Stephen Dinan @ The Washington Examiner:
The room set aside for reporters to watch Tuesday night’s debate erupted into applause after President Obama ridiculed the size of Mitt Romney’s personal wealth.
Mr. Romney was trying to make the point that both his and Mr. Obama’s investment funds probably include investments in China — something the president has attacked Mr. Romney for.
“Mr. President, have you looked at your pension?” Mr. Romney said.
“You know, I don’t look at my pension. It’s not as big as yours, so it — it doesn’t take as long,” Mr. Obama retorted. His reply prompted laughter in the debate hall where the two men were squaring off — but across the way in the separate room where the press was stationed, a brief round of applause broke out.
So Obama “slammed” Romney because he’s rich. This is America. How would Obama feel if someone told him that Negroes can no longer hold high public office?
Nevertheless, Romney won the debate. Obama lost. The MSM is saying that Obama won; on loudness perhaps — certainly not on substance. They say that Obama is back. But he’s not. If you can’t sing, singing louder doesn’t make it better. And Obama can’t sing. During the debate all we heard was worn out rhetoric, lies and old failed ideas.
Regardless of what the MSM says about the debate, people woke up this morning to the same long list of Obama failures:
-High gas prices; TWICE the price since Obama took office.
-Bad economic environment. No real help for small or medium businesses.
-Attacks on religion under the guise of equality of contraception to poor; frustrating the Catholics.
-Expounding Gay Rights and same-sex-marriages. Millions of black voters and black priests are upset and will not vote for Obama on moral grounds.
-Obama is regulating coal companies to stall them.
-Obama is blocking off-shore drilling; exposing America to the price gouging of OPEC; sending billions of dollars to the Arabs instead of encouraging oil independence.
-Favoring “Green” when “Green” is failing like heck.
-Obama turned down Canadian pipeline — a policy that favors Arabs and not Americans.
-No cogent Middle East policy.
-Showed Netanyahu serious disrespect during the Prime Minister’s state visit to Washington.
-Fed defining Obama’s bad economy policy with QE3 (that’s 3, as in three strikes you’re out!)
-Low housing starts.
-Unemployment essentially still high with jobs at part-time, people underemployed. Many no longer looking.
-Health costs rising and to rise even more with taxes from Obamacare.
-Illegal attempt to affect gun control as with “Fast and Furious” scandal.
-Low car sales.
-Foreclosures still happening; only now staggered by banks to avoid retaliation.
-High food prices and product shrinkage.
-National deficit higher than any time.
-Wild unsubstantiated spending; encumbering our posterity.
-Uncontrolled border with Mexico and pandering to ILLEGALS; that’s illegal Obama.
-Obama’s withholding legal records requested by Congress in the “Fast and Furious” investigation.
-No transparency with the American public, which Obama promised.
No matter what the MSM says that’s good about Obama, it’s a lie and all of the above Obama disaster is still haunting Americans. It really is time to get rid of Obama and let an experience man correct Obama’s mistakes. It’s time to elect Mitt Romney. I’m voting for the white guys, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan … they really are white as the driven snow. You gotta love it!
At some point it’s probably going to occur to GOP kingmakers that the best presidential choice following the excesses of the recent past might not have been a multimillionaire financial speculator.