The Debate

I did actually watch the debate.  I like to deal, here, with deeper issues, but will allow myself a short break into the very temporal.  The following I posted on Yahoo, in response to this very partisan and in my view disingenuous editorial.

Obama is worth $10 million. He has NEVER been an average American. He
went to a high end prep school, and was educated at two elite
universities. He doesn’t care about ordinary Americans. His Energy
Secretary wants gas prices to be $10 a gallon. His pension fund invests
in the same companies Romney’s does.

The salient fact of the debate was that Obama has kept NONE of his major
promises. He did not get unemployment down. He did not cut the
deficit. He did not enact or even propose an immigration solution,
despite having majorities in both houses of Congress.

Obama is an empty suit. He is a windbag. He is an unprincipled
charlatan whose reelection will cause massive layoffs, skyrocketing
energy costs, a complete breakdown in our healthcare system, continued
foreign policy failures, and an unnecessarily diminished America.

Since I’m on the topic, I think it worth posting as well a quite remarkable quote from a former aide and supporter who knew him well, and who was caught in an unguarded moment, defending the President, but in such a way as to be very revealing:

“People say the reason Obama wouldn’t call Clinton is because he doesn’t like him,” observes Tanden. “The truth is, Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost anyone. It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people. My analogy is that it’s like becoming Bill Gates without liking computers.”