Yorker we have the debated scored as a victory for President Obama. Here is the lede:
The skinny bookworm who sits in the front row can duke it out after all. All you have to do is call him a wuss, get the class bully—the Barber of Cranbrook—to taunt him and threaten to take away his personal plane, the one with its own conference room and O.R. Then, he comes out like Jake LaMotta, eyes flashing, gloves up, his malicious intent plain for all to see. Nobody could accuse him of having failed to do his prep for this one. Like Muhammad Ali, after being embarrassed in his first bout with Leon Spinks, he had put in the hours skipping rope, and rehearsed his combinations until he could unleash them at will, from all angles.I think my wife saw a different debate.
Mr Cassidy did think that Candy Crowley had it right when she cut off Governor Romney over Libya. Commenter Charles Krauthammer thought Governor Romney muffed it. But, I thought Ms Crowley said, afterwards, that she had it wrong. That seems to be what Ace of Spades thought when he posted a video in which Ms Crowley seems to suggest that Governor Romney was, in fact, correct.
How does Mark Twain put it? "It is difference of opinion that makes horse races."
Regards — Cliff
2 comments:
Some people enjoy boxing, I don't.
Decorum is a big deal for me, and personally I must work within that.
People don't get testy like that, if the moderator was in control.
So we're suppose to allow this behavior, because Obama did poorly in the first debate?
Yes, flexibility in the workforce would be awesome. The government can't mandate it, but in a strong economy I or anyone else, male and childless are better able to negotiate their needs with an employer. People are different, not every woman needs employer backed free contraception, just as not everyone woman needs maternity leave.
I would like to have a job, I may not be able to commit 60 hours a week, and that's not anyone else problem but my own and I don't expect to make equal to someone who does. I can't solve my personal live decisions though free mandated contraception, I can solve it with the ability to negotiate, in a competitive market for skilled employees.
Oh well, people just don't like Romney. He is doing well, but people will find a reason to vote for Obama.
Two comments from the opinion piece.
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The President was sensational. He absolutely destroyed all of Mitt Romney's ridiculous arguments. Who ever is attempting to argue that Romney's plan is "better for people with pre-existing conditions" is fatally mis-informed. There have been major, international, independent studies that not only prove this to be untrue, but show that Mitt Romney's overall proposed health care "plan" would leave 72 million American people without *any* insurance coverage whatsoever by the year 2020. When you pile this on top of his Racist/Homophobic/Anti-Woman policies it is truly astonishing to imagine that anyone in their right mind would actually think it justifiable voting for him. He and Paul Ryan have voted actually voted, on-record, **against** American women being able to be paid the same rate as American men for the doing the same work. It is 2012. In ten to fifteen years he will be looked back on as a major embarrassment for human/civil rights; not to mention, decency.
Posted 10/17/2012, 11:34:18am by BMaple
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This debate is another win for Romney! Obama gave his base a few cheers, but his overall performance was reminiscent of Biden's in that it only "fed" the base. Most of the media, like the New Yorker is pulling for Obama, and like the New Yorker, most will be spinning for the president. But, most of the internal polls, even by CNN, give Romney wins on almost all of the key issues, i.e., big win for Romeny on the economy in the CNN internal poll. Also, the Candy Crowley "Obama rescue attempt" is taking all the talk away form Obama's performance and will come back to bite the president as replays of his Rose Garden comments are played in context and reviewed again and again. Sorry "Chris," but even members of MSNBC's focus group gave more positives to Romney than Obama; most of the group's members did not get a "tingle" from Obama's performance.
Posted 10/17/2012, 11:20:28am by TucsonTerpFan
How can we see the world so differently?
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