The Great Debate!

I’m guessing the debate on Tuesday must have been a great disappointment for those who are Obama supporters. It was as though he had nothing but platitudes for the questioners of the news and had almost no response whatever to anything Romney said. Maybe he figured all he had to do was show up and just the sight of him would be more than enough to awe the millions of TV viewers. Maybe he thinks he is just so brilliant that he did prepare. Maybe it’s that he is so average, but think he’s so brilliant that he didn’t prepare. Maybe he assumed that the spin-meisters of the media would somehow protect him and give everything he said the proper spin he wasn’t able to do himself.

Whatever the reason, even the spin-meisters didn’t seem to salvage a declared win for him, even with all their spin. All they could do is what Obama is so good at, namely blame everything but his performance for why things went to incredibly wrong. Though I have not always been tuned into the debates before this and have generally had a rather casual view of them I still have to admit that I can’t remember seeing such a poor performance by any sitting president that I can remember. I could help but wonder if Obama wasn’t wishing that Clinton were there to cover for him and give him the answers he should have had for himself.

Since even the media can’t spin this into something positive they are trying to ignore and simply declare that it doesn’t mean anything at all. The reality is that they all know this means a lot. It was such a poor showing on the part of the president that they can’t deny this is the case all they can do is ignore it and hope the people forget it as quickly as possible.

Still in part what some of the pundits have said is true then it is certainly not over. One debate has never one anyone the presidency. If Obama makes a  good showing at the next debate things could turn around very quickly, but at least for now it seems this is going to give Romney a big bump in the polls which could be a huge help in at least getting his name out to the nation. Before this most people really didn’t know very much about Romney at all except for the negative ads released by the Obama campaign.

Though I know most people don’t really follow the debates all that closely I’m convinced this time around is a different story than in previous campaigns. I have a feeling a large percentage of the population has become very engaged in politics where once they were not. There is a great sense in our nation currently that things are very bad and it may not be long before things become unrecoverable.

It is hard to believe that someone that once ran for president is saying that Obama flubbed was because of the altitude. Others are saying he should have been able to use a teleprompter, which of course means he couldn’t handle a debate by himself and would need a team of people feeding him things to say in response to what Mitt Romney was saying. If he needs someone else to put words in his mouth then maybe they should be running for president instead of him.

It is equally interesting that those who generate and calculate the number for such things as unemployment all of a sudden right after the debate come up with a fantastic showing for the first time in 4 years indicating how much unemployment has dropped. Of course these numbers won’t be revised, nor will new numbers come out until after we vote so they will be there for Obama to use as he pleases. I have little doubt he will be telling us how they indicate how the economy is roaring back. He’ll be telling us that they illustrate just what a great job he has been doing after all and it just took some time for the numbers to reflect it.

They would have us believe these numbers aren’t cooked, but not one person can point to a single thing that would have caused such a dramatic change in unemployment in just one month and oddly right after the first debate. Of course there isn’t the least bit of serious investigative reporting about those numbers. Unfortunately most reporters don’t care to actually investigate things anymore. It may be that they are just not smart enough to investigate anymore and so they are good for nothing but to be the mouth pieces and propagandists of their respective parties.

The numbers they’re giving us don’t make any sense yet they still keep giving them anyway and we’re expected to believe them. The reality is that the news has become unreliable and would rather report in such a way as supports their political views rather than simply report the facts. More and more I wonder if we are much different than Russia or other communist countries where the government actually runs the news and merely leaves it the illusion of telling people what is happening.