Of The First Debate.
By that I mean I scored Romney 2:1 over Obama in the first debate and now I score Obama 2:1 over Romney in last night’s final debate.
I thought that given all the ammunition he had, Romney would have wiped the floor with Obama – so to speak. I was wrong.
Last night’s debate was supposed to have been about Foreign Policy, but it drifted into domestic affairs. Had it stayed with its original purpose – here are some of the factors Romney had going for him:
- The Middle East is burning;
- Iran is on the cusp of being able to deploy Nuclear Weapons;
- Israel has been cut adrift;
- North Africa is quickly descending into Al Qaeda Hell;
- The Taliban is on the verge of retaking Afghanistan and is now only awaiting the 2014 pull out of American Troops;
- Iraq is falling apart;
- Pakistan is becoming more instable by the day and it has Nuclear Weapons;
- Nuclear China is threatening both Japan and Taiwan;
- North Korea is threatening the South with imminent attack and it too has a nuclear capacity;
- Europe is raging with mass protests and the EU is on the verge of collapse;
- Hugo Chavez of Venezuela – our favourite communist this side of the pond, just won another long term in office;
- Castro sadly is still kicking.
So where are Obama’s successes? Oh yes – he killed Osama.
If Romney could not upstage Obama with all this going on – I despair and I say this bearing in mind that the other field in which Obama has failed in is with respect to his Country’s Economy and he is doing even worse there.
So where does that leave us?
Certainly the Election next month will be even closer than it should otherwise have been.
I still predict a Romney win but this is no longer assured. I still honestly believe that America will be better off with Romney – much better off in fact, but not as well off as it should be.
In other words – Romney is flawed but not as flawed as the current guy.
Where are the FDRs and the Churchill’s when you need them and believe me – the US needs them as do we all.
As I see it…
‘K. D. Galagher’
