Cyberherbalist's Blog

This coming Tuesday is The Day!  There’s no doubt that some of us are going to be very surprised and disappointed.  I am pretty sure I will be neither.  This is because I am just about as convinced as I can be that Mitt Romney will be President-Elect before midnight at the end of the day.  And since my dear wife and I have already dropped our ballots off, it’s a “done deal” for us.

But as confident as I am, there is nevertheless a degree of doubt in there.  I do not have perfect prophetic vision, so this must be the case.  But I am surprised that there are some Obama supporters who believe that they do possess this vision.  Amazing.

Take this little gem by Robert Crawford, who tweets as @JurassicPork59, for instance:

Romney’s now desperately calling his campaign a “movement.” As in “movement, bowel.”

This word, “desparately”, suggests that the tweeter thinks that Romney is in some distress over his prospects for election.  I wonder where he gets this?  I’ve listened to a few of Romney’s speeches over the past few days, and he sounds not at all “desparate”.  If anything, he sounds genuinely confident, positive, and upbeat.

I wonder if the tweeter has not heard that over the past week Romney’s numbers have improved all over the place, and that states which were formerly counted as Obama states have now gone over into the “swing” category?  And this being the case, why would Romney be “desparate”?  I think Mr. Crawford is projecting, actually.  You know, “projecting”, as in projecting his own emotional state onto another person, Mitt Romney in this case.

Although Mr. Crawford might have a point, after all.  My own tweet in response to the one above went like this:

@jurassicpork59 tweeted that Romney’s campaign is a “bowell movement”. How appropriate! On Tuesday the nation voids itself of Obama.

This segment is the Role of Government.

Starting with President Obama.

He says that the first responsibility is to defend the country.  But the federal government has a role in supporting the infrastructure.  He used the transcontinental railrod and the National Academy of Science as put forth by President Lincoln as examples.  He went on to claim that Romney doesn’t think we need more teachers, but Romney immediately put the cabosh on that.

Romney agreed with defense as being the first thing, and went on to discourse on the rest of the three Declaration of Independence principles: Life; Liberty; Pursuit of Happiness. 

The moderator asked him about education.  Romney is in favor of school choice, and let the parent and the child decide where their allocated aid should go.  Obama responds that Romney’s tax cuts will hurt the education budget.  They both manage to agree that it would be good to help businesses partner with community colleges.

Obama brings up one of the Obama’s favorite mantras, that is that Romney expects students to borrow money from their parents for their education.  Romney didn’t directly respond to this.  Or indirectly, I guess.  If he did, I missed it.

This has been a very good debate.  I guess I am very impressed with both of them, at least as to their debating skills.

And the moderator got blindsided several times with both Romney and Obama talking over him and not letting him keep control.  It was hilarious!

But a good job of moderating, though.

An excellent job all around.  Who won the debate?  I believe that Romney did.  But Obama seemed to hold his own, to a degree, despite what I recognized as a disdain for the facts.

They’re digging into Social Security and Medicare now, and both gents don’t want to touch Social Security with a ten foot pole.

Medicare gets some talk, though.

They are not in such huge disagreement in this topic as in the economy.  They are both treading very softly on this whole subject. 

Changing subject to regulations, particularly of banks.  Romney wants a complete overhaul of what Obama has done, and Obama isn’t so keen on it.  Particularly the Dodd-Frank law regarding the regulation of banks, where Romney says that designating five big banks as “too big to fail” with the federal government standing there with a bail and letting smaller banks go to hell in a handbasket was a huge mistake.  Obama had no answer for this.

When it comes to Obamacare, Romney had four major points to hold against it, and one important one was that instead of saving $2,000 on healthcare per year, it is costing people $2,000 more.  Lots of unintended consequences.  Obama doesn’t directly address this, though he repeated his old “if you like your health plan you can keep it”.  Which is incorrect because if your employer doesn’t want to keep his health plan because he thinks you can just get Obamacare coverage, he can just cut it off. 

Maybe I am biased (well, I am), but I have to say that Romney makes much more sense in this than Obama. 

But whatever the two candidates are feeling inside, they are keeping a very positive collegial face in the midst of a what must be a bit of an ordeal for both of them (although Romney seems more eager or at ease).  In short, both of them are looking very Presidential.  And that’s good.