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Debate Refelections

So... The debate has happened.  Obama, the President of the United States.  Romney, the ex-Governer and Jim Leherer, an old ass white man on PBS.

What did I take away from this?  Several things, really.

1) Mitt Romney is a dick and he doesn't respect anyone's rules.  He interrupted the President, he interrupted the moderator and repeatedly talked over them only to hold the fake smile on his face and pretend he was being jolly.  A highschool kid would have been disqualified 10 minutes in to the thing.

2) Obama still needs to show his teeth.  He's the leader of the free world but he refuses to tell someone to shut up and know his place.  Come on son!  You're the president.  You control Seal Team 6 and you can't get somebody to shut up when their turn is over?  Now, I am aware that the President can't ever seem to be an angry black man such as myself but there is quite enough ground between crazed negro and punk for Barack to demand the respect that he deserves.

3) Don't fuck with Big Bird.  Not only was I outraged when Mitt Romney said he would pull subsidies to PBS apparently everyone on twitter was too.  I'll give Mitt credit for standing by his beliefs but some shit you just shouldn't say.  If I was a Mormon I wouldn't come out and say that it is stupid to keep your virginity until you're married even though everyone knows its true! (Maybe that was a little off subject)

4) If a man is prepared to debate the things that you've been saying, then say something else.  We all knew that Mitt needed to move more to a moderate line if his campaign for power, I mean the Presidency was going to survive.  However, none of us, President Obama included were ready for it to happen that fast.  Mitt Romney explained that he would repeal Obamacare the first day in office... then implement a lot of the same provisions.  It even took the President a second to soak in that shit. 

5) Nobody in politics majored in math.  The President was using estimates that were seemingly made up, which gave Mitt room to claim he was lying outright.  Mitt claimed he was going to grow the middle class with...hmmm magic.  He was going to use tricle down economics without actually calling it that just like he was going to implement Obamacare (do you capitalize the 'O' in obamacare?) without calling it by its name either.  Mitt is also going to increase military spending and cut taxes and close the deficit which is freaking rediculous.  Barack pointed it out several times but Mitt didn't get it.  He proposed that closing loopholes in accounting would fix that 2 to 8 BILLION dollar gap.  He apparently he hasn't heard of tax shelters... even though he admits that he has money in several.

6) I am a glutton for punishment.  When I got out of bed yesterday, I said to myself "The debates are tonight, they are going to be a complete waste of time."  Where was I when the candidates were introduced?  Sitting in front of the TV, of course.  Mitt sat there and BSed the American people, the President took it and I got more and more angry (sorry for the language twitter followers).  I have a perfectly good x-box.  What was I thinking.

7) Both parties are afraid of the insurance industry.  Everyone wants to debate the cost of healthcare and won't dare to attack the vultures that set these rediculous prices.  If you haven't seen 'Sicko' by Michael Moore you need to.  The American people are being gouged by a for-profit insurance industry as bas as they are by the oil industry.  Speaking of the oil industry, why do both candidates think I give a flying fuck if my money goes to an Arab billionaire or one in Texas?

There will be more debates and the fool that I am, I will be watching.  The next time I hope they address real issues like poverty, race relations, equil pay, right to marriage, the 99%... you know, stuff that matters.  I'm not holding my breath.

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