Pres Debate #3

I think this debate will be underwhelming for both sides.  Foreign policy has not been a strong suit for Romney, clearly the foreign policy prowess of the current administration is now swirling the drain.

"We got Bin Laden" may be a catchy slogan, but it's not a foreign policy and Al Qaeda is in a resurgence which kinda hurts the whole "We got Bin Laden" value.  When the people in the crowds outside several ME embassies were chanting "Obama, Obama, we are all Osama!" and they're flying Al Qaeda flags over Benghazi, that makes saying "we got Bin Laden" a bad foreign policy.

I saw the movie ARGO last Friday and it occured to me that Jimmy Carter had a great foreign policy record up until that moment and his undoing was thinking he really was a foreign policy guru which he was not. 

Now we have a president who thought he was a foreign policy guru and we have several embassies under-siege by radical extremists who in several cases have taken over countries.

I doubt Ben Affleck and his producers realized that they were going to be making such a good commercial for "Not Obama 2012"...

My prediction, both sides swing a bit, Scheiffer shows significant favoritism to Obama, Neither side really draws blood.  FoxNews calls it a Romney win while every other news outlet hails Obama as the Comeback Kid...etc...etc... Polls don't move an inch.

It's amazing to me as well that anyone could have not made their mind up by now.  However, I was waiting in line to see Gearboy's favorite politician (Paul Ryan) yesterday and this couple behind me were going on and on about how they just can't decide who to vote for.  

I wanted to smack them, but I didn't think that would be a very good technique to win them over.  

That pretty well sums up my thoughts. This will be the least important of the debates. Scheiffer will make an as$ out of himself as usual and nothing will change. 

I'll be watching the game, gotta see what my Pack is up against.

I love our bad-azz Marines! B.O. is a girly man

I can't believe Romney said we would absolutely be out of Afghanistan by 2014 after lambasting the President in the last debate for setting a timeline for withdrawal. Unbelievable.

I missed the first hour, my son was testing for his MMA belt. Thought watching him fight would be infinitely more exciting

Yeah and grapple. It's primarily Mui Tai, but his instructor also studied TKD.

I made my ex drive so he didn't sweat all over my car seats! 16 year old boys can really stink.

eta: so it's on topic, politicians stink too!

I caught that too.  I kept waiting for him to say out by 2014 "but" i'll stay flexible or something like that.  Nope, he straight up said out in 2014.  Personally, I'm totally ok with that but it is a shift from his other debate.

Overall I think Obama won on points and was very agressive.  However, Obama put his foot in his mouth a few times with the aggression.  It didn't seem like either one of them really wanted to talk about foreign policy that much, which I found kind of funny. 

My guess is the net will be the same as the second.  Slight Obama win overall, Romney win on individual issues, no poll change.

The whole Navy has boats that go under the water and bayonets thing will likely come back to bite Obama.

Fox News called out Obama on the leaving troops in Iraq fib.  Obama wanted to leave troops, tried to get troops to stay, and the agreement fell apart.

One thing about a leader is to lead by example.  Reaching across the aisle would have made sense over the last four years instead of waiting for people to come to his greatness.

And continual overtalking someone else is not Presidential.